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• Cool Websites and Tools – Securely Sending Files, Movie Recommendations, & Configuring Google Glass
• What Do Bing And Yahoo Have That Google Doesn’t?
• You Got Your Android In My Blackberry – How To Run Android Apps On Blackberry OS 10
• NVIDIA Releases Tegra Note – A $199 Powerful Android Tablet With Stylus
• What Are The Biggest Improvements In Android 4.2 and 4.3?
• Learn All About Virtual Private Servers In Two Minutes
• Tired Of Boring Selfies? 10 Instagram Gems You Don’t Want To Miss
• Earn Points With The New Evernote Referral Program By Referring Friends
• 7 Reasons To Return A Lost Phone
• Buying or Selling a Used iPhone or iPad Running iOS 7? Read This First!
• Diablo 3 For PC Vs. Console: Can The 360 And PS3 Match Up?
• Discover Who To Follow & Unfollow With The Unfollowers.me Android App
• It’s Official: BlackBerry Messenger Is Coming To Android And iOS This Weekend
• Want More YouTube Views? 5 Key Tips To Follow
• How to Fix Android’s Bad Performance and Awful Design

Cool Websites and Tools – Securely Sending Files, Movie Recommendations, & Configuring Google Glass Posted: 20 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT Send Files Securely – makes it secure and easy to send files. Choose from a free plan with no account registration to send and receive files or upgrade to a pro plan with added features. Files are securely transmitted using HTTPS, and securely stored with high-grade encryption (AES 256-bit). Copy your file’s unique link and email it to anyone. Movie Visor – What are you in the mood to watch right now? Movievisor helps you find something to fill your cravings. Give Movievisor the thumbs up or down, and it will customize its recommendations. Suggestions come from Netflix, Amazon Instant... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – Securely Sending Files, Movie Recommendations, & Configuring Google Glass

What Do Bing And Yahoo Have That Google Doesn’t? Posted: 20 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT While Google has everything that I personally need, it has its shortcomings when you compare it against some of the features Bing and Yahoo! have to offer. Even if you’re a Google supporter, knowing that it has competitors standing up and challenging it to improve, should make you happy. Without them, Google would look like a monopoly. Google isn’t perfect, and I’m here to tell you why. I was wondering to myself this week, “Why would anyone have their homepage or default search engine set as anything other than Google?” It’s the obvious choice, and anything that comes across as... Read the full article: What Do Bing And Yahoo Have That Google Doesn’t?

You Got Your Android In My Blackberry – How To Run Android Apps On Blackberry OS 10 Posted: 20 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT Blackberry Ltd. (formerly Research In Motion) recently launched Blackberry OS 10. It is the latest and greatest iteration of the legendary smartphone platform and brings to the table features that are sure to excite consumer and enterprise customers as well as win back some of the market share it lost with the advent of the iPhone. One such feature is the ability to run Android applications. Presently, it can run any application that runs on Android Gingerbread. However, the next version of the Blackberry 10 platform promise to have compatibility with anything that runs on Android 4.2 Jellybean. It’s not... Read the full article: You Got Your Android In My Blackberry – How To Run Android Apps On Blackberry OS 10

NVIDIA Releases Tegra Note – A $199 Powerful Android Tablet With Stylus Posted: 20 Sep 2013 01:30 PM PDT We have previously said that Tegra 4 is among the best technologies that will drive tablets in 2013 and NVIDIA wants to make sure it doesn’t become too high a price for most users. To that end, the chip-maker has launched the NVIDIA Tegra Note, a hardware and software platform for tablet manufacturers to come up with great quality tablets at a low price. In fact, NVIDIA expects the price to be as low as $199. Two salient features include a built-in stylus, specifically using NVIDIA’s DirectStylus technology for finer point and broader stroke control, coupled with specialized apps. The... Read the full article: NVIDIA Releases Tegra Note – A $199 Powerful Android Tablet With Stylus

What Are The Biggest Improvements In Android 4.2 and 4.3? Posted: 20 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT Whether or not you should upgrade to Android 4.2 or 4.3 really depends on your needs. These two upgrades both kept the Jelly Bean name mostly because they are subtle refinements of 4.1 Jelly Bean rather than revolutionary new launches on their own. That’s not to say that these releases aren’t worthwhile, only that they might not be 100% necessary for every user. So if you’re stuck on 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or 4.1 Jelly Bean, should you upgrade? Well, if your wireless carrier hasn’t pushed the update out to your phone by now, you’re probably out of luck by... Read the full article: What Are The Biggest Improvements In Android 4.2 and 4.3?

