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Featured App: Element Trek

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What could be better than combining your love of Star Trek and Chemistry? How about Star Trek themed periodic table of the elements?

Element Trek does just that, but does so with great precision and attention to detail. Not only is the table accurate but it has interactive 3D models and animations of crystal structures and electron shells. Ionization Energies, absorption spectra, emission spectra, oxidation states and more are all included in this awesome app and all with a Star Trek theme that includes sound effects and multiple theme color options.

Not only is this a fun app to play around with but it also makes for a great tool to have at your disposal. You can actually use this table for your studies or work, which makes it even better. This app is available for Mac OS X and iPad and can be found on the App Store. The desktop version is Free.

Here is a list of features:

  • Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
  • 3D Crystal Structures (Interactive / Animated)
  • Atom Structure (Bohr Model, Shells / Subshells)
  • Absorption Spectra
  • Emission Spectra
  • Ionization Energies Chart
  • Melting Points Chart
  • Boiling Points Chart
  • 10 Element Category Essays
  • 44 Color Themes
  • Digital Clock
  • 12 Hour or 24 Hour Time
  • 2 StarDate Types
  • Integrated Battery Status Readout and GUI
  • System Version Readout
  • Cool Sound FX
  • Mute Sound FX, for Silent Operation

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How To Use Emoji Icons On a Mac

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Emoji icons are a popular set of ideograms that became available on the iPhone with iOS 5 and are commonly used to when sending messages. But did you know you can use them on the Mac as well?

Whether your writing yourself a note or using Messages to talk to a friend, you can easily add Emoji icons to your text by following these easy steps.

(*Please note that will will need to have OS X Lion or later to access Emoji Icons.)

  • First, open the application that you want to use an Emoji Icon with. (In this case we’re using Messages.)
  • Head to the menu bar at the top of the screen and click “Edit”.
  • Select “Special Characters” or press Option+Command+T on your keyboard.

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  • Select an Emoji from the list.

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  • Drag and drop the Emoji wherever your text is and your done!

Apple’s Sept.10th Announcements with iPhone5C & iPhone5S

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The Apple Sept. 10th event has announced a lot of new exciting updates.

iOS 7 will be available, for free, starting on September 18th. This will be for the iPhone4 and up, and also iPad2 and up. If you’d like a quick run-down on some of the features head here.

Onto the iPhone5C and iPhone5S. Apple has stated that once they release the 2 new phones, the iPhone5 will no longer be sold.

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iPhone5C:

“The iPhone 5C is made with all the incredible technology that customers have loved with the iPhone 5, but there’s more, too. It has an incredible new design. One that’s more fun, and more colorful than anything we’ve made before.”

Colors will be what we expected, green, grey, light blue, peach, and yellow.

Features:

Steel Enforced with a multi band antenna.

Hard coated polycarbonate back, with a glass front.

4 inch Retina display

Integrated touch

Full sRGB Standard

Widescreen Video

New FaceTime HD camera

A6 Chip

Console level graphics

New camera app with live photo filters. 3x video zoom.

Bluetooth

16GB priced at $99, 32GB for $199 with a 2-year contract.

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iPhone5S :

Yes Apple is sticking with the half upgrades as they announced the iPhone5S as we all expected.

Available colors will be Silver, gold, and “a new space gray.”

Features:

A7 chip, 64 bit. The world’s first 64 bit mobile phone

It’s made of a high-grade aluminum, with diamond-cut, chamfered edges. (Same as iPhone5)

It runs OpenGP ES 3.0. “This means that graphics-intense applications can bring their console- and desktop-level performance to the iPhone 5S.”

They announced a whole new chip, the M7 which will continuously measure motion data, accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass. This chip enables a new generation of health and fitness apps.

There’s a new, 5-element, Apple-designed lens with f/2.2 aperture. A 15 percent larger sensor.

“When you do take a picture, unbeknownst to you it actually takes multiple pictures.” This phone will automatically choose the best one for you.

All new TrueTone flash. “Whatever color your flash is it’s going to clash with the color of the room and give you a color that doesn’t look right. The flash is a dual-element, cool and amber. It offers 1,000 possible color temperatures!”

120fps slow-motion camera

 

Security:

Touch ID, fingerprint. built right into the home button. It’s still a physical button, that you need to push down, but there’s a metal ring that senses your finger.

How it works:

Touch ID capable sensor

170 microns thin

500 ppi resolution

Scans sub-epidermal skin layer

360 degree readability

They go on to say its a “very high level of security.There’s a secure area as portion of the A7 accessible only by the Touch ID, it’s never stored online or backed up to the iCloud.”

This feature can also be used for iTunes purchases.

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You can pre-order the 5C on September 13th and purchase the 5C and 5S on the 20th.

To watch the full event head over to Apple.com.

 

WSJ Confirms iPhone Fingerprint Scanner

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According to the Wall Street Journal, the next generation iPhone, which is to be unveiled tomorrow, is confirmed to indeed feature a fingerprint scanner.scanning fingerprint

Rumors of a fingerprint scanner being added to the new smartphone have been circling for months but no one was sure if Apple would actually implement it. One of the first hints that Apple would be tinkering with fingerprints came about when Macrumors mentioned that Apple had purchased AuthenTec in July of 2012.

This will no doubt be one of the most secure ways to lock down your smartphone but how will people respond? With the recent growing concerns over consumer privacy, it could prove to be a rather controversial addition to the iPhone. Although finger-scanning technology has been around for many years and has been incorporated into many electronic devices, it has not been introduced into the world with such a mainstream product.

Coverage of Apples Cupertino press event will begin tomorrow at 10:00 AM Pacific.

-Thanks, Macrumors–

Lego Minifigures Online Trailer

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Move over World of Warcraft, It’s LEGO time!

Well almost, the MMORPG style LEGO Minifigure game, which was initially announced last year, now has a trailer that shows off some of what’s to come and I have to say that I’m pretty excited about how things are shaping up.

LEGO Minifigures Online will allow you to do much of what you would expect from an online game including gaining experience, leveling up, customizing your characters, going on adventures and exploring new worlds, but all inside the LEGO world.

The game does not currently have a release date but it is scheduled to be available sometime in 2014 for Android, iOS and PC. You can view screenshots and get the latest details about this game by heading directly to LEGO’s website.