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The ULTIMATE List of 24 Free eBooks on UX and Interface Design

April 30, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The ultimate list of 24 free eBooks on UX and interface design will help you be a UX rock-star. Study from gurus for free! Want to be a UX rock star like Nick Finck of Amazon Web Services, Dave Garr of UserTesting.com, Jan Jursa of the mighty @IATV or even Jacob Nielsen, the ultimate UX guru? Then you should study the UX subjects they and other smart UX practitioners know. But why pay for all that great UX and interface design information when you can get it for free? Yes, free! Many UX books, guides and research studies are now available free as eBooks. I’ve compiled the ULTIMATE list of free UX and Interface Design eBooks so that you have this handy list to help …

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The ULTIMATE List of 24 Free eBooks on UX and Interface Design

Amazon Price Tracker – camelcamelcamel.com

April 28, 2014 / Daniel / 0 Comments

Use our site to ensure you get good deals on your holiday gifts this year. Before you buy, inform yourself by checking our price history charts. Our free Amazon price tracker monitors millions of products and alerts you when prices drop, helping you decide when to buy. Create Amazon price watches and get alerts via email and Twitter when prices drop. View the price history of over 18 million Amazon products. Add our price history charts to your browser with The Camelizer, our extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Signing up is quick and makes using the site more convenient. It’s also free! Have a Google, Facebook, or Twitter account? You’re welcome to sign in with those, too. Ever since I discovered it a few weeks ago…

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Accompli: A Perfect iOS Email App But We Wish it Wasn’t Free

April 27, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I hate email. The team at The Next Web can attest to just how often I complain about email. Email is slow, cumbersome, often overwhelming and hard to deal with. There’s just so much of it. I’ve always been bad at email and despite great solutions like Mailbox existing, I’ve never found the perfect iOS email client. Up until recently, I’ve been using the built-in iOS email client to get mail from my four Gmail accounts, mostly because the Gmail app lacks a unified inbox (it’s also pretty slow) and Mailbox, while useful, lacks a desktop app (there’s a beta coming soon) which makes the workflow a little painful. Acompli, which was announced just a few days ago, set out …

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Accompli: a Perfect iOS Email App but We Wish it Wasn’t Free

Try the Super-Secure USB Drive OS That Edward Snowden Insists on Using

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

We all know that Edward Snowden insists on secure email, but he’s also very picky about his operating systems, too. In fact, he uses a free, super-secure version of Linux called Tails that fits on a USB stick and can be used on any computer without leaving a trace.Linux installs on USB sticks are nothing new, sure. But Tails is an operating system optimized for anonymity – and it’s used by the likes of Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald to keep their digital lives as secure as possible. In its developers’ words:Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving …

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Try the Super-Secure USB Drive OS That Edward Snowden Insists on Using

Multi-Threaded Programming 3: Locking, Lock-Free, Wait-Free

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

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I am a programmer over at Iron Galaxy Studios. I’ve been programming professionally in the games industry for nearly ten years now. My main focus is on graphics and optimizations. I’ve worked on diverse franchises like Madden and Tony Hawk, plus games such as Bioshock Infinite and Crimson Dragon. Find me: @sigmel Sigmel’s ThoughtsLinkedIn I post in: ProgrammingTechnology Instapaper Text Share: Twitter Facebook Reddit Google+ Multi-Threaded Programming 3: Locking, Lock-Free, Wait-Free Now I want to cover the basic terminology used when talking about concurrent algorithms. This will be helpful so that you are familiar with the available techniques you have when you have multiple threads operating together. The term concurrent itself refers to an algorithm that can scale from being synchronous…

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Multi-Threaded Programming 3: Locking, Lock-Free, Wait-Free