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• Cool Websites & Tools – U.S House Prices, Privacy Icons, & Instagram Marshmallows
• The Ultimate List of Google Ranking Factors
• Listen To Articles And Be Highly Productive With Text-To-Speech Software In Chrome
• 5 Technology Skills You Should Actively Encourage Children To Take Up
• Edit Image Text With Chrome’s Project Naptha: What It Is & How To Use It
• Why You Shouldn’t Install The iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Betas
• 5 Things You Can Start Doing Today To Get Better At Hearthstone
• $400 iPhone 5c, $265 Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and More [Tech Deals]
• 4 Media Center Remote Apps For Windows Phone 8
• Firefox Freedom! Four Things Chrome Doesn’t Let Users Do
• How To Ask A Favor From A Stranger — Yes, Even Online!
• 4 Ways You Can Add Two-Factor Authentication To Your WordPress Blog
• Upper Desk Portable Table and Cabinet Mount Review and Giveaway
• 5 Critical Skills To Teach Yourself Before Starting Your First Business
• Google I/O Reveals Android Is Everywhere, Aereo Loses Big Fight, And More… [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – U.S House Prices, Privacy Icons, & Instagram Marshmallows Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:31 PM PDT WudaTime – is a free web based project management tool which allows you to easily keep track of your dedication. It is a simple time management application perfect for SME and start-ups. Plus, you can do project management while enjoying WudaTime's neat design. The progress bars give visual information on project and task status. Use the to-do lists to keep track of your progress. How Much House Can You Buy In 385 U.S Cities – Are home prices cheap in your city right now? It’s common to answer this question by talking about how prices today compare with prices last... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – U.S House Prices, Privacy Icons, & Instagram Marshmallows

The Ultimate List of Google Ranking Factors Posted: 26 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT SEO experts all over the world debate about how the various methods to optimise websites for Google’s search engine. Who wouldn’t want to be featured as the first search result? Although never officially confirmed, Google uses about 200 signals in their algorithm in order to determine how a site ranks in search engine results pages. Compiled by Single Grain and Backlinko, this is by no means an official list. However, you will learn a thing or two. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: The Ultimate List of Google Ranking Factors

Listen To Articles And Be Highly Productive With Text-To-Speech Software In Chrome Posted: 26 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT Often the best ways to become more productive start by people being lazy or limited in some way. You can’t read that website right now? Just get a Chrome extension to read it to you. Text-to-speech (TTS) technology is nothing new. It is been around for a quite a while and many people now prefer webpages and documents read out to them by a text-to-speech software application. After a long day, you may not have the stamina to read through a webpage; what you could really use is an app that reads out webpages to you. Let’s also not forget... Read the full article: Listen To Articles And Be Highly Productive With Text-To-Speech Software In Chrome

5 Technology Skills You Should Actively Encourage Children To Take Up Posted: 26 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT Let the child touch the TV remote and you know that’s their first brush with technology. Children take to technology like fish take to water. Even as debates rage over how much technology we should let our children use, it comes down to one inescapable fact that the society of today and tomorrow is totally driven by technology. The impact of video games on children is well-researched. Let’s question – can we be Luddites in a world that is also tapping into children as design “partners” for innovation? Or should we embrace the best of technology and use it to... Read the full article: 5 Technology Skills You Should Actively Encourage Children To Take Up

Edit Image Text With Chrome’s Project Naptha: What It Is & How To Use It Posted: 26 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT Text is normally trapped inside images. With the Project Naptha Chrome extension, you can select, copy, and edit that text with just a few clicks. It’s a quick way to copy important text from images or make your own meme. The extension uses advanced computer imaging technology — but, as a user, it feels a bit like magic. How Does It Work? There are multiple forms of text on the web. There’s standard text that you can copy and paste into other documents. You can use a bookmarklet or other tool to easily modify the text that appears on web pages all... Read the full article: Edit Image Text With Chrome’s Project Naptha: What It Is & How To Use It

Why You Shouldn’t Install The iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Betas Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT From the second the news broke, Apple developers had access to beta versions of the upcoming iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Yosemite. As ever, many scrambled to download and install the new software as soon as possible, but that might have been a mistake. You probably shouldn’t install iOS 8 or OS X 10.10 unless you have a good reason for doing so, and if you have a good reason for doing so you probably won’t be reading this. iOS Beta Beware Last year I installed and used the iOS 7 developer preview from pretty much the day it was released, until... Read the full article: Why You Shouldn’t Install The iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Betas

5 Things You Can Start Doing Today To Get Better At Hearthstone Posted: 26 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT Hearthstone is huge, and that means it’s time to actually get good at it! Here are five habits that you need to pick up if you want to improve at Blizzard’s new card game. I’ve put a few hundred hours into it, and I’ve learned a lot.  If you’re not on your toes, you don’t climb the ladder. I’ve made a lot of regrettable mistakes through Ranked and Arena, and some of them have hurt so much that they’ve left me with Hearthstone scars. I’ll remember some of my gaffs forever, and that’s a good thing. Hit yourself? Seems crazy, right? There... Read the full article: 5 Things You Can Start Doing Today To Get Better At Hearthstone

