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- Game Of Thrones In Numbers: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know
- Trials Fusion Review And Let’s Play: Flipping, Tricking, and Raging
- Lucidpress: The Free Online InDesign Alternative For Your Creative Needs
- Take Amazing Photos On Your Lumia With Nokia Camera
- 4 Hidden Benefits Of Learning A Foreign Language If You Are A Geek
- Build Your Own Weather Dashboard In This Google Spreadsheet Master Class
- Get Tech Skills You Need At These Top 7 Online Course Sites
- May Day Super Steals: Get the Moto X, Cheap SSDs and More! [Tech Deals]
- Need To Access iCloud On Your Android? We Can Help!
- What Is a Linux SWAP Partition, And What Does It Do?
- 8 Worthy Alternatives To The iPad’s Native Mail App
- Looking For A Markdown Editor For Linux? Try These 3 Solid Options
- Beamtask Is The Simplest Way To Assign And Share Tasks
- Facebook Anonymous Login, Disney Infinity Marvel, The Onion Clickhole [Tech News Digest]
| Game Of Thrones In Numbers: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know Posted: 01 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Did you know that in 2012, 146 newborn American babies were given the name Khaleesi? Talk about fandom! Has it ever occured to you why conversations in Dothraki sound so real? That’s because the fictitious language has over 3,000 words, and is still being developed by the Language Creation Society. To top it all off, the team at Alltime Numbers — the people behind this video — had to watch this epic television show just to count the number of scenes with exposed breasts and murders. What a job! Read the full article: Game Of Thrones In Numbers: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know |
| Trials Fusion Review And Let’s Play: Flipping, Tricking, and Raging Posted: 01 May 2014 03:00 PM PDT  Trials Fusion, the sequel to Trials Evolution, is finally here. It’s available on PC, PS4, Xbox One, and previous generation consoles, and we’ve sat down to play the game on PC. Games coverage on the Internet is constantly changing. Lots of gamers turn to YouTube to watch others play a game before deciding whether they want to buy it. Others prefer the more traditional game review to help them decide. Why choose? Today, we are bringing you the best of both worlds, a somewhat traditional review of Trials Fusion, and a video showing what the gameplay offers. It’s the best... Read the full article: Trials Fusion Review And Let’s Play: Flipping, Tricking, and Raging |
| Lucidpress: The Free Online InDesign Alternative For Your Creative Needs Posted: 01 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Adobe InDesign is a fantastic desktop publishing program, but is still prohibitively expensive for many who only need a casual page layout app. The monthly subscription model of the Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) is still not quite right for casual projects and minimal budgets. So, what is a casual designer to use as an InDesign replacement? After a bit of research, I decided to try Lucidpress. One of Lucidpress’s main advantages is that it’s a free InDesign alternative available online. For all the new Chromebook users out there who need a page layout tool, this is a major selling point... Read the full article: Lucidpress: The Free Online InDesign Alternative For Your Creative Needs |
| Take Amazing Photos On Your Lumia With Nokia Camera Posted: 01 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Nokia’s series of Lumia devices, running Windows Phone 8, can all take awesome photos, some better than others. The Nokia Camera app helps to redress the balance, offering total control over things like white balance, ISO and exposure time from within the viewfinder. Using A Nokia Lumia 920+ For Photos Equipped with a Carl Zeiss lens and PureView technology, the Nokia Lumia 920 series, 1020, 1520 and Icon devices are among the best camera phones on the market. A recent collection of competition entries gives a good idea of what can be produced using these smartphones as cameras. When used... Read the full article: Take Amazing Photos On Your Lumia With Nokia Camera |
| 4 Hidden Benefits Of Learning A Foreign Language If You Are A Geek Posted: 01 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT  When you’re an Anglophone geek, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that you don’t have to learn a foreign language. After all, nearly every piece of software comes with an English localization. Most programming languages use English words and phrases. Indeed, English is overwhelmingly the language of the Internet. And yet, there’s never been a better reason and a better time to learn a foreign language. We’ve talked about ways in which you can learn a language over the Internet, but we’ve not really talked about the benefits learning a new language can deliver to a geek. Indeed, there... Read the full article: 4 Hidden Benefits Of Learning A Foreign Language If You Are A Geek |
| Build Your Own Weather Dashboard In This Google Spreadsheet Master Class Posted: 01 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT  “Computer! Show me all current weather conditions within 300 miles of my current location” “Yes Captain” “Now, show me the humidity levels for those locations, charted by longitude and latitude on a map” “Yes Captain” Would you like to turn your Google Drive account into an intelligent weather analysis system, and live out this Star Trek fantasy? Okay, you might not be able to turn Google Spreadsheets into an artificially intelligent computer system that will respond to your voice commands, but in this article I’ll show you how you can import weather data from the Internet and have your own... Read the full article: Build Your Own Weather Dashboard In This Google Spreadsheet Master Class |
