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		<title>The Most Useful Mac Keyboard Shortcuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Robert E. Calem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In architecting its latest operating system (OS) for Macs — OS X version 10.8, also known as Mountain Lion — Apple liberally mimicked iOS, the operating system that runs the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Many functions and features in Mountain Lion are accessed and controlled by swiping, flicking, tapping and pinching on the surface of a trackpad (or on the top of Apple&#8217;s accessory Magic Mouse), as well as by pointing and clicking. But like operating systems of yesteryear, when trackpads and mice were far less integral, Mountain Lion also lets you use a keyboard alone to summon a feature or function. In fact, Mountain Lion contains so many &#8220;keyboard shortcuts&#8221; — combinations of key presses that invoke a command — that an Apple webpage lists hundreds of them. What follows here is our choice of the most useful keyboard shortcuts in Mountain Lion (and all OS X versions, starting with OS X 10.2 Jaguar), plus a selection of our favorite ways to control the Mac OS with trackpad swipes, flicks, taps and pinches. Keyboard Shortcuts Shortcuts for navigating among applications, open windows and the desktop Command Key + Tab – Move forward to the next most recently used application in a list of open applications Command Key + Q – Quit the frontmost application Command Key + W – Close the frontmost window F9 Key – Tile or un-tile all open windows (for quick selection and access) F10 Key – Tile or un-tile all open windows in the currently active (frontmost) application F11 Key – Hide or show all open windows F12 Key – Hide or display Dashboard (Note: Holding the F12 key when the computer is first starting up also ejects a removable disc — CD or DVD — from the drive) Shortcuts to use within open applications and windows Command Key + N – Create a new document in the frontmost application Command Key + P – Display the print dialog box Command Key + S – Saves the active document Command Key + Shift Key + S – Display the Save As dialog box Command Key + T – Opens<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163423&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google+ Hangout: The Future of Minecraft with CaptainSparklez, Block Fortress and Will Blew</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 16:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lombard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us on Friday, May 24, 2013 at 1PM Eastern for a Google+ Hangout to discuss all things Minecraft. The live video chat, moderated by TIME’s Harry McCracken, will focus on how Minecraft is changing gaming, and how three specific people are using Minecraft in extraordinary ways. McCracken will be joined by CaptainSparklez, known for his song parodies made using Minecraft; Will Blew, who in collaboration with Jacob Granberry, built the entire continent of Westeros from Game of Thrones using Minecraft (and the Time &#38; Life building); and another popular force in the Minecraft community, Block Fortress. Click here to read editor-at-large Harry McCracken’s full magazine story on The Mystery of Minecraft — including an in-depth trip to the developer’s headquarters in Sweden — available exclusively for TIME subscribers. Not a subscriber? Subscribe now or purchase a digital access pass.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163305&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get Emergency Texts on Your Phone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/23/how-to-get-emergency-texts-on-your-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Mariella Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Winter Storm Nemo hit the Northeast earlier this year, a lot of people living in the area received warning messages on their cellphone—but not everyone. That&#8217;s because the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) program that sent the messages isn&#8217;t supported by all phones or all carriers&#8217; networks. WEA, (also known as Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), launched last year with all four major U.S. cell phone carriers and a handful of smaller ones as an effort to send important news straight to your device. WEA messages look like text messages and come with a unique audible sound and even vibration for the benefit of the hearing-impaired. They&#8217;re short descriptions of the situation (the time a blizzard will hit, for instance) and recommendations of any actions you should take. To ensure the messages won&#8217;t be delayed by cellular network congestion, the program uses a different technology from text messaging. There are three different types of WEA messages sent to all enabled devices: Presidential Alerts, Imminent Threat Alerts (natural disasters or any other situation that poses threat to life or property), and AMBER Alerts (information to help authorities find abducted children). The program sends you messages depending on your current location. So if you&#8217;d been visiting friends in Boston during Winter Storm Nemo, you&#8217;d still get an emergency alert even if your phone was purchased and registered in your home state. Since WEA messages aren&#8217;t text messages, you&#8217;ll get WEA messages even if you&#8217;ve blocked your number from getting text messages. You also don&#8217;t have to pay for any alerts you receive. Unfortunately, not every handset is WEA-enabled, so if you want to receive alerts, you