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- Cool Websites & Tools – Stream Art To Your Television, Report & Discuss Bugs, & Test Your Mental Arithmetic
- The Alphabet, For Geeks
- Watch RoboCop & Star Wars Like Never Before With Fan-Made Remakes [Stuff to Watch]
- Depression & The Internet: Welcome To Your Temporary Support Group
- 5 DIY Gifts You Should Make For Your Geek This Valentine’s Day
- 6 Tips for Getting More Gold, Cards, and Dust in Hearthstone
- 3 Of The Best Durable And Ruggedized Laptops You Can Buy Today
- Angry Birds Star Wars II Gets Eight Classic Characters In The Carbonite Pack
- 9 Video Game Themed Valentine’s Day Gifts You Can Give This Year
- Why You Should Build An External HDD Enclosure From Card, And How
- Running Linux from USB: Are You Doing It Right?
- Bing Partners With The Hollywood Reporter For The Ultimate Oscars Guide
- How To Use Evernote To Manage Your Meetings
- Vidd.me Gives YouTube A Run For Its Money With Painless Video Sharing
- Logitech PowerShell Controller Review And Giveaway
| Posted: 10 Feb 2014 08:31 PM PST  Appear.in – is a site that creates automatic chat rooms for up to 8 people. The big advantage here is that you don’t have to install anything in your computer. Just create a room by giving it a name. A link is then created which you can distribute out to the chat participants. Click on the link and you are in the room with video (assuming you have a webcam of course). Artkick – is an app for iOS and Google Play which will stream artwork and iconic images from your smartphone to your television screen. The images are taken... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Stream Art To Your Television, Report & Discuss Bugs, & Test Your Mental Arithmetic |
| Posted: 10 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST  If you’re bringing a little baby geek or geekette into the world, what better way to start than with the alphabet? Granted, this will probably be more fun for the parent. This stimulating and geeky set of letters is illustrated by Otis Frampton, and is available for purchase from Society6. Read the full article: The Alphabet, For Geeks |
| Watch RoboCop & Star Wars Like Never Before With Fan-Made Remakes [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 10 Feb 2014 05:30 PM PST  Tired of the way filmmakers seem to have run out of ideas over the last decade? It feels like we’ve seen more remakes, prequels and sequels than ever before, as cult-classics like Total Recall have their names dragged through the dirt so that Hollywood can make a quick buck. My two favourite remakes never saw a cinematic release, nor are they available on Netflix for rent. Sci-fi fans rejoice, George Lucas’ definitive Star Wars Episode IV and Paul Verhoeven’s iconic sci-fi RoboCop have both been remade lovingly by the Internet. And you can watch them both, online, for free! Star Wars... Read the full article: Watch RoboCop & Star Wars Like Never Before With Fan-Made Remakes [Stuff to Watch] |
| Depression & The Internet: Welcome To Your Temporary Support Group Posted: 10 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST  Let’s get this out of the way: No, you aren’t lazy. You are an incredibly competent human being who is sick. There is something wrong with you, but it’s not a morality or personality issue. Certainly no one is perfect, but depression isn’t a flaw in your character. It’s medical. You do have potential for greatness. Now enough with the sappy stuff. The Internet is home to a number of people groups. We have tech geeks, sports nuts, gamers, writers (howdy), video makers, etc. and etc. That said, the Internet provides a number of outlets to discuss and support members of such... Read the full article: Depression & The Internet: Welcome To Your Temporary Support Group |
| 5 DIY Gifts You Should Make For Your Geek This Valentine’s Day Posted: 10 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST  Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching, but you’ve got about a week left so don’t panic if you haven’t got them anything yet. Presents you make yourself are a thousand times more meaningful than some store-bought rubbish. So here are 5 awesomely geeky projects to have a go at – even if you’re not so talented in the craft department. Make a USB Digital Trove of Goodies Image from Photoflashdrive.com The modern equivalent of the mixtape, you can put together your own romantic digital treasure chest filled with memories and media to evoke emotion. Here are some ideas for exactly what... Read the full article: 5 DIY Gifts You Should Make For Your Geek This Valentine’s Day |
| 6 Tips for Getting More Gold, Cards, and Dust in Hearthstone Posted: 10 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST  Hearthstone is an excellent, free-to-play digital collectible card game. Blizzard wants you to spend real money on it, but it’s easy to play the game without ever spending a cent. Follow these tips to have an easier time earning gold, cards, and arcane dust in the game. Hearthstone is now in open beta, so anyone can play it. These tips apply to the open beta version, but they’ll probably continue to apply to the final one as well. Blizzard probably won’t tweak the reward structure too much at this point. Learn The Basics First, let’s go through a quick overview... Read the full article: 6 Tips for Getting More Gold, Cards, and Dust in Hearthstone |
| 3 Of The Best Durable And Ruggedized Laptops You Can Buy Today Posted: 10 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST  Tough laptops don’t come cheap. But that high price tag gets you a machine that won’t give in to rain or a dunk in a river; a device that will fall from great heights without a drop in performance; a gadget that will keep going on no matter what you throw at it. We’ve seen some of the toughest cameras you can buy, so what’s the best you can get when you look for the most durable, ruggedized laptops in the market today? Dell Latitude E6420 XFR ($3210.50) Dell has a reputation for making some fantastic laptops and it’s carried... Read the full article: 3 Of The Best Durable And Ruggedized Laptops You Can Buy Today |
