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- What If Game Of Throne Houses Were Businesses?
- How Do You Manage Your Passwords? [We Ask You]
- Are You Sharing Your Location On Facebook Without Knowing? [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- $7 For a Calendar App? Is Calendars 5 Really Worth It?
- Windows XP Running Your ATM Or Ticket Machine? Time To Buy Online!
- Don’t Leave Sensitive Files Exposed, Hide Them With Hider 2 for Mac
- Try Your Hand at These 3 Great iOS Collectible Card Games
- How To Configure Android USB Tethering on Mac OS X
- Buying A Paper Shredder For Your Home Office
- Quickly Insert & Share Your Best Photos With A New Button In Gmail
- Technophilia Episode 109 Live
- Creativity Unleashed: 3 Online Art Projects That You’ll Love
- 8 Educational Instagram Accounts Any College Student Should Follow
- Taking a Closer Look at the Dangers of Wireless Radiation
- FREE EBOOK: Project Gutenberg – More Than Just Free Books
| What If Game Of Throne Houses Were Businesses? Posted: 16 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT  What if the houses from Game of Thrones – you know, the Starks, the Lannisters – lived in the present day and owned businesses? Which sectors do you reckon they’d be involved in? We’ve taken a look at other imagined pop culture characters’ business cards, but now it’s time for the Game of Firms by Mordi Levi! Arryn Airlines Lannister Luxury Sport Cars Greyjoy Canned Fish Martell Flatware Tyrell Flowers Night’s Watch Flashlights Targaryen Steak House Baratheon Winery Stark Winter Wear Read the full article: What If Game Of Throne Houses Were Businesses? |
| How Do You Manage Your Passwords? [We Ask You] Posted: 16 Apr 2014 06:30 PM PDT  With everything online rightly requiring a password to be chosen, stored, and entered, it’s getting increasingly difficult to manage these random collections of numbers, letters, and symbols. Difficult, but not impossible. With your help perhaps we can turn difficult to easy. If A Thief Has Your Key, Change The Locks We want to know, How Do You Manage Your Passwords? This question is asked in light of the Heartbleed bug recently discovered in OpenSSL. One simple programming error led, two years later, to the Internet being broken. And it will remain broken until all of the affected websites update OpenSSL... Read the full article: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? [We Ask You] |
| Are You Sharing Your Location On Facebook Without Knowing? [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 16 Apr 2014 04:30 PM PDT  Have you been giving your stalkers your address inadvertently? Take a look and find out. Even if you think you’ve got all your privacy settings properly in place on Facebook, you may be surprised to find a big privacy breach in the form of your Facebook Places map. What’s even scarier is that if you’re using your smartphone to upload photos you might accidentally be giving all of your Facebook friends the exact location of your house, your office and where your kids go to school. It might be worth checking this out. What’s On Your Facebook Map? Your Places... Read the full article: Are You Sharing Your Location On Facebook Without Knowing? [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| $7 For a Calendar App? Is Calendars 5 Really Worth It? Posted: 16 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Apple has done a pretty good job with the default calendar application on iOS. It has the core features that you need for keeping track of your schedule, and it’s relatively easy to use. With that in mind, paying $7 for an application that keeps track of a schedule might seem a little crazy, but that’s just what Readdle wants you do with it’s app, Calendars 5. Is it really worth the cost of admission, or are you better off just using the application that comes freely installed out of the box? That’s just what I want to find out today. Note:... Read the full article: $7 For a Calendar App? Is Calendars 5 Really Worth It? |
| Windows XP Running Your ATM Or Ticket Machine? Time To Buy Online! Posted: 16 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Windows XP goes end-of-life in April 2014, after which Microsoft will no longer release bug fixes. If you’ve upgraded your PC then everything should be fine – but what about your bank? Have they upgraded? The Risk Isn’t Necessarily With You Have you upgraded from Windows XP yet? If not, you can choose from several different options, but don’t feel that the onus is completely on you to stay secure. While it is important to ensure your home computer system is as up to date as possible – thereby ensuring that your copy of Windows is equipped with all of... Read the full article: Windows XP Running Your ATM Or Ticket Machine? Time To Buy Online! |
| Don’t Leave Sensitive Files Exposed, Hide Them With Hider 2 for Mac Posted: 16 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Mac OS X comes with a powerful drive encryption tool known as FileVault, but if you’d like to hide and encrypt your private files from plain sight, an app like Hider 2 ($19.99) makes it easy. If your Mac is shared or openly available to other people, it’s not a good idea to leave all documents exposed for prying eyes. If your MacBook is stolen, there are undoubtedly files you would rather an intruder did not access. Hide and encrypt the lot with Hider 2. Hider 2 Hider 2 is the name given to the completely overhauled and redesigned MacPaw... Read the full article: Don’t Leave Sensitive Files Exposed, Hide Them With Hider 2 for Mac |
| Try Your Hand at These 3 Great iOS Collectible Card Games Posted: 16 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Looking to take your collectible card habit beyond dead trees? Your iPad has access to digital editions of some of the longest-running collectible card games (CCGs) in existence – and entry is free! Card games require careful planning and strategic thinking, but the experience can be addictive, rewarding and is even better with a few friends. Try your hand at these three shining examples without paying a penny. Magic 2014: Duels of the Planeswalkers The granddaddy of all CCGs, Magic: The Gathering has been around for 20 years, and it’s still going strong. The iOS adaptation is a unique take on... Read the full article: Try Your Hand at These 3 Great iOS Collectible Card Games |
