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• Cool Websites & Tools – Check Flights By Price, Book A Photo Shoot, & Optimize Your Images
• Where Did All The Money Go?
• Buried In Emails? Shrink Your Massive Inbox To Zero With Mailstrom
• 3 Amazing Free-To-Play Decks For Hearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft
• You Can Quote Me: 5 Creative Ways To Use Quotes In Your Everyday Life
• Take Your Reading Offline With These 5 Chrome Apps
• Can Poker Games Help You Train To Win For Real?
• The End of Spring Sales: Discounted Motorolas, SSDs and More! [Tech Deals]
• 3 Simple Ways to Zip and Unzip Files on a Chromebook
• Google Calendar Won’t Sync With iOS? Try These Fixes
• Google Launches Anti-Snooping Efforts With Email Encryption Tool For Chrome
• How To Recover A Hacked Microsoft Account & Prevent Future Hacks
• Heroo And Roto Offer Plenty Of Free, Mind-Bending Gameplay
• Keep Up With The Latest Data Leaks – Follow These 5 Services & Feeds
• The Day We Reset The Net, Netflix Vs Verizon, World Cup Predictions [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Check Flights By Price, Book A Photo Shoot, & Optimize Your Images Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:31 PM PDT Moo0 File Monitor – lets you easily monitor the file access activities on your system. Have you ever wondered what’s going on with your disk system behind your watch? Why the disk is busy? What’s scratching your HDD? You may find them out using this simple program. There is an installable version and also a portable version. GeniusFlight – if you check a flights website, it will always list the flights under destination. But what if your plans were wide open and you wanted to search by price instead? If you had $100 in your pocket, maybe you want to... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Check Flights By Price, Book A Photo Shoot, & Optimize Your Images

Where Did All The Money Go? Posted: 05 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT It happens to all of us. We work, work, and work, only to find that we’ve not doing as well as we had hoped. The average expenditure of American households is about $50,000 a year. A huge chunk of that money (roughly 30 percent) is spent on housing — whether that’s rent or a mortgage, but it’s entirely necessary. Paying for electricity can also be a burden. Do you know how much electricity it takes to power your computer? To make the most of your money, you will need to set a budget and stick to it. Budgeting is much... Read the full article: Where Did All The Money Go?

Buried In Emails? Shrink Your Massive Inbox To Zero With Mailstrom Posted: 05 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT Hello. My name is Ryan Dube and I am an Inbox hoarder.  I’ve decided that my project this week, and for this article, will be to conquer my email Inbox issues using the email management service known as Mailstrom. I’m not kidding about inbox issues. My Yahoo email account has over 13,000 emails. Gmail has over 10,000. As part of this article, my goal was to see if I could start chopping a few thousand emails off of that 10,000 Gmail account. If effective, I would probably sign up for a full account with Mailstrom. Upon first signing up for... Read the full article: Buried In Emails? Shrink Your Massive Inbox To Zero With Mailstrom

3 Amazing Free-To-Play Decks For Hearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft Posted: 05 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT Blizzard’s Hearthstone is a collectible card games, and like all such games it features cards of varying power. The only way to obtain better cards is through packs, but buying packs can become quite expensive. Kotaku dropped $50 on 40 packs – and only received one legendary! Many players will find that unacceptable and choose to instead earn packs slowly by completing quests and defeating opponents. This is an uphill battle if you only have rudimentary cards, but there are some “free-to-play” decks that can compete with those containing far more impressive cards. What’s A Free-To-Play Deck? Let’s take a moment... Read the full article: 3 Amazing Free-To-Play Decks For Hearthstone: Heroes Of Warcraft

You Can Quote Me: 5 Creative Ways To Use Quotes In Your Everyday Life Posted: 05 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT Words shape our thoughts…and then our reality. In the next ten minutes, let’s use words to shape our creativity too. Famous quotes hide powerful ideas. We have captured these wisdom of the ages in print and now with digital tools. Just check the number of websites that give us a daily fix of sayings and quotations. New ones keep sprouting up. Usually, we just give these little bytes of horse sense a second glance and a few more seconds of insight before it gets drowned in the noise of the day. Why not use their briefness to our advantage? Here... Read the full article: You Can Quote Me: 5 Creative Ways To Use Quotes In Your Everyday Life

Take Your Reading Offline With These 5 Chrome Apps Posted: 05 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT Thanks to Chrome’s offline apps, you don’t need to rely on the Internet to catch up on your e-reading. Reading on a digital device is a convenience that we take for granted. For quite some time, it was dependent on having an active Internet connection. But not any more. With an increasing number of ways to take content offline, unreliable data connections are less bothersome, especially when it comes to activities like reading. If you’re a Chrome user, perhaps looking to take your Chromebook travelling, you have various options to save your reading material for offline use. Here are some... Read the full article: Take Your Reading Offline With These 5 Chrome Apps

Can Poker Games Help You Train To Win For Real? Posted: 05 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT Poker is a scary beast. When you know what you’re doing, it can be fun, thrilling, and a beloved way to kill a bunch of hours, but when you haven’t completely learned the ropes, poker can be the fastest way to lose all of your money, sanity, and hope in one swift and devastating blow. So the question remains: will playing poker apps and games help you to win real at real poker? Well, it depends. The answer is complicated because poker comes in three variants: Singleplayer against artificial intelligence (e.g., virtual poker) Multiplayer with fake money (e.g., Facebook poker)... Read the full article: Can Poker Games Help You Train To Win For Real?

