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Flipboard Arrives on Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1, an operating system which needs more top-notch apps, just got one: Flipboard. The personalized magazine, already available for iPad, iPhone, Android and even BlackBerry 10, has debuted on the Windows Store in a version reengineered for Microsoft’s touch-friendly Metro interface. It’s the first time that it’s been available in its entirety on a PC. (Its user-curated magazines can already be read in any Web browser.)
For all the ways in which the new Flipboard has taken up the Windows 8.1 challenge — it has a Live Tile and reformats itself on the fly to look good on everything from a Surface tablet to a desktop PC with a ginormous monitor — it’s still unmistakably Flipboard. “In many ways,” Flipboard CEO Mike McCue told me, “this is a more evolved version of Flipboard than on any other platform.”
I wondered whether this version might dump the app’s distinctive page-turn effect in favor of the sort of infinite-scrolling approach that’s common in Windows 8.x content-consumption apps, which tend to let you just keep swiping to see new stuff. Nope: The page turn is still there, even though there’s no technical reason why a digital magazine must be broken up into pages like a dead-tree one. I asked McCue about it, and he explained why he thinks turning pages beats scrolling endlessly as a way to navigate words and pictures.
“There’s something so deeply human about pagination and flipping,” he told me, sounding rather passionate about the topic. “There’s a sense of narrative and surprise. Magazines have been designed with this notion of narrative for a long time — there’s a whole art and science to laying out content. We believe profoundly in that.”
“Infinite scrolling is a firehose,” McCue said. “It’s very overwhelming…some people even get a touch of motion sickness.”
More new incarnations of Flipboard are in the works: a Windows Phone app and a full-fledged, browser-based version. Once they’re available, the app — which I originally thought of as having been born to run on the iPad — will be usable on pretty much every computing device on the market. Sounds good to me.
How to bypass internet censorship
If you live in a free and democratic society, the idea that someone can control your browsing choices probably is quite disturbing. Employers blocking Facebook during working hours may be acceptable. What a free society should completely oppose, however, is censorship based on someone else’s moral code, religious belief or political ideology.
Irrespective of who does the censoring, the methods used are more or less the same. This article examines some of the most common methods used to filter content as well as emerging trends. In each case, I have provided a solution or practical workaround.
The current state of internet censorship
The internet is being censored in several countries around the world. Over a billion people — 20% of the global population — are affected. Due to its large population of internet users (over 500 million), China is the best known culprit, but certainly not the worst. Our Information Liberation Guide by Jim Rion has some…
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How to Protect Your Privacy on Public Wi-Fi Networks
So you’re at your favorite coffee shop and have hopped on to the free WiFi with your tablet to check your social networks, read the latest news, and maybe take a quick peek at your bank balance while you’re enjoying your latte. We’re so used to having Internet access whenever and wherever we need it that we don’t often stop to consider whether logging into a public network is safe.
To find out just what the risks were, we consulted Con Mallon, a mobility expert with Symantec. “For lot of people, the first thing they do when they wander into a coffee shop or hotel lobby or the airport is to flip on their WiFi and try to find a free hotspot rather than use your own data plan or buying time from a hotspot,” Mallon says.
There are three major ways these free, open hotspots could get you into trouble, he explains.
The risks of free WiFi
Using public WiFi isn’t unlike having a conversation in a public place: Others can overhear you. If you don’t take precautions, information your devices send over a public WiFi network goes out in clear text — and anyone else on the network could easily take a look at what you’re doing with just a few simple software tools.
Someone spying could easily pick up your passwords or other private information. If you use the same password on multiple sites, that could be a big problem. Mallon reports that this is the biggest concern with public hotspots.
The next potential problem is what Mallon calls a honeypot. Thieves might set up their own WiFi hotspot with an unassuming name like “Public WiFi” to tempt you to connect so they can grab up any data you send. These are easy to set up without any kind of special equipment — it could be done just using a laptop or smartphone — so you could run into them anywhere. Mallon couldn’t say just how common these honeypots are, but news reports about honeypots pop up once or twice a year.
