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- Apple Earnings, NSA Angry Birds, FBI TorMail, Oogle Goggles [Tech News Digest]
- Cool Websites & Tools – Malware Shield, AirPlay for Android, & World’s Most Unique Image Archive
- How To Make Disaster Survival Gear With Common Household Items
- Vsauce Asks The Questions You Wish Your Science Teacher Would Answer [Stuff to Watch]
- Study A Language From Your PC, Phone or Tablet With Babbel
- 3 Video Games That Will Touch You Emotionally
- Track How You Spend Time On Your Mac With Timing
- 7 Unique WooCommerce Plugins to Help You Sell More
- Looking For A New Kindle? Here’s How To Decide Which Is Right For You
- Take The Stress Out Of Referencing With Zotero
- 5 Of The Best 128GB & 256GB Solid State Drives To Buy Right Now
- Celebrities Volunteer To Record Their Voices For The Wikipedia Voice Intro Project
- Easily Increase Your Battery Life With TLP for Linux
- Contact Form 7: The Best Contact Form Plugin For WordPress
- Mad Catz M.O.J.O. Android Gaming Console Review and Giveaway
| Apple Earnings, NSA Angry Birds, FBI TorMail, Oogle Goggles [Tech News Digest] Posted: 28 Jan 2014 03:30 AM PST  Today in Tech News Digest, Apple reveals its latest sales and earnings, the NSA is accused of targeting popular apps such as Angry Birds, Microsoft renames SkyDrive to OneDrive, the FBI is accused of tapping into TorMail, Nintendo’s plan for smartphones is possibly revealed, Wikipedia adds celebrity voices to its listings, and The Simpsons tackles Oogle Goggles Google Glass. Apple’s Earnings Call Apple’s biggest sales rise (by %) was not in iPhones or iPads but Mac computers. All the numbers here: http://t.co/mOIZDfCx9T — Adrian Weckler (@adrianweckler) January 27, 2014 Apple has released its financial results for Q1 2014, and they... Read the full article: Apple Earnings, NSA Angry Birds, FBI TorMail, Oogle Goggles [Tech News Digest] |
| Cool Websites & Tools – Malware Shield, AirPlay for Android, & World’s Most Unique Image Archive Posted: 27 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST  Shield for Chrome – shields you from adware, spyware, and malware extensions and websites. It stops over 100 adware, spyware or malware extensions that are currently available in the Chrome web store. It monitors extensions and websites behavior to detect malicious patterns. And it stops the Chrome bugs which allows sites to listen to your private conversations. Prettify – is a fun, simple and extremely quick way to turn mediocre images into beautiful works of art. Use a range of professionally designed and implemented filters, effects, frames and cropping and annotation tools to breathe new life into any photograph. So... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Malware Shield, AirPlay for Android, & World’s Most Unique Image Archive |
| How To Make Disaster Survival Gear With Common Household Items Posted: 27 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST  A storm has just hit. Lights are out. Power’s out. You’ve run out of candles. What do you do? MakeUseOf writers are quite the survivalist. We’ve written about emergency gear you’ll need to survive an apocalypse and minor disasters. But what if you’re unprepared? Click to enlarge. via Equip Supply Read the full article: How To Make Disaster Survival Gear With Common Household Items |
| Vsauce Asks The Questions You Wish Your Science Teacher Would Answer [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 27 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST  What’s worse than sitting behind your desk, watching videos when you should be working? Sitting behind your desk, watching videos, instead of working without learning something, of course. Once again productivity takes a backseat to the pursuit of knowledge, so forget your deadlines for a moment and ponder some of life’s most interesting, unanswered and outright bizarre questions with Vsauce. What Does Human Taste Like? Forgetting the moral implications of a human meat trade for a second, from a scientific standpoint we’re packed with nutrients and would probably make a tasty meal. There are even people who don’t see the problem with... Read the full article: Vsauce Asks The Questions You Wish Your Science Teacher Would Answer [Stuff to Watch] |
| Study A Language From Your PC, Phone or Tablet With Babbel Posted: 27 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST  There are all sorts of reasons to study a new language – be it a holiday, a career opportunity abroad or a curious interest in a country or culture. You could opt for the textbook approach, but that’s not going to teach you pronounciation and oral skills. Audiobooks and podcasts are effective, but you’ll miss out on the nitty-gritty written word. In order to immerse yourself in the process of learning to write and speak conversationally, a learning tool like Babbel provides some obvious benefits. The app bombards your brain with words, pictures, sounds, and a feeling of progress –... Read the full article: Study A Language From Your PC, Phone or Tablet With Babbel |
| 3 Video Games That Will Touch You Emotionally Posted: 27 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST  Video games are still a very young story telling medium. It may seem like they have been around for a long time, when compared to books and movies, they are just a baby. However, in spite of being young, it doesn’t mean that a game can’t come along every now and then with a story that truly hits you deep in your heart. Certain games actually use the interactive nature of games to grip you in a way that no other form of entertainment can. The games that follow will truly touch you in your heart. If you played through... Read the full article: 3 Video Games That Will Touch You Emotionally |
| Track How You Spend Time On Your Mac With Timing Posted: 27 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST  One of the ways to increase your productivity is to be conscious of how you spend your time. If most of your work involves a computer, an OS X application called Timing ($9.99) can help you track exactly where the hours go. Whether you work a salaried or hourly job, keeping track of time can help you see which tasks are holding you up, or where you may need to work on your productivity. If you’re a freelancer, keeping track of your time is essential for billing your clients and getting paid the right amount for the effort you have put... Read the full article: Track How You Spend Time On Your Mac With Timing |