The End of Spring Sales: Discounted Motorolas, SSDs and More! [Tech Deals] Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:30 AM PDT The end of spring’s sales arrives this week, with retailers dropping prices on large numbers of electronic goods. In particular, we’ve got liquidations on Motorola’s fabulous Moto X, the Verizon Moto G, an extremely cheap HP tablet and a large number of computer components. This is a great week for Android smartphone users and system builders. Top Tablet and Smartphone Deals 16GB Motorola Moto X GSM Android Smartphone (Unlocked) Price: $274.99; compare to $599 MSRP Retailer: eBay – Buy It Now Motorola’s Moto X is still among the best phones today. Its touchless controls offer an unparalleled degree of user... Read the full article: The End of Spring Sales: Discounted Motorolas, SSDs and More! [Tech Deals]

3 Simple Ways to Zip and Unzip Files on a Chromebook Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT Are Chromebooks useful or useless? It seems from our readers’ comments that Google’s stateless laptops are highly divisive pieces of equipment. Some people love their security and ease-of-use, while others bemoan their tie-in to Google’s wider ecosystem and Chromebook’s perceived lack of functionality. One of the biggest queries about functionality is whether or not Chromebooks have the ability to zip or unzip files. If online rumours are to be believed, a lot of users might think the devices are incapable of completing this seemingly-simple task. However, Chromebook users have three options available to them. Zip or Unzip Using the Chrome OS... Read the full article: 3 Simple Ways to Zip and Unzip Files on a Chromebook

Google Calendar Won’t Sync With iOS? Try These Fixes Posted: 05 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT After spending weeks looking for a solution as to why Google Calendar refused to sync certain calendars with iOS, it turns out there are a couple of fixes for what is a rather common issue. Some people find their calendars won’t sync at all, others have trouble getting new events to show up – and I had a peculiar problem whereby only certain shared calendars were appearing. Hopefully by the end of this article, Google Calendar will play nicely with your touchscreen toys. We’ve already got solutions for Google Calendar not syncing with Windows 8 and some fixes for Windows Phone... Read the full article: Google Calendar Won’t Sync With iOS? Try These Fixes

Google Launches Anti-Snooping Efforts With Email Encryption Tool For Chrome Posted: 05 Jun 2014 07:30 AM PDT Secure email could be the Holy Grail of our digital times. Google has just released an email encryption tool in the form of an “alpha” Chrome extension. End-To-End should help the less geeky among us encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign, and verify signed messages within the browser. It follows the OpenPGP standard. The Chrome extension is Open Source (under the Apache 2.0 license) and is available as an alpha version now. Do note that it is not available in the Chrome Store yet, but the code is available for testing by the online community. The working is uncomplicated sans the glamour... Read the full article: Google Launches Anti-Snooping Efforts With Email Encryption Tool For Chrome

How To Recover A Hacked Microsoft Account & Prevent Future Hacks Posted: 05 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT Microsoft accounts are now used for OneDrive file storage, Outlook.com emails, Skype conversations, and even signing into Windows 8. You’ll want to get that Microsoft account back if it’s ever hacked — and Microsoft provides several ways to recover your account. Check If Your Account Is Compromised If you can’t log into your account with your normal password, it’s possible the attacker has compromised the account and changed your password. This is the obvious type of hack — you just won’t be able to access your account anymore. If you can sign into your account, use the Monitor Recent Activity... Read the full article: How To Recover A Hacked Microsoft Account & Prevent Future Hacks

Heroo And Roto Offer Plenty Of Free, Mind-Bending Gameplay Posted: 05 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT Smartphones don’t have the same graphics capabilities as video game consoles. The good news is that mobile game developers recognize these limitations and make games with visuals that are minimalistic yet eye-pleasing. Roto and Heroo fall squarely in that category of gorgeous minimalistic games with addictive gameplay. What’s particularly interesting is that both games serve two different reasons to play: the quick pick-up-and-play when you need a break, and the brain challenge when you have some dedicated time to do your best. Roto Like some of the best Android games, Roto doesn’t even require a tutorial. It’s so intuitive that... Read the full article: Heroo And Roto Offer Plenty Of Free, Mind-Bending Gameplay

Keep Up With The Latest Data Leaks – Follow These 5 Services & Feeds Posted: 05 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT Oh eBay! How could you let this happen!? All of those passwords lost, all of us scrambling to change our passwords. Why doesn’t this happen to anyone else? It does. Daily. And it will continue to happen if companies and governments continue to ignore the security of your data. For you, Joe Sixpack and Joan Winebottle, how are you supposed to find out if your private information has been leaked or stolen? Most of you can name one incident, from the past year, at best: eBay’s horrendous data breach. Some of you can name two – eBay and Target. Don’t... Read the full article: Keep Up With The Latest Data Leaks – Follow These 5 Services & Feeds

The Day We Reset The Net, Netflix Vs Verizon, World Cup Predictions [Tech News Digest] Posted: 05 Jun 2014 04:30 AM PDT Today in Tech News Digest, we Reset The Net, Netflix and Verizon argue, how to detect Glassholes, Apple gets healthy, EA prefers Germany over Brazil, Instagram edits your photos, and Facebook pinpoints where it all went wrong. Today Is The Day To Reset The Net Today (June 5) is the day we all need to help Reset The Net. This is a day of action being orchestrated by an advocacy group called Fight For The Future, and supported by Google, Mozilla, Reddit, and a host of other companies, organizations, and websites. The idea behind Reset The Net is taking practical... Read the full article: The Day We Reset The Net, Netflix Vs Verizon, World Cup Predictions [Tech News Digest]

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