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- Cool Websites & Tools – PDF Search Engine, Brain Teasers, & Real-Time Filesharing
- Mocking Miley: The Best Wrecking Ball Parodies [Weird & Wonderful Web]
- Instagram and Waze Hit Windows Phone 8, Photo App Lacks Some Features
- 5 Ways To Get Your Hands On Academic Papers Without Losing Your Mind (And Money)
- Apple Store for iPad Arrives in Time for the Holidays
- Taking Viber For iOS 7 To A Whole New Level
- Google Wallet Now Offering All Its US Users A Free Debit Card For Offline Purchases
- Create Your Own Dinosaur Theme Park With Jurassic Park Builder
- Auslogics Browser Care: Windows Browser Settings For Dummies
| Cool Websites & Tools – PDF Search Engine, Brain Teasers, & Real-Time Filesharing Posted: 23 Nov 2013 03:30 PM PST  PDF Fetch – is a search engine for finding PDF files. According to the site, it fetches PDF files, eBooks, digital publications, presentations and electronic documents. Simply type what kind of PDF file you are searching for, or choose one of the recommended “Top Searches” on the page. There are also Chrome and Firefox extensions. MindCipher – is “a social repository of the world’s greatest brain teasers, logic puzzles and mental challenges”. Every puzzle is color-coded according to level of difficulty, as well as being tagged for easy searching. When you read a puzzle, you can click to see the... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – PDF Search Engine, Brain Teasers, & Real-Time Filesharing |
| Mocking Miley: The Best Wrecking Ball Parodies [Weird & Wonderful Web] Posted: 23 Nov 2013 02:30 PM PST  This week in Weird & Wonderful Web, we compile the best video parodies of Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus. This song and its accompanying music video were both ripe for spoofing, with Cyrus completely changing her appearance and writhing around on the titular wrecking ball in an eye-popping state of undress. Oh Miley, how we love/hate you (delete as applicable). Please Note: Some of the following videos should be considered NSFW. Bart Baker Bart Baker was just one of a number of established YouTube stars to take on Miley with a unique interpretation of Wrecking Ball. Baker takes the whole... Read the full article: Mocking Miley: The Best Wrecking Ball Parodies [Weird & Wonderful Web] |
| Instagram and Waze Hit Windows Phone 8, Photo App Lacks Some Features Posted: 23 Nov 2013 01:30 PM PST  Microsoft had promised last month that Instagram would soon be coming to Windows Phone 8 and it's finally delivered, with the social photo-sharing app now available for free download. And along with that, traffic update app Waze has also made it to the Windows Store. Instagram Instagram for Windows Phone lacks a few features, specifically an in-app camera. It's not that big a deal though. The app has a link to your phone's built-in camera app; click a photo with that and you are transferred back to the Instagram app to apply a filter. So while it's not an "all-in-one"... Read the full article: Instagram and Waze Hit Windows Phone 8, Photo App Lacks Some Features |
| 5 Ways To Get Your Hands On Academic Papers Without Losing Your Mind (And Money) Posted: 23 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST  Have you ever read an academic journal? They’re where scientists and scholars publish all the interesting research that they’ve been working on. Sadly, for a lot of people academic journals are hard to get hold of. Firstly, they're stunningly expensive. A year's subscription to the Journal of Co-Ordination Chemistry costs slightly less than a new car, whilst a year's supply of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta costs an eye-watering $20,000. This means that your university library might not have the article you desperately need for your dissertation. However, where there's a will there is indeed a way. With a bit of... Read the full article: 5 Ways To Get Your Hands On Academic Papers Without Losing Your Mind (And Money) |
| Apple Store for iPad Arrives in Time for the Holidays Posted: 23 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST  If you have been waiting for the opportunity to browse the Apple Store on your iPad, now you can. Apple finally released on Wednesday an iPad version of its Apple Store app (Free), which allows users to browse and order products, and make appointments at Apple retail stores. The Apple Store app mirrors the content of the Apple Store website, as well including the hardware products available in Apple’s local retail stores. The store app takes the advantage of the iPad’s large screen real estate and allows users to navigate products with familiar finger gestures, swiping, and zooming of page... Read the full article: Apple Store for iPad Arrives in Time for the Holidays |
| Taking Viber For iOS 7 To A Whole New Level Posted: 23 Nov 2013 08:30 AM PST  The latest version of Viber (4.0) was recently released. It introduced Push To Talk as well as a fun new feature called Sticker Market, where users can have access to a thousand playful stickers. But how I wished it looked like this. Ramotion (the guys behind the Messages for OS X design concept) thought they’d have a go at giving Viber a complete makeover — and it looks sweet! They’ve streamlined the registration process, used colour gradients to focus the user’s attention to a particular part of the screen, and played around with the concept of identifying contacts through their... Read the full article: Taking Viber For iOS 7 To A Whole New Level |
| Google Wallet Now Offering All Its US Users A Free Debit Card For Offline Purchases Posted: 23 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST  Google Wallet has been around for a couple of years now, and has done not so badly, considering that their main rival is Paypal. In an effort to get more people using Wallet, Google is now offering their US users a free debit card which can be used for offline purchases at anywhere that accepts Mastercard or debit cards, as well as withdrawing cash from your Wallet account at ATMs and banks – but only inside the US. To get a card, you will obviously need to verify your identity with Google, so that they are sure they are issuing... Read the full article: Google Wallet Now Offering All Its US Users A Free Debit Card For Offline Purchases |
| Create Your Own Dinosaur Theme Park With Jurassic Park Builder Posted: 23 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST  Building a real-life dinosaur theme park seems like a bad idea, especially if you’ve ever seen Jurassic Park. At least in video game form you won’t be eaten by dinosaurs when things go poorly, which is where Jurassic Park Builder for iPhone and iPad comes in. It lets you craft your very own dinosaur park with none of the real-world implications or insurance policies. This review focuses on the iOS version of the application, but it is available on Android as well, and the apps are virtually identical. Gameplay I am not going to beat around the bush here; this... Read the full article: Create Your Own Dinosaur Theme Park With Jurassic Park Builder |
| Auslogics Browser Care: Windows Browser Settings For Dummies Posted: 23 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST  For those who aren't too comfortable with technology, changing the homepage or the search engine of the browser can be a difficult job, let alone fiddling around with settings like default browsers, tools, add-ons and browsing data. It's the reason Microsoft was ordered to give users the option to change their default search from Bing to anything else they want as a part of setting up Internet Explorer. A few months ago, I had a terrible time explaining to my Luddite relative, who had just switched from an old version of Firefox to Chrome, that the Omnibox is the one-stop... Read the full article: Auslogics Browser Care: Windows Browser Settings For Dummies |
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