have to make sure yours is. With tornado season upon us, it&#8217;s more important than ever to make sure your smartphone can receive official warnings (or at least have a tornado app installed and running.) If you recently purchased a new phone, whether it&#8217;s a smartphones or feature phone, it may receive emergency alerts. Check out the box your phone came in for a sticker that says &#8220;Wireless Emergency<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163388&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving Minecraft: 9 Easy Steps to Get Started</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read editor-at-large Harry McCracken&#8217;s full magazine story on The Mystery of Minecraft — including an in-depth trip to the developer&#8217;s headquarters in Sweden — available exclusively for TIME subscribers. Much of Minecraft&#8216;s fun comes from exploring, building and discovering things on your own. It&#8217;s like a set of LEGOs, except Minecraft only provides the most rudimentary guidelines. To help out with your first day in Minecraft&#8217;s pixelated wilderness, here are some steps to follow. You should be able to get all the essentials done before the sun goes down and the monsters come out. Of course, you don&#8217;t have to follow these instructions right away. Spend some time running around, figuring out the controls and dying a few times. When you&#8217;re ready to get serious about crafting and building, here some guidelines to consider: 1. Chop Up Some Wood, Kill Some Animals Jared Newman / TIME.com Wood is the ingredient from which everything else in Minecraft stems. You can use it to build tools, doors, ladders and the all-important crafting bench, which lets you build even more elaborate things. It never hurts to have too much, so find at least a few trees and chop ‘em down with your bare hands. While you’re scavenging, keep an eye out for pigs, chickens and cows. When you kill them, there’s a chance they’ll drop some delicious meat, which you can use to heal yourself and stay nourished. You can also pick up apples from fallen trees. 2. Establish a Base of Operations Don’t venture too far. Find a place near your starting point where you can build some shelter. Ideally, you’ll be near a stone wall, around which you can build a little mud hut to keep yourself safe from monsters. (Don’t worry about enemies just yet.) Jared Newman / TIME.com 3. Craft a Bench, a Box and Some Tools Break down your wood into wooden planks through the inventory menu (press &#8220;E&#8221; if playing the PC version). Use those planks to make a crafting table and a storage chest, and place them at your base. Finally,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163246&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 15 Best Minecraft Creations (and Wildest Destinations)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<title>4 Ways Minecraft Hasn&#8217;t Actually Changed Gaming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read editor-at-large Harry McCracken&#8217;s full magazine story on The Mystery of Minecraft — including an in-depth trip to the developer&#8217;s headquarters in Sweden — available exclusively for TIME subscribers. The objective seemed simple enough: Come up with a list of ways in which Minecraft has changed the video game industry. For a game so often hailed as one of the best ever, with more than 20 million copies sold, I figured the signs of Minecraft&#8217;s influence would be easy to rattle off. But the more I considered it, the more I felt the opposite way. Certainly, Minecraft has resonated with players, who&#8217;ve spent countless hours letting their creativity run wild within the game&#8217;s procedurally-generated worlds. Still, four years after Minecraft&#8217;s alpha launch, its impact on the rest of the gaming world has ranged from immeasurable to insignificant. That&#8217;s no knock against Minecraft. If anything, it&#8217;s a testament to how unique the game actually is. Rather than pretend Minecraft has been an industry-changing force, let&#8217;s instead count the ways in which Minecraft was an anomaly whose successes won&#8217;t be so easily duplicated: Most Games Aren&#8217;t Cribbing from Minecraft Despite Minecraft&#8217;s popularity, mainstream games haven&#8217;t borrowed much from the Mojang playbook. User-generated content is still a rarity unless you count PC mods, which existed long before Minecraft. Even if more publishers put creative hooks into their games, there&#8217;s no guarantee a community would build up around them. Minecraft&#8217;s viral levels of success will be nearly impossible for any publisher, no matter how deep-pocketed, to manufacture. That may explain why so few have bothered to try, save for the occasional low-budget clone or derivative. And while Minecraft is often dubbed a sandbox-style game, other examples of the category fall neatly into existing genres: Grand Theft Auto is a racing game and third-person shooter, Far Cry 3 is a first-person shooter and stealth action game, and SimCity is open-ended strategy. Mentioning these games in the same breath as Minecraft, which is largely devoid of structure and is just barely a hack-and-slash at times, seems inappropriate. Meanwhile, take a look at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163076&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Xbox One Raises the Burden of Privacy Safeguards: 5 Questions for Microsoft</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things you take for granted, like the fact that in Star Trek, there&#8217;s a computer that&#8217;s always listening, always observing, always standing by cataloging data. Who owns that data? Where&#8217;s it stored? Who determines how it&#8217;s used? Who knows. The shows chose to slide by those questions and focus on others. The holodeck was creepy because, whoops, maybe you&#8217;d get trapped, or addicted, or its fictional denizens might inexplicably come to life, not because the computer was collating and archiving everything you did, whether hiking a simulation of the Appalachian trail or indulging some crazy erotic fantasy. Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox One won&#8217;t surround you with holographic fir trees, azaleas and mountain laurels, nor, as far as I know, will it dish out interactive porn. But it is going to be listening &#8212; and capturing data, and transmitting that data back to Microsoft &#8212; in ways no device in your household has ever listened to or observed you before. When Stan Lee wrote &#8220;With great power comes great responsibility&#8221; in Amazing Fantasy #15 back in 1962, he packed a longstanding philosophical notion into six culturally resonant words. Those words couldn&#8217;t be more relevant today, with our lives awash in cloud-connected technology, generating and beaming back mountains of abstractly defined information that&#8217;s quietly sifted by complex machine algorithms and pored over by corporations in search of new ways to further secure footholds in our future lives. So with Xbox One, which promises to streamline how we interact with TV, movies, music and games by introducing always-on, always-connected digital ears and eyes to our living rooms, I&#8217;d argue the burden on Microsoft to safeguard our privacy (and articulate that in a meaningful, non-pandering way) just shot through the roof. Consider what we know about Xbox One for starters: The new console will come with Microsoft&#8217;s refined Kinect sensor, a detachable hammerhead-like camera with microphone that you&#8217;ll probably position somewhere high up in your entertainment center, where its upgraded 1080p widescreen eye can easily sweep your play-space. Unlike the Xbox 360, which functions whether the Kinect camera is attached<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163197&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter 101: Understanding the Basics</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/21/twitter-101-understanding-the-basics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Harper / Techlicious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re online—and reading this!—you&#8217;ve probably heard of Twitter. But just what is Twitter for? How does it work? And how do you get started using it? Whether you want to start using Twitter yourself or just want to know what it is, we&#8217;ll help untangle the mysteries of this social networking site. Just what is Twitter? On Twitter, you&#8217;ll find friends and family as well as celebrities, companies and strangers who may share your interests. News networks (like @AP and @CNN) will post breaking news announcements, companies may hold giveaways, celebrities post announcements on what they&#8217;re working on and everyone has conversations. Like any social network, what you get out of Twitter is based on who you follow on the site, and you can follow anyone else using Twitter (so long as their account isn&#8217;t private). Think of Twitter as a big, open room—with all of Twitter&#8217;s 200 million active users chatting away inside fromall over the world. You can roam around and listen to what everyone&#8217;s talking about or just chat with a small group of your friends. Twitter is considered a micro-blogging service, which means the posts made to Twitter have to be an extremely brief, 140 characters or less. Unlike Facebook, which has lots of options that allow you to keep your information private, Twitter is a predominately public space. Though you can make your Twitter account private, meaning only people you approve can see your messages, you only have two options—to be completely public or completely private. You may not think 140 characters is very much to get something across, but these brief messages are perfect for sharing small updates, little bites of everyday life. And while each message is short, you may find yourself replying to other people—and them replying to you—which turns a single short message into a longer conversation. Twitter also lets you easily share links, photos, and videos, which you can post for your friends—or everyone— to see with or without comment. Twitter terminology Elizabeth Harper / Techlicious Twitter isn&#8217;t exactly a foreign<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163115&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun Fact: There Was Once a Yahoo DVD Player</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/20/fun-fact-there-was-once-a-yahoo-dvd-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, will you look this? Isn&#8217;t that a sight for sore eyes? Forget Yahoo the web portal, forget Yahoo the e-mail service, forget Yahoo the company that just bought Tumblr: Back in 2005, there was a Yahoo DVD player. As CNET&#8217;s John Falcone tweets: Remember when Yahoo made a DVD player? reviews.cnet.com/dvd-players/ya…&#8212; John P. Falcone (@falconejp) May 20, 2013 Yes, John Falcone. Yes, I do. But it&#8217;s been&#8230; oh, eight years since I&#8217;ve thought about it. Man, what a gem. Now, this was no ordinary DVD player. Well, it was sort of ordinary in its functionality, but it sure didn&#8217;t look like ordinary DVD players. Yahoo&#8217;s YDP-530 had two superfluous analog meters flanking the disc tray; one measured audio volume, its needle bouncing back and forth as dialogue ebbed and flowed. The other supposedly measured the bit rate of the video being played as it made its way from the DVD player to your TV set. To say that CNET&#8217;s 2005 review of the YDP-530 is interesting doesn&#8217;t do it justice. This quip, for instance, is marvelous: Facing pressure from Google on the search, maps, and e-mail front, Yahoo has decided to strike back with…a DVD player? While the $100 YDP-530 bears the Yahoo brand, it&#8217;s actually manufactured by Diamond Electronics, a company that, as its press release states, &#8220;supplied the DVD player that Forbes Magazine (September 2003) referenced as Wal-Mart de Mexico&#8217;s single largest dollar volume product in the entire country.