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How to Stream Tonight’s ABC News Republican Debate, No Cable Required

How to Stream Tonight's ABC News Republican Debate, No Cable Required

The Republican presidential candidates are hosting their first debate post-Iowa tonight on ABC, with most candidates in attendance. If you’re interested in watching, here’s how to tune in for free, at home or on the go.

This debate is notable partially because it’s post-Iowa, but also because it’s pre-New Hampshire. It starts at 8pm ET/5pm PT, with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and John Kasich.

For those folks who want to tune in, here are a few internet-only and mobile options:

Of course, since ABC will also broadcast for free, over-the-air, you just need to tune in to your local ABC affiliate to catch the debate as well if you’d like to watch that way. All you need is a good antenna.

ABC News Announces New Hampshire Republican Debate Candidate Lineup | ABC News


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Breaking It Down To The Bits: How The Internet, DNS, And HTTPS Work


  

Smashing Magazine is known for lengthy, comprehensive articles. But what about something different for a change? What about shorter, concise pieces with useful tips that you could easily read over a short coffee break? As an experiment, this is one of the shorter "Quick Tips"-kind-of articles — shorter posts prepared and edited by our editorial team. What do you think? Let us know in the comments! —Ed.

If we want to build high performance applications, we have to understand how the individual bits are delivered.

The Internet is the foundation of our craft. But what do we actually know about its underlying technology? How do DNS, networks and HTTPS work? What happens in the browser when we type a URL in the address bar?

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Bruegger’s marks 33rd year with 3 free bagels

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Bruegger’s Bagels is celebrating “33 years of authentic New York-style bagels” with a freebie. On Feb. 4, the bagel bakery is giving customers three FREE bagels from store opening until 11 a.m. at participating locations. To get the “hole-y” freebie, claim the coupon here. The offer does not include cream cheese, premium, topped Read More

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Lightning talks at Percona Live Data Performance Conference

The main schedule for the Percona Live Data Performance Conference is available. Almost everything has been defined. There are tutorials and plenty of sessions waiting for conference attendees.One thing that is still undefined is the session of lightning talks. The call for participation for these mini sessions of 5 minutes each is still open. If you plan to attend Percona Live, this is your chance to get your 5 minutes of celebrity: you can submit a proposal up to February 7th, 2016. There is a lot that can be said in 5 minutes. If you have an interesting topic to highlight, a pet project to show off, a neat trick to recommend, a happy or painful experience to share, a lightning talk is the right place to apply. There are also open slots for Birds Of A Feather (BoF) sessions. These are not lectures, but rather meetings of users who share the same interest. If you want to apply for one of these sessions, don’t propose a topic where you address the audience, but propose a theme for a discussion among peers. BoF sessions are often the place where new ideas are born, helped by the free discussion among passionate users. If you have an open source project and want to ask for feedback, or if you want help defining the road map for an already successful project, a BoF is what you need. Also for this kind of sessions, the deadline is February 7th.And remember: the conference is not limited to MySQL. Every data related topic (such as nosql, big data, database engines, data storage technologies) could trigger an interesting talk.
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Create an RSS Feed for any Search Result

Create an RSS Feed for any Search Result

Whether you’re constantly searching your own name online (you know who you are) or there’s a topic you want to follow closely, Google Alerts lets you know when new pages hit the web that match your query—and you can convert these results into an RSS feed (or something else) to make them easier to manage.

It means you don’t have to start every day googling your own name or whatever else it is that you’re interested in, because the results come to you. Head to the Google Alerts page to get started—type your query in the top box and then configure your options underneath (click Show options if you can’t see them).

Create an RSS Feed for any Search Result

The final option, Deliver to, can be set to RSS feed rather than your email address. Once you click on Create alert, the new alert will have an RSS icon next to it, which you can select to get your feed: plug this into your RSS reader of choice and you’re good to go. The other icons let you edit and delete alerts as you need to.

Of course using something like IFTTT you can convert this RSS feed into a different format if you prefer: send the feeds to a read-it-later service or a Google Sheet, for example. The beauty of the RSS format is you can queue up all of your web search hits in the background and then check in on them when you’ve got the time.

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Sell Your Vacation Photos to Help Offset the Cost of Your Trip

Sell Your Vacation Photos to Help Offset the Cost of Your Trip

If you’re already taking photos of your trip, you might as well make a couple bucks off them (and you don’t need a fancy camera to do it.) You won’t get rich, but you may be able to cover the cost of souvenirs or a nice meal.

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Of course, you should only sell the good photos. Skip the ones with friends or family in them, since they may not want their image being used for stock photos. Travel+Leisure recommends entering your photos in contests to try for a big payday, but you can also sell your photos on sites like iStock, Alamy, Shutterstock, and Getty Images. If you have video from your travels, you can sell those, too.

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Monitor the Consistency of Your Broadband Speeds with a Raspberry Pi and IFTTT

Monitor the Consistency of Your Broadband Speeds with a Raspberry Pi and IFTTT

We all know you can pop over to a site like Speedtest to check your internet speeds, but most of us only bother when there’s a perceivable problem. If you want to create an actual database of your speeds throughout the day, Make shows off a logging system that uses a Raspberry Pi and If This Then That.

Essentially, you’ll install a command line interface for Speedtest on the Pi, then create a small program that logs the internet speed on a schedule. That log is then sent over to a Google Drive spreadsheet using IFTTT. With the log in hand, you can now complain to your ISP as needed (or automate the complaint process through Twitter if you like). If you’re worried you’re not getting what you’re paying for on a consistent basis, this is a good way to get some data to back up your claims. Head over to Make for the guide.

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Use Raspberry Pi to Measure Broadband Speeds, Dropouts to Hold Your ISP Accountable

IMG_5887Constant drops and outages with your broadband connection can drive you to frustration, but you can use the Raspberry Pi, and a little bit of command line scripting to monitor it.

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