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- Cool Websites & Tools – Auto-Complete, Compromised Accounts, & Inspirational Stories
- 50 Things Every Doctor Who Fan Should Know
- Apple, We Need A Bigger & Better iPhone 6 [We Ask You Results]
- What Is “The Spielberg Oner” and Why Is Michael Bay So Bad? [Stuff to Watch]
- The Best CM11 Themes For Your Android Device
- 5 Things In 5 Minutes: Make Your Smartphone A More Pleasant Place
- Here’s Why Scientists Think You Should be Worried about Artificial Intelligence
- New To Android? Part Two: Master Using Your Phone
- 5 Insane Video Game Rumors People Actually Believed
- How Accurate Are These 4 Big Name Virus Scanners?
- Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit, Legally Unlock Your Phone, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Auto-Complete, Compromised Accounts, & Inspirational Stories Posted: 04 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Word Expander – is a free PhraseExpander Alternative that provides quick access to your common phrases. Just type the beginning of a word or phrase and any subsequent character and let Word Expander do its thing. It quickly narrows down the matching list to the desired item. Save valuable time by using text shortcuts to auto-complete words and paragraphs. Have I Been Pwned? – is a site where you can find out whether or not one of your online accounts has been compromised, due to a data breach. This is a big problem and it pays to know if someone... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Auto-Complete, Compromised Accounts, & Inspirational Stories |
| 50 Things Every Doctor Who Fan Should Know Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Doctor Who, one of the most iconic TV shows of all time, is also a geek favourite. If you’re a Doctor Who fan, you should really know all fifty of these things. How many did you get right? via Horror Channel Read the full article: 50 Things Every Doctor Who Fan Should Know |
| Apple, We Need A Bigger & Better iPhone 6 [We Ask You Results] Posted: 04 Aug 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Apple is set to unleash the iPhone 6 on an expectant crowd of fans sometime in the next couple of months. The rumors are now coming thick and fast, but amid all the guesswork, we thought it prudent to ask the beautiful MakeUseOf readers what they actually wanted to see with the iPhone 6. There were, as usual, wildly conflicting opinions. Big Hopes For The iPhone 6 We asked you, What Are Your Hopes For The iPhone 6? We had a decent response, but a fair few of those people who responded cannot be described as Apple fans. In fact,... Read the full article: Apple, We Need A Bigger & Better iPhone 6 [We Ask You Results] |
| What Is “The Spielberg Oner” and Why Is Michael Bay So Bad? [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 04 Aug 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Want to know more about why you love certain movies? Consider learning the technique filmmakers user to keep you hooked. Films aren’t just entertainment but art and study material too. In this instance, our teachers are the directors – the visionaries behind the shots and the creative minds working behind the scenes. To closely analyse the work of Hollywood’s most successful off-screen personalities is to lay bare some of the most famous techniques that go into making the magic seen on the big screen. Film editor and big screen enthusiast Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting has started doing just that. Steven Spielberg – The Spielberg Oner Steven Spielberg is one of Hollywood’s... Read the full article: What Is “The Spielberg Oner” and Why Is Michael Bay So Bad? [Stuff to Watch] |
| The Best CM11 Themes For Your Android Device Posted: 04 Aug 2014 11:00 AM PDT  CyanogenMod supports system-wide themes, and these themes won’t just change your wallpaper and sounds — they’ll change the look of the entire operating system, allowing you to replace Holo with something more new. You’ll need to install CyanogenMod 11 before using these themes unless you have a device that came with CyanogenMod, like the Oppo N1 or OnePlus One. Many of these themes cost money on the Play Store, but can be downloaded for free from the XDA-Developers forum. If you love a theme and plan on using it for a while, consider buying the paid version to support the developer! Lollipop Themes... Read the full article: The Best CM11 Themes For Your Android Device |
| 5 Things In 5 Minutes: Make Your Smartphone A More Pleasant Place Posted: 04 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Does your phone stress you out? Is it packed with unnecessary apps, widgets, and contacts? Is it running outdated software? It’s time to make some changes! Take five minutes to go through one of these steps each day for five days, and you’ll have a phone that runs faster, looks nicer, and gives you a more pleasant overall experience. 1. Update Your Contacts How long has it been since you’ve performed maintenance on your contacts list? If it’s been more than a year or two, you probably have tons of duplicate contacts, incorrect information, and half-completed entries that are taking up space. First, go... Read the full article: 5 Things In 5 Minutes: Make Your Smartphone A More Pleasant Place |
| Here’s Why Scientists Think You Should be Worried about Artificial Intelligence Posted: 04 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Over the last few months, you may have read the coverage surrounding an article, co-authored by Stephen Hawking, discussing the risks associated with artificial intelligence. The article suggested that AI may pose a serious risk to the human race. Hawking isn’t alone there — Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are both intellectual public figures who have expressed similar concerns (Thiel has invested more than $1.3 million researching the issue and possible solutions). The coverage of Hawking’s article and Musk’s comments have been, not to put too fine a point on it, a little bit jovial. The tone has been very much... Read the full article: Here’s Why Scientists Think You Should be Worried about Artificial Intelligence |
| New To Android? Part Two: Master Using Your Phone Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Are you having trouble trying to figure out how to work your Android smartphone? In part one of this series, we covered the basics of Android for absolute beginners, including topics like the homescreen, using apps, and adding contacts. If you just received an Android phone and don’t have any idea what you’re doing, you should start with that article. If you’re not a beginner but still want some tips, check out the full Android guide, or check out this article if you’re looking for apps to install on a fresh phone. If you’ve read through the first part of... Read the full article: New To Android? Part Two: Master Using Your Phone |
| 5 Insane Video Game Rumors People Actually Believed Posted: 04 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT  The gaming community is home to some of the weirdest myths and legends. It shouldn’t come as a surprise seeing as how “interactive media” and “active imagination” tend to go hand in hand. Indeed, you don’t have to dig very deep to find convoluted secrets, haunted game cartridges, and everything in between. What’s funny is that many of these stories scream “FAKE!” in retrospect, but at the time, plenty of people fell for them – yes, even some folks who aren’t normally lumped into the gullible crowd. Were you one of the victims of these gaming rumors? Mew and the... Read the full article: 5 Insane Video Game Rumors People Actually Believed |
| How Accurate Are These 4 Big Name Virus Scanners? Posted: 04 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT  If you’re not using an anti-virus suite, but have discovered that living dangerously has led to your PC behaving oddly, there’s a fair chance that your system has been infected by some form of malware. With no security suite on your PC already there is a strong chance that installation will be blocked by the malware, resulting in you having to find an alternative, smaller scale tool. Compact anti-virus scanners that can be quickly downloaded and deployed are a good option. Here, we take a look at four tools from some of the world’s most well-known security software publishers, and... Read the full article: How Accurate Are These 4 Big Name Virus Scanners? |
| Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit, Legally Unlock Your Phone, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 04 Aug 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, the Apple and Beats deal is done, the duo behind @hiddencash is unmasked, @evleaks has retired, idiots call cops after Facebook goes down, and kids react badly to old typewriters. Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit I just joined the class action privacy lawsuit against Facebook. (Any money I get will be donated to @eff) Join: https://t.co/0jJdqc1EkB — Aral Balkan (@aral) August 3, 2014 Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit which all users outside of the United States and Canada can join. Law student and privacy activist Max Schrems has launched the class action over Facebook’s lax attitude towards... Read the full article: Facebook Faces Class Action Lawsuit, Legally Unlock Your Phone, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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