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• Cool Websites & Tools – Buried Environmental Hazards, Track Your Health & Wealth, & Dynamic Photos
• Google+ Adds The Awesome Touch To Your Memories With Stories & Movies
• 22 Easy Dothraki Phrases Every Game of Thrones Fan Should Know
• Do You Want To Be In The New Star Wars Movie? J J Abrams Is Offering You The Chance
• The 10 Best PC Games Ported To iPad
• Want An All-You-Can-Read Buffet? 3 Places To Find Free Ebooks Online
• 5 Ways You Can Get Better At Video Games
• 7 Different Uses Of Integrating Google Drive With Gmail
• Helium Publishing Closing Doors: Back Up Your Data Now
• Google Camera: The Official Vision for An Android Camera App
• Mad Merchandise of May: Free $300 Printer, Half Off A Nexus 7 and More! [Tech Deals]
• Watch Live TV Online, For Free, With FilmOn
• Using Ubuntu 14.04? Here’s How To Use The Latest Gnome Release
• Steam In-Home Streaming Now Available To Everyone
• The 9 Most Important Driving Games Of All Time

Cool Websites & Tools – Buried Environmental Hazards, Track Your Health & Wealth, & Dynamic Photos Posted: 22 May 2014 09:31 PM PDT WhatsDown – can help you find locations of buried environmental hazards, learn about them, then share what you have learned with friends. WhatsDown is not officially launched, contains important disclaimers, and you are using the early alpha release. Touch the compass or search for a location to see map markers for nearby environmental hazards. Loggr – Every day is an improvement on the last. Exercise more, eat more vegetables, read more books. But how can you keep track of your progress and ensure you are making those improvements? Loggr is the solution. It has custom metrics so you can track... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Buried Environmental Hazards, Track Your Health & Wealth, & Dynamic Photos

Google+ Adds The Awesome Touch To Your Memories With Stories & Movies Posted: 22 May 2014 08:30 PM PDT Travelogues are fun to look at but a pain to create. Especially, if you have carried back tons of vacation photos and videos. Google has launched Google+ Stories as part of Google+ that automatically stitches your photos, videos and the places you visited into an easily viewable travel slideshow. Google+ Stories will get to work when you return from your vacation and also include your location history and the geotags in photos to help you, family, and friends travel through the enjoyable experiences again. Google+ Stories is being rolled out to the Web and Android, with the iOS version coming... Read the full article: Google+ Adds The Awesome Touch To Your Memories With Stories & Movies

22 Easy Dothraki Phrases Every Game of Thrones Fan Should Know Posted: 22 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT Since more and more American baby girls are named Khaleesi, it’s probably a good time to learn a few Dothraki phrases because you’ll never know when they might come in handy. It is the most pirated television show on earth, after all – even Dave Koz covered the iconic show’s theme song, albeit in a more relaxing fashion. You can poke fun at the show all you want, although the Dothraki language is a fictitious language, it’s actively developing and current has over 3,000 words in its vocabulary. Scroll down to the bottom of this infograph and you’ll be rewarded... Read the full article: 22 Easy Dothraki Phrases Every Game of Thrones Fan Should Know

Do You Want To Be In The New Star Wars Movie? J J Abrams Is Offering You The Chance Posted: 22 May 2014 05:30 PM PDT I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out in joy and were then suddenly silenced. Maybe that’s because JJ Abrams, who is currently directing the new Star Wars movie, is offering you the chance to appear in the next Star Wars movie, if you in turn donate a minimum of $10 to UNICEF. The announcement was made by JJ Abrams himself on the Star Wars set in Abu Dhabi. And in doing so, gave the fans a glimpse of the set. The offer works a lot like a Kickstarter scheme. Starting here,... Read the full article: Do You Want To Be In The New Star Wars Movie? J J Abrams Is Offering You The Chance

The 10 Best PC Games Ported To iPad Posted: 22 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT Every PC developer who crafts a solid game inevitably hears fans beg for an iPad version. For many the iPad as come to replace handhelds like the Nintendo DS as the mobile gaming platform of choice, but high-quality titles are hard to come by outside of a few genres. Thankfully, some PC developers are filling the gaps with iPad ports, and many are a perfect fit for the tablet. Hearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft Blizzard's computer card game was only just released in the iPad, but the port feels like it could have been the game's original platform. The graphics are crisp... Read the full article: The 10 Best PC Games Ported To iPad

Want An All-You-Can-Read Buffet? 3 Places To Find Free Ebooks Online Posted: 22 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT A wide variety of ebooks are available online for free, legally I should add, if only you know where to look for them. While printed books have an inimitable charm, you can’t deny or ignore the appeal and convenience of ebooks either. We spend a major chunk of our day staring at glowing screens for work and leisure. It’s a great idea to devote some of that time to the joys of reading and utilize the interesting selection of books available for free at our fingertips. Project Gutenberg (our guide) is a fine place to start, as are a few other sites that we... Read the full article: Want An All-You-Can-Read Buffet? 3 Places To Find Free Ebooks Online

5 Ways You Can Get Better At Video Games Posted: 22 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT Tired of being a noob? I feel your pain. As someone who is deeply competitive, I can’t stand the thought of being bad at a game I love. Maybe you’re the same way. It’s one thing to like a game but the experience can be tarnished if you never win. Fortunately, no matter who you are, there’s always hope. You can improve. Take a seat. Brace yourself. Forget about premium gaming peripherals and focus on the basics. The journey from noob to pro won’t be easy, and it won’t be quick. If you want to get better, you must be... Read the full article: 5 Ways You Can Get Better At Video Games

