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• The Very Best Widgets, Menu Items, and Pages For Your WordPress.com Blog
• Cyber-Espionage, GoPro IPO, Virtual Rubik’s Cube, Gay Nintendo [Tech News Digest]
• Cool Websites & Tools – Improve Your English, Fitness App For Travellers, & Browse The Web With Your Voice
• Caption Contest: Drop Service
• Smarthistory: Learn About World Famous Art & Paintings Through Khan Academy Videos [Stuff to Watch]
• How To Restore The Classic Firefox Theme In Firefox 29
• 8 Steam Features You Didn’t Know You Had
• Instantly Watermark Your iPhone Photos With Free App Tagg.ly
• How Windows Phone 8.1 Is Enhanced With The Action Center
• The Best iPad Apps for Highlighting & Reviewing PDFs, Webpages & eBooks
• Classics Are Still Thriving: 10 Retro-Style Shooters You Need To Play
• Everything You Need To Know About Ethernet Cables
• Want An iPad App To Improve Your Grammar? Grammar Pop Will Help
• Is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 A Good Corporate Desktop?
• 5 Fantastic Short Stories You Can Read Online For Free

The Very Best Widgets, Menu Items, and Pages For Your WordPress.com Blog Posted: 20 May 2014 05:00 AM PDT WordPress.com offers the best service for anyone wanting to create and run a free blog site using a professional, attractive theme and smart widgets. But while you can certainly create a WordPress blog in under 10 minutes, there are several additional things you can do to improve your newly minted website. We have previously provided a set of essential tips for starting a WordPress blog, and have also explained the difference between Google’s Blogger and WordPress.com. This article covers a set of advanced tips most useful for beginner WordPress.com users whom have already set up their blog and added some posts. The... Read the full article: The Very Best Widgets, Menu Items, and Pages For Your WordPress.com Blog

Cyber-Espionage, GoPro IPO, Virtual Rubik’s Cube, Gay Nintendo [Tech News Digest] Posted: 20 May 2014 04:30 AM PDT Today in Tech News Digest, the U.S. confronts China, GoPro eyes an IPO, Airbnb Experiences, 13 years of Apple Stores, new words in the #Twictionary, Rubik’s Cube Google Doodle, and Nintendo goes gay. U.S. Confronts China Over Cyber-Espionage The United States has officially indicted five members of the People’s Liberation Army of China, accusing them of hacking into the computer systems of American companies and stealing trade secrets in order to give Chinese companies a commercial advantage. The Chinese authorities have responded to the criminal charges by abandoning plans for joint talks between the two countries on matters of Internet... Read the full article: Cyber-Espionage, GoPro IPO, Virtual Rubik’s Cube, Gay Nintendo [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Improve Your English, Fitness App For Travellers, & Browse The Web With Your Voice Posted: 19 May 2014 09:31 PM PDT FlipQuiz – was created to provide educators with a quick way to create gameshow-style boards for test reviews in the classroom. Traditionally, these are created (tediously) using posterboard, chalkboards, or dry-erase markers on an overhead slide. The review questions are usually even written on a separate sheet of paper. With FlipQuiz, questions are displayed on-screen and boards are saved for later use. Slapshot – is the easiest way to remember things you’d normally forget. Just type and close the app. Slapshot will email you exactly what you wrote 12 hours later. Regular note-taking is admirable. But having to remember to... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Improve Your English, Fitness App For Travellers, & Browse The Web With Your Voice

Caption Contest: Drop Service Posted: 19 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT That’s when the Amazon Prime Air delivery service team realised they couldn’t send a man to do a robot’s job. Some things are better left the way they are, even if that means drones will be taking over. Sound familiar? We’ve played this scenario in our heads before. Anyways, if you can think of a good caption for this cartoon, at least you’ll walk away with a brand new geeky t-shirt that you can brag about. You know, before the inevitable destruction of Earth. Put your hands together for Greg K. and Dean for their winning captions “Spanning the web... Read the full article: Caption Contest: Drop Service

Smarthistory: Learn About World Famous Art & Paintings Through Khan Academy Videos [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 19 May 2014 06:30 PM PDT Most of us are able to recognise a world famous painting or sculpture when we see it, but we’re not so good at recalling the story, history or much about the artist behind the piece. Smarthistory from the Khan Academy fills in the blanks for you, with more than 100 educational short videos prepared for the Google Art Project. With more than 100 videos produced, there’s plenty of free education on here to vastly expand your knowledge of the art world. And thanks to the Google Art Project, you can study all of the featured works in detail at your own leisure too – just click... Read the full article: Smarthistory: Learn About World Famous Art & Paintings Through Khan Academy Videos [Stuff to Watch]

How To Restore The Classic Firefox Theme In Firefox 29 Posted: 19 May 2014 03:00 PM PDT "What happened to my tabs? And what is this hamburger-Chrome-looking button in my Firefox toolbar??" Here are some answers for Firefox users who woke up one day to find themselves using Firefox 29. Read the full article: How To Restore The Classic Firefox Theme In Firefox 29

8 Steam Features You Didn’t Know You Had Posted: 19 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT You probably think you know how to use Steam pretty well. You shop for your favorite titles, chat with your gaming friends, and manage your library with ease. You know how to find the best prices on games and make the most of Steam’s trading card system. You’re a natural. But as with any piece of software, there are the features you use everyday, and the features you don’t even know you have until you go looking for them. See where you can find these 8 features that inform and fine tune your Steam use for the better. Recommended Where... Read the full article: 8 Steam Features You Didn’t Know You Had

