Archive: May 2012

Kai Wong’s not stopping his notoriously long videos for this one: Here are 50 useful photography tips in under 15 minutes. [via]

Something about the lighting in this video and the accent of the man makes me want to think this is a prank, but Popular Science assures me that it’s not. Scientists at EPFL have found a way to awaken the spinal cord after a serious injury and get it to re-learn motor movements by rerouting [...]

longer-passcode-for-iOS

This is news to me, but Lifehacker just tipped me off to this much better way of securing and locking your iOS device. If you go to your Settings > General > Passcode Lock and turn OFF the Simple Passcode option, you will be offered the option to put in a standard keyboard password. If [...]

Pipe, an app on Facebook, sounds like it would be highly useful. It’s a real-time file transfer service (a personal peer-to-peer) that allows you to send any file to a friend in your Facebook contacts. There’s no software to install and the only requirement it seems is that you need Facebook open in your browser. [...]