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Searching Just Got Easier - Google your lost phone's location

If you misplace your Android handset, a simple web search is now all it takes to relocate it.

The new and simple to use feature is free and should work with any Android smartphone as long as it's running the latest version of the Google app.

And, if the phone is just hiding under the sofa or somewhere else in the home, launching your PC's web browser and typing ‘Find my phone' into the Google will make the phone ring. 

If the handset is lurking further afield, its location will be shown on a Google Map instead.

The only catch in all of this is that your handset and your computer's browser will both need to be connected to or logged into the same Google account.

AFP Relax News

April 16, 2015

Instagram Institutes Harsher Rules to Control Harassment, Porn, and Nudity by Nitasha Tiku, The Verge

Instagram revealed new community guidelines today that were designed to cut down on harassment and pornography. This is the biggest change to the guidelines since Instagram was acquired by Facebook in 2012, and it helps clarify rules that critics and parents complained were too lax and users complained were overreaching and enforced with double standards.

The photo-sharing app framed the changes as a tougher, less polite stance in an interview with The Wall Street Journal:

“In the old guidelines, we would say ‘don’t be mean,’” said Nicky Jackson Colaco, director of public policy for Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. “Now we’re actively saying you can’t harass people. The language is just stronger.”

For example, Instagram’s previous guidelines asked users to be polite and respectful. The revised version is much longer and specifies that “serious threats of harm to public and personal safely aren’t allowed.”

The most useful updates, however, may be in spelling out the details about what can be shared and what won’t be tolerated, like the section on nudity:

We know that there are times when people might want to share nude images that are artistic or creative in nature, but for a variety of reasons, we don’t allow nudity on Instagram. This includes photos, videos, and some digitally created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks. It also includes some photos of female nipples, but photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women actively breastfeeding are allowed. Nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures is OK, too.

The efficacy and fairness of the new rules will be tested by how they’re enforced, especially now that the service is up to 300 million monthly unique users. The app reviews images “that prompt complaints from users,” according to the Journal.

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Home Quote Of The Day

“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”
― Josh Gates

A New and Better Way to Infuse Data into Your Business By Jeff Erickson

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Home Quote Of The Day

“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

Aircraft Inspired Seating Into The Living Room

 Air-crafts are not typically designed for maximum comfort, more so to maximise capacity and squeeze as many passengers in as possible. Business class however is a different story, allowing those able to afford the prices to a more relaxing and comfortable experience.

Basing household furniture on airline seats may sound rather odd, since in your home you are looking for ultimate comfort. This seat comes in at �1,300, and we can't help but think that airline seats should be reserved for time spent in the air, and not time spent trying to relax in your own home. The chair does however look the part, and has a basic reclining mechanism extending a little further than the airborne counterpart.

Designed by Jeffret Bernett, the chair does look impressive in its own right, but we'd rather separate flight chairs from home seating. You don't want to be sitting watching TV and then expecting your house to take-off into the sky.