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- Cool Websites and Tools – September 5th 2013 – Social Media Privacy, Math Instruction, & Interactive Study Notes
- Three Wireless Display Technologies That You Probably Own But Don’t Use
- Android KitKat? Give Me A Break!
- Sing At Your Desk with These 4 Lyrics Apps for iTunes on OS X
- Ooops! 10 Common User Errors & How To Fix Them In Windows 8
- Search For Tweets Since The Beginning Of Twitter With Topsy
- 4 Ways To Find Classic Video Games For Below Market Value
- What is Apple’s Fusion Drive & How Does It Work?
- Spruce Up Your Website With These 12 Beautiful Google Web Fonts
- Amazon Soon To Offer Free & Discounted Ebooks Of Hard Copies Purchased Through Its Site
- Quickly Install Google’s Web Fonts On Your Linux Computer
- Should You Allow Comments on Your Site? The Pros and Cons
- 4 Hidden Gems From The Game Boy, Nintendo’s Original Portable Console
- How To Be An Online Entrepreneur With Thrift Store Shopping On eBay
- Rikomagic MK802 IV and MK812A RK3188 Android Smart Mini PC Review and Giveaway
| Posted: 05 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including creating your own Twitter bootstrap theme, two sites that deal with maintaining your privacy in the social media world, math instruction for students, and an interactive study notes service. Read on below! Bootstrap Magic – allows you to easily create your own Twitter Bootstrap theme. See instantly what you are changing on the content. Import your own variables and CSS. Get the colors that you love with Colorpicker. Add awesome webfonts from Google Webfonts. Ready Or Not – This app shows how people could use... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – September 5th 2013 – Social Media Privacy, Math Instruction, & Interactive Study Notes |
| Three Wireless Display Technologies That You Probably Own But Don’t Use Posted: 05 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Want to relay your smartphone’s or laptop’s display onto a larger screen without wires? No, it’s not science fiction. You can wirelessly output video from computers and smartphones today. Wireless display technologies use WiFi to output video to compatible adapters. You only need a display adapter, which connects to a monitor and a WiDI or Miracast compatible device. Most modern devices are compatible with the technology. There’s also Apple’s proprietary technology, AirPlay. Noticing wireless display technology on all my devices, I recently set up a Miracast adapter. This article summarizes my experience. While setup doesn’t require much effort, it can... Read the full article: Three Wireless Display Technologies That You Probably Own But Don't Use |
| Android KitKat? Give Me A Break! Posted: 05 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT  As unbelievable as it sounds, it’s true — the next version of Google Android’s operating system is nicknamed KitKat. That’s Nestle’s KitKat. Surely it’s receiving its fair share of mockery. Remember when Apple announced the iPad? Anyways, here’s a collection of Android 4.4, KitKat-related media. With 2 mega-bites, 4 megabites, or a chunky-bit option… we’ve got you covered Image credit: Nestlé’s photostream Read the full article: Android KitKat? Give Me A Break! |
| Sing At Your Desk with These 4 Lyrics Apps for iTunes on OS X Posted: 05 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT  "He who sings scares away his woes." - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. This isn’t just some random quote I thought might be appropriate – well it is, but it’s also scientific fact! Whether it’s part of a choir or in front of your PC, singing releases endorphins – otherwise known as the happy chemicals. Don’t embarrass yourself in front of strangers at a Karaoke bar though – do it in the privacy of your own office (when you’re supposed to be working). It’s surprisingly therapeutic. The problem of course is that unless you’ve listened to the song so many times you... Read the full article: Sing At Your Desk with These 4 Lyrics Apps for iTunes on OS X |
| Ooops! 10 Common User Errors & How To Fix Them In Windows 8 Posted: 05 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Try as it might to be an easy-to-use, simplified operating system for tablets and other consumption devices, Windows 8 is still Windows at heart. If you’re using Windows 8′s desktop, you’ll still be facing many of the issues you faced on previous versions of Windows. It’s possible to delete files, fill your computer’s system tray with startup programs, and experience other Windows system issues. We’ll cover some common problems users will face and how to fix them on Windows 8. Some of these tricks may work on previous versions of Windows, but Windows 8 adds many new tools to help... Read the full article: Ooops! 10 Common User Errors & How To Fix Them In Windows 8 |
| Search For Tweets Since The Beginning Of Twitter With Topsy Posted: 05 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT  The little banner placed just under the Topsy search box says it all – all tweets since 2006. That's the year Twitter started, and now Topsy, the social analytics company gives you the ability to use it to search all tweets since the beginning of Twitter time. The ability to sift and search through an index of 540 billion tweets is an exceptional tool because Twitter's real time conversation has become a huge storehouse of knowledge. It is doubly important because Twitter's own search still leaves a lot to be desired. Type in your query into the search box and... Read the full article: Search For Tweets Since The Beginning Of Twitter With Topsy |
| 4 Ways To Find Classic Video Games For Below Market Value Posted: 05 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Classic video games are usually popular because they're the best examples of their era, so it's little surprise that gamers flock towards these titles. But even the best games, unlike books and movies, eventually go out of print as old hardware is replaced by the new. Once the last copy is sold, that’s it, game over. This creates a vibrant and expensive trade in classic games of yesterday. Titles that are considered classics, but didn’t sell well at their initial release, are notorious for skyrocketing prices. Gamers on a budget must look on in dismay as games over a decade... Read the full article: 4 Ways To Find Classic Video Games For Below Market Value |
