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- Chrome Windows, Virgin Network, Candy Crushed, iPhone 6 Queue [Tech News Digest]
- Cool Websites & Tools – Practice Questions, Be Hired On eBay, & Reddit Interactive Map
- Microsoft Makes Office 365 Cloud Secure With Multi-Factor Authentication
- Will You Be My Geeky Valentine’s?
- How Long Will Facebook Survive? [We Ask You]
- Apple Introduces iTunes Radio To Their Australian Customers
- Games Are More Than Fun – This Is What Flow Free Can Teach You
- Learn From The Best: 10 Professional Photographers You Should Follow On Instagram
- Remember Arkanoid? 4 Breakout Clones You Can Play Today
- Here’s A Quick Way To Jazz Up Your Android Home Screen
- IMO Goes After Skype and Google Hangouts With Video and Audio Chatting
- 10 Incredible Steam Games You Can Buy For Under $10
- 4 Things You Can Do To Prevent Panic When Gmail Goes Down
- Technophilia Episode 100 Live
- Autodesk Pixlr Touch Up Adds 100+ New Photo Effects & New Adjustment Options
| Chrome Windows, Virgin Network, Candy Crushed, iPhone 6 Queue [Tech News Digest] Posted: 13 Feb 2014 03:30 AM PST  Today in Tech News Digest, Windows is coming to Chrome OS, new Apple TV hardware is teased, Virgin America launches its own social network, the Candy Crush Saga trademark war bags another victim, IMO adds voice chat and video chat, Kik adds a Web browser, and the queue for the iPhone 6 has already begun. Windows Comes To Chrome OS Chrome OS users can access a Windows desktop and apps – Google is slowly but surely undermining Microsoft. http://t.co/7DEWrwIbRT — Michael Wiebrands (@morfaine) February 13, 2014 Microsoft Windows is coming to Chrome OS, with a deal between Google and VMware... Read the full article: Chrome Windows, Virgin Network, Candy Crushed, iPhone 6 Queue [Tech News Digest] |
| Cool Websites & Tools – Practice Questions, Be Hired On eBay, & Reddit Interactive Map Posted: 12 Feb 2014 08:31 PM PST  World Weather – Initially based on the weather information from Google Maps, this is an interactive globe showing the weather anywhere in the world. It is now using information from Wunderground. Click on the globe and zoom in, or type in the name of a location. Learningpod – is a collection of 47,000+ questions that you can access for free. Research shows practicing questions is one of the best ways to learn. Learningpod makes practice easy. Find the questions you need in the growing library or contribute your own questions. Every question and pod comes with a summary that tells... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Practice Questions, Be Hired On eBay, & Reddit Interactive Map |
| Microsoft Makes Office 365 Cloud Secure With Multi-Factor Authentication Posted: 12 Feb 2014 07:30 PM PST  Microsoft has finally given users some peace of mind by introducing optional multi-factor authentication in Office 365. In the same announcement, the company said the feature will arrive in Office 2013 this year. The feature is a no-cost “update” and covers all Office 365 variants and subscriptions — Office 365 to Office 365 Midsize Business, Enterprise plans, Academic plans, Nonprofit plans, and standalone Office 365 plans. Multi-factor authentication adds another layer of security to the login by requiring a second validation after the initial password. It establishes the user is genuine with a phone call, text message, or an app... Read the full article: Microsoft Makes Office 365 Cloud Secure With Multi-Factor Authentication |
| Will You Be My Geeky Valentine’s? Posted: 12 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST  This Friday, ladies across the globe will feel a certain need to be seduced with chocolates and flowers. Men, as usual, retaliate against this corporate holiday, forced upon us by greeting card companies and tradition. Unless it has a geeky theme — that makes everything better. Yoda In Love You Complete Me You Auto-Complete Me Coffee Addiction Super Mario Valentine 8-bit Hearts Robot I Heart You Darth Vader Together We Can Rule The Galaxy You’re The Obi-Wan For Me Your In My Range Will You Be My Player 2? Read the full article: Will You Be My Geeky Valentine’s? |
| How Long Will Facebook Survive? [We Ask You] Posted: 12 Feb 2014 05:30 PM PST  Facebook has been with us for an incredible 10 years, though it started life as Thefacebook and wasn’t opened up to everyone (over the age of 13) until 2006. Now, it’s a public company with a userbase numbering well over 1 billion people located around the world. But success in the past and present does not guarantee success in the future. Facebook’s longevity therefore forms the basis for this week’s We Ask You discussion. 10 More Years? We want to know, How Long Will Facebook Survive? You’re invited to give your opinion on the matter, telling us, and the thousands... Read the full article: How Long Will Facebook Survive? [We Ask You] |
| Apple Introduces iTunes Radio To Their Australian Customers Posted: 12 Feb 2014 04:30 PM PST  With the launch of iOS 7 last year came iTunes Radio, but at that time, there was one major hiccup – it was only available in the United States, due to licensing issues. But now iTunes Radio has gone down under to the land of kangaroos and hats with corks. Yes, that’s right. The many Bruce’s of Australia can now use iTunes Radio. The service runs on iPads, iPhones, iPods running iOS 7, the Apple TV, and on iTunes 11 on the Mac or PC. You can choose from over 100 stations, and music from the iTunes store. It takes... Read the full article: Apple Introduces iTunes Radio To Their Australian Customers |
| Games Are More Than Fun – This Is What Flow Free Can Teach You Posted: 12 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST  Is life a game? Arguably not, but since games often resemble everyday life in many different ways, plenty of life lessons can be deducted from them. A simple and fun puzzle game called Flow Free can teach you a thing or two about problem solving, cooperation, and strategy. Flow Free is available as an HTML5 web app, as well as on Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8, and for Windows 8.1. Flow Free is also one of our best Android and iPhone games. About Flow Free Briefly, your challenge is to connect all the dots on the grid, without leaving any spot... Read the full article: Games Are More Than Fun – This Is What Flow Free Can Teach You |
