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• Cool Websites & Tools – Gift Suggestions, Science Funding, & Generate Barcodes
• Thinking Of Proposing? Do It The Geeky Way!
• 4 Solid Ways To Get The Best Of The Web
• 4 Ways To Reset Your OS X Account Password
• You Might Want To Change These Pesky Default iOS 7 Settings
• Logo Design Studio Makes It Easy To Create Professional Branding On Your Mac
• The Top 3 Free Digital Painting Apps for Android
• Live On The Cutting Edge: Nova Launcher 3.0 Launches In Beta
• 7 Useful Toolbars You Can Add To Your Windows Taskbar
• Technophilia Episode 115 Live
• Get Dell’s Discounts on Everything, Moto X Sale Part 2 and More [Tech Deals]
• 5 Examples To Help You Spot A Fraud Or Fake Email
• 5 Ways Overzealous Cleaning Can Break Windows
• Google Keep For Chrome: Your In-Browser Solution To Quick Note-Taking
• Just Bought A Raspberry Pi? 11 Things You Need To Know

Cool Websites & Tools – Gift Suggestions, Science Funding, & Generate Barcodes Posted: 29 May 2014 09:31 PM PDT Gift Shuffle – is a gift suggestion tool helping you to find the best gift ideas for mum, dad, brother, sister, friends and more. They scour the web to help you find unique gift ideas that your friends & family will love. Giftshuffle even allows you to save and manage the gifts you like with the “Saved Gifts” tool. Experiment – is a Kickstarter-like platform for enabling new scientific discoveries. As a society, we are in a position to study, learn, and innovate more than ever before. Yet there is one major bottleneck – funding. On the site, researchers post... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Gift Suggestions, Science Funding, & Generate Barcodes

Thinking Of Proposing? Do It The Geeky Way! Posted: 29 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT Do you feel like it’s time to settle down? Moving on to your next phase of life? Yes, I’m referring to marriage. Since you can’t undo your proposal, you’d better get it right the first time. If you’re a geek, I’ll simplify it for you into a single infograph. First, you need to buy a ring. If your partner is a geek too, then you shouldn’t just get any ring — it needs to blow her mind. Choose from one of these geeky rings you can actually buy. Once you’ve chosen a ring, the proposal’s next. You can either do... Read the full article: Thinking Of Proposing? Do It The Geeky Way!

4 Solid Ways To Get The Best Of The Web Posted: 29 May 2014 03:00 PM PDT The Web doesn’t usually play nice, but you can still wring the best experience from it. Going online to find the stuff that matters to you is like navigating a gigantic labyrinth to find your way out. It’s not at all easy. There are too many false starts, dead ends, and monstrous websites to deal with. If you enjoy these elements of uncertainty and adventure, and like your online life just fine, feel free to give this article a miss. But if this digital minefield leaves you overwhelmed and anxious, adopting the following simple mantras can act as a tonic and help you... Read the full article: 4 Solid Ways To Get The Best Of The Web

4 Ways To Reset Your OS X Account Password Posted: 29 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT Let me guess: You forgot your OS X login password. Don’t panic! There are four different ways to regain access so one is bound to work for you. Each of the techniques covered are quick and easy, and won’t keep your waiting. Check them out below. Use “Users & Groups” In System Preferences The main (and most obvious) method of resetting your OS X account password is to use the Change Password option in System Preferences. While this is the easiest option, you’ll need an administrator password. If you don’t have one (and there’s a chance you don’t, you’re reading this article after all), skip to one... Read the full article: 4 Ways To Reset Your OS X Account Password

You Might Want To Change These Pesky Default iOS 7 Settings Posted: 29 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT The way Apple supplies the iPhone or iPad in its default state might not be for everybody, and there are a number of settings you might want to change as soon as you unbox your device. These can affect everything from privacy to usability, so it’s worth taking the time to set up your device as you want it. Luckily we’ve already trawled the many menus and found a bounty of settings many users will want to fiddle with straight away. Limit Control Centre Access When the iPhone 5S came out with its fingerprint scanner, one far-fetched video showed how it could be duped by way of enabling Airplane... Read the full article: You Might Want To Change These Pesky Default iOS 7 Settings

Logo Design Studio Makes It Easy To Create Professional Branding On Your Mac Posted: 29 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT Logo Design Studio for Mac provides thousands of tools, templates, and icons to customize a design for your business, organization, or website. There are tons of inspiring websites and products showcasing attractive and powerful logo designs, but unless you have good graphic design and application skills, inspiration may not be enough. Logo Design Studio provides an affordable option for those looking to create a design without making a huge investment in time or money. To test out Logo Design Studio, you can purchase the limited lite version for $1.99, which features around 100 starter templates, dozens of vector objects and font styles,... Read the full article: Logo Design Studio Makes It Easy To Create Professional Branding On Your Mac

The Top 3 Free Digital Painting Apps for Android Posted: 29 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT So let’s say you aren’t made of money. Digital painting is a great medium — cheap, convenient, you’ve got an easy undo feature – but you need a $50 Wacom tablet, and who has that in the couch cushions?  Luckily, odds are pretty good that you’ve already got a high-resolution touchscreen in your pocket.  Last month, I wrote about a number of digital painting apps for Windows – today, I’ll be running down the three best free digital painting apps for Android phones and tablets. Unfortunately, due to the computational limits of current smartphones, most of these apps won’t do the kind of... Read the full article: The Top 3 Free Digital Painting Apps for Android

