Monday, November 3, 2014

Glorious PC excess: The best gaming rigs, the fastest graphics cards

Tips and tricks to improve Google Sheets

An app a day helps a teacher stay sane: How your iPad can keep kids on track

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November 03, 2014

Glorious PC excess: The best gaming rigs, the fastest graphics cards

Consoles? Bah. You can only get this kind of over-the-top, downright EXCESSIVE firepower on PCs. Join us as we bask in the glory.

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Issue highlights

1. Tips and tricks to improve Google Sheets

2. An app a day helps a teacher stay sane: How your iPad can keep kids on track

3. Google including CDC data in its Flu Trends tracker

4. Mozilla woos programmers with a special webdev browser

5. An unofficial Ubuntu tablet may be on the way

6. OpenStack users: We need more experienced staff

7. WIN THIS BOOK: Effective Ruby: 48 Specific Ways to Write Better Ruby

Tips and tricks to improve Google Sheets

Among the several add-ons available for Google Sheets, we found these helpful. READ MORE

An app a day helps a teacher stay sane: How your iPad can keep kids on track

The right iPad apps let teachers create dazzling lessons, quickly update parents, and stay organized without going crazy. READ MORE

Google including CDC data in its Flu Trends tracker

Finding that aggregate Web searches alone cannot provide an accurate assessment of where flu has struck and its severity, Google has decided to take into account data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its Google Flu Trends model. READ MORE

Mozilla woos programmers with a special webdev browser

Nudging developers towards the open Web, the Mozilla Foundation is customizing a version of its popular Firefox browser that can be used to build Web pages and applications, potentially reducing the number of different tools now required for the job. READ MORE

An unofficial Ubuntu tablet may be on the way

In today's open source roundup: Rumors are swirling about a possible tablet that will run Ubuntu Linux. Plus: Microsoft loves Linux the way a wolf loves a deer, and reviews of Ubuntu 14.10. READ MORE

OpenStack users: We need more experienced staff

Paradoxically for a platform intended to automate cloud service deployment, a major obstacle to wider adoption of OpenStack is a lack of qualified staff, speakers and attendees at the OpenStack Summit in Paris said Monday. READ MORE

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Learn how to harness Ruby's full power to write more robust, efficient, maintainable, and well-performing code. We've got 5 copies to give to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win! READ MORE

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