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- Cool Websites & Tools – Skim Large Amounts Of Text, Vector Graphic Design, & Amazon 3D Printing Store
- Is Bitcoin Mining Today’s Gold Rush?
- What Do You Do When Your Favorite Website Goes Down? [We Ask You]
- Exploring Android L: What Exactly Is Material Design?
- Efficient. Cheap. Awesome. Here’s Why New Spray-On Solar Cells Matter
- Three Desktop Browsers Designed To Protect Your Privacy
- Unity vs. Modern UI: Should You Choose Ubuntu Or Windows 8?
- Is It Legal Or Illegal To Unlock My Smartphone In The US?
- You Can Get A Great Logo For Your Website Without Spending A Fortune
- 5 Life Skills That Video Games Can Help You Develop
- Four Distraction-Free Writing Environments For Mac Compared [Video]
- What’s The Problem With NCH Software & How To Remove It?
- Hackers Steal 1 Billion Passwords, Apple Sets iPhone 6 Release Date, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Posted: 06 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT  YouiDraw – Create vector graphic design with YouiDraw online. It's like Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw but it works with HTML5 and Google Drive. So there's no software to download and you can access your work anytime, anywhere. An Online Logo Maker is available for creating high quality vector graphics, headings, HTML5 logos, icons, web site elements and buttons by hundreds of templates and styles. Fly – is a dead simple fast video editor, which works best on iPhone 5 and above. Import from your Camera Roll, or record right in the app. Craft videos up to five minutes long. Add... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Skim Large Amounts Of Text, Vector Graphic Design, & Amazon 3D Printing Store |
| Is Bitcoin Mining Today’s Gold Rush? Posted: 06 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Did you know that the first person who discovered gold during the California Gold Rush never profited from it? Will Bitcoin suffer the same fate? Will you ever profit from mining Bitcoin? What is Bitcoin and how does it work? What can you buy with Bitcoin? How does one mine it? If you get asked these questions a lot, here’s an easy way to explain it. Click to enlarge. via WhoIsHostingThis? Read the full article: Is Bitcoin Mining Today’s Gold Rush? |
| What Do You Do When Your Favorite Website Goes Down? [We Ask You] Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:30 PM PDT  All websites, no matter how big or important they may be, suffer from downtime on occasion. The big boys usually bounce back quickly by throwing engineers at the problem, but lesser sites can go down for much longer periods of time. If the site suffering an outage is one of your favorites, this downtime can lead to frustration and resentment setting in. However do you cope?! Downtime Drama We want to know, What Do You Do When Your Favorite Website Goes Down? This question was prompted by Facebook recently going offline for around an hour. That’s an utterly insignificant amount... Read the full article: What Do You Do When Your Favorite Website Goes Down? [We Ask You] |
| Exploring Android L: What Exactly Is Material Design? Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:00 AM PDT  If you keep up with tech news, you’ve probably heard about the announcement of a new version of Android, so far only referred to as Android L, and a new design philosophy to go along with it called Material Design. What you may not have gotten is a satisfactory explanation of what exactly Material Design is, or why anyone cares. Today, we’ll be talking about what Material Design actually changes, when you can expect to see it, and why it’s actually pretty cool. Android’s Android Problem Material Design, at a glance, represents an enormous departure from the traditional Android aesthetic —... Read the full article: Exploring Android L: What Exactly Is Material Design? |
| Efficient. Cheap. Awesome. Here’s Why New Spray-On Solar Cells Matter Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:30 AM PDT  The cost of solar energy is set to drop precipitously after a team of scientists working at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom announced the development of perovskite based solar cells manufactured using a spray-on process. The photovoltaic cells use a family of naturally-occuring crystal structures called Perovskites.The first demonstration of electricity generation using cells composed of this material was in 2009, and has since been refined and developed multiple times to generate energy more efficiently. Perovskite based cells could potentially surpass traditional solar cells with respect to the efficiency with which they generate electricity, but with initial costs... Read the full article: Efficient. Cheap. Awesome. Here’s Why New Spray-On Solar Cells Matter |
| Three Desktop Browsers Designed To Protect Your Privacy Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Internet privacy has been under sustained attack over recent years. Thanks to the heroic efforts of whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden and organizations such as Wikileaks, we are all wiser and can now take precautions to protect our right to privacy. The list of organizations and companies that have access to your data or want to spy on you just keeps growing. As we rant about the NSA and other similar national agencies, Google continues to pervade our lives and collect loads of personal data with its numerous products. Facebook was also in the news lately for all the wrong... Read the full article: Three Desktop Browsers Designed To Protect Your Privacy |
