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• Cool Websites & Tools – Android Voice Recorder, Clean Up Your Inbox, & Tame Words
• Preparing For Your Digital Afterlife
• Android Apps on Sale for 9 January 2014: Timely Alarm Clock for Free, Notif Pro, and Flight Control
• Thinking of Buying a Used Smartphone? 6 Things To Consider
• AppCleaner: The Best Free Uninstaller App For Mac
• Myris Iris Authentication Device Secures Your Passwords and Usernames
• 6 Life Habits That Programming Could Teach You Today
• Get A Cheap Microsoft Surface Pro and More [Tech Deals]
• Form Or Functionality? Fleksy Redesigns & Rewires The Android Keyboard
• How & Why I Use 5 Digital Notebooks to Stay Productive
• Jelly Lets You Ask Questions & Get Answers From Your Social Networks
• The 10 Greatest Free MMORPGs To Start Playing Now
• Pair The New Mac Pro With An Equally Awesome Monitor
• Sony Xperia Z1 Review and Giveaway
• 5 Security Tips To Consider When Using a Microsoft Account

Cool Websites & Tools – Android Voice Recorder, Clean Up Your Inbox, & Tame Words Posted: 09 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST Writeulus – Distraction-free, one page, offline saving, makes you sexier. Writeulus is another take on distraction-free writing. It’s free, it’s got offline storage, and it’s got a one-page simple UI for changing the colors and the font. Give it a shot and see if it helps you not be distracted. Cogi Voice Recorder – allows you to capture all or part of your meetings, lectures, conversations and interviews. Cogi’s Voice Recorder is a powerful Android productivity tool that helps you remember important details that you hear during your day. Cogi puts you in control, letting you choose and capture those... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Android Voice Recorder, Clean Up Your Inbox, & Tame Words

Preparing For Your Digital Afterlife Posted: 09 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST Death comes to us all. But only a small fraction of people have thought about what happens to their social networking accounts after they pass on. Did you know that Google will not allow anyone to access your email account, even after you’re dead? There are over 30 million accounts on Facebook belonging to dead people. Yikes! Are you prepared for your digital afterlife? Click to enlarge. via whoishostingthis.com Read the full article: Preparing For Your Digital Afterlife

Android Apps on Sale for 9 January 2014: Timely Alarm Clock for Free, Notif Pro, and Flight Control Posted: 09 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST Each week we scour current Google Play promotions and cherry-pick the best of the best. This week we have one of the most beautiful alarm clocks for Android that went all-free, a zombie app that’ll whip you into shape, 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 Timely Alarm Clock (In-app purchase, now totally free!) First things first: Timely made quite a splash when it launched, and now it got bought up by Google.... Read the full article: Android Apps on Sale for 9 January 2014: Timely Alarm Clock for Free, Notif Pro, and Flight Control

Thinking of Buying a Used Smartphone? 6 Things To Consider Posted: 09 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST Are you thinking of buying a used smartphone? Don’t want to be stuck with a long-term carrier contract or simply can’t afford to fork out the full price of a brand new smartphone? Whatever your reasons, the following are a few things that you should consider before buying a used phone. Ebay, Amazon and other online marketplaces are flooded with used smartphone offers. These tips will help you avoid being scammed and get value for your money. Physical Appearance This may seem like a no-brainer but a visual examination should go beyond just looking out for a scratched screen or... Read the full article: Thinking of Buying a Used Smartphone? 6 Things To Consider

AppCleaner: The Best Free Uninstaller App For Mac Posted: 09 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST Leave no crap behind. AppCleaner is a free uninstaller for Mac that searches for and lets you delete all the settings, caches and other junk files programs you delete that would otherwise remain. We recently outlined the best free uninstallers for Windows. Uninstalling apps in Windows, as it turns out, leaves a lot of crap behind – and the standard methods of uninstallation don’t do anything about that. Happily, Macs aren’t poorly designed like that, right? Wrong. Incomplete Uninstalls Whether you drag an application to the trash or delete it in the launchpad, programs you uninstall from your Mac leave... Read the full article: AppCleaner: The Best Free Uninstaller App For Mac

Myris Iris Authentication Device Secures Your Passwords and Usernames Posted: 09 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST A new piece of password authentication technology, called Myris, was unveiled this week at the Consumer Electronics Show [CES]. Myris scans your irises to verify your personal identity and unlock the user name and passwords on your computer. Myris was created by EyeLock, an advanced iris based identity technology solutions company. EyeLock claims that the human iris is widely considered the best part of the body for biometric recognition. This type of “iris print” recognition technology, EyeLock says, is already being used by corporations like Bank of America to secure critical identity and security applications. Via a USB connection to... Read the full article: Myris Iris Authentication Device Secures Your Passwords and Usernames

6 Life Habits That Programming Could Teach You Today Posted: 09 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST Everything important that you need to know about living a successful life, you can get from a computer program. Don’t believe me? Read on. When I first started programming as a young kid, it only amounted to copying foreign-looking words and symbols out of a computer magazine so that my brother and I could get our old Franklin 64 with a dual floppy drive to play a cute little digital tune at us. Back then, there weren’t many life lessons to discern out of that cryptic text. A number of years later, in high school Pascal class, things started to... Read the full article: 6 Life Habits That Programming Could Teach You Today

