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- Cool Websites & Tools – Gmail Timestamps, Talking Stickers, & Product Manager Questions
- 6 Search Engine Optimisation Jokes That Poke Fun At SEO
- The 2014 World Cup: What Websites & Apps Do You Recommend? [We Ask You]
- 4 Ways You’re Using Spotify Wrong Without Even Knowing It
- How These 4 Companion Apps Change The Game
- 8 Ways To Beat Afternoon Slumps Productively When You Work Alone
- Adventure Awaits! Play These 5 Free Indie Tabletop RPGs
- Chromecast Support Will Come To VLC For Android, iOS, And Desktop
- Tailor Your Twitter Experience With These 3 Tools
- Technophilia Episode 116 Live
- Gnome Flashback: A Gnome 2 Look-Alike Shell For Gnome 3
- SwiftKey Keyboard v5 For Android Goes Free, Launches Store For In-App Purchases
- Use These Twitter List Managers to Keep Your Lists Under Control
- Securing Your Raspberry Pi: From Passwords to Firewalls
- Getting Things Done, Better: The Redesigned OmniFocus 2 for Mac
| Cool Websites & Tools – Gmail Timestamps, Talking Stickers, & Product Manager Questions Posted: 11 Jun 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Reply Now – Reply right away to emails. With relative timestamps in Gmail, you can see how long an email has been sitting in your inbox. Reply while the time is still green. Timestamps turn yellow after 15 minutes and red after an hour. Extensions are available for both Chrome and Firefox. Go Euro – is a travel search website for Europe that compares and combines air, rail, bus and car rental options. GoEuro lets travellers search to and from any location, including towns or villages, showing you the best possible transport options and combinations based on price, total travel... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Gmail Timestamps, Talking Stickers, & Product Manager Questions |
| 6 Search Engine Optimisation Jokes That Poke Fun At SEO Posted: 11 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Search engine optimisation can be such a dry job. Can you imagine always having to play catch up all the time? That’s pretty much what SEO is. That, and praying to Google. There’s no doubt that SEO plays a part in the growth of any website. However, we take the stand that publishing great content should be main focus. Building a site purely on dirty SEO tactics such as keyword spamming will lead nowhere (a big shoutout to About.com!). If you’re keen on learning about SEO and more useful techniques to grow your audience organically, then we have the infograph... Read the full article: 6 Search Engine Optimisation Jokes That Poke Fun At SEO |
| The 2014 World Cup: What Websites & Apps Do You Recommend? [We Ask You] Posted: 11 Jun 2014 06:30 PM PDT  “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death … I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” So said Bill Shankly, the late, great manager of Liverpool Football Club. He wasn’t wrong, either, as billions of people religiously follow their favorite football team as if their lives depend on it. The 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off both figuratively and literally this week. So it’s time to find out what websites and apps you’ll be making use of in order to follow all the action happening in Brazil. Beyond Google, of course. Football... Read the full article: The 2014 World Cup: What Websites & Apps Do You Recommend? [We Ask You] |
| 4 Ways You’re Using Spotify Wrong Without Even Knowing It Posted: 11 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Spotify, which has gotten plenty of coverage from us, has quickly become a prime contender in the music streaming industry. It offers an attractive deal: all the music you could want for free, as long as you can put up with a few ads here and there. If you opt for the Premium package, at $10 a month, you lose the ads and pick up some bonus features, too. However, whether you’re satisfied with what you get in Spotify Free or opt for Premium, you’re probably using the service inefficiently in some aspect. Read on to see how you can... Read the full article: 4 Ways You’re Using Spotify Wrong Without Even Knowing It |
| How These 4 Companion Apps Change The Game Posted: 11 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Can an app really make your video game experience better? We’ve already covered how the Smart Glass app for Xbox actually enhances your gameplay on a console level in many ways, but how about apps for individual games? Are they just a gimmick to keep you more involved, or can they actually make playing the game a more joyous experience? In many cases, the answer to that second question is yes. If you play any of these games and you choose to ignore their companion applications, you are missing out on something that will make your experience even better. Assassin’s... Read the full article: How These 4 Companion Apps Change The Game |
| 8 Ways To Beat Afternoon Slumps Productively When You Work Alone Posted: 11 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Without coffee or sugar. Without the conversational chatter and working alone. That’s the challenge of tackling our biological clock when it hits snooze around midday. The image of a man snoozing under a desk may not be accurate, but it is symbolic of work cultures around the globe. Type “afternoon slump” in the search bar and see how often this gets discussed. The likes of Oprah have talked about it, and so have the NHS, NASA, and WebMD. If you are human, you know it’s the time bridge all of us cross every day…especially online workers working alone who can’t... Read the full article: 8 Ways To Beat Afternoon Slumps Productively When You Work Alone |
| Adventure Awaits! Play These 5 Free Indie Tabletop RPGs Posted: 11 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Want to play something new? We’ve brought you a great list of free tabletop RPGs before, but that first list was composed of games that benefited from promotion and financial success. This list aims to introduce you to the best indie RPGs you’ve never heard of. Whether you’re just looking for a one night change of pace, or you’d like to run an extended campaign, each of these free games has something fresh to stir your imagination. Break out your dice; it’s game time! Lady Blackbird Lady Blackbird’s simple rules and pre-generated characters make for an awesome ready-to-play package that... Read the full article: Adventure Awaits! Play These 5 Free Indie Tabletop RPGs |
