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- Cool Websites & Tools – Monthly Shaves, System Scanner, & Schedule Social Media Deletions
- Funny But True Facts of Life: Tech Edition
- Do You Care What Happens To Google+? [We Ask You]
- Education For All: Volunteer In Coursera’s Global Translator Community
- Get More Likes On Your Facebook Photos Using Science [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- Track, Motivate, and Compete With Nike+ Running
- 5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With The WordPress Config File
- What To Do If You’re A Victim Of Online Credit Card Fraud
- The Best Vector Software For Mac Designers On A Budget
- Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4-inch Review and Giveaway
- What Happens When You Mix Colors With Sudoku? Blendoku
- 7 Ebook Readers For Your Mac Compared
- Breakfinity & Ringgz Give New Life To The Classic Brick Breaker
- Technophilia Episode 111 Live
- 4 Rules For Working With Tech Support When Your Site Goes Down
| Cool Websites & Tools – Monthly Shaves, System Scanner, & Schedule Social Media Deletions Posted: 30 Apr 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Typist – See how fast you can type with a quick typing test. The Typist includes 10 different typing tests, with options for 1, 2, or 3 minute tests. Features charts of your typing speed results so you can see your progress over time. Dollar Shave Club – couldn’t be simpler. Select one of the razors, pay one low monthly fee, and the razors will be sent right to your door. No more over-paying for fancy brand name shave tech. No more forgetting to buy your blades. Every new member gets a free compatible handle. Standards – is Jake Lodwick’s... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Monthly Shaves, System Scanner, & Schedule Social Media Deletions |
| Funny But True Facts of Life: Tech Edition Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Some facts of life are sad but true. We’ve taken a look at a few of these true life facts just a couple of weeks ago. To follow up, here are ten sad but true facts related to tech. Which have you experienced? via Truthfacts.com Read the full article: Funny But True Facts of Life: Tech Edition |
| Do You Care What Happens To Google+? [We Ask You] Posted: 30 Apr 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Google+ hasn’t exactly set the world alight. It’s done OK, building a sizable userbase thanks to Google’s insistence we all have a Google+ account – whether we want one or not. But it’s hardly Facebook or Twitter in terms of engagement. Which leads us to ponder whether anyone actually cares about Google+ and its ultimate fate. We suspect no one does, and that assumption, and the arguments for and against it, form the basis for this week’s We Ask You discussion. Google+, Google-, Google+-? We want to know, Do You Care What Happens To Google+? The future of Google+ is... Read the full article: Do You Care What Happens To Google+? [We Ask You] |
| Education For All: Volunteer In Coursera’s Global Translator Community Posted: 30 Apr 2014 05:30 PM PDT  Coursera is calling on volunteers. The MOOC platform has launched The Global Translator Community (GTC) program that will attempt to add translated subtitles to the 600 plus video courses on the site. Coursera observes that only 40% of “Courserians” live in English-speaking countries. Translated video courses will immediately open up educational opportunities to a wider swathe of people around the world. Once the program kicks off, translated subtitles will be displayed for all students through a "closed captioning" tool at the bottom of the video player. According to Coursera, the demand for translated subtitles for the video courses is a... Read the full article: Education For All: Volunteer In Coursera’s Global Translator Community |
| Get More Likes On Your Facebook Photos Using Science [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 30 Apr 2014 04:30 PM PDT  So, you’ve heard that photos are the way to game Facebook Edgerank and that’s not enough for you. Now you want to know which photos are the best? So did a bunch of researchers. And they found out. It doesn’t matter if you’re trying to make a professional Facebook page more interesting, a Facebook group popular or improve your Facebook presence. If you’re going to go through the effort of putting a photo on Facebook, you want people to see it. And pictures with more likes get seen more, then get more likes, and sometimes even go viral. So it’s... Read the full article: Get More Likes On Your Facebook Photos Using Science [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| Track, Motivate, and Compete With Nike+ Running Posted: 30 Apr 2014 03:00 PM PDT  You can find fitness apps by the dozen on your phone’s app store. From weight tracking apps like Libra to weight training apps, there are many tools out there to make your mobile device a partner in your quest to get healthy. Nike+ Running on iOS and Android provides the tracking, motivation, and social features you need to start running, or keep running. Whether you’re just taking up distance running for the first time, or you’ve lost track of how many marathons you have behind you, Nike+ Running is a useful tool. Track Nike+ Running can track your run using... Read the full article: Track, Motivate, and Compete With Nike+ Running |
| 5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With The WordPress Config File Posted: 30 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT  At the heart of every WordPress install is the wp-config.php file, a file so sacred and shrouded in mystery that every WordPress user knows it should never be touched. Or should it? In fact, there’s a lot of lesser known useful hacks that can be without damaging WordPress in any way, and it’s about time you took your WordPress skills up a notch. Read on for 5 of my favourite wp-config tricks. This article is strictly intended for self-hosted WordPress.org sites, not those hosted on WordPress.com (what’s the difference?). Before you start, know that you can potentially stop WordPress from... Read the full article: 5 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With The WordPress Config File |
