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- Cool Websites & Tools – Better Netflix, Thief’s Selfies, & The Block Bot
- Why The Internet Is Good For You
- Russian Hacking Gang Captures 1.2 Billion Credentials: What You Should Do
- Get Paid To Write Interactive Fiction. Find Out How!
- Don’t Let Your Hidden Talents Die: 7 Ways To Go & Find Them Again
- MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 125 – Half Good
- Interrupted Download? Here’s How To Resume In Chrome
- How To Make Free PDF Forms With LibreOffice Draw
- 5 Ways To Spot Social Media Scams & Rogue Apps
- How I Took These Stunning Photos In Windows Phone 8.1 With Burst Mode
- 5 Ways To Generate Secure Passwords On Linux
- Obama Favors Net Neutrality, Microsoft Scans Your Emails, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Better Netflix, Thief’s Selfies, & The Block Bot Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT  A Better Queue – is a site to help you find better movies and shows to add to your Netflix queue. It works alongside the Rotten Tomatoes movie review website, which provides the scores. Just use the filters to choose which genres you wish to search in, the time period which the movies must be from, and the minimum Rotten Tomatoes score required. It will then show corresponding results. Theftie – lock, locate, track, rescue data on your lost phone, stolen phone or misplaced Android, and take the thief’s selfie (a theftie). A great feature of Theftie is its ability... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Better Netflix, Thief’s Selfies, & The Block Bot |
| Why The Internet Is Good For You Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT  We’ve argued about the pitfalls about the need to constantly stay connected. Being able to access the Internet from a smartphone has its drawbacks. We become very anti-social and forget to “look up”. But here’s an infograph that commends the use of the Internet. View the interactive version here. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: Why The Internet Is Good For You |
| Russian Hacking Gang Captures 1.2 Billion Credentials: What You Should Do Posted: 07 Aug 2014 01:30 PM PDT  What do you get when you cross a dozen Russian criminal hackers with 420,000 websites with an SQL injection vulnerability? You get 4.5 billion compromised user records in the hands of those hackers. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Hold Security of Milwaukee, Wisconsin discovered a database filled with stolen credentials. Alex Holden, chief information security officer of Hold Security tracked down the source of the stolen credentials to a small hacking ring of just under a dozen 20-something year old men, based out of south central Russia. He dubbed the group “CyberVor”. Holden explained that the “hacking... Read the full article: Russian Hacking Gang Captures 1.2 Billion Credentials: What You Should Do |
| Get Paid To Write Interactive Fiction. Find Out How! Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:00 AM PDT  ChoiceScript is one of the many different tools you can use to write interactive fiction. From visual novel creator Ren’Py to a host of other programs for writing Zork-style text adventures, each one has its own style, strengths, and weaknesses. With so much about these programs being a matter of personal taste, what could ChoiceScript have that makes it stand out from all of the others? Well, for starters, using ChoiceScript can get you paid. Since 2009, Choice of Games has been publishing quality interactive fiction on web and mobile platforms. Learn about their cool style of interactive fiction, the... Read the full article: Get Paid To Write Interactive Fiction. Find Out How! |
| Don’t Let Your Hidden Talents Die: 7 Ways To Go & Find Them Again Posted: 07 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT  America’s Got Talent has it all wrong. Talent isn’t all about juggling balls or eating fire. Or even doing a lumbar twisting rumba. For me, talent is simply doing the best with what we have. Kindness could be a talent. So could be survival. It’s difficult to pin it down when media pins it down to exhibitionism and audience ratings. Or maybe I am all wrong – because I never made it to a talent show. But wait. I am writing this on a popular blog. And you are (hopefully) reading it. Maybe, I have some talent after all. Talent... Read the full article: Don’t Let Your Hidden Talents Die: 7 Ways To Go & Find Them Again |
| MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 125 – Half Good Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:30 AM PDT  Welcome to the new and improved Technophilia Podcast from MakeUseOf.com. Now, we’ve taken the show you love, and made it look and sound much better with high-definition audio and video. It still has the same sense of humor you’ve come to expect, it just looks a a lot nicer. If you’ve never checked out the show, now is the perfect time jump in. If you want to make sure you never miss a video, make sure to subscribe to MakeUseOf’s YouTube channel, and subscribe to the video feed for the Technophilia Podcast. If you prefer your podcasts to come in... Read the full article: MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 125 – Half Good |
