tech/webdev magazine

September 30, 2015

Tugaflix quer ser o Popcorn Time português

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

O surgimento do Popcorn Time fez desesperar as editoras e estúdios, ao mesmo tempo que proporcionava ao mundo o mais simples método possível de ver filmes e séries, a um clique de distância. É precisamente esse o mesmo objectivo do Tugaflix...

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Google's algorithm for happiness

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

Deep inside the global tech behemoth Google sits an engineer with an unusual job description: to make people happier and the world more peaceful. A few years ago, Chade-Meng Tan, one of the company's first engineering employees in Mountain View, noticed many of his colleagues were stressed out and unhappy at work, so he decided to do something about it.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Docker and Modulus

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

In this tutorial, we're going to be taking a look a the history of containerization, Docker, its components, and how to get started using it in our day to day work. But before we dive too deeply into the tutorial, let's take a look at what Docker is so that we gain an understand as to what it is with which we'll be working.

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Tesla Model X video shows towing, Falcon doors in action

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

Tesla hosted the launch of its Model X last night, giving a few lucky, expectant folks a look at one possible future for electric crossovers. The sleek CUV is still out on the roads testing, and two different people who know what they were looking at caught it in video in two new poses.

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All of OS X El Capitan's New Features in Two Minutes

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

OS X El Capitan is here, and while you’re waiting for that download to complete, you might as well get an overview of its new features. Let’s take a look at all the new stuff and a few of the things that’ve changed since OS X Yosemite. El Capitan features a revamped full screen mode for apps.

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Building Web Apps With ASP.NET 5 MVC And Entity Framework 7

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

Everyone likes the technology that comes with an “open source” tag along with it. And yes! The new ASP.NET 5 is an open source project and cross platform framework. I guess, you are already feeling excited to learn ASP.NET 5 now! Well I’m a big fan of Node.js, so when I heard about ASP.

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OS X 10.11 El Capitan: The Ars Technica Review

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

Poor OS X can't get no respect. Apple's Mac operating system has been playing second fiddle to the iPhone since 2007, when Leopard was delayed to make more room for the then-new smartphone. And despite the occasional protest to the contrary, OS X hasn't been the apple of Apple's eye since then.

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Google anuncia o Pixel C com Android

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

Terá sido talvez a surpresa do dia do evento do Google, que nos deu a conhecer os novos Nexus 5X e 6P e os novos Chromecast: um novo tablet de 10.2" que vem substituir o velhinho Nexus 10, mas que agora fica posicionado na gama Pixel - o Pixel C. O Pixel C é um tablet de 10.

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Google apresenta Nexus 5X e 6P

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

Já se tinha descoberto praticamente tudo sobre os novos Nexus 5X e Nexus 6P do Google, mas agora é oficial e sem incertezas de rumores ou suposições, e ficamos também a conhecer os novos Chromecast e alguns extras que não eram esperados, como um novo Pixel... com Android.

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Google apresenta dois novos Chromecasts

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

Os novos Chromecast (um concebido para substituir o original, outro dedicado à reprodução musical) contam com um design circular um pouco insólito, mas o Google diz que assim é possível obter uma muito melhor cobertura WiFi, que agora passa a ser dual-band (802.11ac 5GHz) e sem comparação com a do modelo original.

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The Nexus 5X vs. the competition: Smaller is still powerful

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 Teklinks

If last year's Nexus 6 was too big for your hands, this year Google and LG have scaled things back a bit with the Nexus 5X. It sports a more manageable 5.2-inch screen size, while also dropping some new features into the mix like USB Type-C and Nexus Imprint.

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September 29, 2015

Quantum Computing Kills Encryption

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Teklinks

Imagine a world where the most widely-used cryptographic methods turn out to be broken: quantum computers allow encrypted Internet data transactions to become readable by anyone who happened to be listening. No more HTTPS, no more PGP.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Shell Scripting: The Basics

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Teklinks

The term “shell scripting” gets mentioned often in Linux forums but many users aren’t familiar with it. Learning this easy and powerful programming method can help you save time, learn the command-line better, and banish tedious file management tasks.

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Pixel Map Generator with Stunning Map Visuals in Minutes

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Teklinks

You can now create stunning map visuals in just minutes with AmCharts new tool – Pixel Map Generator. Integrate the result into your website, drop into a presentation, or even use them in print brochure. Regardless of how you use it, jaw-dropping effect is guaranteed.

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Lenovo K3 Note é um topo-de-gama por €135

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Teklinks

Muito temos falado sobre o surgimento de smartphones com preços reduzidos que obrigam a repensar o valor que é pedido por certo modelos, e este Lenovo K3 Note é um dos que fica bem posicionado para servir de referência (e campeão) na relação custo/benefício, com hardware de luxo a preço i

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Creating a CRUD App in Minutes with Angular’s $resource

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Teklinks

Most Single Page Applications involve CRUD operations. If you are building CRUD operations using AngularJS, then you can leverage the power of the $resource service. Built on the top of the $http service, Angular’s $resource is a factory that lets you interact with RESTful backends easily.

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How does JavaScript .prototype work?

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Teklinks

I play a role as a JavaScript teacher and the prototype concept has always been a controversial topic to cover when I teach. It took me a while to come up with a good method to clarify the concept, and now in this text I'm gonna be trying to explain How does JavaScript .prototype work.

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September 28, 2015

Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

When we concocted the ideas that would become Atavist and The Atavist Magazine, in 2010, we did so amidst a frenzy of optimism and speculation around new devices, and the apps that would live on them.

