Couple of updates to Evernote for Windows Touch users: for starters, the app’s hub page has been redesigned for a better fingers-on experience, bringing handy columns for notes, shortcuts created across different platforms and Notebooks. The Windows Touch app now includes support for Evernote Business, as well — Notebooks created for that side of things will appear in blue, so you can tell them apart from the personal notebooks sitting in your hub. Also new is two-step verification for added security. A full list of updates to the pachyderm-friendly note-taking platform can be found in the source link below.
Two proposals to amend the Illinois Constitution have received lots of attention this year. One proposes to eliminate the office of lieutenant governor, and already has been approved by the Illinois House.
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As if Kendall Jenner needed an excuse to show off her stunning bikini body, the 17-year-old reality star spent her 4th of July at the beach in a tiny, stars and stripes two-piece.
Jenner, who’s well on her way to becoming a bona fide model, showed off her incredibly toned physique while in Malibu with friends, alternating between tanning on the sand and surfing in the water.
Her younger sister, Kylie, opted for a less patriotic swimsuit and wore a black and pink number instead. The girls’ newest family member, Kim and Kanye’s baby North West, was nowhere in sight.
If you’re a college student or a young professional in your first apartment, you’re probably well versed in assembling Ikea furniture. But soon after, those vital hex wrenches always seem to go missing, and when it’s time to move your bedroom set, it’s off to the hardware store to try and find a replacement. So thank goodness the folks at Nendo came up with a better solution: furniture that assembles using nothing more than the loose change in your pocket.
We’ve seen some funStar Warsdresses, but this is one of my favorite yet. It looks so awesome because it is made from vintage Star Wars bedsheets. That material makes this dress authentically vintage, while being a totally fashionable dress you could wear out on the town.
When Cindy of Cation Designs acquired some original Star Wars: A New Hope sheets from a friend, she just had to make a neat dress from it. For some reason Cindy is pretty critical of it on her blog, but I think it looks great.
She has some other geeky dresses on her site as well if you aren’t into Star Wars. The woman is does amazing stuff with bedsheets. No, I didn’t mean… She makes a really nice dress, that’s all.
We’ve seen a lot of neat photos from Mars thanks to NASA’s latest Curiosity rover that’s currently putzing its way around the surface of the red planet. The latest imagery that it has sent back is a rather simple, but neat timelapse video of one of Mars’ moons rising into the Martian sky.
The video is simply a timelapse consisting of 86 photos that were taken by Curiosity’s navigation camera, and they were stitched together to create a 30-second timelapse. The set of photos were taken shortly after Mars’ sunset on June 28. The timelapse video shows the moon rising over the course of about 30 minutes.
In the video, you’ll notice how small Phobos appears in the sky, and that’s mostly because it’s just 14 miles in diameter (compared to Earth’s Moon, which is over 2,100 miles in diameter). If you’re wondering about the mysterious ring glow in the video, officials say it’s is an artifact caused by the scattering of light inside the camera.
It’s not much to look at, really, since it just looks like another star in the sky, but it’s definitely unique to witness a moon rising on another planet in our solar system. The photos were taken from Gale Crater, which Curiosity arrived to back in August. The rover is expected to be active for at least another year.
Curiosity has yet to leave Gale Crater, but NASA plans to take it elsewhere in the future. It’s ultimate destination is the base of the mysterious Mount Sharp, which stands at 3.4 miles high. It’s no Mount Everest, but NASA thinks Mount Sharp holds some secrets that the rover could uncover about possible life on Mars.
As expected and predicted, today the Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of American mobile company Sprint with Japanese mobile giant Softbank and broadband service company Clearwire. In its conclusion, the FCC writes, “approval of the proposed transactions, subject to the conditions set forth herein, is in the public interest.” This comes just a week after Sprint shareholders gave the thumbs up for proceedings to go forward, and a few weeks after the US Department of Justice did the same. Further, the conclusion goes on to say that the deal has “public interest benefits that likely would result from the proposed transaction, and thus we conclude that the transaction is in the public interest.”
The tri-company transaction is through the wringer of governmental bureaucracy, but still has to receive approval from Clearwire’s shareholders; that decision is expected on July 8th, and its board of directors have reportedly recommended approval.
It’s the fifth of July, and in most parts of the country, it’s a gorgeous summer Friday that many of us, sadistically, have to spend indoors, in front of computers. Or do we?
Oh Wii Vitality Sensor, we hardly knew ye… in that we didn’t know you at all. Nintendo introduced the pulse-sensing Wii peripheral at its E3 2009 stage show, and said we’d hear more in “the future.” That future never came, despite occasional assurances that the device still existed. During a recent Q&A with Nintendo head Satoru Iwata, an analyst brought up the device once more, and Iwata said it encountered too many issues in quality assurance testing to bring to market.
“We have not been able to launch it as a commercial product because we could not get it to work as we expected and it was of narrower application than we had originally thought,” he told investors. According to Iwata’s estimates, approximately 90 out of 100 people were able to use the Vitality Sensor without a hitch, though he (thankfully) requires that it work with “1,000 of 1,000 people.” However, he admitted “but [since we use the living body signal with individual differences] it is a little bit of a stretch to make it applicable to every single person.” He’d still love to make the Vitality Sensor a reality “if technology enhancements” allow, but thus far, testing renders it “insufficient as a commercial product.”
In other Nintendo news, Iwata assured investors that he will continue to monitor employee cafeteria quality-related concerns. Seriously though, that was a question.
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