7 Different Uses Of Integrating Google Drive With Gmail Posted: 22 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT The Internet provides people with the tools to be more productive, but what do you do when the number of those tools actually start making things more complicated? The answer is to integrate them. Case in point, Google tools. Google provides you with so many free resources and apps that it’s hard to understand how they stay in business. Yet, a countless number of people these days rely on services like Gmail and Google Drive to support their business, their studies or any other Google Drive powered productivity need you can think of. The problem is that when you have... Read the full article: 7 Different Uses Of Integrating Google Drive With Gmail

Helium Publishing Closing Doors: Back Up Your Data Now Posted: 22 May 2014 10:30 AM PDT On May 14th, the Helium Networked issued an email to all authors who have been contributing content to its network, that the organization would be closing down the Helium Publishing 360 sites, effective December 15th, 2014. In its notice to all current and former content contributors, Helium Network advised that all content on the site would be locked as read-only, effective Wednesday, May 21st. From then until December 15th, authors are able to withdraw all available funds from their payment accounts, and remove, download or copy existing articles on the site. On May 21st, Helium Network issued instructions to all... Read the full article: Helium Publishing Closing Doors: Back Up Your Data Now

Google Camera: The Official Vision for An Android Camera App Posted: 22 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT Today I’d like to tell you about a camera app that doesn’t do very much — by design. The official (and free) Google Camera for Android presents an uncluttered vision for what a camera on Android should look and feel like, and it’s simple and quite fun to use. Minimum Fuss The Google Camera interface doesn’t have very much going on — the focus is clearly on your subject, rather than on any buttons on the screen. Top right, you can see the menu used for toggling the composition grid, HDR mode, flash, and front/back camera. Top-left, you can see... Read the full article: Google Camera: The Official Vision for An Android Camera App

Mad Merchandise of May: Free $300 Printer, Half Off A Nexus 7 and More! [Tech Deals] Posted: 22 May 2014 09:30 AM PDT I’m in love with many of the deals we’ve got this week. First up, I have to mention the ASUS Nexus 7, pre-owned, selling for $109.99. There’s also amazing deals on flash drives and, particularly, on monitors and cameras. Pay close attention to the deal for a free Canon Pixma PRO-100 series of photo printer. This week is an amazing one for deal hunters. Top Tablet and Smartphone Deals Asus 2013 16GB Nexus 7 (Pre-owned) Price: $109.99; compare to $229 MSRP Retailer: Cowboom – Buy It Now The Asus Nexus 7 remains one of the best 7-inch tablets you can... Read the full article: Mad Merchandise of May: Free $300 Printer, Half Off A Nexus 7 and More! [Tech Deals]

Watch Live TV Online, For Free, With FilmOn Posted: 22 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT Watch TV, on your computer – without the need for an antenna, TV card or subscription. FilmOn is a free service offering a wide variety of TV channels in the US and UK. Internet TV service Aereo’s been in the news a lot recently – an upcoming US supreme court decision will determine whether they’re stealing from broadcasters, or helping people access content already on the public airwaves. But Aereo, a subscription service, isn’t the only online TV company with something at stake. The lesser known, and ad-supported, FilmOn also provides access to local TV broadcasts. FilmOn probably can’t replace... Read the full article: Watch Live TV Online, For Free, With FilmOn

Using Ubuntu 14.04? Here’s How To Use The Latest Gnome Release Posted: 22 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT Right now, there are two types of users of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS “Trusty Tahr”. The first type uses Ubuntu 14.04 because it’s an LTS release, and they want to enjoy the stability benefits that come with that. The other type use Ubuntu 14.04 because it’s the latest Ubuntu release – and don’t care about the LTS thing, or stability. If you fall into the second category, you may be interested in upgrading to the latest version of Gnome. Here’s how. Why You Would Want To Upgrade When Ubuntu 14.04 shipped, Canonical decided to stick with Gnome 3.10.  This older version... Read the full article: Using Ubuntu 14.04? Here’s How To Use The Latest Gnome Release

Steam In-Home Streaming Now Available To Everyone Posted: 22 May 2014 07:30 AM PDT Whenever a major new feature comes to popular PC gaming service Steam, a beta test is done with existing users. Steam In-Home Streaming, a feature that allows users to broadcast their games from one computer in their home to another, is no exception. Now, Valve is ready to take the feature to the big leagues, opening it up to all users of the service, not just those who were granted access to the limited beta. Steam is the not first service to offer streaming of games throughout a user’s home, but what makes it significant is that it has such a massive install... Read the full article: Steam In-Home Streaming Now Available To Everyone

The 9 Most Important Driving Games Of All Time Posted: 22 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT Racing video games offer an escape from the drudgery of the slow-moving traffic and other road hazards we are subjected to in real life. And over the years, this genre has evolved to give us various different sub-genres depending on how you like to drive. Not all driving games are created equal and like with any art, someone breaks the rules and creates something new every once in a while. So what are the most important racing titles in the history of video games? Road Fighter Back in 1984, video game giant Konami developed Road Fighter, probably the first racing... Read the full article: The 9 Most Important Driving Games Of All Time

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