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- Cool Websites & Tools – Share A Car Ride, Share Your Android Apps, & Atlas Obscura
- The 9 Master Hackers Of The World (That We Know Of)
- Is Wearable Technology The Future, Or A Fad? [We Ask You]
- Inside Launches Breaking News App: Wants To Be The Pandora Of News
- 5 Tips Before You Play Your First Hearthstone Game In Open Beta
- The Simplest Way To Chromecast Your Hangout
- Stay True To Type: 7 Quick Guides That Tell You All About Typography
- This Painfully Ordinary Chrome Plugin Is Probably Slightly Less Boring Than Working
- Google Glass Arrives For The Vision Impaired
- Follow These 5 Tips To Get More Shares For Your Pinterest Images
- Your Favorite Song Is Playing Somewhere. Find It With RadioSearchEngine
- Technophilia 98 Live From MakeUseOf
- Twitter For Android Brings Friendlier Photo Sharing
- Stop Being A Zombie! Put Your Phone Down And Return To Life
- 8 Ways To Find And Enjoy Your Personal Internet Music Nostalgia Trip
| Cool Websites & Tools – Share A Car Ride, Share Your Android Apps, & Atlas Obscura Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST  Sidecar Ride – Share a ride with someone awesome using Sidecar, a peer-to-peer app that instantly matches you with a normal, everyday driver willing to give you a ride. Sidecar’s smartphone app matches everyday people in their own car with people nearby for shared rides. It's a fast, safe and fun way to get around the city, meet new people and keep extra cars off the road. MyAppSharer – lets you easily share your Android apps to your friends. You can share a link from Google Play or directly share the APK. You can also share by message, Gmail, Bluetooth,... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Share A Car Ride, Share Your Android Apps, & Atlas Obscura |
| The 9 Master Hackers Of The World (That We Know Of) Posted: 29 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST  There are always two sides to a story — sometimes more. Hacking is often seen as a crime, but to the hacker, there’s usually a point to be made. It seems to me that there’s usually a motive behind the hacker’s actions. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m not condoning hacking, especially when it negatively affects the community. Here’s an interesting infograph created by Simplisafe listing nine “ultimate?” hackers, arranged by the amount of damage they caused. From a computer. Probably in their parents’ garage. Scary. via Infographicals Read the full article: The 9 Master Hackers Of The World (That We Know Of) |
| Is Wearable Technology The Future, Or A Fad? [We Ask You] Posted: 29 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST  It has been predicted that wearable technology will be ubiquitous by the end of 2014. Which seems a little optimistic to us. After all, Google Glass is still only available to a select few with money and connections, and all smartwatches suck. No, they really do. Still, looking further ahead, wearable technology may have a future…or it may prove to be nothing but a passing fad. What’s your take? Future Fashion Or Faddy Failure? We want to know: Is Wearable Technology The Future, Or A Fad? It’s a very simple question with two definite answers. But as always with We Ask... Read the full article: Is Wearable Technology The Future, Or A Fad? [We Ask You] |
| Inside Launches Breaking News App: Wants To Be The Pandora Of News Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST  Inside is a newly launched website and mobile app which summarizes news stories in 300 characters or less. The news curation service could be an answer for our short attention spans and the overload of information. It is definitely not the first on the scene because we have already taken a look at Circa which also gives us a bite-sized news feed. Then, there is always Twitter. Inside promises a fresh approach that wants to be laser-focused on the news that matters. The Inside team backs up the claims with a method explained on their blog: Every day a team... Read the full article: Inside Launches Breaking News App: Wants To Be The Pandora Of News |
| 5 Tips Before You Play Your First Hearthstone Game In Open Beta Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:00 PM PST  After months of frantically scavenging forums and giveaways for a closed beta key, Hearthstone is now officially in open beta! Blizzard is set not to disappoint with this new title, and thousands upon thousands of people are already downloading the game and watching others play it on Twitch. Hearthstone is completely free to download and play right now, but don’t jump in too quickly. Let me help introduce you to the game with these five things that you should take in to consideration before setting up your first game of Hearthstone. Hearthstone is a Pay-to-Win Game to Some Degree This is... Read the full article: 5 Tips Before You Play Your First Hearthstone Game In Open Beta |
| The Simplest Way To Chromecast Your Hangout Posted: 29 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST  If you’ve got a Chromecast, it’s possible that you’ve thought about some creative Chromecast uses, including considering how you might use it to Chromecast a Hangout session. Why is a different question. But how? That’s actually surprisingly easy. First off, there are a number of methods offered by other people online. Don’t bother with them. You don’t need another extension (least of all the malware-ridden one I found), and you don’t need to use a special URL. It’s far easier than that. Seriously. Okay, so I will make a few presumptions here, and that is that you have already set... Read the full article: The Simplest Way To Chromecast Your Hangout |
| Stay True To Type: 7 Quick Guides That Tell You All About Typography Posted: 29 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST  Typography isn’t hyped. Sometimes, it is such a subtle part of good design that we don't appreciate it in isolation. A good example – Apple, which shows us the effect of typeface on the user experience. Then, there's the whole legend on Steve Jobs and the calligraphy class he attended at Reed College. Beautiful typography had existed before Mac's typefaces, and so have the ugly ones. Thanks to a renewed focus on great design, the art of type is in the foreground now. Learning about typography isn’t only for designers. It's for anyone who deals with the written word. So,... Read the full article: Stay True To Type: 7 Quick Guides That Tell You All About Typography |
