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- Cool Websites & Tools – Rate The Cops, Public Domain Goodies, & Awesome Mode
- Proper Punctuation Explained With Bacon
- 3+ Hilarious Comedy Web Series You Can Watch For Free [Stuff to Watch]
- New To Windows? These Tips Will Help You Survive
- Forget Keys: 5 Smart Locks You Can Unlock With Your Phone
- Is Burnout Making You Hate Your Work? 5 Ways To Find Your Flow Again
- 6 Tips You Can Use To Make Your Gaming Life Better
- How Computer Technology Will Transform Schools Of The Future
- Top 5 Windows Phone Games With Turn-Based Multiplayer Options
- Partition & Use Your Time Machine Hard Drive To Store Files Too
- Cover Your Home: How To Find and Remove Wireless Blind Spots
- The Most Popular Mobile Apps, Apple Admits iPhone Problem, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Rate The Cops, Public Domain Goodies, & Awesome Mode Posted: 25 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Five-O Police Rating – empowers citizens to rate, review and store the details of their interactions with local law enforcement officers. The system then aggregates all scores for a particular county or police officer and assigns by county and officer a dynamic grade for courtesy and professionalism. Citizens are also able to search incident comments by county, state and officer identification number. App Factory – allows you to easily convert your scripts into full applications. It works with any script you can run from the command line and allows using custom icons. Make sure that the script contains a proper... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Rate The Cops, Public Domain Goodies, & Awesome Mode |
| Proper Punctuation Explained With Bacon Posted: 25 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Mastering punctuation marks can be tough — the comma being the hardest to understand with its many uses. So how can you learn to use punctuation marks properly without making dumb grammar mistakes? Simple. Bacon is the answer. Click to enlarge. via TheVisualCommunicationGuy Read the full article: Proper Punctuation Explained With Bacon |
| 3+ Hilarious Comedy Web Series You Can Watch For Free [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 25 Aug 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Alt: MyDamnChannel’s Many Web Series Will Keep You Laughing For Hours The Webby Award-winning series You Suck At Photoshop ran from 2007 to 2012, practically launching the MyDamnChannel comedy network. At a time when monetising your video content was a relatively fresh concept the series racked up millions of views before being honored a year later at the 2008 Webbys. A fusion of tutorial video, dark comedy and surreal humour, You Suck At Photoshop is still one of the best and most complete web-series ever made. Luckily it’s not the extent of MyDamnChannel’s complete productions, which continue to this day. You... Read the full article: 3+ Hilarious Comedy Web Series You Can Watch For Free [Stuff to Watch] |
| New To Windows? These Tips Will Help You Survive Posted: 25 Aug 2014 12:00 PM PDT  For a long time, Windows was the operating system that everyone grew up on and learned how to use in school. Times have changed, however; while kids are certainly learning with technology, Windows is no longer a core part of that. Due to the widespread use of alternate operating systems, including iPads, Android devices, and even Macs, it’s possible for some people to get by without ever touching Windows. At some point in your life, though, you’re likely going to be confronted with a Windows-based system, and it’s essential to know your way around. For anyone who will be forced... Read the full article: New To Windows? These Tips Will Help You Survive |
| Forget Keys: 5 Smart Locks You Can Unlock With Your Phone Posted: 25 Aug 2014 11:00 AM PDT  When you’re creating a smart home, you’ll spend most of your time thinking about things that are within the walls of your house, like smart lamps and smart TVs. But there are some really cool things you can do when you’re outside, too! One of those things is unlocking your front door — why not take keys out of the equation and use a smarter solution? Here are 5 different locks that you can unlock with your phone. August Smart Lock The August lock, though it isn’t out yet, provides a lot of great options in a small package. It’s easy... Read the full article: Forget Keys: 5 Smart Locks You Can Unlock With Your Phone |
| Is Burnout Making You Hate Your Work? 5 Ways To Find Your Flow Again Posted: 25 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT  I’m approaching 40 in February, and I am burnt out with my job. I’ve been writing and getting professionally published for the past 27 years and I am exhausted. So much so that I am questioning whether or not writing and blogging are things I want to continue doing for the rest of my working life. Experiencing burnout is nothing new for people. If you work non-stop for years on end with very few breaks, then eventually the human mind is going to say “stop!”. And if you choose to ignore that inner voice, then you will become exhausted to... Read the full article: Is Burnout Making You Hate Your Work? 5 Ways To Find Your Flow Again |