Finally, using public WiFi puts you at risk for session hijacking, in which a hacker who’s monitoring your WiFi traffic attempts to take over an open session you have with an online service (like a social media site or an email client) by stealing the browser cookies the service uses to recognize who you are. Once hackers have that cookie, they can pretend to be you on these sites or even find your login and password information stored inside the cookie.
How to stay safe on public WiFi
Before you connect, be sure you know whose network you’re connecting to so you don’t fall prey to WiFi honeypots. If you’re not sure what the public network at a business is called, ask an employee before connecting.
Check to make sure your computer or smartphone is not set up to automatically connect to unknown WiFi networks — or set it to ask you before connecting — so you’re sure you know what you’re connecting to when you connect.
Make sure to connect to websites via HTTPS, which encrypts anything you send and receive from the website. While a VPN service encrypts everything you send, HTTPS ensures that communication to and from a particular website is secure. To verify if you’re connected via HTTPS, look at the address bar of your browser window; you should see “HTTPS” at the beginning of the web address (or, on some web browsers, a lock icon).
To encrypt all of the data you send, use a VPN service. Anyone trying to steal your data will see only encrypted data that they can’t get into. There are many services that can do this, including Witopia.net,StrongVPN.com and Norton’s Hotspot Privacy. VPN services charge a fee for their use, with pay packages ranging from day passes to year-round protection.
Whenever you can, use two-factor authentication, which requires both a password and a secondary code that changes regularly, for websites. This makes it very difficult for hackers to get at your accounts because even if they can get your password, they won’t have the secondary code. Though not all services support it, many popular sites offer this level of security including Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Apple andMicrosoft.
Make sure your computer isn’t configured to share access to files. When you’re at home, it may be convenient to keep things in a folder you share with other members of the household, but that’s less safe when you’re connecting to public WiFi.
Disable sharing in:
- Windows 8: Go to Control Panel > Network and Internet > View network status and Tasks > Change advanced sharing settings > Turn off file and printer sharing > Save changes.
- Windows 7: Go to Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center > Change advanced sharing settings > Home or Work > Turn off file and printer sharing > Save changes.
- Mac OS X: Go to System Preferences > Sharing and be sure that File Sharing doesn’t have a check mark by it.
Good luck, and safe browsing!
This article was written by Elizabeth Harper and originally appeared on Techlicious
It’s Time for a Google Store, Floating or Otherwise
A “mystery” barge, built with four levels of shipping containers, is seen at Treasure Island in San Francisco, California.
Whether it’s a legitimate mystery or a well-orchestrated publicity stunt, the so-called Google barge is getting plenty of attention. Speculation about the floating compound in San Francisco, along with another in Portland, Maine, began last month, fueling rumors, speculation and even a mention on The Daily Show.
In the latest details, gleaned by the San Francisco Chronicle from public documents, the barge will be an “unprecedented artistic structure” and “temporary technology exhibit space” that drives visitors to the city’s waterfront. Google hasn’t confirmed its involvement.
The most intriguing possibility, however, is that these barges are really an elaborate kick-off for Google retail stores.
While I have no inside knowledge of whether that’s the case, the timing for a Google store is right. Google has recently launched several new products, beyond its existing Nexus phones and tablets, that would benefit from public demonstration–and not just the experimental Google Glass.
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Chromecast is one example. Customers could just go up to a designated phone or tablet in the store, choose a video from YouTube or Netflix and watch it pop up instantly on a nearby television. Chromecast’s $35 price tag would probably trigger a lot of impulse buying.
Chromebooks would also benefit from a retail store. Although these browser-based laptops have been around for a couple years now, Google finally has an eye-catching model in HP’s Chromebook 11, along with the luxury Chromebook Pixel. Having a store would allow Google to explain the benefits–and address the drawbacks–of a cheap laptop that doesn’t run Windows. (Best Buy has a special endcap for Chromebooks, but when I took my mother-in-law to check one out, an employee basically tried to dissuade her from buying.)
