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Sunday, April 22, 2012
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Seven Gmail Add-ons That Make Email Suck Less
I think it says a lot about the current state of email that we have so many startups trying to change the way we do it. Gmail has been a key player for many years now. With features like threaded messages and filters, they?ve kept ahead of the game; but the feeling still seems pretty unanimous. Email sucks! Someone has got to burst this bubble and, when they do, they are going to make a mint. I don?t know, this legendary ?empty inbox?, if it does exist, still evades me, have you ever seen one? What happens when when there are zero emails? A win screen? Now there?s an idea... But while we're waiting for the next big disruption, there are services that can make the experience a little better. This is a list of Gmail add-on services that are at the top of the game right now.instagram facebook mike wallace mike wallace chicago cubs split pea soup recipe the client list yahoo.com/mail
Google app review video shows Share to 'Drive' option
To close out each week, the Android Developer Relations team hosts a Friday App Review video. This Friday, however, the focus is far from whatever apps are being showcased (psst... it's Handy Scanner); instead, all eyes are on the Share to 'Drive' option, seen just below the 'Bluetooth' logo in the screen capture above. It's shown at the 32:53 mark in the video just after the break, and while this certainly isn't confirmation that Goog's own cloud storage service will be hitting the masses soon, it's one of the more tangible pieces of evidence that Google Drive is at least a real initiative. Come to think of it, we've got a couple of passes to Google I/O 2012, which just so happens to get going in around two months. Anyone else feeling that tug of puzzle pieces coming together?
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The Engadget Show is live tonight!
That's right, we're back! Newly emboldened by our Webby nomination, we've got a heck of a show for you this month. We put our crew on a flight to Asia, where we'll talk to representatives from ASUS and Huawei and check out the markets of Taipei, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. As always, we'll be showing off the month's hottest gadgets, including the Nokia Lumia 900, a slew of HTC One handsets and some special surprises, including a whole lotta KIRFS. All that plus a performance by Brooklyn band, Suckers. And you, of course -- keep your browsers locked to this handy URL, and you can watch along live at 6PM ET. We'll see you tonight!
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The bonuses for UFC 145 were given to main card fighters, who put on a more exciting show than the preliminary bouts. Mark Hominick and Eddie Yagin's bloody decision was awarded Fight of the Night. Ben Rothwell's quick knockout of Brendan Schaub won Knockout of the Night, while Travis "Hapa" Browne won Submission for his arm triangle of Chad Griggs. Each bonus gave the fighter an extra $65,000.
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Big colleges, swing states: Obama makes his pitch
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Pivoting to his latest election-year theme, President Barack Obama will go before college crowds in three swing states to warn of financial doom for millions of students if Congress does not halt a looming spike in interest rates. His clear political mission: rallying young voters whose support he needs again.
Obama's trip next week will take him to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Iowa. All three provide him potentially giant audiences in states he carried in 2008 and ones that are key to his re-election prospects against presumptive opponent Mitt Romney.
The issue at hand: Interest rates are set to double on July 1, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, on a popular federal loan for low- and middle-income undergraduates.
Congress voted in 2007 to drop the rate in half over four years. Now the looming expiration is an election-year issue.
It was Obama's fellow Democrats in the House, however, who led the crafting of a law that left the rates to double in 2012. Republican President George W. Bush signed the deal into law after it was approved by bipartisan but Democratic-heavy majorities in both chambers.
For Obama, the matter gives him a platform to position himself as a defender of the middle class or those working to make their way into it. He is shifting from the issue of tax fairness, which he has hammered for weeks, to education in front of young voters who helped fuel his winning coalition in 2008.
The partisan flavor of the debate is all but sure to be on display at Obama's college events, which are likely to feel more like re-election rallies.
The White House insists Obama's events are driven by the need for college affordability and his view that education is an economic cornerstone.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said more than 7 million students would be financially squeezed if rates go up, to the cost of an additional $1,000 on average.
"More and more middle-class families are starting to think college might not be for them," Duncan said. "It's for rich folks. That's a real problem."
Another problem: The cost of keeping the interest rates frozen on these subsidized Stafford loans could run $6 billion a year.
It is unclear how that cost would be paid. Duncan said the administration will work with Congress on the answer.
For now, the White House is pushing a one-year extension, not a permanent fix.
