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• Cool Websites & Tools – Get Regular Content, Earn Money Driving, & Play Your Inbox
• The Periodic Table Of Fictional Minerals
• 8 Pointless Android Apps To Avoid At All Costs [We Ask You Results]
• The EU Just Made Using Your Phone Abroad Cheaper. Here’s Why.
• Easily Fix These Common Windows 8.1 Frustrations
• 7 Extensions Firefox Users Love That No Other Browser Has
• PGP Me: Pretty Good Privacy Explained
• 10 Clever Ways To Optimize The Windows Shutdown Process
• 10 Awesome Cross-Platform Mobile Multiplayer Games You Need To Play
• My Spouse Is Not A Geek: 5 Fun Ways To Connect The Marital Divide
• 5 Must Know Tips For Managing Your Windows Phone 8.1 Calendar
• The Ultimate “Should I Use Linux?” Checklist
• 5 Desktop Apps To Give An Instagram-Like Effect To Your Photos
• 3 Best Free Apps For Syncing Your Android Contact Photos With Facebook
• Google Kills Orkut & Quickoffice, Yahoo Saves Community, And More… [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Get Regular Content, Earn Money Driving, & Play Your Inbox Posted: 01 Jul 2014 09:31 PM PDT Daily by Buffer – do you think that great content is hard to find? Each day Daily by Buffer will give you a new batch of articles and posts they think you’ll really like. Check them out, then swipe right on content you love and left on what you want to skip (or use the buttons if you’d prefer). Your picks will automatically join your Buffer queue to be shared with your fans and followers. Breeze – is a US site which will pay you up to $35/hr, driving for Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar. Also, starting at $20 per day,... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Get Regular Content, Earn Money Driving, & Play Your Inbox

The Periodic Table Of Fictional Minerals Posted: 01 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT How many fictional elements or minerals can you name? Surely, Adamantium? Kryptonite? Have you forgotten about Flubber and Vibranium? Don’t worry. To jog your memory, this helpful periodic table lists 88 fictional elements from TV shows, comic books, movies, animated series, games, and literature. Now, make it into a poster and take my money! Click to enlarge. Read the full article: The Periodic Table Of Fictional Minerals

8 Pointless Android Apps To Avoid At All Costs [We Ask You Results] Posted: 01 Jul 2014 06:30 PM PDT There are hundreds of absolutely essential Android apps available on Google Play. Please do download and install these to improve your life in some way. Unfortunately, there are also hundreds of pointless Android apps, and we’ve compiled a list of the eight most pointless Android apps you should avoid at all costs. Say Yo To These Stupid Android Apps We asked you, What Is The Most Pointless App You Have Ever Installed? We had a great response to this question, with plenty of you seeing fit to enlighten us with your knowledge of pointless apps. This question was prompted by... Read the full article: 8 Pointless Android Apps To Avoid At All Costs [We Ask You Results]

The EU Just Made Using Your Phone Abroad Cheaper. Here’s Why. Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:00 PM PDT Using your cell phone in Europe is about to get cheaper, as rules introduced by the European Union designed to control the cost of making calls and using mobile data abroad take force from the 1st of July. The drop in prices is pretty drastic. The maximum cost per minute for an outbound call goes from €0.24 to €0.19, whilst receiving inbound calls has gone from €0.07 to €0.05. The price you pay for a megabyte will drop from €0.45 to €0.20. The cost of sending text messages has also dropped, going from €0.08, to €0.06. Receiving texts remains free. If you’re based in... Read the full article: The EU Just Made Using Your Phone Abroad Cheaper. Here's Why.

Easily Fix These Common Windows 8.1 Frustrations Posted: 01 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT Windows 8.1 can be frustrating to use. No, not just because of how different it is — Windows 8 was very different, but Windows 8.1 shows Microsoft becoming more reasonable. We’re talking about blurry text, laggy mouse pointers, touchpad issues, and SecureBoot problems — good, old-fashioned Windows annoyances. Blurry Text Windows 8 has improved support for high-resolution displays — also known as high-DPI displays, because they have a larger number of dots (or pixels) per inch. Many Windows 8.1 laptops and tablets are now including these high-resolution displays, which make text easier to read and offer better image quality. Many... Read the full article: Easily Fix These Common Windows 8.1 Frustrations

7 Extensions Firefox Users Love That No Other Browser Has Posted: 01 Jul 2014 01:00 PM PDT The browser war is still going strong. What makes one better than the other? Speed? Memory usage? Built-in features? The only real answer is “personal preference” and, as it turns out, browser extensions make up a big part of those preferences. It’s becoming more common for extensions to be supported across many browsers, but that isn’t always the case. For a long time, Firefox was hailed as superior to other browsers, including Chrome, due to its massive selection of powerful extensions. The gap has shortened in recent years but hasn’t completely closed. Check out these beloved Firefox-only extensions that are... Read the full article: 7 Extensions Firefox Users Love That No Other Browser Has

PGP Me: Pretty Good Privacy Explained Posted: 01 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT If you’re concerned about online and electronic privacy, encryption is the best thing to set your mind at ease. By using strong encryption protocols, you can make sure that your data is safe from prying eyes, and that only the people who you decide should see your information have access to it. One of the most common methods for encryption is called PGP, and this article will guide you through what it is, what it’s good for, and how to use it. What Is PGP? PGP stands for “Pretty Good Privacy,” and it’s most often used for sending encrypted messages... Read the full article: PGP Me: Pretty Good Privacy Explained

