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• Cool Websites & Tools – Tor Gateway, Online Sweepstakes, & Customized Keytags
• 3 Affordable Noise-Cancelling Headphones Every Student Should Consider
• What Is The Best Video Game To Play Online? [We Ask You]
• 6 Key Tips To Avoid Bricking Your Rooted Android Device
• Apple Reuse And Recycling Program Launches Across Apple Stores In The U.K.
• Buck The Trend: 5 Tips To Avoid Shopping Impulsively Online
• 200 Ways To Make Money Online
• What’s Google’s Shared Endorsements & How To Opt Out Right Now
• Flickr’s New Photo Page Super-Sizes Images, Looks Like Google+
• Finding Cheap Apps: How To Track Down Deals on Android Apps and Games
• Find Any Symbol You Can Dream Of And Then Some With These Apps
• Monitor Your Network and Watch Your Bandwidth With NetworkMiner
• 6 Flash Card Apps For Android, Compared: Which Is the Best?
• Is It Time To Give Yahoo A Second Chance?
• Ghost Launches Javascript-Based Blogging Platform As Simple Alternative To WordPress

Cool Websites & Tools – Tor Gateway, Online Sweepstakes, & Customized Keytags Posted: 16 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT GPS Map – With “GPS Map” you can search and bookmark your favorite locations. Search locations via address or GPS coordinates and save them. Send them to several map apps or share them with others. Map overlays from Google and OpenStreetMap are available. Tor2Web – is a gateway to Tor hidden services which provides convenient access to Tor hidden services. It is a pure proxy that forwards requests to the respective hidden service. We do not store any data and are not liable for the content. Onion.to as a gateway cannot offer any anonymity for the visitor. For example, both... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Tor Gateway, Online Sweepstakes, & Customized Keytags

3 Affordable Noise-Cancelling Headphones Every Student Should Consider Posted: 16 Oct 2013 02:30 PM PDT Noise-cancelling headphones can be just what you need in a plane to block out that low hum, or provide relief when the exams draw closer. And while the likes of Bose cost a bomb, there are some cool budget options to give you that comfort without breaking your wallet. Now, there are two types of noise cancellation: passive and active. Passive noise-cancelling headphones just seal your ears with enough padding to block out noise. Active noise cancellation involves the headphones emitting a nullifying pitch to negate incoming sound, thus letting you hear only what’s playing through headphones. Unlike $50 headphones,... Read the full article: 3 Affordable Noise-Cancelling Headphones Every Student Should Consider

What Is The Best Video Game To Play Online? [We Ask You] Posted: 16 Oct 2013 02:15 PM PDT The days of yore when you and a group of friends would plan a night in playing video games together while supping a few beers and ordering takeaway are now over, for the most part. Some of us still enjoy the old-skool delights of offline multiplayer sessions, and the Nintendo Wii certainly helped stave off the pastime’s demise for a few years. However, its days are numbered, whether you want to believe it or not. It’s all about the online multiplayer now, with people generally preferring to play strangers in dim and distant lands than friends sat next to them... Read the full article: What Is The Best Video Game To Play Online? [We Ask You]

6 Key Tips To Avoid Bricking Your Rooted Android Device Posted: 16 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT When you own a rooted Android phone running a custom ROM, you need to take some precautions or risk “bricking” (destroying) your device. While many methods can recover seriously bricked devices, it’s better to not place that kind of stress on yourself (and your device). Learn from my mistakes. After selling my beloved Nexus 4 on eBay, I needed to wipe my personal information off the phone. Unfortunately, using a toolkit to restore my device back to stock failed. Thankfully, based on recommendations from experts, I was able to fully restore my device. I also learned a few new things.... Read the full article: 6 Key Tips To Avoid Bricking Your Rooted Android Device

Apple Reuse And Recycling Program Launches Across Apple Stores In The U.K. Posted: 16 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT The new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C need more than one way to get into loyal hands. Apple has offered online trade-ins for three years but this is the first year they have opened up the in-store version of the program in the U.K. Now, you have the convenience of checking your phone’s value on the valuation website first, and then you can saunter along to an Apple Store. If you have an old Apple handset, you could save yourself some money, save the environment, and also walk out with a new iPhone 5S or 5C. An Apple spokesperson has... Read the full article: Apple Reuse And Recycling Program Launches Across Apple Stores In The U.K.

Buck The Trend: 5 Tips To Avoid Shopping Impulsively Online Posted: 16 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT Did you know that Amazon's developers have made it their goal such that any customer can visit the site and purchase an item within 30 seconds? Take a moment and really let that sink in. Never before has it been possible to go from "I want X" to "I bought X" in such a short time, especially from the comfort of your own home. This, of course, amplifies the problem of impulsive shopping. There's nothing inherently wrong with being an impulsive shopper. If you can afford it, then by all means go for it, but when impulsive shopping starts to... Read the full article: Buck The Trend: 5 Tips To Avoid Shopping Impulsively Online

200 Ways To Make Money Online Posted: 16 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT If you’ve decided you have what it takes to be a freelancer, and are willing to take the plunge, this infograph is for you. Designed by SurveySpencer, it’s lists over 200 ways to make money online: from blogging to affiliate marketing — all of the usual suspects. Sure, there may be a couple of errors in the infograph but the author’s knowledge on the subject matter more than makes up for it. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: 200 Ways To Make Money Online

