10 Life Lessons From Star Wars | | Happy Star Wars Day! May the fourth be with you. The epic big-screen battle between good and evil set in a galaxy far, far away influenced generations of young Jedi wannabes. Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi instilled values of discipline and loyalty, while Darth Vader served as a cautionary tale to anyone tempted by the dark side of life.
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How to Remove Tagged Photos From Your Instagram Profile | Friday, May 03, 2013 11:32 PM | Emily Price |
| Instagram added the ability to tag photos this week. Similar to photo tagging on Facebook, your friends can now tag you in their Instagram photos so that the image shows up on your profile as well.
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YouTube Comes To Google Glass With Fullscreen BEAM | Friday, May 03, 2013 9:14 PM | Emily Price |
| Google Glass has its first YouTube app. Fullscreen Labs released Fullscreen BEAM Friday, the first YouTube app for the high-tech glasses. “Our engineering team loves building better experiences for digital video creators every day and hacking on new initiatives and passion projects into the night,” Drew Baumann, Founding Engineer at Fullscreen said in a blog post announcing the app.
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Photographer Crafts Mind-Melting Images Without Photoshop | Friday, May 03, 2013 7:59 PM | Annie Colbert |
| The word Photoshop has evolved to function as a noun, adjective and verb. The Adobe program has become an essential tool for photographers looking to tweak and manipulate their images. Jerry Uelsmann is a photographer of the old school who modifies his work not on the computer, but in the dark room. Uelsmann crafts his surreal photographs by combining and layering images to create a single composite.
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6 Obscure NASA Sites Every Nerd Has to See | Friday, May 03, 2013 5:40 PM | Amanda Wills |
| NASA has Twitter down to a science. The agency knows the ins and outs of YouTube. It even even makes Google+ look cool. But what you may not know is that NASA has plenty of forgotten features all over its websites, just waiting for geeks to uncover. Here are six of them. 1.
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Ad Dials Up Some More Apple Bashing | Friday, May 03, 2013 2:24 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Ever wish you could answer a call on your iPhone even though your hands are covered with spare rib sauce? It happens. Yet with Samsung's would-be iPhone 5-killer, the Galaxy S4, that's not an issue. Hands-free control is one of the features highlighted in this 90-second ad, which broke Thursday night during Conan. Another is the ability to interact with TVs and S-Beam, Samsung's name for its NFC capability.
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Become an 'Iron Man' Expert in 30 GIFs | Friday, May 03, 2013 1:36 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| The latest big Marvel movie, Iron Man 3, opens today. It's getting decent reviews, but it might have a tiny technical impairment holding it back: With two prior movies, plus a little tie-in called The Avengers, how can everyone stay up to speed on the hero's story? We're here to help the nerd-challenged among you catch up in the best way we know how — through the teaching power of GIFs.
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J.J. Abrams on Star Wars: 'You Have to Force Yourself to Start Over' | Friday, May 03, 2013 11:47 AM | Chris Taylor |
| They were supposed to discuss their new movie Star Trek: Into Darkness, but J.J. Abrams and actor Simon Pegg can't resist geeking out about their shared passion for Star Wars in this just-released video. Pegg, who plays Scotty in Abrams' rebooted Trek franchise, makes a rather pointed compliment about Abrams and Star Wars: "I feel like it's in safe hands now ...
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Now You Can Buy 3D Printers From Staples | Friday, May 03, 2013 11:06 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| The office supply chain announced Friday that it is now selling 3D printers on Staples.com and will start selling 3D printers in stores by the end of June.
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Diet Coke Introduces 'World's Thinnest Vending Machine' | Friday, May 03, 2013 10:51 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Vending machine makers of late have sought to add social media capabilities, but they haven't messed with the design much. So give Diet Coke points for trying. The brand has unveiled what it's calling the "world's thinnest vending machine." The device appears to be less than a foot thick and is able to fit in odd places like beauty salons, gyms and bowling alleys.
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Dash Cams Capture Inspiring Acts of Human Kindness | Friday, May 03, 2013 10:07 AM | Christine Erickson |
| The world can be a dark place sometimes. People are busy — most are just trying to make it from day to day. We rush to work in the morning, and hurry home at night — and try to squeeze in as much productivity in between those waking hours. Spending even 60 seconds of your day to help someone else when they need it could have a positive effect that lasts much longer than the action took.
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Build a Digital Family Tree With These 5 Tools | Friday, May 03, 2013 7:32 AM | Jill Krasny |
| Amateur genealogists hoping to uncover a link to Abe Lincoln can easily turn to the web to dig in their ancestor's closet. But taking the commercial route doesn't come cheap. People curious about family history spent a whopping $2.3 billion on genealogy products and services last year, according to a study by market research firm Global Industry Analysts.
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