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- Cool Websites & Tools – Analytics Presentations, Track YouTube Channels, & Personal Cloud Server
- The 7 Commandments Of Computer Usage
- George Takei Explains Technology & The Internet In Takei’s Take [Stuff to Watch]
- 4 Tips To Finish A Boring Online Course By Being A More Engaged Learner
- The 5 Most Important Websites To Learn about Tabletop Roleplay Gaming
- Decorate Your Android Home Screen In Style With These 3 Wallpaper Apps
- Get More Out Of Your Console With Companion Mobile Apps
- 2 Simple Ways To Navigate & Download Images Without Going To Reddit
- 5 Children’s Video Games That You’ll Enjoy Too
- Discover the Art of Zentangle Drawings With Doodle Patterns for iOS & Android
- Save Your Web Favorites As Notes With OneNote Clipper For Chrome
- 9 Hilariously Random Websites To Help You Procrastinate
- How To Extend The Life Of Your Raspberry Pi’s SD Card
- Top Podcasts to Take Your Biohacking to the Next Level
- Smart TV Hack, Popcorn Time VPN, Turing Test Chatbot, CIA Tweets [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Analytics Presentations, Track YouTube Channels, & Personal Cloud Server Posted: 09 Jun 2014 09:31 PM PDT  NOTEify – is the perfect app to use when you want to get reminded about specific information or discussions with your contacts. You can choose from a variety of many in-call or in-app options, including showing notes during in or out calls, showing the contact you are talking to with his full details during the same call, and more. Qunb – data can tell an incredible story. Connect your Google Analytics, and turn it into meaningful presentations. Dashboards are great for data analysis, not for data storytelling. Think about how much time you spend with Excel and Powerpoint just to... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Analytics Presentations, Track YouTube Channels, & Personal Cloud Server |
| The 7 Commandments Of Computer Usage Posted: 09 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT  From the creators of the infograph featuring the most popular holiday toys from the past fifty years, comes a simple yet effective poster detailing the seven commandments of computer usage. Read, remember, repeat. These are the seven rules to using computers. Think of it as a cheatsheet, if you will — one to be shared with every novice computer user you know. Recall everyone who has ever bothered you with a simple computer question, people who are incapable of using Google to troubleshoot their own computer issues, and share this infograph with them. Click to enlarge. Use only one antivirus... Read the full article: The 7 Commandments Of Computer Usage |
| George Takei Explains Technology & The Internet In Takei’s Take [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 09 Jun 2014 06:30 PM PDT  There are many reasons to admire George Takei: his much-loved role as Mr Sulu in Star Trek, his dedicated work as a gay rights activist and his efforts to improve Japanese-American relations. But now we have another reason: Takei’s Take on YouTube. Produced in part by the AARP, George separates fact from fiction and explains some of the latest trends, buzz-words and technologies in short, easily consumable videos. It’s the perfect excuse for the ex-Star Trek actor to explore science, technology and the Internet’s effect on our lives on YouTube. Last week’s Stuff to Watch was all about 2014′s Webby winners – and George was one of them, for this very... Read the full article: George Takei Explains Technology & The Internet In Takei’s Take [Stuff to Watch] |
| 4 Tips To Finish A Boring Online Course By Being A More Engaged Learner Posted: 09 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Online courses are curses in disguise. At first glance, you might be enthralled by illusions of flexibility and freedom, but as the semester chugs along, it becomes clear that online courses require a lot of discipline and responsibility. In many ways, they’re tough and boring. How do you complete such a dull experience without going insane? It’s a question that’s been asked time and time again, except it’s wrapped up in a different context: how do you make a boring class interesting? There’s no clear-cut answer, but we do have a few tips that might help you make it to the... Read the full article: 4 Tips To Finish A Boring Online Course By Being A More Engaged Learner |
| The 5 Most Important Websites To Learn about Tabletop Roleplay Gaming Posted: 09 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT  The most interesting and confident people I’ve ever met have been avid tabletop RPG players. Over the years tabletop RPGs have been labelled as everything from satanic worship to the cause of suicides – but they’re really just a form of collaborative storytelling. A group of gamers gathers to tell a story, contributing from their own characters perspective – improvising, basically – but within the framework of that particular gaming system. The system can dictate things like how a fight is resolved or whether a character can successfully perform an action, and dice are typically used to add the element... Read the full article: The 5 Most Important Websites To Learn about Tabletop Roleplay Gaming |
| Decorate Your Android Home Screen In Style With These 3 Wallpaper Apps Posted: 09 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Get past your phone’s lock screen, and the first thing that catches the eye is your wallpaper. Some of us are minimalists, opting for a wallpaper that’s just a single, uniform expanse of color — like what Android app Colors can give you. But if you’re looking for something with a bit more visual flair, you should check out these three excellent wallpaper apps. For Polygon Aficionados: Facets ($0.99) Facets is the polar opposite of something like the previously-reviewed Wallbase For Android: Instead of an endless feed of wallpapers from all over the place, Facets highlights one artist’s original work... Read the full article: Decorate Your Android Home Screen In Style With These 3 Wallpaper Apps |
| Get More Out Of Your Console With Companion Mobile Apps Posted: 09 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Game consoles have become entertainment centers that can be used to play Blu-ray discs, stream Netflix and talk with friends. These extras features have expanded so quickly, in fact, that they’ve outpaced the interfaces Microsoft and Sony designed. A game controller isn’t a terrible remote, but it's not a great one, either. That's where your mobile device comes in. A tablet or, in some cases, a smartphone can be used to access or activate some console features. This is new frontier in app development, so the options are limited, but what's available can be convenient. Xbox Smartglass The SmartGlass app for... Read the full article: Get More Out Of Your Console With Companion Mobile Apps |
