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• Cool Websites & Tools – Get Things From Overseas, Vote On Polls, & Generate Uplifting Videos
• Android Apps on Sale for 26 November: Cut The Rope HD, Spirits, Plex, and More
• 8 Facebook Groups You Should Join Or Create Today [Weekly Facebook Tips]
• These 5 People Got Really Famous Just By Using Twitter
• Stunwall & PhotoMania: Two Stunningly Simple Image Editors You Need To Try
• How To Print To PDF From Windows 8 Desktop & Modern Apps
• Superheroes and Technology: An Interesting Combination
• 4 Lesser-Known NES Platformers You Should Go Back And Play
• Everybody Hates Google+ [We Ask You Results]
• From Boys To Men: 4 Subreddits All Guys Should Read
• Twitter Sets Up Survey Site Birdsignals In The UK & Asks For Feedback On Its Service
• 6 Uses For An Old Laser Pointer
• Watch Entire YouTube Playlists In VLC, Here’s How
• Eric Schmidt Uses Google+ To Show How To Switch From iPhone To Android
• 5 Ways to Ruggedise Your Raspberry Pi

Cool Websites & Tools – Get Things From Overseas, Vote On Polls, & Generate Uplifting Videos Posted: 26 Nov 2013 03:30 PM PST GoalieGoals – is a free web application designed to help you create, manage, and achieve SMART goals. It allows you to quickly determine if you are on track to meet your goals. Additionally, it allows you to see how far ahead or behind you are on achieving goals. This kind of instant visual feedback is critical to helping you stay motivated and be successful. Teleporti – is a world community of people helping each other get things from abroad. Whether you immigrated from your home country or just traveled once and miss something that you can’t find where you live,... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Get Things From Overseas, Vote On Polls, & Generate Uplifting Videos

Android Apps on Sale for 26 November: Cut The Rope HD, Spirits, Plex, and More Posted: 26 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST Each week we scour current Google Play promotions and cherry-pick the best of the best. This week, all-time favorite Cut the Rope HD is on sale, as well as indie hit Spirits, a great real-time strategy game, and more. Because app sales are temporary affairs, by the time you read this, these may no longer be on sale. Worry not: Simply check back next week for some more Android deals! Apps Plex for Android, ($5, now $2) Dramatic video soundtrack aside, Plex is basically a media powerhouse for your Android device. We’ve actually have a whole guide dedicated to Plex... Read the full article: Android Apps on Sale for 26 November: Cut The Rope HD, Spirits, Plex, and More

8 Facebook Groups You Should Join Or Create Today [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 26 Nov 2013 02:30 PM PST Regular Facebook users have a pretty good handle on how to make the best of their home feed. Most of you know how to filter with friends lists, filter using topics, hide things you don’t want to see and other useful things that make Facebook perfect while you procrastinate. Not everyone seems to know much about groups, though. More specifically, why groups are useful and what you can do with them to make your life better. So today we’ll take you through some of the best group ideas, so you know what you should look for, what you should create... Read the full article: 8 Facebook Groups You Should Join Or Create Today [Weekly Facebook Tips]

These 5 People Got Really Famous Just By Using Twitter Posted: 26 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST Twitter has become one of the first places to go to find out, first hand, what your favourite celebrities are up to. In fact, we’ve put together a list of celebrities and inspirational entrepreneurs you really should follow on Twitter. But what if you switched things around a bit? While there’s a ton of celebs who got famous and then made their way onto Twitter, there’s a few who did it the other way around. They got on Twitter, and then got famous. For some it was serendipity — users who were in the right place in the right time and live-tweeted a significant... Read the full article: These 5 People Got Really Famous Just By Using Twitter

Stunwall & PhotoMania: Two Stunningly Simple Image Editors You Need To Try Posted: 26 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST These days, you can edit photos absolutely anywhere. On your computer, in your browser, on your phone, and on your tablet. Everything’s possible. Editing photos in your browser is one of the simplest and easiest ways to go, and there are tons of tools out there to try. I’ve recently found two online image editors that stand out from the crowd. One offering heaps of options for free, one that is refreshingly basic. Curious? Give them both a try. PhotoMania Before getting started, you should know that PhotoMania is still in beta, and is therefore missing basic features such as... Read the full article: Stunwall & PhotoMania: Two Stunningly Simple Image Editors You Need To Try

How To Print To PDF From Windows 8 Desktop & Modern Apps Posted: 26 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST To this day, not a single version of Windows has come with native Print-To-PDF support, not even Windows 8. Microsoft once had ambitions to create a PDF alternative and has thus been holding on to its Open XML Paper Specificaion format (XPS). That’s why every Windows release since Vista has come with an XPS printer. Fortunately, you can install third-party PDF printers and print to PDF in every version of Windows. This article demonstrates how you can print from Windows 8 desktop and modern apps. Why You Should Print To PDF PDF is a standard and cross-platform document format. You... Read the full article: How To Print To PDF From Windows 8 Desktop & Modern Apps

