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- Cool Websites & Tools – Drones, Track Your Expenses, & Update Your Browser
- 180 Photography Tips To Capture Your Home
- 10 Great World Cup Moments To Get You In The Mood [Stuff to Watch]
- Why Touchscreen Controls Are Useless For Retro Gaming & How To Fix It
- What You Really Need To Know About Smartphone Security
- Never Touch Code Again: Filament.io, For Non-Developers Everywhere
- These 4 Early Access PC Games Take Minecraft’s Ideas to the Next Level
- Experience SoundCloud On Desktop With CloudDeck And Adobe Air
- Learn How to Reboot a Spacecraft at the Space College
- 5 Big Changes In Pokémon X And Y That Make The Series Worth Coming Back To
- Every iOS 7 Trick You Will Need for iPhone Utopia
- PowerTOP Will Maximize Your Linux Laptop’s Battery Life
- The Complete Mastery Course In Photography and Photoshop CC For $34.99, Ends June 20
- How To Trick Apps Into Thinking Your Android Is Not Rooted
- Facebook Is Tracking You For Ads, A Bitcoin Mining Monopoly, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Drones, Track Your Expenses, & Update Your Browser Posted: 16 Jun 2014 09:31 PM PDT  TravelByDrone – is a Google Maps mashup where you can view YouTube videos of drone coverage. These are not military drones or promotional drones, but rather personal drones belonging to private individuals. All videos are hosted on YouTube, and you can see on the map where the footage was captured. Just click on one to watch the video footage. Dayboard – Replace the new tab page with a to do list that helps you focus on your most important tasks each day. Dayboard is a to do list that focuses on just 5 items each day. Start your day by... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Drones, Track Your Expenses, & Update Your Browser |
| 180 Photography Tips To Capture Your Home Posted: 16 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Thinking of selling your home, or just looking to improve indoor photography? These 180 tips will have you covered. We’ve helped absolute photography beginners with our tips, and we’ve even published a guide on photography. Yet, every bit of this infograph and its 180 tips is still worth sharing. Click to enlarge. via Terry’s Blinds Read the full article: 180 Photography Tips To Capture Your Home |
| 10 Great World Cup Moments To Get You In The Mood [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 16 Jun 2014 06:30 PM PDT  In this midst of corruption allegations and half-finished infrastructure, the 2014 FIFA World Cup has kicked off in Brazil. For the next month, football results are elevated above their usual spot at the end of the news, to just before the end of the news – it’s a special time indeed. Being an England fan, I am no stranger to crushing disappointments and broken dreams. Fortunately I’m also able to take enjoyment from the successes of others, which is why I’ve put together this short but entertaining list of great World Cup moments from tournaments gone by – in no particular order. Mexico... Read the full article: 10 Great World Cup Moments To Get You In The Mood [Stuff to Watch] |
| Why Touchscreen Controls Are Useless For Retro Gaming & How To Fix It Posted: 16 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT  DAMN! Dead again… I played Turrican to death as a teenager. I could complete it with one eye closed on the 16-bit classic Amiga computer, but when playing it on an Android emulator, I can’t get past the first level. The reason is surely down to poor onscreen controls in the emulator — but how can this be fixed? Emulation Is Great, Controls Are Poor Emulators for mobile platforms have always been a curious beast. The earliest MS-DOS emulators for Windows Mobile 6 and Android were ports of DOSBox, and both had poor keyboard implementation which made even installing and running... Read the full article: Why Touchscreen Controls Are Useless For Retro Gaming & How To Fix It |
| What You Really Need To Know About Smartphone Security Posted: 16 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Your smartphone is a computer in your pocket, and it often contains just as much private data. All of your emails, location history, web history and app usage are likely accessible through the device on your pocket. This makes it well worth protecting, but the threats you should worry about extend beyond. Viruses Exist Since a smartphone is like a computer, it is vulnerable to similar security threats. Malware can be used to monitor data transferred on a phone, hijack specific data (like credit card numbers) or simply corrupt apps and generally make your life difficult. There are millions of... Read the full article: What You Really Need To Know About Smartphone Security |
| Never Touch Code Again: Filament.io, For Non-Developers Everywhere Posted: 16 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT  If you’ve ever tried to manually paste a code snippet like Google Analytics tracking code to your website by digging into PHP template files, you’ll know how daunting it can be. Filament.io makes it as simple as dragging and dropping. At least, that’s the promise. Getting Started Head over to filament.io and hit the sign-up button. You’ll need to create a login, but Facebook and Google accounts can be used for quick one-button access. Next you’ll need to enter the domain you’ll be using it on – you can add more later. If you’re running WordPress, this will be detected... Read the full article: Never Touch Code Again: Filament.io, For Non-Developers Everywhere |
| These 4 Early Access PC Games Take Minecraft’s Ideas to the Next Level Posted: 16 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Minecraft is an ever-present juggernaut of the video game industry, loved by kids and adults alike. Since the first alpha went public in 2009, the game has grown into such a phenomenon that it’s spawned toy lines, a yearly convention, and even an upcoming feature film. If you already have it, you know the fun of building and exploring with friends on any of the numerous player-run servers. Maybe you even run a server of your own! When any game is as successful as Minecraft, similar games can’t be far behind, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Players who... Read the full article: These 4 Early Access PC Games Take Minecraft’s Ideas to the Next Level |
