Carrot’s smartass weather app comes to Mac

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Carrot’s special brand of apps insult you to get fit, motivate you to do your task list or tell you the weather in unique ways. Now, the company is bringing Carrot Weather to the Mac for the first time. Just like the mobile app, Carrot Weather for Mac taps into Dark Sky’s accurate rain predictions to deliver the weather in entertaining ways. It talks using Siri’s voice to tell you today’s weather, complete with jokes, insults and actual predictions. Notifications from the app tell you if it’s going to start raining or if there’s severe weather on the way. Carrot Weather for Mac…

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HBO Now can stream to Chromecast starting today

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If you’re a Chromecast owner that loves some ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Silicon Valley,’ you’re in for a treat: you can now stream HBO Now content to everyone’s favorite Google dongle. The changelog for the most recent version of the iOS app mentions the new support, in addition to newly-implemented push notifications and the expected bug fixes. There’s no Android support as of the time of writing, but we’d imagine it’ll arrive soon. Update 11:54 AM ET: It’s on Android now too. TechCrunch notes that Roku support will also likely arrive in due time. While HBO no longer lists Roku under…

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This experiment instantly tells you how real your Twitter followers are

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Beneath the surface of Twitter – and frequently bursting up into view – are the armies of spam bots and zombie accounts. Use any one of the many follower analysis tools out there you and you’ll quickly discover that many seemingly massive names on the social network have followings inflated by fakers. While there are already lots of ways to see how real your followers are, here’s a ridiculously simple little experimental service that makes it possible to simply tweet someone’s @name at a friendly Twitter bot and get analysis back. @brokenbottleboy about 66.38% of their followers are active (MAUs), and…

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Stay secure online with a lifetime of TigerVPN Lite

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If you want to stay private and secure online, using a Virtual Private Network is essential in today’s hacker-heavy world. The unlimited bandwidth of TigerVPN Lite means the protection doesn’t affect your browsing preferences and routines. By routing your data via intermediary servers, TigerVPN makes it almost impossible for anyone to trace your online activity. You can choose from 15 nodes, which are spread across 41 countries on 5 different continents. This means you can select a nearby server for maximum speed, or go elsewhere to access region-locked services, such as Netflix and Skype. The servers are optimized for a…

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500px overhauls its iOS app to enhance photo display and discovery

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500px, the community for discovering, sharing, buying and selling photography, has launched a fresh redesign of its iOS app. An updated look simplifies the interface and offers new functionality to better showcase and promote photographic work and to facilitate better social networking within the app.  This update, the first major redesign of the app since it launched on the iPad in 2011, is designed to expand the community with an appeal to pros and hobbyists alike. It makes photos easier to find and makes it easier for the community to connect with each other. In rebuilding the app from the ground up,…

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Signlily lets you use sign language on iOS

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When it comes to communicating on mobile for Deaf people, sign language isn’t really an option unless using video messages. That’s about to change with the release of Signlily, a sign language keyboard app for iOS (coming soon to Android). The keyboard uses emoji-style hands portraying accurate signs and shapes. US-based nonprofit ASLized created the app with a team of Deaf people using American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary language. Sign language varies from place to place and doesn’t always translate perfectly to English so even though a lot of Deaf people use email, text and handwriting as well, the option…

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Rove around Mars with the NASA Curiosity Simulator

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NASA’s Curiosity rover is busy looking for signs on life on Mars. Its ground crew has also been beavering away on a simulator to let you see what it sees on the planet. Experience Curiosity puts you in control of Curiosity in a simulated 3D environment based on data from the actual rover, as well as NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). You can click around to move Curiosity across the red planet’s surface and get a close-up view through each of its cameras. The simulator lets you free-drive Curiosity and also send it to three preset destinations where it’s previously…

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Here’s what Luigi does while Mario is away

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Luigi lives a relentlessly terrible life. Always playing wingman to Mario as his brother trails to the wrong castle yet again in his relentless pursuit of Princess Peach, always in the second best Mario Kart, always having to make a small talk with Toad at parties. Now finally, you can get a real insight into the melancholy of the less super of the Super Mario brothers. Ennuigi is a Web game by Metafilter’s Josh Millard that reveals the bleakness of Luigi alone time. There are no bad guys, no adventure, just smoking and moping. Down in the hole with Luigi The…

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Wunderlist for Mac now lets you add to-dos and reminders without switching apps

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Microsoft’s recently acquired to-do app Wunderlist just got a neat update on OS X, which lets users add tasks with a global keyboard shortcut. No matter what app you’re currently using, you can hit CTRL+Option (Alt)+W to invoke Wunderlist’s new Quick Add feature and click the + button to add a new to-do without having to switch apps. You can also add a due date and reminder by simply adding some context to your input. For example, entering ‘Meet Jim tomorrow’ will automatically set up a reminder for the next day. The Quick Add bar also has a search button…

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