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- 4 Easy Ways To Know If You’re On A 64-Bit Version Of Windows
- Pinterest Adds New Price Alerts To Benefit Users [Updates]
- Imgur Finally Comes to the iPhone and iPad [Updates]
- Did You Know Facebook & Twitter Have Keyboard Shortcuts Too? Get Socially Productive, Learn Them All!
- Advanced Linux Text Editors Compared: kate vs gedit
- Twitter Improves Search With Social Context, People, And Photos [Updates]
- The Evolution of Gaming Consoles (1969 – 2013)
| 4 Easy Ways To Know If You’re On A 64-Bit Version Of Windows Posted: 03 Aug 2013 07:30 PM PDT  Are you using a processor that supports a 64-bit operating system? If so, are you using a 64-bit operating system? The average off-and-on PC user probably doesn’t know the answers to these questions, although they should! The 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems offer many advantages, for example practically unlimited RAM. In the 64-bit variant, Windows also offers digital signing of drivers, which means you won’t be crashing nearly as much. We’ve put out an article on the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows, and some are extremely important. All of this information and more can be extremely important... Read the full article: 4 Easy Ways To Know If You’re On A 64-Bit Version Of Windows |
| Pinterest Adds New Price Alerts To Benefit Users [Updates] Posted: 03 Aug 2013 06:00 PM PDT  Pinterest launched a new feature on Thursday that will help users take a step towards actually purchasing the items they see: price alerts. Pinterest has long served the Internet community’s place for virtual window-shopping. Typically, users pin items that they hope to have but may never even buy at all. Coming shortly after the release of Pinterest’s “pin price” feature which allows users to see the current price of their pinned items, the new price alerts help users keep up with price changes for items that they have set their sights on. Users can activate price alerts simply by pinning items to one... Read the full article: Pinterest Adds New Price Alerts To Benefit Users [Updates] |
| Imgur Finally Comes to the iPhone and iPad [Updates] Posted: 03 Aug 2013 04:30 PM PDT  The developers of the video and image sharing site, Imgur released last Thursday their iPhone and iPad mobile apps. The Imgur free iOS app is similar to the Imgur Android app released earlier this year. Imgur (pronounced im-ij-er) allows you to browse the most viral images on the Internet, and vote and comment on them. Most of the displayed images are funny, cartoonish, entertaining, and sometimes insightful. Content can be browsed by Most Viral, or by the most recent posts. You can also view a random display of images, or do a SubReddit search of a topic you’re interested in. Selected... Read the full article: Imgur Finally Comes to the iPhone and iPad [Updates] |
| Posted: 03 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT  Stop using your mouse like a sucker. Get more out of Facebook and Twitter by learning their keyboard shortcuts. It’s something longtime computer users have known for years: keyboard shortcuts make everything faster. It’s true for text editing, it’s true for using accent marks and it’s true for Gmail users. But it turns out these time-saving gestures can also help you with your time wasting, by turning you into the ultimate Facebook and Twitter ninja. Think about it: what if you could browse your Facebook news feed, like posts and leave comments all without touching your mouse? Or explore your... Read the full article: Did You Know Facebook & Twitter Have Keyboard Shortcuts Too? Get Socially Productive, Learn Them All! |
| Advanced Linux Text Editors Compared: kate vs gedit Posted: 03 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Any Linux user will tell you that a good text editor is a vital component of a computer system, no matter if you’re a new user or a seasoned pro. While using a Terminal text editor (like nano or vim) is equally important, you might as well make use of your graphical desktop environment whenever it’s available to you. kate, KDE‘s default text editor, and gedit, Gnome‘s default text editor, are powerful tools that can get the job done and then some. However, if you’re making the all-important decision of which desktop environment you want to use, taking a look... Read the full article: Advanced Linux Text Editors Compared: kate vs gedit |
| Twitter Improves Search With Social Context, People, And Photos [Updates] Posted: 03 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Twitter has just improved the way we search on the microblog by giving us additional filters and what it calls “a social context”. The new search is a smart makeover, with suggested results revealing the relationship between the user and the other suggested accounts in the results. Twitter calls it "social context". Photos and accounts have also been brought in as search filters in the other significant changes. With the search improvements, users get to enjoy the same experience on their desktop and searching Twitter on mobiles. Search is becoming more visual all around, and it is moving away from... Read the full article: Twitter Improves Search With Social Context, People, And Photos [Updates] |
| The Evolution of Gaming Consoles (1969 – 2013) Posted: 03 Aug 2013 09:20 AM PDT  Did you know that the very first gaming console to make use of a CD-ROM was released in 1987? Do you know what it was called? What’s the best selling gaming console in history? Which was the first gaming console to feature full-colour output, sound and cartridge-based games? Look for the answers in this detailed and interesting infograph on the evolution of gaming consoles! How many of these gaming consoles have you owned? Click to enlarge. via OnlineGameDesignSchools.org Read the full article: The Evolution of Gaming Consoles (1969 – 2013) |
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