Get A Cheap Microsoft Surface Pro and More [Tech Deals] Posted: 09 Jan 2014 08:30 AM PST This week we’ve got several great deals on a Surface Pro, a hybrid drive (mostly for laptops), an aluminum laptop and an ultra-budget SSD. These deals won’t last long, so get them while they’re hot! Tablet Users This week we’ve managed to pick up a discounted Microsoft Surface Pro. Microsoft Surface Pro Price: $599 new; compare to $499 (refurbished) via eBay Retailer: eBay (Best Buy) Best Buy, selling on eBay, recently dropped the price of their 128GB Surface Pro tablet from $899 to the low price of $599. The Surface Pro offers excellent battery life, very good performance, an optional... Read the full article: Get A Cheap Microsoft Surface Pro and More [Tech Deals]

Form Or Functionality? Fleksy Redesigns & Rewires The Android Keyboard Posted: 09 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST Techies love minimalistic design in their gadgetry. And recently, we have seen Minuum take this fascination to the Android keyboard. Fleksy is yet another keyboard app that offers stark minimalism and a slicker-looking layout than the default. Fleksy was originally developed as an iOS keyboard for the visually impaired, but the new version for Android ditches that to focus on being a beautiful alternative to the likes of SwiftKey and Swype. Bringing Gestures To Keyboards There’s no doubt about the fact that Fleksy is gorgeous. I compare it directly with SwiftKey, Swype and the stock Android keyboard since those are... Read the full article: Form Or Functionality? Fleksy Redesigns & Rewires The Android Keyboard

How & Why I Use 5 Digital Notebooks to Stay Productive Posted: 09 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST I use five different notebooks. Why? Because each has a distinct purpose or feature that helps me stay productive. Before arriving at this method I used to dump all kinds of stuff into Evernote or Springpad, but a lack of order meant I would forget what I filed away in those applications. This made me dread opening Evernote because it was so bloated with documents and notes. After experimenting with many different notebook-keeping strategies I have decided that to be useful, a notebook needs to a have practical purpose, and it needs to be used on a regular basis. I... Read the full article: How & Why I Use 5 Digital Notebooks to Stay Productive

Jelly Lets You Ask Questions & Get Answers From Your Social Networks Posted: 09 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST Biz Stone is most famous as the co-founder of Twitter, but he’s always innovating. His last venture, the blogging platform Medium, has been quite successful. And now, Stone is taking on the Q&A world with Jelly, an app that lets you get answers about anything by tapping into the knowledge of your social networks. If you spot something that you don’t know, all you have to do is ask about it on Jelly. It’s a new kind of social network which taps into your existing social network connections. You can help your friends, friends-of-friends and ask them questions in return.... Read the full article: Jelly Lets You Ask Questions & Get Answers From Your Social Networks

The 10 Greatest Free MMORPGs To Start Playing Now Posted: 09 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST The landscape of MMORPG gaming has never been better than it is today. Some may pine for the good old days when games like Ultima Online, Everquest, and Dark Age of Camelot dominated the scene, but in terms of variety and affordability we’re living in the golden age right now. Here are 10 of the best available options for those of you who want to play a commercial-quality MMORPG without ever paying a cent. The only criteria for being on this list are that there is no upfront cost (e.g., Guild Wars 2) and there are no mandatory subscriptions (the... Read the full article: The 10 Greatest Free MMORPGs To Start Playing Now

Pair The New Mac Pro With An Equally Awesome Monitor Posted: 09 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST Apple's new Mac Pro is a serious desktop for people who have serious computing needs. Though equally suited for work or home, its powerful hardware is designed to fit the needs of people who edit movies, create digital art and use big, demanding programs. This means that the Pro can't be paired with any mundane monitor. No! Only the best will do. The system's FirePro graphics cards are designed to power big, pixel-dense displays, and several of them can be used at once to create the ultimate office command center. Which display should you buy to do the new Mac... Read the full article: Pair The New Mac Pro With An Equally Awesome Monitor

Sony Xperia Z1 Review and Giveaway Posted: 09 Jan 2014 04:30 AM PST When Sony sells you a smartphone for $600, it’s making a promise. Actually, it makes a whole bunch of them: Power, beauty, waterproof protection, and everyday utility. Can this slab of metal and glass do it all? To find out, we bought a retail unit and used it for several weeks. This is not a review unit sent by Sony, but one that we paid for in full — in other words, we don’t “owe” anyone a positive review, and this is our truly unbiased take on the Sony Xperia Z1. Playing The Specs Game Sony isn’t shy about touting... Read the full article: Sony Xperia Z1 Review and Giveaway

5 Security Tips To Consider When Using a Microsoft Account Posted: 09 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST Microsoft wants Windows 8 users to log into their computers with a Microsoft account, not a standard old local user account. You can’t use much of the new user interface without a Microsoft account — you can’t even upgrade to Windows 8.1 without one. Along with this new focus on Microsoft accounts comes new security concerns. The account you use to log into your computer is now an online account and you need to worry about securing it. There are advantages to using a Microsoft account, as it allows you to sync your settings, files, apps, and other data between... Read the full article: 5 Security Tips To Consider When Using a Microsoft Account

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