Live On The Cutting Edge: Nova Launcher 3.0 Launches In Beta Posted: 29 May 2014 10:30 AM PDT Bringing with it a host of new features and the biggest overhaul yet, Nova Launcher 3.0 is currently in an open Beta for anyone willing to take the plunge into a possibly more unstable, but improved, Nova Launcher. Users first need to join the Nova Launcher Beta Google+ Community page, sign up for the Beta at Google Play, then update or download the Nova Launcher app. The largest changes include improved resizing and placement of widgets or app icons by allowing for subgrid positioning, a new toggle for widget padding, simplified tab configuration in the app drawer, an updated and more... Read the full article: Live On The Cutting Edge: Nova Launcher 3.0 Launches In Beta

7 Useful Toolbars You Can Add To Your Windows Taskbar Posted: 29 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT The Windows desktop can be a super productive work space, provided it’s set up right. Native toolbars can help you make it even more efficient by placing shortcuts and information at your fingertips. Being located in the Windows taskbar means you won’t have to close windows or open files and folders via Windows Explorer to access them. Let’s see how toolbars can be useful for you. How To Add A Toolbar To Your Taskbar Right-click the Windows taskbar, pick Toolbars from the menu, and either select an existing toolbar, or click on New toolbar… When you’re adding a new toolbar,... Read the full article: 7 Useful Toolbars You Can Add To Your Windows Taskbar

Technophilia Episode 115 Live Posted: 29 May 2014 09:45 AM PDT Tech News BREAKING NEWS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR OUTLOOK ON LIFE: You just had to press to press F TOP STORY THIS WEEK: Django (database) coders replace all references to master/slave with leader/follower, because it's "racially charged". WTF. We should probably stop calling something a "whitelist" too. And those hardware terms: dongle, plug, jack. All too sexual. Google's self-driving car prototype is ready to go. Samsung innovates again: planning to launch VR headset. Simple registry hack enables Windows XP updates to continue. Lolwut. Eugh, Google buying connected home webcams to go with their thermostats. The eye of Sauron is truly upon us. From... Read the full article: Technophilia Episode 115 Live

Get Dell’s Discounts on Everything, Moto X Sale Part 2 and More [Tech Deals] Posted: 29 May 2014 09:30 AM PDT Fellow deal hunters will want to hear about Dell Outlet’s 15-20% off everything. Other great deals this week include a $350 Moto X combo deal, a Dell Venue for less than $350, $200 off the latest MacBook Pro and a great deal more! Top Tablet and Smartphone Deals Dell Outlet 15-20% Off Price: 15-20% off Retailer: Dell Outlet – Buy It Now Dell Outlet is discounting their products by between 15 and 20%. The 20% deal expires 5/29 at 8:59 a.m. Central Time. The 15% off deal expires 5/30 at 8:59 a.m. Central time. Dell Venue Pro 11 Tablet (Refurbished... Read the full article: Get Dell’s Discounts on Everything, Moto X Sale Part 2 and More [Tech Deals]

5 Examples To Help You Spot A Fraud Or Fake Email Posted: 29 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT “You have a payment of $500 waiting in your PayPal account! All you have to do is click here!” – sound familiar? According to a Kaspersky report (PDF), email phishing attacks — strangers contacting you pretending to be a bank or some other legitimate company — increased 87% from 2011 through 2013. This increase is despite the fact that rates of spam email — where legitimate companies send you advertisement-style emails — dropped from 2012 to 2013. We could speculate that this shift from spam to phishing represents that phishing emails are more effective in getting email users like you... Read the full article: 5 Examples To Help You Spot A Fraud Or Fake Email

5 Ways Overzealous Cleaning Can Break Windows Posted: 29 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT It’s easy to go overboard with cleaning your PC. All you really need to do is run CCleaner or the Disk Cleanup tool included in Windows to delete useless files and free up disk space once in a while. If you’re cleaning your PC in other ways, be sure you know what you’re getting into — it’s easy to break something. Deleting Your Recovery Partition Most computers come with a recovery partition. When you decide to reinstall Windows — or use the Refresh or Reset Your PC features on Windows 8 — your computer copies the Windows installation files from... Read the full article: 5 Ways Overzealous Cleaning Can Break Windows

Google Keep For Chrome: Your In-Browser Solution To Quick Note-Taking Posted: 29 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT There is an abundance of note-taking apps available online, all which offer their own twist on saving your content. Some are feature-rich, while others take a more minimal, “just the basics” approach. If you’re expecting Google Keep to be filled with features from baking a cake to driving your car, you couldn’t be more wrong. But what it does do is excel at being an exceptionally useful notepad that allows you to quickly add notes. Its simplistic approach has earned itself a spot on our Best Of Chrome Extensions page. Using Google Keep The first thing you’ll notice in Google... Read the full article: Google Keep For Chrome: Your In-Browser Solution To Quick Note-Taking

Just Bought A Raspberry Pi? 11 Things You Need To Know Posted: 29 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT In this video, we explain everything you might need to know if you’ve just bought a Raspberry Pi, or are thinking of buying one. You might also want to download our Unofficial Guide to the Raspberry Pi. 1. There Are Two Models There are technically two variants of Raspberry Pi: model A and B. Model A costs $25 and was the original design with only 256 megabytes of RAM and lacking a network port; model B has 512 megabytes of RAM and costs $35. Model B is more commonly available so most projects and tutorials assume you have a model B. 2.... Read the full article: Just Bought A Raspberry Pi? 11 Things You Need To Know

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