| What is Apple’s Fusion Drive & How Does It Work? Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:45 AM PDT  Solid state drives are awesome. Once you’ve had one, you’ll never want to go back to relying on sluggish hard drive platters and delicate moving parts again. The only snag is that solid state storage is still prohibitively expensive for storing lots of data. While a 256GB or 512GB SSD might be fine for your oft-used apps, OS and local documents; when it comes to terabytes of movies, music and photos an SSD is not a cost effective option. The days of cheap SSD storage are probably not that far away, but for the moment Apple has come up with... Read the full article: What is Apple’s Fusion Drive & How Does It Work? |
| Spruce Up Your Website With These 12 Beautiful Google Web Fonts Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Over the past decade, I’ve started a number of personal blogs that I never really followed through with, but some of my fondest memories rest on theme design and font tweaks. There's something satisfying when you find that perfect match of fonts for your website and everything falls into place. Thankfully, with Google Web Fonts, that whole process has never been easier. So which Google Web Fonts should you use? Well, you can use any of the fonts in the Google Web Fonts directory, which currently houses over 600 different fonts — and that number continues to grow. But some... Read the full article: Spruce Up Your Website With These 12 Beautiful Google Web Fonts |
| Amazon Soon To Offer Free & Discounted Ebooks Of Hard Copies Purchased Through Its Site Posted: 05 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT  Do you have crates upon crates of dusty old books that you just wish could be on your Kindle? Good news! Amazon announced on Tuesday that it will soon launch Matchbook, a program that allows users to receive digital versions of books that they already own at free or discounted rates. The program will offer 10,000 titles upon its release, and more books are expected to roll out over time. Publishers hold the responsibility of providing the digital rights and prices for items in the program (which range from free, $0.99, $1.99, or $2.99). There is no age limit or... Read the full article: Amazon Soon To Offer Free & Discounted Ebooks Of Hard Copies Purchased Through Its Site |
| Quickly Install Google’s Web Fonts On Your Linux Computer Posted: 05 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT  Browse and install any of Google’s fonts, quickly. TypeCatcher is a free Linux app that lets you easily explore a large collect of open source fonts, then instantly install them. Longtime users know how to get Mac and Windows fonts in Linux, but probably yearn for a high-quality collection of open source fonts to use in publishing projects. Happily, one of Google’s lesser-known services, Google Fonts, is arguably the best such collection on the web. Collected by Google to offer more fonts to web designers – who can, for example, use these fonts on any WordPress site – the project... Read the full article: Quickly Install Google’s Web Fonts On Your Linux Computer |
| Should You Allow Comments on Your Site? The Pros and Cons Posted: 05 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT  We recently reviewed a new blogging platform, Roon, which brings a minimalist and easy-to-use experience to people who need nothing more than a place to share their thoughts and images. Something else Roon brings, however, is a slightly different approach to time-honored blogging feature: Roon doesn’t include comments. Roon is not the only blogging platform that disabled comments for its users – the Twitter founders’ new blogging platform Medium also removes this feature. Some bloggers may look at that as a deal-breaker, taking platforms like Roon and Medium out of the running as potential options, while others welcome the approach. We’ve decided... Read the full article: Should You Allow Comments on Your Site? The Pros and Cons |
| 4 Hidden Gems From The Game Boy, Nintendo’s Original Portable Console Posted: 05 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT  With all the talk about the DS lately, and with Nintendo announcing a baffling spin-off called the 2DS, I thought it was time we took a look back at where Nintendo’s handheld dominance actually began — with the Game Boy. Nintendo released tons of games on the system, the most popular of which are certainly the Pokemon games. However, the portable console has a massive library, and far too many games were overlooked by players. Today, we are going to take a look at some of those hidden gems. Whether you are a collector, or just a fan of good... Read the full article: 4 Hidden Gems From The Game Boy, Nintendo’s Original Portable Console |
| How To Be An Online Entrepreneur With Thrift Store Shopping On eBay Posted: 05 Sep 2013 06:00 AM PDT  Macklemore may go thrift shopping just for the clothes, but that doesn’t mean you have to. With eBay, you can turn yourself into an online entrepreneur by flipping items you can find nearly anywhere — online or offline. Best of all, it’s pretty darn easy to do, and this means you can turn your weekend thrift store outings into a profitable hobby. We can’t guarantee that you’ll make tons of money as a thrift store shopper — after all, most at-home money-making “opportunities” are scams. But we can tell you that this is a valid way to make some extra cash. Just not a... Read the full article: How To Be An Online Entrepreneur With Thrift Store Shopping On eBay |
| Rikomagic MK802 IV and MK812A RK3188 Android Smart Mini PC Review and Giveaway Posted: 05 Sep 2013 05:20 AM PDT  A complete Android system for your TV – not a Chromecast, not an adapter for your phone – no additional hardware required. Android “TV sticks” are mini computers running Android. They have no screen, instead they output directly through HDMI to your HD television. They’re pretty powerful little machines – the equivalent of a mid-range Android tablet – and easily outgun a Raspberry Pi for only a few more pennies. There’s a wealth of existing Android apps to choose from – so is it worth getting one, and precisely what can you do with them? Today we put two on... Read the full article: Rikomagic MK802 IV and MK812A RK3188 Android Smart Mini PC Review and Giveaway |
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