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- Cool Websites & Tools – Childhood Literacy, Design Crowdsourcing, & Where Am I?
- Key Concept Makes Signing In Secure and Quick, Anywhere
- How Do You Watch TV? [We Ask You]
- Do You Really Need A Premium Mouse To Be A Competitive PC Gamer?
- How To Set Follow-ups & Reminders On Emails Without Installing Anything
- Graphics Aren’t Everything: 5 Ugly Games That Are Crazy Fun
- How To Pay With Your PayPal Balance On Sites That Don’t Accept It
- Apple Free Recycling Program Now Covers Every Retail Store Around The Globe
- Four Places To Find Your Windows 8 Product Key
- Google Analytics Video Tutorial For Beginners
- Mailbox on iOS Gets Update With Auto-Swipe and Dropbox Integration
- Technophilia Episode 110 Live
- Hide & Find Any File On Mac OS X
- Ace Your Next Exam Using Flashcard Apps for iPhone or iPad
- 9 Beautiful Alternatives To The Default Linux Icon Sets
| Cool Websites & Tools – Childhood Literacy, Design Crowdsourcing, & Where Am I? Posted: 23 Apr 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Frontback – is a community of people who love being creative or just sharing their daily life, be part of it, take amazing photos to share with your friends and with people around the world. With Frontback you take a photo with the front camera, another with the back camera, and share them both in a single image. Literacy Center – Early childhood education is a team sport. It is most successful when parents, teachers, and children play and learn together. Research says it is important for children to speak, read, and write in their first language. For this reason,... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Childhood Literacy, Design Crowdsourcing, & Where Am I? |
| Key Concept Makes Signing In Secure and Quick, Anywhere Posted: 23 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Ever borrowed a friend’s tablet, smartphone or computer to check your bank balance, Facebook account or watch Netflix; and forgot to sign out? Sure, if you’re happy to provide your friends with free Netflix access, go for it – but I’m sure you wouldn’t want them to know how much moolah you have in your bank account, am I right? This is where Key steps in — Key is a master key to the digital world, designed to be on your person at all times. It’s essentially a secure digital locker (I know, the irony) containing your online passwords. The... Read the full article: Key Concept Makes Signing In Secure and Quick, Anywhere |
| How Do You Watch TV? [We Ask You] Posted: 23 Apr 2014 06:30 PM PDT  How we watch television has changed dramatically. Shows can be viewed on a range of different devices. They can be watched live, recorded for later, or downloaded from the Internet. And then there is piracy. With all of these options to choose from, we feel a healthy debate about TV is long overdue. Square Eyes Squared We want to know, How Do You Watch TV? It’s a simple question with a multitude of possible answers. Whether you’re a traditionalist watching TV on a square box in your living room or a hipster watching TV on your tablet in a coffee... Read the full article: How Do You Watch TV? [We Ask You] |
| Do You Really Need A Premium Mouse To Be A Competitive PC Gamer? Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Razer. Logitech. SteelSeries. They all produce “gaming mice” that are supposed to enhance your performance in games that rely heavily on mouse usage. Whether you’re trapped in the addiction vortex of Dota 2 or simply nailing headshots in a first-person shooter, you may often wonder: “Do I need a special mouse to compete with everyone else?” It’s a valid question and one that can be readily answered. Let’s take a look at the features offered by gaming mice to see whether or not you’d benefit from them. Gaming Mouse Benefit #1: Precision Optics There are many who will tell you... Read the full article: Do You Really Need A Premium Mouse To Be A Competitive PC Gamer? |
| How To Set Follow-ups & Reminders On Emails Without Installing Anything Posted: 23 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Email and speed go hand in hand. So when you need to quickly schedule a message for later or send yourself a reminder to follow up on something, turn to Reme.io or ReminderBaba, two fantastic web apps. Gmail users can set a reminder to follow up on an email or schedule it to be sent later with mxHero Toolbox, but that doesn’t solve all your needs. First, it’s only for Chrome. And of course, it works only with Gmail. Reme.io and ReminderBaba offer a more elegant solution. Reme.io The sheer speed with which Reme.io lets you operate is what makes... Read the full article: How To Set Follow-ups & Reminders On Emails Without Installing Anything |
| Graphics Aren’t Everything: 5 Ugly Games That Are Crazy Fun Posted: 23 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Gaming and cutting-edge graphics have always gone hand-in-hand for obvious reasons. Virtual worlds are more immersive when they appear more realistic or, in absence of photo-realism, are stylized with competent artistic direction. But not all games look good. Even popular titles from studios with hundreds of employees can end up less appealing than a baboon's rear-end. Here are five fun games that've received strong reviews in spite of ugly graphics. Minecraft Mojang's Minecraft is the quintessential example of a great game with terrible graphics. The blocky terrain and nostalgic, low-resolution textures exist not just because of lazy design; instead, they... Read the full article: Graphics Aren't Everything: 5 Ugly Games That Are Crazy Fun |
| How To Pay With Your PayPal Balance On Sites That Don’t Accept It Posted: 23 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT  I’m at a point in my Internet-obsessed life where PayPal is the preferred payment method that I choose to pay for just about anything. If you’re a self-employed person who works online and from home, I can imagine you being in a similar predicament. PayPal is convenient and easy to use. You can pay for anything with PayPal. However, there are a whole lot of places to shop online that don’t seem to be as crazy about PayPal as I am. Amazon is a good (and unfortunate) example. They don’t accept payments via PayPal. However, there’s a crafty little maneuver... Read the full article: How To Pay With Your PayPal Balance On Sites That Don’t Accept It |