&#8221; As for those cool analog meters? [W]hile they look pretty nifty and even light up, we can&#8217;t really imagine any practical purpose for them. Unfortunately for the geek who wants to know how many bits that last chase sequence averaged, the bit-rate meter is wildly inaccurate; it kind of just bounces up and down, even on still images. Standard OSD meters are much better for actually showing video bit rates. Do yourself a favor and read the entire review. It&#8217;s not long. The video embedded at the top of it shows off those funky meters, too. Yahoo YDP-530<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163127&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering Our Digital Sixth Sense with Google Glass, Augmented Reality and Wearable Health Gadgets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/20/google-glass-and-augmented-reality-empowering-our-digital-sixth-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know about our five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. Many people believe we also have a kinesthetic sense, which is what some folks believe is a sort of spiritual sense &#8212; for instance, when they perceive another person is in a room with them even though the other person is behind them and hasn&#8217;t made a sound. It&#8217;s as though they sensed them unconsciously. Personally, I seem to have another type of sense that I don&#8217;t know what to call, but it relates to anticipating things just before they happen; a lot of my experiences with this have been unsettling at times. These extra senses are difficult to qualify and in many cases even hard to explain, but we are about to enter an era where a digital sixth sense will become a reality. Not only can this sixth sense be qualified, but it can be repeated as needed. One of the more basic examples of a digital sixth sense comes from the many new wearable health monitors popping up these days: products like the Nike Fuel, Jawbone UP and Fitbit, to name just a few. For the past eight months I have been wearing the Nike Fuel on my wrist, a Fitbit clipped to my belt and a watch that can give me a pulse readout on demand. I have to admit that monitoring my health in any way was foreign to me until I had a triple bypass last June. Let&#8217;s just say that this was a serious wake-up call that got me more interested in my health on a lot of levels. Part of my recovery process included walking, simple weightlifting and various movements to get my heart health back and to help my body recover from this very invasive surgery. Luckily, these digital health monitoring tools had just come onto the market and my wife and son made sure I had at least two of them to help monitor myself and motivate me to move. In every sense of the word, these became<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163030&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Location-Enabled Apps to Try This Summer</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/20/four-location-enabled-apps-to-try-this-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 09:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Subramanian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it: location-enabled apps are not going anywhere. With more than 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones worldwide, a new crop of geo-location apps are announced every month. Regardless of user hesitation and drawn out privacy battles, which includes a recently proposed &#8220;Apps Act&#8220; to make privacy policies more transparent, a continued surge in mobile traffic means that location-enabled apps are bound to be a permanent fixture on smartphones. So if you have yet to embrace geo-location, here are four free apps to help ease into the inevitable. Ribbon While living in the Fiji Islands, Ribbon founder and California native Tony Alfaro resorted to using an excel spreadsheet to keep track of friends and family when he made his annual trips to the U.S. So Alfaro hatched a plan to coordinate his future trips with travel plans of friends and professionals by combining a calendar with Facebook&#8216;s social graph. The &#8220;Ribbon feed&#8221; allows users to see future trips, invite others along as well as see friends&#8217; trips displayed with pins using a &#8220;TimeMap.&#8221; The app also organizes trips by city, eliminating privacy hesitations about revealing exact locations. Rather than perusing Facebook to see which friends are living where, you can use Ribbon to organize and plan meet-ups with old college roommates, colleagues and friends. The app also allows you to manage privacy settings to allow certain people to see your trips, naturally filtering out those residual Facebook friends you haven&#8217;t gotten around to unfriending. Though it&#8217;s only available for iOS at the moment, an Android release is expected this month. Link: Ribbon [iTunes] Tinder Tinder, a dating app that rolls off the tongue and easily doubles as a verb, has propagated the idea of meeting potential hook-ups or dates through an anonymous game of &#8220;hot or not.