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- Cool Websites & Tools – Name Your Own Price, Emoji Weather, & Clothes From TV Shows
- Skype Steals Google Hangouts’ Thunder With Free Group Video Calls
- Caption Contest: The Wifi West
- iOS Apps on Sale for May 3: Notability & Jenga Go Free
- 3 Dash Cam Apps For Android, Compared: Which One Can Protect You Best?
- Twitter Hack: How To Add Yourself To Your Own Twitter List
- 3 Flappy Bird Clones for Android That Are Actually Great
- 5 Ways You Can Use Facebook To Help & Inspire Your Friends
- Love Temple Run? 5 Alternative Endless Running Games For Android
- The Complete Guide To Featured Thumbnails And Image Sizes In WordPress
- 4 Seemingly Innocent Online Activities That Track Your Behavior
- 7 More Issues With Windows 8.1 That Can Be Fixed
- Land A Job With A Résumé That Stands Out In The Crowd With Sumry
- Microsoft Patches XP, Vine YouTube, Mute Twitter, Life Simulator [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Name Your Own Price, Emoji Weather, & Clothes From TV Shows Posted: 02 May 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Theorem – is a name-your-own price marketplace. You let each designer know what you will pay. Theorem collect all the offers, and the designer decides at which price to sell. Only the highest offers are accepted. The average accepted offer is 30% off the sticker price. Look Birdy – is an app that attracts childrens attention by using bird sounds and your camera’s flash in a whole new way. No longer will you have to publicly humiliate yourself in an attempt to get your precious children to look at the camera, Look Birdy does this for you. Works pretty well... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Name Your Own Price, Emoji Weather, & Clothes From TV Shows |
| Skype Steals Google Hangouts’ Thunder With Free Group Video Calls Posted: 02 May 2014 08:30 PM PDT  Many people on Google Hangouts use it because it allows group chats with ten people. Skype now steals a bit of their thunder with the announcement of free group video calling. Earlier, at least one user had to be a premium paying subscriber to arrange a group chat. Skype free group calling is now available on Windows desktop, OS X, and the Xbox One. It will roll out to other platforms (like the Modern UI Skype app for Windows 8.1) in the near future. It will stay free. Skype was always good for one-to-one video calls. Now, Skype’s group video calling... Read the full article: Skype Steals Google Hangouts’ Thunder With Free Group Video Calls |
| Caption Contest: The Wifi West Posted: 02 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Buck and Wayne agonise as their favourite watering hole will soon fill up with a bunch of no good hippies. Got a caption? Let us have it! Every caption submitted is an entry into our t-shirt competition where you’ll win one of our geeky designs! Congratulations to Warren B and Saikat B, who submitted the best captions in the previous contest “You’ve Cracked It“. Warren’s caption was “Talk about cracking open a system to get to work!” and Saikat submitted “When I called him to build a kick-ass budget PC, this isn't what I had in mind.” Great job, both! Read the full article: Caption Contest: The Wifi West |
| iOS Apps on Sale for May 3: Notability & Jenga Go Free Posted: 02 May 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Everyone loves free or massively reduced stuff, right? One of the joys of owning an iOS device –be it an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch – is the wealth of apps available for the platform. This translates into some tasty deals that change on an almost daily basis. This week’s freebies include digital inking and note-taker Notability and classic family puzzler Jenga, as well as a smattering of other tasty discounts. Apps Notability ($2.99, now free) Apple’s App of the Week this week is digital inking and note-taking app Notability. You’ve probably already got a decent note-taking app (everyone does, and they often... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for May 3: Notability & Jenga Go Free |
| 3 Dash Cam Apps For Android, Compared: Which One Can Protect You Best? Posted: 02 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Interested in getting a dash cam? Whether you want an extra set of eyes in the case of an accident, or you’re just curious about your own driving habits, there’s no doubt that having a dash cam can help you. If you’re not sure you need a dash cam at all, watch the following video. It’s a news story about how prevalent dash cams are in Russia due to insurance fraud and police corruption. It might just convince you that having a dash cam is a good idea where you live too. But should you spend a few hundred dollars... Read the full article: 3 Dash Cam Apps For Android, Compared: Which One Can Protect You Best? |
| Twitter Hack: How To Add Yourself To Your Own Twitter List Posted: 02 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Have you ever created the perfect Twitter list to share with people only to realise that you can’s add yourself to the list? It can really ruin the usefulness of your list. Yeah, I’m afraid Twitter seems to think that the list of “Pete’s BBQ mates” no longer needs to have “Pete” on it. Why? Who knows. Perhaps Twitter expect lists to be private instead of shared. Maybe featuring in your own list is considered “gaming the system” rather than just “useful”. The point is, you used to be able to do it and now you can’t. And there are... Read the full article: Twitter Hack: How To Add Yourself To Your Own Twitter List |
| 3 Flappy Bird Clones for Android That Are Actually Great Posted: 02 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT  The problem with Flappy Bird clones is that there are just so many of them, and most of them are plain terrible. They’re clunky, they don’t work right, or they forcefully push in-app purchases or intrusive banners. Fear not, for your quest is over: Below you’ll find three games that aren’t just as good as the original Flappy Bird — they might be better. On the off-chance you’re not sure what this Flappy thing is all about, you should read our Short Story of Flappy Bird. Golfy Bird I’ll start with the best one: Golfy Bird, from publisher Noodlecake. This... Read the full article: 3 Flappy Bird Clones for Android That Are Actually Great |
