This is what happens when you give McDonald’s to organic food “experts”

This is what happens when you give McDonald's to organic food "experts"

"What happens when you serve McDonald’s food to some experts and pretend it’s a new organic meal?" ask Sacha and Cedrique. To answer this question they went to a organic food fair in Houten, Netherlands, armed with disguised McNuggets and Big Macs. You can imagine what happens—or just watch their video:

Make sure to turn close captioning. It’s in English. Go to the 2:20 mark to see the experts verdict about how much better this organic food is than McDonald’s.


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This is what happens when you give McDonald’s to organic food “experts”

This is the trailer for Avengers 2: Age of Ultron and it looks amazing

This is the trailer for Avengers 2: Age of Ultron and it looks amazing

Comicbook Resources got the trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron, apparently leaked early by Movieweb, and now it appears it has leaked everywhere. It’s narrated by Ultron (James Spader), and features all the team members—plus the much anticipated Iron Man’s Hulkbuster armor.

The trailer has an April 2015 release date, so it’s probably the international version.

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This is the trailer for Avengers 2: Age of Ultron and it looks amazing

BitTorrent Performance Test: Sync Is Faster Than Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox

An anonymous reader writes Now that its file synchronization tool has received a few updates, BitTorrent is going on the offensive against cloud-based storage services by showing off just how fast BitTorrent Sync can be. More specifically, the company conducted a test that shows Sync destroys Google Drive, Microsoft’s OneDrive, and Dropbox. The company transferred a 1.36 GB MP4 video clip between two Apple MacBook Pros using two Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapters, the Time.gov site as a real-time clock, and the Internet connection at its headquarters (1 Gbps up/down). The timer started when the file transfer was initiated and then stopped once the file was fully synced and downloaded onto the receiving machine. Sync performed 8x faster than Google Drive, 11x faster than OneDrive, and 16x faster than Dropbox.

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Get your Mac online anywhere easily with OS X Yosemite’s new Instant Hotspot iPhone tethering feature

One of the new Continuity features between iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite is Instant Hotspot, giving users the ability to automatically connect to the Internet through their iPhone’s cellular data connection without the need to touch their phone.
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28 Geeky Jack-o-Lanterns You Can Carve This Halloween

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The season of spooks has snuck up on us, but there’s still time to carve out your pumpkins if you haven’t done so already. Last year we brought you 14 awesome jack-o-lantern ideas to help you express your geeky side. Well, this year we’ve got 28 more ideas for you to explore. If you’ve never put knife to pumpkin before, why not give it a try this year? It’s a ton of fun and easier than you think. Just make sure you keep safety in mind and you’ll be all right. How To Carve A Jack-o-Lantern The carving process can…

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Google Just Released Hundreds of Cool Icons That You Can Use For Free

Google Just Released Hundreds of Cool Icons That You Can Use For Free

As part of its Material Design project, Google has published a set of lovely icons, designed for use in mobile apps or whatever else you fancy using them for. And they’re free!

Just published to Github, there are 750 of the neatly designed icons. They’ll fit nicely in Android, but you could use the for anything, really. They’re available under a CC-BY-SA Creative Commons license, so you can do whatever you want with them. [Github via Kottke]

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Safari and Spotlight Can Send Data to Apple, Here’s How to Turn it Off

Safari and Spotlight Can Send Data to Apple, Here's How to Turn it Off

In order for Spotlight to work properly, it needs to send your search data to Google, Apple, and Bing. Initially, it seems easy enough to disable this if you care about privacy, but as users over on Hacker News note, it’s not as obvious as it seems.

When you’re using your Mac with all the default settings, anything you search for in Safari or Spotlight gets sent to Apple along with whatever search engine it’s pinging. It’s not totally clear why your data needs to go to Apple, but that certainly makes searching with a search engine like DuckDuckGo slightly pointless. To turn all this stuff off and get a bit of privacy back you’ll need to disable two settings:

  • Disable Spotlight Suggestions and Bing Web Searches. Head to System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results and uncheck those two boxes.
  • Disable Safari’s Spotlight Suggestions. Head to Safari > Preferences > Search and uncheck Spotlight Suggestions.

From the look of it, a number of processes in Yosemite are phoning home to Apple, but it’s not totally clear why. For now, disabling Spotlight seems to cover the biggest suspected privacy intrusion. Check out logs on GitHub and the threads on Hacker News for more info.

In Yosemite, all Safari Web Searches… | GitHub via Hacker News
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I Make $2000 A Year Selling My Personal Information, You Can Too

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If you use the Internet, everything you do is being tracked and sold, and you’re not making a penny from it. I’m not here to encourage you to install some plugins to block it all though – far from it. I want you to do as I’ve done and embrace the idea of selling your personal information and feedback, but actually get something in return. Don’t be one of those suckers that sells their information for nothing! Am I crazy? Maybe, but the $2000 worth of cash, coupons and free products I receive every year from using all these tactics…

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Autumn: A season of MySQL-related conferences. Here’s my list

Autumn is a season of MySQL-related conferences and I’m about to hit the road to speak and attend quite a  few of them. This week I’ll participate in All Things Open, a local conference for me here in Raleigh, N.C. and therefore one I do not have to travel for. All Things Open explores open source, […]

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