How To Use Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8

Internet Explorer 10 provides an “add-on free” experience. It supports HTML 5 for video content, but you can’t install toolbars and add-ons inInternet Explorer 10.

If you are viewing a webpage that requires an add-on or uses Flash, you can view the content by opening the website in Internet Explorer for the desktop. To do this, swipe in from the right edge of the screen (if you’re using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen), tap or click Settings, and then tap or click Use the desktop.

How to Find Your Favorites

Internet Explorer 10 doesn’t use the traditional Favorites from previous versions. Instead, you can pin websites to the Start screen or open a list of pinned sites and frequently visited sites using New tab. If you open Internet Explorer for the desktop, you can use the traditional Favorites, but you can’t access the pinned sites from the Start screen.

How to view a website in Compatibility View

To view a website in Compatibility View, open Internet Explorer for the desktop, and then click the Compatibility view button in the address bar.

How to Set Your Default Web Browser

On the Start screen, swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search.

(If you’re using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, and then click Search.)

Enter Default programs, and then tap or click Apps.

In the search results, tap or click Default Programs.

Tap or click Set your Default Programs.

Choose the browser you want from the list.

Select Set this program as default, and then tap or click OK.

How to get back the Internet Explorer 10 Tile on the Start Screen

Internet Explorer 10 might have accidentally become unpinned. To pin it back to your Start screen, follow these steps:

Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search.

(If you’re using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, and then click Search.)

Enter Internet Explorer , and then tap or click Apps.

In the search results, swipe down on the Internet Explorer icon, and then tap Pin to Start.

(If you’re using a mouse, right-click Internet Explorer , and then click Pin to Start.)

Data Visualization Reveals a Less Divided States of America

The maps you saw on election night probably just showed a United States filled with either blue or red states, for Democrat or Republican.

The electoral map is of course far more complicated, and interesting; and the visualization above shows a more creative way to view voter data.

The visualization was built by Robert J. Vanderbei, a mathematician at Princeton, using publically available election data. It shows the proportion of people who voted Democrat or Republican for each county as a gradient between blue and red; and the number of voters in each county is shown by the height of the horizontal bars. You can explore the visualization in more detail by viewing the full 3-D WebGL file on Vanderbei’s site (warning: 55MB!).

Mark Newman, from the Department of Physics and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, has visualized the population differences across voting maps in a slightly different way: by distorting the size of each county to reflect its population—creating a kind of map known as a cartogram.

Both visualizations provide a more nuanced picture of election night. And they show that the country isn’t quite as divided, along state lines, as some other maps suggest.

Vanderbei says he was inspired to start building voting visualizations in 2000, after seeing maps showing counties across the U.S. as simply blue or red. “I live in a county that’s 48 percent-52 percent,” he says. “I might like to know if it’s 48 percent Democratic or Republican. Or maybe not. We’re all basically a little bit purple.”

5 Things To Love About Nokia’s New Maps

Nokia's rebranded mapping service will soon arrive on iPhones and and Android devices, under the moniker of Here. For Android users this isn't a huge deal, but for iPhone owners living in the age of iOS 6, it could change a lot. Nokia's maps, on other platforms, have been fantastic.

The apps aren't quite available yet, but the web-based version of Here is functional on mobile browsers, offering a glimpse of what we can expect. What's so great about it? Quite a bit, actually.

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Cached Maps: Here will allow you to select a zone and zoom level for any given locale, and then the app will download all the data it needs so that you can access the maps offline. I chose lower mahattan at the setting which just starts to detail streets, and it cached a ~35 megabyte map for me. This is a feature I can see myself using on a regular basis.

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Smart Traffic Routing: Unfortunately, the web version of Here does not have turn-by-turn, but its static driving directions do make up for that some. You see, there happens to be an option to select the time of day you'll be driving, and it will determine the most efficient route from point A to point B based on the normalized traffic data it has collected in the past for any given time of day.

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Public Transit

: Yes, public transit is a prominent part of Here. But more than just giving you subway directions when you ask for them, it displays the name of each metro station on the map and gives you the option of overlaying train maps on top of the standard map (see top image).

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Collections: Going on a trip and want to bookmark all the places you've researched on a map? Wandering around randomly one day and want to remember that shop you stepped into? Collections is a quick and easy way to plot points on a map. It's like a more functional Google Custom Map.

