Sunday
Apr262015

Fictionary introduces books-specific dictionary for e-books


Big epics and any other book will sometimes have different meanings for words. And Fictionary is here to help you decipher those. If you look up a word using Fictionary, it’ll show you the definition based on its meaning in a book. Example, you try and search for “the one ring” in The Lord of the Rings and it’ll give you a definition based on what that means in the J.R.R. Tolkien classic. It doesn’t support a lot of books at the moment but they will be useful for those that they do support.

Source: Fictionary | Via: Lifehacker

Saturday
Apr252015

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 4/19-4/25

Saturday
Apr252015

Send notes or set alarms from Google desktop search to your phone

Google is extending the cooperation of its desktop and mobile platform further with new features. This time around, you can write notes and set alarms on Chrome browser on desktop and send these to your to your Android smartphone. You simply need to type “note to self” or “send a note” and you’ll get a Google Now kind of card where you have to input the note and select the device you want to send it to. You’ll get a push notification and your phone and you just need to select whether to copy or save the note. For alarms, you can type “set an alarm” or type in something more specific like “set an alarm for 10:00.” There won’t be a notification this time but you’ll see a toast message and an alarm icon on your status bar.

According to Android Police though, it would seem the feature is currently US-only. A workaround is to add &gl=us to your search URL and the cards should be there.

Source: Android Police

Saturday
Apr252015

Tesla’s site and Twitter account gets hacked

Hackers seem to have gotten into both Tesla’s website and official Twitter account. Around 5PM ET, tweets showed up on its page that suggest that the site was no longer handled by the company. It doesn’t seem like anything to grave but it was still an unsophisticated prank of sorts. They changed the account name to #RIPPRGANG and they even posted a number and said to call it to get a free car. Their site also seems to have been compromised. Tesla managed to get back control of both accounts.

Although, even Tesla’s founder Elon Musk got his personal account hacked into. That one seems to be in order as well.

Source: The Verge