January 2016 ~ teklinks

January 31, 2016

Scientists predict human thought in real time, nearly every time

Sunday, January 31, 2016 Teklinks

Neuroscientists from the University of Washington have decoded brain signals in real-time and with astounding accuracy, as revealed in a recent study published in PLOS Computational Biology.

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Top 10 Ways to Fix Your Terrible Posture

Sunday, January 31, 2016 Teklinks

Good posture isn’t just about looks. How we sit, stand, and walk affect both our health and our moods. So stop slouching and get centered with these top 10 posture tips.

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Best Lightweight Linux Distros of 2016

Sunday, January 31, 2016 Teklinks

Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki in Finland. It was inspired by Minix, a small Unix System and was introduced in October 1991. The first official version was Linux 0.02. In 2001, 2.4 version was released.

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Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted

Sunday, January 31, 2016 Teklinks

Google wants everything on the web to be travelling over a secure channel. That’s why in the future your Chrome browser will flag unencrypted websites as insecure, displaying a red “x” over a padlock in the URL bar.

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Call Me E-schmail: Conquering the Beast that is HTML Email

Sunday, January 31, 2016 Teklinks

Ahh, HTML emails. One of the most dreaded parts of product design. For the uninitiated, designing and developing HTML emails is notoriously difficult. It results in a sea of tr's th's td's in your HTML code.

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ReactJS and ag-Grid Data Grid: The Perfect Match

Sunday, January 31, 2016 Teklinks javascript , react

The Web Dev Zone is brought to you in partnership with Mendix. Better understand the aPaaS landscape and how the right platform can accelerate your software delivery cadence and capacity with the Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service.

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Google testing 5G drones which will bring Internet at 40 times the speed of 4G

Sunday, January 31, 2016 Teklinks

Google is testing out its top secret 5G drones at New Mexico’s Spaceport Authority. The solar-powered drones are being tested with the help of Virgin Galactic, a spaceflight company owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin.

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How to Monitor Logs With Loggly Live Tail and Datadog

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

The Performance Zone is brought to you in partnership with New Relic. Quickly learn how to use Docker and containers in general to create packaged images for easy management, testing, and deployment of software.

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The OnePlus X is now available without an invite

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

OnePlus is now selling its "X" smartphone to anyone that wants it. The budget Android device had previously been part of OnePlus' much maligned invite-only policy, which makes buyers wait for a code before purchasing. (As if buying a $249 phone makes you part of some sort of exclusive club).

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Guilt And Shame As A UI Design Element

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

Thus far, 2016 is shaping up to be the year of a new and terrifying phase of the user interface design: the shame and guilt spiral as a feature. Freud believed that it was during the latency stage of psychosexual growth of a child (approximately between toddlerhood and puberty) that shame and guilt entered their awareness and became motivating emotions.

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How to Get Website Design and UX Right in 2016

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

While employment in some industry sectors has suffered or stagnated during the past decade, Internet business has thrived. There have been significant increases in online purchases, and Internet advertising has become a $20B industry.

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Using Node.js and Gulp With ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2015

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks asp.net , nodejs

The Integration Zone is brought to you in partnership with Red Hat. Use these flashcards along with the popular open source integration framework Apache Camel as an easy reference during the design and development of integration projects.

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Dockerizing Spring Boot Applications

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

Google já distribuiu 5 milhões de Cardboard VR

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

A Realidade Virtual é uma revolução que irá ser feita "lentamente", mas o Cardboard do Google é uma das suas armas secretas e que tem permitido que milhões de pessoas tomem o primeiro contacto com esta tecnologia usando os seus próprios smartphones.

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voxel.css makes 3D rendering easy

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks css

About Me Docs Download Github Repo Demo drag anywhere to rotate scene voxel.css makes 3D rendering easy var scene = new voxelcss.Scene(); scene.rotate(-Math.PI / 8, Math.PI / 4, 0); scene.attach(document.body); var world = new voxelcss.World(scene); var editor = new voxelcss.Editor(world); editor.

