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- Cool Websites & Tools – Organize Movie Showings, Natural History for Kids, & Nostalgia Music Machine
- Did You Know Of Geek Pride Day?
- Smartphones Do Everything Badly [We Ask You Results]
- How To Create Facebook Adverts That Convert [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- How To Use Cortana As Your Personalized Satnav Tool
- 4 Nintendo Products That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time
- Xcode 6 Beta With Swift Now Available Free, Here’s Why This Matters
- Your Gadgets Don’t Control You: The Problem With “Look Up” [Opinion]
- Are You A Media Moocher? 5 Signs You’ve Too Many Shared Subscriptions
- OS X Yosemite Public Beta Now Available, Here’s How To Install It
- Is Technology Your Worst Enemy When You Travel? 7 Ways To Defeat It
- Is Akai’s iMPC Pro The Best iPad Beat Production App Yet?
- Thinking Machines: What Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence Can Teach Us About Consciousness
- Hyperkin RetroN 5 Review And Giveaway
- GravityBox Vs XBlast: Which Is The Best All-Purpose Xposed Module?
| Cool Websites & Tools – Organize Movie Showings, Natural History for Kids, & Nostalgia Music Machine Posted: 29 Jul 2014 09:31 PM PDT  No.IP – Do you have a dynamic IP Address? Then it would be a good idea for you to point it to a static hostname for easy remote access. The free option is to use their Free Dynamic DNS to map a dynamic IP address, or long URL to an easy to remember hostname. Their “bestselling” paid plan enables you to monitor your home remotely via webcam or run your own server from your house on a dynamic IP address. Kaizena – is a fast and simple way to add voice comments, text comments, and resource links to student work.... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Organize Movie Showings, Natural History for Kids, & Nostalgia Music Machine |
| Did You Know Of Geek Pride Day? Posted: 29 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT  This is absolute geek culture. Despite being a self-proclaimed geek, I didn’t know of Geek Pride Day, which takes place on May 25. If there’s a day to feel proud to be a geek, this is it. Did you know of Geek Pride Day, and did you geek out this year? Click to enlarge. via SteadyRain Read the full article: Did You Know Of Geek Pride Day? |
| Smartphones Do Everything Badly [We Ask You Results] Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Welcome to the future. A future in which your smartphone has replaced every other device that ever existed. And yet nothing is quite as good as it should be. “Yeah, that’ll do” is the new motto. We have replaced multiple things that do one thing well with one thing that does everything badly. The future is here, the future is now. Smartphones: Digital Swiss Army Knives We asked you, Have Smartphones Rendered Everything Obsolete? We received a fair amount of comments, and everyone who contributed to the debate had something useful to add to the discussion. Different commenters took the... Read the full article: Smartphones Do Everything Badly [We Ask You Results] |
| How To Create Facebook Adverts That Convert [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 29 Jul 2014 03:30 PM PDT  When a business creates a marketing campaign, they want it to be seen. When you set up Facebook adverts, you want people to click on them. How do you go about making sure your Facebook ads convert? It involves creating your adverts in Facebook’s Power Editor. How To Use The Facebook Power Editor If previously you’ve created your Facebook adverts using “Boost Post” or “Get more likes”, you’ve probably never seen the Power Editor. But the Power Editor lets you do advanced things, such as defining your placement. New features get rolled out to the Power Editor ahead of the... Read the full article: How To Create Facebook Adverts That Convert [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| How To Use Cortana As Your Personalized Satnav Tool Posted: 29 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Windows Phone 8.1′s voice activated digital assistant Cortana is slowly taking control over all aspects of Microsoft’s mobile platform. Most importantly, she’s a vital travel buddy, helping you to plan and execute trips. Cortana – Excellent Bing Maps Reader In order to get you where you need to be, Cortana uses a combination of location awareness (using Windows Phone’s localization tools, which can be disabled if you have privacy concerns, although Cortana won’t be nearly as effective) and Bing Maps. One of the big benefits of tools like Cortana, Siri and Google Now is that they take away the problem... Read the full article: How To Use Cortana As Your Personalized Satnav Tool |
| 4 Nintendo Products That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time Posted: 29 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Nintendo has always been an innovative company. From the 1981 release of Donkey Kong in arcades, which arguably saved the gaming industry, to pioneering motion control with the Wii remote, to their recent 3DS handheld that brought glasses-free 3D gaming for the first time, they’ve been one step ahead since they’ve been making video games. The above innovations were all successes, but some pieces of the gaming giant’s handiwork didn’t exactly work out. Even in their lesser-known accessories, though, Nintendo has been ahead of their time. Let’s take a look at some retro Nintendo products that ended up being forerunners... Read the full article: 4 Nintendo Products That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time |
| Xcode 6 Beta With Swift Now Available Free, Here’s Why This Matters Posted: 29 Jul 2014 10:30 AM PDT  Apple has released the latest beta of its Xcode development environment to the general public, and with it Swift, the company’s latest innovation in programming. The Beta of Xcode 6 is the first to be released to users without a premium, paid-for Apple Developer Account. It features a number of significant changes to the development experience, including (for the first time) a REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) and other visual enhancements that make development easier. The most significant enhancement to Xcode is something called Playgrounds, which make it possible for you to easily experiment with new ideas with the Swift programming language,... Read the full article: Xcode 6 Beta With Swift Now Available Free, Here’s Why This Matters |
