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- Cool Websites & Tools – Group Food Orders, WordPress Plugin Collections, & Video Calls
- How Much It Costs To Live On The Moon
- Have Smartphones Rendered Everything Obsolete? [We Ask You]
- Understand Windows 8 Libraries To Master Storage Space
- Will a Sign Language Translation App Ever Become a Reality?
- How Does Bitcoin Work?
- Missed EVO 2014? 6 Matches You Need To See
- What Does Facebook Selling Your Data Mean For Privacy?
- Create Stylish Resumes & CVs On the iPad, No Formatting Required
- 5 Reasons Why New Linux Users Will Love Deepin
- 6 Steps to Become a WordPress Professional
- Amazon Fire Phone Reviews, Microsoft Focuses On Windows 9, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Group Food Orders, WordPress Plugin Collections, & Video Calls Posted: 23 Jul 2014 09:31 PM PDT  5 Every Day – Five interesting things to do in Los Angeles, every day. Selected by a brain trust of local artists, musicians and designers, 5 Every Day is a daily calendar for urban exploration. Without a future or a past, it encourages you to check out something new — not tomorrow, not next week, but today. MyRoll – is an intelligent gallery that learns what is most important to you, organizes your photos and videos into moments, and helps you easily relive and share life's best memories. Hundreds of precious photos & videos are lost hidden in the endless... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Group Food Orders, WordPress Plugin Collections, & Video Calls |
| How Much It Costs To Live On The Moon Posted: 23 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Is our future really on the moon? Let’s take a look at how much it would cost us to fly 238,900 miles to the moon, set up a home that would be able to withstand constant meteorite showers, extreme temperatures (we’re talking -157C at night!) and solar flares, and sustain ourselves with lunar greenhouses, if we do live on the barren rock. Fair warning: it’s not cheap. Any takers? via BuddyLoans Read the full article: How Much It Costs To Live On The Moon |
| Have Smartphones Rendered Everything Obsolete? [We Ask You] Posted: 23 Jul 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Smartphones are de rigueur by this point. Almost everyone has one, and those who don’t have one are expected to explain why they’ve chosen not to comply. Like our very own Justin Pot, who received press attention merely for being the tech blogger who doesn’t own a smartphone. Smartphones are capable of managing such a wide range of tasks that it’s easy to argue they’re rapidly rendering everything else obsolete. Hyperbole? Perhaps. Either way we’re interested in hearing your thoughts on the subject of smartphones and the obsolescence of the products and services to which they’re laying waste. Smartphones Are... Read the full article: Have Smartphones Rendered Everything Obsolete? [We Ask You] |
| Understand Windows 8 Libraries To Master Storage Space Posted: 23 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Managing a computer’s storage has always been a challenge. Microsoft’s addition of libraries to Windows has in some ways made organization easier, but this important feature isn’t self-explanatory, and using it to overcome some of Windows 8′s shortcomings requires specific knowledge. Here’s everything you must know to get the most out of libraries. What Are Libraries? Libraries, which were introduced in Windows 7, are virtual folders. They look like folders and act like folders, but the files in them don’t actually reside within the library itself. In a sense, then, a library is really just a collection of shortcuts to folders,... Read the full article: Understand Windows 8 Libraries To Master Storage Space |
| Will a Sign Language Translation App Ever Become a Reality? Posted: 23 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Imagine a world where the barriers between the deaf and the hearing are gone. A world where conversations flow fluidly among those who hear sound, and those who don’t. Could that world become real in the near future? Back in June, a group of marketing students at Berghs School of Communication developed a concept video for a fictional product called Google Gesture. The product included a wearable wrist band and a mobile app that used electromyography to read the muscle movements of a deaf person doing sign language. The system then passed those signals to the app, which translated those signals... Read the full article: Will a Sign Language Translation App Ever Become a Reality? |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT  About a year ago when the Bitcoin train was just starting to gather steam, a friend turned to me and asked, “So why can’t you just copy a Bitcoin?” This is a confusion that a lot of people have, and a fair one: the notion of a digital entity that can’t be easily copied is entirely unintuitive. In fact, the Bitcoin network is one of the coolest, and least understood technology in the popular consciousness right now. That’s a shame, because the underlying mechanics of Bitcoin is really pretty straightforward. You don’t even need any particularly hard math, if you’re... Read the full article: How Does Bitcoin Work? |
