CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-18 03:47:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

The Comet of the Century - Comet ISON - is heading into solar glare next week and will not be visible for the next few months. However, we have one last preview event scheduled for Sunday, May 19th - 1:45 PM PDT / 4:45 PM EDT / 20:45 UTC - with Paul Cox live from Canary Islands - view free on Slooh homepage or download the iPad app and touch the broadcast icon. Also, Padma Yanamandra-Fisher Senior, research scientist at the Space Science Institute and one of the coordinators at NASA’s Comet ISON Observing Campaign (CIOC), will join the broadcast.

Download the Slooh App
www.appstore.com/slooh

2013-05-19 08:33:49 (31 comments, 4 reshares, 84 +1s)

When hell freezes over and I skate, it will be a glorious night.
I think I need an exorcist.

I've completely gone from pillow flipping all night - to getting up, fanning the covers to cool the bed, and waving my pillow up and down in front of the fan,  in the ice cold air conditioning - and then holding it on my face for about five seconds - because that's about how long it takes for the pillow to completely heat up.

Last night I turned the A/C on so low, and the fan on so high that the tip of my nose and both ear lobes  froze numb - while the REST of me was on FIRE.  

Poor hubby... lol

2013-05-18 02:07:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)

Catching up on +Chris Hadfield's journey - here on earth.
No rest for the weary!

2013-05-18 01:59:23 (3 comments, 17 reshares, 40 +1s)

Connor is 4 and suffers from CMD. His wish is for you to mail him cards.

Story here: http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/share-last-wish-suffering-child_b42819#more-42819

2013-05-18 00:46:08 (6 comments, 16 reshares, 48 +1s)

Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31.
"This is a really big asteroid, similar in size to the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and it's getting very close to us," she said. "Fortunately we've been tracking its orbit very carefully so we know with great certainty it won't hit us. "We don't need to panic, but we do need to pay attention," she said.

2013-05-18 00:37:21 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)

Buggy hordes of cicadas sighted in Virginia.
My neighbors on each side of me are DROWNING in them but fortunately, my yard isn't.  I see the occasional one flying by but because I only have a small new tree, they weren't burrowed into my yard.  Needless to say, I still DUCK AND RUN if I see one take flight.  Ick!

+Dan McDermott 

2013-05-18 00:31:51 (17 comments, 29 reshares, 91 +1s)

Cable Storage

2013-05-18 00:20:18 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 14 +1s)

How to get a single column view in Communities

Go to google.com/settings/plus and activate Accessibility.

Voila - your community looks like it used to do.

Warning there is a known bug where you can't comment or +1 20 posts deep within the community, but that's being worked on.

Thanks to +Brian Glick for the tip!

2013-05-17 20:15:25 (16 comments, 4 reshares, 18 +1s)

Seized. US law enforcement action creates doubts about the future of Bitcoin.

2013-05-17 20:08:47 (9 comments, 13 reshares, 70 +1s)

Comment Win.

2013-05-17 20:01:08 (5 comments, 4 reshares, 21 +1s)

Just got Hangouts in +Gmail. You might have got it too. Refresh your Gmail - click on your image in GTalk and then Click Try the new Hangouts!

If you still don't see it, it might be still rolling out so give it some time.

#googleupdate   #io13  

2013-05-17 19:56:02 (10 comments, 4 reshares, 39 +1s)

Tornado!
Today in Alabama!

2013-05-17 19:50:41 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 33 +1s)

Shhh... I'm hiding from them!
(Hovered and found the "X out" button)

2013-05-17 19:41:49 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 23 +1s)

Every smartphone needs a function like this!  
Minus the "female" remark.  lol

2013-05-17 19:26:28 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 15 +1s)

Cheat Codes Help Bypass Call Center Menus.
A former IT manager has created a website with 12,000 “secret” codes for making your way through automated call center menus.

2013-05-17 19:21:25 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Worried about your dirty Snapchats being found? This app promises to clean ‘em up.
It also cleans up cache, residual files, privacy data, etc.

2013-05-17 18:35:37 (18 comments, 6 reshares, 26 +1s)

How to stop the FBI from reading your email.

2013-05-17 02:21:12 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 49 +1s)

Child Safety Groups Take Aim At Instagram
Facebook-owned photo-sharing network Instagram is under fire from advocates for children’s safety, with more than 4,500 signatures having been collected on a petition on Change.org that calls for Instagram to make the default settings private for users aged 13 through 17, and not geotag- and geolocation-enabled.

2013-05-17 01:24:51 (16 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)

Google’s New Hangouts App Has an AT&T Caveat.

2013-05-14 02:14:43 (8 comments, 7 reshares, 48 +1s)

23 Unforgettable Moments From Astronaut +Chris Hadfield.
I'm SURE going to miss him  on the ISS.

2013-05-14 02:01:06 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 22 +1s)

Man catches flying bird with bare hand.
Whoa.

2013-05-14 01:51:07 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 22 +1s)

Death by a bazillion photons.

2013-05-14 01:30:17 (9 comments, 4 reshares, 31 +1s)

LinkedIn Bans Users From Promoting Prostitution, Escort Services.
Well.  Ok then... lol

2013-05-14 01:09:35 (12 comments, 4 reshares, 22 +1s)

Microsoft warns of new Trojan hijacking Facebook accounts.
Masquerades as a Chrome extension and Firefox add-on.

2013-05-14 00:54:51 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

Einstein, Kepler combine to discover Earth-like planet.
“This is the first time that this aspect of Einstein’s theory of relativity has been used to discover a planet”, says professor Mazeh, a participating scientist in the NASA Kepler mission. “We have been searching for this elusive effect for more than two years, and we finally found a planet!"

2013-05-14 00:51:54 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

Why North Korea Never Actually Launched That Rocket.

