CloudKafé Indexes All of your Content in the Cloud

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5988013/cloudkafe-indexes-all-of-your-content-in-the-cloud

CloudKafé is a free, attractive webapp that helps you search through all the documents, photos, and videos you have scattered across the web.

Once you create a CloudKafé account, you can connect it to your various cloud services. The site supports major players like Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, YouTube, Google Drive, and more, so most everyone should be covered. Once your accounts are connected, you can search them all with a single search box, and get instant results organized by file type. The concept and execution is similar to previously-mentioned Mac app Found, but as a web app, CloudKafé will work on any platform.

As a relatively new service, CloudKafè isn't perfect. For example, I couldn't get it to pull in my Facebook photos. Still though, it's worth checking out if your digital life is spread across the web.

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Would You Watch a Stream Of Pure Ads To Earn Free Streaming Movies?

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5988076/would-you-watch-a-stream-of-pure-ads-to-earn-free-streaming-movies

Free streaming is supported by ads. It's just a feature of the form. You see it in Spotify, Pandora, Hulu, even YouTube. But you usually don't get the chance to separate the two and control your ad-seeing power. HitBliss is looking to change that.

By signing up for the HitBliss service and offering up your soul to be targeted by ad after ad after ad after ad, you can earn credit on the HitBliss store to stream the movies of your choice. Ones that they've got to offer anyway. It's prostitution, in a way, but hey: free, legal streaming movies. Would you sell your eyeballs and brain-time for that? Try to cheat the system? Ignore it all and keep pirating? [Mashable]

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Polaroid to make Socialmatic Camera a reality for fans of Instagram, recursion

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/01/polaroid-to-make-socialmatic-camera-a-reality/

Instagram owes its distinctive identity to Polaroid's OneStep cameras; it's now time to return the favor. Socialmatic has signed a deal for a production, Polaroid-branded version of its 2012 Socialmatic Camera concept you see above, which translates the mobile app's retro icon to a real-world, instant-print shooter. While technical details are scarce, the agreement will see accessory maker C&A Marketing build and sell the design sometime in the first quarter of 2014. If the finished Polaroid work is anything like the concept, it could be more than a novelty with its interchangeable lens system, 4.3-inch touchscreen, Bluetooth, WiFi and 16GB of storage. We don't know if the camera will ship with Android, but we hope it does -- there would be an appropriately Xzibit-like aspect to running Instagram on top of an Instagram-shaped camera.

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The 'Great Rotation' Out Of Investing

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-great-rotation-out-of-investing-2013-3

Since 2004, interest in 'stocks' and 'bonds' has plunged by more than 50%. Despite a renaissance for bonds in 2008, and stocks in 2009, the 'Great Rotation' appears to be 'out of investing'. Google Trends also shows that, as expected, 'Bonds' have been more popular than 'Stocks' since the crash - a development the Fed is so desperately trying to reverse, by imposing ever stricter central planning, ironically the reason why most have "just said no" to an authoritarian, inefficient, and farcical policy instrument formerly known as the market. Is it any wonder so many retail brokerages, commission-takers, and asset-gatherers are advertising day-in, day-out and constantly reassuring with the "it'll all be 'ok' in the long-run" meme?

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The Miracle Bendy Displays of the Future Are Still Years Away

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5987599/the-miracle-bendy-displays-of-the-future-are-still-years-away

The frustration with devices like a hypothetical iWatch—or a completely imaginary roll-up tablet (maybe a Vaio or something?)—is that they're made up of parts, and sometimes those parts don't exist quite yet. Or, in the case of Corning's brilliantly flexible Willow glass, they exist, but no one knows quite how to use them yet.

The bottom line, according to a recent Bloomberg interview? All the bendy gadgets you've ever dreamed of are possible. Just not quite yet.

Companies like Apple and other major OEMs have had access to Willow Glass since June, according to Corning Glass Technologies president James Clappin. But the nature of the material—broad sheets that can roll up like a newspaper—has left its partners stymied over how exactly to implement it:

"People are not accustomed to glass you roll up," Clappin said after an event marking the opening an $800 million factory for liquid-crystal-display glass. "The ability of people to take it and use it to make a product is limited."

Clappin's timeline? Three years. Three years before we see what's probably the next truly life-altering breakthrough in gadgetry.

That may seem like a long time to wait for an iWatch (assuming you care about that sort of thing in the first place), and who knows? It could also just be a head-fake. We could see Willow glass products in our stockings this Christmas. But even if it's the full three years—or longer, that's three years that companies have to plan out the software, the guts, the design, all the other pieces to the flexible tech puzzle. Three years to dream, to plan, to build. The future feels a long way off, sure. But at least we'll be ready for it. [Bloomberg]

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