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• Cool Websites & Tools – Make Better Decisions, Interactive Music, & Create Your Own Math Worksheets
• 50 Things A Traveller Should Know
• Do You Value Online Reviews? [We Ask You]
• EA Does What’s “Not Possible”: Adding Offline Mode To SimCity
• Computerphile: Learn The History, Hacks & Tech Behind Everyday Computing [Stuff to Watch]
• 4 Ways To Teach Computing To A New Generation Of Kids
• View & Edit PDF Files On Your iPad With PDF Expert 5
• Why Does My Android Phone or Tablet Not Turn On?
• Perform These 7 Awesome Photoshop Tricks in GIMP
• Google Apps Adds ’Email via Google+’ Options, Page Admins Need To Opt In To Use It
• Polarity vs. Portal: Is This First-Person Puzzle Game For Android Any Good?
• Technophilia 96 Live From MakeUseOf
• Online Dating – Men Don’t Get It And Women Don’t Understand
• Twitter Redesigns Website To Look More Like Mobile Apps
• Freshbacks: A Fun, Simple Way to Always Have a Gorgeous & Interesting Wallpaper on Your Android Phone

Cool Websites & Tools – Make Better Decisions, Interactive Music, & Create Your Own Math Worksheets Posted: 15 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST ChoiceMap – helps people make better decisions. It's simple. A few easy steps clarify your priorities. Then ChoiceMap ranks your options by how well they meet your needs. It's easy to share results on Facebook, Twitter, and email, too. Create decisions from scratch, or tweak the templates to match what you care about most. Sing-n-Share – gives you control over the power of interactive music. You choose the genre, artists, and songs from thousands of available hit tracks. It is completely ad-supported and 100% free. It delivers more than 12,000 fully-licensed smash-hit karaoke songs to your smartphone and allows you... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Make Better Decisions, Interactive Music, & Create Your Own Math Worksheets

50 Things A Traveller Should Know Posted: 15 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST Do you know how to cross a road in Vietnam? Or here to put toilet paper in India? Or how much to tip in North America? If you think you’re an experienced traveller, why not put it to the test with this infograph created by Travelbag? What’s your score? via Infographicals Read the full article: 50 Things A Traveller Should Know

Do You Value Online Reviews? [We Ask You] Posted: 15 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST We all have opinions on things. And the Internet seems to have drawn previously reserved individuals out of their shells until they’re more than willing to tell you their opinion on anything and everything. Whether you asked for it or not. Reviews are everywhere. From websites rating the latest movies, music, and television shows, to online shopping sites such as Amazon ranking consumer products by an arbitrary scoring system. But just because reviews are ubiquitous doesn’t mean they’re actually worthwhile. The Value Of Opinion… We want to know, Do You Value Online Reviews? This questions cuts both ways. Do you... Read the full article: Do You Value Online Reviews? [We Ask You]

EA Does What’s “Not Possible”: Adding Offline Mode To SimCity Posted: 15 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST So much for “not possible”: EA is adding an offline mode to SimCity, free of charge, ten months after fans demanded it. .@Azbiker72 The game was designed for MP, we sim the entire region on the server so this is just not possible — SimCity (@simcity) March 9, 2013 SimCity was highly anticipated in spring 2013, but suffered a terrible launch that ultimately led to an apology and a free game for everyone who bought it. Overwhelming server traffic meant SimCity, designed to be online-only, was basically unplayable for weeks. This prompted players, many of whom weren’t interested in the... Read the full article: EA Does What’s “Not Possible”: Adding Offline Mode To SimCity

Computerphile: Learn The History, Hacks & Tech Behind Everyday Computing [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 15 Jan 2014 03:30 PM PST If classic technology-themed television from the pre-Internet ages is something you remember fondly, you might want to give Computerphile a watch. Presented by a variety of experts, each episode aims to explain and recount the history of some of our best everyday technology. Topics range from the miracle of text encoding to uncovering the mysteries behind YouTube itself. The mid-length video format is long enough to retain the details, which makes Computerphile more like TV classics like The Computer Chronicles and Tomorrow’s World than a YouTube channel run by geeks. Characters, Symbols & The Unicode Miracle This was the very first... Read the full article: Computerphile: Learn The History, Hacks & Tech Behind Everyday Computing [Stuff to Watch]

4 Ways To Teach Computing To A New Generation Of Kids Posted: 15 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST Programming conferences are unlikely places to find teachers. But at the recent PyCon UK conference, in the Coventry Technocentre owned by Coventry University, teachers and programmers were working together and sharing their relative expertise. Why? Because they care deeply about teaching computing to young people. The UK government recently mandated that computer science be taught in British schools as a replacement for the much maligned IT curriculum that taught basic (and severely outdated) secretarial skills, with not much room for anything else. What is really beautiful about the new computing curriculum is that it's incredibly open ended. There are some milestones that... Read the full article: 4 Ways To Teach Computing To A New Generation Of Kids

View & Edit PDF Files On Your iPad With PDF Expert 5 Posted: 15 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST In the past, I have not shied away from expressing my love for the PDF format. There isn’t a more robust way of sharing documents – send to anyone, open anywhere with a huge range of software. Unfortunately, this introduces difficulty when it comes to editing them. For example, if I need to sign a PDF document, how do I do it without ripping out the little hair I have left on my head? Ideally I’d like to do this on my iPad, and while Dropbox doesn’t do a bad job of opening and presenting them on a tablet, I’ve... Read the full article: View & Edit PDF Files On Your iPad With PDF Expert 5

