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• Cool Websites & Tools – Brighten Up Parties, Print Stamps, & Interactive Game For Developers
• Flowchart: Can You Use That Copyrighted Picture?
• These Crowdfunded Films Only Exist Thanks To Their Backers [Stuff to Watch]
• GOG Has Landed On Linux: Here Are 5 Of The Best Games You Can Get Right Now
• StatusDuck Replaces Your Mac’s Dock With Menubar Icons
• New To Android? Make Your Smartphone Work For You, Not Against
• Your Own Holodeck: Will The Star Trek Fantasy Become a Reality?
• Droid Your Ride – 3 Ways To Bring Android Into Your Car
• Riding A Lyft? Check Out Our 5 Rules For Communal Cabs
• Manage Projects, Collaborate & Work Better As A Team With Intellinote
• Why Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Will Become The Money Of The Future
• Monkey Kit Review And Giveaway
• Enhance Your Android Notification Experience With Floatify
• Unmasking Tor Users, Revealing Uber Ratings, ATMs Are Doomed, And More… [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Brighten Up Parties, Print Stamps, & Interactive Game For Developers Posted: 28 Jul 2014 09:31 PM PDT Peek – Get a peek into the mind of your users. See and hear a 5-minute video of a real person using your site or app. It’s fast and it’s free. Getting the opinions of real people on your site idea, your app idea, or your new site design can be invaluable feedback, before launching. Find out what people like and dislike, so you can make appropriate changes. Boom Boom Boom! – is an app to brighten up parties all over the world. Throw up graphics, animations, text, photos and effects using your mobile device or keyboard as a controller,... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Brighten Up Parties, Print Stamps, & Interactive Game For Developers

Flowchart: Can You Use That Copyrighted Picture? Posted: 28 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT Say you find an image online that you’d like to use in your article, or repost. How do you go about deciding if it’s even legal? The last thing you’ll want is to get sued — so how do you determine if it’s safe to proceed? Before starting, you’d first need to be familiar with four terms: copyright, fair use, creative commons and public domain. With the help of this flowchart, it’s easy to figure out where you stand with copyright law. Click to enlarge. via TheVisualCommunicationGuy Read the full article: Flowchart: Can You Use That Copyrighted Picture?

These Crowdfunded Films Only Exist Thanks To Their Backers [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 28 Jul 2014 06:30 PM PDT You could probably fund a military coup with Kickstarter, provided you marketed it effectively. There’s little that can’t be achieved if enough people want it, and nothing says “I want it!” like thousands of dollars in support. Motion pictures can be expensive, which makes them excellent candidates for crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. It’s no surprise that motion pictures have made up some of the most down-to-earth and successful crowdfunding campaigns either of these sites have ever seen. Inocente (2012) Kickstarter – 294 backers raised $52,527 (of $50,000 goal) Inocente was the first Kickstarter film to win an Oscar at the 2013 Academy Awards for “Best Documentary Short Subject”.... Read the full article: These Crowdfunded Films Only Exist Thanks To Their Backers [Stuff to Watch]

GOG Has Landed On Linux: Here Are 5 Of The Best Games You Can Get Right Now Posted: 28 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT There’s some good news for Linux gamers, as GOG has started to support Linux games, and has opened its doors to users of the free, open source platform. GOG (Good Old Games) primarily offers older – but dearly loved – games for Windows and OS X. Amongst some of the classics available to buy from their expansive catalogue of classic games are Bullfrog’s classic medical management sim Theme Hospital, and pre-EA Dungeon Keeper. There are no in-app purchases here. GOG differs from Steam and Origin by way of offering its games without DRM. Once you’ve bought your games, they’re yours... Read the full article: GOG Has Landed On Linux: Here Are 5 Of The Best Games You Can Get Right Now

StatusDuck Replaces Your Mac’s Dock With Menubar Icons Posted: 28 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT Love your Mac, but not the dock? Replace it with something smaller. StatusDuck ($15, free trial) lets you manage your open applications completely from the menubar. The dock is an iconic Mac feature – one many Windows users attempt to copy – but that doesn't mean every Mac user loves it. It takes up a lot of space, unless it's hidden; if you hide it, you can't see at a glance which applications are currently open. If you’d like another option, and don't mind adding more icons to your menubar, check out StatusDuck. Is your menubar so cluttered you can't even... Read the full article: StatusDuck Replaces Your Mac's Dock With Menubar Icons

New To Android? Make Your Smartphone Work For You, Not Against Posted: 28 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT If this article’s title caught your attention, I’ll bet you have received your first smartphone recently and have no idea what to do with it. Perhaps your children convinced you to finally upgrade from a feature or “dumb” phone, or maybe you were curious about what an advanced device could do for you. If this doesn’t quite describe your situation, we have a complete Android guide for your reference, and Simon has covered the most important tasks to perform when getting a new phone. However, if the above links are completely over your head and you feel as if you... Read the full article: New To Android? Make Your Smartphone Work For You, Not Against

Your Own Holodeck: Will The Star Trek Fantasy Become a Reality? Posted: 28 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT You open the door and step into an empty room. Within moments, you find yourself immersed in a far away world – in a jungle on the other side of the world, or on another planet. This Star Trek “holodeck” fantasy may sound far fetched, but it’s getting much closer to reality than you may think. With the booming popularity of the Oculus Rift, and virtual reality technology in general, it makes sense that the long-term vision of VR developers would be the sort of complete and total immersive environment made possible by the holodeck concept. So what is the... Read the full article: Your Own Holodeck: Will The Star Trek Fantasy Become a Reality?

