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• Cool Websites and Tools – Counterfeit Goods, Apartment Finding, & Johnny Cash
• 5 Reasons Your Site Isn’t Successful
• Three Marvelous PC Cooling Technologies That You’ve Never Heard Of
• Yahoo Moves Ahead On The Revival Road With The New Yahoo Maps
• 7 Ways To Make A Google Map Using Google Spreadsheet Data
• PS4, Xbox One, or Wii U: Which Console Should You Buy?
• How To Automate Your iPhone To Adapt To Your Routine
• Pinterest Rolls Out Article Pins For “Read it later” And Starts Promoted Pins
• 5 Tips to Resolve Your Tablet’s Touchscreen Problems
• Be Your Own Travel Guide: 7 Tips To Travel Smarter With Google Maps
• VNC, SSH and HDMI: Three Options for Viewing Your Raspberry Pi
• Evernote’s New Web Clipper Is The Ultimate Content Saving Tool
• 3 League Of Legends Champions You Will Want To Be Playing
• How To Use Learnist To Effectively Organize Your Learning & Teaching
• Sold Launches On Android, Makes Selling Your Stuff Super Easy

Cool Websites and Tools – Counterfeit Goods, Apartment Finding, & Johnny Cash Posted: 26 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT The Counterfeit Report – publishes counterfeit product information received from various sources – consumers, government agencies, subject matter experts and manufacturers providing sufficient content for publication. Registered manufacturers can directly manage and instantly update their own listings and content. The Counterfeit Report can prepare and manage your product content, and maintain your global company presence on The Counterfeit Report. Urban Compass – is a site to find an apartment in New York City. Urban Compass has details on 3,348 apartments, and when you find a place through the site, the fee is much less than a typical NYC broker’s fee.... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – Counterfeit Goods, Apartment Finding, & Johnny Cash

5 Reasons Your Site Isn’t Successful Posted: 26 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but your website sucks. Here’s why. WordPress and other free blogging platforms have ensured that anyone can start a website; but making a successful one is another question entirely. We’ve already covered 10 essential first steps to take with WordPress, some ideas on how you can go about making your site popular, and how to blog with for search engines without becoming a content mill. Today I wanted to tackle it from the other side: some reasons why your site might not be doing so well at the moment. We get a lot of... Read the full article: 5 Reasons Your Site Isn’t Successful

Three Marvelous PC Cooling Technologies That You’ve Never Heard Of Posted: 26 Sep 2013 01:30 PM PDT New PC cooling technologies use almost no energy and employ methods 50 times more efficient than conventional designs. Some come in a form factor as thin as cardboard. Others look like a hockey-puck. Unfortunately, of the many technologies promised by the Internet, few actually come to fruition. We call it “vaporware” when gadgets fail to materialize. While hitting CPU speeds over 5 GHz on air may soon exist, right now these technologies don’t appear anywhere, outside a laboratory. For whatever reason, the following three technologies failed to make it to market. Although their manufacturers produced them in prototype form, they never entered mass... Read the full article: Three Marvelous PC Cooling Technologies That You’ve Never Heard Of

Yahoo Moves Ahead On The Revival Road With The New Yahoo Maps Posted: 26 Sep 2013 01:15 PM PDT The last few months has seen Yahoo grabbing news headlines with a flurry of product re-designs and revamps. The latest – Yahoo Maps. A refreshed Yahoo Maps for the desktop comes to U.S. users. The new Yahoo Maps comes with a slew of new features and more interactivity, but missing an equivalent mobile app so far. The refreshing new design makes it more consistent with the design tweaks on other Yahoo properties. Key new features include pedestrian and public transit routes. Map users can enter an origin and destination point, and track the route as either a pedestrian, a driver... Read the full article: Yahoo Moves Ahead On The Revival Road With The New Yahoo Maps

7 Ways To Make A Google Map Using Google Spreadsheet Data Posted: 26 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT If you maintain a lot of data in Google Spreadsheet, you’ve probably at least once thought, “Hey, I should be able to get all those locations and quickly plot them in a Google Map”. Well, you can of course. But doing this is not quite as obvious as you might expect. With Google writing both the spreadsheet and the map-making software, there should be several easy ways to do this. You’d expect to see a File > Export as Map option or a File > Download as KML. But no, there’s nothing like that. What you soon realise is there... Read the full article: 7 Ways To Make A Google Map Using Google Spreadsheet Data

PS4, Xbox One, or Wii U: Which Console Should You Buy? Posted: 26 Sep 2013 12:15 PM PDT What makes the PlayStation so popular? What’s new in the Xbox One? Between the PS4, Xbox One and Wii U, which is the highest performance gaming console? To answer these burning questions, Graphs.Net designed the following infograph, and yes, we realise that they inserted an image of the original Xbox console. Let’s get past it already. Whether or not this infograph is useful is really up to you. So is it? Image credit: Creativity103 Read the full article: PS4, Xbox One, or Wii U: Which Console Should You Buy?