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Points of Interest: If you search for a business, restaurant, or anything else using Here, it will automatically generate a list of nearby spots that you might also be interested in. Handy if the place you're trying to travel to is closed, or fully booked.

Of course, this is still just a web app, so it's a little lacking when it comes to beauty and polish. But if Here can combine the functionality of the web app with the perks of a natively coded app, it could be really awesome. We'll find out in a few weeks.

Making trends transparent across languages

There’s a data revolution afoot, and both business and government are in the thick of it. In corporate IT, hardly a day goes by where you don’t hear about analytics. For the first time ever, executives can make decisions based on trends that are backed up by millions of data sources. Analytics take the guesswork out of business, and that’s a big deal.

The government uses analytics in a similar way. Agencies collect and analyze global information to study trends that affect intelligence, economics and health policies, among others. Analytics, it turns out, are just as important in the public sector as they are in the enterprise.

Analytics and Assimilation

So far, analytics have played a relatively limited role in the dissemination of information—though this will likely change quickly. But information assimilationby the public sector is a different story (please see further explanation of dissemination and assimilation in my last post). Just like businesses, the government uses analytics to find out more about what people are saying about choice topics that can then inform action and policy. Analyzing information from social media sites, online forums, videos and other sources is a key way to gather intelligence and conduct research. With analytics being used to track things like trending social media communications and news reactions by government today, there is an important push towards analyzing trending information in languages other than English, which can provide important clues to international movements and sentiment. Without this, there is less ability to make use of the social media analytics and data coming in from abroad.

A Lesson from the Arab Spring

The recent string of revolutions in the Middle East really impressed the importance of monitoring and understanding online content, especially that from unstructured sources like video and social media. Tunisian fruit vendorMohamed Bouazizi committed suicide in 2010, lighting the powder keg that set off the entire Middle East. The citizens of Tunisia quickly reacted, and using social media, launched a resistance movement protesting political and social issues of their country. Tunisians were discussing the Bouazizi protest online, circulating footage of demonstrations and organizing future protests. A similar trend happened when the citizens of Egypt overthrew President Hosni Mubarak. One of the largest Egyptian protests had a Facebook page with more than 90,000 people signed up, according to the New York Times.

According to the Washington Post, after a Senate hearing in February of last year, Senator Dianne Feinstein indicated a need to focus more on “open-source intelligence.” In the intelligence community, this refers to publicly available sources of information which can include Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media, but also radio, TV, newspapers, and the Internet (the term is unrelated to open-source software). Although protests were already taking place online, the West was less aware of the revolutions in progress until they were actually physically taking place. The U.S. government understands the importance of tuning into trending social media and continues to focus a great deal on analyzing all data, including unstructured sources like social media posts. 

Trends Tie Everything Together

Analysis is easy to talk about, but harder to execute. There are thousands of languages in the world and millions of sources of data. In the world of social media, people tend to use colloquialisms and linguistic shorthand, adding a translation challenge. Simply capturing data isn’t enough. It has to be translated, understood, and presented in a way that provides value.

By understanding trending information or any topic that starts to be hot the government can have its finger on the pulse of global movements and trends in many areas. We can better understand how people are being impacted by economic and foreign policies and in general better comprehend how policy affects people. We can better grasp the spread of disease and global health trends, as when people tweet about “having the sniffles today” or being affected by more major health epidemics. Disaster relief efforts can be significantly enhanced by a better understanding of what is happening, where, through an analysis of trending social media data. We can even measure varying responses across the globe to major events like the U.S. election.

With the entire world networked online, the public sector can’t afford to ignore any information in any location. Moving forward we will continue to see government use of more advanced analytics of real time information in order to inform policy. Analytics won’t just be a perk going forwards. They’re going to become an essential asset.

Israel and Hamas Are Trying to Scare Each Other on Twitter

Things are exploding in Israel and the Gaza Strip, and the two Middle Eastern militaries responsible are shit-talking online. In English. On Twitter. When did the horrors of warfare start resembling angry Selena Gomez fans?

