dinsdag 23 april 2013
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Focus Twist Turns Your iPhone Into a Lytro Camera
A new mobile app called Focus Twist mimics the experience of Lytro’s focus-shift technology on your iPhone, allowing you to change the focal point of a photo after snapping a shot.
To create a photo, the app captures a number of different images of the same scene, focusing on a different object in each one. Once completed, you’re able to tap on different parts of the image – much like you can with an image captured with the Lytro camera – to change the focus.
Finished images can be shared on Twitter, as well as with the Focus Twist community. Images are shared as links to Focus Twist's website, where visitors can interact with them. Check out an image I took here. Read more...
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Women Narrowing Gap in IT Jobs
Women in information technology jobs are earning roughly the same salaries as their male counterparts, provided they share equal levels of experience and education and parallel job titles, a recent report found. Now, a new report shows the number of women in IT jobs is also on the rise.
Dice.com’s Tech Trends for the first quarter of 2013 indicates that while women still only make up 31% of the IT workforce, this year has marked some notable job growth for women in the field. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, 46% of new tech positions have been awarded to women since the start of 2013. Read more...
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Tips for Solving Your Sequester Flight Delay Woes
The sequester, a series of federal budget cuts that went into effect in March, forced the FAA to cut employees' hours by approximately 10% — air traffic controllers included. That loss is already causing cascading delays originating in some of the country's busiest airspace, including New York and Los Angeles.
Indeed, the Federal Aviation Administration blames sequester-related furloughs for more than 1,200 of Monday's flight delays — and the problem is only expected to get worse as the country enters peak travel season this summer. What's a tech-savvy traveler to do?
Adam Goldstein, CEO of travel booking service Hipmunk, told Mashable he's heard tales of users who fall victim to airline delays pulling up alternate flight options on the Hipmunk mobile app to show airline gate agents in a bid to have their tickets rebooked. Additionally, should the worst happen — a flight that's canceled or rescheduled for the next morning — Hipmunk users can book a nearby hotel on mobile, hopefully beating other passengers who are left to calling hotels in a desperate search for accommodations Read more...
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AP Twitter Hack Falsely Claims Explosions at White House
The Associated Press falsely tweeted on Tuesday news that the White House was subjected to two explosions and President Obama had been injured. The message was a part of an alleged hack on the wire service's Twitter account.
"Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured," the AP tweeted.
The @AP Twitter account — which has since been suspended while the organization looks into security issues — quickly clarified it had been compromised. Twitter users were also fast to debunk the claims, and AP staffers took to the site to say the tweet was fake.
The language of the tweet was out of the company's signature AP style: the word "breaking" was not capitalized and it typically refers to Obama with the term "President" before his name. The tweet also came directly from the web, and the company usually uses the tool Social Flow to send tweets. Read more...
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'New York Times' Removes Paywall for Videos
In an attempt to beef up its online video viewership, The New York Times announced Tuesday that its videos are now available in full for free to everyone, including those without a subscription to the newspaper or its digital editions.
No matter the subscription you have (or don't have), you'll be able to watch as many videos as you like on the Times' website, mobile website and mobile applications. Views will not count as part of the 10-article per month limit imposed on non-subscribers.
Acura and Microsoft have signed on as sponsors to make the videos available beyond the paywall.
The video portals include primarily on-demand video, organized by current events — there's a section for the Boston Marathon bombings, for example — as well as by the paper's traditional verticals, including U.S., Business and Style. Read more...
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