How To Automate Your iPhone To Adapt To Your Routine Posted: 26 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT The apps and tips on offer for automating your iPhone are not as robust as applications like Keyboard Maestro and Hazel for automating tasks on your Mac, but there are some iPhone features and apps that can help you in your daily routine if you take the time to set them up. You don’t need to jailbreak in order to automate tasks, but instead you will need to figure out what your automation needs are before deciding which features and apps can assist you. Alarm Clock Your morning routine starts with a wake-up alarm, and you probably know that the... Read the full article: How To Automate Your iPhone To Adapt To Your Routine

Pinterest Rolls Out Article Pins For “Read it later” And Starts Promoted Pins Posted: 26 Sep 2013 11:15 AM PDT Social bookmarking site Pinterest has been slowly changing its avatar. After rolling out a new design a few months ago and adding price alerts, it’s now stepping into the ‘read it later’ game — an obvious move given its bookmarking capabilities. Additionally, it’s also experimenting with promoted pins to monetize the site. “Lots of people use Pinterest to discover and collect great articles. In fact, more than 5 million articles are pinned every day,” the company said in a blog post. The new Article pins will have more information about the piece, such as the headline, author, story description and... Read the full article: Pinterest Rolls Out Article Pins For “Read it later” And Starts Promoted Pins

5 Tips to Resolve Your Tablet’s Touchscreen Problems Posted: 26 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT We’ve all been there. Tapping, swiping or zoom-pinching, there’s often a moment when the touchscreen display on your tablet refuses to respond. How do you overcome this, and achieve tablet-tapping Zen? Why Your Tablet Touchscreen Doesn’t Respond As the primary mode of interaction between you and your apps, the tablet touchscreen is vitally important. Any damage inflicted – be it knocks to the device, scratches or worse – will degrade the reliability of the component, and short of paying for a replacement screen and digitiser, you will need to make sure the display is kept safe and intact at all... Read the full article: 5 Tips to Resolve Your Tablet’s Touchscreen Problems

Be Your Own Travel Guide: 7 Tips To Travel Smarter With Google Maps Posted: 26 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT Going on a trip can be such a stressful experience. There are hotel reservations to make, restaurant reservations to place, activities to plan out, and tickets to buy. What if you forget something, or you discover that the place you wanted to visit for your dream vacation falls far short of being anything anyone would describe as a dream? I do recall a time when people planned out road trips using paper maps. In fact, I still have memories of my dad staying up late the night before a trip, and tracing out the whole route in pencil on a... Read the full article: Be Your Own Travel Guide: 7 Tips To Travel Smarter With Google Maps

VNC, SSH and HDMI: Three Options for Viewing Your Raspberry Pi Posted: 26 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT The Raspberry Pi is a remarkable little computer, but it can be time consuming to set it up and connect it to your monitor. Fortunately, there are three time-saving methods that you can use to set the Raspberry Pi up and either leave it switched on or boot it up and not have to mess around with HDMI or ethernet cables. The Three Stages Of Raspberry Pi Access When I first received my Raspberry Pi, I began by sharing the HDMI cable from my cable box in order to display the command line, desktop or whatever project I was running... Read the full article: VNC, SSH and HDMI: Three Options for Viewing Your Raspberry Pi

Evernote’s New Web Clipper Is The Ultimate Content Saving Tool Posted: 26 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT Evernote’s Web Clipper isn’t new, especially if you’re an avid user of Evernote. But if you haven’t heard, or perhaps didn’t like the Evernote clipper in the past, this is the right time to look into it again, as they’ve completely redone its look and added new features that make it better. Sometimes “upgrades” aren’t really upgrades, and instead just add bloat to an application or extension, but that’s not the case with the upgrades Evernote made to their Web Clipper recently. To put it simply, it’s magnificent. Also, before this big upgrade, they also made a smaller, but very... Read the full article: Evernote’s New Web Clipper Is The Ultimate Content Saving Tool

3 League Of Legends Champions You Will Want To Be Playing Posted: 26 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT With September and October coming up as the biggest months in competitive League of Legends history, it’s time for you to get interested! It’s the biggest online game in the world, and there are too many reasons to be excited about League of Legends. Games are relatively short and filled with action. Each game is a completely new experience. The skill cap is immense. The game’s development is incredibly active, and the meta is always changing. League of Legends is a game that is completely alive and always improving. Including more than 100 Champions, everyone finds a few that they... Read the full article: 3 League Of Legends Champions You Will Want To Be Playing

How To Use Learnist To Effectively Organize Your Learning & Teaching Posted: 26 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT Styrofoam sheets, chart paper, cutouts, glue, and lots of patience. That was a learning board when we were growing up. Learnist is a learning board for the digital age. The web application itself describes a "learn board" as a "set of learnings organized as a series of steps for people to learn." You can also look at a  learning board as a container for any content that helps you understand things you are interested in. On the web, there's a glut of content that can add to your education. Learnist is a Pinterest styled curation tool for educational content. Creative... Read the full article: How To Use Learnist To Effectively Organize Your Learning & Teaching

Sold Launches On Android, Makes Selling Your Stuff Super Easy Posted: 26 Sep 2013 08:15 AM PDT Sold landed on the Play Store this Tuesday, about five months after its debut on iOS. The app aims to make it as easy as possible for you to sell your gadgets. They list your items for sale, find a buyer, then ship a pre-paid, pre-insured, tracked, bubble wrap-filled box to your house. All you have to do is pack your items inside and send it back. They currently deal mostly with electronics — smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc. — but they also sell handbags, watches, shoes, sunglasses, and could expand to more products in the future. Their system is different from other... Read the full article: Sold Launches On Android, Makes Selling Your Stuff Super Easy

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