10 Clever Ways To Optimize The Windows Shutdown Process Posted: 01 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT Your Windows boot time is record-breaking, but each and every shutdown remains an ordeal? Time to crack down on optimizing this process to save time. Most of these steps are super simple and only take a few seconds, promised! Super Quick Solutions Keyboard Shortcuts Windows’ most popular keyboard shortcut, CTRL+ALT+DEL, also gets this task done. Whether you’re on Windows 7 or 8, note the power button in the bottom right, and off you go. Both in Windows 7 and 8, clicking CTRL+F4 with the desktop selected will open the Shut Down dialog. If you forget to select the desktop, you’ll note... Read the full article: 10 Clever Ways To Optimize The Windows Shutdown Process

10 Awesome Cross-Platform Mobile Multiplayer Games You Need To Play Posted: 01 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT You want to play more games with your friends, but you’re using an iPhone and they’re on Android. It’s a predicament easily solved by choosing the right cross-platform game. Sony and Microsoft won’t let us compete against each other on our consoles, but Apple and Google have made it enticingly easy for developers to settle old scores. That means there’s a ton of games that support cross-platform multiplayer, so here are some of the best. Spaceteam (iOS, Android; Free) I’ve never had more fun playing a multiplayer game on my iPhone than the many games of Spaceteam I have frantically messed up. The game places you... Read the full article: 10 Awesome Cross-Platform Mobile Multiplayer Games You Need To Play

My Spouse Is Not A Geek: 5 Fun Ways To Connect The Marital Divide Posted: 01 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT They say that mixed marriages between geeks and non-geeks are 60 percent more likely to fail. Surprised? Well, you should be, because I completely made that up. But it is true that such a tech-unbalanced marriage can be more difficult than most, but that doesn’t mean your love of tech needs to doom the marriage. When I met my wife, she knew that I was an engineering student, so to some degree she had fair warning that I was a tech geek three years before we got married. This is typically the case in most relationships, so once a geek... Read the full article: My Spouse Is Not A Geek: 5 Fun Ways To Connect The Marital Divide

5 Must Know Tips For Managing Your Windows Phone 8.1 Calendar Posted: 01 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT Missed a meeting? Forgot to pickup that prescription? Windows Phone 8.1 with Cortana activated is geared to help you manage tasks and appointments with minimal effort. Import Vital Dates To The Windows Phone Calendar Online calendar dates can be imported to Windows Phone via your Outlook/Windows Live/Hotmail account. To do this, open calendar.live.com and click Import, then Subscribe in the left hand menu. You can then add a webcal URL. For instance, if I wanted to add 2014 World Cup dates to my calendar (along with the various apps I’ve been using to enjoy it), I would use webcal://www1.skysports.com/calendars/football/fixtures/competitions/worldcup. (On... Read the full article: 5 Must Know Tips For Managing Your Windows Phone 8.1 Calendar

The Ultimate “Should I Use Linux?” Checklist Posted: 01 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT You may have heard from a handful of people around the Web (myself included) that you should try to switch to Linux if you can, especially if you’re still lingering on Windows XP. But deciding whether switching to Linux isn’t so easy, because Linux isn’t perfect and sadly not for everyone — although we’d like to think that. So for those who aren’t sure how to evaluate the efficacy of Linux for themselves, I have created a simple guide that can walk you through the criteria you need to look at. Since you want an operating system to work for... Read the full article: The Ultimate “Should I Use Linux?” Checklist

5 Desktop Apps To Give An Instagram-Like Effect To Your Photos Posted: 01 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT Instagram is a hit on mobile platforms, and for good reason. There’s no better way to make your selfie pop than a little artistic touch, even if that touch comes from a standardized filter. The only problem with Instagram is the fact its app only works on Android and iOS. What if you want to filter your photos later, on your PC, and upload them directly to Facebook or some other network? You have a few options. Vintager Exeone’s Vintager is a purpose-built tool for adding filters to photos on your desktop. It exists for no other reason and is entirely free... Read the full article: 5 Desktop Apps To Give An Instagram-Like Effect To Your Photos

3 Best Free Apps For Syncing Your Android Contact Photos With Facebook Posted: 01 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT If you’re running stock Android, you know the frustration of not having contact photos for most of your contacts. Although many hardware manufacturers’ versions of Android have the option built-in to sync your friends’ Facebook profile photos with their contact photos, stock Android is somehow still missing this feature. Let’s remedy that. Here are three awesome apps that will keep all your contact photos synced with Facebook so you never have to see that little placeholder head again. The Problem This placeholder head is just ugly. When scrolling through your contacts, text messages, or receiving a call, no one wants... Read the full article: 3 Best Free Apps For Syncing Your Android Contact Photos With Facebook

Google Kills Orkut & Quickoffice, Yahoo Saves Community, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 01 Jul 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, UK cinemas preemptively ban Google Glass, Reading Rainbow breaks popularity contest on Kickstarter, Emojli is a chat app for emoji masters, ‘Yo, Hodor’ adds Hodor to Yo, and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare finally gets an honest trailer. Google Kills Orkut & Quickoffice We really haven't talked about the fact that Orkut is literally google's most successful attempt at social networking. Yikes! — Overrated Outcast (@over_rated) July 1, 2014 Google appears to be having another spring clean, with Orkut and Quickoffice both being killed off without any appreciable warning. Neither are all that surprising, given that both have been... Read the full article: Google Kills Orkut & Quickoffice, Yahoo Saves Community, And More… [Tech News Digest]

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