What’s Google’s Shared Endorsements & How To Opt Out Right Now Posted: 16 Oct 2013 11:30 AM PDT Google’s at it again! This time, it’s changing the way it’s displaying its ads — a change that could very well get you involved without ever meaning to. The new ads are called “Shared Endorsements” and show just how private your online information really is. Hint: it isn’t. Are you ready for your face to appear in ads? What Are Shared Endorsements? As you probably know, most ads you see are personalized for you. Shared Endorsements are a new type of ad that makes the ads you see even more personalized and informative. For example, right now you might see... Read the full article: What’s Google’s Shared Endorsements & How To Opt Out Right Now

Flickr’s New Photo Page Super-Sizes Images, Looks Like Google+ Posted: 16 Oct 2013 11:15 AM PDT Flickr offers more than just photo-sharing, but that core feature is getting a lot of love from Yahoo. After giving 1TB of storage for all users, it’s now slowly rolling out a new Photo page for some of its users, which puts the focus on the images, similar to Google+. The new look turns the page into two panes, where the left is the photo, shown in the best possible resolution and at its largest size. The right is a sidebar (A) with all the information you would need about the image. (B): You can quickly share a photo on... Read the full article: Flickr’s New Photo Page Super-Sizes Images, Looks Like Google+

Finding Cheap Apps: How To Track Down Deals on Android Apps and Games Posted: 16 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT Everyone wants to save money, whether it’s on a cell phone bill, groceries, or just apps and games. Android developers regularly put apps on sale — or even make them free for a limited time — to get more attention. If you’re patient, this is the best time to buy apps you’re interested in and stock up on games to play, but Google Play doesn’t help you find these deals. Luckily, there are easy ways to find the latest and greatest apps and games on sale, monitor apps you want to buy for price drops, and get free apps every... Read the full article: Finding Cheap Apps: How To Track Down Deals on Android Apps and Games

Find Any Symbol You Can Dream Of And Then Some With These Apps Posted: 16 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT No one knows why, but symbols are fun. They’re like emoticons on steroids. While we mostly see the same three or four characters used over and over again, there are actually hundreds of characters and symbols out there. Using them will not only make you the coolest person ever while communicating with friends, it could even become an educational experience if you are interested in symbols. The website and the Android app below will help you discover and use more symbols than you’ve ever dreamed possible, on your computer as well as a smartphone. You really should try them out.... Read the full article: Find Any Symbol You Can Dream Of And Then Some With These Apps

Monitor Your Network and Watch Your Bandwidth With NetworkMiner Posted: 16 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT Have you ever found yourself waiting for your computer to download a YouTube video or a file that should normally take half the time to download? Where’s the bottleneck? Why are you paying so much for Internet if you can’t even have the bandwidth that you’ve paid for? This is a frustration that many people share, and its cause is not always simple to troubleshoot. Most often, people blame their own Internet service provider (ISP) or they might even consider checking whether there’s something wrong with their own router, but a lot of people don’t realize that it may be something... Read the full article: Monitor Your Network and Watch Your Bandwidth With NetworkMiner

6 Flash Card Apps For Android, Compared: Which Is the Best? Posted: 16 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT Flashcards are an incredibly useful tool for studying, but they aren’t always convenient to make and carry around; that’s where your smartphone comes in. Making flashcards on your Android device would be ideal: you probably have it with you most of the time, you’re not constrained by physical size limitations, you don’t have to worry about running out of notecards, and the right app could even throw in a few extra features to help you study. Best of all, using the correct spaced repetition software (SRS), these apps can even cut down your total studying time by only quizzing you... Read the full article: 6 Flash Card Apps For Android, Compared: Which Is the Best?

Is It Time To Give Yahoo A Second Chance? Posted: 16 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT From email and search giant to the butt of many jokes, Yahoo arguably had more downs than ups. Now that the company is experiencing something of a renaissance, is it time to Yahoo again? When I first started using the Internet in school, Yahoo was the web portal and search engine of choice. We’d chat for hours on their chat service, and only Hotmail’s integration with MSN Messenger trumped a Yahoo email address. Of late the company has been dusting off its repertoire, polishing old favourites and acquiring new blood – so maybe it’s time for the now-sans-serif Yahoo to... Read the full article: Is It Time To Give Yahoo A Second Chance?

Ghost Launches Javascript-Based Blogging Platform As Simple Alternative To WordPress Posted: 16 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT WordPress is more than just a blogging platform and that's fantastic. But developer John O'Nolan wanted something simpler — he wanted “just a blogging platform”. And so he created Ghost, building it entirely on Javascript. "Like a ghost writer, Ghost is your ghost publisher. It does the hard work anonymously, getting your content online so you can focus on the most important things: Your ideas. Your content," O'Nolan says. Now, Ghost.org is ready to let you sign up and download the new platform, which you can then install on your server. You can't currently host a blog on Ghost.org, but... Read the full article: Ghost Launches Javascript-Based Blogging Platform As Simple Alternative To WordPress

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