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If you are managing a website, especially WordPress, we’ll share some tips we found that will help you optimize your site for better performance. In cool credit card news – wait, has that phrase EVER been uttered before?? – we’ll tell you what Mastercard is doing to help protect your information with some high tech plastic for your wallet! All this, plus a great podcast app for iOS. And a fun way for your favorite musicians to learn their parts.
Mobile App of the Week:
- Downcast podcast app – Forget Apple’s Podcast app. This is the one you really want. ($1.99 USD in the Apple App Store)
Nerd News:
- Here’s a great tip for you webmasters out there. These steps will help you speed up the performance of your WordPress web site.
- Manual download of Android 4.2 may be available for you. Or wait.
- New MasterCards are smarter, and already in Singapore.
- Do you want to pickup your Amazon deliveries at a Locker?
- Calling Commander Data, or maybe CyberDyne: artificial skin is here
- A USB Stratocaster available that’s Apple-friendly.
- An ancient Greek d20 at MOMA.
This Week in Nerd History:
- November 15, 1971 – Intel releases world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
- November 12, 1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
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