$400 iPhone 5c, $265 Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and More [Tech Deals] Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:30 AM PDT Pay close attention this week to the $399 contract-free iPhone 5c from Microcenter, as well as an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4 Active for $264.99. We’ve also got tablets, laptops, cameras, memory cards and computer parts! Top Tablet and Smartphone Deals iPhone 5c 32GB (AT&T, No Contract) Price: $399.99 + $5.99 shipping; compare to $649.99 Retailer: Microcenter – Buy it Now The iPhone 5c is a good smartphone (iPhone 5c review) It’s hard finding substantially discounted iPhones anywhere. This deal is hot enough that Microcenter may not actually be able to fulfill online orders – however, retailers such as Staples and... Read the full article: $400 iPhone 5c, $265 Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and More [Tech Deals]

4 Media Center Remote Apps For Windows Phone 8 Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT Windows Phone 8 is more than capable of providing you with music and video entertainment, but what if you’re sat in front of your TV or console? Well, rather than waste valuable movie time looking for the remote control, you could use one of these apps to press play and enjoy your new album or movie. Why Would You Use A Remote App? If you have easy access to your handheld TV or media center/streaming remote control, using a remote control app on any platform might seem a little pointless. Then again, how often do you lose your smartphone down... Read the full article: 4 Media Center Remote Apps For Windows Phone 8

Firefox Freedom! Four Things Chrome Doesn’t Let Users Do Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT Think Chrome can do everything? Think again. Here are four things Firefox users can do easily that Chrome users basically can’t. We write a lot about Chrome around here, seemingly neglecting what was long our favourtie browser: Firefox. It’s clear that Chrome can do a lot, but is there anything it can’t do that Firefox can? As it turns out, yes. Note that most of the things I’m saying about Firefox below also apply to popular forks and remixes of the Firefox browser. Customize Everything Don’t like Chrome’s minimalistic layout? Too bad. Outside of installing a theme and re-arranging your... Read the full article: Firefox Freedom! Four Things Chrome Doesn't Let Users Do

How To Ask A Favor From A Stranger — Yes, Even Online! Posted: 26 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT Help will be on the way, if you do a good job of asking for it. Big favors and small, all of us need them at some time or the other. Friends and family members often extend a helping hand without needing to be asked. But sometimes, it’s a stranger who holds the solution to your problem. For all you know, that stranger might be sitting an ocean away from you, or he might have just passed you by on the street. Thanks to the Web, you can ask the stranger to help you out just as you would offline. As... Read the full article: How To Ask A Favor From A Stranger — Yes, Even Online!

4 Ways You Can Add Two-Factor Authentication To Your WordPress Blog Posted: 26 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT WordPress is a pretty useful platform for blogging and content management. This flexibility has resulted in WordPress sites becoming pretty enticing targets for hackers, and digital ne’er-do-wells. In the past, we’ve talked about how to protect WordPress from intrusion, as well as how to keep a watchful eye on it with IDS plugins. But that can all be for naught if someone knows your login credentials. Thankfully, you can bring the added security of two-factor authentication to WordPress. Here’s how. What Is Two-Factor Authentication? Great question. In a nutshell, two-factor authentication requires that the user verifies with the service two... Read the full article: 4 Ways You Can Add Two-Factor Authentication To Your WordPress Blog

Upper Desk Portable Table and Cabinet Mount Review and Giveaway Posted: 26 Jun 2014 05:30 AM PDT Tablets and other smart devices have wriggled their way into every room in the house – and as useful as they are, it’s not always convenient to take up precious surface space with a bulky case, or to risk getting devices covered in cooking sauces from the kitchen and dirt from the garage. If only someone could invent a durable stand that suspends the device from a kitchen cabinet, or holds the device up from a table! Upper Desk have done just that. Attaching either to a table or cabinet, the Upper Desk portable mounts are available for $60 direct from UpperDesk.com. The market for tablet... Read the full article: Upper Desk Portable Table and Cabinet Mount Review and Giveaway

5 Critical Skills To Teach Yourself Before Starting Your First Business Posted: 26 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT Thinking about starting a business? It’s never been easier to do so, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Entrepreneurship requires a certain kind of person — one who isn’t a specialist of any particular thing but more a jack of all trades. If you want to succeed, you’ll need to wear every hat at some point. That’s a lot of skills to learn. Before starting, you should check out our guide to starting a business as well as these online courses for starting a business. It’s also important to recognize that entrepreneurship is more than just practical skills; you need to have the... Read the full article: 5 Critical Skills To Teach Yourself Before Starting Your First Business

Google I/O Reveals Android Is Everywhere, Aereo Loses Big Fight, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 26 Jun 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, Microsoft could be planning to give Windows 9 away for free, Europe is halving mobile roaming charges, Rock Simulator 2014 has arrived to blow your mind, and CollegeHumor demonstrates how the Internet has killed attention spans. All The News From Google I/O 2014 Google I/O is an annual developer-focused conference held by Google every year since 2008. Google I/O 2014 saw Google reveal lots of new stuff, some of it interesting, most of it dull. Rather than overwhelm you with masses of information, we’re focusing on just three of the countless things Google covered during its Google I/O 2014... Read the full article: Google I/O Reveals Android Is Everywhere, Aereo Loses Big Fight, And More… [Tech News Digest]

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