| What To Do If You’re A Victim Of Online Credit Card Fraud Posted: 30 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT  People presume that you’ve been visiting “dodgy” websites if you admit that your credit card has been compromised. But that’s not usually the case: for instance, just last year, the massive discount retailer Target was hacked. Potentially, 40 million US customers could’ve had their data stolen. If your credit card has been hacked, you’re probably feeling a bit embarrassed and angry. You’re no doubt panicking too, like you’re racing against the clock to reclaim your account. Yes, there is some degree of urgency, but hackers are at their most dangerous when they’re invisible. Once you know there’s something wrong with... Read the full article: What To Do If You're A Victim Of Online Credit Card Fraud |
| The Best Vector Software For Mac Designers On A Budget Posted: 30 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Adobe Illustrator might be the gold standard when it comes to vector software for the Mac, but you don’t have to spend a fortune to create crisp mock-ups and icons. Just like editing raw photographs on OS X, free and cheap variants exist and they provide some compelling alternatives. If you’re looking for vector software to take on your next design project, design an icon or simply because you’d like an introduction to the world of vector imagery, you might want to start with free or cheap software first. Here are five great tools for the job. Vectors, Eh? Vector graphics... Read the full article: The Best Vector Software For Mac Designers On A Budget |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4-inch Review and Giveaway Posted: 30 Apr 2014 11:30 AM PDT  Rejoice! Samsung has released a new line of Samsung Galaxy tablets, and they boast some impressive hardware specifications that are sure to get your attention. But that begs several questions: What’s different? Is the hardware really that impressive? Should you buy it? We got ourselves the $369.99 8.4-inch version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro to play around with. We’ll take an in-depth look at the tablet and answer all of those questions. Then, at the end of this review, you’ll be able to enter the giveaway to win this tablet! About Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro The Galaxy Tab Pro... Read the full article: Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4-inch Review and Giveaway |
| What Happens When You Mix Colors With Sudoku? Blendoku Posted: 30 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT  How hard can it be to match differently colored squares so that they blend perfectly? Pretty hard, it turns out. That’s the premise behind Blendoku, the game that’s a mish-mash of color-blending and sudoku that will challenge you through 475 free levels. It might sound a little odd, but give it a shot,and you’re bound to be addicted. What Do You Mean Sudoku With Colors? Sudoku is a popular game to mix with – take Drop7 for example, one of last year’s most addictive games that mixed Tetris with Sudoku – but Blendoku takes this in a completely different direction. Whereas you would... Read the full article: What Happens When You Mix Colors With Sudoku? Blendoku |
| 7 Ebook Readers For Your Mac Compared Posted: 30 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Read books on your Mac. Sure, tablets and e-ink devices are better ways to read than your computer – and even your phone is nicer than a laptop if you’re on the couch. But sometimes you need to open a book on your Mac. Maybe you’re using a text as a reference for a project, or maybe you just want to read a few chapters of a novel at your desk. Whatever the reason, choosing which app to open your books for depends on a few factors. Books you buy from a particular service (iBooks, Kindle and so on) can... Read the full article: 7 Ebook Readers For Your Mac Compared |
| Breakfinity & Ringgz Give New Life To The Classic Brick Breaker Posted: 30 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT  You have probably played Brick Breaker, the arcade game where you have to move a paddle to bounce a ball so that it breaks bricks. Two new games have revived that classic in new avatars, one for Android and another for iOS. Like any super-hit arcade game, the charm of Brick Breaker lies in its simplicity—it’s what makes Angry Birds and other games so addictive. Breakfinity for iOS and Ringzz for Android each put a unique spin on this simple classic, and they’re both awesome. Breakfinity (iOS) When you first start playing Breakfinity, everything feels familiar. You instinctively know what to do because... Read the full article: Breakfinity & Ringgz Give New Life To The Classic Brick Breaker |
| Posted: 30 Apr 2014 08:01 AM PDT  Tech News If your Twitter account is hacked, you're probably spamming people. James is spamming people on Twitter because he's a hack. Fake study is "accepted" by for-profit scientific journals. Article was built entirely by copy-pasting sentences from other articles, out of context. Google, Intel and Facebook will all start funding open source projects. Can this stop the next Heartbleed? Majoo: Aerro is important to the cloud industry, but not necessarily consumers. Hulu is blocking VPN users. Are the good times over? To the moon: Dogecoin sponsors a Nascar racer, and the car officially looks awesome. Ex-Google employee accuses the... Read the full article: Technophilia Episode 111 Live |
| 4 Rules For Working With Tech Support When Your Site Goes Down Posted: 30 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT  How do you host your website? You might choose to host it on the bare-metal of a dedicated server, or on a cost-effective VPS. If you’re anything like me, you probably choose to host your site on a managed, shared-hosting package, mostly out of pure laziness. After all, who wants to do server management in their spare time? The other day, my website was automatically upgraded to the latest and greatest WordPress; version 3.9. Not long after, everything broke. Suddenly, I was unable to create new blog posts. I couldn’t log in. I couldn’t see my Jetpack statistics. Nothing worked.... Read the full article: 4 Rules For Working With Tech Support When Your Site Goes Down |
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