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- Cool Websites & Tools – Manage Your Social Life, Wall Decals, & Manage Your Video Projects
- Eccentric Habits of 11 Tech Elites
- App Store Productivity Sale: Boxer, Fantastical, Prizmo & More Reduced [iOS Sales]
- Foursquare Relaunches As Discovery Tool Based On Your Tastes
- The Latest Computer Technology You Have to See to Believe
- 5 Lesser Known Gaming Communities You Should Be Part Of
- A Hotel Charged $500 For Bad Reviews — What To Learn From Their Mistake
- Got Windows Issues? There May Be A Microsoft Hotfix
- Arcade Football, 16-Bit Style: Install Kick Off 2 In Windows!
- Loading Or Crawling? Pinpoint The Extensions Slowing Your Browser
- 10 More Tweaks To Make Ubuntu Feel Like Home
- Microsoft Kills Internet Explorer 8, Google Favors Secure Websites, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Manage Your Social Life, Wall Decals, & Manage Your Video Projects Posted: 08 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Twibble – is a better way to easily publish content from any RSS feed to Twitter with beautiful imagery in each and every tweet. The system automatically pulls featured images and embeds them into each tweet. Twibble also has a scheduling system so you can decide when each tweet is going out. Tinyblu – helps you manage your social life, so that you can spend more time with the people who matter. Never neglect your friends again – see how long it’s been since you last hung out. Stay in touch with friends who are far away – get a... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Manage Your Social Life, Wall Decals, & Manage Your Video Projects |
| Eccentric Habits of 11 Tech Elites Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT  It may not surprise you that some of the brilliant pioneers in the tech industry have a few quirks. Some are endearing, others are outright crazy. One of the most widely-known is perhaps Steve Jobs’ odd diets and avoiding showers. So if you’re thinking of breaking out in the world of tech, you’d better start an eccentric habit. Click to enlarge. via WhoIsHostingThis Read the full article: Eccentric Habits of 11 Tech Elites |
| App Store Productivity Sale: Boxer, Fantastical, Prizmo & More Reduced [iOS Sales] Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:00 PM PDT  Have our so-called busy lives gotten easier since smartphones became so ubiquitous, or do we simply feel busier as a result of our dependence on technology? Regardless of the answer, a few productivity apps make all the difference. This week’s sales are all about productivity, with some of the App Store’s best email applications, calendars, scanners and sketching environments slashed in price. There’s also the usual smattering of games, like Deus Ex: The Fall for the bargain price of a dollar. Apps Sketchbook Pro for iPad / Sketchbook Mobile ($4.99/$1.99, now free) Autodesk are probably best known for their CAD and 3D modelling... Read the full article: App Store Productivity Sale: Boxer, Fantastical, Prizmo & More Reduced [iOS Sales] |
| Foursquare Relaunches As Discovery Tool Based On Your Tastes Posted: 08 Aug 2014 10:30 AM PDT  Foursquare pioneered the mobile check-in; a location-based status update that told the world exactly where you were and why. Now the app has relaunched purely as a discovery engine, with check-ins relegated to the new app Swarm. The update is live on the iOS App Store and Google Play already, and it might surprise you to hear that it’s actually quite good – probably better than anything we’ve seen from the company in the past. What, No Check-Ins? It appears the team behind Foursquare have had their thinking hats on. Many of the past app incarnations have combined elements of social networking with a geo-discovery engine that finds, ranks and... Read the full article: Foursquare Relaunches As Discovery Tool Based On Your Tastes |
| The Latest Computer Technology You Have to See to Believe Posted: 08 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Moore’s Law, the truism that the amount of raw computational power available for a dollar tends to double roughly every eighteen months, has been a part of computer science lore since 1965, when Gordon Moore first observed the trend and wrote a paper on it. At the time, the “Law” bit was a joke. 49 years later, nobody’s laughing. Right now, computer chips are made using an immensely refined, but very old fabrication method. Sheets of very pure silicon crystals are coated in various substances, engraved using high-precision laser beams, etched with acid, bombarded with high-energy impurities, and electroplated. More than twenty... Read the full article: The Latest Computer Technology You Have to See to Believe |
| 5 Lesser Known Gaming Communities You Should Be Part Of Posted: 08 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT  There comes a time when a gaming community can become too big to be enjoyable. What used to be a central location for mature interaction and quality discussion devolves into a cesspool of memes, jokes, and trolls. If you’re tired of all of that, you ought to check out these lesser-known gaming communities instead. Do note, however, that these smaller forums come with their own set of downsides. They don’t have the same amount of constant, active chatter that you’d find in a huge, international community. The pace is generally slower, which isn’t inherently bad, but it can take some... Read the full article: 5 Lesser Known Gaming Communities You Should Be Part Of |