The proposal faces a shaky future in Congress. Republican Rep. John Kline of Minnesota, chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, said in a statement that "bad policy based on lofty campaign promises has put us in an untenable situation."
"We must now choose between allowing interest rates to rise or piling billions of dollars on the backs of taxpayers," Kline said.
Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of fastweb.com and finaid.org, said Obama wins politically on the issue even if Congress doesn't go along.
"If this is enacted, President Obama can claim a victory on a pocketbook issue that is of interest to a key voting demographic," he said. "If it's not enacted, he can blame the Republicans, his opponents, for doubling the interest rates."
Polling shows Obama holds a sizable lead over Romney among registered voters under 30. In Obama's first run for the White House, young voters helped him carry GOP-leaning states like North Carolina and Indiana thanks to major voter registration drives on college campuses.
Obama campaign officials have estimated a universe of about 8 million voters between the ages of 18 and 21 who weren't old enough to vote in 2008 but could be tapped to support the president this time.
Yet Obama may be a tougher sell to young people this time.
The president carried voters between the ages of 18-29 by a margin of about 2-to-1 in 2008, but many recent college graduates have faced high levels of unemployment, raising concerns about whether they will vote in large numbers for Obama again.
Obama's 2012 college campus tour has already included stops at the University of Michigan, the University of Miami, Ohio State University and Florida Atlantic University. Obama has also traveled to community colleges in New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia this year.
In another shot at wooing younger voters, Obama will also appear on NBC's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" show, to be taped while Obama is North Carolina. Obama's trip runs Tuesday and Wednesday.
Jason Delisle, director of the federal education budget project at the New America Foundation, questioned why the Democratic Congress did not make the lower rate permanent in the first place. He noted Obama was on the Senate Education Committee at the time the legislation was drafted.
"The answer is, Well, it's too expensive," he said. "That's it. That's the bottom line. That's the only reason it expires."
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Associated Press writer Ken Thomas and AP Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta contributed to this report.
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Veena Malik Playboy: $1 Million Photos!
Veena Malik?s Playboy is going to be amazing. At least it better be for $1 million! That is right, Veena has set the stakes high, she will take it all off for a cool $1 million! Hef has yet to put in an offer, but I thin it would be good for his magazine to take her up on the deal! When asked about it the Bollywood star said, “It’s a great opportunity. I’d definitely go for that. Why would I say no? That is my job. I am a model and I would consider every single opportunity that comes my way.” Despite taking some heavy heat (her father disowned her!!!) for her spicy FHM photos and cover, Veena is willing to go one step further, by posing nude for the famous men?s magazine. Nudity is strictly forbidden by Islamic law and she has been been excommunicated by order of a fatwah for violating the law. What would happen to her after she shows her lady bits in Playboy? This was all told to the Mirror who did a three part interview with the beauty. Veena also talked about her controversial ‘nude’ FHM India shoot, a crazy fan [...]
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Student loans: Is petition to forgive debt completely a good idea?
Students and parents will think so. But blanket amnesty for all student loans could destroy the student-loan system and might not do much to address the underlying problem.?
Large numbers tend to get people?s attention, especially the 13-digit kind. So now with news that student college debt is hitting the $1,000,000,000,000 mark, everyone seems to be talking about it.
Skip to next paragraphPresident Obama wants to delay the interest-rate hike on government-backed student loans scheduled for this July and will say so in his Saturday radio address ? and then again when he hits college campuses next week to promote the plan. For their part, Department of Education officials stood up for the plan on Friday. And April 25, the Occupy movement is set to occupy colleges to highlight the issue.?
But an online petition that has gathered nearly 700,000 signatures has a better idea ? erase the debt completely, says creator Robert Applebaum.
?Forgiving the student loan debt of all Americans will have an immediate stimulative effect on our economy," he says in the petition. "With the stroke of the president's pen, millions of Americans would suddenly have hundreds, or in some cases, thousands of extra dollars in their pockets each and every month to spend on ailing sectors of the economy."
Forgiving student loan debt, he adds, ?rather than tax cuts for corporations, millionaires, and billionaires, has a much greater chance of helping to raise [the economic] tide in a much shorter time-frame.?
But while the idea has certainly gotten the ear of beleaguered grads ? and their families ? erasing a?trillion dollars of debt by presidential fiat could destroy the future of college loans while doing nothing to address the underlying problem, economists and financial experts say.
