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- Famous Movies Reimagined As Safety Signs
- What Is Your Favorite Internet Saying Of All Time? [We Ask You]
- What’s New In OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”?
- How To Set Up An Email Out Of Office Responder Before You Go On A Trip
- These 6 Awesome Terminal Commands Will Boost Your MacBook
- 2 Wonderfully Addictive, Pixelated Strategy Games for Android
- The Truth About Popcorn Time, And How To Torrent Safely
- Give Your Photos An Instant Edge With The New Editing Tools On Instagram
- 3 Ways You Can Contribute & Be A Leader Without A Title
- Technophilia Episode 116 Live
- 5 Ways Your Email Address Can Be Exploited By Scammers
- Google Chromecast Goes Sports Crazy Adding WatchESPN, MLS, And More
- 3 PlayStation Games That Made Us Look At Video Games Differently
- How To Try Wayland, A New Display Server For Linux
- 5 Ways to Improve Battery Life on Android KitKat
| Famous Movies Reimagined As Safety Signs Posted: 04 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT  We love reimagining pop culture icons. We’ve dabbled at reimagining Star Wars as an 80s high school movie. We’ve asked the question, “If pop culture characters changed their careers, how would their business cards look?” We’ve even thought about the types of businesses Game of Thrones houses would venture into. We’re awesome that way. How well do you know movies? What if they were reimagined as safety signs — would you still be able to recognise them? Here are twenty movies, condensed into safety signs. Have a go to see how many you can get right. Click here for the... Read the full article: Famous Movies Reimagined As Safety Signs |
| What Is Your Favorite Internet Saying Of All Time? [We Ask You] Posted: 04 Jun 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Hundreds of words and phrases have been invented online. Perhaps even thousands. These weird and wonderful creations show our language evolving in an exciting-yet-annoying manner – mostly led by n00bs riding the roflcopter. Some Internet sayings are so common they’re vying for inclusion in dictionaries, while others deserve to be condemned to die in a fire. We want to discover your favorite Internet words and phrases in order to create a list containing the most popular choices. GTG, BRB. OMG, WTF? JK, LOL! We want to know, What Is Your Favorite Internet Saying Of All Time? There are plenty of... Read the full article: What Is Your Favorite Internet Saying Of All Time? [We Ask You] |
| What’s New In OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”? Posted: 04 Jun 2014 03:00 PM PDT  Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference brings big changes to the world of iOS, but the company hasn’t forgotten about the desktop either. OS X is evolving both in terms of looks and features, and just like last year’s Mavericks update, Yosemite will be another free download. You’ll have to wait a few months for the new OS to land, or optionally register for the public beta in which the first million people to sign up are given access (so be quick). For the meantime, here’s a peek at what Cupertino have done to the desktop. Introducing OS X 10.10 “Yosemite” OS X is the desktop operating... Read the full article: What’s New In OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”? |
| How To Set Up An Email Out Of Office Responder Before You Go On A Trip Posted: 04 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Wouldn’t you love to go on vacation knowing you don’t have to check your email? If you can’t rely on an assistant to tend to your digital communication while you’re away, an ‘out of office’ message is the next best thing. Here are some tips on how to set up an autoresponder with Gmail and what to keep in mind. Reduce The Load Before You Leave Make sure to clear out your inbox and respond to open requests before you leave. Communicate that you will be away. For example, you could add the dates of your scheduled away time to your... Read the full article: How To Set Up An Email Out Of Office Responder Before You Go On A Trip |
| These 6 Awesome Terminal Commands Will Boost Your MacBook Posted: 04 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT  You can only cram so much into a graphical user interface before it becomes cluttered, so it should come as no big surprise that you can do some really cool things using the Mac Terminal. After you’ve learned the basic Terminal commands and geeked out with some funny Terminal easter eggs, you might wonder what else this slick beauty can do for you. 1. Lower Your Mac’s Wake Up Time You probably noticed how your MacBook sometimes takes an age to wake up from sleep, especially when you’ve been away from your keyboard for some time. This is due to Mac OS X’s standby mode, which is a deep lumber that your... Read the full article: These 6 Awesome Terminal Commands Will Boost Your MacBook |
| 2 Wonderfully Addictive, Pixelated Strategy Games for Android Posted: 04 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Graphics aren’t everything. Even if you are not a fan of the retro-pixelated game art style, these two strategy games are virtually guaranteed to captivate you for hours of fun. Both games feel a bit like board games, but work well on a smartphone — you don’t need a tablet to enjoy these. Hoplite (Free, with optional in-app purchase) Hoplite features randomly generated levels and permanent death – two attributes that often define the roguelike genre. The game is played on a small board with hexagonal tiles. You are a knight (well, a Greek citizen-soldier, to be exact) and you... Read the full article: 2 Wonderfully Addictive, Pixelated Strategy Games for Android |
| The Truth About Popcorn Time, And How To Torrent Safely Posted: 04 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT  With the influx of new p2p movie streaming apps like Popcorn Time, and a system for copyright infringement notices about to begin in the UK, I thought it might an apt time to remind you of some basic torrenting safety guidelines. I’m not going to be preachy and pretend I don’t know what you use torrents for, but I am going to ask that you stay safe regardless – both legally, and from a computing perspective. No one wants to end up in prison or handed a hefty fine. Not sure what torrents are? Read our free guide to torrents. Please... Read the full article: The Truth About Popcorn Time, And How To Torrent Safely |
