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- Cool Websites & Tools – Android Screen Recordings, Compare Two Items, & Dumb Domains
- 9 Ways To Be More Productive
- Splicing Adverts Together For Comedy Purposes? Thanks YouTube! [Stuff to Watch]
- Hackers Steal Google Passwords Using Advanced Phishing Techniques [Updates]
- 4 iOS Apps For Hiding Your iPhone Photos
- Want To Try Ubuntu Touch? Here’s How
- 4 Unexpected Ways To Make The Best Of Powerful Online Discussions
- 3 Ways to Stream Live Gaming Action From Your PC
- Android Follows iOS’s Lead & Gets Its Own Yahoo News Digest App
- 6 YouTube Cooking Channels Where Professional Chefs Share Their Secrets
- 5 Upcoming Strategy Games To Keep An Eye On
- Take Your Tunes Mobile With Your Rewards Points And The Oontz Angle [Rewards]
- Learn From The Best: 3 Brands That Are Nailing It On Pinterest
- Bit.ly Compromised, Users Advised To Change Passwords
- 8 Android Net Boosters Tested: Real Or Placebo? You’d Be Surprised
| Cool Websites & Tools – Android Screen Recordings, Compare Two Items, & Dumb Domains Posted: 12 May 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Sketch Vid – Use SketchVid to create videos of your drawings and share them with your friends on Instagram and Facebook. It's the perfect app to share your artistic talent and techniques with everyone. Draw anything you want and SketchVid will convert your drawing into a 15 second video from a blank canvas to the final masterpiece. Recordable – is the easy way to create high quality screen recordings on Android, with or without root. If you don’t have root, a Windows, Mac or Linux computer is required to complete the installation, but after this it’s not required to make... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Android Screen Recordings, Compare Two Items, & Dumb Domains |
| Posted: 12 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT  If you’re wondering why your to-do list keeps getting longer, and yet you’re not getting much done — it’s pretty obvious you have a few productivity goblins around. There are a few ways to boost your productivity – they’re as simple as doing the most important tasks first, and not multi-tasking. If you feel that you’re just not achieving enough with what little time you have, perhaps you should refocus: beginning with this list. What’s your secret way of boosting productivity? Click to enlarge. via ninjainfographic.com Read the full article: 9 Ways To Be More Productive |
| Splicing Adverts Together For Comedy Purposes? Thanks YouTube! [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 12 May 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Websites like ours rely on advertising to pay the bills – but that doesn’t mean you have to like them. TV adverts are particularly relentless, hammering their message deep into our thick consumer skulls by means of repetition and catchy slogans. Spurred on by the Commercial Cuts subreddit, YouTube’s talented community has decided to have some fun with television advertising with some clever editing. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never look at them the same way again. Still Want A Halfords Bike? Halfords are a British retailer who sell car tyres, two-stroke and bicycles; and their 2011 advertising campaign was particularly touching. I’d like to think... Read the full article: Splicing Adverts Together For Comedy Purposes? Thanks YouTube! [Stuff to Watch] |
| Hackers Steal Google Passwords Using Advanced Phishing Techniques [Updates] Posted: 12 May 2014 05:30 PM PDT  Anti-malware firm Bitdefender is reporting that hackers are using more sophisticated techniques of acquiring Google account passwords. Since many users have their Google accounts linked to plenty of other services, this can lead to devastating results for anyone who falls for the attack. Additionally, hackers can purchase apps on the Play Store, access documents through Google Drive, steal personal information through Google+, and more. Essentially, hackers send an email to user informing them that their account will be locked within a day if they don’t click a link to increase their storage. The link directs to a site that mimics Google’s login page, but... Read the full article: Hackers Steal Google Passwords Using Advanced Phishing Techniques [Updates] |
| 4 iOS Apps For Hiding Your iPhone Photos Posted: 12 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT  If you want to keep photos away from prying eyes, sometimes an iPhone passcode just isn’t enough. If you hand your iDevice over to a client to see graphs you spent a good portion of your day making, you don’t want them accidentally swiping left and seeing the embarrassing photos of you with mates. It doesn’t look very professional and won’t leave a great impression once the meeting is done. Luckily, there are apps to that can hide those images from snoopers. Dropbox (free, premium from $9.99/month) Set up in 2007, Dropbox now boasts over 275 million users, and there’s a good chance you’re among... Read the full article: 4 iOS Apps For Hiding Your iPhone Photos |
| Want To Try Ubuntu Touch? Here’s How Posted: 12 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is hard at work on Ubuntu Touch – an operating system aimed for smartphones and tablets. They’ve even released some images that can be installed on the Nexus 4, the Nexus 7 (2013 WiFi only), and the Nexus 10. There’s also unofficial support for the Nexus 5, which we reviewed, and Nexus 7 (2013 WiFi+LTE). If you don’t have any of these devices, don’t worry – you can still try out the mobile operating system using an emulator on your Ubuntu computer. What’s Ubuntu Touch? Ubuntu Touch received plenty of publicity when Ubuntu was ran... Read the full article: Want To Try Ubuntu Touch? Here’s How |
| 4 Unexpected Ways To Make The Best Of Powerful Online Discussions Posted: 12 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT  The Internet is a den of trolls, a place where critical thinking and deep conversation is often rare and unwanted. Fortunately, there are places where you can find serious discussions that are well-moderated and more meaningful than the usual drivel. When you encounter such threads, how can you make the most of them? Looking past the memes and jokes and shallow talk of the mainstream Internet, it’s clear that polite and insightful dialogue can be useful for networking, developing relationships, encouraging thought, and engaging with audiences. Does that sound like something you’d like? Here’s what you should keep in mind... Read the full article: 4 Unexpected Ways To Make The Best Of Powerful Online Discussions |