Why Does My Android Phone or Tablet Not Turn On? Posted: 15 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST Your Android phone or tablet has very few buttons. The only way you can turn it on is by pressing the power button — and that isn’t working. Don’t panic! Android devices may sometimes refuse to power on or wake from sleep when you press the power button, but your phone or tablet probably isn’t broken. There are some easy ways to make your device boot again. Long-Press the Power Button or Remove the Battery It’s possible for smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other electronic devices to become seemingly stuck in power-off mode. In such a state, the power button won’t... Read the full article: Why Does My Android Phone or Tablet Not Turn On?

Perform These 7 Awesome Photoshop Tricks in GIMP Posted: 15 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST Do advanced photo tricks, for free. It’s possible, thanks to The GIMP. The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a capable open source and free alternative to Photoshop. While it’s not quite as easy or powerful as Photoshop, you can still make anything happen with GIMP, some know-how, and a bit of elbow grease. If you’d like to keep yourself from burning a major hole in your wallet in exchange for a bit more work, grab a copy of GIMP and check out these seven great Photoshop tricks you can do with it! Layer Styles Layer styles are various... Read the full article: Perform These 7 Awesome Photoshop Tricks in GIMP

Google Apps Adds ’Email via Google+’ Options, Page Admins Need To Opt In To Use It Posted: 15 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST Just the other day Google announced that Gmail was getting a heavy dose of Google+ integration, and now, Google is adding that same functionality to Google Apps. This means that businesses who use Google as their email provider can be contacted using the “Email via Google+” button. However, admins must first enable this feature via the Admin panel, as they may prefer to prevent unnecessary emails from coming through the channel. The feature was very controversial when first announced, as Gmail users were not thrilled with the prospect of people being able to email them without actually being given the email address.... Read the full article: Google Apps Adds ’Email via Google+’ Options, Page Admins Need To Opt In To Use It

Polarity vs. Portal: Is This First-Person Puzzle Game For Android Any Good? Posted: 15 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST Polarity is a new game on Android that’s getting a lot of buzz as reviewers are likening it to Valve’s hit Portal. Polarity is also a physics-based puzzle game and there are already plenty of such good games on Android. What’s different is that it’s played from a first-person perspective. So does it live up to the hype? What’s Polarity All About? In Polarity, you are a puzzle-solving hacker who needs to progress from level to level using only your wits. There are three key elements to the game: Polarity: The feature that the game derives its name from, this... Read the full article: Polarity vs. Portal: Is This First-Person Puzzle Game For Android Any Good?

Technophilia 96 Live From MakeUseOf Posted: 15 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST This week: net neutrality is struck down by a US appeals court, meaning the companies that make the richest country on earth suffer through some of the slowest Internet access among developed countries now have even more power. What could possibly go wrong? An academic paper says killer robots are all but inevitable, barring the leaders of the world putting their own interests aside in order to work for the common good of humanity. So yeah: all but inevitable. And, on the lighter side of things, EA did what it said was impossible: offer an offline version of SimCity, a... Read the full article: Technophilia 96 Live From MakeUseOf

Online Dating – Men Don’t Get It And Women Don’t Understand Posted: 15 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST Do online dating websites work? Okay, it’s time to have an open and frank discussion about the battle of the sexes and the dating game. It’s far too complex, scary and difficult for mere mortals – so let’s bridge the gap by asking both men and women what doesn’t work when it comes to online dating. To explore this topic, I pulled aside two individuals who I knew were hunting for a long-term relationship using online dating websites, and asked them about their experiences with the services. The two services used by these individuals were OKCupid and Match.com, two of... Read the full article: Online Dating – Men Don’t Get It And Women Don’t Understand

Twitter Redesigns Website To Look More Like Mobile Apps Posted: 15 Jan 2014 07:30 AM PST In a series of tweets, Twitter announced it has rolled out a new design for its website, which mimics the look and feel of its iOS and Android apps. It’s a small change that makes it easier to compose tweets and gives users the ability to customize colours in their timeline. Previously, to write a new tweet, you would need to click the ‘Compose’ button in the top-right corner, which would trigger a pop-up window to type your text. And while you can still do that, the new version also adds a quick-compose pane under the user profile widget on... Read the full article: Twitter Redesigns Website To Look More Like Mobile Apps

Freshbacks: A Fun, Simple Way to Always Have a Gorgeous & Interesting Wallpaper on Your Android Phone Posted: 15 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST Are you bored with your phone’s wallpaper? Freshbacks is a fun and simple app that downloads a pack of ten beautiful wallpapers every day, and randomly rotates them every time you switch your phone on during the day. The basic app is free, too, and it has an innovative two-tier model for getting premium features. We’ve previously covered the wildly popular Wallpbase app, as well as just using your browser to download mobile wallpapers, and those are both still very good options. What Freshbacks adds to the mix is the variety of constantly switching backgrounds. Let The Images Speak First... Read the full article: Freshbacks: A Fun, Simple Way to Always Have a Gorgeous & Interesting Wallpaper on Your Android Phone

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