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- Cool Websites & Tools – Log In With A Smartphone, Meet People With Your Voice, & Evernote-Powered Blogging
- Rovio Launches Angry Birds Friends Tournament, 15 New Levels for Bomb Bird
- 10 Things You Need To Know About Dating A Designer
- What Is The Most Addictive Mobile Game In Existence? [We Ask You]
- Skype for Outlook.com Goes Global, With Support For Mac Safari & PC HD Video Calling
- How To Root Your First Generation HTC One
- Upgrade From Windows XP To A Modern OS In 7 Simple Steps
- Team Working: 10 Tips For Effective Real-Time Online Collaboration
- Let Your Windows Phone Help You Relax, Sleep Or Study
- HP Offers Scholarship of 250,000 Dollars to Women Studying IT Security
- Developer Interview: What Does It Take To Get Over 500,000 Downloads For Your App?
- A Better Way To Disable Android Screen Lock When Connecting To Your Home Network
- Technophilia Episode 102 Live
- TED Unveils A Dynamic Video Player & Interactive Transcripts In A Revamped Website
- 5 Top Tips For Path Of Exile Newbies
| Posted: 05 Mar 2014 08:31 PM PST  Spotliter – Use Spotliter and your touch to capture stunning photos and extraordinary videos. 15 touch effects allow you to tap, slide or pinch your fingers on the camera screen to "spotlite" your photo or video. Apply effects, switch effects, and switch between front and back cameras. Clef – Forget your passwords, logging in is finally getting smarter. On a website requiring a login, Clef identifies you with your smartphone so you don’t have to remember anything. Clef works wherever you see the Clef Wave. You can also add Clef to your site for free. Dragdis – we are all... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Log In With A Smartphone, Meet People With Your Voice, & Evernote-Powered Blogging |
| Rovio Launches Angry Birds Friends Tournament, 15 New Levels for Bomb Bird Posted: 05 Mar 2014 07:30 PM PST  Rovio, makers for the super popular Angry Birds series of games, has updated two of the oldest games in the franchise. Angry Birds has gained a few new levels while Angry Birds Friends sees the launch of a new tournament. Back in November, the original Angry Birds saw the introduction of a new character, the Bomb Bird, which can emit a shock wave, a powerful circle of electricity followed by an almighty blast. And you could use it over the 30 new levels launched with it. Well, Bomb Bird has a short fuse and is ready to take on more... Read the full article: Rovio Launches Angry Birds Friends Tournament, 15 New Levels for Bomb Bird |
| 10 Things You Need To Know About Dating A Designer Posted: 05 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PST  Well, we’ve discussed the benefits of dating a geek. But what’s life like when you’re dating a designer? They’re geeks as well, right? via Yoke Read the full article: 10 Things You Need To Know About Dating A Designer |
| What Is The Most Addictive Mobile Game In Existence? [We Ask You] Posted: 05 Mar 2014 05:30 PM PST  Now that smartphones have successfully invaded society, mobile gaming has taken off in a huge way. Everybody who owns a smartphone can now be ensnared in the grip of a popular game that refuses to let them stop playing without some kind of intervention. Addiction is no laughing matter, unless Angry Birds is involved. Must. Stop. Playing. We want to know, What Is The Most Addictive Mobile Game In Existence? You can name just one game, so start thinking right now about which out of all the mobile games you have played over the years really caught your attention and... Read the full article: What Is The Most Addictive Mobile Game In Existence? [We Ask You] |
| Skype for Outlook.com Goes Global, With Support For Mac Safari & PC HD Video Calling Posted: 05 Mar 2014 04:30 PM PST  If you are an Outlook.com user and a Skype user, then it’s a good day for you. Microsoft has rolled out a previously geo-restricted feature to all countries – Skype integration with Outlook.com. There are also a couple new features and some bug squashing included. Some countries got the Skype for Outlook.com feature last year which were the UK, the US, Germany, France, Canada, and Brazil. Now, seven months later, everyone has it. If you are contemplating installing it, let’s take a moment to examine what it does. It is a plugin which lets you connect to your Skype contacts... Read the full article: Skype for Outlook.com Goes Global, With Support For Mac Safari & PC HD Video Calling |
| How To Root Your First Generation HTC One Posted: 05 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PST  Need to unlock your HTC One in order to install a root level app or a custom ROM? Unusually, there are no special utilities that enable this – instead, you must use HTC’s approved rooting method. Why Unlock A HTC One? You might be happy enough using your HTC One as intended by the manufacturer; alternatively, you may require the services of a backup app like previously-reviewed Titanium, or need to manage your system power management more effectively using something like Greenify, or want to be able to flash new ROMs. There are many other good reasons to root an... Read the full article: How To Root Your First Generation HTC One |
| Upgrade From Windows XP To A Modern OS In 7 Simple Steps Posted: 05 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PST  If you’re still using Windows XP on your computer, stop it — right now. Windows XP has become so ancient and outdated that even Microsoft is pulling its extended support for it in a little over a month. In order to stay safe and get the most out of your computer, it’s important to upgrade to a newer operating system. If you’re unsure how to do this, just follow these steps. Why Should You Upgrade From Windows XP? Windows XP has been out for over a decade. Meanwhile, the Windows operating system has undergone many iterations. Maintaining old versions forever... Read the full article: Upgrade From Windows XP To A Modern OS In 7 Simple Steps |