| How To Configure Android USB Tethering on Mac OS X Posted: 16 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Most modern smartphones are equipped with Wi-Fi tethering, which allows you to share your phone’s data connection with a computer over Wi-Fi (yes, even Windows Phones). Theoretically, Android phones can also be tethered over USB instead of Wi-Fi. This has a number of advantages; you won’t get interference from other wireless devices, and the difference in latency is remarkable. On Windows this usually works as advertised, but Mac OS X is missing some essential USB network drivers. Without those drivers, Android USB tethering is essentially unusable. This incompatibility is rarely mentioned by Google and Apple alike (as in: not at all),... Read the full article: How To Configure Android USB Tethering on Mac OS X |
| Buying A Paper Shredder For Your Home Office Posted: 16 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Not concerned about identity theft? How about cyberstalking? Are you sure that no one is going through your garbage? How about your paper recycling? Sure, no one is parking beside your house and going through the bags, but what about after it’s picked up? Dumps aren’t renowned for their security. You should consider getting a paper shredder for your home office. Remember, it’s not just the papers that you throw out that can have sensitive information on them. What about CDs and DVDs? Or bank and reward cards? Cloning cards is really easy and happens frequently. Many shredders today will also... Read the full article: Buying A Paper Shredder For Your Home Office |
| Quickly Insert & Share Your Best Photos With A New Button In Gmail Posted: 16 Apr 2014 08:30 AM PDT  Google just added another nice little feature to the way we share images through email…or to be more specific – Gmail. Compose a new email and you will see a image icon with “New” hovering above it. This is a new way to quickly access and email your backed up photos from your mobile device. Try it out and you realize it’s a time-saver. If you have Auto Backup enabled on your smartphone, the new quick access feature saves a few seconds and some bother as it makes all your photos and videos backed up on Google+ (Google Photos) immediately... Read the full article: Quickly Insert & Share Your Best Photos With A New Button In Gmail |
| Posted: 16 Apr 2014 08:01 AM PDT  Tech News See the first thing posted on a bunch of websites. Happy tax day! An annual reminder: Intuit is preventing your taxes from being simpler. A flashlight app collected the location of millions of Android users. It's possible to make money on the web – Internet ad revenue passes broadcast for first time. Those drones Facebook were gonna use to connect developing countries with social media? Google bought them instead. Gaming New Civ game goes to space! Nintendo makes seemingly dumb move with Smash Bros. release date. Two thirds of mobile players ditch a game in less than 24 hours. Read the full article: Technophilia Episode 109 Live |
| Creativity Unleashed: 3 Online Art Projects That You’ll Love Posted: 16 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT  From simple doodles to elaborate paintings, art can soothe, entertain, and inspire in equal measure. With the Web making geographical barriers disappear, you can delve into the works of various artists with ease. We have already featured some useful museum websites and online art galleries. Today we bring you a selection of three online visual art projects that you’ll fall in love with. They Draw & Travel What do you get when you bring together individuals who have a passion for drawing as well as for places? You get They Draw & Travel (TDAT). Set up by the brother-sister duo... Read the full article: Creativity Unleashed: 3 Online Art Projects That You’ll Love |
| 8 Educational Instagram Accounts Any College Student Should Follow Posted: 16 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT  When used correctly, any social network can become a great educational asset rather than an unintelligent distraction. You’re on those social networks a lot anyways, so why not make the best of them? But doing that means finding the right people to follow. Depending on your interests, that may be more difficult than it sounds. There are so many people and organizations on them, it’s hard to pick out the good ones from a sea of choices. To get you started, take a look at these eight great accounts any Instagraming college student should follow. NASA Goddard If you love... Read the full article: 8 Educational Instagram Accounts Any College Student Should Follow |
| Taking a Closer Look at the Dangers of Wireless Radiation Posted: 16 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Bigfoot, UFOs and electromagnetic field sickness. What do they all have in common? One thing. They are all topics that really loony people talk about a lot. Why is this? Why does the idea of a new species living deep in the forest draw in the fruitcake crowds, when scientists discover new species of animals all the time? Why are UFOs considered so much “tin-foil-hat” material, when there are strange military experimental craft and unusual weather phenomenon going on over our heads all the time? And most importantly (for the purpose of this article), what about the so-called electromagnetic “radiation”?... Read the full article: Taking a Closer Look at the Dangers of Wireless Radiation |
| FREE EBOOK: Project Gutenberg – More Than Just Free Books Posted: 16 Apr 2014 05:30 AM PDT  If you’ve heard of Project Gutenberg, you probably know it for its vast collection of free public domain books. But do you know everything it offers and how to make the best of the site? With an army of volunteers scanning, proofreading, and editing public domain works, being able to discover obscure works of literature is now easier than ever. Project Gutenberg, which has over 45,000 books on offer (at the time of writing), aims to ensure that no book will ever truly disappear. Project Gutenberg also offers audiobooks and the chance to help get involved in the project. FREE... Read the full article: FREE EBOOK: Project Gutenberg – More Than Just Free Books |
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