New To Mac OS? Here Are 30 of the Best Apps Available Evernote Evernote is the undisputed king of note taking apps, and for good reason. It’s simple, organized in a highly intuitive way, and syncs with just about any Web service you can imagine. Since it’s one of the most popular apps in existence, there’s a veritable boatload of browser extensions and add-ons available for it as well. Download now from: Day One 2 Journal ($30) Journals are an age-old tradition — just ask Benjamin Franklin. Purchase now from: Fantastical 2 ($50) Fantastical 2 is the only calendar app you’ll ever need, so long as you’re willing to shell out a cool $50 for it. Pixelmator ($30) Mac users have an incredibly vast selection of excellent photo editing programs, but even against thousands of competitors, Pixelmator stands out as one of the best. Pocket As the name might imply, Pocket is a tool that lets you “pocket” articles, videos, and webpages for later viewing. PDF Expert ($60) Google Reader may be dead and gone, but a proper RSS reader is still a must. Text Wrangler
A Typeface Where Every Letter Is An Optical Illusion A good illusion is a few different things all at once. Depending on how you look at it, you could say it’s a work of art, a puzzle, or a piece of graphic design (Or an old woman! Or a young woman! Or a candlestick!) The typeface was created by Jacques Le Bailly, a Dutch type designer who works under the pseudonym Baron von Fonthausen (apparently not your typical stuffy aristocrat but rather one of those eccentric noblemen you occasionally read about who were into building secret passageways and joining science cults and stuff like that). At first, Le Bailly tried to base all his letters on a single shape--the rounded rectangle--but he found the results unsatisfactory. Some letters were easy to construct, others were far more complex. As the project developed, Le Bailly spent more time ensuring that the final product would be a cohesive, coherent typeface, rather than simply a collection of loosely related illusions.
Build your own personal cloud server We are constantly being invited to use cloud services such as Dropbox, Mozy and SugarSync to store our documents, music, photos and more. It's the future, we're told. The obvious benefits of storing files online is that it releases space on our PCs, smartphones and tablets, and files can be accessed from any device with an internet connection. There are privacy and security concerns, though, and you might well wonder whether someone could access your files. Also, for anything more than a few gigabytes, which tend to be offered free to get you to try a service, you must pay for online storage with recurring monthly fees. An option you may not have considered is to run your own cloud service. An advantage of turning your PC into a cloud server is that storage is limited only by the size of its hard disk and not the size of your bank balance. Only you have access to your cloud server, but it's also possible to grant permission to others, such as family or friends. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
17 Hacks Apple Doesn’t Want You To Know About Your iPhone Love them or hate them, you've likely had an iPhone at some point -- and if not, someone you know has one. Probably a lot of someones. And it really isn't a major surprise, what with all they are capable of handling in our day-to-day lives. Phone, email, texting, tweeting, surfing, banking, planning, photography, music...there is so much available out of the box that many of the hidden features are never discovered by most users. We've compiled a list of what we think are the most handy tips and tricks to get even more out of your iPhone -- and some of them may actually astonish you. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Advertisment 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Source : diply
Pressing This Button Will Find Tweetable Sentences In Anything On The Web "Sharing. It’s hard work," writes Paul Ford on his cheekily named website SavePublishing.com. Don’t we know it: Any digital publication worth its salt has at least one full-time staffer devoted to picking and choosing and curating and sharing the most clickable snippets of its content for the hordes on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. (Okay, not that last one. But you know what we mean.) That’s what Ford has created: The SavePublishing bookmarklet, when clicked, greys out everything in an article except for the passages that are pithy enough for the Twitterati. "I doubt it," Ford admits. Ford hacked the tool together in about week (spread over several months, he says), and it’s not exactly the HAL 9000 of social media: It decides what sentences are "tweetable" by checking their length, and nothing more. As a piece of interactive satire, SavePublishing is smarter than it seems. In other words, they want to grab the best part of the content and share that, not just the headline.
