Barista's edition for Sun 22 December 2013

Google Play Music for iOS gets 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Radio, genre search and more

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The recently launched iOS version of Google Play Music has received an update bringing it up to par with its Android and browser-based counterparts and giving it an iOS 7-flavored visual ...

full article at Thenextweb →

Password Protect Your Devices - In Photos: 10 Incredibly Simple Things You Can Do To Protect Your Privacy

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Choosing not to password protect your devices is the digital equivalent of leaving your home or car unlocked. If you're lucky, no one will take advantage of the access. Or maybe the contents will be ravaged and your favorite speakers and/or secrets stolen.

full article at Forbes →

Best free sites for learning how to write code

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These four sites offer step-by-step tutorials that take very different approaches to programming instruction. One of them is perfect for your level of coding experience. (Credit: Dennis O'Reilly/CNET) Not so long ago, typing was for secretaries, journalists, and would-be authors. Now we're all tapping away at keyboards and screens from morning until night.

full article at Cnet →

Twitter Turns Ugly Over PR Person's Idiotic Tweet

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This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication. Justine Sacco was, until Friday, the top PR person for InterActiveCorp, the New York media conglomerate run by Barry Diller. IAC owns the Daily Beast, Vimeo, About.com, Match.com and Ask.com, among many others.

full article at Mashable →

Bitcoin May Be Following This Classic Bubble Stages Chart

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It's been practically impossible to follow the financial news in recent months without coming across almost daily articles about Bitcoin and all of its wild gyrations, as well as opinions for and against it.

full article at Forbes →

Freemium Is the Most Profitable Pricing Strategy for Apps

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If you're looking to make money on an app of your own, your best bet is a freemium model. In seven of the Apple App Store's 10 largest categories, the majority of revenue comes from in-app purchases in free apps.

full article at Mashable →

The business of home automation is enabling the internet of things

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If we think about the homes that have a broadband connection today as the total addressable market for home automation, the home automation market size turns out to be around $8.8 billion at $100 spent per home or $880 billion at $10,000 for example in the U.S.

full article at Gigaom →