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• Cool Websites & Tools – PDF Tools, Spotify Playlists, & Monitor App Permissions
• Where’s Your Favourite Marvel Character From?
• Don’t Be An Experiment: How To Control Your Facebook News Feed
• Shoot Your Life: 5 Tips For Enhancing Your Video Memories
• 2014 Is The Year For eSports: Here’s How To Enjoy It
• Old School PC RPGs Are Coming Back And These 4 Games Lead The Charge
• Looking For Free Blog Hosting? Try Blogger With A Custom Domain
• Android Skins Explained: How Do Hardware Makers Change Stock Android?
• Declutter Your iTunes With Tune Sweeper
• Revamp Chrome’s Default Tab Page With One Of These 4 Start Screens
• How To Download Free Fonts & Manage Them In Windows
• The 0-100 WordPress Starter Kit: Your Key To Becoming a WP Pro
• 3 Real Security Risks Threatening Your Smart TV Entertainment
• Use Natural Language With Betty, Your Digital Assistant In The Linux Terminal
• Facebook Conducts Hundreds Of Experiments, Google Bans Porn, And More… [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – PDF Tools, Spotify Playlists, & Monitor App Permissions Posted: 03 Jul 2014 09:31 PM PDT Small PDF – is a site which enables you to do various tasks with PDF. These tasks include reducing the size of the PDF, converting images to PDF, convert PDF files into images and extract any existing images from the file, merging more than one PDF into a single file, and converting Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files into PDF’s Dulux – Using unique augmented reality technology, you can see realistic Dulux paint colours appear on your walls with just a tap of the screen. Experiment with bolder colours or narrow down your colour choices with confidence. The experts at Dulux... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – PDF Tools, Spotify Playlists, & Monitor App Permissions

Where’s Your Favourite Marvel Character From? Posted: 03 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT Sure, we all know Spider-man is from Forest Hills, New York, Wolverine hails from Alberta, Canada, and Magneto originated from Nuremberg, Germany. But do you have any idea where Cyclops is from? Or Azazel? What about Deathlok or Colossus? Brush up on your Marvel character trivia by learning where the Black Widow, Gambit, Iceman, Juggernaut, Psylocke, and Storm is from with Movoto’s stunning interactive infograph. How many did you know? Click to enlarge. Read the full article: Where’s Your Favourite Marvel Character From?

Don’t Be An Experiment: How To Control Your Facebook News Feed Posted: 03 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT Don’t want Facebook manipulating your emotions for science? Take control of which posts you do and don’t see. Once upon a time, Facebook’s timeline worked how you’d expect. You could log on and see all the posts from your friends, in chronological order. That changed when Facebook switched from showing “All Posts” by default to showing only the “Top Posts” – something the company says is necessary because of the staggering number of friends many users have. What determines what is and isn’t a top post? A number of factors, including how often you interact with a given person, the... Read the full article: Don't Be An Experiment: How To Control Your Facebook News Feed

Shoot Your Life: 5 Tips For Enhancing Your Video Memories Posted: 03 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT With tools like 120fps frame rates on the iPhone 5s, action-packed GoPros, and even Google Glass, it’s becoming clearer that our personal lives will not only be documented with photos, but with video. Yes, we already have Instagram, Snapchat, and Vine to handle our more visual methods of communication, but as technology changes and these video outlets grow in quality, availability, and number, how can you make things even better? Below are just a few tips to enhance the quality of your videos – no matter what format you’re using. 1. Get Rid Of VVS You may have heard about... Read the full article: Shoot Your Life: 5 Tips For Enhancing Your Video Memories

2014 Is The Year For eSports: Here’s How To Enjoy It Posted: 03 Jul 2014 01:00 PM PDT In 2012, I put out an article detailing why I thought 2013 would be the year that eSports really takes over and establishes itself as something that can be taken seriously. It’s not just a bunch of nerds playing video games anymore. Hundreds of thousands of people tune in to watch competitive events and streams, and players are actually getting salaried to play now. I’ve been a huge fan of professional and college basketball since I was around 12 years old, and the transition into eSports felt natural for me. I love competition and I love video games. Sport isn’t... Read the full article: 2014 Is The Year For eSports: Here’s How To Enjoy It

Old School PC RPGs Are Coming Back And These 4 Games Lead The Charge Posted: 03 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT Baldur’s Gate. Planescape: Torment. Fallout. It’s been more than 10 years since these revolutionary PC RPGs graced our bulky CRT monitors. If you’re old enough to have played these classics (or curious enough to have picked them up on Steam or GOG), you know that the hardware constraints of the late 90s and early 2000s didn’t keep them from introducing memorable characters, sprawling worlds, and flexible quests that invited us to solve our problems with our wits or silver tongues as readily as we could with our weapons. If you miss adventures like these, you’re in luck! A number of... Read the full article: Old School PC RPGs Are Coming Back And These 4 Games Lead The Charge

Looking For Free Blog Hosting? Try Blogger With A Custom Domain Posted: 03 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT As a general rule, free hosting is a bad idea. This isn’t to say that there aren’t a few free hosting providers that attempt a decent job, but in most cases you won’t have as much control over your site as you would like. Some compromises you may have to make include: ads you have no control over, restrictions from running ads, a long forgettable sub-domain address… just to mention a few. If you truly cannot afford to pay for hosting or don’t want to pay, one of the best routes to go for is Blogger with a custom domain.... Read the full article: Looking For Free Blog Hosting? Try Blogger With A Custom Domain

Android Skins Explained: How Do Hardware Makers Change Stock Android? Posted: 03 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT In the Android world, hardware makers, otherwise known as Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), like to take Android and morph it into something that is entirely their own — this is an Android skin. All the big OEMs do it, creating many different user experiences across Android devices. So what exactly do these skins add to or change from the stock Android experience? What software differences will you see between picking up an HTC device or a Samsung device? Let’s find out. Stock Android First, a quick rundown of stock Android. This is the flavor of Android running on Nexus devices, and it’s... Read the full article: Android Skins Explained: How Do Hardware Makers Change Stock Android?

