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- Cool Websites and Tools – August 28th 2013 – FB phishing protector, Simplifying text & Marking up images
- Will You Be Buying Either A “Gold” iPhone Or “Cheap” iPhone? [You Told Us]
- 9 Incredible Educational iOS Apps For High School Students
- Inside Kickstarter #1: An Exclusive Look At Pressy — How A Project Is Born
- Yahoo! Creates Watchlist For Claiming Unused User IDs [Updates]
- How to Return a Lost Phone in Four Easy Steps
- The Secret Life Of Heroes
- Myth Debunked: 5 Gadgets You Don’t Actually Need For School
- 4 Tools to Display RSS Feed Updates Directly on Your Windows Desktop
- No DVD Drive On Your Tablet Or Notebook? Use An Old Laptop Drive Instead!
- Buffer Ups The Game, Introduces Google+ Scheduling [Updates]
- Start Coding JavaScript Right Now With These 5 Great Free Resources
- Tiny Core Linux Is Your Smallest Choice For An Operating System
- All The Back To School Gear You’ll Need For Under $1000
- How To Survive Using An Old Android Phone With No Internal Memory
| Posted: 28 Aug 2013 03:47 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including a FB phishing protector, a complex text simplifier, marking up images collaboratively, getting answers to your tax questions, and extracting IDs, classes and inline styles from HTML. Read on below! Rewordify – is a free website that converts advanced written language into less complex language. It’s perfect for assisting students with understanding complex written language. Paste or type the text that needs to be simplified into the box on the Rewordify web page, and within seconds a simplified version will appear. Extractcss – If you... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 28th 2013 – FB phishing protector, Simplifying text & Marking up images |
| Will You Be Buying Either A “Gold” iPhone Or “Cheap” iPhone? [You Told Us] Posted: 28 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT  As we enter September, we edge ever closer to Apple’s latest press event; during which the company is expected to reveal the latest iPhone, or, more accurately, iPhones. Apple always draws a crowd, but this press event is sure to draw even more than the usual levels of attention. Apple has, according to many, fallen a little short of expectations in recent years. Since the driving force of Steve Jobs shuffled off this mortal coil, the hardware releases have become a little safe and stale. Apple seems to have lost some of its ability to innovate, to gamble, to take... Read the full article: Will You Be Buying Either A “Gold” iPhone Or “Cheap” iPhone? [You Told Us] |
| 9 Incredible Educational iOS Apps For High School Students Posted: 28 Aug 2013 02:10 PM PDT  Did you know that besides the obvious productivity apps and fun games, the iOS App Store features a large amount of applications tailor-made for high school students? Everyone’s favorite smartphones and tablets can be used for more than just fueling your addiction to Candy Crush and Angry Birds. August is here, and for most high school students, that means summer vacation is rapidly coming to a close. Sadly, it’s time to stop thinking purely of fun and start getting ready to focus on education. High school is arguably one of the most important parts of a student’s educational career, as... Read the full article: 9 Incredible Educational iOS Apps For High School Students |
| Inside Kickstarter #1: An Exclusive Look At Pressy — How A Project Is Born Posted: 28 Aug 2013 01:45 PM PDT  What if you could make any dream you have come true? Go to Kickstarter, and bam, you’re there. Kickstarter and similar crowdfunding websites want to be the fairy godmother of our childhood. Have an idea? Let us make it come true. But is it really as easy as it looks? There are endless Kickstarter projects out there, with endless dreamers whose only wish is to make their private dreams come true. We hear about them when they succeed magnificently, we hear about them when they fail miserably, but, unless we know them personally, we rarely hear about them before the... Read the full article: Inside Kickstarter #1: An Exclusive Look At Pressy — How A Project Is Born |
| Yahoo! Creates Watchlist For Claiming Unused User IDs [Updates] Posted: 28 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT  If there are one or more usernames that you’ve always wanted to use on Yahoo.com, the company has now set up a Watch List that allows you to submit (for $1.99 USD) up to 5 unused user IDs that you will be notified for if and when they become available. Back in July, the online company started recycling usernames that had not been accessed in over a year. Yahoo! utilized the Facebook verification process to allow existing users to claim recycled names while still retaining the data of those unused user IDs. With this new Watchlist service, you may now be able... Read the full article: Yahoo! Creates Watchlist For Claiming Unused User IDs [Updates] |
| How to Return a Lost Phone in Four Easy Steps Posted: 28 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Returning a locked lost phone can feel a lot like stealing one. I recently found someone’s accidentally discarded $450 smartphone. But did I break through the passcode and access the owner’s personal information, including sexts and homemade pornography? No, I didn’t access their data. For the curious, yes, a phone’s lock pattern can be broken using a handful of tricks, including the Android Debugger, the grease trail exploit and by using a lockscreen exploit. Every year, millions drop their mobile into the unknown. In the US, about 50% of lost devices are returned to their owners. The rest get resold or... Read the full article: How to Return a Lost Phone in Four Easy Steps |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Designer and illustrator Grégoire Guillemin, otherwise known as the Eclectic Graphical Gamer, created a fascinating art series about the things heroes do behind closed doors. It’s interesting, to say the least. If you like his work, they’re available in print from his online store. Read the full article: The Secret Life Of Heroes |