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Create a Repository Archive with git

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

Everything about git is amazing. And by "everything", I mean almost everything. As someone that used Perforce and SVN before learning git, I'm willing to ignore a few git annoyances since it makes branching and many other simple tasks easier.

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Reading QR Codes Using the Mobile Vision API

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

QR codes have become ubiquitous in recent years. I am sure you’ve seen one in a newspaper advertisement or on a billboard. In layman’s terms, QR codes, like all other barcodes, are images that are designed to be read by machines.

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Mirror Your Android Screen to a PC or Mac Without Root

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

Sometimes, you want to see your Android smartphone’s screen on your PC. How do you do that? Well, if you have a rooted smartphone, it’s easy. But if you haven’t rooted your device, there are still some simple ways to get your phone or tablet’s screen to show on your PC or Mac.

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Improving SEO Using Nginx

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

Search engines exist so that humans can better look for content that they desire. Search engine optimization is about making your website easier to understand for the crawler bots! It is about making modifications to your website, to help improve your site's user experience and performance.

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Nexus 6P revelado por documentos do Google

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

Os segredos são difíceis de guardar nesta era digital, e um documento interno do Google vem revelar (quase) tudo o que se poderia querer saber sobre o novo Nexus 6P que será revelado publicamente amanhã num evento do Google.

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How To Build An Awesome Form

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

The most important rule to follow when building a form (as well as more complex content and layouts) is to have a general idea of what what is your goal and what are the most efficient ways to achieve it.

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Custom Scrollbars in WebKit

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

Way back in the day, you could customize scrollbars in IE (5.5) with non-standard CSS properties like scrollbar-base-color which you would use on the element that scrolls (like the ) and do totally rad things. IE dropped that.

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Resolving Service Dependencies in Angular 2

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

If you’re following our articles on Dependency Injection in Angular 2, you know how the DI system in Angular works. It takes advantage of metadata on our code, added through annotations, to get all the information it needs so it can resolve dependencies for us.

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ContentTools – JS Library for Building WYSIWYG Editors

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

Content Tools is a JS library for building WYSIWYG editors for HTML content. The ContentTools WYSIWYG editor can be added to any HTML page in a few simple steps. There are step-by-step guides for common use scenarios as well as more advanced topics for those rolling their own editors.

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Google fez 17 anos

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

O tempo passa a voar, e o nosso bem conhecido Google já celebrou o seu 17º aniversário, deixando-o a apenas um ano de distância de se tornar maior de idade.

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Microsoft kit helps you run Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

Sure, it's no secret that you can run Windows 10 on a tiny Raspberry Pi 2, but actually doing that could prove to be a challenge. What parts do you need? And what do you do with it when you're ready? That's where Microsoft and Adafruit think they can help.

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Mastering the filesystem in Node.js

Monday, September 28, 2015 Teklinks

Node prides itself for having a minimal core. Where some languages ship bindings for the full POSIX API, Node tries to ship the minimum amount of bindings required to provide full functionality and exposes it through a sync, async and stream api.

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September 27, 2015

Sane, scalable Angular apps are tricky, but not impossible

Sunday, September 27, 2015 Teklinks

We’ve learned a lot along the way. Angular’s surface area is huge; as a framework, it’s taken many years to evolve and maintain backwards compatibility. As a result, without a lot of trial and error, it’s pretty difficult to figure out which parts of Angular to use and which parts to avoid.

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September 26, 2015

Keybase's New Key Model

Saturday, September 26, 2015 Teklinks

So far, Keybase has promoted one PGP key per user. You "announce" this key on social media accounts, forming a graph like this: This offers something powerful: username ↔ key conversion, without trusting Keybase. And a transitive bonus: Twitter ↔ Github conversion. Glory!

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Como se podem retreinar os neurónios?

Saturday, September 26, 2015 Teklinks

O nosso cérebro pode ser encarado como uma máquina biológica ultra-complexa mas, como é que funcionam os seus elementos mais básicos, os neurónios, e o que podemos fazer para os reprogramar ao nosso gosto? Tal como um computador tem no seu interior um CPU com milhões e milhões de transís

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September 25, 2015

Debugging Memory Leaks in Node.js Applications

Friday, September 25, 2015 Teklinks

I once drove an Audi with a V8 twin-turbo engine inside, and its performance was incredible. I was driving at around 140MPH on IL-80 highway near Chicago at 3AM when there was nobody on the road. Ever since then, the term “V8” has become associated with high performance to me.

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North America is out of IPv4 addresses—for really real this time

Friday, September 25, 2015 Teklinks

As of yesterday, North America is out of IPv4 addresses. Getting that feeling of déjà vu all over again? In July, we reported that ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, was activating its waitlist policy, wherein organizations that qualify for a block of IPv4 addresses larger than the largest block in ARIN's available pool of addresses could opt to wait for that larger block to become available.

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Put an end to feature creep

Friday, September 25, 2015 Teklinks

A great product manager knows how to say no to ideas that don’t serve their product, their vision, or their customers. Scroll down to learn when to say no to common reasons for building a feature. Data alone can be misleading.

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Como foi apanhada a VW na mentira das emissões

Friday, September 25, 2015 Teklinks

O caso da VW está a dar muito que falar (e já se vai alastrando a outras marcas) e há quem tenha curiosidade em saber como é que a marca germânica foi apanhada, depois de anos a enganar as entidades de certificação e os consumidores quanto aos níveis de emissões poluentes dos seus autom

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JavaScript Promises with Node.js

Friday, September 25, 2015 Teklinks

JavaScript is a non-blocking programming language, which means that one chunk of JS code will not necessarily wait for the lines above it to execute before beginning itself. In many cases this is a pretty awesome feature of the language. Imagine if your website was only able to run one window.

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