&#8221; It&#8217;s a simple concept of matching geo-located users by pressing a green heart to like or a red X to move on. Once two users are matched, the app introduces the users in a private chatroom to carry on a conversation. There are no profiles involved,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162975&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Tumblr?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/19/what-is-tumblr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, old-timer. In light of the recent Yahoo-buys-Tumblr news, my overlords at TIME have asked me to put together a guide of sorts explaining what Tumblr is. A Tumblr for Dummies, if you will. (Note: there is an actual Tumblr for Dummies book already. I did not write it.) If you&#8217;re a regular reader here at TIME Tech, you can skip this post entirely, as you already know what Tumblr is. For the rest of you, make sure your Depend elastic-leg undergarments are cinched really, really tightly, because what you&#8217;re about to read can only be fairly categorized as a technoerotic thriller. Let&#8217;s begin. What is Tumblr? Before there was social networking, there were blogs. And in an effort to muddle things, at one point in time the concept of blogging without trying too hard became known as microblogging. Tumblr is part microblogging, part social networking. If you want to write a several-thousand-word opus about something, Tumblr isn&#8217;t the place to do it. If you want to share a moving picture of a little kid acting like a detective as quickly and easily as possible, Tumblr is a good place to do it. That&#8217;s the microblogging aspect to Tumblr. Then, other Tumblr users who like moving pictures of little kids acting like detectives can follow you on Tumblr so they&#8217;re sure to see every moving little-kid-acting-like-a-detective picture you post. That&#8217;s the social networking aspect to Tumblr. For very little information about what Tumblr does, visit the main page of Tumblr.com. For more information, visit Tumblr&#8217;s About page, which says: Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, e-mail or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme&#8217;s HTML. Why is the E in Tumblr missing? Tumblr Yes, it&#8217;s very unprofessional. For a website to try to convince people that it&#8217;s cool, sometimes it will drop a random vowel from its name. You&#8217;ll notice the Tumblr logo also has a cool period at the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163048&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Expect Jaw-Dropping Things from Nintendo Direct, You&#8217;re Missing the Point</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/if-you-expect-jaw-dropping-things-from-nintendo-direct-youre-missing-the-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I caught my first Nintendo Direct last year, just before E3. It was somewhat&#8230;unexpected. Instead of crazy editing, hipster quips and frenetic sizzle reels, Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata stood beneath a picture with the Japanese characters for a phrase that he explained meant &#8220;creating something unique,&#8221; addressing viewers in English and speaking slowly with long pauses at the end of sentences. You might even have called the tone struck as he introduced and elaborated on the Wii U something approaching &#8220;dignified.&#8221; This was Nintendo working to define itself as definitively unlike its rowdier rivals. The latest of these briefs aired this morning, a full 30 minutes packed with information about several upcoming games, some of it stuff we already knew, some of it stuff we didn&#8217;t, but none of it significant in the &#8220;Look, a new Super Mario Galaxy game!&#8221; sense. We heard a little about some new Sega games (a lovely-looking Mario and Sonic Winter Olympics game that made me think Diddy Kong Racing meets SSX; plus a new Sonic-series action/adventure/platformer dubbed Sonic: Lost World), were walked through snippets of upcoming or recently released games including Mario &#38; Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, finally got a release date for The Wonderful 101 (Sep. 15), learned about a Luigi-based rethink of New Super Mario Bros. U that existing owners of the latter can download on June 20 for $20 (or, if you don&#8217;t own New Super Mario Bros. U, buy standalone on Aug. 25 for $30) and had a fairly detailed look at Pikmin 3, Shigeru Miyamoto&#8217;s forthcoming real-time strategy opus. And yet I wonder how many people watching today&#8217;s show walked away disappointed, like the dopamine-starved blogosphere after some press-concocted Apple fantasy part fails to materialize during a WWDC keynote. Judged as such, you&#8217;d probably find most of these Nintendo Direct videos boring. You&#8217;ve tuned in hoping to spy something jaw-dropping instead of merely explanatory (or, you know, insightful), something like footage from a new Zelda game, Shigeru Miyamoto decapitating a Master Chief mannequin with his mock Link-sword or some wildly unexpected add-on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162964&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EA Isn&#8217;t Making Wii U Games: Do You Care?