Instantly Watermark Your iPhone Photos With Free App Tagg.ly Posted: 19 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT The iPhone has one of the best cameras on the market, so if you use yours for shooting photos and videos, it might be worthwhile tagging them with a watermark. And Tagg.ly (free) is a new app that makes it incredibly easy. Why Watermark Photos? Tagg.ly was built by journalist Tim Pool, who often uses mobile photos and videos in his reporting. He needed a way to quickly watermark anything he captures, and out of that need, Tagg.ly was born. There are plenty of reasons you might want to watermark your images, whether professional (you work in news or are a photographer) or... Read the full article: Instantly Watermark Your iPhone Photos With Free App Tagg.ly

How Windows Phone 8.1 Is Enhanced With The Action Center Posted: 19 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT Of the many new features in Windows Phone 8.1, the revisions made to the notification center are among the most impressive, enabling you to quickly check emails, notifications and even change connectivity state. Vanishing Toast One of the biggest complaints of Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 was the inability to manage notifications. As soon as the phone or an app informed you of a particular situation (perhaps a reply to a Facebook status, for instance) the message was lost shortly after, never to be seen again. This would happen whether the toast popup was dismissed manually (by swiping... Read the full article: How Windows Phone 8.1 Is Enhanced With The Action Center

The Best iPad Apps for Highlighting & Reviewing PDFs, Webpages & eBooks Posted: 19 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT If you want to move beyond dry pens and yellow markers for reading and studying purposes, the iPad is perfectly designed for reading, highlighting, and annotating ebooks, PDFs, and other documents. When you take the time to highlight text as you read, you’re able to review and make use of what you read more efficiently. The apps featured here make it easy to markup, review and export annotations from eBooks and PDFs, and are particularly useful on the larger, full sized iPad. PDF Highlighter ($4.99) We have reviewed a couple of PDF reader apps for the iPad, including iAnnotate ($9.99, reviewed here) and Easy... Read the full article: The Best iPad Apps for Highlighting & Reviewing PDFs, Webpages & eBooks

Classics Are Still Thriving: 10 Retro-Style Shooters You Need To Play Posted: 19 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT The demise of the arcade across most of the world (Japan being the notable exception) caused a major shift in the popularity of gaming genres. Shooters are perhaps the best example. Today we associate the term with games like Call of Duty, but in the 80s this word was used to describe top-down shoot ‘em ups like Raiden and Space Invaders. Retro-style shooters haven't been abandoned, however. If anything, the recent surge in indie game development has given the genre a second chance. Here are 10 great shooters available today on PC, Playstation or Xbox. Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost... Read the full article: Classics Are Still Thriving: 10 Retro-Style Shooters You Need To Play

Everything You Need To Know About Ethernet Cables Posted: 19 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT I really hate WiFi, and you should too. If you own your own home or your landlord doesn’t mind a few holes in the wall, running gigabit Ethernet around the house is the best thing you can do for a faster computing experience. But what’s all this about Cat 6 or crossover cables? Here’s everything you need to know about Ethernet cabling. We also have a free, downloadable guide to home networking with more information on the software side of a home network, such as printer and file sharing. What’s wrong with WiFi? WiFi will always be slower than a cabled connection.... Read the full article: Everything You Need To Know About Ethernet Cables

Want An iPad App To Improve Your Grammar? Grammar Pop Will Help Posted: 19 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT Do you know the difference between an adjective and an adverb? How about a verb and a participle? If you — or your children — need to brush up on your grammar skills quickly, Grammar Pop HD ($1.99, iPhone version also $1.99) can help. With 28 levels, 11 parts of speech, and over 14,000 words, this game is a fun way of learning to categorize different words. Spend a couple hours with Grammar Pop and you’ll be a word-labelling expert in no time! What Are Parts of Speech? If you’re totally confused by the opening paragraph of this article, you’re not alone.... Read the full article: Want An iPad App To Improve Your Grammar? Grammar Pop Will Help

Is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 A Good Corporate Desktop? Posted: 19 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT Red Hat recently released version 7 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the latest release of the most used Linux enterprise desktop. Since the release of RHEL 6 in 2010, Linux in general and Fedora (RHEL’s testing ground) specifically have changed a lot. Some notable changes of Fedora include GNOME 3 and the new Anaconda installer. Both of these items were controversial when first introduced. Many users stated that GNOME 3 and its search-oriented Activities View was too different from what enterprise users would expect, and the Anaconda installer was too confusing for just about anyone to use. Both of... Read the full article: Is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 A Good Corporate Desktop?

5 Fantastic Short Stories You Can Read Online For Free Posted: 19 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT May is Short Story Month. Celebrate by immersing yourself in the genius of these truly great authors. Short stories have been an often overlooked art; tales crammed with wonder and ideas and character. They show writers at the height of their powers – capable of creating worlds in an instant. But they’re finally getting a proper look-in, thanks to some of the best in the business whose weight of work consists largely of tight, succinct bursts of prose. Five authors and their work are featured here. Others are better known for their novels, but refined their style through taut tales.... Read the full article: 5 Fantastic Short Stories You Can Read Online For Free

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