| Interrupted Download? Here’s How To Resume In Chrome Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Have you ever been in the process of downloading a large file in Chrome, then suddenly and without warning, your Internet gets disconnected or your computer hangs and you are forced to reboot? A download could also be interrupted by accidentally removing the electrical power cord from the wall socket or through power outage in your area. When you finally get your computer up and running again, you agonizingly realize your download progress has disappeared and you have to restart. If this happens a couple of times, a simple download can take ages to complete. If you are on a limited bandwidth plan... Read the full article: Interrupted Download? Here’s How To Resume In Chrome |
| How To Make Free PDF Forms With LibreOffice Draw Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT  If you’re a freelancer, small business, or running a non-profit organization, fillable PDFs could be really useful for you. You might send them to clients to apply for your services, or to create a design brief for a project. You may use them yourself if you regularly need to provide clients with standard information that only changes a little, such as an invoice for payment. This article will show you how you can design your own fillable PDF form, completely free. Free & Open Source Fillable PDF Creation Most PDF-creating programs charge if you want to do anything more involved than reading... Read the full article: How To Make Free PDF Forms With LibreOffice Draw |
| 5 Ways To Spot Social Media Scams & Rogue Apps Posted: 07 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT  In the past, we wrote about then-current Facebook scams to watch out for, and Angela has covered fake Facebook pages to avoid. It’s great to know about these problems, but unfortunately, nobody can predict the future and these articles can’t be published until a big scam happens. Facebook is a huge target for the new generation of con artists, because there’s such a large user base who can be scammed without any face-to-face contact. Although you’ve taken precautions to secure your privacy on Facebook with our unofficial guide, falling for a trick is still possible, and the results can end in... Read the full article: 5 Ways To Spot Social Media Scams & Rogue Apps |
| How I Took These Stunning Photos In Windows Phone 8.1 With Burst Mode Posted: 07 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT  It’s almost two years old, but I’m still using my Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 device, released in late 2012. It might be a centimetre thick and almost twice as heavy as my HTC One (M7), but it continues to be useful for many different tasks. Most importantly, it takes superb photographs. We’ve looked at the optical prowess of this device in the past, most recently showcasing what it can do as a movie camera and how the Nokia Camera app brings pro-level tools to the platform. But if you don’t have the Nokia Camera app, you’ll be limited to... Read the full article: How I Took These Stunning Photos In Windows Phone 8.1 With Burst Mode |
| 5 Ways To Generate Secure Passwords On Linux Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT  It has become more crucial than ever to use strong passwords for your online accounts. Without a secure password, it’s easy for others to crack yours. It’s great if you can come up with a good password on your own, but if you are out of ideas or feel like your own ideas aren’t secure enough, you can get your computer to spit one out for you. It’s worth the effort, so let’s get right to it. Here are five ways you can generate brand new, secure passwords you can trust. APG The Automatic Password Generator, or APG for short,... Read the full article: 5 Ways To Generate Secure Passwords On Linux |
| Obama Favors Net Neutrality, Microsoft Scans Your Emails, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 07 Aug 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, Google makes it easier to unsubscribe from emails, Microsoft is losing big money on its tablets, AOL dial-up is still a thing, an argument over who owns a monkey selfie, and The Nostalgia Machine audibly takes you back in time. Obama Comes Out For Net Neutrality The issue of net neutrality in the United States is still rumbling on, with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) currently deciding its stance on the matter. If it comes down on one side of the issue then the framework for an open Internet will be preserved, if it comes down on the other... Read the full article: Obama Favors Net Neutrality, Microsoft Scans Your Emails, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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