drag2share: Insert Text Stores Blocks of Text For Quick Pasting [Chrome Extensions]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5839285/insert-text-stores-blocks-of-text-for-quick-pasting

Chrome: If you don't like Chrome's Autofill function for forms, Insert Text is an extension that stores any text you want for quick pasting into forms or emails.

With a right-click in any input field, you can pull up a list of the text you'd like pasted into the field, or create a new one. You can store as many different different notes as you like, from addresses to email signatures.

Insert Text | Chrome Web Store

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drag2share: Dolphin Browser HD Brings Its Gesture-Based Browser to iPad [Ipad Downloads]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5839307/dolphin-browser-hd-brings-its-gesture+based-browser-to-ipad

Dolphin Browser is already our pick for the best web browser on Android and as a great alternative for iPhone, and now it's available on iPad as Dolphin Browser HD.

Like its predecessors, Dolphin can recognize custom gestures to navigate to pages. It comes preloaded with a set to help you navigate, but it also allows you to add your own so you can quickly load pages without typing anything. The iPad build is similar to the Android and iPhone apps and runs on top of Safari, but it also includes the Dolphin Webzine, which allows you to flip through news similar to Flipboard.

Dolphin Browser HD | iTunes App Store via Mashable

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drag2share: Pixel Qi Hits the Big Time [Displays]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5839430/pixel-qi-hits-the-big-time-with-3m-collaboration

Pixel Qi's Transflective LCD technology has been blowing minds since late 2009 but has yet to gain much traction in the market—beyond the Notion Ink Adam, that is. But that may change with its latest round of funding, provided largely by 3M.

Traditional LCD screens are a pain to read in bright light and suck down power like electric Kool-aid because they have to brighten the display to compensate for the glare. E-Ink displays are great for reading outdoors because they lack that glare but can't display the vibrant color of normal LCDs. The disruptive display LCD technology developed by Pixel Qi, on the other hand, combines the best of both screen types into a single, low-consumption, full-color display that's easily readable indoors and out.

"The combination of Pixel Qi's low energy, reflective display technology with 3M's innovative technologies will create exciting products for the mobile, handheld, tablet and other display markets." said Jim Bauman, vice president of the 3M Optical Systems Division in a press release. It's expected that this investment by 3M will allow Pixel Qi access into larger consumer markets as well as digital touch-screen signage. 3M, alternately, will get access to Pixel Qi's sweet energy saving technology for its own displays. [Market Watch via Tech Crunch]

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drag2share: The Most Wicked Optical Illusion I've Seen So Far [Wtf]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5839481/the-most-wicked-optical-illusion-ive-seen-so-far

This is sick. Sick because the spiral effect is making me sick and sick because it reminds me how flawed/awesome/trippy our color perception is. Believe it or not, the green and the blue in this spiral is the same color.

I couldn't believe it either, but I just measured the value in Photoshop: Red 0, Green 255, Blue 150 on both. Crazy. How could this be possible?

The reason why we are perceiving one color as different colors is because of the other colors surrounding the stripes. Each eye has six to seven million cones, which are concentrated in a central yellow spot known as the macula (I recently got mine lasered to fix some leaking blood vessels). These cones measure color in different wavelengths, overlapping in some of them. Our brain then compares those signals in an antagonistic manner, measuring differences in wavelengths between them. When some colors are combined, the brain can't process the info from the cones correctly and we simply get confused. [gsu and Techi]

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drag2share: Americans Spend 53 Billion Minutes A Month on Facebook, Wait, What? [Facebook]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5839561/americans-spend-53-billion-minutes-a-month-on-facebook-wait-what

Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other US website. And cumulatively, it's not a small amount of time, it's a lot of time. Nielsen estimates that Americans spent 53 billion minutes on Facebook during the month of May.

These 53 billion minutes are equal to 100,000 years or 36.8 million days. Before your mind blows up, this number represents the usage of 150 million Facebook users. Breaking it down, each user is spending about 350 minutes per month on the social network or about 10 minutes per day. Looking at it that way, 53 billion doesn't look so bad, does it? [Nielsen via SF Gate]

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