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• Cool Websites & Tools – Take Selfies, Adjust Your Privacy, & Share Kindle Quotes
• 18 Unexpected Lifehacking Tips To Improve Your Exam Scores
• How To Make A Facebook Post Go Viral [Weekly Facebook Tips]
• Virtual World Millionaires: Getting Rich in the Digital Marketplace
• 8 Ways To Spell & Grammar Check In Microsoft Word Using Different Dictionaries & Languages
• 6 Tolkien Apps For The Middle-Earth Obsessed
• Cord Cutters: Ignore Set Top Boxes & Use A PC Instead
• IFTTT Adds New Channels For Fitness, Finance & Android Wearables
• You’re Sure To Love One Of These 4 PC Driving Sims
• Legendary Jazz Label Blue Note Issues Free 75th Anniversary iPad App
• Stay Fit: The 5 Best Quick Workout Apps For Android
• Name Your Own Price Designer Bundle, Deal Ends Aug 13
• Everything You Need To Know About Windows Phone 8.1 Security
• Google Is Reading Your Emails, Hotel Tackles Negative Reviews, And More… [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Take Selfies, Adjust Your Privacy, & Share Kindle Quotes Posted: 05 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT Selfies – Take selfies, caption and filter them, and share them into a stream that can be seen by all other users. You can react to other people's selfies with your own images or captions, which often leads to a fun back and forth that turns selfies into mini stories. Selfies is a side project from a team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. SolCalendar – is a visually-engaging app that will guide users to live a passionate life, by providing effective time & task management tools and Infotainment. SolCalendar is a calendar app that has topped millions of downloads... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Take Selfies, Adjust Your Privacy, & Share Kindle Quotes

18 Unexpected Lifehacking Tips To Improve Your Exam Scores Posted: 05 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT Exams — don’t you just hate them? Do you remember cramming for finals? What did you use to do in order to retain information? Did you study with music playing? What was your ritual? If you’re still a student, then you’d appreciate these 18 lifehacks. Try them out, and let us know if they helped you study better. Click to enlarge. via Magoosh Read the full article: 18 Unexpected Lifehacking Tips To Improve Your Exam Scores

How To Make A Facebook Post Go Viral [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 05 Aug 2014 03:30 PM PDT You want your posts to get seen, right? Yeah, you do. But do you know how to actually get your posts to go viral? We’ve got some ideas for you that will improve your chances. This advice is not just for making pages popular. If you want your regular updates and group posts to get a boost, these tips will help too. Stay Authentic When trying all of the tips that follow, remember to stay authentic, and true to yourself or your brand. Your own ideals and beliefs are what got you this far, and your fans respect that. Add... Read the full article: How To Make A Facebook Post Go Viral [Weekly Facebook Tips]

Virtual World Millionaires: Getting Rich in the Digital Marketplace Posted: 05 Aug 2014 12:00 PM PDT In 2012, Valve hired Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis to help them manage the booming Team Fortress 2 economy.  If that sounds absurd to you, consider this: The TF2 item trading economy was worth $50 million USD by 2011, and shows every sign of exponential growth. Virtual economies are rapidly growing in scale and complexity as people spend more and more time and money in online games.  As of 2012, of the users making content for TF2, the highest-paid made half a million dollars that year.  The average payout was more than $15,000.  Gabe Newell vividly described the consequences to their... Read the full article: Virtual World Millionaires: Getting Rich in the Digital Marketplace

8 Ways To Spell & Grammar Check In Microsoft Word Using Different Dictionaries & Languages Posted: 05 Aug 2014 11:00 AM PDT Microsoft Word’s built-in spelling and grammar checking tools work automatically most of the time, but there are many ways to customize them. You can even use AutoCorrect to speed up your typing. We used Word 2013 for this article. The interface should be fairly similar on Word 2010, too. In-line Spell Checking By default, Word will use in-line spell checking. Words you misspell will appear with a red squiggly underline — just right-click the word you meant to type to correct each typo. Of course, Word doesn’t know every word that exists — especially names of things. To have Word ignore a... Read the full article: 8 Ways To Spell & Grammar Check In Microsoft Word Using Different Dictionaries & Languages

6 Tolkien Apps For The Middle-Earth Obsessed Posted: 05 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth has been home to some of the most cherished fantasy novels in history, and it’s a setting that continues to draw in fans old and new. You can even enter the world of Hobbits, Dwarves and Elves on your smartphone or tablet and immerse yourself in the lore, language and caveats that make Tolkien’s world so special. Here are six mobile apps that every Tolkien fanatic must check out. LOTRProject ($1.85, Android) The world of Middle-Earth is defined by its depth, but that same depth can become a problem. Not everyone can remember lists of family relations or recall the geography of the... Read the full article: 6 Tolkien Apps For The Middle-Earth Obsessed

Cord Cutters: Ignore Set Top Boxes & Use A PC Instead Posted: 05 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT Ditching cable? Don’t buy a smart TV and don’t mess around with Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV or any set-top box. These devices severely limit what you can and can’t do with them, and are usually no more powerful than a mid-range PC from a few years ago. Give yourself the flexibility of a regular computer – you won’t regret it. James outlined why you don’t need a smart TV, saying basically that the “smart” bits will be obsolete long before you should be buying a new TV. I’d say the same goes for set top boxes. It’s not complicated... Read the full article: Cord Cutters: Ignore Set Top Boxes & Use A PC Instead