| Team Working: 10 Tips For Effective Real-Time Online Collaboration Posted: 05 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PST  Digital natives co-author articles, theses, and books online and in real-time. If you’re still sending back and forth emails with file attachments to collaborate on a document, you’re doing it wrong. Unless you share the same office, online collaborative writing is generally safer, more reliable, and more efficient than emails. On top of that it’s fun and easy. Let me help you get started. The Team Working remotely is tough. Thus it’s all the more important to get everyone on the same page and build the team. We have covered how team spirit trumps technology before. Members of the team... Read the full article: Team Working: 10 Tips For Effective Real-Time Online Collaboration |
| Let Your Windows Phone Help You Relax, Sleep Or Study Posted: 05 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PST  Is annoying noise interfering with your concentration? Is your bedroom too quiet to sleep in? Modern life brings many modern problems, and one of them is the difficulty to concentrate, relax, or sleep. Luckily, this modern problem also has a modern solution. We’ve told you about several white-noise apps already, but as usual, these were for Android and iOS. We also showed you some great websites that can help you relax. But what about all of you Windows Phone users out there? Don’t you get to relax? You certainly do, with a free app called Sleep. Sleep To Your Heart’s... Read the full article: Let Your Windows Phone Help You Relax, Sleep Or Study |
| HP Offers Scholarship of 250,000 Dollars to Women Studying IT Security Posted: 05 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PST  Some companies claim to support increasing the number of women in formerly male-dominated technology industries, but HP is putting its money where its mouth is with a $250,000 scholarship for women who plan to attend select universities across the U.S. and study IT security. HP announced the scholarship program on February 24th as part of a larger effort to improve IT security education. According to Art Gilliland, senior vice president and general manager at HP, there is a “pressing need” for skilled employees in the security industry today, and the scholarship program is one facet of the company’s initiative to... Read the full article: HP Offers Scholarship of 250,000 Dollars to Women Studying IT Security |
| Developer Interview: What Does It Take To Get Over 500,000 Downloads For Your App? Posted: 05 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PST  With over 500,000 downloads and an impressive 4.7-star rating based on more than 12,000 reviews, Llama is one of the most powerful automation apps for Android. I first reviewed it in 2011 and it kept getting better since. In many ways, this is an Android developer’s dream: To make an app that’s one of the top ten results when searching for a general term like “profiles” and get hundreds of thousands of users. So what does it feel like? The man behind Llama, Steven Carta, was kind enough to chat with me and share some of his thoughts on this.... Read the full article: Developer Interview: What Does It Take To Get Over 500,000 Downloads For Your App? |
| A Better Way To Disable Android Screen Lock When Connecting To Your Home Network Posted: 05 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PST  Is your Android smartphone smart enough to disable the screen lock as you connect to your home network? Well, with a location profile app like Llama it can be. A screen secured with a PIN or a pattern lock takes more than a swipe to be unlocked. You can set up a PIN from the device settings, usually through Settings > Security > Screen lock. Once this security measure in place, anyone who wants access to your device must get past the lock screen by entering the PIN. This is handy to prevent unauthorized access to your device. But when you’re... Read the full article: A Better Way To Disable Android Screen Lock When Connecting To Your Home Network |
| Posted: 05 Mar 2014 07:59 AM PST  Tech News Shiny new Apple thing features the word QUANTUM so it must be good. Apple tells investors it won't back down on environmental activism. Cook: “we do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive", then recommended that anyone who had a problem with that "should get out of the stock.” Coffee with a side of DRM: Keurig is locking out third party refills. Microsoft blog post asks for help getting XP users to upgrade. The comments, naturally, are mostly about switching to Linux. RadioShack closing 1,100 stores. British spies saw you naked on Yahoo. Internet trolls may... Read the full article: Technophilia Episode 102 Live |
| TED Unveils A Dynamic Video Player & Interactive Transcripts In A Revamped Website Posted: 05 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PST  TED.com, the universally popular platform for inspirational talks, has been redesigned from the ground up for its increasing user base. The new responsive website makes it watchable on any screen size – smartphone, tablet, or desktop. The redesign project has been going on since last year, and TED has now unveiled the final result for everyone. It should be revitalizing. These five points should get your attention… A new video player gets the major share of the webpage. It also comes with the promise of uninterrupted HD TED Talks. Variable bit-rate streaming delivers the optimum video quality depending on your... Read the full article: TED Unveils A Dynamic Video Player & Interactive Transcripts In A Revamped Website |
| 5 Top Tips For Path Of Exile Newbies Posted: 05 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PST  Path of Exile is an amazing action-RPG that has nudged out Diablo 3 and Torchlight II to earn the majority of my playtime. After fumbling through a few sessions with friends, however, I’ve discovered that the game can be intimidating to players who are new to unforgiving, old-school titles. PoE is a game with limited re-spec options, a bewildering skill tree, and boss monsters that hit like a dump truck even on normal difficulty. Anyone who leaps to it from Diablo 3, a game that practically plays itself in normal mode, may be frustrated in short order. There are some... Read the full article: 5 Top Tips For Path Of Exile Newbies |
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