Mixtape and Deezer allow us to create and share lists of music

One of the apps that integrate with Deezer is specially designed for those who want to relive one of the most iconic moments of the twentieth century cassettes share with friends.

The idea Mixtapes is possible to create music charts Deezer and leave as a cassette tape, ready to be released, as you see in the image below:

To create a just have to indicate a previously created list, automatically generating the tape, it will not respect the duration of the classic format and yes may be as long as the list in question.

Once created, it will be possible to send to anyone by email, but will require that such person Deezer account, otherwise you can not enjoy the content.

Although it has no function that deezer itself does not include the format that is generated for listening to music is what makes the difference, with an attractive background is striking in the case of large screen display.

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Eero has a better solution for the quality of the WiFi signals in homes

Perhaps the WiFi connections we have in our homes are not sufficiently effective in giving coverage to more devices, and above all, get in top condition to any corner of our homes without using WiFi extenders. In this sense, the emerging company based in San Francisco Eero about offering a different system of WiFi coverage to ensure that there are no areas without coverage, which is stable and that is also fast.

To do this, instead of using a single router with WiFi connectivity powerful, the system proposed from Eero is a distributed system in which a number of smaller devices are interconnected generating a mesh network. The pack of three devices WiFi connectivity come at the price of $ 300, each additional WiFi connectivity device costs $ 125. Each of these devices has in its interior with two WiFi signals for connection to 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz, Bluetooth 4.0, 1 GHz processor, 512 GB of RAM and 1 GB of internal storage. The idea of ​​having connectivity via Bluetooth is due to the growing need for connected devices using this technology, basically pointing to the Internet of Things.

In addition to the devices, a mobile application available for Android and iOS to set up and manage the status of the network devices that are connected to it can be observed. Since the designated application you can also give access to the devices of the visiting people. There is also an application in the cloud with these tasks.

When asked why they choose to disperse WiFi hotspots in homes, founder and CEO, Nick Weaver, simply states that never tries to cover the whole house with a light bulb so that the same occurs with a WiFi product. With regard to traditional WiFi extenders, Weaver said that the big problem is that they are really cheap and only have a signal, meaning that are constantly switching between them, weakening the bandwidth and performance, and create multiple networks.

Weaver, co-founders and a team of 15 people have been developing their solution silent for the last two years.

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Kindle Convert , Amazon's new tool to convert physical books into digital format

If you are planning to spend those physical books that you own a digital format for reading through e-book readers from Amazon has a new tool, Kindle Convert , which is a desktop application for Windows 7 or 8 systems with the that, through a scanner can scan pages of your books for conversion to digital format, creating digital versions of themselves fully compatible with Amazon Kindle app and the Kindle devices.

Yes, the application is not available globally nor is it free as it is available only for users in the United States and has a final price of $ 19.

In addition to scanning books to create digital versions, with Kindle Convert you can preserve those unique elements such as handwritten notes, autographs and pictures, and also number them with free copies on Amazon Cloud Drive, among others.

Among the requirements Kindle Convert is the need for a scanner that can generate .jpeg, .tiff or .pdf files of 300-600 DPI resolution, that has a color depth of 24 bits or 8 bits for grayscale or black and white. In addition, states as needed internet connection and user account on Amazon.

Chances are that people do not invest the time needed to bring his personal library to digital format, and less if the number of books available is high, but if you have sporadic books or wish to have digital versions of some or all his books, this app offers Amazon them is an option that may be considered.

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Twitter begins testing a tool to facilitate the start to new users

Many current Twitter users will agree that a lot of new users can be quite difficult to adjust the operation of Twitter, a social network with a slightly different operation to which users are accustomed. Therefore, and with the idea of facilitating the process of adaptation, Twitter would be testing a tool to provide a full Timeline relevant content to new users .

Now, from The New York Times asserts that Twitter would have begun testing Instant Timeline -name receiving this new tool- with a small number of new users of Twitter for Android. In general, the operation seems to be pretty good, is that thanks to Instant Timeline new Twitter users can access a wealth of relevant content without stopping to find out how the network works , as at present. To do this, Instant Timeline analyze the user's phone book in order to determine how many of your contacts already have an account on the social network. Thus, in case some of them already on Twitter, Instant Timeline would check the accounts followed by these users in order to make a selection and show them to the new user . Later, as the user start following accounts of interest, recommended by Twitter content would disappear.

Working properly it would not be surprising that Twitter extendiese Instant Timeline to other platforms.

Source: The New York Times .

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mindscapes, relaxing music computer generated

On several occasions we have indicated websites where you can listen (and even create) relaxing music, perfect for letting the background while we concentrate on writing, study or any other task that needs concentration.

What we present is now mindscapes.co , a website that includes four themes (ocean, mountains, space and city) that can be streamed directly from the Internet, being a project created by computers.

Yes, the music that we hear there is the result of mixing sounds following specific algorithms. No one person composing issues a copyright or behind, it's all the result of a "logic" based ones and zeros.

Although the amount of music is not extensive, and the styles are not as flexible as those created with defonic , elmnts , soundrown or any of these other options soothing sounds , it is interesting to see how the computers create "music".

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Mozilla launches MozVR a web of tests which to explore the possibilities of virtual reality on Internet

During the month of June, Mozilla already expressed interest in the Oculus Rift and virtual reality, why launched versions of Firefox for developers who endured these virtual reality goggles. Now celebrating the tenth anniversary of Firefox, Mozilla has released MozVR , a website that aims to demonstrate the broad capabilities of a web 3D .

As explained from Mozilla, on this website will share experiences on the use of virtual reality on the Internet in order to push the web to an approach never seen before.The idea is to ultimately provide different resources and show the work of developers focused on providing the possibilities of virtual reality on web pages . Nothing in MozVR various demos are available to discover the possibilities of this technology. The interface is still in development, though no longer an interesting example of what could eventually be achieved in the near future.

All those lucky owners of a Oculus Rift can try this new website using an version of Mozilla created specifically to work in virtual reality environments (available in MozVR). They have also published the source code MozVR so that developers can work with it.

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stackshare, to know the technology used by large Internet companies

What database uses Twitter ?, Facebook ?, using Google analytics and Dropbox? ... In stackshare.io dedicated exactly to answer these questions, a list of major companies and technologies that are used in each, ability to see details that can be really interesting.

On the website you can see a list of the most popular platforms today, discovering, for example, which companies use mysql, and whether our project is part of that group, so it's not just one-way information, we can work together to increase the amount of existing data in the project.

In the "Tools" section you can see the most used platforms, and the Stacks we have direct access to the groups of tools that some companies use to complement each other in their daily lives, something that can help you make decisions about the infrastructure of our new project.

Developers also have a section dedicated to profiles that have collaborated and the opinion rendered on each tool. To collaborate just have to indicate the URL of our site or github, where we project code, later being necessary to give the details needed to be part of this huge list.

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