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- Cool Websites & Tools – Text A Love Message, Be Looked After, & Open Source Bookmarking
- The World Map of Internet Censorship
- Should You Buy A Smartwatch Now, Or Wait?
- How To Use LEGOs To Manage Your Time Better
- Why Selling Tickets On Seatwave Was The Most Expensive Mistake I Ever Made
- How and Why to Add a Real Time Clock to Arduino
- Bing for iPhone Gets Some New Features For You To Fiddle With
- How To Save Vine Videos For Offline Viewing
- Cheap iPhone 5c, Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and More [Tech Deals]
- 4 Seemingly Simple Video Games That Are Surprisingly Deep
- How To Track How Many Times Links Are Shared On Social Media
- New In The Feed: Facebook Pages Now Display Other Pages That Tag Them
- Japanese RPGs Aren’t Dead: 3 Solid Games Released In The Last Year
- Could Threes Be The Most Addictive Puzzle Game For iOS Yet?
- GameStick Review and Giveaway
| Cool Websites & Tools – Text A Love Message, Be Looked After, & Open Source Bookmarking Posted: 27 Feb 2014 08:31 PM PST  SofaPlay – is a streaming app for Mac. Just drag any media file onto SofaPlay and it will appear instantly on the big screen in front of you. SofaPlay streams your media files wirelessly to your TV. Your Mac is completely controlling and managing your TV. Romantimatic – with the amazing technology we have in our pockets, we can fly through the day without remembering to send a simple “I love you” to the most important person in our lives. Romantimatic for iOS can help with this. Tables Generator – Entering tables in LaTeX documents can be burdensome because of... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Text A Love Message, Be Looked After, & Open Source Bookmarking |
| The World Map of Internet Censorship Posted: 27 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST  Do you have access to social media? Political news? Well, congratulations — you’re obviously residing in a liberal country. It may not surprise you to hear that people from certain countries like China, North Korea, Indonesia and parts of Africa — to name a few — do not have access to have the privilege of accessing political and social media; blocked by their own government censors and firewalls. Don’t take Internet freedom for granted. Via WhoIsHostingThis? Read the full article: The World Map of Internet Censorship |
| Should You Buy A Smartwatch Now, Or Wait? Posted: 27 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST  Everyone is talking about smartwatches and other wearables as “the next big thing.” The Pebble saw massive success on Kickstarter, and companies as well-known as Samsung and Sony have jumped into the ring with their own smartwatches. Future smartwatches from companies as diverse as Apple, Google, and Microsoft are rumored to be on their way. So, should you buy a smartwatch today, or wait for the smartwatches to come? What’s the Point of a Smartwatch? Every smartwatch manufacturer is scrambling to figure out why you would want a smartwatch. They know why they want to sell you a smartwatch —... Read the full article: Should You Buy A Smartwatch Now, Or Wait? |
| How To Use LEGOs To Manage Your Time Better Posted: 27 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST  I think I’ve found the ultimate productivity tool: LEGOs. Don’t leave! Let me explain. At the beginning of the day, it’s easy to look at your to-do list and feel overwhelmed. Every item on that list represents something you need to do, and you’re not sure you can get through it all. But you have a resource for dealing with your tasks: time. And a to-do list does a really crappy job of representing that. Sure, you have a clock. And a calendar. But neither of those give you a tangible sense of how much time you’ve got for accomplishing things... Read the full article: How To Use LEGOs To Manage Your Time Better |
| Why Selling Tickets On Seatwave Was The Most Expensive Mistake I Ever Made Posted: 27 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST  I really like French music. MC Solaar. Charlotte Gainsbourg. Carla Bruni. I can’t get enough of it. Sadly, it's quite rare for a French language musician to tour the UK. However, when Belgian-Rwandan rapper Stromae announced tour dates in London, I was overjoyed. He was playing at Koko — a reasonably small music venue in Camden, and tickets were sure to get snapped up in short order. This is largely due to the huge amount of French language speakers in London (400,000 French people live in London. More French people live in London than Bordeaux or Strasbourg), as well as... Read the full article: Why Selling Tickets On Seatwave Was The Most Expensive Mistake I Ever Made |
| How and Why to Add a Real Time Clock to Arduino Posted: 27 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST  Keeping time on Arduino projects isn’t as easy as you might think: once the computer connection isn’t there, your unpowered Arduino simply stops running, including its internal ticker. In order to keep your Arduino in sync with the world around it, you’re going to need what’s called a “Real Time Clock module”. Here’s how use one. What’s the point of a Real Time Clock (RTC)? Your computer most likely syncs its time with the internet, but it still has an internal clock that keeps going even without an Internet connection or the power is turned off. When you use an... Read the full article: How and Why to Add a Real Time Clock to Arduino |
| Bing for iPhone Gets Some New Features For You To Fiddle With Posted: 27 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST  Bing have just released some exciting new features for their iPhone app, including new Metro-style tiles and multiple searches. Let’s give you a rundown on what’s new to play with. The biggest visible change is that you can see very clearly what is currently trending with the big Microsoft-style tiles. Just tap on a tile to be taken to the search results. You can also be taken to the other trends, the news, and more images, just by tapping the appropriate tiles. A really cool new feature is that you can run multiple searches, and still keep the original results.... Read the full article: Bing for iPhone Gets Some New Features For You To Fiddle With |