| Apple Free Recycling Program Now Covers Every Retail Store Around The Globe Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:30 AM PDT  Apple has just reiterated that it is committed to its green initiative and recycling. The company announced that every Apple retail store around the world will take back Apple products for recycling. Apple also has a gift card program for used iPhones, iPads and Macs deemed good enough to be resold (as determined by the PowerOn reseller service) in the U.S. Products that couldn’t be re-used didn’t get the gift cards, but were instead responsibly recycled for free. Apple also took in computers from other brands under this scheme. Now, in the latest update, Apple has covered all its products under... Read the full article: Apple Free Recycling Program Now Covers Every Retail Store Around The Globe |
| Four Places To Find Your Windows 8 Product Key Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Windows 8 and 8.1 PCs no longer have a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) sticker with their product key printed on it. This helps prevent theft — people can’t just glance at a sticker on your laptop to get your Windows product key. On the other hand, you can’t simply look at a sticker on your Windows PC when you reinstall the operating system. You’ll have to find the 25-digit product key elsewhere. Having your product key is necessary if you want to download Windows 8 or 8.1 installation media from Microsoft. Their downloads require a valid product key. It’s also... Read the full article: Four Places To Find Your Windows 8 Product Key |
| Google Analytics Video Tutorial For Beginners Posted: 23 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT  You know the old movie quote, “If you build it, they will come”? Yeah, well, on the Internet that’s bull. On the Internet it takes hard work, creative thinking and constant monitoring. Where monitoring comes in, the best service around for the job is still the powerhouse known as Google Analytics. This week I’ll share with you a number of valuable data points you can retrieve from Google Analytics if you know where to look. At first glance, GA can appear to be a vast, complicated mix of charts and numbers, but it really doesn’t have to be that way.... Read the full article: Google Analytics Video Tutorial For Beginners |
| Mailbox on iOS Gets Update With Auto-Swipe and Dropbox Integration Posted: 23 Apr 2014 08:30 AM PDT  Mailbox is one of the more popular ways for users to keep track of their never-ending inbox on iOS, aside from Apple’s default mail client, of course. The popular email application has just received a new update that has some really useful features like Dropbox sync and an auto-swipe feature that actually learns the patterns of a user and makes mundane tasks automatic. This is the update that sends the mail client to version 2.0, which is when we see a big shift in version number, like this one, we expect some big changes to come along with it. While Mailbox... Read the full article: Mailbox on iOS Gets Update With Auto-Swipe and Dropbox Integration |
| Posted: 23 Apr 2014 08:01 AM PDT  Tech News Enterprising criminals in Shropshire use drones to find bedroom weed growers, then rob them. What are they going to do – tell the police? Lens blur in the new Google Camera app. Software making up for terrible cameras just keeps happening. Who should be paying for securing the web? OpenSSL is severely underfunded. XP is a security risk; our commentors disagree. Why? Reddit removes r/technology from front page. Dangers of logging into public WiFi. "Big Short" investor: we're in a technology bubble. Remember that router patch to fix the admin backdoor? It wasn't patched, just hidden. You're all... Read the full article: Technophilia Episode 110 Live |
| Hide & Find Any File On Mac OS X Posted: 23 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT  There’s no straightforward way to quickly hide or reveal hidden files on Mac OS X as there is on Windows – but hide and seek on a Mac is not a particularly hard game to play. Using a few simple Terminal commands you can quickly hide secrets and reveal system files, as well as seeing what other hidden files and folders have been cluttering up your Mac over the years. It’s Terminal time. Marking Files As Hidden On Windows, you can simply right click on a file and check a box to hide it. This is easily defeated by forcing... Read the full article: Hide & Find Any File On Mac OS X |
| Ace Your Next Exam Using Flashcard Apps for iPhone or iPad Posted: 23 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT  If you want to start acing school exams, you’re probably going to want to start using flashcards. In addition to reading annotations, they offer one of the best proven methods for studying for an exam. Just as there are some awesome flashcard apps for Android, the iTunes App Store has a healthy selection for iOS too. One of the best apps for the job is Flashcardlet, a completely free download. Flashcardlet (Free) It took several months to convince my son to try using flashcards to study for his 8th grade science and history exams, but when he finally did, he quickly realized how he... Read the full article: Ace Your Next Exam Using Flashcard Apps for iPhone or iPad |
| 9 Beautiful Alternatives To The Default Linux Icon Sets Posted: 23 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Some of the default icon sets that come with Linux distributions are just plain ugly. Have you ever looked at the default icon set for Gnome – the real one? While it works, it could look so much better. Thankfully, we can fix this rather easily. Here’s how you can switch icon sets, and which ones I recommend trying out. How to Install To install an icon set, you’ll first want to install Gnome Tweak Tool, a utility that allows you to access more configurability settings. This will allow you to switch between installed icon sets. Next, find your desired icon... Read the full article: 9 Beautiful Alternatives To The Default Linux Icon Sets |
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