Droid Your Ride – 3 Ways To Bring Android Into Your Car Posted: 28 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT It’s not unusual to find a smartphone hooked up to a car, but in the vast majority of cases this is only done to make it easy to make or answer calls, use a navigation app, or play music. There are many other ways that you can use Android in your car, however, from providing entertainment to your passengers to monitoring your vehicle’s performance. Mount Your Android Device If you’re planning to make Android a permanent addition to your car (and several motor manufacturers are, such as Audi, Honda and Hyundai), the most important thing you can do is mount... Read the full article: Droid Your Ride – 3 Ways To Bring Android Into Your Car

Riding A Lyft? Check Out Our 5 Rules For Communal Cabs Posted: 28 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT With the advent of ride sharing apps, Lyft is one that has somewhat risen to prominence. With drivers in cities all the way from Los Angeles to Brooklyn, the Lyft service, which utilizes normal drivers in their personal cars with easily identifiable gigantic pink mustaches on their front bumpers, is growing as users are taking both the time to ride and drive. Need a ride? Just plug in your location via GPS using the Lyft app, and a driver (who will be verified with a photo and a phone call) will come right to you. You hop in, tell them where to go, and... Read the full article: Riding A Lyft? Check Out Our 5 Rules For Communal Cabs

Manage Projects, Collaborate & Work Better As A Team With Intellinote Posted: 28 Jul 2014 06:30 AM PDT The right software behind your project, group or organization can make all the difference. Intellinote is another such platform for managing, collaborating and better communicating with your team. Intellinote blends project management features, collaborative note-taking and discussion with a unique workspace approach that makes managing teams of people a simple affair. Better still, it’s completely free for teams of up to five people, which offers plenty of opportunity to try before you buy. Notes, Tasks and Discussions Intellinote‘s interface closely resembles what you’d expect from a touchscreen tablet app, which at the very least ensures consistency across platforms. Everything you need to get around is on the left, with... Read the full article: Manage Projects, Collaborate & Work Better As A Team With Intellinote

Why Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Will Become The Money Of The Future Posted: 28 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT Today you pay with paper or plastic, but one day will you pay for things with Bitcoin? Let’s explore what the concept of “money” really means, and role cryptocurrency may have in our financial future. If you’ve been watching headlines for the past year or so, you’ve likely heard of Bitcoin.  You’ve probably heard about its wild price fluctuations, its role in the international drug economy, and the collapse of some of the early Bitcoin businesses, like Mt. Gox. Bitcoin has attracted a lot of press, most of it bad.   What you may not have heard about are the real reasons Bitcoin is interesting, and why people care... Read the full article: Why Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Will Become The Money Of The Future

Monkey Kit Review And Giveaway Posted: 28 Jul 2014 05:30 AM PDT Laziness isn’t exactly a bad thing. In fact, it’s been said that laziness is a virtue. Laziness brought us the remote control, and the automobile. Laziness brought us microwave dinners and Amazon. And laziness has brought us the Monkey Kit, the new compliment to your e-reader and tablet that you absolutely have to have. This product is one of the many that have been successfully funded on Kickstarter, and lets you operate your tablet computer or e-reader without having to hold it with your hands, by allowing you to create a stable stand for to rest your tablet on, or... Read the full article: Monkey Kit Review And Giveaway

Enhance Your Android Notification Experience With Floatify Posted: 28 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT Android’s notification system is arguably the best in the mobile arena, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Case and point: Floatify. This new app gives you handy pop-up notifications that work great if you’re in full screen mode and can’t see the notification bar, or if you just prefer notifications that jump out at you and grab your attention. For those unhappy with their current Android notifications, or just seeking a little something more, read on. Download And Setup Floatify is a free download from the Google Play Store, but the free version is limited in a... Read the full article: Enhance Your Android Notification Experience With Floatify

Unmasking Tor Users, Revealing Uber Ratings, ATMs Are Doomed, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 28 Jul 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, Google Play Music is free for new Chromecast owners, taunting police on Facebook proves to be a mistake, Google Glass banned during Comic-Con 2014 panels, and parkour athletes bring Assassin’s Creed to Paris. Russia Wants To Unmask Tor Users The Russian Government is offering 3.9 million roubles ($111,000) to anyone who can successfully unmask users of The Onion Router (Tor). The offer of a lucrative contract comes from the Russian Interior Ministry, suggesting the aim is to aid criminal investigations into people using Tor to hide illegal activities. This offer comes just a week after researchers from Carnegie Mellon... Read the full article: Unmasking Tor Users, Revealing Uber Ratings, ATMs Are Doomed, And More… [Tech News Digest]

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