| This Painfully Ordinary Chrome Plugin Is Probably Slightly Less Boring Than Working Posted: 29 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST  What do you do when you want to attract eyeballs to your site? You could spend time and effort curating content which is well-written, fact checked and original. You could craft your art and build a following. You could engage with your readers and let your content (and audience) grow naturally. That sounds like hard work, though. Why bother doing all that when you can just share someone else’s content and give it a linkbait headline? Linkbait headlines are truly shocking It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Upworthy has been doing rather well of late. They’ve been described by Fast Company... Read the full article: This Painfully Ordinary Chrome Plugin Is Probably Slightly Less Boring Than Working |
| Google Glass Arrives For The Vision Impaired Posted: 29 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST  People are hailing Google Glass as the “next big thing” in computing, but anyone who depends on normal glasses to see their way around would be at a disadvantage. Not anymore, as you can now order regular prescription glasses with Google Glass attached. All it costs is an extra $225 on top of the $1,500 price tag for Google Glass itself. So it’s not for people with a severe lack of money. You need to buy the titanium frames directly from Google, and you can choose between four different shapes, and eight different colours. The Glass unit is then screwed... Read the full article: Google Glass Arrives For The Vision Impaired |
| Follow These 5 Tips To Get More Shares For Your Pinterest Images Posted: 29 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST  Tired of pinning images that don’t receive the attention they deserve? You’re not alone. It’s difficult to create shareable images, especially in the sea of millions of images that circulate around Pinterest daily. But while it may be difficult, it isn’t impossible. The secret to getting people to share your Pinterest images (i.e., repin your work) is the same secret to writing tweets that people will retweet and gaining more views for your YouTube videos: creating strong, consumable content that’s presented in the most aesthetically-pleasing, user-friendly manner. People will only share things that they can feel proud about sharing. In... Read the full article: Follow These 5 Tips To Get More Shares For Your Pinterest Images |
| Your Favorite Song Is Playing Somewhere. Find It With RadioSearchEngine Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST  One hand on the steering wheel, one hand on the “seek” button. There’s always a better song, you’re going to find it. If that’s how you drive, you’ve probably always wished there was a search engine for radio. And now there is – for your computer (cars will just have to wait). Radio Search Engine regularly indexes online radio stations, allowing you to search for a specific song playing…somewhere. You can then listen to the song (usually halfway through), then continue to listen to whatever station you stumble upon. You might find yourself listening to a Japanese top-forty station, but... Read the full article: Your Favorite Song Is Playing Somewhere. Find It With RadioSearchEngine |
| Technophilia 98 Live From MakeUseOf Posted: 29 Jan 2014 07:59 AM PST  Try to keep up: SkyDrive is now OneDrive Oops: Gmail accidently sent thousands of emails to some random Hotmail user. Possibly related: all of China's traffic was temporarily redirected to a small house in Wyoming. Yahoo made a joke about Gmail being down. Then the company apologized for it, because apparently Google can't take a joke. Remember that weird telemarketing robot selling health insurance? Turns out it wasn't a robot. Google patents ad-supported, self-driving taxis. Apple doesn't think iOS and OS X should become a single operating system. Is Microsoft wrong to want that? Well done Internet, you killed the... Read the full article: Technophilia 98 Live From MakeUseOf |
| Twitter For Android Brings Friendlier Photo Sharing Posted: 29 Jan 2014 07:30 AM PST  Twitter just added a few photo enhancements to its Twitter for Android app. In the latest update, you have two crop options for your photos — square or wide. Also added is the feature to rotate an image before you share it to make sure the right orientation fits nicely with your Tweet. A reminder to @ mention your friends before you upload it all goes into what Twitter calls, “friendlier photo sharing”. Now, it is all the more easier to discover trending stories and events as a pull on the home timeline will load recommended Tweets, trending topics and... Read the full article: Twitter For Android Brings Friendlier Photo Sharing |
| Stop Being A Zombie! Put Your Phone Down And Return To Life Posted: 29 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST  Do you sometimes feel lonely in the company of others because everyone is pre-occupied with their phones? If friends and family are so important, why are some of us spending so much time with our phones while they’re around? Technology can be a problem. The challenge is to become more mindful in regards to our own use of technology, change how we behave, and inspire others do the same. Try these fun ways to break the isolation and claim back your friends’ attention. Share This Video With Your Friends In the first scene, the video shows a young woman holding... Read the full article: Stop Being A Zombie! Put Your Phone Down And Return To Life |
| 8 Ways To Find And Enjoy Your Personal Internet Music Nostalgia Trip Posted: 29 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST  Intimidated by your MP3 collection because it is too big to manage, or frustrated because it is too small? Use the Internet to find and enjoy your favourite songs, streamed to your computer or mobile device. Go back in time and evoke memories with these music tools. Play Your Favourite MP3s In iTunes It’s all too easy to load up iTunes and expect your favourite songs to play. The truth is, they’re unlikely to start pumping on your stereo unless you actively go searching for them, or use a custom playlist to collect the songs together. After all, who wants... Read the full article: 8 Ways To Find And Enjoy Your Personal Internet Music Nostalgia Trip |
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