| Unity vs. Modern UI: Should You Choose Ubuntu Or Windows 8? Posted: 06 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT  For a good amount of people, Windows and Linux can both do everything that a user needs. For those who this applies to, the choice between Windows 8 and Ubuntu can primarily come down to the user experience, which is largely attributed to the desktop environment. Windows 8 uses the Modern UI, and Ubuntu uses Unity. Let’s compare the two to see which one is better for you. Desktop Requirements A desktop environment needs to do the following: Allow you to manage your windows easily and efficiently Allow you to launch other programs that aren’t currently running Search for other... Read the full article: Unity vs. Modern UI: Should You Choose Ubuntu Or Windows 8? |
| Is It Legal Or Illegal To Unlock My Smartphone In The US? Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:30 AM PDT  Unlocking cell phones in the United States is no longer a criminal offense, after President Obama signed into law the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act. The bill — which enjoyed bipartisan support in both the Senate and the House Of Representatives — will give consumers more choice with respect to how they use their cell phones, and with what providers they use. Unlocking phones was made illegal in early 2013, when an exemption that had been issued to a clause in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) lapsed. Tools used to remove the carrier locks on devices without the... Read the full article: Is It Legal Or Illegal To Unlock My Smartphone In The US? |
| You Can Get A Great Logo For Your Website Without Spending A Fortune Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT  A professional-looking logo is a necessity for a business website: not only does it add credibility to your web presence, but it can be a powerful branding tool that helps potential customers remember your business. So what do you do if you need a logo for your new business or a social media account? Here are four options. Create One Online There are a number of websites that let you modify pre-designed logos or piece your own together from a selection of images and customizable text. While these logos often have a pre-designed feel, some websites do offer a wide range of... Read the full article: You Can Get A Great Logo For Your Website Without Spending A Fortune |
| 5 Life Skills That Video Games Can Help You Develop Posted: 06 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Video games can help you succeed at life. It’s an uncommon opinion to have, especially in mainstream media and pop culture, and most anti-gaming activists are quick to point out that video games tend to cultivate immaturity, violence, and even addiction. However, like most kinds of media, video games can be both good and bad. As one who grew up immersed in gaming culture, I can attest that some areas of my life were negatively influenced by my gaming habits. I can also attest that games have helped shape me into a more productive member of society. How so? Patience... Read the full article: 5 Life Skills That Video Games Can Help You Develop |
| Four Distraction-Free Writing Environments For Mac Compared [Video] Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT  If you want to increase your writing productivity on your Mac, one sure fire way to do so is to use full-screen mode in a distraction-free text editor program. Open webpages, scattered Finder windows and the bells and whistles found in many applications can distract us from getting writing done. The following short video compares four Mac writing applications that include useful features for writing in full-screen, or what is known as “composition-only” mode. Not only is entering full-screen quicker than having to close all other distractions, it’s also an excellent feature for helping you focus on writing. Focus On Writing The video above covers four applications, each... Read the full article: Four Distraction-Free Writing Environments For Mac Compared [Video] |
| What’s The Problem With NCH Software & How To Remove It? Posted: 06 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Hijacking file extensions, forcing itself into context menus and downloading additional data – no, it’s not a virus, but any app you can mention from NCH Software. They’re known online for providing good software, useful niche converters and media editors that can do the job for you at the drop of a hat. But should you take the risk of installing a useful app if it is liable to hijack your computer in such a way? NCH Software: Who Are They? A slightly shadowy software publisher originating in Canberra, Australia and with a Denver Colorado, USA office supporting North American customers,... Read the full article: What’s The Problem With NCH Software & How To Remove It? |
| Hackers Steal 1 Billion Passwords, Apple Sets iPhone 6 Release Date, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, Apple and Samsung call a truce over patents, UberPool matches ridesharing passengers, Justin.tv shuts down, the potato salad Kickstarter comes to an end, and how to make 8-bit art. Russian Gang Steals 1 Billion Passwords The @nytimes runs a super-scary story about name/password collection without even a hint of who’s at risk. http://t.co/Ul7e38RY3l — Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) August 5, 2014 A Russian gang of 20-somethings is in possession of “1.2 billion username and password combinations" and "more than 500 million email addresses.” This is according to The New York Times, which was tipped off about the potentially devastating security... Read the full article: Hackers Steal 1 Billion Passwords, Apple Sets iPhone 6 Release Date, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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