| 5 Ways You Can Use Facebook To Help & Inspire Your Friends Posted: 02 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Facebook is one of those things – like many other culture-changing phenomena – that people either come to love or grow to hate. It isn’t so much the brand “Facebook” that will drive whatever our future world becomes. It will be the idea of instantly and constantly sharing inspirations, dreams and even failures of our lives with family and friends who care enough to follow us. Facebook is powerful. It can spark viral scams the likes of which nothing else on the Internet has been able to accomplish. Social networks can be used to focus mass protests faster than ever before.... Read the full article: 5 Ways You Can Use Facebook To Help & Inspire Your Friends |
| Love Temple Run? 5 Alternative Endless Running Games For Android Posted: 02 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Call them run-from-the-screen or call them endless runners, games like Temple Run are amazing fun. And while Joel’s covered some of the most fun and frantic runner games for mobile, there are many you might not even be aware of. Temple Run was undoubtedly the game that brought this genre into the spotlight, but there are several other games that are well worth your time and money; promising to keep you entertained for a long time without getting repetitive or boring. But instead of giving you a laundry list of titles to try out, we decided to focus on five... Read the full article: Love Temple Run? 5 Alternative Endless Running Games For Android |
| The Complete Guide To Featured Thumbnails And Image Sizes In WordPress Posted: 02 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT  A picture is worth a thousand words – unless it’s been resized inappropriately, in which case it’s worth negative one-hundred words. Okay – so maybe that’s a lesser known version of an old saying or something I just made up, but the point is: WordPress is very powerful when it comes to thumbnails and image sizes – you just need to know how to deal with them. Read on for everything you need to know about image sizes in WordPress and managing featured images. Note: this post is pretty heavy with PHP – nothing too complicated, but you might want to read... Read the full article: The Complete Guide To Featured Thumbnails And Image Sizes In WordPress |
| 4 Seemingly Innocent Online Activities That Track Your Behavior Posted: 02 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Online privacy is a big topic these days. Many people have heard about potential privacy issues with big name players like Facebook, Google, and the NSA. However, your privacy may be at risk in less obvious places, ones that you should be aware of… Social Share Buttons The web is plagued with social share buttons. On the one hand, they’re a wonderful innovation that has really helped to speed the spread of information across the Internet. On the other hand, some companies have found a way to use these same buttons to track users and build profiles on them. The... Read the full article: 4 Seemingly Innocent Online Activities That Track Your Behavior |
| 7 More Issues With Windows 8.1 That Can Be Fixed Posted: 02 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Windows 8.1 has been available since October 2013, with its first major update having just been released on April 8th. In light of the release, we take the chance to follow up on our original 7 Windows 8.1 Upgrade Issues and How to Fix Them article with another look at some problems and issues that users have faced when using Microsoft’s flagship operating system. Broken Native App Tiles on the Start Screen The cause of the problem is unknown, but several users (myself included) reported having unresponsive titles on the start screen after updating. The ‘dead tiles’ are the leftovers from... Read the full article: 7 More Issues With Windows 8.1 That Can Be Fixed |
| Land A Job With A Résumé That Stands Out In The Crowd With Sumry Posted: 02 May 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Building a résumé is time-consuming and difficult. At the end of it, you’re left with a boring piece of paper that doesn’t do justice to you as a person or as a potential employee. Sumry offers you an easy way to do something that stands out. But is it really better than a traditional résumé? Let’s take a look and find out. What Is Sumry? There are plenty of résumé-building services out there — we’ve shown you some that use your LinkedIn profile, others that help you make a resume from scratch, and even how to use PowerPoint for your résumé. But... Read the full article: Land A Job With A Résumé That Stands Out In The Crowd With Sumry |
| Microsoft Patches XP, Vine YouTube, Mute Twitter, Life Simulator [Tech News Digest] Posted: 02 May 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Today in Tech News Digest, Microsoft patches Windows XP, Vine does a YouTube, Twitter experiments with muting, a Google Glass teardown, Amazon smartphone leaks, a real-life Dropbox, and the creator of Minecraft’s new game. Microsoft Backtracks On XP Support “DON’T USE WINDOWS XP WE WILL NEVER PATCH IT AGAIN EXCEPT WHEN WE TOTALLY PATCH IT AGAIN.” You blinked. http://t.co/moSpDAxJT2 — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) May 2, 2014 Microsoft has released an emergency patch fixing the vulnerability recently discovered in all versions of Internet Explorer. As well as the expected patches for Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.1, Microsoft has issued... Read the full article: Microsoft Patches XP, Vine YouTube, Mute Twitter, Life Simulator [Tech News Digest] |
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