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- Cool Websites & Tools – Legal Search, Brain Sensor, & Shaun The Sheep Games Coding
- Caption Contest: Time Machine
- Where Did All The Money Go?
- iOS Apps on Sale for 31 May: Rock Out With Rockmate For Free
- Springpad Shutting Down June 25th – Back Up To Evernote Now
- WordPress Just Got a JSON API. Here’s Why This Matters
- Automate Your Life And Job With ToDoist And IFTTT
- 9 Proven, Tested Tips To Extend Your Android’s Battery Life
- How to Stop Auto-Playing Flash and HTML5 Videos in Chrome
- 6 Games To Be Excited About At E3 2014
- Linux Is Everywhere: 10 Things You Didn’t Know Were Penguin-Powered
- 4 Useful and Interesting Video Game Websites You’ve Never Heard Of
- What Is The Fastest Android Browser?
- 5 Apps & Online Tools To Help You Write a Will
- Three Secret Features Of Google’s New Camera App That Will Blow Your Mind
| Cool Websites & Tools – Legal Search, Brain Sensor, & Shaun The Sheep Games Coding Posted: 30 May 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Ravel – Search more than five million legal cases with precision, using natural language or Boolean. Ravel lets you focus on judges' words and analysis, removing clutter so that you can read and scan quickly. Mining the connections that link millions of court documents, Ravel's technology identifies cases’ key passages and shows how later cases have rephrased or interpreted them. Muse – is a brain sensing headband. It's a brain fitness tool that helps you learn how to manage stress, stay calm, stay focused and do more with your mind. Muse helps improve your wellbeing by reducing stress, known to... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Legal Search, Brain Sensor, & Shaun The Sheep Games Coding |
| Posted: 30 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Actually, Sid – I think this cosplay is too elaborate. Ah, time travel — what would you do if you could go back in time? Remake Back To The Future? It’s 2014 and there’s still no sign of the Hoverboard — that’s just one of the 8 wrong predictions made in Back To The Future Part II. Anyways, if you have a witty caption for this cartoon, let’s hear it! What will you win if your caption gets chosen? A geeky t-shirt, surprise surprise! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Time Machine |
| Posted: 30 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT  It happens to all of us. We work, work, and work, only to find that we’ve not doing as well as we had hoped. The average expenditure of American households is about $50,000 a year. A huge chunk of that money (roughly 30 percent) is spent on housing — whether that’s rent or a mortgage, but it’s entirely necessary. Paying for electricity can also be a burden. Do you know how much electricity it takes to power your computer? To make the most of your money, you will need to set a budget and stick to it. Budgeting is much... Read the full article: Where Did All The Money Go? |
| iOS Apps on Sale for 31 May: Rock Out With Rockmate For Free Posted: 30 May 2014 07:00 PM PDT  Goodbye May, hello June and WWDC 2014. In case you’re not familiar with Apple-related acronyms, the Worldwide Developers Conference gives Apple a chance to showcase what they’ve been working on, so expect plenty of juicy iOS and OS X news between June 2-6. This week’s best offers involve rocking out with your friends, a better approach to podcast, creative contraptions for budding animators and the usual smattering of timewasters, including a casual roguelike for RPG die-hards. Apps Rockmate ($2.99, now free) As featured on iPad commercials in the past, Rockmate is a mini rock studio built for your fingers. Use it to compose whole songs, get... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for 31 May: Rock Out With Rockmate For Free |
| Springpad Shutting Down June 25th – Back Up To Evernote Now Posted: 30 May 2014 05:30 PM PDT  To the dismay of many of its users, the information capturing service, Springpad.com will be shut down on June 25th. The Springpad blog says that because of a lack of funding, the site, which was free to members, is no longer self-sustaining. Springpad was often favored over the cloud storage service Evernote because of its more visual orientation, and its free features for sharing content between users. Now Springpad users are being urged to migrate their notes to Evernote quickly. At this point, members attempting to log into their account will be see a message about the process for exporting their... Read the full article: Springpad Shutting Down June 25th – Back Up To Evernote Now |
| WordPress Just Got a JSON API. Here’s Why This Matters Posted: 30 May 2014 03:00 PM PDT  WordPress started off as a humble blogging platform, and somehow found itself becoming a fully-fledged content management system that powers a significant proportion of the Internet, including this very website. Despite that, WordPress has a number of notable limitations, including a proper API. Well, that’s not quite true. Of course, for many years WordPress has had an XML-based Application Programming Interface (API) that allowed developers to create third party applications that interact with WordPress. But XML is horrible. It’s slow to parse. It’s hard to read. It’s astonishingly verbose. JSON is much, much better. It’s quick to parse, more human-friendly... Read the full article: WordPress Just Got a JSON API. Here’s Why This Matters |
| Automate Your Life And Job With ToDoist And IFTTT Posted: 30 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Count how many times you forgot something over the past 24 hours. That is how many times you had an opportunity to automate. Automation is about removing the need to remember things you do often. It’s about simplifying your life and working in a way where people give you credit for being far more productive than you actually are — because you’ve got “the system” doing all of your work for you. Getting there is the hard part. Think of all of the little tasks you do. Are there any that you do every single day? Are there things you... Read the full article: Automate Your Life And Job With ToDoist And IFTTT |