Brinksmanship and bluster used to take place between world capitals on encrypted channels. Now, the No, you're gonna die! is delivered in public through a free web service. Israel is also using Twitter to spread videos of its recent aerial assassination of a prominent Hamas leader, and tell us to check out its Flickr feed, where it'll be posting war updates.

You were right, General Sherman. [via mims]

A Sports Cam With Eyes On the Back of Its Head Captures Twice the Action

Now here's a unique take on the seemingly unending supply of action sports cams hitting the market. Oregon Scientific's ATC Chameleon packs a pair of adjustable lenses on the front and back of the camera with 110-degree fields of view. So athletes can share what's happening behind the camera, as well as what's in front.

And instead of creating two separate videos of the action, the ATC Chameleon combines both of the 1280x720 feeds into a single hi-def clip—either split vertically or horizontally. But unfortunately there's seemingly no option to capture just one or the other, which frustratingly limits its functionality.

It comes across as a little gimmicky for a $200 video camera, but for athletes who want to relive their daredevil escapades it does provide a unique angle on the action.

On a full charge it can reportedly run for a couple of hours, and you'll need to get yourself a waterproof case if there's a chance it will get wet. But if footage from a GoProdoesn't excite you anymore, finally seeing what you've always been missing behind you might be enough to get you back to risking life and limb again. [Oregon Scientific viaGizmag]

A 40-Inch 1080p HDTV Is Your Under-$300 Deal of the Day

When somebody admits to you that they don't own a TV, they're usually being an elitist, condescending jerk. Here's how you defuse the vocal no-TV crowd: play naive and simply assume they haven't checked TV prices in a while and they think flat screens are still thousands and thousands of dollars. Then helpfully point them to this 40-inch large, full 1080p HDTV from Amazon that costs only $270 with free shipping. Tell 'em that even if they don't want to watch broadcast television, this Sceptre set features three HDMI ports for computers, streaming set-top boxes, and game consoles. Plus, if your TV-less friend says something silly like "I just want to watch [INSERT HOME NFL TEAM HERE]" you can tell him all he has to do is plug in an antenna. And when he still refuses to see your pro-big-screen point, buy this TV for yourself and laugh when he's still watching Netflix on his laptop. [Amazon]

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Physical Media

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• 160GB PS3 + Die Another Day DVD ($210) | NewEgg via Dealzon | Originally $250 | It's refurbished if that's a problem for you

Laptops

• 2011 11" Macbook Air ($700) | PC Connection via Dealzon | Originally $900

• 11" Asus Zenbook with 128GB SSD ($700) | Microsoft via Logicbuy | Originally $100

• 13" Dell Ultrabook with 128GB SSD ($800) | Microsoft via Dealzon | Originally $1100

• Lenovo Yoga ($1000) | Lenovo via Laptopaholic | Originally $1100

Desktops

Nope.

Tablets

Not today.

Screens

• 22" Dell 1080p IPS Computer Monitor ($150) | Dell via Logicbuy | Originally $220

• 47" Panasonic Viera + $100 Amazon Credit ($700) | Amazon via Tech Deal Digger | Originally $1000

Portables

• Audio Technica ATH-M50s ($113) | Amazon | Normally anywhere from $130-$170

Camera

Not today.

SSDs

• 120GB Verbatim SSD ($70) | Buy.com via Brandnamecoupons | Originally $90

Apps

iOS

• Quarrel Deluxe ($0) | iTunes via Best App Sales | Originally $3

• Skylanders Cloud Patrol ($0) | iTunes via Best App Sales | Originally $1

• djay ($0) | iTunes via Best App Sales | Originally $1

• NotJot Scanner Pro ($1) | iTunes via Best App Sales | Originally $2

iPad Only

• Paper Helper ($0) | iTunes via Appsaholic | Originally $2

• FX Studio Pro ($1) | iTunes via Best App Sales | Originally $3

Android

• Jellyflop! ($0) | Amazon Appstore via Appsaholic | Originally $3

• Who Is The Killer ($1) | Google Play via Appsaholic | Originally $3

• Photof Panorama Pro ($1) | Google Play via Appsaholic | Originally $4

• Little Stars for Little Wars ($1) | Google Play via Appsaholic | Originally $2 | Clever name, guys

Windows

• Photoshop Elements 11 ($50) | Amazon via Reddit | Originally $90