CLAIM YOUR SPACE

 ClaimYour.Space allows you to claim a website that ends in dot space instead of dot com.  We noticed that CocaCola.space is taken, as is Nike.space and the usual brands. But you might want one with your name on it, like UncleMax.space.  Cost is $8.39 to register an open domain for one year.

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STUFF IN SPACE

Stuffin.Space has a “3D Interactive Map of Absolutely Every Object Orbiting Earth.” Put together by incoming Texas college freshman James Yoder, it includes rockets, satellites and 20,000 pieces of junk. Blue objects are rocket bodies, red is for satellites, gray is debris. You also get the launch date, velocity and other details. (A few years ago, a deep hole in one of windows of the space station was found to have been caused by a collision with a tiny paint chip.)

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APP HELPS THOSE WITH MACULAR DEGENERATION

Spotlight Text” is $10 for iPhone and claims to make it possible for those with macular degeneration to read books on their tablets. We hope the creator, Dr. Howard J. Kaplan, will do the same thing for games like solitaire.

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BATTLE FOR THE OLDIES

Avast mateys! You scurvy dogs! Playing games like “Monkey Island” back in the 1990s was the most fun we’ve had playing video games. But some of those old games won’t play on new machines — unless you can get new versions.

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