March 2012
9 posts
22-year-olds Build Incredible Social Media App.
Buffer is a hot new startup focused on Twitter optimization and we here at StackSocial are impressed with them in more ways than one.
Buffer’s main product, Bufferapp main function is to schedule your tweets to avoid bombarding your followers with a day’s worth of tweets in a five-minute period. This is perfect for businesses (or any power user) using Twitter for marketing because it breaks...
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The Setup Series: What do people use to get stuff...
Kevin ‘Lomokev’ Meredith
Photographer, teacher
Who are you, and what do you do?
I am a photographer, writer and teacher. I have written 3 books on photography, I also blog and run monthly photography courses. I am best known for my work using a cult classic Russian film camera, the Lomo LC-A. I slowly changed my career to photography through my use of Flickr where I can be found...
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Apple Introduces the New heatPad 3
You might have heard of the recent Consumer Report claiming that the iPad 3 has been found to heat up to as much as 116 degrees Fahrenheit while running games. When questioned about their new Heat Plate 3, Apple responded:
The new iPad delivers a stunning Retina display, A5X chip, support for 4G LTE plus 10 hours of battery life, all while operating well within our thermal specifications. If...
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The Setup Series: What do people use to get stuff...
Mark Jardine
Designer (Tapbots)
Who are you, and what do you do?
My name is Mark Jardine. Most people know me from my work at Tapbots, a tiny iOS software company. I’m sort of a jack of all trades, master of none kind of guy. I struggled as a web designer for 10 years and finally realized that I’m a tiny bit better at designing user interfaces for software. In another life I’d be an illustrator...
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The Setup Series: What do people use to get stuff...
Vijay Pande
Stanford Professor and Director of the Folding@home Distributed Computing Project
Who are you, and what do you do?
I’m a professor of Chemistry, Structural Biology, and Computer Science at Stanford University and Director of its Biophysics Program, but I’m perhaps best known as the Director of the Folding@home Distributed Computing project. Folding@home brings together...
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5 Kickstarter Projects We Love.
Kickstarter just might be the hottest new investment trend in technology. Recently the founder of the site said that Kickstarter receives about 250 proposals everyday, 60% of which are accepted and posted to the site. By the end of 2011 over 150,000 projects had been submitted and over $125 million worth of funds were raised to try and get those projects off the ground.
We’ll admit it; we’re...
SXSW Interactive, it's spring break for nerds.
It’s spring break for college students everywhere and its spring break for the tech world! Unlike the flocks of 20-year-olds boarding flights to Cabo, entrepreneurs and techies are heading to Austin, Texas for the festival of all things innovative and emerging, South by Southwest. The festival, made famous by its incredible headlining musical acts, has also been a Mecca for young companies...
Anonymous asked: Is there a way of alphabetising entries on iPhone Notes app? Thank you.
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Levels of addiction: do you need the iPad 3?
In case you haven’t turned on a computer today or stepped outside your house, we are here to tell you that Apple made a big announcement: the iPad 3 will be available for sale on March 16th. As with all Apple product announcements, we now get to sit in traffic on our commutes home today and ponder the big questions…
#1 - What are the new features?
#2 - Are the new features worth the...