| 3 Ways to Stream Live Gaming Action From Your PC Posted: 12 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Game streaming is a weird genre of entertainment. If you went back to the early days of Doom and Quake and told people that one day they would flock to the Internet to watch other people play video games, not only wouldn’t they believe you, you’d also secure your place as the least useful time traveler in history. That said, the appeal is undeniable. A lot of people are having a lot of success on game streaming sites like Twitch, and the results are often genuinely entertaining. So let’s say that you want to get in on that sweet live-streaming fame and... Read the full article: 3 Ways to Stream Live Gaming Action From Your PC |
| Android Follows iOS’s Lead & Gets Its Own Yahoo News Digest App Posted: 12 May 2014 10:30 AM PDT  Under the leadership of Marissa Mayer, Yahoo seems to be going gangbusters lately with regular initiatives, roll-outs, and new features. The latest feature to be introduced is the Yahoo News Digest app, which has now followed in iOS’s footsteps by jumping onto the Android platform, as well as going international. Twice a day (8.00am and 6.00pm), in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, Yahoo News Digest delivers a summarized version of the top news in those countries. Using a combination of algorithms and human editors, each story is a collection of “atoms”, comprising of things such as articles, maps,... Read the full article: Android Follows iOS’s Lead & Gets Its Own Yahoo News Digest App |
| 6 YouTube Cooking Channels Where Professional Chefs Share Their Secrets Posted: 12 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Home cooks sometimes come up with incredible recipes that a professional chef would never think of. But 80% of the time, it’s the pro chef whose advice you should be listening to. And you’d be surprised to know that some of the best in the business run channels on YouTube. There is nothing wrong with following home cooks too, of course. Thanks to some of them, you can get cooking with great YouTube channels. The skill of a professional chef is definitely superior, but not all chefs have the ability to impart that knowledge, especially through a video. If you... Read the full article: 6 YouTube Cooking Channels Where Professional Chefs Share Their Secrets |
| 5 Upcoming Strategy Games To Keep An Eye On Posted: 12 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Strategy isn’t the most popular genre, but it's a common choice among players who want a cerebral experience. In fact, strategy has been strengthened by new distribution methods and less expensive development tools, both of which make it possible for indie studios to create games about empire building and epic battles. That's reflected in the upcoming roster of high-profile strategy games, a majority of which are under development by small teams or received help from crowd-funding. Here are 5 upcoming games sure to keep your brain busy. Civilization: Beyond Earth Fans of turn-based strategy games across the globe collectively dropped their... Read the full article: 5 Upcoming Strategy Games To Keep An Eye On |
| Take Your Tunes Mobile With Your Rewards Points And The Oontz Angle [Rewards] Posted: 12 May 2014 08:30 AM PDT  Mobile phones are incredibly capable, but even the most powerful have trouble providing enough sound to fill anything but the quietest room. Podcasts, music and videos are usually impossible to hear without earbuds. Fortunately we have a solution; the Oontz Angle. This small Bluetooth speaker, designed by Soundworks, can greatly improve the audio of your phone or tablet. It connects wirelessly within seconds and has an internal battery that can pump up the jam for ten hours at maximum volume. There's also a speaker phone function that's automatically enabled if you receive a call while using the Angle. And while... Read the full article: Take Your Tunes Mobile With Your Rewards Points And The Oontz Angle [Rewards] |
| Learn From The Best: 3 Brands That Are Nailing It On Pinterest Posted: 12 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Gaining momentum on Pinterest isn’t easy. It takes time, patience, and a well thought out strategy. This post is not about tips that will get you there, though. We’ve been through those before. To get good results, you need to see things for yourself, not jut read theoretical tips. The brands below are doing everything right, showing us how Pinterest should really be done. Learn from them! NordStrom (nordstrom) Stats 4.2 million followers 66 boards 15,550 pins 4,522 likes Nordstrom is a fashion and beauty retailer, selling to both men and women, though you wouldn’t guess it from their boards.... Read the full article: Learn From The Best: 3 Brands That Are Nailing It On Pinterest |
| Bit.ly Compromised, Users Advised To Change Passwords Posted: 12 May 2014 07:30 AM PDT  Unfortunately, it seems like we can’t make it a week without hearing about a popular service coming under fire from hackers, and now bit.ly has fallen prey. The link-shortening service has put out a notice to its users that account that information may have been compromised, and as such, users should change their passwords to protect themselves. The firm doesn’t believe that any accounts have been accessed as of yet, but it’s still smart for users to take the proper precautions. As part of that, bit.ly has automatically unlinked any Facebook and Twitter accounts that were previously connected to the... Read the full article: Bit.ly Compromised, Users Advised To Change Passwords |
| 8 Android Net Boosters Tested: Real Or Placebo? You’d Be Surprised Posted: 12 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Can you increase your data speeds just by downloading an app? There are many apps in the Play Store that claim they can do this, and they’ve gotten pretty good reviews. They just seem too good to be true. Do they legitimately increase data speeds? I put them to the test. The Control Before we get started testing apps, we’ll need a control round. I ran 6 instances of the Speedtest app on my AT&T 4G LTE connection in Los Angeles, and averageg the results to gauge how quick my data is before installing any “Internet booster” apps. Then, one by one, I downloaded the... Read the full article: 8 Android Net Boosters Tested: Real Or Placebo? You’d Be Surprised |
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