Father’s Day Geek Style: Gifts for Dad

Reminder: In many countries, including the U.S. and in the U.K., this Sunday is Father’s Day! And while he didn’t birth you, he likely changed more than a few of your diapers, so that man deserves something special.According to Wikipedia, the first observance of Father’s Day actually took place in Fairmont, West Virginia on July 5, 1908. The event was organized by Mrs. Grace Golden Clayton to celebrate the lives of 210 fathers who had been lost in the Monongah Mining disaster several months earlier....

6 min · 1165 words · Brett Morgan

Fatty acids found in fish could help treat asthma patients

Fatty acids found in fish could help treat asthma patients Asthma treatment Given the large numbers of free fatty acid 4 receptors in the lungs, we wondered if proto-medicines (synthetic chemicals that activate free fatty acid 4 receptor) would work just as well as beta agonists at opening up the airways and might also reduce inflammation in the lungs. [Read:Here’s why you’ve got cravings even though you’re not hungry] We first tested these chemicals on both living mice and in lung tissue samples....

3 min · 464 words · Diane Valdez

Faveous automatically saves your “favorite” content from the Web in one place [Invites]

Apps like Instapaper and ReadItLater have become invaluable tools for saving articles from the Web for later consumption. However, not all content works well with these apps and their approach doesn’t suit everyone. Social bookmarking tools like Delicious and Pinboard are another way of solving the problem. Meanwhile,Faveousoffers a fresh solution. Faveous is essentially a ‘Favorites aggregator’. It allows you to find all the content you have starred as favorites, and links you’ve shared, on a range of services including Twitter, Google Reader, Youtube, Dailymotion and Facebook....

2 min · 425 words · Holly Rivera

Favwork: Show off your single best design.

Favwork, a website that is less than a week old is already causing a little stir in the designers amongst us. It was created byStu Green, a developer/designer from the UK. Favwork is very simple, each designer is allowed to showcase one piece of work, their favorite piece. The front page showcases images that have been submitted and rotates, to give everyone a chance to show-off their ‘fav’ design work....

1 min · 211 words · Peter Lambert

Fax from Google Docs with a new feature from InterFAX

As antiquated as fax machines may be by today’s standards, they’re still a staple of businesses everywhere. While there are some great options out there for doing Internet faxing, they all seem to be missing one thing – Google Docs integration. In an era where we all seem to be moving to the cloud, it’s been the missing link until today. InterFAX, an Internet fax service that’s been around for quite some time, has today announced its integration directly with Google Docs....

2 min · 355 words · Anthony West
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