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/ea-isnt-making-wii-u-games-do-you-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re reading that correctly: Electronic Arts, one of the world&#8217;s largest gaming companies with billions in annual revenue, just confirmed that it&#8217;s not designing games for Nintendo&#8217;s Wii U. Speaking to Kotaku, EA spokesperson Jeff Brown said &#8220;We have no games in development for the Wii U currently.&#8221; I assume Brown&#8217;s talking about this now to soften the reaction when EA showcases its product lineup at E3 next month. And yes, Brown&#8217;s hedging with that word, &#8220;currently,&#8221; but as we know, original games can take years to bring off. Even ports require significant effort, especially if you have to figure out how to rejigger a game to take advantage of an idiosyncratic peripheral like the Wii U GamePad. If EA truly has nothing in the pipeline for Wii U, you&#8217;re looking at a year, probably more, for something &#8212; casual, core, family, whatever &#8212; to appear, and that&#8217;s if EA or one of its subsidiaries signed on to something today. Remember this? Kotaku did. It&#8217;s Ex-EA CEO John Riccitiello, speaking at E3 2011 about the Wii U. What Nintendo&#8217;s new console delivers speaks directly to the players of EA Sports and EA Games. Nintendo&#8217;s new console will produce brilliant high-definition graphics and new gameplay opportunities. We look forward to seeing great EA content on this new platform. How times have changed. While EA has released Wii U games, specifically ports of FIFA 13, Madden 13, Mass Effect 3 and Need for Speed Most Wanted, Brown told Kotaku that those early games were simply EA wrapping up its E3 2011 obligations. (EA confirmed earlier this month that Madden 14 would skip the Wii U this year.) From a business standpoint, whoever this reflects poorly on (at least one friend&#8217;s reaction was &#8220;These guys are jerks, man&#8221;), it&#8217;s bad news for Nintendo. Whatever you think of EA&#8217;s games or the company&#8217;s business practices overall, it owns some of the industry&#8217;s biggest ticket franchises, including Madden, NHL, FIFA, Battlefield, Mass Effect, Need for Speed, Dragon Age, The Sims and most recently, the exclusive rights to develop future<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162952&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Unfriend on Facebook Without Offending</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/how-to-unfriend-on-facebook-without-offending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Christina DesMarais</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a Facebook friend who constantly is firing off preachy religious or contentious political posts that are clogging up my social stream with stuff I don’t care to read. At the same time, the guy is the dad of one of my son’s best friends and I have to see him on the sidelines of school sporting events, so the last thing I want to do is offend him. If this scenario sounds familiar, take heart. There are ways to rid your Facebook News Feed of annoying posts. First, you can unfriend the person—Facebook will not notify the person you have done so. Of course, if the person starts to wonder why he or she is no longer seeing your posts and searches for you, your former connection will find your profile page and see an “Add friend” box on the top of it, a dead giveaway pointing toward what you&#8217;ve done. Facebook As an alternative, you can tell Facebook to show you fewer posts from a particular person. To do it, click on the little drop-down arrow on the top of something he or she has posted, then choose “Hide.” Facebook then tells you it has hidden the story from your News Feed and gives you the option to “Change what updates you get from (so and so)” or “Organize who you see in news feed.” If you click on the former, you can uncheck—and tell Facebook you don’t want to receive certain kinds of information about this person—things like life events, status updates, photos, games, comments and likes, music and videos and other activity, essentially everything a person is doing on Facebook. There’s also an option to simply unfollow a person. Facebook If you opt to organize your News Feed, you can put people on an acquaintances list so that their posts show up less frequently there as well as get the ability to share things with friends but not acquaintances. Again, nobody will know you’ve put them on this list. But what about the people who you really care about—the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162912&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Play Music All Access Review: It&#8217;s Not a Spotify Competitor After All</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/google-play-music-all-access-review-not-a-spotify-competitor-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get this out of the way: Google Play Music All Access is a terrible name, rolling off the tongue like a mouthful of marbles. I&#8217;m not sure what Google was thinking here, adopting such a clunky moniker for a fledgling streaming music service whose media-decreed rivals go by punchier handles like Pandora, Spotify, Rdio and Grooveshark. Why not something simpler like Google Music, leaving &#8220;All Access&#8221; to describe one of the subscription tiers? Even the name Google Play sounds catchier and more appropriate for something that dishes up tunes, but then Google already uses those two words (somewhat incongruously) to describe its entire digital distribution platform, from Android apps, devices and games to books, magazines and music. Google Play Music All Access it is then, and I&#8217;ll henceforth