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How to Create Custom View Controller Transitions and Animations

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks mobile

UIKit is a very powerful framework and provides various ways to transition between view controllers. Some of the animations provided by UIKit include horizontal sliding (via a push segue), vertical sliding, cross fade, and page curl.

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Câmara IP HD por €21

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

Querem vigiar o que se passa em vossa casa sem gastar muito dinheiro? Que tal uma câmara IP por apenas 21 euros? Esta Sricam 720p é uma câmara IP HD com WIFi, que permitirá manter uma vigilância permanente sobre o local desejado, e dispensando a necessidade de ter um PC sempre ligado para ess

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Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

One image for all screen resolutions and different devices is not enough. An image per pixel is too much – so how can someone automatically choose the optimal responsive image sizes?

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Using the HTTP/2 Module in NGINX

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

The Performance Zone is brought to you in partnership with AppDynamics. Discover five of the top performance metrics to capture to assess the health of your enterprise Java application. The following is adapted from a talk given by Valentin V. Bartenev at nginx.

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Elon Musk to unveil Mars plans this year, wants to go to space by 2020

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

During the StartmeupHK Festival in Hong Kong this week, an expansive Elon Musk addressed some key questions about SpaceX's ambitions for Mars, as well as his personal spaceflight plans.

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Permanently Hide The Facebook Page Posts That Your Friends Share

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

Facebook pages can be very informative and they can be very annoying too. You have to weed out the bad ones and a good Facebook page can quickly, and very easily, turn into a bad one.

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High-severity bug in OpenSSL allows attackers to decrypt HTTPS traffic

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

Maintainers of the OpenSSL cryptographic code library have fixed a high-severity vulnerability that made it possible for attackers to obtain the key that decrypts communications secured in HTTPS and other transport layer security channels.

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Elastic Circle Slideshow

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

Macadamia Skin Oil Hydration for very dry skin $39

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The Biggest Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older

Friday, January 29, 2016 Teklinks

We spend a lot of energy looking for shortcuts to save time, and sure, those shortcuts add up. But when I look back, my biggest time regrets aren’t spending too much time on Twitter or mismanaging my daily tasks.

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A Clone of Medium.com Inline Editor Toolbar

Thursday, January 28, 2016 Teklinks

is a clone of medium.com inline editor toolbar. It uses contenteditable API to implement a rich text solution. MediumEditor has been written using vanilla JavaScript, no additional frameworks required. View the MediumEditor Options documentation on all the various options for MediumEditor.

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Oracle is finally killing off the Java browser plugin

Thursday, January 28, 2016 Teklinks

Oracle has announced that it will kill the much-maligned Java browser plugin in the next release of the Java Development Kit, slated for release next year. For years, the bundled plugin put users at risk with its numerous security flaws.

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The MVVM Pattern – Design Time Data

Thursday, January 28, 2016 Teklinks

Caso BTNext chega ao fim sem condenações

Thursday, January 28, 2016 Teklinks

Depois de ter sido condenado no caso BTuga, Luis Ferreira vê-se livre do caso BTNext, que foi encerrado em Dezembro e aparentemente coloca um ponto final definitivo em todo o processo.

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What Phrases in Job Ads Turn You Off the Most?

Thursday, January 28, 2016 Teklinks

I don’t know about you, but every time I see “fast-paced environment” in a job ad, I think that place might be Wall Street-level intense. Job seekers and former job seekers alike, what are the phrases in job ads that make you most wary?

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Google's AI is the first to defeat a Go champion

Thursday, January 28, 2016 Teklinks

Google's DeepMind division has pulled off an impressive milestone. It's AI has beaten a top ranked Go player five matches to zero. While computers winning chess matches against professional players has been old hat for a while, the computational power needed to master the Chinese game is astronomical. According to Google, there are more possible moves in a game of Go than there are atoms in the universe.