Beyond the actual hardware, Google could use a place to show off its apps and services. As we saw at Google IO this year, the company’s been putting a fine polish on products like Maps, Google+, Google Play Music and Google Now. There is now a unified design across all these products that users may not appreciate without seeing them all together, working across many different screen sizes.
HP and Google
Rumors about a possible Google store first emerged in February, when 9to5Google claimed that the stores would open in “major metropolitan areas” this holiday season. A second report by the Wall Street Journal offered no timeframe, cautioning that a 2013 launch might not happen.
But later that month Andy Rubin, then the head of Google’s Android efforts, debunked the reports, saying Google had no plans for retail stores. “They don’t have to go in the store and feel it anymore,” Rubin said, adding that the Nexus phone and tablet program isn’t “far enough along to think about the necessity of having these things in a retail store.” (Rubin stepped down from his Android post in March, ceding the job to Sundar Pichai, who’s also in charge of Google’s Chrome browser, Chrome OS and apps.)
Despite Google’s denials, there is evidence that the mysterious barges are Google stores in disguise. A couple weeks ago, CNet reported this interesting nugget:
[A] tipster, who is well-connected in Silicon Valley but asked to remain anonymous, told me that he had heard from multiple sources at Google that the company plans to float the Glass stores from city to city by rivers, and that the idea for the project came straight from either Larry Page or Sergey Brin, Google’s founders. Finally, he said, the idea is in part that Google wants to launch stores without looking like they are trying to chase Apple.
KPIX, a local CBS affiliate followed up last week with more unconfirmed details:
The building is constructed of interchangeable 40-foot shipping containers that can be assembled and disassembled at will, allowing it to be placed on barges, trucks or rail cars and taken anywhere in the world, the source said. Google could send it to a ski resort one day and then have it shipped to the beach a few days later.
If the goal of these barges is to build buzz for future stores, that mission is now accomplished. And if Google is trying to launch its stores in a way that doesn’t clone Apple, a set of modular units delivered by plane, train or boat would probably get the job done.
All of that just to promote Google Glass–a product that is not yet commercially available–seems way over the top. But as an attraction to bring people in and check out products they can actually buy and use, an elaborate floating structure doesn’t seem so crazy.
Lenova
I’m not especially impressed with most PCs, but one that caught my eye recently was the multimode Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro. Aside from an ultra slim design and gorgeous screen, its main selling point is its multiple orientations – there’s a tent mode, a tablet-like flat mode, a stand mode and a laptop mode, all in one device.
On Tuesday, Lenovo announced two new additions to its Yoga line: the new 8- and 10-inch Android Yoga Tablet. Like its laptop cousin, the Yoga Tablet is a multimode device that centers around a cylindrical handle and built-in stand. There’s a self-explanatory hold mode, a stand mode that keeps your device propped at a 110- to 135-degree angle and a tilt mode that lets you maintain a slight angle when laying the tablet on a table.
Lenovo
The cylindrical handle isn’t just for adjusting the device’s position – it houses a massive 9,000mAh battery that gives the tablet up to 18 hours of battery life. The battery is so powerful, in fact, that the Yoga is capable of charging your smartphone on-the-go via a micro USB port.
Both models feature Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, a MediaTek quad-core processor, 16GB of expandable storage, 1280 x 800 displays, Dolby audio, a 5MP rear camera and a 1.6MP front-facing one. They’re also rather lightweight: The 8-inch version weighs 0.88 pounds, while the larger 10-inch tablet comes in at 1.33 pounds.
The 8-inch Lenovo Yoga Tablet will be available exclusively at Best Buy and through Lenovo starting October 30 with an MSRP of $249. The larger 10-inch device will be available October 30 at most major retailers with an MSRP of $299. To learn more about or purchase the tablets, visit Lenovo.com.
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