Learn All About Virtual Private Servers In Two Minutes Posted: 20 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT With so many great web hosting services available, it’s hard to decide the right one to suit your needs. Shared hosting, dedicated hosting, cloud hosting. VPS? If you’re new to web hosting and are looking to start your own website, going with a VPS is a smart long-term investment. But what is a Virtual Private Server, exactly? Click to enlarge. via Bluehost Read the full article: Learn All About Virtual Private Servers In Two Minutes

Tired Of Boring Selfies? 10 Instagram Gems You Don’t Want To Miss Posted: 20 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT Instagram: it’s the modern Polaroid. This little app has given us the same experience as older instant cameras before it, but it goes one step further — it allows us to immediately share our photos and videos with everyone we know regardless of where they are located. However, it’s not just family and friends who are using Instagram. Instagram has more than 100 million active users. How do you find the really awesome users to follow? The ones that upload photos that are actually worth your time? From technology and art to fashion and global travel, we’ve found a few unique accounts that offer slices of... Read the full article: Tired Of Boring Selfies? 10 Instagram Gems You Don’t Want To Miss

Earn Points With The New Evernote Referral Program By Referring Friends Posted: 20 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT Evernote is already one of the biggest, if not the biggest, names in the to-do lists and productivity industry and now they want more people to sign up for their service, by enlisting the help of existing members. To this end, they have introduced the Evernote Referral Program, where you can earn points for every person that signs up for Evernote, using your unique referral URL.  You can send the link out into the world via email, instant messaging, and social networks. Or there is a signup box on the Evernote website where you can enter the email addresses of... Read the full article: Earn Points With The New Evernote Referral Program By Referring Friends

7 Reasons To Return A Lost Phone Posted: 20 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT If you happen to find an expensive smartphone on the street, youll probably wonder what to do with it. In short: return it! Don’t allow yourself to get attached! Your mission is to re-unite the phone with its rightful owner. It’s the right thing to do, not just because it’s what you would want somebody to do if they found your fancy phone. And it’s what I did. The other day I found an iPhone on the street. It wasn’t hard to reach the owner. Lucky for me, the phone wasn’t locked and it contained plenty of contacts and recent... Read the full article: 7 Reasons To Return A Lost Phone

Buying or Selling a Used iPhone or iPad Running iOS 7? Read This First! Posted: 20 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT It’s no secret that iOS is a secure operating system, but Apple’s latest firmware update adds yet another level of protection for consumers. The popular Find My iPhone (also known as Find My iPad) service is getting an update, and one that can turn your device into an expensive brick in the wrong hands. While this has widely been viewed as a very good thing, users purchasing a used iPhone running iOS 7 now face another concern: purchasing a device they can never use. Here’s how Apple’s new activation lock works, and what to look for when buying or selling... Read the full article: Buying or Selling a Used iPhone or iPad Running iOS 7? Read This First!

Diablo 3 For PC Vs. Console: Can The 360 And PS3 Match Up? Posted: 20 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT The release of Diablo 3 for consoles was, to say the least unexpected; so much so that its announcement was actually a bit disappointing, as Blizzard’s appearance at an early Sony PlayStation 4 press conference seemed to hint an entirely new game. Predictably, porting one of the PC’s most beloved franchises to the console has caused a fair share of grumbling; diehard computer gamers have, as always, turned their noses up at the couch experience. But does this mean the console port is really sub-par, or is it just gaming elitism? Can this relatively new game run smoothly on hardware... Read the full article: Diablo 3 For PC Vs. Console: Can The 360 And PS3 Match Up?

Discover Who To Follow & Unfollow With The Unfollowers.me Android App Posted: 20 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT Oh no! Yesterday you had 68 followers on twitter, and today you have only 65! What happened? Why did someone unfollow you? Who did? And how are you going to make sure to unfollow back? These first-world problems may be amusing, but as much as you’d try to discount them, you can’t help but wonder. Even if you can help it, and don’t really care who unfollowed you, keeping a tidy Twitter account is important, and staying on top of who follows you (or doesn’t), who you follow (or don’t), and who you should be following, is an important part... Read the full article: Discover Who To Follow & Unfollow With The Unfollowers.me Android App

It’s Official: BlackBerry Messenger Is Coming To Android And iOS This Weekend Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT BlackBerry might have put itself up for sale, but the company is still fighting to stay relevant. The company announced that the popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service would be coming to Android and iOS in the summer, and now the dates have been revealed. The Android version will hit the Play Store for smartphones running Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean on Saturday, September 21, at 7PM EDT. The Android app will be free and it's unclear whether it will work on tablets. The iOS version will hit the App Store for iPhones running iOS 6 and iOS 7 from... Read the full article: It's Official: BlackBerry Messenger Is Coming To Android And iOS This Weekend

Want More YouTube Views? 5 Key Tips To Follow Posted: 20 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT Here's the situation: you’ve been putting out YouTube videos for a while now and you aren’t sure why your viewership hasn’t skyrocketed. It's not uncommon, and people ask how to increase video views all the time. Some people look at low viewer numbers and use that as an excuse to give up, but the fact that you’re reading this article right now says something about you — that you want to take matters into your own hands, and that's a good sign. When increasing viewership, there are two types of growth: viral growth, which explodes rapidly but also dwindles away... Read the full article: Want More YouTube Views? 5 Key Tips To Follow

How to Fix Android’s Bad Performance and Awful Design Posted: 20 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT Got a laggy Android device? There’s a fix for you out there, but it requires root access. While the latest version of Android (4.3) solves this bug, for the majority of users who won’t receive a firmware update, the free app LagFix could solve the problem. It’s no secret that Android lacks a lot of polish as an operating system. First, it doesn’t maintain itself very well. Over time apps slow to crawl. That’s because of a lack of TRIM implementation. The TRIM command, which Android failed to implement, allows solid state storage to maintain its original performance. Second, it... Read the full article: How to Fix Android's Bad Performance and Awful Design

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