| Myth Debunked: 5 Gadgets You Don’t Actually Need For School Posted: 28 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT  Need. Want. One is a four letter word and the other is a necessity. Listen up and heed this old man’s words as I get you set to go back to school, do some real learning, and save thousands of dollars by not buying into this computer fad. Look at me! I got an iPhone! Look at me! I can film my lectures! Look at me! I made a spreadsheet that does my arithmetic for me! Poppycock, I say. When I was your age, not only was I the same age as you, but the most advance technology we had... Read the full article: Myth Debunked: 5 Gadgets You Don’t Actually Need For School |
| 4 Tools to Display RSS Feed Updates Directly on Your Windows Desktop Posted: 28 Aug 2013 11:40 AM PDT  You used to relax in the morning with a warm cup of coffee, reading your favorite blog, until your life took over and changed everything. You even had time to browse and meander through several of your favorite blogs. Then life happened. You got busy, or you got a promotion, and your mornings transformed into a busy time where you need to race through emails before the workday started. Thankfully, RSS feeds are a savior for the worker – a way to sort of auto-browse all of those headlines without the need to click and read each one. What you’re... Read the full article: 4 Tools to Display RSS Feed Updates Directly on Your Windows Desktop |
| No DVD Drive On Your Tablet Or Notebook? Use An Old Laptop Drive Instead! Posted: 28 Aug 2013 11:15 AM PDT  One of the drawbacks of running a Windows 8 tablet as my main computer is the lack of an optical drive. While Mac OS X users have seen Apple explicitly remove the DVD drives from the MacBook Air over the past couple of years, there has been little from Microsoft indicating that this was going to be likely. Only those of us with an eye for a trend, knowledge of Microsoft’s habit of borrowing ideas from Apple and recognition of the general move towards digital distribution might have seen this coming. More and more Windows computers are shipping without optical... Read the full article: No DVD Drive On Your Tablet Or Notebook? Use An Old Laptop Drive Instead! |
| Buffer Ups The Game, Introduces Google+ Scheduling [Updates] Posted: 28 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT  From now on, you can use your Buffer account to post and schedule updates to your Google+ Page, which joins the already supported Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and App.net. After recently adding custom scheduled updates, Buffer continues going over its most requested feature list, ticking off one by one. Any user with a Google+ Page, whether on a free or paid Buffer account, can connect it to Buffer and start posting updates by buffering them in advance. Google+ is also supported by Buffer’s browser extension, mobile apps and other app integrations such as Feedly, Pocket, Instapaper, Newsblur, etc. Another way to... Read the full article: Buffer Ups The Game, Introduces Google+ Scheduling [Updates] |
| Start Coding JavaScript Right Now With These 5 Great Free Resources Posted: 28 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT  “Love – love is a verb, love is a doing word,” or so the song goes. And actually, the same can be said about JavaScript: this sizzling-hot programming language is a doing language. If you think JavaScript is interesting, you need to do JavaScript – not just read about it. Getting started is much easier than you might expect, and costs nothing. I tracked down three choice resources for learning JavaScript that are all about getting you to do something with the language, rather than just read or watch videos. For Taking a Guided Tour: Codeacademy’s JavaScript Track Assuming you... Read the full article: Start Coding JavaScript Right Now With These 5 Great Free Resources |
| Tiny Core Linux Is Your Smallest Choice For An Operating System Posted: 28 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Linux’s capacity for configuration is exceptional — while it’s pretty known that you can configure it to however you like (such as with SUSE Studio), that capacity isn’t limited to just the selection of used software (ranging everywhere from the graphics stack to the desktop environment to the office suite). In fact, one of the great benefits of Linux’s flexible nature is that you can put the software on any computer imaginable, from high-powered supercomputers to netbooks to embedded systems such as aircraft entertainment systems. In order to get Linux on such low-powered systems, the software needs to be as... Read the full article: Tiny Core Linux Is Your Smallest Choice For An Operating System |
| All The Back To School Gear You’ll Need For Under $1000 Posted: 28 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT  I know the summer might feel infinite, but the school year is approaching quickly whether you’re prepared or not. Don’t let it sneak up on you and then struggle at the last minute to get all your stuff together. Buying new stuff for school might seem like a daunting task, but you can actually get a good amount of awesome tech gear for under $1,000. Today, I’ll go through a few categories you may be interested in and making a recommendation for each. We’ll look at laptops, tablets, e-readers, external hard drives, USB flash drives, headphones, and cameras. At the... Read the full article: All The Back To School Gear You’ll Need For Under $1000 |
| How To Survive Using An Old Android Phone With No Internal Memory Posted: 28 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Not enough internal memory error. Phone has stopped syncing automatically. Can’t install any new apps. Does this sound like your phone? What do you do to maintain your sanity when you realise that your choice of phones was very poor indeed? Well, besides wishing for an excuse to get a new phone, there are a few tricks you can use. The Problem Is A SEVERE Lack Of Internal Storage I’ve read numerous articles on how to free up space on your Android phone, and each of them made me laugh in a hollow, bitter kind of way. If you look... Read the full article: How To Survive Using An Old Android Phone With No Internal Memory |
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