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It’s Not Continuous Delivery If You Can’t Deploy Right Now

Thursday, January 28, 2016 Teklinks

The DevOps Zone is brought to you in partnership with Go Continuous Delivery. Learn the 5 key patterns to setting up a successful deployment pipeline, including designing parallel workflows, running tests in parallel, and more.

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Learn SQL In 20 Minutes

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

Every web developer should know SQL. Although it has been around since the 70s, it is still widely used, and you can’t build a serious application without it. Most full-stack frameworks have libraries for dealing with the SQL complexity – ActiveRecord, Doctrine, Hibernate and more.

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Tips for Web Designers to Make Your Clients Happy

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

Web design is a fascinating and profitable career field, but its practitioners often have to deal with various issues, ranging from working with difficult clients to coping with various interruptions.

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JS web frameworks benchmark – Round 1

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks javascript

In this blog post I’ll try to compare the performance a few popular javascript frameworks. Measuring the performance of browser content can be challenging and I’m prepared for harsh replies.

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Bluboo Xtouch a €168 (já na Europa)

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

O Bluboo Xtouch é um dos modelos de que mais falamos nos últimos meses, e agora já está disponível em armazém europeu por 168 euros.

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★ “Busting Myths and Horror Stories Of Designing For The Web!” ★

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

Hear, hear! SmashingConf NYC 2016 is coming! A spectacular performance about failures, successes and superpowers in front-end and UX — now on Broadway! A flabbergasting show on fascinating endeavours in web design, with busted myths, horror design stories and wisdom gained from daunting real-li

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Evolution of Linux Containers and the Future

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

The Cloud Zone is brought to you in partnership with Iron.io. Discover how Microservices have transformed the way developers are building and deploying applications in the era of modern cloud infrastructure.

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Todos os sites bloqueados em Portugal

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

Curiosos por saber que sites se encontram bloqueados em Portugal por intermédio do memorando que facilita esses bloqueios sem que se tenha que passar pelos tribunais? Agora há um site que se dedica exclusivamente a revelar essa informação.

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Removing Multiple Items From a JavaScript Array — No For Loops

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks javascript

So, I was reviewing some code today that was using two for loops to remove elements from a JavaScript array. I won't relate the code here but I figured there has got to be a nicer way.

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Continuous Code Reviews & Quality Releases

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

The Agile Zone is brought to you in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Read about the 6 keys to Agile Delivery and how you can use the proper implementation of Agile enterprise solutions to transform software and application development.

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Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator, A New Open Source Tool

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

Responsive websites, even the most modern ones, often struggle with selecting image resolutions that best match the various user devices. They compromise on either the image dimensions or the number of images.

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A simple tiny Javascript library to add interaction sounds to your website.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks javascript

The library creates HTML5 audio element and uses it to play mp3/ogg audio files which is currently supported in all browsers. At the root of your website directory create a folder named “sounds” with 2 more folders inside it with the names “mp3” & “ogg”.

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How to Redesign an Email Digest

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

An interview with Erika Krukowski of Studio Science. As we’ve talked about before, we’re hell bent on exposing the efforts and insights of the web and email industry’s best practices and toughest lessons well learned.

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Have You Figured It Out Yet? – Smashing Magazine

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

Yep, one of those mystery riddles again? To celebrate the launch of SmashingConf NYC, we’ve prepared yet another riddle, and this time it will be a matter of patience and following clues. As usual, we’ve hidden secret keys in a series of animated GIFs. There are 5 levels in total.

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TP-Link lança tomadas inteligentes HS100 e HS110 com WiFi

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

A TP-Link lançou duas tomadas inteligentes com WiFi que se podem ligar e desligar remotamente e também com monitorização do consumo de energia.

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An Introduction to Spark, Your Next REST Framework for Java

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Teklinks

The Integration Zone is brought to you in partnership with 3scale. Take control of your APIs and get a free t-shirt when you complete the 3step Challenge. Today we’re going to look into a refreshing, simple, nice and pragmatic framework for writing REST applications in Java.

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