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After Decades of Silence, a Vintage Spacecraft Says Hello to Earth

June 7, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Posted by Jason Davis 06-06-2014

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A group of space enthusiasts and vintage hardware experts walk into a radio observatory. They contact a 36-year-old spacecraft to ask how it’s doing. The spacecraft responds and says it’s well. The group leaves and continues to stay in touch with the spacecraft from their laptops, working out of an old McDonald’s building at the NASA Ames Research Center. It’s no joke – that’s the latest news coming from the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, a crowdfunded effort to repurpose NASA’s International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3), launched in 1978 on a mission to study Earth’s magnetosphere. In 1983, ISEE was sent on a …

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After decades of silence, a vintage spacecraft says hello to Earth

Automatically start and dock your programs

June 7, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Thanks for stopping by to check out our free Launcher Dock application built for Windows to automatically start programs and dock them exactly were you want them. Free Windows tool to manage the way you launch and dock your programs on a single or multiple screens. Works great for video walls. Personalise the way your computer starts. Open All Your Favourite Programs Automatically When You Log On. Watch the Intro Video. If you’re like me and use multiple screens, there are certain applications you start and use every time you turn on your computer. You open up Gmail to check your email and then you move that window to one corner of the screen, then you open up Skype and …

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Automatically start and dock your programs

Why Every Terms of Service Page Needs Summaries

June 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

by anthony on 06/03/14

Have you ever read the terms of service agreement that you have to agree to when you sign up for a website? A survey shows only 7% of users read the full terms when signing up for online products and services. Terms of service agreements are so wordy and legalistic it’s no wonder why users don’t read them. One research study found that most terms of service agreements have between 1000-8000 words. On top of that, users need at least a college sophomore reading level to understand them. A related research study estimates that the average user sees about 1462 privacy policies a year. If users read every privacy policy for each new site they visited, they would each spend about 244 hours …

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Why Every Terms of Service Page Needs Summaries

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Designers Explain Why Apple’s New OS X Typeface Is a Strange Choice

June 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

It was one of the more subtle changes showcased during yesterday’s WWDC keynote: Apple finally ditched its OS typeface Lucida Grande to use Helvetica Neue across the board. Now, at least the OS and iOS systems match. But is Helvetica, which is basically unreadable at small sizes, really a better choice? The slim, unfussy Helvetica Neue is a spot-on pick for the new OS design in several ways: It is clean and uncomplicated, which aligns perfectly with the quest for flatness that pervades the new interface and icons. And it is a typeface that certainly imbues sophistication and timelessness upon its content, it’s a classic font, historically embraced by designers, that has been around for decades. It’s pretty! The Future of Apple Design Is Hidden Inside…

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Designers Explain Why Apple’s New OS X Typeface Is a Strange Choice

Email encryption in transit

June 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Many email providers don’t encrypt messages while they’re in transit. When you send or receive emails with one of these providers, these messages are as open to snoopers as a postcard in the mail. A growing number of email providers are working to change that, by encrypting messages sent to and from our services using Transport Layer Security (TLS). When an email is encrypted in transit with TLS, it makes it harder for others to read what you’re sending. The data below explains the current state of email encryption in transit. Generally speaking, use of encryption in transit increases over time, as more providers enable and maintain their support. Factors such as varying volumes of email may explain other fluctuations. Outbound Messages from Gmail …

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Email encryption in transit

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