be referring to it as GPMAA for sanity&#8217;s sake (or, as I&#8217;ve been pronouncing it out loud, &#8220;gup-mah&#8221;). Google unveiled GPMAA yesterday at its annual I/O conference during an over three-hour developer-focused keynote, though of that time, the company only devoted a few minutes to touch on the service&#8217;s basic features. As suspected, GPMAA represents Google&#8217;s attempt to offer a subscription-based music service, streaming &#8220;millions&#8221; of songs &#8212; intermingled with up to 20,000 more, uploadable or song-matched from your personal library &#8212; for $10 a month ($8 a month if you sign up by the end of June). Chris Yerga, Google&#8217;s engineering director who steered this part of the keynote, explained that GPMAA would include common music streaming features like curated playlists, album recommendations and a build-your-own-radio-station feature. In other words, GPMAA isn&#8217;t a wildly new product so much as another limb stitched into an existing framework. Google hopped into the music game in late 2011 with Google Music (later, Google Play Music), the company&#8217;s answer to Apple&#8217;s iTunes music store, the twist being that you could also upload up to 20,000 of your own songs and stream all of that to multiple Android devices. The service never really took off, though, and no surprise: Given the choice between having to curate your own music library (where you’re<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162884&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Things Google Play Music All Access Needs to Match (or Beat) Spotify [Updated]</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/5-things-google-music-needs-to-match-or-beat-spotify/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports that Google may launch a streaming music service to rival Spotify&#8217;s as soon as this week, possibly to coincide with the Google I/O conference that&#8217;s kicking off today and runs through Friday. Why now, out of the blue? I/O notwithstanding, the Journal&#8216;s sources claim Google has signed deals with Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group  and Warner Music Group for unlimited access to &#8220;certain libraries&#8221; of their music catalogs. Google&#8217;s existing music service, Google Play Music, works like iTunes&#8217; music store with a twist: In addition to purchasing music through Google&#8217;s online storefront, you can upload (or &#8220;song match&#8221;) up to 20,000 of your own songs, then stream them to multiple Android devices &#8212; a &#8220;roll your own&#8221; music approach that initially sounded cool to musicophiles like me when Google touted it back in May 2011. It never really took off though, and in hindsight, it&#8217;s easy to see why. Given the choice between having to curate your own music library (where you&#8217;re paying for every song or album and limited by what you own and limited by where you can listen) and throwing a few bucks at a pre-fab service that simply works, elegantly and immediately on nearly any device, giving you instant listening access to an unprecedented single-source spectrum of music, which would you pick? (FOLLOW-UP: Google Play Music All Access Review: It’s Not a Spotify Competitor After All) We&#8217;re awash in streaming music nowadays, kicking through oceans of compressed audio as we sample potential purchases in iTunes or preview entire albums in browsers or groove to unthinkably vast song libraries in the cloud beamed to tiny apps that live on our smartphones and tablets. Google&#8217;s obviously a heavy-hitter, so anything it does in this space is newsworthy, but I&#8217;m not yet convinced the company understands what it takes to pull together a compelling service. Google Play hasn&#8217;t been that service, and I&#8217;m not sure a Google &#8220;Hey, We Can Do What Spotify Does, Too!&#8221; Music service distinguishes itself enough for anyone to bother. Bearing that in mind, here&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Essential Steps for Keeping Your Computer Safe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Katharine Knibbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computers house so much of our personal data that it&#8217;s essential to set up protective measures in case of cyber attack or mechanical failure. These five must-do steps dramatically increase the odds your computer (and your privacy) will remain safe from the latest online criminal activity and let you salvage your most important files if your computer becomes irretrievably infected. 1. Updates are not optional Updating the software on your system, including the operating system, is an absolute necessity. If you don’t download new versions of programs like Adobe Flash, your computer is more susceptible to malware. Updates to your Windows or Mac operating system help address new threats. To keep your Windows system up to date, you can use Windows Update to make sure you’re getting the necessary adjustments. This is usually set to update automatically, but here&#8217;s how can check to make sure. In Windows 7, click the Start button, type &#8220;windows update&#8221; into the search box. Click on Windows Update in the results (it will be under the Program section of the results.) Click on &#8220;Change Settings&#8221; in the Windows Update window that pops up and then check to see that the Install Updates Automatically option has been selected under Important Updates section. Then choose OK to save your changes. In Windows 8, open the Search charm, enter &#8220;turn automatic updating on or off&#8221; and then click Settings. Microsoft issues new updates every second Tuesday of the month. Mac OS X checks automatically for updates weekly if it has an internet connection. If it finds updates, will it use a pop up window listing the changes and asking you if you are ready to install them (which often requires a computer restart). 