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A good text editor comes in handy when you’re making quick notes, doing checklists, programming, outlining, or doing just about anything else. Last week we asked you for your favorites, then looked at the five best text editors. Now we’re back to crown the community favorite.
Voting was tight—really tight—the whole time the poll was open, but Notepad++took the top spot with close to 40% of the overall vote. It may be Windows only, but it’s fast, flexible, feature-packed, and completely free.
Hot on its heels in second place was the cross-platform, extremely powerfulSublime Text, which powered through the call for contenders but came up just a little shy in the voting round, picking up about 33% of the overall vote. Behind it in third place with just shy of 20% of the votes cast was Vim (and its iterations). Fourth place went to the venerable Emacs, with 7% of the vote, and Atom, the new project from the folks at GitHub, picked up 2% of the vote and brought up the rear.
To read more about all of these and the honorable mentions not listed here, head back to the full Hive Five feature for more.
From Tech Crunch
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Disney Research have created a 3D printer that can output a real, cuddly teddy bear in a few hours, thereby putting Santa’s elves out of business. The machine uses soft yarn and a needle to “felt” the object together by entangling the fibers as the object is built.
A research paper by, Scott E. Hudson of CMU’s Human-Computer Interaction Institutedetails the system and shows how the printer can make almost any shape out of almost any fibrous material. Like plastic 3D printers, the machine lays down the fiber in long threads and connects them by poking the fiber with a barbed needle.
As you can see from the video above, you’re not getting Teddy Ruxpin here. Instead, you get something that looks more like a crocheted bear with one flat side. However, because the material is so malleable, you could feasibly created things in any shape or even design objects that can connect together to make clothing or quilts.
Because these objects are felted together they are not quite as solid as, say, a crocheted doll or doily. However, the fibers create a solid mass, suitable for wearing, hugging, or snuggling.
“I really see this material being used for things that are held close,” Hudson said. “We’re really extending the set of materials available for 3D printing and opening up new possibilities for what can be manufactured.”
The system uses standard, open source printer software to prepare and print the objects and, as we see in the video above, it’s a great hit with babies.
Google has a new patent application with the USPTO (via 9to5Google), which takes one of the basic concepts of Glass and extends it even further, embedding tiny cameras that could be embedded in contact lenses for various uses, including photographing what a wearer sees, or providing the basic input for a contact-based assistive device for the visually impaired.
Google has previously detailed a plan to build smart contacts that measure blood glucose levels in diabetics to provide non-invasive, constant feedback to both a wearer and potentially their doctor, too. This new system describes uses that could also benefit the medical community, like using input from the camera to spot obstacles and alert a wearer who has vision problems as to their whereabouts. They could also offer up vision augmentation for people with all types of ocular health, and even act as a next-gen platform for a Glass-like computing experience.
Obviously, big tech companies patent stuff all the time, and only a fraction of that ever makes it to shipping products. Plus, wearing contacts is something that anyone who doesn’t have to likely won’t warm up to easily. Still, as an assistive device, and an alternative to other, more obvious gadgets and intrusive tech like hearing aids or cochlear implants, this could be a tech that has legs in the near future.
From TechCrunch
This was originally posted on Lifehacker.com, I am on the road and don’t have time to compile my own. We did this tool in class, use it!
This week, a giant security hole came to light that affects a large portion of the internet. As different sites recover, you’ll need to change your passwords, and now LastPass tells you when to do so.P
Due to the nature of the Heartbleed bug (read more here), you’ll need to wait until affected sites update their infrastructure before you change your passwords. LastPass’ ever-useful Security Check tool now includes recommendations for Heartbleed, letting you know which sites have closed the hole, when, and if you should update yet.P
To run the tool, just click on the LastPass extension and head to Tools > Security Check. After running the tool, you’ll get the results (shown above) so you know what passwords to change. Hit the link to read more.
This List Reveals the Heartbleed-Affected Passwords to Change Now
By now you’ve probably heard about the massive Heartbleed security bug that may have compromised the majority of the world’s web sites.… Read…
Update: LastPass’ tool is good, but we recommend manually checking this list too, just in case LastPass misses anything. Good luck!P