| Learn From The Best: 10 Professional Photographers You Should Follow On Instagram Posted: 12 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST  With 150 million active users on Instagram, it’s always a challenge wading through the millions of photos posted on the mobile app on a daily basis. Here at MakeUseOf, we like to help out a little, and uncover some interesting people worth following. Whether it’s gems we think you shouldn’t be missing out, great nature photographers, interesting travel photography feeds, or even Instagram hashtags you should keep tabs on, there’s a ton of excellent Instagram users we think you should be following. But what about actual professional photographers? Instagram has had its share of criticism from some professional photographers who... Read the full article: Learn From The Best: 10 Professional Photographers You Should Follow On Instagram |
| Remember Arkanoid? 4 Breakout Clones You Can Play Today Posted: 12 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST  Who remembers the original Arkanoid? Alongside Asteroids, Tetris, and Space Invaders, Arkanoid (a more sophisticated version of Breakout) was one of the defining titles of the dawn of video games. You may not recognize the name itself, but you’d most certainly recognize the gameplay – blocks that are broken by a bouncing ball and paddle. Decades after its debut, the Breakout genre still lives on in the form of clones. Available on multiple platforms – including PCs, mobile devices, and the web – these clones innovate and expand on the gameplay of the original Breakout to deliver games that are... Read the full article: Remember Arkanoid? 4 Breakout Clones You Can Play Today |
| Here’s A Quick Way To Jazz Up Your Android Home Screen Posted: 12 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST  Getting a custom home screen for your Android device is a great idea. But if you don’t have enough time to spend on that right now, you can give the existing home screen a mini makeover with a fresh wallpaper and a new icon set to match. We recently posted an in-depth tutorial on how to create a gorgeous Android home screen for yourself. If you want to save that process for another day, but still want to brighten up your home screen, the following method can work as an excellent stopgap solution. What’s more, it’s quick and easy. All... Read the full article: Here’s A Quick Way To Jazz Up Your Android Home Screen |
| IMO Goes After Skype and Google Hangouts With Video and Audio Chatting Posted: 12 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST  What do you get when you cross Facebook, Google Hangouts and Skype? IMO.IM, that’s what! On Monday, IMO launched a newly designed interface that takes its former multiprotocol instant messenger app and completely overhauls it – now adding both video and voice calling functionality. On top of this, IMO has transformed its user interface from the grey and white to a newly designed platform that looks like a cross between Google Plus and Facebook. The new web-based interface offers a status update stream called a “broadcast”, as well as all of your imported contacts on the far right, and live... Read the full article: IMO Goes After Skype and Google Hangouts With Video and Audio Chatting |
| 10 Incredible Steam Games You Can Buy For Under $10 Posted: 12 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST  New games can be expensive, sucking $60 (or more) from your bank account, but there are plenty of games available for far less. The same money can buy you hours of additional entertainment if you pick older titles instead of the latest and greatest, and there's plenty to choose from; Steam currently lists almost 3,500 games under $10. But which are the best? Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Want to shoot some people in the face? Of course you do, and there are few games better for it than Counter-Strike. Though now a decade old, it's easy to see why the game... Read the full article: 10 Incredible Steam Games You Can Buy For Under $10 |
| 4 Things You Can Do To Prevent Panic When Gmail Goes Down Posted: 12 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST  Does the world really end when Gmail goes down? It is pretty easy to take Gmail for granted because, like Microsoft Windows or that stray eyelash you can’t seem to get rid of no matter how many times you gouge your own eyes out, it is always there. But when Gmail goes down, it seems like the whole world just stops. Twitter is instantly abuzz with people panicking that Gmail is down and they don’t know what to do. Instead of panicking, here are some things you can try that may make you feel better when Gmail is out of sorts.... Read the full article: 4 Things You Can Do To Prevent Panic When Gmail Goes Down |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2014 07:59 AM PST  This week we have a special episode 100. We can’t give away everything, as we want to leave you some surprises, but we will be having some guests on this week’s show. No outline. No plans. Think of it is a celebration of all things us, because we are awesome. Read the full article: Technophilia Episode 100 Live |
| Autodesk Pixlr Touch Up Adds 100+ New Photo Effects & New Adjustment Options Posted: 12 Feb 2014 07:30 AM PST  In a major update, Pixlr Touch Up has added 100 new overlay effects and new adjustment tools to the popular app for Chrome and Chrome OS. In a strong nod to the Instagram generation, you’ll find vignetting, light painting, bokeh, fireworks, and light leaks as the new members for overlay effects. The touch-up tools are the key components of the app, allowing casual and pro-photographers the luxury of quickly making corrections in their photos without firing up more heavyweight photo-editing software. The new tools add to the usefulness. Autodesk said that most of the updates come from their other popular... Read the full article: Autodesk Pixlr Touch Up Adds 100+ New Photo Effects & New Adjustment Options |
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