Dan Jones

The axe head cuts through walls and rope while the hammer head is the perfect size for smashing through obstacles like hinges, door knobs and locking devices

Never spill your picnic drinks ever again!

 

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In order to recognize developers and the hard work they put into their apps, Google has announced the Google Play Awards, coming this May to Google I/O.

Covering 10 categories ranging from standout startups and best use of Material design, to best family apps, games and use of innovation, the apps were selected by a panel of experts, “based on criteria emphasizing app quality, innovation, and having a launch or major update in the last 12 months.”

All the apps nominated have been featured in a new collection on Google Play so you can try them all. Winners will be announced at Google I/O. For a full list of nominations, visit the source link below.

A Guide to Dress Codes

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The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce our sixth long-term support release, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core.

Codenamed "Xenial Xerus", 16.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
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Batman on the toilet poster!

 

Ye with fountains o' facial hair, Zeke's has created these packs of Beard Wipes just for you. To get rid of the flakes, the stench, the grease, the sweat, and the double chocolate chip fudge cookies crumbs that aren't embedded in your follicles because you're saving them for later (this time....) Each disposable wipe looks like a wet nap, but comes preloaded with coconut oil, jojoba oil, and argan oil 3 essential beard grooming oils Zeke's says will ensure you do not enter the world with a "dirty, flaky, and itchy beard that smells weird," or that has devolved into a "forest of dandruff."

Zeke's compares using their wipes to keep your beard clean and shiny to shampooing your hair, both in terms of personal hygiene, and the product's gentle effects on your skin underneath; Zeke's Beard Wipes leave face 'fros feeling soft and fresh without irritating or drying your face itself.

The Zeke's Bear Wipes bundles shown here includes 1 x to-go pack of 10 Beard Wipes, plus 1 x 30-pack in a standard box for home.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

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I'm personally not a fan of embedding other people's code into the site, but when Liberty Games shared this infographic with me I thought it was too cool not to share. So you might need to give the iFrame (uh, hate those things) and JavaScript a few seconds to catch up. I never knew the Wii U had a higher than the Xbox One. Now I do.



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Artist's Note:

According to my bank account, I will never own a VR headset. I'd need money, a computer set-up that would be able to support it (which means more $$$), and time. 

Dang it. I wanna draw in VR~~~~

Writer's Note:

 

Google Inbox has a new bundle called "saved". When you click it, you get this description: "Don't forget the articles, videos and other links you want to get back to. Use the Inbox Chrome extension or mobile share button to add links here."

The Inbox Chrome extension has been launched today and it's only useful for saving links and sharing pages via email.



Now you no longer have to send yourself messages with links to pages you want to read later. The links are added to the inbox and they're also saved as reminders. It's strange that you can't add links from the Google Inbox interface and you have to use a Chrome extension or the share feature from Android.

Another interesting feature groups the messages related to a Google Calendar event. "Inbox now gathers emails from a single event together and shows you what's changed at a glance. When you tap on an event, you'll see a comprehensive overview, all in one place," informs Gmail's blog.


Inbox has a new interface for newsletters, which highlights the articles, so you can open them faster. Apparently, the new interface is only displayed for newsletters you read often and it also includes a preview that's hidden after you've opened the newsletter.


{ Thanks, Allan Medeiros de Azevedo. }

Jackie Calmes, reporting for the NYT:

The Treasury Department will announce on Wednesday afternoon that Harriet Tubman, an African-American who ferried hundreds of slaves to freedom, will replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 note, according to a Treasury official, while newly popular Alexander Hamilton will remain on the face of the $10 bill.

Other depictions of women and civil rights leaders will also be part of new currency designs.

The new designs, from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, would be made public in 2020 in time for the centennial of woman’s suffrage and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. None of the bills, including a new $5 note, would reach circulation until the next decade.

The Hamilton musical is so wildly popular that it changed the course of this decision — the original plan was to put Tubman on the $10 bill, not the $20. Whatever the reason, this is a much better outcome — Jackson was opposed to paper currency. Good riddance to a terrible “great President”.