Regardless of whether the loan is a government or private loan, forgiveness will mean someone loses. Either the taxpayers in aggregate in the case of federal loans or private lenders on private loans
?Who in their right mind, A) would make loans to students if the loans can be forgiven later on? Or B) invest in an income trust vehicle where the asset of the investment can disappear due to 'forgiveness?' ??says?Kevin Worthley, a?certified financial planner in?Rhode Island and a specialist in college financial strategies,?via e-mail.?
Even if there were lenders willing to risk their money, ?the interest rate they would rightfully require for the risk incurred may likely be far more than future students would be willing to pay and cries of 'usury' to the government could result,? he adds.
Credit is?fundamentally based upon trust, agrees?Mitchell Weiss, adjunct professor at the University of Hartford's?Barney School of Business?in Connecticut.
?If I loan you some money, I trust that you?re going to pay it back to me,? he says. ?Wholesale forgiveness, amnesty ? whatever you want to call it ? will fundamentally undermine a process that is thoroughly integrated within our society.??
Moreover, it doesn't really solve the problem, says Professor Weiss.
?Students need better financial tools," says Weiss, the author of ?Life Happens,? a textbook for student financial planning. "But the laws need to be adjusted as well, Bankruptcy laws need to be amended."
A 2005 change in bankruptcy law means that "education loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy except in cases of undue hardship.? This, he says, "is really tough to prove.?
Loosening the law would give lenders and ex-students more leeway to find compromises, he says.?
?When a lender knows that the person that?s sitting on the other side of the table has the ability to pull the plug by declaring bankruptcy, and ... that lender doesn?t have collateral to foreclose upon in order to make itself whole, then that lender is pretty motivated to find a compromise solution to avoid the loss that would surely follow,? he says.?
Will the petition make any difference?
Possibly, says Lindsay Hoffman, communication professor at the University of Delaware. Online social media has the ability to reverse the relationship between the government and the governed, she notes.
?Politicians used to set out what they thought was important and voters would respond,? she says, but ?what we are seeing here is a reversal of the agenda-setting process.?
Increasingly powerful social media tools such as this online petition have the power to ?set the agenda and politicians respond to those collective voices being raised.?
"That,? she says, ?is something new.?
Indeed, the political action group Moveon.org has picked up on the momentum behind Mr. Applebaum's original petition to funnel support to a bill now before Congress, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, which would help students with loans ? though it is not a complete amnesty.?
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Friday, April 20, 2012
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IBM's building an air-breathing EV battery that goes 500 miles on a single charge
IBM's planning an end to range anxiety with an EV power pack that runs on air and travels 500 miles on a single charge. "Lithium Air" batteries draw oxygen into a nano-structured carbon cathode, where it is stored and reacts with lithium ions and electrons to generate electricity. When you plug the vehicle in, the unmolested oxygen is released back into the air as if it was breathing. The technology's significantly lighter than what's found inside a Chevy Volt and IBM has enlisted the help of chemical giants Asahi Kasei and Central Glass to turn it from successful experiment to fully-fledged product by 2030. If you'd like to learn more, we've got a gallery of candid pics from inside the testing lab, explanatory video and, yes, even a press release full of information for you to steep your brains in.
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Inside the Proposal!
Nothing like calling a Jolie-Pitt family meeting for the announcement that the celebrity gossip world had longingly been waiting - and hoping - for.
On a recent spring day, Brad Pitt gathered Maddox, 10, Pax, 8, Zahara, 7, Shiloh, 5, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 3, to present their mom with something.
That would be a tablet-shaped diamond engagement ring, estimated at 16 carats and worth $500,000, and which he helped design with jeweler Robert Procop.
"Angelina cried and smiled" at the proposal, a confidante says. Aww.
The children, who had been eager for their parents to wed after seven years together, were equally overjoyed to see Brad and Angelina engaged.
The source adds. "Everyone hugged once she put [the ring] on. She went around and showed it to each of the kids, one by one. It was magical."
As the world now knows, Jolie, 36, quietly debuted that long-awaited ring at an April 11 private viewing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Procop and then Pitt's manager confirmed the engagement days later. Now, "Angie considers herself bonded to Brad for life," adds the source.
Speaking of which ... do you think they'll last?
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