| Get Tech Skills You Need At These Top 7 Online Course Sites Posted: 01 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT  The 21st Century workplace isn’t any different from the amphitheaters of ancient Rome. You are fighting someone brandishing a tech skill in demand, or running to barely stay ahead of the corporate lion going cutting edge. There is no war here – it’s a battle every day. The great thing is that you will not end up as vulture feed. The Roman arena was a prison. The 21st Century workplace sets you free with multiple gates of learning. Online learning is a disruptive technology whose time has come. Even though, there are genuine criticisms against the effectiveness of massive online... Read the full article: Get Tech Skills You Need At These Top 7 Online Course Sites |
| May Day Super Steals: Get the Moto X, Cheap SSDs and More! [Tech Deals] Posted: 01 May 2014 09:30 AM PDT  Retailers will call it the Mother’s Day sale – don’t be fooled. With the impending release of new summer products, retailers dump a lot of older stock. For example, both Motorola and Apple announced new devices targeted for this summer. Consequently, prices on older products will drop over the coming month. For example, this week we’ve got some great sales on MacBook Airs, the Moto X, solid state drives and more! Tops Smartphones and Tablet Deals We’ve got an Apple iPad Air for $70 off and a great deal on the Lenovo MIIX tablet! Motorola Moto X Smartphone (MAY FIRST ONLY)... Read the full article: May Day Super Steals: Get the Moto X, Cheap SSDs and More! [Tech Deals] |
| Need To Access iCloud On Your Android? We Can Help! Posted: 01 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT  iCloud is a great way to keep your e-mail, contacts, calendar, and tasks synced across your Apple devices. But what if you decide to switch from an iPhone to an Android phone? Or if you get a Mac for work? Apple doesn’t always play nice with other ecosystems, but you can access iCloud from your Android with the right apps. E-mail Every Android device comes with the Gmail app as well as an app called Email, and this is the app that we’ll be using to access your iCloud e-mail. You can also use an alternative e-mail app, if you... Read the full article: Need To Access iCloud On Your Android? We Can Help! |
| What Is a Linux SWAP Partition, And What Does It Do? Posted: 01 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Most Linux installations recommend that you include a SWAP partition. This may seem odd to Windows users, who are used to having their entire operating system on a single partition. So what does a SWAP partition do, do you even need one, and how big should it be? These are all important questions that, with the right answers, can seriously improve your system’s performance. Overflow from Memory In it’s simplest sense, the SWAP partition acts as an overflow to your (RAM) memory. If your memory is filled up completely, any additional applications will be run off of the SWAP partition rather... Read the full article: What Is a Linux SWAP Partition, And What Does It Do? |
| 8 Worthy Alternatives To The iPad’s Native Mail App Posted: 01 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT  A tablet is a great way to view and send email. The device's portability and large screen makes it available anywhere you go, yet it's not as annoying to type on as a phone and there are many compatible keyboards. The iPad's native Mail app isn't for everyone, however, so here are some alternatives that you may prefer. Gmail We'll start with the obvious choice first. Gmail has long been available for the iPad, and it's pretty good alternative; in fact, it's the app I personally use for email. Since it's the official app for Gmail, setting up a Gmail... Read the full article: 8 Worthy Alternatives To The iPad's Native Mail App |
| Looking For A Markdown Editor For Linux? Try These 3 Solid Options Posted: 01 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT  If you’re looking for a dependable Markdown editor for Linux, we have three great options for you to consider. Markdown is a excellent format in which to write all things Web. With easy-to-use syntax, it bridges the gap between plain text and HTML smoothly. While Windows and Mac users, and even Android users, have many Markdown editors to choose from, Linux users will find fewer options. Having said that, there are a few decent options for us Linux users; you’ll find a few of them below. But first things first: if you’re not sure why and how you should be... Read the full article: Looking For A Markdown Editor For Linux? Try These 3 Solid Options |
| Beamtask Is The Simplest Way To Assign And Share Tasks Posted: 01 May 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Your to-do list is not always about stuff you have to do. Much of the time, it’s about stuff others have to do, but which affects you directly. Even a great to-do app like Wunderlist won’t help then. Fortunately, Beamtask is a free iPhone app that is designed to make it easy to add these items to someone else’s to-do list. What’s Beamtask All About? Beamtask is, at its core, a to-do list app where each task is assigned to a person. That person can be you, in which case it’s your own to-do list. Or that person can be anyone in... Read the full article: Beamtask Is The Simplest Way To Assign And Share Tasks |
| Facebook Anonymous Login, Disney Infinity Marvel, The Onion Clickhole [Tech News Digest] Posted: 01 May 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Today in Tech News Digest, Facebook launches Anonymous Login, MacBook Air prices are slashed, Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes is announced, YouTube adds branding intros, The Onion teases Clickhole, Coursera seeks translators, and a Canadian family admit 2014 is better than 1986. Facebook Introduces ‘Anonymous Login’ there has to be some sort of catch on this "anonymous login" thing that Facebook just introduced — developers would HATE getting less info — ?_? (@MikeIsaac) April 30, 2014 Facebook has used its annual f8 developer conference to announce Anonymous Login. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new Anonymous Login during his keynote... Read the full article: Facebook Anonymous Login, Disney Infinity Marvel, The Onion Clickhole [Tech News Digest] |
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