| 7 Unique WooCommerce Plugins to Help You Sell More Posted: 27 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST  Starting your own web store is easy – so easy, in fact, that many people are doing it. You'll need to have some unique features in order to stand out. This little selection of WooCommerce plugins should help! If you're thinking about starting a web store but just not sure where to begin, my latest free eBook walks you through the complete process from setting up hosting to adding products and launching. Get your online store up and running with Bluehost web hosting. Sign up from $3.95/month. Coin Payments (Free) The market is flooded with crypto currencies like BitCoin (What... Read the full article: 7 Unique WooCommerce Plugins to Help You Sell More |
| Looking For A New Kindle? Here’s How To Decide Which Is Right For You Posted: 27 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST  Amazon currently offers 8 different models of Kindles, and with so many options, choosing one can be a tad confusing for the average consumer. What exactly differentiates these devices from each other? E-ink or LCD? The first major division between these tablets is the e-ink and LCD screens. E-ink tablets have screens that resemble paper, making them great for reading eBooks, but limiting their ability to do much else. LCD tablets on the other hand are more like an iPad or Android tablet: they have bright screens that can be annoying to stare at for long periods of time, but they’re... Read the full article: Looking For A New Kindle? Here’s How To Decide Which Is Right For You |
| Take The Stress Out Of Referencing With Zotero Posted: 27 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST  It’s that time of the year. January. The most dreaded month for any university student. It’s the time of the year when sales of Red Bull skyrocket and essay deadlines loom on the horizon. It’s the time of the year when undergraduates try to shake off their throbbing new-year hangovers and finish the work they’ve been procrastinating on for the past few months. As a university student myself, I totally sympathize with you lot. I get it; I really do. Essays are dry. They’re time consuming. They’re dull. And the worst part of it? Referencing. Sure, it shows that you’ve... Read the full article: Take The Stress Out Of Referencing With Zotero |
| 5 Of The Best 128GB & 256GB Solid State Drives To Buy Right Now Posted: 27 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST  Solid state drives have come a long way over the last few years. Once considered a luxury item only for geeks with fat wallets, drives can now be purchased for a couple hundred bucks; expensive, sure, but not unobtainable. Performance has improved, too, with today’s best drives besting those sold a few years ago by 50% or more. While prices may continue to trend downwards, it appears the fall has slowed. So this is a great time to pick up your first (or second, or third) SSD. The question is; which one? OCZ Vector Series Do you want an incredibly... Read the full article: 5 Of The Best 128GB & 256GB Solid State Drives To Buy Right Now |
| Celebrities Volunteer To Record Their Voices For The Wikipedia Voice Intro Project Posted: 27 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST  The Wikipedia Voice Intro Project (WikiVIP) is a novel attempt to record voices of notable achievers in diverse fields, and make them a part of the Wikipedia entries (e.g. biographies) in their name. Readers can reference these voice recordings and get to know more through the voices behind the personalities. The recordings are short – about ten seconds or so, but they could add significantly to the multimedia bank on the online encyclopedia. Readers can not only find out how their favorite celebrities sound, but also learn how to pronounce their names right. The audio project should also contribute to... Read the full article: Celebrities Volunteer To Record Their Voices For The Wikipedia Voice Intro Project |
| Easily Increase Your Battery Life With TLP for Linux Posted: 27 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST  Linux tends to guzzle up more battery life than Windows, even though most Linux installations are lighter than Windows on system resources. Why is that? It primarily comes down to a lack of optimized, under-the-hood power settings. Happily, there are Linux tools for optimizing your energy usage. Perhaps the best known is called “laptop-mode-tools”, but it’s been incorporated into the Linux kernel. Additionally, another common tool named Jupiter was recently discontinued. Don’t worry, though, because there’s another tool worth looking at: TLP. What’s TLP? TLP (no one knows for sure what this acronym stands for) is a simple tool available... Read the full article: Easily Increase Your Battery Life With TLP for Linux |
| Contact Form 7: The Best Contact Form Plugin For WordPress Posted: 27 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST  Believe it or not, finding the right contact form for you and your website’s visitors isn’t easy. I was stuck with a WordPress plugin that was alright for some time, but I became frustrated with it when I ran into an issue I couldn’t solve. Then I discovered Contact Form 7. @aaronrcouch hey it’s called contact form 7. — Dan Pearce (@danoah) February 8, 2013 Contact Form 7, which is featured on our Best WordPress Plugins, stood out because it was so simple and easy to use. Due to being frustrated with an issue of the contact form plugin on... Read the full article: Contact Form 7: The Best Contact Form Plugin For WordPress |
| Mad Catz M.O.J.O. Android Gaming Console Review and Giveaway Posted: 27 Jan 2014 04:30 AM PST  If there’s one thing we have not seen a shortage of lately, it’s the so-called micro consoles sporting Android for its operating system. The trend really picked up steam with the Kickstarter darling known as the OUYA, which we reviewed, and it has since grown with many new entries into the market. Mad Catz, a company best known for its range of accessories for existing consoles, is jumping into the space with a $250 device known as M.O.J.O. However, this model offers some key differences over its competitors, most notable of which is the stock Android firmware, which creates a... Read the full article: Mad Catz M.O.J.O. Android Gaming Console Review and Giveaway |
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