July 2011

Week of tweets: 2011-07-31.

July 31, 2011

Confirmed: iPad Facebook app on its way. Can Google beat 'em to the punch with a native G+ app? http://t.co/YHNUjyF # Great infographic on vaccination: http://t.co/eu6SiAw # ION's piano-learning app/accessory is too small to be of real use. A two-octave range? http://t.co/Gyq69E2 # The secret ingredient in your orange juice. http://t.co/vP23Ipo # Big lady in [...]

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Monopoly’s most hated rule is the best one.

July 27, 2011

There’s a rule that most Monopoly players don’t know about, which we remember a cousin telling us about when we were but a wee lad. The rule states that if someone opts not to purchase an available property after landing on it, then it is auctioned off to the highest bidder. Not having ever played [...]

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Week of tweets: 2011-07-24.

July 24, 2011

Wonder how much of Borders' troubles are related to the fact that they didn't put forth any real effort on the eBook front. # Anyone know of a regionally accredited school offering an online master's degree in Creative Writing? # What's everyone using to sync Twitter and G+ posts? You're not manually reposting are you? [...]

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Baseline blood tests.

July 21, 2011

Over the past couple months, we talked to several people about blood tests, and what exactly to test for. Most people place the subject squarely in the hands of their doctors, and care little about delving into the subject themselves. But as we’ve come to learn, many doctors base their findings on conventional wisdom, which [...]

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A tower of tiny consequences.

July 21, 2011

While the Sim City franchise was the flagship for the Sim genre, other Sim games managed to capture an audience as well, offering similar gameplay but in a different setting. One such title was Sim Tower, released in 1994, which resembled Sim City in most aspects, but instead of building a city across a landmass, [...]

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Week of tweets: 2011-07-17.

July 17, 2011

Workaround for uploading photos from iOS devices to Google+. (http://aol.it/pgavNn) http://bit.ly/mVZ6wE # So how many of you intend to have G+ effectively replace another social network (Facebook, Twitter,: So how many… http://bit.ly/mTyWoe # Facebook just shut down another tool to help people move their social network connections to Google+: Facebook j… http://bit.ly/nsA5nf # TiVo iOS [...]

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