This Is How You Can Get Your App Noticed!

Ever gone through the entire Google Play Store or the Apple App Store? You can’t, because there are over 900,000 applications on each of these stores. It is next to impossible to go through every one of them. But then, what do you do if you’re an app developer? How do you get your app noticed amongst so many competitors? Add to that the fact that every other app is already on the market, while yours is in the development stage, the number is only going to grow when you actually launch your app.

6 basic tips for better online security

Security is becoming a very complex topic with many different actors and issues — the recent NSA revelations adding to the pile of discussion. But an astonishing number of cybercrime attacks still play on some basic — and preventable — failures to protect personal data.

If everyone who watches this talk (and the friends and family members they share it with) were to apply the following practices, we would massively improve security. Here are six pointers for you.

Ron McCallum: How technology allowed me to read

Months after he was born, in 1948, Ron McCallum became blind. In this charming, moving talk, he shows how he is able to read -- and celebrates the progression of clever tools and adaptive computer technologies that make it possible. With their help, and that of generous volunteers, he's become a lawyer, an academic, and, most of all, a voracious reader. Welcome to the blind reading revolution. (Filmed at TEDxSydney.) Blind almost since birth, Ron McCallum is one of Australia's most respected legal scholars, and an activist on behalf of disabled people around the globe.

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Apple's 64-bit A7 chip not quad-core, says chip expert

Smartphones with quad-core processors are the future, right? Well, not so fast.
Apple's spanking-new 64-bit A7 is dual-core, according to Anandtech, a widely-read chip review site.
It's seems that Apple is bucking a trend here.
"The tools that count cores query the [operating system] and the OS returns the number of logical CPUs and they only returned two," said Anand in a brief phone interview, referring to the central processing unit.
And he contends that there are more ways to skin the performance cat. "The quad-core card was kind of forced," Anand said. "It's definitely not the only way to arrive at the ideal performance-power for a phone."
He continued. "These days outside of the Apple space, it's kind of difficult to sell a flagship phone without