| Your Gadgets Don’t Control You: The Problem With “Look Up” [Opinion] Posted: 29 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Smartphones aren’t making us dumb; social networks aren’t making us antisocial. Technology is a tool, and it’s time we all stopped blaming it for our problems and took responsibility for our terrible digital habits. Decrying the evils of social media is the topic du jour…on social media. Perhaps nothing better encapsulates this trend better than “Look Up“, a YouTube video that went viral earlier this year. Gary Turk, who made the video, clearly put a lot of work into the project – and was rewarded. The video bounced around Facebook faster than a cat riding a Roomba, and is verging... Read the full article: Your Gadgets Don’t Control You: The Problem With “Look Up” [Opinion] |
| Are You A Media Moocher? 5 Signs You’ve Too Many Shared Subscriptions Posted: 29 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT  We’ve all experienced it: “Dude! You never saw the finale of Breaking Bad?! Here’s my Netflix password – get on it!”; “Well, as long as I’m not using it, you’re welcome to borrow my Spotify account, I guess.”; “Game of Thrones? Yeah, you should watch it. Write down my HBOGo info – it’s cool.” But take a long hard look at how you watch your shows and listen to your music – are you paying for any of your own services? Before any of you bring up the “I pirate” statement, let’s be clear: this article has nothing to do with piracy. We’re... Read the full article: Are You A Media Moocher? 5 Signs You’ve Too Many Shared Subscriptions |
| OS X Yosemite Public Beta Now Available, Here’s How To Install It Posted: 29 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT  If you’re eager to get your hands on OS X Yosemite, Apple has released its upcoming operating system as a free beta for the first million downloaders. Though Yosemite has been available to registered members of the Mac Developer Program since June, Apple has for the first time in its history decided to give customers a taste of the upcoming software in. The public beta should be stable enough for most regular users, but issues are bound to arise and some third-party programs may not yet work. To download OS X Yosemite you will need a valid Apple ID, and your Mac should already be running Mavericks 10.9.3. If... Read the full article: OS X Yosemite Public Beta Now Available, Here’s How To Install It |
| Is Technology Your Worst Enemy When You Travel? 7 Ways To Defeat It Posted: 29 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Did you know that a mountain top view looks far more spectacular without a phone in front of your face? That said, my Instagram account is proof that I enjoy documenting experiences throughout my travels and adventures. From hiking to camping to cycling and more, technology certainly can help make your adventures more enjoyable. I’ve used my phone countless times to figure out where to turn next while mountain biking a new trail, or simply used the camera to capture an incredible view I had never seen. But despite technology’s superb benefits, it can create headaches and dampen the whole experience... Read the full article: Is Technology Your Worst Enemy When You Travel? 7 Ways To Defeat It |
| Is Akai’s iMPC Pro The Best iPad Beat Production App Yet? Posted: 29 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Akai’s MPC is famous for the huge impact it had on modern music, particularly the breakbeat and hip hop scenes. Two iPad apps later, we finally have a proper modern implementation of the legendary Music Production Centre. Made in partnership with Retronyms, iMPC Pro ($19.99) hopes to address many of the shortcomings of the original Akai iMPC which debuted on the App Store in December 2012. Progress is a wonderful thing, but can iMPC Pro take the iOS beat-making crown? iMPC Round 2 The original iMPC app was a lot of fun to play with, but it made compromises. Instead of taking the iMPC formula and applying... Read the full article: Is Akai’s iMPC Pro The Best iPad Beat Production App Yet? |
| Thinking Machines: What Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence Can Teach Us About Consciousness Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT  To the best understanding of modern medical science, you are a meticulously structured sack of volatile chemicals under pressure. There is no reason to believe that there is anything at all special about your body, compared to that of a corpse, or that of a Buick for that matter. Except for one thing — your body contains a living human brain. There is no evidence that any new laws of physics or supernatural phenomena are involved in human cognition. Animalism and dualism are well and truly dead. This is, at least at first, disturbing – because, from the inside of the human experience, it... Read the full article: Thinking Machines: What Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence Can Teach Us About Consciousness |
| Hyperkin RetroN 5 Review And Giveaway Posted: 29 Jul 2014 05:30 AM PDT  Retro games are extremely popular right now, and with good reason; they deliver experiences that are hard to come by in the realm of modern video games. As someone who currently has more than a dozen systems connected to one TV through a series of switcher boxes, I have to say the idea of the RetroN 5 is quite appealing. It’s one console that hooks up through a single HDMI port and allows you to play a wide range of popular retro systems. Convenience is great, but if it doesn’t deliver an experience that rivals playing on the original console,... Read the full article: Hyperkin RetroN 5 Review And Giveaway |
| GravityBox Vs XBlast: Which Is The Best All-Purpose Xposed Module? Posted: 29 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT  For customizing your rooted Android phone, Xposed is a must-have. It lays the framework for some amazing customization, but you need great modules to really make use of it. When you’re searching for an all-purpose customization module for Xposed, you’ll run into two popular names: GravityBox and XBlast. Today, we’ll look at both of them and decide which is the best option. Getting Started Take a look at our review of Xposed to learn how to install it, and if you don’t know much about rooting, check out our Android Rooting Guide before getting started. GravityBox comes in both a... Read the full article: GravityBox Vs XBlast: Which Is The Best All-Purpose Xposed Module? |
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