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• Cool Websites & Tools – Optimize Images, World Underwater, & Send Encrypted Messages With One Click
• Caption Contest: The Real Amazon
• iOS Apps on Sale for May 9: Mindmaps, Reading Apps & Ubisoft Bargains
• Your Home Under Water – Google Street View Mod Hits Us With Global Warming Message
• The 8 Best Fitness Gadgets to Help You Get in Shape
• 5 Eco Labels For Electronics You Should Know
• Ubuntu Users: Here’s How To Upgrade To 14.04, “Trusty Tahr”
• Adobe Releases Adobe Voice: A Free Story Telling App For iPad
• How To Gather Your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & YouTube Feeds In One Place
• It’s Time For You To Come Back To Guild Wars 2
• Awesome Things You Can Automatically Import To Google Calendar
• Add Products From Twitter Directly To Your Amazon Cart With A Hashtag
• Twitter’s New Profiles Are Here: Make Use Of Them!
• Make Your Own Shortcodes And More, With These 7 WordPress Hacks
• Gridseed Mini ASIC Miner Review and Giveaway

Cool Websites & Tools – Optimize Images, World Underwater, & Send Encrypted Messages With One Click Posted: 09 May 2014 09:31 PM PDT Optimizilla – when using images on the Internet, it is important to optimize them so they are of minimal size but maximum quality. Using Optimizilla, you can upload up to 20 files in JPEG and PNG formats. Click thumbnails in the queue to select images. Use the slider to control the compression level and mouse/gestures to compare images. Click ‘Save’ to download the result. Twoople – makes it easy for others to chat with you. It allows anyone who clicks your personalized Twoople address to chat with you. They don’t need to download any apps and they won’t be asked... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Optimize Images, World Underwater, & Send Encrypted Messages With One Click

Caption Contest: The Real Amazon Posted: 09 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT “So how would you rate your Amazon shopping experience?” Got a caption? If you can think of a funny and witty caption, share it with us in the comments section and you’ll stand a chance to win a free geeky t-shirt! The caption of the week from “The Wifi West” was submitted by Rich P. Here’s the winning caption: Next thing ya know, they’ll be servin’ coffee. Congratulations, Rich! Read the full article: Caption Contest: The Real Amazon

iOS Apps on Sale for May 9: Mindmaps, Reading Apps & Ubisoft Bargains Posted: 09 May 2014 06:30 PM PDT 2014′s Mother’s Day App Store sales probably aren’t going to be of much interest to mom – but we’re grateful for them anyway. This week we have a feature-packed mindmapping tool, an excellent text-to-speech app that reads to you and Ubisoft’s first mobile game in the Assassins Creed series going cheap. If you’ve got an Android device don’t forget to check out our weekly round-up of Android sales too. Apps MagicalPad HD ($9.99, now $0.99) MagicalPad HD is a feature-packed mindmapping application for organising thoughts, planning projects and studying for exams. You can use mind maps to plan virtually anything, and MagicalPad certainly provides... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for May 9: Mindmaps, Reading Apps & Ubisoft Bargains

Your Home Under Water – Google Street View Mod Hits Us With Global Warming Message Posted: 09 May 2014 05:30 PM PDT June 5th is World Environment Day. As always, the focus is on the impact of global warming and its fallout on our shorelines. World Under Water is a Google Street View powered simulation that hopes to bring the message closer to home. No — it’s not cataclysmic yet, but the simulation of what your town or city could like when water breaks through is close enough. World Under Water is a collaboration of two marketing agencies, BBDO and Proximity Singapore along with climate change-centric crowdfunding platform CarbonStory. The dramatic Google Street View mod shows how our cities will look like... Read the full article: Your Home Under Water – Google Street View Mod Hits Us With Global Warming Message

The 8 Best Fitness Gadgets to Help You Get in Shape Posted: 09 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT There’s not many people in the world who wouldn’t like to lose a few kilos. Unfortunately, no matter how many gym memberships, New Year’s resolutions or diet programs we undertake, all but the most die-hard fitness fanatics seem to eventually let laziness get the better of them and slip into their old unhealthy habits. Yet there is hope. With the increasing onset of wearable tech, the Internet of things and smart gadgets, it is now easier than ever to get in shape. Here we take a look at some of the best fitness gadgets for you and your home. Spree... Read the full article: The 8 Best Fitness Gadgets to Help You Get in Shape

5 Eco Labels For Electronics You Should Know Posted: 09 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT Eco labels can help you identify greener and more energy efficient devices. They enable you — the consumer — to take sustainability concerns into account when buying new electronics. Mandatory labels also encourage manufacturers to develop better products. But what do the various labels stand for? ENERGY STAR (USA) The ENERGY STAR graces products and buildings that meet energy efficiency benchmarks set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The voluntary program is based on the Clean Air Act and the Energy Policy Act. The performance requirements are continuously adapted to improve energy efficiency. Since its introduction in 1992, the ENERGY STAR was widely... Read the full article: 5 Eco Labels For Electronics You Should Know