I really need to start carrying around a blowhorn.

Chuck Norris was like, "Uh, Vladimir Putin just asked if he could see my bear, and then hopped on and rode off on it," and Robert Kraft was like, "Yeah, join the club, dude! He did the same thing with my Super Bowl XXXIX ring!"

And so Chuck did join the club. Actually, he started it because Kraft was just being idiomatic in his response, but Chuck Norris doesn't F around with cliched turns of phrase. It's called Victims of Vladimir Putin's Kleptomania, and its emblem is this action figure of Putin riding a bear. Chuck Norris' bear. Which he still hasn't gotten back.

If you too would like to join the Victims of Vladimir Putin's Kleptomania Club, you can purchase the hand-painted resin statue to show your solidarity. Also, a portion of the funds from all Putin Riding a Bear action figures sold will go toward Chuck Norris' purchase of a plane ticket to Russia.

Keyboard Waffle Maker! - CTRL+ALT+DELicious!

Google Play Music is no longer only about music, now it also lets you listen to podcasts. The podcasts section is already available in the web interface and it's rolling out to the Android app in the US and Canada.

"We'll connect you with podcasts based on what you're doing, how you're feeling and what you're interested in. Similar to our contextual playlists for music, we want to make it easy to find the right podcast - whether you're a podcast aficionado or listening for the first time," informs Google.

Here are some podcasts that are available: "Freakonomics Radio", "The Nerdist", "Radiolab", "Stuff You Should Know", "TED Radio Hour", "This Week in Tech", "WTF with Marc Maron", "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!".




When you subscribe to a podcast, the Android app will automatically download the most recent episodes or notify you when there's a new episode.

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Microsoft and Canonical have worked together to bring Ubuntu's userspace natively into Windows 10.As of today, Windows 10 Insiders can now take Ubuntu on Windows for a test drive!
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An Adam Taylor story in the Washington Post, to be filed under “About time!”:

Politicians in the Czech Republic are set to put decades of debate to an end this week by officially announcing a new name for the country: Czechia.

In a meeting with reporters this week, Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said he supported the move, suggesting that foreigners often mangled his country’s name when he met them abroad. “It is not good if a country does not have clearly defined symbols or if it even does not clearly say what its name is,” Zaoralek said, according to the Czech News Agency.

When the decision does go through, Czechia will officially become the conventional short-form name for the country, while the Czech Republic will remain the conventional long-form name.

As always, not everyone is happy (Karla Šlechtová, the minister of regional development, says the change will mean wasted funds in rebranding and the new name is too close to Chechnya), but I am. Thanks, Eric!

Google is to finally tackle the pervasive use of data-harvesting by Chrome extensions.

From July, the search giant will require all add-ons on the Chrome Web Store that collect user data in the background to ask you for your explicit permission to collect your data ‘via a prominent disclosure’ during install. Developers must also add encryption and  link to a privacy policy in their web store description.

But Google is not stopping there.

Extensions which collect data about your web habits when this behaviour is not integral to the add-on’s functionality — e.g., a toolbar weather app doesn’t need to access your entire browsing history to show the temperature — are going to be removed from the Chrome Web Store. 

The strict new User Data Policy comes into effect from July. Non-compliant add-ons still in the store after this date will be removed.

Explaining the reasons behind the change in a blog post, Google says: “protecting our users is our key priority, and we believe this change will make sure users are better informed and allow them to choose how their user data is handled.”

About time, Google!

We get notified of hundreds of Chrome extensions by developers looking for a plug.  The majority of these we never write about because they have excessive permissions requests that are not needed.

We rarely bother to review any extension that asks for permissions to read, collect and change data on websites you visit.  And on the rare occasion we do (for example, if the add-on is from a reputable company and not a nameless developer) we tell you about this drawback up-front. 

A lot of other Chrome blogs are happy to aimlessly advise you to install an add-on that’s addled with this data harvesting drawback. We aren’t. This new user policy makes everyone’s lives easier.

Be prepared to see a lot of popular add-ons vanish from the store and users’ toolbars over the coming months…

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