| A Hotel Charged $500 For Bad Reviews — What To Learn From Their Mistake Posted: 08 Aug 2014 08:30 AM PDT  Attempted censorship is the fastest path to bad publicity – a lesson Union Street Guest House wishes they learned earlier. That business’ longstanding policy to charge wedding parties for negative online reviews backfired this week – epically – when the Internet collectively decided they didn’t like the Hudson, New York hotel’s attitude. Nearly 1,000 one-star reviews on Yelp later, the company put out a statement saying the policy was meant to be a joke. If that’s true it hardly matters – the Internet’s made up its mind, leaving this business with a blight in its search results. Censorship as a... Read the full article: A Hotel Charged $500 For Bad Reviews — What To Learn From Their Mistake |
| Got Windows Issues? There May Be A Microsoft Hotfix Posted: 08 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Microsoft releases a new version of Windows (be it a complete revision or a service pack) every couple years, but the space between these major releases is far from barren. In fact the company serves up a constant stream of minor updates that address bugs, security problems or minor functionality issues. Updates that impact all versions of Windows are always released through the Windows Update service, but less important fixes are not. Searching for a hotfix is one of the first things you should do when your Windows PC has a problem. What’s A Hotfix? The word “hotfix” was originally coined... Read the full article: Got Windows Issues? There May Be A Microsoft Hotfix |
| Arcade Football, 16-Bit Style: Install Kick Off 2 In Windows! Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT  I’ve always loved football games, but just can’t get to grips with the FIFA, Pro Evolution Soccer and other great armchair soccer series. Deep at the back of my mind, I’m subconsciously comparing them to the retro classic Kick Off 2, once the ultimate soccer simulator. What Is Kick Off 2? Cast your mind back, if you will, to 1990, the days of MC Hammer and Madchester, the first TV appearance of Mr. Bean, and the retiring of the first generation of Transformers. In those days, games consoles were taking off, but those of us with home computers (certainly in... Read the full article: Arcade Football, 16-Bit Style: Install Kick Off 2 In Windows! |
| Loading Or Crawling? Pinpoint The Extensions Slowing Your Browser Posted: 08 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Has your browser slowed to a crawl recently? Having too many extensions running is usually the cause. The more extensions you have running, the more memory your browser needs. If you find your browser experience agonizingly slow, you need to disable or uninstall the extensions using the most memory. But, how do you pinpoint extensions that are using up the most memory? Getting this information is different in each browser. We will analyze how to do this in three of the most popular browsers; Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Chrome So let’s begin with Google Chrome. Unlike most other browsers,... Read the full article: Loading Or Crawling? Pinpoint The Extensions Slowing Your Browser |
| 10 More Tweaks To Make Ubuntu Feel Like Home Posted: 08 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Not too long ago we gave you 12 tips on how to tweak your Ubuntu installation. However, it’s been a little while since then, and we’ve come up with another 10 things you can do to make Ubuntu feel even more like home. These 10 tips are quick and simple to do, so let’s get started! Install TLP We covered TLP a while back, which is a piece of software that can optimize your power settings so that you can enjoy a longer battery life. We talked about TLP in depth before, and it’s a good item to mention in... Read the full article: 10 More Tweaks To Make Ubuntu Feel Like Home |
| Microsoft Kills Internet Explorer 8, Google Favors Secure Websites, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 08 Aug 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, Twitch begins silencing videos, Netflix overtakes HBO, Google adds university campuses to Street View, Microsoft reminds us how terrible things were in 1994, and Kanye West asks the question on everyone’s lips. Microsoft Kills Internet Explorer Support Microsoft is ending support for all older versions of Internet Explorer. From January 12, 2016, the company will no longer offer technical support or security updates for all but the latest version of Internet Explorer available for its various products. This means people using Windows Vista will need to install IE 9, and people using either Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows... Read the full article: Microsoft Kills Internet Explorer 8, Google Favors Secure Websites, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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