You know that thing you do when you forward on a tweet to your followers? Well, the word that describes it, ‘retweet’, is now officially in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (COD),reportsthe Daily Mirror. The act of sharing tweets of those you follow on Twitter with your own followers is now common practice. And as with the emergence of any new mediums, a whole new parlance has emerged to describe such activities – in this instance ‘retweet’ came to the fore....

Passwords are the heart and soul of all of our user accounts online. Losing it (even from oneself) could lead to a LOT of trouble. In this day and age, one would be a fool to use something as simple as “secret” for a password. The harder we make our passwords, the harder it is to remember and type as well. As more and more have started to use different combinations of upper and lower cases, even numbers and symbols, or even made up words, it just gets too confusing....

The Facebook engineering bootcamp is a unique new joiner initiation program that the company is very proud about, and well know for. The latest video from Facebook gives more insight into the program shedding light on what it is like to join the company as a new engineer. A selection of former bootcampers discuss the program, which is a mandatory six week intensive course taken by each and every single new engineer – whether they are a fresh college graduate or director – to bring them up to speed with the company, its code-base, culture and people....

Polk Audio, the American speaker company known for making hi-fi speakers at non-absurd prices,announcedthe Reserve series back in March. Shortly thereafter reviews flooded the web singing the speakers’ praises, particularly their bang for your buck. Naturally, I had to get my hands on a pair myself to see what all the hype was about — and put the speaker through the test bench. I chose theReserve R200, the $700/pair bookshelf model with a 6....

Just the other day while perusing Twitter I saw a rather insightful and very true tweet fromNoah Stokes(@motherfuton): As a test to see if I my designs hold water, I like to step away from them for a few days then come back and see if I still like them. This practice is brilliant. When you’ve been glued to a screen for a 4 hours and have been jamming away at a design, it’s easy to get “too close to the project....