2. Uninstall Java Java is a program that websites used to incorporate into their systems, but is rarely used now. Continuous security holes allowing malware to infect computers through Java makes it no longer safe to leave it on your system unless you absolutely need it. Even the Department of Homeland Security has recommended removing Java from your computer or, at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162793&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gmail at Nine: The Evolution of an Essential Web Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, when Google introduced Gmail, it wasn&#8217;t instantly obvious to everyone why the search engine phenom would want to get into the e-mail business. Actually, given that the company made its announcement on April 1, some people wondered, momentarily, whether the news was a hoax. Even once it was clear that Gmail was the real deal, Google felt the need, in the Gmail FAQ, to answer the burning question &#8220;Why is Google offering email? I thought you were a search company.&#8221; The era of people being confused by Gmail was so brief that it&#8217;s easy to forget such an era ever existed. Gmail quickly became not just one of Google&#8217;s core services but one of the web&#8217;s core services &#8212; the webmail client that came to define webmail clients even though it was far from the first one. Like most things Google does, Gmail hasn&#8217;t been without its controversies, but it&#8217;s still one of the company&#8217;s great success stories. I recently chatted with Alex Gawley, the service&#8217;s product manager, about Gmail&#8217;s first nine years &#8212; and a little bit about where it might be going. First, to refresh your memory, here&#8217;s an infographic-based history of Gmail that Google distributed last month, complete with major milestones such as 2010&#8242;s Priority Inbox, probably Gmail&#8217;s biggest innovation since the ones that got it started: Google One of the reasons Gmail took the web by surprise was that it wasn&#8217;t necessarily obvious that web-based mail was ripe for reinvention. Nine years ago, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail were good, popular and deeply entrenched; they seemed to have the market as it existed all sewn up. Gmail shattered that assumption because it was the first major web-based e-mail that aspired to be good enough to be someone&#8217;s primary inbox. &#8220;From the very start, [Gmail] was about pushing the boundaries of what an e-mail product might be for people,&#8221; Gawley says. &#8220;Back in 2004, most webmail providers were giving people a few megabytes of storage. They were thought of as this interesting quirk. A gigabyte of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162701&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Memes: 5 Unintentionally Funny Products Gone Viral</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kardon / Techlicious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who doesn&#8217;t love a good meme? You know, those funny viral videos, images and ecards that seem to take over the Internet (and your Facebook feed) for a week or two and then disappear into web. Everyone likes to join in with their own version of what that apparently-drunk baby or too-serious-for-you cat has to say. Surprisingly, the review section of Amazon products is one place for people to indulge in their love for memes. Whether the products are Internet famous before they were listed on Amazon or quickly became infamous for reasons you&#8217;ll discover below, each one of these has become the focal point of viral humor on the world&#8217;s biggest retailer site. Amazon The gift that keeps on&#8230;no, just no Easily the coolest thing since sliced bread, the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer slices an entire banana in one quick motion! Imagine the time you&#8217;ll save every single morning by slicing your banana in one shot, rather than using a plain old knife! Plus, as the manufacturer points out, children just love slicing their own bananas! Apparently all the cool kids are doing it these days. Such a useless item quickly became a target for Amazon reviewers. Mrs. Toledo exclaims: &#8220;What can I say about the 571B Banana Slicer that hasn&#8217;t already been said about the wheel, penicillin, or the iPhone&#8230;. this is one of the greatest inventions of all time!&#8221; SW3k reported on his life changing experience after using this miracle product: &#8220;No longer consumed by seething anger and animosity towards thick-skinned yellow fruit, I was able to concentrate on my love of theatre and am writing a musical play about two lovers from rival gangs that just try to make it in the world.&#8221; Uncle Pooky offers this final word of wisdom: &#8220;Once I figured out I had to peel the banana before using &#8211; it works much better!&#8221; Amazon Can I get that with a side of &#8220;What the what?&#8221; Quick, what three words immediately come to mind when you hear &#8220;horse head mask&#8220;? &#8220;Awesome conversation piece,&#8221; right? Right! If disturbing your friends (and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162672&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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