Superheroes and Technology: An Interesting Combination Posted: 26 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST Superheroes and technology — now there’s a gag that never gets old. We’ve joked about superheroes on Instagram, and dabbled with the idea of the Avengers hanging out on Facebook. For illustrator Ed Shems, the thought never even occurred to him, yet these are the funniest superheroes-using-technology parodies around. If you like these drawings and would like to own a copy, some of them are available on Etsy. Read the full article: Superheroes and Technology: An Interesting Combination

4 Lesser-Known NES Platformers You Should Go Back And Play Posted: 26 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST When people think of games that involve navigating through a level by jumping and exploring on the NES, a few games likely come to mind: Mario, Kid Icarus, Kirby, and a few others. However, with the incredible popularity of the genre at the time, there were some platformers that came out and flew under the radar. Even though the games are a little harder to come by today, they are still worth experiencing. Without further delay, check out these lesser-known NES platformers that you really should go back and play. Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers Chip and Dale is based... Read the full article: 4 Lesser-Known NES Platformers You Should Go Back And Play

Everybody Hates Google+ [We Ask You Results] Posted: 26 Nov 2013 10:30 AM PST The YouTube comments system recently underwent a huge change, with Google, in its infinite wisdom, deciding to use Google+ as the means by which everyone can comment on the most popular video-sharing site on the Internet. This change went down about as well as could be expected (hint: not well at all). Then came the impassioned pleas for a reversal of the decision, a petition signed by hundreds of thousands of people asking Google to reconsider, lots of anti-Google videos posted to YouTube itself, and comments registering distaste for the change using the very medium which was being hated on.... Read the full article: Everybody Hates Google+ [We Ask You Results]

From Boys To Men: 4 Subreddits All Guys Should Read Posted: 26 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST Physical appearances matter. Ideally they wouldn’t but the cold truth is that human beings tend to make snap judgments about everything based on first impressions — and it feels wrong to do so. “The inside is more important than the outside,” right? Well, our physical appearances actually say a lot about us and it’s important that we don't neglect that aspect of our humanity. Not that physical beauty is an indicator of moral purity or personality — no one should ever judge another person’s worth as a human being based on their outer skin. But at the same time, that... Read the full article: From Boys To Men: 4 Subreddits All Guys Should Read

Twitter Sets Up Survey Site Birdsignals In The UK & Asks For Feedback On Its Service Posted: 26 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST Twitter has launched a separate website called #Birdsignals which aims to solicit user feedback on its service. The online research community is for Twitter's UK users only, but it is significant because the microblogging site is taking a different sort of community-reliant approach to better its service. If you are in the UK, you can consider signing up because your opinion could have a hand in improving the service for the rest of the world. The homepage does not say much, except giving a two-line statement on its intent – #birdsignals directly informs Twitter on what people think about its... Read the full article: Twitter Sets Up Survey Site Birdsignals In The UK & Asks For Feedback On Its Service

6 Uses For An Old Laser Pointer Posted: 26 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST “My cat needs one.”  ”I have some balloons that need popping.”  ”Look! It’s green!”  – these are all perfectly legitimate reasons for buying a laser pointer. But what to do when you’re bored of pointing at things? Never fear: I have answers. Here are 6 things do with a laser pointer once you’re all pointed out. Safety First Laser pointers are generally less than 5 mW, but a laser of any power can cause damage to optic nerves if viewed directly for a prolonged period of time. Catching a brief glimpse of the beam is not dangerous at these powers. In... Read the full article: 6 Uses For An Old Laser Pointer

Watch Entire YouTube Playlists In VLC, Here’s How Posted: 26 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST Do you love YouTube playlists, but wish you could watch them outside your browser? You can use VLC for the job, thanks to a simple extension. Here's how. If you want to watch YouTube outside the browser, you've got options. There's Minitube, for example: it's a native YouTube player for Mac, Windows and Linux that lets you search for something and watch a continuous stream of search results. Apps like this are cool, but there are other options. It's not commonly known, but VLC can play YouTube videos – all you need to do is click “File”, then “Open Network”. You'll... Read the full article: Watch Entire YouTube Playlists In VLC, Here’s How

Eric Schmidt Uses Google+ To Show How To Switch From iPhone To Android Posted: 26 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST Eric Schmidt is one of the richest men in the world. So, one would think that he would the last person to bother about writing a guide on how to migrate from iPhone to Android. But then, he has written a 900-word guide on how to do exactly that. It's all there for the world to use on his Google+ post. Eric's Guide: Converting to Android from iPhone is a concise description on how you can convert from an iPhone to an Android easily. The step-by-step approach describes how to set up a Gmail account on their devices, find apps,... Read the full article: Eric Schmidt Uses Google+ To Show How To Switch From iPhone To Android

5 Ways to Ruggedise Your Raspberry Pi Posted: 26 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST Your Raspberry Pi might have only cost $40 or so, but it is remarkably precious. With many different projects underway, you need to keep it safe. A ruggedized case would be a good option, particularly for transporting your Pi or using it in outdoor projects. Why Ruggedize? There are many reasons to ruggedize your Raspberry Pi. As suggested above, you might be planning or engaged in some projects that involve a battery-powered Pi taking charge of some outdoor activity; alternatively, you might want to keep it out of the way of tiny fingers. In its uncased form, the Raspberry Pi... Read the full article: 5 Ways to Ruggedise Your Raspberry Pi

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