| 9 Proven, Tested Tips To Extend Your Android’s Battery Life Posted: 30 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Getting more out of less — that seems to be the way of the world right now. There’s only so much of anything, and we want to make it last, right? Can we get more life out of our phones so we don’t have to charge them as often? Can we make them run longer so we don’t get stuck without them? The short answer is a resounding YES, but how much more we can get out of a phone battery is still up for discussion. Still, no matter how long your phone’s battery life lasts, there are ways that... Read the full article: 9 Proven, Tested Tips To Extend Your Android’s Battery Life |
| How to Stop Auto-Playing Flash and HTML5 Videos in Chrome Posted: 30 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Auto-playing videos can be obnoxious. Imagine settling down in a café or library with your laptop and starting a browsing session. After searching a couple of items on Google, you open up a few tabs and return to the search results page as you wait for the tabbed pages to load. Suddenly and without warning, a video begins to play in the background. You curse under your breath as it dawns on you that the speakers are set at maximum volume. As you frantically click on the tabs looking for the offending auto-playing video, everyone casts disapproving glances your way. If this... Read the full article: How to Stop Auto-Playing Flash and HTML5 Videos in Chrome |
| 6 Games To Be Excited About At E3 2014 Posted: 30 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT  E3 2014 is almost here, and that means both gamers and game journalists are getting ready to take in the biggest event in the world of video games. This is the first E3 after the release of the new consoles, so of course, we are all hopeful for some big announcements to come. There’s always some surprises, and that’s part of what makes E3 so fun as a video game fan. Titanfall was announced seemingly out of left field at E3, and hopefully this year will feature an even bigger surprise. Unfortunately, I cannot predict the future, so it’s impossible... Read the full article: 6 Games To Be Excited About At E3 2014 |
| Linux Is Everywhere: 10 Things You Didn’t Know Were Penguin-Powered Posted: 30 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT  You’ve been told that you can do just about anything with Linux, but how far does that statement really go? Linux might be far from popular on desktop computers, but it shines everywhere else. You’ve probably used Linux today, even if you didn’t realize it. Without even mentioning Android devices, let’s take a look at 10 interesting devices or systems that run Linux so you can get an idea of how much Linux actually affects your life. Why Is Linux Everywhere? Whether you know it or not, Linux can be found everywhere. There are several reasons why this is the case:... Read the full article: Linux Is Everywhere: 10 Things You Didn’t Know Were Penguin-Powered |
| 4 Useful and Interesting Video Game Websites You’ve Never Heard Of Posted: 30 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT  If you’re a gamer, you probably enjoy finding out small tidbits about your favorite series. Whether it’s video game-related Easter Eggs on popular websites or the endless trivia that games seem to produce, there’s never a shortage of content to entertain you. However, if you’ve been looking to take a new angle and explore the backstage of video games, these websites will give you all sorts of insider information. The Cutting Room Floor In the process of making a video game, a lot of content gets modified or even thrown out completely. The Cutting Room Floor exists to research and... Read the full article: 4 Useful and Interesting Video Game Websites You’ve Never Heard Of |
| What Is The Fastest Android Browser? Posted: 30 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Browsers on Android can have different rendering engines, so some browsers can be faster than others. We benchmarked the popular Android browsers to figure out which are fastest and which are slowest. What We Measured (and What We Didn’t) To try to give you an unbiased benchmark, we ran Rightware’s Browsermark here. This tool lets us compare how different browsers perform with actual hard data and not subjective opinions like “this browser seemed to scroll more smoothly.” Browsermark measures JavaScript performance like most browser benchmarks, but it also loads pages, scrolls around, renders 3D graphics, and stresses the browser in... Read the full article: What Is The Fastest Android Browser? |
| 5 Apps & Online Tools To Help You Write a Will Posted: 30 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT  No one likes the idea of writing a will, but everyone has to do it sometime. And while you could pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to have a lawyer to do it, you can draft a legally effective and binding one with a bit of help from a few websites and software applications. These five are some of the best options for residents of the US and UK. Are Online Wills Legally Binding? A lot of people wonder if online and do-it-yourself wills are legally binding and if they’ll stand up in court. The short answer is yes: they’re... Read the full article: 5 Apps & Online Tools To Help You Write a Will |
| Three Secret Features Of Google’s New Camera App That Will Blow Your Mind Posted: 30 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Google’s recent update to the KitKat camera app turns smartphones into mini DSLRs — but it can do even more. On the surface, the Google Camera app offers a handful of new features, including an F-stop like effect, which adds an artificial bokeh, and an improved graphical interface. We’ve covered how to use Google Camera in the past, but hidden below lies the sublime: The app boasts a few secret abilities, including an accidental tilt-shift effect, 3D image capability and something of a wide-angle effect. I’ll demonstrate how to access these functions, illustrated with sample images. Take note that you need KitKat to get the updated app. Many... Read the full article: Three Secret Features Of Google's New Camera App That Will Blow Your Mind |
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