| Chromecast Support Will Come To VLC For Android, iOS, And Desktop Posted: 11 Jun 2014 10:30 AM PDT  The makers of the popular media player app VLC have announced that Chromecast support will be coming first to the iOS version of the app, and later to the Android and desktop versions. In an email to GigaOM, the lead developer for the iOS application stated that the update should be coming within four to six weeks. Since Google has yet to release official SDKs for native Windows, Mac, or Linux apps, the desktop versions take a lot more work to support Chromecast. Still, many users will be grateful to know that they’ll soon be able to watch their favorite videos on... Read the full article: Chromecast Support Will Come To VLC For Android, iOS, And Desktop |
| Tailor Your Twitter Experience With These 3 Tools Posted: 11 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT  With the right tools, Twitter need not be just another overwhelming social network. Twitter combines the networking potential of Linkedin and the informal air of Facebook to give netizens a 140-character-strong soapbox, and does a pretty good job of it. It has a little something for everyone, and is always teeming with ideas, opinions, and conversations. Unfortunately, what could prove to be valuable to you gets buried under the constant online chatter. The good news is that there are tools that eliminate the noise and put you in control of your Twitter experience. From The MakeUseOf Archives Before we introduce you to some new... Read the full article: Tailor Your Twitter Experience With These 3 Tools |
| Posted: 11 Jun 2014 09:45 AM PDT  http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVopy_jdB4 Tech News ISP owner: all bandwidth limits are artificial. Startups are increasingly launching small satellites, as launching them becomes cheaper. Verizon and Netflix got beef. Some high school students hacked BMO's ATMs at lunch, so they wrote a letter for their teachers explaining why there were late: "Please excuse Mr. Caleb Turon and Matthew Hewlett for being late during their lunch hour due to assisting BMO with security." BitTorrent made this great "Join The Fast Lane" parody of ISPs. But is it the future? Comcast turning routers into public Wi-Fi hotspots without the user's consent. Popcorn Time for Music... Read the full article: Technophilia Episode 116 Live |
| Gnome Flashback: A Gnome 2 Look-Alike Shell For Gnome 3 Posted: 11 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Do you enjoy using Gnome 2, but don’t want to keep running on old code? The MATE desktop environment might have kept support going for the code, but it’s still the same old code. Try Gnome Flashback to run the newer Gnome 3 but have the same look as Gnome 2. Ever since Gnome 3 was released, people have complained about how different it was compared to Gnome 2 — in a bad way. Since then, there’s been several different projects to remedy this issue. Unity was created by Canonical for Ubuntu as a different desktop shell on top of... Read the full article: Gnome Flashback: A Gnome 2 Look-Alike Shell For Gnome 3 |
| SwiftKey Keyboard v5 For Android Goes Free, Launches Store For In-App Purchases Posted: 11 Jun 2014 08:30 AM PDT  SwiftKey Keyboard, one of the best Android apps, has some good news for fans today. With the launch of version 5 of the predictive text keyboard, the app has gone free! Until now, SwiftKey would only give you a 30-day trial period after which you had to buy it for $3.99. And while we already thought it was one of the Android apps worth paying for, the new version has no such requirements. There are lots of new features in SwiftKey 5 too, but the important ones you need to know are: SwiftKey Store: The keyboard app now has in-app... Read the full article: SwiftKey Keyboard v5 For Android Goes Free, Launches Store For In-App Purchases |
| Use These Twitter List Managers to Keep Your Lists Under Control Posted: 11 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Using Twitter lists is a great way to keep your Twitter feed organized and stay up-to-date on your favorite news. They can even replace your RSS feed! But if you’re following hundreds or thousands of people on Twitter, even your lists can be a bit much to handle. Fortunately, you have a number of free options when it comes to managing your lists. We set out to compare them and find the best Twitter list manager of them all. Twitlist Manager If all you want to do is see which users are in your lists, edit those lists, and create new ones,... Read the full article: Use These Twitter List Managers to Keep Your Lists Under Control |
| Securing Your Raspberry Pi: From Passwords to Firewalls Posted: 11 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Home media hub, security cam system or just a straightforward project box – the Raspberry Pi is versatile and popular. But this popularity could lead to your Pi being hacked or even stolen, resulting in you losing time, effort and data. So what can you do about it? Change Your Default Password The default password for your Raspberry Pi should be changed. Often, it isn’t, yet doing so is simple. To change your Pi’s password (assuming you’re using Raspbian – for your favourite Pi-flavoured distro, check appropriate documentation) boot it up, open the Terminal and run sudo raspi-config to display... Read the full article: Securing Your Raspberry Pi: From Passwords to Firewalls |
| Getting Things Done, Better: The Redesigned OmniFocus 2 for Mac Posted: 11 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT  The much anticipated OmniFocus 2 ($39.99) has made its grand entrance with a revised, cleaner design and streamlined sections for managing and reviewing projects, tasks, and flagged items. A few years back, I gave up on the original OmniFocus because it felt too complicated for what I needed. I currently use the recently reviewed Guided Ways’ 2Do for Mac and iOS, but the elegant redesign of OmniFocus 2 has me wondering if I should make the switch to the redesigned version. OmniFocus 2 is sold as both a standard ($39.99) and pro ($79.99) version, with a 14-day trial download that allows for switching (in the menubar: OmniFocus > Free... Read the full article: Getting Things Done, Better: The Redesigned OmniFocus 2 for Mac |
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