Photos du journal 15 iPhone Tricks Apple Has Been Hiding From You The ongoing debate between Android and Apple users just got a little more complicated. While both surely have qualities that appeal to all kinds of smartphone users, Apple’s staple characteristic of being more “user-friendly” may or may not be a load of false advertising. With its almost too-simple interface, iPhones have essentially remained the same since their origination. However, with every new edition of this popular device, there also comes a few major and minor updates – many of which we may not even realize exist. Apple engineers may be patting themselves on the back for their progressive shifts in this user-friendly phone, but perhaps they should have a word with the advertising department first. 1. Cult of Mac Ever wish you could listen to your favorite sleepy-time playlist before bed without having to worry about turning off your music in the middle of the night? 2. iMore Instead of sticking to the standard vibration pattern for your text messages, create your own! 3. 4. 5.
Create An Intimate Map Of Your Life, Using Just Your Email Inbox We rarely think twice when sending an email, or adding a few CCs just for good measure. But these small interactions add up, and when deconstructed en masse, will reveal more about you than you might ever expect. Immersion is an interactive network data visualization created at MIT Media Lab’s Macro Connections group by Deepak Jagdish, Daniel Smilkov and Cesar Hidalgo. All you do is give the site access to your Gmail account. It promises to look only at the email headers: From, To, CC, and timestamp fields within your email history. And through the wonders of data mining, it will build an extremely accurate web of your personal relationships. “We are basically counting each multi-personal email as an expression of a connection between the people involved in that email,” Hidalgo tells me. Interestingly enough, Immersion started as a quest to redesign the email inbox. My last week. “Certainly, we would like to evoke feelings of reflection,” Hidalgo explains. My last month. Try it here.
Aisha Introducing ProtonMail Bridge, email encryption for Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail Ever since the day that we first got the idea to create ProtonMail, one of the most enduring challenges has been how to do email security right while simultaneously making encrypted email easy enough to use for normal people. Since our early days working from the CERN cafeteria, we have been working tirelessly to address this specific problem. In the years since, we have made many great strides towards creating usable encrypted email, first with ProtonMail’s webmail interface and then with our award-winning iOS and Android secure email apps. However, one of our goals has always been to bring easy-to-use encrypted email to desktop. The problem is formidable. Desktop systems encompass multiple operating systems with dozens of popular email clients with their own adherents, and virtually none of them natively speak PGP, the email encryption standard upon which ProtonMail is built. Around two years ago, we created a small task force to tackle this challenge. Threat Model
Your Serif Is Served: Typefaces Imagined As Food It used to be so simple: We’d experience things through five fairly well defined senses. But these days you can capture a scent like a photograph, feel renderings in the palm of your hand, and see web browsers projected onto the sidewalk. So why not taste your type? The sensible, informative Times font is newly appropriated as the most important meal of the day: breakfast. Times was created (supervised by Stanley Morison and drawn by Victor Lardent) in 1931 for the newspaper The Times and for decades every morning this font was being gulped down by the eyes of the British families while eating fat fried eggs with the pig strips. Courier New morphs into the more casual sandwich: Courier was designed by Howard 'Bud’ Kettler in 1955 and it soon became a standard font used throughout the typewriter industry. The “soft, bold, and smooth letters” of Gothic 821 Condensed are perhaps best embodied by a cup of coffee. [h/t Designboom]
Marium How to Encrypt Files and Folders in Windows 10 Encrypting a certain file or folder is probably the best way to keep it safe, so only you can access that file or folder. Microsoft developers decided not to change the way you encrypt your data in Windows 10 from how it was done in previous versions of Windows, but it won’t do any harm if we remind ourselves of how to encrypt files and folders in Windows Method 1 – Use Encrypted File Service Probably the fastest way to encrypt your files and folders in Windows 10 (and any other version of Windows since XP) is to use its built in encryption tool, called EFS (Encrypted File Service). But before we show you how to encrypt your files with EFS, we have to warn you that you’ll be able to access the encrypted file only with the login of the account you encrypted the file with. Now we can get to work. Click OK and close Properties windowApply changes to the folder, subfolders and files when prompted That’s that, your folder is now encrypted and its text is shown in green color. Click OK
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