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• Cool Websites & Tools – Boutique Hotels, 3D Mount Everest, & Are You Back Again?
• 10 Signs Your Computer Is Infected With A Virus
• Don’t Tear Up On Clickbait — Cull It With ClickHole From The Onion [Weird & Wonderful Web]
• Find The Perfect Outfit With Fitbay And Your Online Body Doubles
• Put iOS Notifications To Work For You With These Apps
• 4 Unconventional Shooters You Must Play
• Portable Computing In Style: 5 Fashionable Laptop Bags
• Firefox 30 Introduces Sidebars Button, GStreamer 1.0 Support, & Quickshare In Android Context Menu
• Get Live Scores & Stream The World Cup 2014 On Windows Phone 8
• The Desperate Deals of Summer: Discounted iPads, Nexus 7s and More! [Tech Deals]
• Curious About Colemak? Learn The Best Keyboard Layout Easily
• Is DRM A Threat To Computer Security?
• Skype 5.0 Gets a Complete Overhaul for the iPhone
• Top 8 Smartphone Apps To Take On A Summer Break
• Presentations Evolved: 4 Alternatives To PowerPoint & Keynote Compared

Cool Websites & Tools – Boutique Hotels, 3D Mount Everest, & Are You Back Again? Posted: 12 Jun 2014 09:31 PM PDT Back Again? – shows the number of times you’ve visited a web site in a day. This is a simple Chrome extension that tells you how many times you’ve visited the page you’re on, right in the button. You can get a graph of your visits to a site that week by clicking the button. It’s a way to be mindful of your browsing time. Vibify – aims to inform you for any pending notifications on your phone. To do that, Vibify does a very small vibration when you pick up your phone. Vibify works only if your phone remains... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Boutique Hotels, 3D Mount Everest, & Are You Back Again?

10 Signs Your Computer Is Infected With A Virus Posted: 12 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT You have a sneaking suspicion that you computer has a virus. Why? It seems to be running slower than usual. Strange windows pop-up from nowhere. You finally realise that your antivirus software is disabled, but you can’t re-enable it, nor can you install another antivirus application. What’s happening? First of all, you need to understand the nine types of computer viruses. It’ll also help to know how a virus infects your computer, and what you can do to stop it. Then when you see the following ten signs, you’ll know for sure that your computer has been infected. Then read... Read the full article: 10 Signs Your Computer Is Infected With A Virus

Don’t Tear Up On Clickbait — Cull It With ClickHole From The Onion [Weird & Wonderful Web] Posted: 12 Jun 2014 06:30 PM PDT Clickbait is everywhere. In emails from friends. On Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. On message boards, forums, and chatrooms. You will have clicked on clickbait at some point, whether or not you’re aware of having done so. It isn’t a new phenomenon; digital publishers have always needed people clicking through to their websites in order to grow and make money. But the practice has recently evolved into something much more insidious and annoying. When something becomes this commonplace, it’s ripe for parody. And that’s the exact treatment currently being meted out to clickbait thanks to ClickHole. What Is Clickbait? Clickbait is... Read the full article: Don’t Tear Up On Clickbait — Cull It With ClickHole From The Onion [Weird & Wonderful Web]

Find The Perfect Outfit With Fitbay And Your Online Body Doubles Posted: 12 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT There’s a new site launching to help online shoppers find clothes that fit perfectly. Fitbay aims to use recommendations to match similarly-shaped people to clothes they will love. Considering the difficulty many of us have in finding clothes that fit perfectly in real life, it’s a wonder anyone uses online shopping for clothes at all. With no chance to try it on, how do you know that your cheap trendy clothes are going to fit just right? Well, Fitbay has found an answer for us… and it really works! Join Fitbay Fitbay is newly out of private beta, so it’s now... Read the full article: Find The Perfect Outfit With Fitbay And Your Online Body Doubles

Put iOS Notifications To Work For You With These Apps Posted: 12 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT Did you know that with the right apps you can be notified of pretty much anything using your iPhone? There’s no reason to miss a weather report, sports result or breaking news story when you’re in the presence of your smartphone. The right push notification apps can make all the difference throughout your day, particularly when paired with the holy grail of automation services, IFTTT. If you’re already drowning in notifications, it might be worth turning a few off from the Settings > Notification Centre menu before enabling too many more. Pushover ($2.99) Pushover is probably the most powerful app for receiving push notifications on... Read the full article: Put iOS Notifications To Work For You With These Apps

4 Unconventional Shooters You Must Play Posted: 12 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT Shooter games are all the same. Guns, guns, and more guns. The main differentiator between most shooters is the setting, but even that might no longer be true. Battlefield, Call of Duty, Halo, Counter-Strike: aren’t they all the same burger in different wrappers? If that’s how you feel, then take heart! There are a lot of other options out there. Sure, there’s nothing wrong with a game like Counter-Strike, but sometimes you just want something a little different. The next time an urge like that hits you, be sure to give one of these unconventional shooter games a try. Hawken... Read the full article: 4 Unconventional Shooters You Must Play

Portable Computing In Style: 5 Fashionable Laptop Bags Posted: 12 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT Bulky, black and boring. If you’re fed up with these laptop bag features, we’ve got some style in store for you. Devices are becoming ever smaller, lighter, and more fancy. Bags and sleeves have co-evolved; so much actually that they no longer just protect your laptop, but may even qualify as fashion accessories for both women and men. Here’s a selection of functional, yet fashionable laptop bags to match your style. Crumpler’s The Dry Red No. 7 Briefcase & Laptop Bag Audience: business, unisex. Crumpler’s iconic bags dare to be different and all of their products come with a lifetime warranty.... Read the full article: Portable Computing In Style: 5 Fashionable Laptop Bags

