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- How To Make Money Online
- The 2014 Webby Awards In Video [Stuff to Watch]
- Is Wildstar The Next Great MMORPG?
- 5 Useful Things You Can Create With Your Old Floppy Disks
- What Is A Theme Framework, And How Can It Improve Your WordPress Site?
- What’s In My Food? 4 Free Apps That Demistify E-Numbers And Additives
- Now Playing: 5 “Astonishing” Websites For X-Men Fans
- Tasker and IFTTT: The Perfect Automation Duo For Android
- Control Virtually Anything with Siri – No Jailbreak Required
- How To Download All Of Your Music From Google Play To Your Phone
- GoodReader 4 For iOS Provides Even More Tools for Reading & Annotating Documents
- 6 Ways You Can Use Microsoft Office Without Paying For It
- NSA Facials, Beats Kills MOG, Justin.tv Kills Archive, Heartbleed Spam [Tech News Digest]
| Posted: 02 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Let’s face it, everyone wants to make money on the Internet. Thanks to the Web, money is everywhere — you just need to look for it, or read this chart. Or get someone to show you this chart. Okay, fine — reading this chart alone isn’t going to make your rich. You will need to make an effort. Nothing in this world is free, especially money! Now that you’ve established the mindset that you can’t get free money, here’s the good news: you can still make money online. Lots of people sell stuff online to make a living; either stuff... Read the full article: How To Make Money Online |
| The 2014 Webby Awards In Video [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 02 Jun 2014 06:30 PM PDT  The Webby Awards bill themselves as “the Web’s highest honour”, and while that’s a pretty bold statement to make; few others try to distill a year of Internet into a fairly short award ceremony. This year’s big winners included Banksy, Kickstarter, and De La Soul, and as ever there were a lot of honours for video content too. Organised by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, pretty much anyone can win a Webby award (thanks to the nature of the Internet) and today we’ll be taking a look at some of the best videos celebrated in this year’s awards. Climate Name Change Winner: Branded Entertainment Scripted This rather thought-provoking little... Read the full article: The 2014 Webby Awards In Video [Stuff to Watch] |
| Is Wildstar The Next Great MMORPG? Posted: 02 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT  When NCSoft and Carbine Studios debuted Wildstar’s first trailer back in 2011, they piqued the interest of MMORPG fans with the promise of a carefree wisecracking style and sci-fi adventure on the planet Nexus. The game stood out for its quirky personality in a crowd of much more self-serious fare. Two and a half years later, Wildstar looks strong among major MMORPG releases for 2014. The game’s developers have made big promises for ambitious content, but no one game is perfect for every MMORPG fan. Is Wildstar the right game for you? Learn about the game’s unique features here, and... Read the full article: Is Wildstar The Next Great MMORPG? |
| 5 Useful Things You Can Create With Your Old Floppy Disks Posted: 02 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Before you throw away that those obsolete, dust-laden floppy disks, take a look at these five creative ways you can revitalise those aged pieces of history. Of course, there are tons of other creative uses for floppy disks, from lunch boxes to earrings. A quick search on Pinterest or Google for ‘recycled floppy disk’ will throw up more results than you can shake a stick at, but these five examples (and the links included) provide quick, easy, and simple step-by step guidance to bring some life back to those storage antiquities. Floppy Disk Planters With little more than a glue gun and five old floppy disks,... Read the full article: 5 Useful Things You Can Create With Your Old Floppy Disks |
| What Is A Theme Framework, And How Can It Improve Your WordPress Site? Posted: 02 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Coding a new theme from scratch is tedious and repetitive. What if you could design a custom site, without re-inventing the wheel? That’s what a theme framework is. Not sure where to start? Here’s a brief introduction and a few recommendations to get you going. Understanding Theme Frameworks You’ve probably heard the term “theme” before. It often refers to the aesthetic design of some entity, whether that’s a website, a forum, an app, an operating system, etc. In most contexts, a theme is completely visual and separate from any internal workings of whatever is being themed. That’s not necessarily true... Read the full article: What Is A Theme Framework, And How Can It Improve Your WordPress Site? |
| What’s In My Food? 4 Free Apps That Demistify E-Numbers And Additives Posted: 02 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Grab any random food item that comes in a wrapper (i.e, not a fruit or a vegetable), and you’ll find an ingredient list. Some ingredients are easy to understand (flour), others — not so much. That’s where these four free Android apps comes in: If you’ve ever wondered what’s E104 and whether or not it works with your dietary restrictions, you need one of these. Eat Informed – Food Additives Eat Informed gives you a long list of E-numbers to scroll through, with a quick-search feature amusingly called Fast Computer. The ingredients are color coded, and the little flags next... Read the full article: What’s In My Food? 4 Free Apps That Demistify E-Numbers And Additives |