Ubuntu Users: Here’s How To Upgrade To 14.04, “Trusty Tahr” Posted: 09 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT Using Ubuntu? Here’s how to get the latest version. A few weeks ago Canonical released the next version of Ubuntu, 14.04 “Trusty Tahr.” We took an in-depth look at it, and showed why current users should upgrade and why Windows XP users should switch to it. But we never discussed how to do an upgrade if you’re a current user – we just mentioned how you can create bootable media for it. And upgrading is important – we have plenty of articles on different various aspects of Ubuntu that can be updated and why you should do it if you’re... Read the full article: Ubuntu Users: Here’s How To Upgrade To 14.04, “Trusty Tahr”

Adobe Releases Adobe Voice: A Free Story Telling App For iPad Posted: 09 May 2014 10:30 AM PDT Yesterday digital media solutions company Adobe released Adobe Voice, a self-contained story telling production app for the iPad. Similar to PowerPoint and Keynote, Adobe Voice allows users to create a voice narrated slideshow on the iPad. The app includes a collection of over 25,000 searchable stock icons and photos, plus thematic layouts with background music. In addition, users can choose from a wide assortment of fonts and colors, as well as import their own photos and graphics. Project slides appear in a timeline, with automatic motion effects, where they can be duplicated and rearranged, and their individual duration can be... Read the full article: Adobe Releases Adobe Voice: A Free Story Telling App For iPad

How To Gather Your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & YouTube Feeds In One Place Posted: 09 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT Why open four tabs for different social networks when you can get all that information in one place? Feedient brings together your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube feeds into a single page so that you can see it all in one glance, no tab-switching necessary. There are two important points to note here though. First, Feedient is currently in open beta. Everyone is free to start using it, but there might be some bugs and a few features might be added later. Second, Feedient isn’t meant for a power user on any network. Its purpose is to be a dashboard... Read the full article: How To Gather Your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & YouTube Feeds In One Place

It’s Time For You To Come Back To Guild Wars 2 Posted: 09 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT When it launched in 2012, there were plenty of reasons to be excited for Guild Wars 2. The game’s press and mainstream media joined together in showering it with accolades, and the game eventually boasted its position as the fastest selling western MMORPG launch ever, based on its first nine months available. But as competitors announced new projects and top dog World of Warcraft released its Mists of Pandaria expansion, Guild Wars 2 slipped out of the public consciousness. It’s fighting an uphill battle, including small Living Story content releases every month at no extra charge instead of publishing high... Read the full article: It’s Time For You To Come Back To Guild Wars 2

Awesome Things You Can Automatically Import To Google Calendar Posted: 09 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT Show me a full calendar, and I’ll show you a successful person. A calendar should be a tool that keeps every aspect of your life focused in one place, allowing you to worry less and accomplish more. The following are a few useful ways that you can import more important information into your Google Calendar. Google Calendar remains one of the most popular online time management tools, because it is so accessible from anywhere, and so well integrated with web apps and mobile tools that everyone uses.  In this article I’m going to share three distinct ways of automatically importing... Read the full article: Awesome Things You Can Automatically Import To Google Calendar

Add Products From Twitter Directly To Your Amazon Cart With A Hashtag Posted: 09 May 2014 07:30 AM PDT Amazon and Twitter have joined forces to provide an easy way for you to add products from your Twitter feed to your Amazon.com cart. From now on, if you see anything on Twitter that you want to buy, just hit the “reply” button to the tweet and type “#AmazonCart” (without the speech marks). This will place the item in your Amazon.com cart so you can buy it later. Obviously Amazon has to stock the item, otherwise it won’t work. Many companies are now turning to Twitter to advertise their wares. For example, if you were to go to the Nike... Read the full article: Add Products From Twitter Directly To Your Amazon Cart With A Hashtag

Twitter’s New Profiles Are Here: Make Use Of Them! Posted: 09 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT Twitter profiles have looked pretty boring for a long while – but it never really mattered. The short-form social network has always been about those precious 140-characters, and unlike Facebook or MySpace that came before it, customization still plays second fiddle. That said, the blue bird started rolling out a modern and wide three-column design a few months ago, and is now offering the new look to all users of the service. Here’s how to activate it today, and everything else you need in order to make the best of it. The New Layout Below is a screenshot of Twitter’s old two-column layout, which looks pretty old-hat by now.... Read the full article: Twitter’s New Profiles Are Here: Make Use Of Them!

Make Your Own Shortcodes And More, With These 7 WordPress Hacks Posted: 09 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT Plugins bother me – seeing a long list of them, each registering it’s own hooks and filters and … eugh. Sometimes a simple solution can be found with just a few lines in your functions.php file. Here are 10 of our favourites. Note that functions.php is a part of your theme, and as such any hacks that you place in there will be lost when you change theme. You’ll need to copy those you want to keep over to the new theme – it’s not difficult by any means, but something to bear in mind in case your site suddenly... Read the full article: Make Your Own Shortcodes And More, With These 7 WordPress Hacks

Gridseed Mini ASIC Miner Review and Giveaway Posted: 09 May 2014 05:30 AM PDT ASICs are game-changers in the world of crypto-currencies: the once GPU-intensive and power inefficient task of running a blockchain can now be handed over to Scrypt ASICs which use 1/20th of the power. A few months ago, most people refused to believe these things even existed – now I have two in my hands, one of which we’ll be giving away to a lucky reader. Are these the money-making machines we want them to be be? The Gridseed Mini ASIC Miner is available for $160 with power supply and free shipping. It’s a small, 5-chip device, but if you pay $1000, you’ll get the... Read the full article: Gridseed Mini ASIC Miner Review and Giveaway

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