| Missed EVO 2014? 6 Matches You Need To See Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT  The last couple of weeks have been huge in the world of eSports. We had the International 4, the giant Dota 2 tournament with a prize pool of over $10 million, and we had EVO, the annual event where the best fighting game players gather to compete in games like Street Fighter 4, Marvel vs. Capcom, and Smash Brothers. As is the case every year at EVO, some incredible matches took place. When you put the best fighting game players around the world together, you’re bound to get some special fights, and those are the battles we are going to... Read the full article: Missed EVO 2014? 6 Matches You Need To See |
| What Does Facebook Selling Your Data Mean For Privacy? Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Facebook has been the subject of a number of very concerning news stories over the past few years, from not deleting user data to conducting and publishing emotionally manipulative research. But the social giant is getting ready to take it to a whole new level: selling your browsing data directly to advertising companies. “But wait . . . doesn’t it already sell tons of data to advertisers?” you might be asking. Yes, it does. But there’s an important distinction that many people don’t realize: right now, the information that Facebook sells to advertisers has to do with your activity on... Read the full article: What Does Facebook Selling Your Data Mean For Privacy? |
| Create Stylish Resumes & CVs On the iPad, No Formatting Required Posted: 23 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Getting a job may be hard, but creating a resume is easier with the right template-based apps for the iPad. We have reviewed online resume building solution Enthuse.me before, and you might also want to turn your LinkedIn profile into a neat looking resume too. iPad users can also make use of a few great apps that can give your resume or CV the professional edge without the need for lots of time or impressive layout skills. Shine ($4.99) When I first came across Shine while browsing in the App Store, I was drawn to how it makes resumes and CVs look like stylish infographics. Shine’s professionally designed templates may not... Read the full article: Create Stylish Resumes & CVs On the iPad, No Formatting Required |
| 5 Reasons Why New Linux Users Will Love Deepin Posted: 23 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Technologically speaking, Ubuntu is a pretty good Linux distribution. But sometimes you might wish that the user experience in Ubuntu could be better. There are plenty of Ubuntu-based derivatives that try to solve this problem in their own ways, but one distribution that’s gaining some special attention is Deepin. Interested? Here are five reasons why you should try Deepin, especially if you’re new to Linux. Based On Ubuntu First off, Deepin is based on Ubuntu, which provides many under-the-hood benefits. Since Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distributions are widely used across the Linux community, you’ll know that all packages are supported and updates... Read the full article: 5 Reasons Why New Linux Users Will Love Deepin |
| 6 Steps to Become a WordPress Professional Posted: 23 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Want to make a living from Wordpress? There are many ways to go about it: designing themes, coding plugins, managing all of the back-end details, etc. It’s not the easiest job in the world – it’s especially hard to distinguish yourself and find potential clients – but if this is the path you want to take, there are some things to keep in mind. There are no shortcuts to becoming a WordPress professional. WordPress is simple on its surface but surprisingly complex once you start exposing the cogs in its engine. You may be overwhelmed by it. There are many facets... Read the full article: 6 Steps to Become a WordPress Professional |
| Amazon Fire Phone Reviews, Microsoft Focuses On Windows 9, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, a security vulnerability in Tor is kept secret, William Shatner boldly goes where no celebrity has gone before by reviewing Facebook Mentions, and Japan dreams of a 2020 Olympic Games for robots. Amazon Fire Phone Reviews Roundup Amazon unveiled its first ever smartphone, the Amazon Fire Phone, last month, and it has been available to pre-order in the U.S. ever since. Devices will start shipping this week, meaning the Internet is awash with reviews of the Amazon Fire Phone. To save you the trouble of searching for Amazon Fire Phone reviews, here are a selection of the comments made... Read the full article: Amazon Fire Phone Reviews, Microsoft Focuses On Windows 9, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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