| 6 Tips You Can Use To Make Your Gaming Life Better Posted: 25 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT  The life of a gamer isn’t all that difficult. At its core, gaming is just an endless cycle of buying games and playing them. With that being said, there are a few frustrations that can crop up every once in a while, and nothing spoils a gaming session faster than a broken controller or faulty keyboard, am I right? With these simple tips and tricks, you can stave off some of the more aggravating aspects of gaming and restore your sessions to what they ought to have been in the first place: fun and engaging. Skip the Wireless Peripherals Wireless... Read the full article: 6 Tips You Can Use To Make Your Gaming Life Better |
| How Computer Technology Will Transform Schools Of The Future Posted: 25 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT  In the 1800′s, students sat in a classroom, listened to a teacher and took tests. In 2014, students do exactly the same thing, with maybe the addition of a pocket calculator and some slides. Nearly every other industry has been changed beyond recognition by the invention of computers. Why not education, arguably one of the industries with the most to gain? The answer is probably some combination of rank incompetence, institutional conservatism, and perverse incentives. It’s a mess, but the good news is that it’s going to change — a lot — soon. The situation as it stands is fundamentally unsustainable,... Read the full article: How Computer Technology Will Transform Schools Of The Future |
| Top 5 Windows Phone Games With Turn-Based Multiplayer Options Posted: 25 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Mobile gaming seems an obvious platform for multiplayer games. Handsets are small, the hardware can deal with many different game types and the various methods of communication available make facing off or co-operating with another player reasonably simple. MMO games aside, however, Windows Phone doesn’t have that many multiplayer games available. Just a handful of non-Xbox Live games support multiplayer, although the choice is greater among those with Xbox Live integration. Different Types Of Multiplayer Games There are four types of multiplayer games for smartphones, using two different models of play: asynchronous (turn-based) and real time. Asynchronous games are those... Read the full article: Top 5 Windows Phone Games With Turn-Based Multiplayer Options |
| Partition & Use Your Time Machine Hard Drive To Store Files Too Posted: 25 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Now that every Apple laptop ships with a solid state drive, many of us are learning to live with smaller storage capacities once more. At the same time, external hard drives are cheaper and roomier than ever – which means there’s often plenty of room for backups and file storage on the same drive. Everyone should backup their Mac with Time Machine, and ideally use offsite backup services just in case. If your Mac’s hard drive is small but your Time Machine hard drive is big, it might be worth using the drive for both backup and storage purposes. How Time Machine Works Typical external hard drive sizes have swelled to over a... Read the full article: Partition & Use Your Time Machine Hard Drive To Store Files Too |
| Cover Your Home: How To Find and Remove Wireless Blind Spots Posted: 25 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT  WiFi is everywhere and, for most readers, that it includes your home. While desktop computers still frequently use Ethernet, the majority of laptops, tablets and smartphones use WiFi; indeed, the latter two often can’t connect to anything but a wireless network, be it your home router or a carrier’s cellular data. In an ideal world, this reliance on WiFi would be only an advantage, but in truth the technology isn’t perfect. Though more reliable than ever, many homes and businesses still struggle with “blind spots” with low or no coverage. Here’s how to find – and eliminate – these wireless dead zones. Setting... Read the full article: Cover Your Home: How To Find and Remove Wireless Blind Spots |
| The Most Popular Mobile Apps, Apple Admits iPhone Problem, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 25 Aug 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, Sony suffers a hack attack on PSN, AdDetector sniffs out sponsored content, a Fast & Furious jail sentence, and Samsung shamefully hijacks the Ice Bucket Challenge. The Most Popular Mobile Apps, Revealed I used to think Snapchat was the dumbest thing when it first released but now it’s my favorite app on my phone — Collin Tarrant (@tarrantcollin) August 20, 2014 Apps have become an insanely popular element of the mobile experience, but which apps are the most popular? We now know the top 25 in America thanks to the latest mobile app report from comScore. Rather than focus... Read the full article: The Most Popular Mobile Apps, Apple Admits iPhone Problem, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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