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Finally, Twitter is now showing users’ images properly

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Twitter is now showing users' images in a grid format, answering many users' wishes & showing that the site is committed to being a rich media destination

Social Media

Posting Facebook status updates & photos by email is antiquated but still useful

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Facebook secretly lets you post comments and photos by email, here's how it works and why you'd want to use it.

Social Media

Facebook gets drag-&-drop photo uploader & new privacy controls, & changes one iconic feature

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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From a new drag-and-drop image uploader to more security options and added personalization, here are the latest changes Facebook has made to the site.

Mobile

Scan old photographs effortlessly with new Shoebox mobile app

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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A new mobile app, Shoebox, lets you scan and archive old photographs using your phone's built-in camera. The app has been released by 1000memories, a service that allows users to collect and share memories online.

Technology

Ground-breaking system for quickly rendering synthetic objects into legacy photographs

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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A group of students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a ground-breaking system that allows a user realistically insert synthetic objects into legacy photographs quickly and easily.

Brains Byte Back

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You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.