Firefox 30 Introduces Sidebars Button, GStreamer 1.0 Support, & Quickshare In Android Context Menu Posted: 12 Jun 2014 10:30 AM PDT Fans of the Fox will be pleased to know that Mozilla has now brought out version number 30 of the Firefox browser. While there are no headline-pounding dramatic developments in this version, there are still a few interesting features for desktop and Android worth mentioning. Check out the release notes for desktop and mobile if you want the whole story. If you use the desktop version, the browser will update automatically as usual when you start it up. And the upgrade for the Android version is apparently slow in making its way to Google Play. So bear with it if... Read the full article: Firefox 30 Introduces Sidebars Button, GStreamer 1.0 Support, & Quickshare In Android Context Menu

Get Live Scores & Stream The World Cup 2014 On Windows Phone 8 Posted: 12 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT The World Cup 2014 is upon us, but will you be able to watch it? Perhaps the matches are on TV too late, or you might be working. These Windows Phone apps should help you stay up-to-date with the goals, scorers and final results. The World Cup On Your Windows Phone The FIFA World Cup 2014 can be enjoyed around the world, although for some of us the timing of the matches will be unfortunate. Windows Phone users can follow the tournament with a collection of apps, which I tested on my Nokia Lumia 920, running Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview. Delivering all... Read the full article: Get Live Scores & Stream The World Cup 2014 On Windows Phone 8

The Desperate Deals of Summer: Discounted iPads, Nexus 7s and More! [Tech Deals] Posted: 12 Jun 2014 09:30 AM PDT It’s officially summer. Retailers who haven’t yet sold off remaining stock of last year’s products are now doing so in desperation. We’ve got low-priced Apple iPad Mini tablets, MacBook Air laptops, Nexus 7 tablets and a super cheap Canon PowerShot S110 (which requires a massive rebate). Top Tablet and Smartphone Deals 32GB ASUS Nexus 7 Tablet with LTE (Unlocked) Price: $294.99; compare to $349 MSRP Retailer: Amazon – Buy it Now The ASUS Nexus 7, part of Google’s Nexus line of tablet, remains one of the top tablets on the market. It includes one of the highest resolution screens you... Read the full article: The Desperate Deals of Summer: Discounted iPads, Nexus 7s and More! [Tech Deals]

Curious About Colemak? Learn The Best Keyboard Layout Easily Posted: 12 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT Your keyboard sucks. There, I said it. Don’t take it personally — you’re not the one who invented the QWERTY layout. But the fact remains that QWERTY is so terrible, it’s not even funny. The good news is that it’s low hanging fruit – QWERTY is so bad, it’s actually easy to fix. Back in 2012, I shared the story of how I started using Colemak, a better keyboard layout. In another post, I covered Portable Keyboard Layout, a great way to try out alternative keyboards without having to make changes to your computer. Today I’d like to tell you... Read the full article: Curious About Colemak? Learn The Best Keyboard Layout Easily

Is DRM A Threat To Computer Security? Posted: 12 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT DRM is harmful to our security. At best, it’s a necessary evil — and it’s arguably not necessary and isn’t worth the trade-off. Here’s how DRM and the laws that protect it make our computers less secure and criminalize telling us about the problems. DRM Can Open Security Holes Digital Rights Management (DRM) itself can be insecure. DRM is implemented with software, and this software needs deep permissions into the operating system so it can stop normal operating system functions. The Sony BMG CD copy protection rootkit — first released in 2005 — is a perfect storm of DRM security... Read the full article: Is DRM A Threat To Computer Security?

Skype 5.0 Gets a Complete Overhaul for the iPhone Posted: 12 Jun 2014 07:30 AM PDT Popular video calling service Skype has renewed its mobile efforts with a new version of the app for the iPhone, redesigned from the ground up and packed with features. Skype 5.0 for iPhone looks and feels like the Android and Windows Phone apps now, and has been customized to fit iOS. Skype claims that the new app makes it five times faster to share stuff that inspires you. Apart from plain text chat, you can also send emojis, audio messages and video messages. And of course, since this is Skype, video calling remains at the heart of it. Pair all... Read the full article: Skype 5.0 Gets a Complete Overhaul for the iPhone

Top 8 Smartphone Apps To Take On A Summer Break Posted: 12 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT Although some people’s idea of a perfect summer holiday is retreating deep into the wilderness and far away from any phone service or Wi-Fi signal, far more of us cannot bear to be away from our Internet-connected devices for more than a few minutes – even when relaxing on holiday. If you’re a connectivity junkie and fall into the latter group, what are this summer’s must have apps for your well-deserved summer break? We came up with a list of eight. AllTheCooks (Android / iOS / WP8 - Free) Everyone loves trying new meals in the summer; for many, one of the best parts of the... Read the full article: Top 8 Smartphone Apps To Take On A Summer Break

Presentations Evolved: 4 Alternatives To PowerPoint & Keynote Compared Posted: 12 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT Even though you can create effective PowerPoint presentations with ease and do some cool things with Keynote, these apps are passé (not to mention relatively expensive), and it’s time to try something new. Fortunately, you have a number of great options! Here’s a roundup of 4 of the best PowerPoint and Keynote alternatives. Which one will come out on top? Prezi Although it has been around for several years now (we first reviewed it back in 2010), Prezi is still one of the relatively unknown competitors to PowerPoint and Keynote. But what it lacks in popularity, it makes up for in... Read the full article: Presentations Evolved: 4 Alternatives To PowerPoint & Keynote Compared

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