Becci Manson: (Re)touching lives through photos

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In the wake of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, mixed into the wreckage were lost and damaged photos of families and loved ones. Photo retoucher Becci Manson, together with local volunteers and a global group of colleagues she recruited online, helped clean and fix them, restoring those memories to their owners.

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Apple AirPort Express:UNBOXING

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The unboxing of the Apple AirPort Express [1st gen]

The 1st generation was released in 2008 and has only been revised in June 2012. The 1st generation Apple AirPort Express is a b/g/n router, but the actual “n” support was added in late 2010. Until then, the router only had “draft n” support, which is basically an unfinished version of “n”.

What sets this router apart from the other ones, is the 3 main features of this device:

-extremely easy and quick setup
-print wirelessly from any device (including your iPhone/iPad/iPod or any device that features a wireless connection)
-listen to music wirelessly from anywhere you are in your home (AirPlay).

The router has an LED indicator light, which can blink amber or show a solid amber/green, depending on the status of your device.

Specs: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP1

Price: 99$ (as of August 2012)

In June 2012, Apple released a redesigned AirPort Express router, which featured a Apple TV like design(except the colour which is white). The new AirPort Express features a dual-band technology with speeds of up to 5GHz/s.

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Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education

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Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.

With Coursera, Daphne Koller and co-founder Andrew Ng are bringing courses from top colleges online, free, for anyone who wants to take them. Bio:
http://www.ted.com/speakers/daphne_koller.html

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Review: Motorola Atrix HD

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Motorola Atrix HD Review

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In this video I review the Motorola Atrix HD for AT&T. The Atrix HD is an Android 4.0 powered smartphone with 4G LTE, 4.5 inch ColorBoost HD 1280×720 screen, Smart Actions and 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video. In this review I also go over battery life and performance with the 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 dual core processor and 1GB of RAM.