Declutter Your iTunes With Tune Sweeper Posted: 03 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT iTunes – for all its warts – is probably the best media player on the market right now. What makes it so great? Well, for starters, it’s tightly integrated with the world’s largest music store. Radio junkie? It also allows you to create and manage a library of podcasts. As a product, it’s pretty much perfect for what it does. So, why on Earth would anyone need to install Tune Sweeper 4 – an iTunes plugin from Wide Angle Software that adds additional functionality to Apple’s flagship media platform? After you finish reading this post, should you become convinced to... Read the full article: Declutter Your iTunes With Tune Sweeper

Revamp Chrome’s Default Tab Page With One Of These 4 Start Screens Posted: 03 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT A good start screen can transform the way you browse and work. It’s time you got one. As soon as you open a new tab in Chrome, you’re likely to get carried away by the endless information, not to mention the sneaky opportunities for time wasting, that the Web offers. While it’s nice to lose yourself in the complexities of the Web once in a while, doing so on a daily basis can get counterproductive and stressful real quick. Tough as it may sound, you need to steer clear of online distractions to get more out of the Web. That’s where the following start... Read the full article: Revamp Chrome’s Default Tab Page With One Of These 4 Start Screens

How To Download Free Fonts & Manage Them In Windows Posted: 03 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT Don’t underestimate the power of fonts. Few things can alter the mood and look of a graphical element as effectively as a new font set. Newsletters, web designs, resumes, and even beautiful Windows themes – all of these can be rendered worthless when paired with ugly letters. Fonts are the building blocks of digital aesthetics. It’s a shame that Windows doesn’t come with a font manager. Fortunately, several third-party programs can help you bridge the gap left behind by Microsoft. Why Use A Font Manager? A font manager will come in handy for several reasons, but only if you tinker around with... Read the full article: How To Download Free Fonts & Manage Them In Windows

The 0-100 WordPress Starter Kit: Your Key To Becoming a WP Pro Posted: 03 Jul 2014 06:30 AM PDT WordPress is one of the most versatile blogging platforms ever created. You can use it as a blog, to run an online store, as your virtual portfolio — the possibilities are endless. That’s provided you know how to use WordPress. Sadly, there are still some people who are afraid of using WordPress. If you’ve been thinking of starting your own website, learning to master WordPress is essential. That’s where this starter kit comes in. Consisting of six e-learning courses, with over 33 hours of content, and 10 WordPress themes, the 0-100 WordPress Starter Kit is a steal at just $49... Read the full article: The 0-100 WordPress Starter Kit: Your Key To Becoming a WP Pro

3 Real Security Risks Threatening Your Smart TV Entertainment Posted: 03 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT The humble television is the latest in a long line of devices to receive “smart” enhancements that make it operate like a stripped-down computer rather than a simple display device. Features like a web browser and social network support can add convenience, but they also introduce potential security flaws. Here are three ways a hacker might infiltrate your home television. JavaScript / HTML5 Flaws The majority of smart televisions sold today, no matter their underlying operating system, can run JavaScript and/or HTML. This is no surprise, as compatibility with such standards is necessary for any modern device that wants to... Read the full article: 3 Real Security Risks Threatening Your Smart TV Entertainment

Use Natural Language With Betty, Your Digital Assistant In The Linux Terminal Posted: 03 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT Personal assistants like Siri and Google Now can be pretty useful, but there’s nothing like that for your Linux computer. Or at least, that used to be the case. There’s Sinus, a Siri-like utility for Mac users, but now it’s Linux’s turn with Betty. What’s Betty? Betty is a personal assistant similar to Siri and Google Now that can take commands that are written in plain English and execute them for you. There are loads of different commands it supports, which we’ll get into a bit later on. The only “downside” is that it’s limited to the terminal, and doesn’t... Read the full article: Use Natural Language With Betty, Your Digital Assistant In The Linux Terminal

Facebook Conducts Hundreds Of Experiments, Google Bans Porn, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 03 Jul 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, fallout from the “right to be forgotten,” Yahoo kills several services you have never heard of, Google launches the Project Ara beta, Lindsay Lohan sues Rockstar over GTA V character, and Tetris gets played on a T-shirt. Facebook Accused Over More Experiments Facebook rightly received much criticism over conducting a social experiment to influence the mood of its users, but it turns out the practice is much wider than first thought. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook has “run hundreds of tests” since 2007. This revelation comes courtesy of Andrew Ledvina, a former member of Facebook’s Data Science... Read the full article: Facebook Conducts Hundreds Of Experiments, Google Bans Porn, And More… [Tech News Digest]

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