Apple News: Intel and Apple developing a watch
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth rumour that Apple is teaming up with fashion bag maker Intel to develop a new smart watch. If the rumour is correct, we have a chipmaker who is a little behind in the mobile market, working with a company which has been unable to write software for its smartphones which can tell the time. For a long time, everytime the clocks adapted to summer time, legions of Apple fanboys found that their phones were telling them the wrong time.
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Technology News: Quantum techniques to improve broadband and encryption are closer to market
Quantum physics does indeed offer some intriguing ideas about how fiber optic data links, the Internet’s backbone, could be made more capacious and secure. New ways to handle individual or small groups of photons could allow existing fiber optics to carry more data, for example (see “A Quantum Communications Switch”). Prototype systems that use quantum properties of light to create unbreakably secure communications links (see “Quantum Cryptography for the Masses”) might be made more practical, allowing them to become widespread.
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Programming News: If-less programming
I recently watched a Google tech talk called “The Clean Code Talks — Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing”, and I was amazed how Misko Hevery explained that (a lot of) ifs can be a smelly thing in a Object Oriented language. Being fascinated by the idea, I decided to google it, and I was surprised that if-less programming is a pretty popular topic. I noticed a response to a stackoverflow question which stated: An “if” statement is an abomination in an Object Oriented language. Why? Well, an OO language is composed of classes, objects and methods, and an “if” statement is inescapably none of those. You can’t write “if” in an OO way. It shouldn’t exist. Conditional execution, like everything else, should be a method. A method of what? Boolean.
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Photography News: Tips For Designing Your Own Family Photo Albums
As we get ready to head into a new year of taking photos, we’d like to encourage all of our readers to remember to get their images OFF their hard drive and into their homes so that they can be viewed and enjoyed by all! One great way to do this is by creating a family photo album that showcases the highlights of your year together. Susan Keller Photography shared a series of tutorials with us last year that taught how she designs her family photo albums. We absolutely love her albums and appreciated her tips so much.
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