| Experience SoundCloud On Desktop With CloudDeck And Adobe Air Posted: 16 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Are you someone who uses SoundCloud every single day? SoundCloud is definitely one of the most useful, popular, and simplest services when it comes to immediately finding the music you want to stream in your browser. Soundcloud is in my pinned tabs in Chrome, and I plan to keep it there! However, not everyone wants to clutter up their browser space with a permanent tab. Luckily for you folks, I’ve found one of the best desktop interfaces for SoundCloud. It’s a quick, free download and you can get started streaming your SoundCloud library in just seconds. Get CloudDeck Firstly, CloudDeck works... Read the full article: Experience SoundCloud On Desktop With CloudDeck And Adobe Air |
| Learn How to Reboot a Spacecraft at the Space College Posted: 16 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT  What do you do when a spacecraft launched in 1978 returns back to Earth after a 30 year journey into deep space? Capture it and turn it into an orbiting educational communications lab for the programming and maker community of course! This is exactly what’s happening with the ISEE-3, a spacecraft that NASA built in the 1970′s to examine solar wind and plasma between the Earth and the Moon. Today, the spacecraft is returning to a world where the technology originally created to communicate with it is obsolete. Enter Keith Cowing - a former NASA employee with an intense interest in space... Read the full article: Learn How to Reboot a Spacecraft at the Space College |
| 5 Big Changes In Pokémon X And Y That Make The Series Worth Coming Back To Posted: 16 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT  The Pokémon franchise has been around in North America since 1998, when its debut Red and Blue versions appeared on the Game Boy. While it continues to be a wildly successful franchise, the series is not particularly known for its innovation. Each new generation of titles share a similar plot and gameplay, while adding bits of new content and features to keep seasoned players happy. However, the newest iterations in the Pokémon franchise, Pokémon X and Y on Nintendo 3DS, bring much more to the table than just the usual 100+ new species of Pokémon. Let’s take a look at... Read the full article: 5 Big Changes In Pokémon X And Y That Make The Series Worth Coming Back To |
| Every iOS 7 Trick You Will Need for iPhone Utopia Posted: 16 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT  From putting folders in the dock to blocking incoming calls, there are lots of iOS tips and features that many new and veteran users are still unaware of. Though iOS is nearing its eighth incarnation, iOS 7 is only a year old and still bearing many new fruits in terms of productivity if you know where to look. I’m going to assume that you have some basic knowledge of how your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch works, if you’re looking for a beginners crash course, check out our iOS 7 guide. Organizing Apps You may find your iOS 7 device easier to use if... Read the full article: Every iOS 7 Trick You Will Need for iPhone Utopia |
| PowerTOP Will Maximize Your Linux Laptop’s Battery Life Posted: 16 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT  On Linux laptops, one of the most common complaints is that the battery life isn’t quite as good as one would hope. It’s true that with default settings, Linux gets decent battery life, but not as fine-tuned as say laptops that come with Windows. It’s easy to track your battery’s performance, but it’s more difficult to get the right settings. However, you can find out what settings are best for your system, along with various low-level statistics, through an application called PowerTOP. About PowerTOP PowerTOP is an application developed by Intel that is all about finding the best power settings... Read the full article: PowerTOP Will Maximize Your Linux Laptop’s Battery Life |
| The Complete Mastery Course In Photography and Photoshop CC For $34.99, Ends June 20 Posted: 16 Jun 2014 05:30 AM PDT  If you’re passionate about photography or know someone who is, this is the gift you’ve been waiting for. How do you take long-exposure, beautiful night shots? What’s the most important aspect of black and white photography? How do you use the manual mode on digital SLRs? And finally, what can Photoshop do to make your photos really shine? If those questions resonate with you, don’t worry — these are just the few questions asked by every budding photographer. There’s so much to explore in the world of photography, it can be slightly overwhelming. Throw in Photoshop, and it’s too much... Read the full article: The Complete Mastery Course In Photography and Photoshop CC For $34.99, Ends June 20 |
| How To Trick Apps Into Thinking Your Android Is Not Rooted Posted: 16 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Unfortunately, some developers block access to their apps if they detect that the device they’re installed on is rooted. This is due to a variety of reasons, but usually its due to security (banking apps) or Digital Rights Management (video apps). The worry is that rooted devices, if compromised, have access to more sensitive information thanks to their unrestricted access, as well as the fact that users could find and extract normally hidden DRM content on their devices using a file manager with root access. But you’re the kind of person who roots your Android device and refuses to let others tell you... Read the full article: How To Trick Apps Into Thinking Your Android Is Not Rooted |
| Facebook Is Tracking You For Ads, A Bitcoin Mining Monopoly, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 16 Jun 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Facebook is tracking you for advertising purposes, Bitcoin gains its first mining monopoly, Apple recalls iPhone chargers, Pinterest suffers spam hack attack, Steamboy is a handheld Steam machine, Amazon adds audio to eBooks, and Ai Weiwei starts a new selfie trend. Facebook Starts Tracking You For Ads Just when you thought @facebook couldn’t get any more invasive. They’ll now track your activity in apps. http://t.co/emqbtwlsy8 — Ben Stegner (@stegnersaurus) June 16, 2014 Facebook is tracking the websites you visit and the apps you use, all in order to serve you ads more relevant to your interests. This practice is already... Read the full article: Facebook Is Tracking You For Ads, A Bitcoin Mining Monopoly, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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