| 2 Simple Ways To Navigate & Download Images Without Going To Reddit Posted: 09 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Not only does Reddit act as one of the coolest and most effective ways to get social news that will interest, inform, and make you laugh, but it’s also an imageboard: almost like a 4chan for adults. Images are what power Reddit, and without it being such a visual experience it wouldn’t be nearly as popular as we all know it to be today. Do you want to browse and save content from Reddit without the text getting in your way? That’s completely possible, and I’ll show you how. Skip Reddit, Use Imgur Reddit and Imgur have a partnership that... Read the full article: 2 Simple Ways To Navigate & Download Images Without Going To Reddit |
| 5 Children’s Video Games That You’ll Enjoy Too Posted: 09 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Just like you enjoy that animated movie as much as the kids it was made for, the world of video games has some great titles that appeal across ages. There are games made for adults that kids particularly enjoy — Mortal Kombat and God of War come to mind first. And the reverse holds true as well. Just because something is made for a kid does not mean it can’t be entertaining for an adult. In case you dismissed a game with the notion that it’s meant for kids, you might have denied yourself some cool and fun times. But... Read the full article: 5 Children’s Video Games That You’ll Enjoy Too |
| Discover the Art of Zentangle Drawings With Doodle Patterns for iOS & Android Posted: 09 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT  It doesn’t matter if you can’t draw, creating zentangles is a relaxing zen-like activity that’s bound to lower blood pressure and get your creative juices flowing. With the aid of your iOS or Android device and an app called Doodle Patterns ($2.99), you can learn how to draw them and find inspiration for your own zentangles. In the book Zentangle for Beginners, Tatyana Williams explains that “Zentangles are black and white miniature art pieces. They are abstract, unplanned, and are beautifully created through repeated structured patterns playing harmoniously together.” The artistic and meditative method of zentangles was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, and it’s traditionally... Read the full article: Discover the Art of Zentangle Drawings With Doodle Patterns for iOS & Android |
| Save Your Web Favorites As Notes With OneNote Clipper For Chrome Posted: 09 Jun 2014 07:30 AM PDT  When you have a note-taking application that’s free across platforms, an easy way to curate content with it is welcome. Late to arrive or not, Microsoft has released OneNote Clipper for Chrome. OneNote Clipper easily allows you to save anything from the Web to OneNote with a click. All your captured notes are added to your OneNote Quick Notes. It was earlier released as a bookmarklet you could drag to your favorites bar, but now exists as a fully-fledged extension. It brings the same functionality, so you can remove the bookmarklet if installed and go with the new extension. Those... Read the full article: Save Your Web Favorites As Notes With OneNote Clipper For Chrome |
| 9 Hilariously Random Websites To Help You Procrastinate Posted: 09 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT  The Internet is a wonderful place, but sometimes it just spawns the weirdest creations.Case in point — these 9 websites. Some are genuinely hilarious for no good reason. Others are just so strange you’ll wonder why they were ever created. Regardless, you’re bound to have a laugh or two…while you procrastinate. Sanger.dk Spoiler alert: It’s a pug licking your screen, adorably. If you’ve ever felt the Internet was too dominated by silly cat videos because you’re more of a dog person, you’ll get a kick out of this licking-crazed pug. Why does it exist? Who knows. And just so you... Read the full article: 9 Hilariously Random Websites To Help You Procrastinate |
| How To Extend The Life Of Your Raspberry Pi’s SD Card Posted: 09 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT  First appearing as extended storage for PDAs, smartphones and digital cameras around 10 years ago, SD cards are now a popular addition to tablet and mini computers such as the Raspberry Pi. Offering high capacity and fast write speeds, SD cards are particularly important to the Raspberry Pi, which uses this type of storage as a system disk. If you know anything about SD cards, then you’ll see how this might prove to be a problem. SD cards have a finite life, with limits on how often data can be written and rewritten before the card gives in to entropy.... Read the full article: How To Extend The Life Of Your Raspberry Pi’s SD Card |
| Top Podcasts to Take Your Biohacking to the Next Level Posted: 09 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT  The use of nutrition, exercise, health and fitness technology/gadgets, and psychology to improve mental and physical performance is on the rise. However, finding the time to keep up with the latest developments can be a tough endeavour that’ll hopefully be eased by listening to these podcasts. First though, let’s have a quick introduction to biohacking, and also a brief disclaimer. Biohacking and self experimentaton can be dangerous. Do so at your own risk! What is Biohacking? For those who aren’t quite sure what biohacking is, in short it’s taking the hacker’s mindset to biology, to help us enhance and optimise performance both... Read the full article: Top Podcasts to Take Your Biohacking to the Next Level |
| Smart TV Hack, Popcorn Time VPN, Turing Test Chatbot, CIA Tweets [Tech News Digest] Posted: 09 Jun 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Today in Tech News Digest, smart TV flaws, a Popcorn Time VPN, the chatbot that beat Alan Turing, the CIA joins Twitter, the first Vine from space, a Street View of the World Cup, and Microsoft’s vision of the present future. Possible Smart TV Hack Exposed A set of flaws in the HbbTV standard (Hybrid broadcast broadband TV) has been discovered that could put the majority of smart television sets at risk of being hijacked. This so-called ‘Red Button attack’ would affect anyone receiving an over-the-air signal within a certain range of the fictional hackers. Depending on your age and... Read the full article: Smart TV Hack, Popcorn Time VPN, Turing Test Chatbot, CIA Tweets [Tech News Digest] |
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