2013-05-14 00:43:04 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

Facebook Users Question $20 Million Settlement Over Ads.
Facebook users' images could still appear in ads if they don't change their settings. And many users say the deal before the judge doesn't go far enough to protect their privacy.

As part of the settlement proposal, Facebook will let adults opt out of this ad program, but only for two years. The settlement would also create an elaborate system to give parents the ability to prevent their kids' images from appearing in these ads. But before that could happen, both the parents and children would have to tell Facebook they are related, and then the parent would need to dig into his or her settings and ask Facebook to stop using the child in ads. Feldman says it's laughable.

2013-05-14 00:27:48 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Side By Side With eyeApps Pro HDR Camera App For Android

I ran across a perfect use case for HDR so I wanted to show you a comparison. I had to take a photo of the Stonewall Jackson restaurant in Front Royal, Va. for an ad. (Great food!)  I had to take it that day but there was horrible backlight, it was dreary and actually raining! I had two cameras: a $700 Canon Vixia and my Note II.

I took a shot with the Vixia. That's what the scene actually looked like. Then we cleared the parking lot and I put my Note II on a tripod and took a shot using the HDR app. What it does is basically take three pictures: a dark, medium and bright one and then it combines the three to give you a perfect shot. You can adjust to taste before saving. (I didn't adjust anything. I took one shot, saw it was perfect and was out of there.)

I've seen +Trey Ratcliff praise HDR and+... more »

2013-05-14 00:20:30 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 27 +1s)

(Evan's note) Wonder what it looks like in the Soyuz capsule? I think the term they prefer is "cozy".

2013-05-14 00:18:46 (54 comments, 12 reshares, 62 +1s)

Seattle woman worries after drone flies next to her home’s windows.
After flying a drone “a few feet away” from a family home in Seattle, one man claims he was doing research well within his legal rights. The camera-clad drone, however, spiked justified concerns about the privacy of the family who lives there.

I would have exercised my rights with a baseball bat. DRONE DOWN.

2013-05-14 00:16:39 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

On May 12-13, the sun erupted with two X-class flares as well as two coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, off the upper left side of the sun.

Video at the link:

2013-05-14 00:14:12 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 20 +1s)

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung asked to help fight cellphone thefts.

Letter to Google Here: http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/Google_Letter_May10.pdf

2013-05-14 00:01:40 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

Chris Hadfield's 'Space Oddity' is a hit: What's next for space superstar?

2013-05-07 04:05:23 (19 comments, 14 reshares, 66 +1s)

Solar eclipse set to turn sun into 'ring of fire' this week.

2013-05-07 04:02:54 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 35 +1s)

US District Judge Otis Wright, a Hero to those being copyright trolled.

2013-05-07 03:38:54 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 23 +1s)

Some Facebook users were having trouble logging into their accounts Monday night, getting a message that their accounts were "temporarily unavailable" because of a "site issue."

2013-05-07 03:16:09 (13 comments, 4 reshares, 26 +1s)

Anonymous and various Islamist groups claim that they will take down nine U.S. government websites on May 7, including those of the Pentagon, the National Security Agency, the FBI and the White House, along with over 130 bank websites, such as those belonging to Bank of America, Capital One and TD Bank.

2013-05-07 03:06:36 (14 comments, 8 reshares, 31 +1s)

Has Science Finally Cured Gray Hair?

2013-05-07 02:24:38 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 26 +1s)

Google's Schmidt Concerned by Lack of Internet 'Delete Button'.

2013-05-07 01:45:11 (15 comments, 8 reshares, 35 +1s)

Acck!! After 17 years underground, this summer Cicadas will outnumber people on the east coast by 600-1.

2013-05-05 18:48:05 (4 comments, 6 reshares, 39 +1s)

Meteor Shower Spawned by Halley's Comet Is Peaking Now.

2013-05-05 18:07:11 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 28 +1s)

Facebook has just blocked Path’s access to its social graph after it got a lot of complaints from its users about the spam messages that Path has been sending.
Path, the mobile based social network, has been reported as sending text messages to Facebook friends of Path users as early as six in the morning. This was in the last week. This activity has disturbed many people in their sleep and hence, has annoyed them.

2013-05-04 04:05:03 (10 comments, 4 reshares, 48 +1s)

The Satire Site That Dupes More Professionals Than The Onion.

2013-05-04 03:51:30 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 37 +1s)

Man Stands Atop Rooftop As Massive Wildfire Approaches His Home.

A brave man.  I would have been long gone by now.

2013-05-04 03:44:46 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

What’s a known source of malware doing in an iOS app?

2013-05-04 03:41:32 (13 comments, 16 reshares, 44 +1s)

Internet Explorer zero-day exploit targets nuclear weapons researchers.
"Watering hole" attack targets workers browsing federal government website.

Until Microsoft has weighed in with an official advisory, readers are advised to use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or another non-IE browser, or at the very least to use versions 9 or 10 of the Microsoft browser.

2013-05-04 02:04:52 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 23 +1s)

Twitter Co-Founder Says This Video Of A Plane Landing Over A Beach Is One Of The Most Amazing Vines He's Ever Seen.
Holy Whoa!

https://vine.co/v/bQD0qZeXxVM

2013-05-04 01:32:45 (36 comments, 9 reshares, 113 +1s)

When you just don't know what to garnish a drink with..

2013-05-03 04:43:01 (13 comments, 10 reshares, 62 +1s)

This Tee-Tiny Creepy Skeleton Is Actually A Human Mystery.

More creepy photos at the link.

2013-05-03 03:40:43 (12 comments, 5 reshares, 43 +1s)

Censors Block Internet Sniggering.
Well, what did they THINK would happen? lol