If you have an Android phone you probably have Google Translate app. If you don’t, you can download it from the market, it is free and very useful app. The newest version supports conversations, you can speak in English and your friend listen to you in Spanish and then respond to you in Spanish but hear him in English. It started looking a lot like the Babel fish from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. Google Translate support 16 languages in Conversation Mode so far, English, Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Czech, Polish, Russian and Turkish.
Android apps on Windows platform
Bluestacks app player can run Android apps on Windows platform. It is in alpha version but it looks very nice and it runs Android apps very fast in full screen mode. It comes with 10 preloaded apps and you can add up to 26 more. This means that you can have your favorite Android apps to your PC and play your favorite Android games like angry birds and alchemy without worrying about your battery. This is good for both windows users and Android app developers.
Dart – JavaScript alternative
Google introduced Dart, a structured web programming language to be used instead of JavaScript. Dart was introduced as an easy-to-learn language for high-performance applications. You can execute your Dart apps on a native virtual machine, this is the way to gain the high performance. There is an alternative way to run Dart apps, you can use a compiler to translate Dart code to JavaScript and then use it as a javascript app.
Earthquakes alter earth’s gravity
According to scientists, big earthquakes can (slightly) change the gravity under the affected area. This is happening because powerful earthquakes alter the mass distribution of the Earth. Japan’s earthquake, with 9 magnitude, is one of them since it is the 5th strongest ever recorded. Don’t worry, the change from that one is about 2 millionth of a gal when the average earth gravity is about 980 galileos. Over the last few years we had many strong earthquakes and some of them are in the top 10 of all times.
URKontinent – The Google’s Beer
We have all tested at least once Google’s search but who will test Google’s beer? No, this is not a name in some service, it is a real beer. Google is working with Dogfish Head (brewer company) to create a Belgian Dubbel beer. Google gave a list to Dogfish Head with the must-have ingredients from all over the world. The ingredients also include honey from Google’s Californian beehives. URKontinent’s availability will be limited and only as a draft. I should also mention that URKontinent has almost double alcohol content from an average beer.
Firefox 7 – The best web browser of today
Tom’s Hardware perform a test called “Web Browser Grand Prix” every time there are new releases of web browsers. In this test, the top five web browsers (FireFox, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer and Safari) are tested in almost any aspect that we can think of. The test includes startup times (one tab and eight tabs) and page loading times of most popular pages (Sample: Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo, craiglist and The Huffington Post). They are also tested for their HTML5 hardware acceleration, WebGL performance, Java, Javascript, memory management and efficiency and more.
How to create a WordPress Child Theme
What is a WordPress child theme? Child theme is a WordPress theme but you don’t have to create it from scratch, you use another theme as a base called parent theme and you modify its functionality, layout and styling. You don’t have to be a code guru to create a child theme, in fact you don’t need to know PHP at all. Why should I use child theme? You have found a theme that you like but it needs some additions or modifications to make it meet your needs.
Priv3 – Protect your privacy
A large percentage of websites have social network buttons and you probably used them. Every time you visit a website that has “Like”, “Follow” or “+1” buttons, even if you don’t use them, the social networks sites can track you. Facebook is (or was?) tracking you even after you log out. What this means? It means that social networks sites know what sites you are visiting and “learn” your interests. I don’t know about you but I don’t like that and I like my privacy. If you think that this is not a big deal then you are wrong. They track you on every website you visit that has the social network buttons, even if that website is illegal.
Alcohol makes you sick
Alcohol consumption has many effects and most of them are negative. If you consume (large quantities of) alcohol you already know by experience that your reflexes are slowing down and you can’t do many things efficiently like walking and driving. But these are not the only negative effects, alcohol also worsen the effects of disease and impair the ability of your body to fight off viral infection. According to a new study from University of Massachusetts Medical School shows that alcohol modulates the anti-viral and inflammatory functions of monocytes. Alcohol impairs the anti-viral immune response (including Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV), especially in the liver.
Gamers are on fire
After the announcement that gamers with the use of Foldit have found protein folding patters which helped the research for AIDS and HIV now gamers helped the discovery of two new planets. The two planets are exoplanets orbiting distant start. Gamers have found the planets playing Planet Hunters. Planet Hunters is a (browser) game which is product of the collaboration between Yale University and the Zooniverse. The lightcurves on the game are from the NASA’s Kepler mission and all of them are released to public.