Jan 14
Jan 14
Jan 14
Do you feel that your kids ignore your texts? Would you like to find out if they really do that? Well, there’s an app for that. Nick Herbert has developed an app called ReplyASAP which forces kids to reply to text messages from their parents. The idea to develop this app came to him when his son got a smartphone.
“I just found that my messages and calls tended to get missed quite a lot because he got a lot of social media notifications,” Herbert said, adding that he wanted to make sure that whenever he had an important message to send to his son, it would not get lost in the sea of notifications.
The app can be used to send a text message which will be displayed over the top of anything that the recipient might be doing on the device. It also sounds an alarm on the device even if it’s set to silent. The recipient can then either reply, cancel the message or snooze it. When the message has been viewed, the sender gets to know that as well.
It’s not a standard text messaging app so it can’t just be used to send messages to anyone that can’t be ignored. Both the sender and recipient need to have the app installed. ReplyASAP is only available for Android right now and Herbert is hoping to get it listed on the App Store as well.
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Jan 14
The federal government isn’t paying many of its workers, so others are stepping up.
Jan 14
Trump Nominee For DC Court Once Said Women Can Be Responsible For Being Raped
Posted in: Today's ChiliNeomi Rao has been nominated to replace Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Jan 14
If you have kids or a fondness for Disney films you probably know that a live-action version of Aladdin is coming later this year. That means kids will be wanting to fly around on magic carpets, and who can blame them. Now they can have a rug that looks just like the magic carpet from the original animated film.
The rug measures 39″ x 70″ and is made from 100% polyester. It has 4-inch yarn tassels on each corner, certain to get slurped up by your vacuum.
The Aladdin Magic Carpet Rug is available to purchase right now at ThinkGeek. It’s not cheap at $69.99, and you should know it doesn’t fly unless your UPS driver goes really fast on his way to deliver it.
Jan 14
French startup Ledger unveiled a new hardware wallet at CES this week. While the device isn’t going to ship until March, the company let me play with a prototype version of the device. The Ledger Nano X feels just like using the Nano S, but on mobile.
When the company’s previous hardware wallet first came out, that was before the cryptocurrency boom, before Ledger raised $75 million. And the user experience wasn’t great.
You had to install multiple Chrome apps to manage multiple cryptocurrencies, switch between each app when you wanted to access your balance and manage your crypto assets. But things got much better when the company released Ledger Live on macOS, Windows and Linux.
With this new app, you could finally view your portfolio balance and manage multiple crypto assets from the same desktop app. The logical next step was mobile. And you have to get a new hardware wallet for that.
The Ledger Nano X looks more or less like the Ledger Nano S, but slightly bigger. It’s shaped like a USB key and it has a tiny screen to confirm transactions on the device. There’s a tiny 100 mAh battery in it and a slightly bigger screen. The battery should last a couple of months when you’re not using the wallet, and around 8 hours of active use. The microUSB port has been replaced by a USB-C port. The buttons are now on each side of the screen instead of on the side of the device.
After you pair the device with your phone, you can control everything from your iOS or Android phone. You can install apps on the Ledger Nano X, access your wallets and send cryptocurrencies. On iOS, you can lock the app using a password and optionally Face ID or Touch ID.
When you need to validate a transaction on your Ledger Nano X, your phone will pair with your Ledger device over Bluetooth. You can then view transaction information on your Ledger device and approve the transaction on the device itself.
What makes Ledger so secure is that your private keys never leave your Ledger device. Transactions are signed directly on the device. Your private keys are never sent over Bluetooth and your cryptocurrencies remain safe even if your smartphone is compromised.
Ledger now uses an ST33 secure element, which is slightly more secure than the previous version ST31. Now, there’s only a single chip, connected directly to the screen and buttons, which reduces the risk of having someone compromise the information on your screen.
The screen is now twice as tall, which lets you view full public addresses without a scrolling view. You can now install up to 100 different cryptocurrency apps. You can still plug the device into a computer and use the desktop app, as well. The device costs $120/€120.
Disclosure: I own small amounts of various cryptocurrencies.
Jan 14
The first major leaks of the OnePlus 7 were revealed over the weekend, and the first full picture we’ve got suggests the company’s making their biggest changes yet. This newest OnePlus smartphone looks like it’ll be significantly different from devices in the past. Not just because it looks different from its predecessor, but because it might well become unique unto … Continue reading
Jan 14
Big engine, big grille, ridiculously big horsepower… there’s a straightforward equation for the 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500, and it basically amounts to “take what we’ve done before, and then make it even more extreme. Officially shown off for the first time at the Detroit Auto Show 2019, the most potent of the snake-badged Mustangs is never going to be described … Continue reading
Jan 14
With SUVs and crossovers increasingly popular, is there still a place for the sports sedan – or room for it to reinvent itself? That’s the question Nissan is asking at the Detroit Auto Show 2019 with the Nissan IMs concept, an “elevated sports sedan” that weaves electrification, luxury, and performance into one striking car. From the outside, the matte gray … Continue reading
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