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Open Source Software -The world is starting to accept open source software as a legitimate alternative to proprietary programs. Not that it was ever illegitimate, but many of the myths surrounding open source programming are losing their footing and the whole philosophy of open source has gained a lot of respect in recent years.

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Free Cellphone and data - FreedomPop is a US telecom company that aims to protect your privacy from hackers, government agencies and spyware. Ensure your Internet, voice calls & texts are secure and encrypted. FreedomPop currently offers customers free 4G mobile phone service, free wireless internet, and free home broadband.

Cord Cutters - With all the new advances in technology the television interface has not changed. Discover new options other than cable or satellite. CordCuttersguide.com

Disruptive Innovations

A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market, displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in business and technology to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in a new market and later by lowering prices in the an existing market.

An example
Kolibree, a sensor-embedded toothbrush that sends data–directly to your smartphone. A few off-the-shelf sensors and your toothbrush can now tell you how long you brushed, where you missed, and how you can improve the effectiveness of your brushing. You can even send the data to your dentist.
Veristride, sensors in your shoes. Working under a grant from the National Science Foundation, Veristride is developing unobtrusive shoe-based technology that will measure and provide active feedback on how well you walk.

Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the interconnection of uniquely identifiable embedded computing-like devices within the existing Internet infrastructure. IoT devices can be used to monitor and control the mechanical, electrical and electronic systems used in various buildings (e.g., public and private, industrial, institutions, or residential). Home automation systems, like other building automation systems, are typically used to control lighting, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, appliances, communication systems, entertainment and home security devices to improve convenience, comfort, energy efficiency, and security.

Invisible Internet

The size of the Open Web is 167 terabytes. The Invisible Web is estimated at 91,000 terabytes. In order to access the Deep Web, you need to use a dedicated browser. TOR (the Onion Router) is the most common, but other options are I2P and Freenet. When you search the Surface Web, you access data directly from the source. This approach tracks the information downloaded, from where and when it was accessed, and your location. Information on the Deep Web cannot be accessed directly. Here is how to search the invisible internet. DeepWebTech gives you five search engines (and browser plug-ins) for specific topics. The search engines cover science, medicine, and business. Using these topic specific search engines, you can query the underlying databases in the Deep Web. IncyWincy is an Invisible Web search engine and it behaves as a meta-search engine by tapping into other search engines and filtering the results. It searches the web, directory, forms, and images. With a free registration, you can track search results with alerts. DeepPeep aims to enter the Invisible Web through forms that query databases and web services for information. Typed queries open up dynamic but short-lived results which cannot be indexed by normal search engines. By indexing databases, DeepPeep hopes to track 45,000 forms across 7 domains. Complete Planet calls itself the “˜front door to the Deep Web’. This free and well-designed directory resource makes it easy to access the mass of dynamic databases that are cloaked from a general-purpose search. The databases indexed by Complete Planet number around 70,000 and range from Agriculture to Weather. Also thrown in are databases like Food & Drink and Military.

Cable Company Hoax Bundle services

Why are you paying for three services? Internet, Television and Telephone. The Internet is putting the other two out of business and you are paying 2/3 more for a service you don’t need and can get for yourself.

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Google good or evil ?

Google isn’t the be all and end all of everything on the interweb. You always here that you should not put all your eggs in one basket. So with the decision by Google to disable Google Hangouts, Google Reader and XMPP federation, made me realize that any of these services could go at any time. I dont think it is wise to be so dependent on a single provider. So here are some alternatives.

       
Google search   Scroogle.org Duck Duck Go
    Clutsy Blekko
    Startpage ixquick
     
     
Gmail   Fastmail Hushmail
 
Google Chrome   Safari Opera
Google Docs   Copy Evernote
  Zoho Fingo Office
    Round Cube  
     
Google Reader (canceled)   Vienna RSS Owl
     
Google Calendar   30boxes Any Do
    Monket Calendar Sunrise
    Zimbra Tempo
Picasa   Flickr  
Google Maps   Open Street Map Mapbox
     
Google Drive   Dropbox Mega
YouTube   Vimeo Tumblr
Blogger   Posthaven  
       
       
Google apps for Domains   NameCheap I Want My Name
       
Google Analytics   Crazy Egg  
    Mix Panel  
    Clicky  
Google +   Path WhatsApp
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Facebook: Danger?

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Everyone on Facebook looks like they're having a great time. Nobody is really as happy as their Facebook wall claims. Fun adventures, deep romances, amazing jobs. It's enough to make you feel inadequate, but it's also a lie. Friends you have not seen or talked to in 10 years, but you know what movie they went to last night and what they named their new dog. We really do not know anything about them. Is everyone embellishing their social media pages?
Facebook is a narcissistic playground where the best, the funniest, the most charming aspects of our lives are publicized and the shitty stuff, the boring stuff, the beige that is most of our daily grind almost never gets posted. All those walls are edited at some level and that makes them, at best, a deformed mirror image of real life or, at worst, nothing more than a fictional movie of how we want people to see us. Lets just call them loose acquaintances.

How to Make a Truly Anonymous Facebook Account

 

President Barack Obama on Social Media

Does it also show ordinary people expressing their horror and the need for action? I'm not so sure. There seems still a greater interest in the personal lives of reality TV stars than in the everyday lives of those in, say, Donetsk or Mosul.
If anything, the proliferation of social media may have acted as a peculiar Xanax. Whatever mood we are in, we've learned how to seek out an area of the Web that will make us feel a little better -- or, if we're twistedly inclined, a little worse.
On Twitter, Facebook and the rest, most of the world's joys, annoyances and worries lurk somewhere. All the world's secrets, despairs, surprises and suggestions have their own little area, waiting to be discovered and participated in.
Does the mere existence of social media make us feel more concerned about people's hardships? On isolated occasions, perhaps. In general, I'm not so sure.

Facebook app permissions

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However, there’s nothing stopping the app from abusing this access whenever it wants. While this doesn’t prove that Facebook is directly spying on you through Messenger, if Facebook was ever hacked or someone at the company decided to have a little fun, they’d have the access required on millions of devices.
The big factor that should make you question Facebook is their history of changing settings without telling users and forcing them to adopt features that were previously opt-in. For example, Graph Search used to be optional, since people had privacy concerns about it. Then, they rolled it out to everyone and you had to manually adjust your privacy settings to compensate. Essentially, all this controversy (and really, every app you install on your phone) comes down to your decision and whether you trust Facebook.

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