Tech Talk – 7/13/13

Sharing photos online (Flickr, Picasa), getting back a hacked Facebook page, disk storage usage (TreeSize free), malware that takes over webcam, LikedIn vs Face...

Sharing photos online (Flickr, Picasa), getting back a hacked Facebook page, disk storage usage (TreeSize free), malware that takes over webcam, LikedIn vs Facebook, Profiles in IT (Douglas Carl Engelbart, inventor of mouse and GUI interface), MIT Immmersion Tool analyzes your Gmail metadata (graph your interactions), part of the brain responsible for things going viral (temporo-parietal junction activates when when an item could be shared), automatic gate opener (smart phone enabled, iSmartGateOpener), human-powered helicopter wins Sikorsky Prize (64 second flight, 3.33 meters altitude, used four large propellers), and an engineering toy for girls (GoldieBlox, girls solve problems by building simple machines, Kickstarter project).

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