IFTTT Adds New Channels For Fitness, Finance & Android Wearables Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:30 AM PDT Among IFTTT’s New Channels: Nike+, Square, & Android Wearables Automation lifesaver IFTTT added nine new services to its repertoire in the month of July. The acronym stands for “If This Then That” and allows you to use triggers and actions to create and share “recipes” with other users. The latest additions include fitness tracking from the likes of Nike+, payment processor Square, and mobile money savers AppZapp. There are also channels for new Android wearables, the ability to turn your iOS devices into portable cameras and yet another destination for all that lifelogging data you’ve been collecting. Here’s a quick run-down of the... Read the full article: IFTTT Adds New Channels For Fitness, Finance & Android Wearables

You’re Sure To Love One Of These 4 PC Driving Sims Posted: 05 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT If you commute in a car everyday, driving probably feels pretty mundane to you by now. You navigate the neighborhoods, highways, and cities around you from memory. You get around safely without actively thinking about traffic laws. Odds are, you think of driving as a means to an end, rather than some amazing thrill. Driving simulation games let you do all kinds of things you could never do in a real car. You can travel the countryside, race the famous tracks of the world, or even crash your ride just for the thrill of it, all from the comfort of... Read the full article: You’re Sure To Love One Of These 4 PC Driving Sims

Legendary Jazz Label Blue Note Issues Free 75th Anniversary iPad App Posted: 05 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT Legendary jazz label Blue Note invites you to celebrate its 75th anniversary by downloading the free multimedia iPad app, Blue Note 75. If you’re a serious student and lover of jazz, you’re probably already very familiar with many of the renowned artists Blue Note helped created — from jazz pianist, Thelonious Monk; the legendary trumpeter Miles Davis, and saxophonist, John Coltrane; to the contemporary jazz music of Robert Glasper, Gregory Porter and Nora Jones. The world of Blue Note is huge, and there’s no better way to tour its vast jazz catalogue than by downloading Blue Note 75. Overview Blue Note 75, which... Read the full article: Legendary Jazz Label Blue Note Issues Free 75th Anniversary iPad App

Stay Fit: The 5 Best Quick Workout Apps For Android Posted: 05 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT The hardest part of exercise is finding the time to do it. Motivation is a big part of it as well, but I think there are many of us who want to exercise but can’t fit it into our schedules. Is there an answer for us? Fortunately, yes. Exercising doesn’t have to be a huge time commitment, and these apps prove that. Disclaimer: These quick workout routines are simply meant to get you up and moving around. They aren’t meant to replace a full workout session complete with cardio, strength, and endurance training. But if you want to ease into... Read the full article: Stay Fit: The 5 Best Quick Workout Apps For Android

Name Your Own Price Designer Bundle, Deal Ends Aug 13 Posted: 05 Aug 2014 05:30 AM PDT If you’ve spent some time making your very own newsletter, WordPress site, eBook or even PowerPoint presentation, you’ll understand that graphics is key. As they say, a picture says a thousand words; in today’s world, that saying still holds true. When browsing the Internet for free icons, stock images, WordPress themes or logos, you’re spoilt for choice. But sifting through all those options to find something that’s truly high quality is like finding a needle in a haystack. It takes time. This Name Your Own Price Designer Bundle 3.0 packages over $1,500 worth of designer assets from 6 designers, and... Read the full article: Name Your Own Price Designer Bundle, Deal Ends Aug 13

Everything You Need To Know About Windows Phone 8.1 Security Posted: 05 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT Concerned that your Windows Phone might be lost or stolen, and your data compromised? If you share the same account across your phone, Xbox and Windows 8 computer, this is a legitimate worry. While there are few security apps for Windows Phone 8.1 and virtually no malware, the device could be considered a weak point in your personal data setup. After all, anyone gaining unauthorised access could instantly compromise any device using the same password. Security Apps For Windows Phone Let’s get this out of the way first. Antivirus and firewall apps haven’t yet made it to Windows Phone, largely... Read the full article: Everything You Need To Know About Windows Phone 8.1 Security

Google Is Reading Your Emails, Hotel Tackles Negative Reviews, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 05 Aug 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, in-flight cellphone calls may be banned, Windows XP is hanging on for dear life, Flappy Bird returns, an update on HitchBOT, and how iCEnhancer 3.0 makes GTA IV look better than GTA V. Google Is In Your Email http://t.co/oGIzE9hPTf Should Google be able to tell police about your e-mail content? What if it's alleged child porn? — Chris Matyszczyk (@ChrisMatyszczyk) August 3, 2014 If you’re using Gmail then Google is scanning your emails for evidence of child pornography. This is the takeaway from the story of one man being charged with possession of child porn after Google alerted authorities... Read the full article: Google Is Reading Your Emails, Hotel Tackles Negative Reviews, And More… [Tech News Digest]

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