| How To Save Vine Videos For Offline Viewing Posted: 27 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST  Twitter set a six-second limit on videos uploaded to Vine. It won’t even take you that long to download Vine videos, Internet connection permitting. Like GIF images, Vine videos are short, looping and take up a lot of space. If you are running out of bandwidth on your cellular data plan or visit places with poor network coverage, you might want to download Vine videos for offline viewing. Here’s how to do it. The Three-Click Method This is the easiest method. Open Vine on your desktop browser and sign in. Scroll down to the video you want to save. Then... Read the full article: How To Save Vine Videos For Offline Viewing |
| Cheap iPhone 5c, Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and More [Tech Deals] Posted: 27 Feb 2014 08:30 AM PST  Retailers continue to liquidate last year’s goods — this week, we’ve got almost $200 off the iPhone 5c and even larger savings on a semi-rugged Samsung Galaxy S4. Also featured are a super cheap SSD, RAM and a Surface Pro, among other wallet-friendly options. Tablet and Smartphone Users Looking for high end smartphones at cut-rate prices? This week we’ve got a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active (water resistant) and an iPhone 5c at a bargain! 16GB Virgin Mobile Apple iPhone 5C Price: $359.99; compare to $549.99 brand new Retailer: Virgin Mobile – Buy it Now! This deal remains the best I’ve... Read the full article: Cheap iPhone 5c, Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and More [Tech Deals] |
| 4 Seemingly Simple Video Games That Are Surprisingly Deep Posted: 27 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST  One of the coolest things about video games is that they vary greatly in time investment — compare pick-up-and-play mobile games to RPGs that can take dozens of hours to complete. So-called “hardcore gamers” may scoff at the elementary nature of games available on some platforms, while casual players may feel intimidated by more serious gaming. However, it may surprise you that many games exist that can be easily enjoyed by players of any skill level, yet are deep enough to allow for an advanced play style. Let’s take a look at some of these games, and find ways that you... Read the full article: 4 Seemingly Simple Video Games That Are Surprisingly Deep |
| How To Track How Many Times Links Are Shared On Social Media Posted: 27 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST  Keeping track of social shares is easy, as long as you actually own the website. Robust tracking tools such as Google Analytics and other plugins make it easy to track how often your content is shared. But what if you want to keep track of sites you don’t run? With minimal digging, you can uncover all sorts of interesting social media statistics about any link. Whether it’s to keep tabs on your competition, or just out of curiosity, the services below will help you track social sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, and more. Muck Rack Bookmarklet Muck... Read the full article: How To Track How Many Times Links Are Shared On Social Media |
| New In The Feed: Facebook Pages Now Display Other Pages That Tag Them Posted: 27 Feb 2014 06:30 AM PST  Facebook Pages just got more interactive. In a discovery-boosting measure, your Facebook feed will now display another Page if it tags a Page you are following. The new “stranger” Page will be displayed even if you are not following it. It’s a behavior that is just like the way friends are tagged in each others posts. Your friends get to see most photos you are tagged in even if the person who has tagged it or uploaded it isn’t in their friend lists. If you were not tagged, the original post would not be visible to your friends. After the... Read the full article: New In The Feed: Facebook Pages Now Display Other Pages That Tag Them |
| Japanese RPGs Aren’t Dead: 3 Solid Games Released In The Last Year Posted: 27 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST  As our friend the Angry Video Game Nerd starts every episode off with – I’m gonna take you back to the past. No, we aren’t going to play some… well you know. Instead, we are going to talk about a time when the Japanese RPG was the way most gamers experienced the genre. Lately, things seem to have grown a little stagnant in the Japanese game playing scene, and as such, the genre is not nearly as represented as it was in the day when the next Final Fantasy was all anyone could talk about. However, the genre is far from dead. In... Read the full article: Japanese RPGs Aren’t Dead: 3 Solid Games Released In The Last Year |
| Could Threes Be The Most Addictive Puzzle Game For iOS Yet? Posted: 27 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST  Do you hate productivity? Do you like to ignore the people in your life? If you answered yes to either of those, then Threes ($2.99, universal) should be right up your alley because really, this addictive and engrossing game is going to take up all of your time. We’ve featured some great addictive puzzle games for iOS to get your brain working, but none of those match up to the simple charm of Threes, the latest title by developer Asher Vollmer. The Basics Of Threes This puzzle game requires that you know addition, and here’s how it works: In a 4×4... Read the full article: Could Threes Be The Most Addictive Puzzle Game For iOS Yet? |
| Posted: 27 Feb 2014 04:32 AM PST  Not too long ago, a craze hit Kickstarter in a huge way. That craze was the Android micro-console. First, the OUYA (which we reviewed) exploded on Kickstarter. Immediately after that, the much smaller GameStick hit the crowd-funding service, and while it did not explode in the same way as the OUYA, it still commanded far beyond its funding goal. Now, months later, we have the $79 GameStick and its controller in our hands, and we’ve had some time to explore the games available, and of course, play them. How is the console? How does it compare to the OUYA, or... Read the full article: GameStick Review and Giveaway |
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