| Angry Birds Star Wars II Gets Eight Classic Characters In The Carbonite Pack Posted: 10 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST  When it comes to the Galactic world of Star Wars, the more characters you have to play with, more fun it is. The new Carbonite pack for Angry Birds Star Wars II now features eight new characters from the movie franchise – or more accurately, six classic characters and two bonus ones just to make it more interesting. The bird-fling game sees the return of the coolest of them all; you can now play as Carbonite Han Solo and go up against Jabba the Hutt. The total roll-call of characters in their various avatars of pigs and birds read: Carbonite... Read the full article: Angry Birds Star Wars II Gets Eight Classic Characters In The Carbonite Pack |
| 9 Video Game Themed Valentine’s Day Gifts You Can Give This Year Posted: 10 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST  Valentine’s Day, the holiday that is all about reminding the person you love of just how much you mean it, is right around the corner. Some call it a “Hallmark Holiday” as it’s a day that seems to be all about giving gifts, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong to get in the spirit and have a little fun giving your better half a little something special for the occasion. What do you do if your significant other is a gamer? Simple, get something that is not only romantic, but that directly relates to their favorite hobby. This way you incorporate... Read the full article: 9 Video Game Themed Valentine’s Day Gifts You Can Give This Year |
| Why You Should Build An External HDD Enclosure From Card, And How Posted: 10 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST  That pile of old hard disk drives in your drawer – isn’t it time you tidied them up a little? One way you can do this is by making a card enclosure, enabling the easy storage of your HDD volumes as books on a shelf! I built my first PC in 1999; I still have the original hard disk drive for that self-build gaming PC, and every single one bought since. While my computer hardware has changed several times over the years, much of my personal data has remained the same. Video game saves, spreadsheets, book ideas, eBooks and coursework... Read the full article: Why You Should Build An External HDD Enclosure From Card, And How |
| Running Linux from USB: Are You Doing It Right? Posted: 10 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST  You’ve probably heard about live Linux environments on USB drives, but did you know that you can also keep data persistent or even do a full install on the USB drive? Here are your three options for carrying Linux in your pocket. Find out which method is best for you. Write a Live ISO to USB It’s been talked about many times before, but it’s become really easy to take an ISO image of your favorite Linux distribution and write it to any appropriately sized USB drive. From there, you can boot up a Linux system on any computer that... Read the full article: Running Linux from USB: Are You Doing It Right? |
| Bing Partners With The Hollywood Reporter For The Ultimate Oscars Guide Posted: 10 Feb 2014 06:30 AM PST  Before you watch the night of razzmatazz, it might be entertaining to go and visit Bing’s dedicated website for the upcoming Academy Awards. Now, Bing has shaken hands with The Hollywood Reporter to create the ultimate “Oscars resource guide“. The Bing powered website showcases the nominees for the 2014 Academy Awards with celebrity bios, photos,and news. All categories are covered with a dropdown. Each nominee is covered with a trailer from their movie, a brief description, links to the film page on The Hollywood Reporter and its review page. Dive into all the Web has to offer with a bright... Read the full article: Bing Partners With The Hollywood Reporter For The Ultimate Oscars Guide |
| How To Use Evernote To Manage Your Meetings Posted: 10 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST  Did you know that the latest tools provided by Evernote make it a very useful application for managing meetings? Organizing and managing meetings is a tedious yet important part of getting things done, and I didn’t realize how useful Evernote could be for creating meeting agendas and taking minutes until recently. The latest features for adding to-do lists, creating tables, sharing notes and notebooks, and attaching documents makes Evernote an ideal tool for managing meetings. If you’re new to Evernote, download our free unofficial Evernote manual to get up and running in no time. Create a Template All teams, committees and organizations have unique... Read the full article: How To Use Evernote To Manage Your Meetings |
| Vidd.me Gives YouTube A Run For Its Money With Painless Video Sharing Posted: 10 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST  Sharing photos wasn’t always easy. Remember the dark-days of PhotoBucket? Of bandwidth caps? When you had to create an account on some site just to share and view photos? The frustration this caused resulted in Imgur — a quick photo sharing site we all know and love. vidd.me aims to make us shake off our old ways of sharing videos and it wants to do for videos what Imgur did for photos. But is it any good? What is vidd.me? vidd.me lets anyone upload videos to the web, quickly, anonymously, and painlessly. Created by US based entrepreneur Alex Benzer; a... Read the full article: Vidd.me Gives YouTube A Run For Its Money With Painless Video Sharing |
| Logitech PowerShell Controller Review And Giveaway Posted: 10 Feb 2014 04:32 AM PST  One of the features of iOS 7 that didn’t get enough attention when it was announced is native support for physical controller for playing video games. One model that quickly jumped to the forefront is the Logitech PowerShell. The company is known for making high-end gaming peripherals, among plenty of other products, so going into our tests with this device, our expectations were certainly high. Does it stack up? We purchased a Logitech PowerShell iPhone 5/5s controller for this review. Now, we’re giving it away to one lucky reader! Read through to find out how you might be able to... Read the full article: Logitech PowerShell Controller Review And Giveaway |
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