| Give Your Photos An Instant Edge With The New Editing Tools On Instagram Posted: 04 Jun 2014 10:30 AM PDT  Instagram wants to give its users every tool they need to become better smartphone photographers. It has introduced ten new features in the latest update that should give you more control over a photo’s look. It also takes Instagram from being a mere “photo-filter” app to an editing toolbox. The ten new features aren’t groundbreaking, but by giving you the control over brightness, saturation, contrast, warmth, shadows, sharpness, and filter strength, among other things you can take the finish of a favorite photo a notch above what it actually is. The new editing features work incrementally with sliders. Select the... Read the full article: Give Your Photos An Instant Edge With The New Editing Tools On Instagram |
| 3 Ways You Can Contribute & Be A Leader Without A Title Posted: 04 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT  You’re a leader, even if you don’t realize it. We tend to think of leaders as people who have charisma and lead massive organizations, but a leader is more than that. A true leader doesn’t need a title or a rank. A leader is simply one who leads, and you fit the bill in one way or another. Your presence and behavior always has an impact on the people around you and that influence is your unofficial form of leadership. The way that you think, speak, and act could be a determining factor in the health and longevity of whatever group you’re... Read the full article: 3 Ways You Can Contribute & Be A Leader Without A Title |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2014 09:45 AM PDT  Tech News Gangnam Style hits 2 billion views. Who are the people still watching this? Apple officially buys beats for $3 billion, because Oculus was already taken. Steve Balmer is buying the LA Clippers for $2 billion, because Oculus was already taken. John Oliver broke the FCC's comment page. What's new in iOS 8? Yosemite is a park known for its sweeping vistas Netflix is slowly ditching Silverlight for HTML5. I can haz Linux support? Apple tells Google to go Bing itself. And makes DuckDuckGo an option for mobile Safari. Most popular mobile porn browser: Safari. 38% on phone, 73%... Read the full article: Technophilia Episode 116 Live |
| 5 Ways Your Email Address Can Be Exploited By Scammers Posted: 04 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Few things can ruin your day quite like having your email account hacked. Indeed, it’s hard to have a digital life without an e-mail address, and that has resulted in most people putting all of their eggs in a single, tempting basket. I mean, it should go without saying that there’s so much to go for. Shopping. Social media. Online storage. Web hosting. With that in mind, here’s a run-down of the damage that can happen when your email account gets hacked. Don’t have nightmares. They Go After Your Friends “Are you alright? What happened man?” After three frantic tries,... Read the full article: 5 Ways Your Email Address Can Be Exploited By Scammers |
| Google Chromecast Goes Sports Crazy Adding WatchESPN, MLS, And More Posted: 04 Jun 2014 08:30 AM PDT  Fans of Google’s little $35 streaming stick known as the Chromecast are in for a treat, as the company has just announced a bunch of new apps coming to the device. Most of them are centered around applications for watching some of your favorite sports, but there is also a feature that will come in handy for those who like to use Google+ to share their photos with friends and loved ones. The first new app added by Google is WatchESPN. This is a cool way to watch live sports on your streaming stick, but it does come with a pretty... Read the full article: Google Chromecast Goes Sports Crazy Adding WatchESPN, MLS, And More |
| 3 PlayStation Games That Made Us Look At Video Games Differently Posted: 04 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Do you remember the first time you played a PlayStation? I was lucky enough to have parents that supported my love of gaming. I was a fiend when it came to the NES and Genesis, but two of my most memorable experiences in gaming come from upgrading from 16-bit consoles to the Nintendo 64 and then eventually buying a PlayStation. These were such breakthroughs in console gaming capabilities that it was like exploring an entire new world right in front of my television. In my opinion, this was when console gaming was at its peak and I feel privileged to... Read the full article: 3 PlayStation Games That Made Us Look At Video Games Differently |
| How To Try Wayland, A New Display Server For Linux Posted: 04 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Linux distributions will soon get a new display server called Wayland. But what exactly is it, and why is it important? Let’s take a look at Wayland, and see how you can try it out right now. What Is Wayland? Wayland is a new display server that should be reaching Linux distributions within the next few years. While the Wayland display server is already considered to be stable, it’s still missing some useful functionality, and the majority of user interface toolkits such as GTK and Qt do not have enough support yet for Wayland to actually be used. However, support is currently... Read the full article: How To Try Wayland, A New Display Server For Linux |
| 5 Ways to Improve Battery Life on Android KitKat Posted: 04 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT  There I was, showing off my new HTC One to a friend when “plink!” the low battery alert sounded. Considering it wasn’t yet lunchtime, this was potentially embarrassing. With under 20% charge left, I had to act fast. Charging An Android KitKat Phone Getting the phone charged up was my priority – but what could I use? Looking around, I saw a wall outlet, and my USB adaptor just happened to be in my bag (not a surprise, as I also carry a Surface Pro in there). Fortunately, throughout the demo I was able to keep the phone plugged in... Read the full article: 5 Ways to Improve Battery Life on Android KitKat |
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