drag2share: Why Did This Kickstarter Project Raise $400,000?

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/twine-kickstarter-2011-12

We stumbled on a neat little Kickstarter project this afternoon, and it appears to be a bigger deal than meets the eye.

It's called Twine, a tiny rectangular gadget that looks like a translucent bar of soap. And it's become a big deal on Kickstarter.

Twine has built in sensors for detecting movement, temperature, moisture, switches, and inputs from pretty much any other gizmo you can think of.

Oh yeah, it can tweet too.

Twine comes with a simple web app so you can program it to send out a tweet, email, or text message under an unlimited number of scenarios. Laundry done? Have Twine send you a text. Can't hear your doorbell? Have Twine tweet at you.

You get the idea.

Out of the $35,000 the makers of Twine asked for to get their project off the ground, donors have given the doled out more than $427,000 as of this writing.

The funding round ends on January 3. After that, we assume Twine will go into production.

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drag2share: Dropbox Automator Automatically Processes Images, Text, PDFs and Other Files in Your Dropbox Any Way You Choose [Web Apps]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5871755/dropbox-automator-automatically-processes-images-text-pdfs-and-other-files-in-your-dropbox-any-way-you-choose

Dropbox Automator is a powerful web app that connects to your Dropbox account and monitors folders of your choice, performing automated actions you define when new files are detected. This can be anything from converting a document to PDF, resizing images and uploading them to Facebook, plus a whole lot more.

The set up process is pretty simple. You'll need to authorize Dropbox Automator to access your files to get started, and when doing so it'll show up as Wappwolf—the service that powers it. Once you've got that out of the way, you can select a folder you want to use for automation. Unfortunately you cannot create a new folder from within Dropbox Automator, so if you want to add a new one you should do that on your local machine before you log in (or just reload the page if you already have). Once you select the folder you want, you can start assigning actions from the provided list. They're all pretty self-explanatory, but the labels on some of the action options are not as human-readable as they could be. If you read them carefully they'll make sense, but currently they appear to be labeled by their method names. Once you're past that little bit of confusion and you've selected all you're actions, just save your choices and you're all set. Now any relevant files placed in the Dropbox folder you chose will be subject to the automation you set up.

Note: Processing takes a minute and the results will show up in a folder called "results." A folder called "processed" will appear first, containing the files that were just processed. Those will be the unaltered copies. Wait for the "results" folder to appear to see the actual results.

This is a very useful tool that can do a lot with the stuff you keep in your Dropbox without any work on your part. It's still a little rough around the edges, but definitely worth a look.

Dropbox Automator

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drag2share: Most Popular Blu-Ray Playback Suite: Cyberlink PowerDVD [Hive Five Followup]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5871407/most-popular-blu+ray-playback-suite-cyberlink-powerdvd

Watching Blu-ray movies on your HTPC or on a Blu-ray enabled laptop is easier than ever. There are a number of players that promise to play Blu-ray video as long as you have a Blu-ray drive in your system, and last week we asked you asked you which tool you used for the job. Then we took a look at the top five Blu-ray playback suites. Now we're back to crown the overall winner.

CyberLink PowerDVD took the top spot with 40% of the votes cast, the far and away winner. Second place was hotly contested however, with AnyDVD HD taking second place with just under 24%, and PotPlayer took the third place slot with 21% of the votes cast. In fourth place was ArcSoft Total Media with close to 10% of the votes cast, and Corel WinDVD Pro bringing up the rear in 5th place with under 5% of the overall vote.

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drag2share: DrugCite Tells You the Side Effects of Nearly Any Medicine and Provides Helpful, Relevant Statistics [Web Apps]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5871707/drugcite-tells-you-the-side-effects-of-nearly-any-medicine-and-provides-helpful-relevant-statistics

DrugCite is a useful database of information about the prescription and over-the-counter medication, allowing you to look up the possible side effects of specific drugs and see statistics about their reported problems.

If you were to look up the allergy medicine Allegra, you'd find that the highest number of problems with the drug were reported around 2005, and that the majority of problems were neurological. DrugCite provides simple graphs that break down the number of reported issues related to the medicine in question and cross-reference that information to provide other useful statistics. Each drug report will also tell you its age, the number of adverse reports over its lifespan, and a gender breakdown of that report. Over 40 years, Allegra only received 2,710 reports. That's only about 68 per year, and that's out of millions of people. While low numbers don't guarantee you anything, and these statistics are only related to reported issues, if you're worried about taking a specific type of medication it can help to see how rare certain problems are to make yourself a little more comfortable.

DrugCite

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drag2share: LG unveils 84-inch 'ultra definition' 4K TV it's bringing to CES 2012

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/28/lg-unveils-84-inch-ultra-definition-4k-tv-its-bringing-to-ces/

LG let us know at CES 2011 that it had 4K LCD televisions in the pipeline, but unfortunately they didn't make it out this year. Expect for that to change in 2012, as the company just announced it's bringing an 84-inch "ultra definition" (3840x2160) TV to Las Vegas to go along with its 55-inch OLED. It has all of LG's Cinema 3D and Smart TV features built-in, including support for that upgraded Magic Motion remote and voice control. There's no official word yet on when we'll see these on shelves or at what price, but it certainly looks production ready compared to other prototypes that have been displayed over the years. While we don't have easy sources of 4K-res video content yet, one of the reasons LG is making the jump first is for 3D. Its Cinema 3D tech uses a Film Pattern Retarder (FPR) screen and passive glasses that result in lowered resolution, but with those extra pixels there's no question about whether viewers are still getting at least an HD picture. So far 4K at home is the domain of Sony and JVC's high-priced projectors, but we'll see if any other companies (we'll check off Toshiba right now) show off upgrades in size and resolution of their HDTVs this year. Check the press release after the break for a few more details.

Gallery: LG 4K UDTV

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