| Now Playing: 5 “Astonishing” Websites For X-Men Fans Posted: 02 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT  If X-Men: Days of Future Past has left you X-Statix (it’s a comic joke, okay?), there are plenty of ways to indulge your passion. Turn to Amazon and snap up The Dark Phoenix Saga, Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men or God Loves, Man Kills. If you own several action-packed long boxes, simply dig into X-Force, Wolverine or Avengers vs. X-Men. Ruminate over the idea of the X-Men in Medieval times. Or watch the previous six films back-to-back (forgoing sleep, social interactions and sunlight). Alternatively, the Internet can showcase the history of the mutant race in a fun and thorough way. Uncanny... Read the full article: Now Playing: 5 “Astonishing” Websites For X-Men Fans |
| Tasker and IFTTT: The Perfect Automation Duo For Android Posted: 02 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Fans of automation will surely know of Tasker, the Android app that lets you automate nearly anything imaginable on an Android device. Another big name in automation, IFTTT (If This Then That) recently released an app for Android, complete with new Android-specific channels. If you already use Tasker, can you benefit from having IFTTT on your device? Let’s find out. IFTTT: A Brief Overview If you’ve never heard of IFTTT, our Ultimate Guide will tell you all you need to know. Essentially, the service allows you to set up recipes, which each use two different channels. One of these channels... Read the full article: Tasker and IFTTT: The Perfect Automation Duo For Android |
| Control Virtually Anything with Siri – No Jailbreak Required Posted: 02 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Siri can be amazing at times, but she can only do what Apple allows her to do. Not anymore: a new Web service called BetterThanSiri is throwing the gates wide open, and it doesn’t require your device to be jailbroken to make use of it. Today, I’ll be explaining a little about the service, and showing you how to get started with controlling a set of RGB lights. Watch the video first to see it in action. How Does This Dark Magic Work? When you ask Siri to “Google” something, she opens up Safari browser and routes your request as... Read the full article: Control Virtually Anything with Siri – No Jailbreak Required |
| How To Download All Of Your Music From Google Play To Your Phone Posted: 02 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Google Play Music for Android allows you to save your music offline, but only by the album, song, or playlist. Maybe you’ve got a phone with 32GB of storage or a nice 64GB microSD card, and you want to keep all of your music locally to avoid streaming it over your data connection. Do you really want to go through song by song or album by album and download all your music? Of course not. Thankfully, there’s a quicker way. Getting All Your Music Offline Play Music is the best music player for Android, so you’d think there would be... Read the full article: How To Download All Of Your Music From Google Play To Your Phone |
| GoodReader 4 For iOS Provides Even More Tools for Reading & Annotating Documents Posted: 02 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Popular PDF reader and annotation app GoodReader recently reached version 4.0 of the now universal app for the iPad and iPhone. GoodReader has been called the Swiss Army knife for reading, marking up, and managing PDFs. We reviewed the previous iPhone version of GoodReader, and highlighted its jump to iOS 7, but the latest version is a new app ($6.99, universal) and includes all the features of the original GoodReader, in addition to a new document management features, a refined user interface, and a handy collapsible tool area on the main screen. But is GoodReader 4 worth the upgrade price? Let’s see! Importing Documents GoodReader provides... Read the full article: GoodReader 4 For iOS Provides Even More Tools for Reading & Annotating Documents |
| 6 Ways You Can Use Microsoft Office Without Paying For It Posted: 02 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Microsoft Office remains the gold standard in office applications. Sure, Office alternatives exist, but Microsoft’s file formats dominate. People with access to Office tend to have an easier time than those who lack it, because while alternatives like LibreOffice can export to .doc or .xls, the formatting isn’t 100% compatible. Still, many people flinch at buying Office because it’s expensive. A home version is $99, which is significant to most consumers. There are a few ways to dodge to the retail price and use Office for free, however – within limits. Use Office Online Microsoft itself offers a collection of free Office utilities formerly... Read the full article: 6 Ways You Can Use Microsoft Office Without Paying For It |
| NSA Facials, Beats Kills MOG, Justin.tv Kills Archive, Heartbleed Spam [Tech News Digest] Posted: 02 Jun 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Today in Tech News Digest, the NSA collects photos, Beats kills MOG, Justin.tv deletes its video archive, Google offers the right to be forgotten, the Heartbleed bug lives on, Springpad is shutting down, and Cloverfield loses the shaky cam. The NSA Is Collecting Millions Of Faces If you don’t have an NSA file, you seriously need to re-evaluate your life, bro. — Josh Shahryar (@JShahryar) June 2, 2014 The National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting millions of images through different forms of communication, according to a report from The New York Times. This is the latest revelation to emerge from... Read the full article: NSA Facials, Beats Kills MOG, Justin.tv Kills Archive, Heartbleed Spam [Tech News Digest] |
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