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• The NSA Seeks To Stop Malware, Bing Gets More Conversational, And More… [Tech News Digest]
• Cool Websites & Tools – Android Coding Patterns, Social Media Marketing, & Create Mixtapes
• 25 Years Of Glorious Internet
• What Is The First Website You Remember Viewing? [We Ask You]
• NPR One Brings The Best Of US Public Broadcasting To iOS & Android
• You Can Now Watch Netflix On Linux Natively: Here’s How
• How Portable Apps Can Make Your Life Easier & Save Resources
• Some Of The Best Mac Software Comes Pre-Installed
• Need A Cheap Laptop? Here Are The 5 Best Chromebooks In The Amazon Back-To-School Sale
• Get Nostalgic: Four PS1 Games We Still Love Going Back To
• 8 Fitness Experts On The Web With The Best Health Advice For You
• 6 Secrets Every Windows User Should Know About Linux
• 6 Android Apps Every Raspberry Pi Owner Should Use
• Texting 911 In An Emergency, Twitter Launches Video Ads, And More… [Tech News Digest]

The NSA Seeks To Stop Malware, Bing Gets More Conversational, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 14 Aug 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, Samsung unveils new Galaxy Alpha, Twitter gives verified users the VIP treatment, Reddit cracks down on journalists using and abusing it, and the most stunning timelapse video you’re ever likely to see. The NSA Is Developing A Malware Killer Just discovered an NSA backdoor in my kids’ Etch a Sketch. — Chris Sacca (@sacca) August 11, 2014 The National Security Agency (NSA) is currently developing a cyber defense system designed to recognize and neutralize malware aimed at the United States by foreign powers. The program, called MonsterMind, would work completely autonomously, and could be used to launch retaliatory strikes... Read the full article: The NSA Seeks To Stop Malware, Bing Gets More Conversational, And More… [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Android Coding Patterns, Social Media Marketing, & Create Mixtapes Posted: 13 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT Easy Uninstaller – is an easy, fast & handy uninstall tool for Android. Remove apps by using several taps. Clean up storage and free up more space. Features include batch uninstall, list all installed apps, show app name, version, update time, and size. Search for an app by name, and much more. Codota – is a crawler which extracts coding patterns from a vast number of Android apps. Search or browse to get the best example code from over 7 million sources, including GitHub, Google Code, and StackOverflow. To help obtain broader and deeper knowledge, Codota shows the corresponding tutorials... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Android Coding Patterns, Social Media Marketing, & Create Mixtapes

25 Years Of Glorious Internet Posted: 13 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT The Internet has been around for 25 years. Boy, we’ve come a long way. Remember the days of Netscape? How about Napster? 1.44 MB floppies, anyone? In celebration of the Internet’s 25th birthday, Onyx created an interactive website highlighting some Internet and technology favourites. These static images don’t do it justice — go ahead and visit the interactive website, it’s much more fun. Do these bring back any fond memories? Read the full article: 25 Years Of Glorious Internet

What Is The First Website You Remember Viewing? [We Ask You] Posted: 13 Aug 2014 06:30 PM PDT The Web recently celebrated its 25th birthday, having been birthed in a lab at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) by Tim-Berners Lee in 1989. It’s evolved massively in the last quarter of a century, with extremely humble beginnings leading to the mass of useful and entertaining sites and services we now know and love. But where in particular did your online adventure begin? A Thirst For Firsts We want to know, What Is The First Website You Remember Viewing? We’ve added the word “remember” because we suspect a lot of you will struggle to figure out the first... Read the full article: What Is The First Website You Remember Viewing? [We Ask You]

NPR One Brings The Best Of US Public Broadcasting To iOS & Android Posted: 13 Aug 2014 11:00 AM PDT Australia has the ABC, the UK has the BBC, Ireland has RTÉ, and America has the venerable NPR. For years, this public broadcaster has thrived, with its own blend of deeply cerebral radio programming, fiercely independent journalism and unshakable integrity. And whilst traditional media outlets have floundered in this brave new world of the Internet, NPR has thrived, with an award-winning website and a range of lauded podcasts, including the magnificent This American Life, starring Ira Glass. Speaking of which, you can also stream hundreds of hours of This American Life through their website. What happens when you shove all that awesomeness... Read the full article: NPR One Brings The Best Of US Public Broadcasting To iOS & Android

You Can Now Watch Netflix On Linux Natively: Here’s How Posted: 13 Aug 2014 10:30 AM PDT It is now possible to watch Netflix on any Linux system, so long as you run the Chrome browser starting with version 37. This will let you avoid having to use a Wine-based workaround to get the Silverlight plugin to work. More importantly, the latest releases of Chrome block this workaround anyway, so you would have only been able to use Firefox to watch Netflix. For the time being, you aren’t able to use Firefox to natively watch Netflix. How Is This Possible? Since the World Wide Web Consortium has added a portion of DRM (digital rights management) called Encrypted... Read the full article: You Can Now Watch Netflix On Linux Natively: Here’s How

How Portable Apps Can Make Your Life Easier & Save Resources Posted: 13 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT Microsoft just upgraded you to 15GB of free OneDrive storage; there’s room left in your Dropbox; you didn’t fill up Google Drive yet; and spare USB flash drives are piling up on your desk? What are you going to do with all that wasted storage space? How about “outsourcing” applications to this cloud space or to an idle USB flash drive? Portable apps come with many advantages, some of which we will highlight in this article. Go Beyond Syncing Data Syncing data between multiple devices is awesome. But you still need to install software to access the data. What if you... Read the full article: How Portable Apps Can Make Your Life Easier & Save Resources

Some Of The Best Mac Software Comes Pre-Installed Posted: 13 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT When I got my Macbook Air back in 2012, I had great pleasure getting it out the box and exploring the Mac OS X system for the first time. Having been a Windows guy my whole computing life, it was fascinating to see what Mac OS X had to offer and to see first-hand what all the Mac fuss was about. In the two years since then, I have installed (and uninstalled) LOTS of software – it comes with the job. One thing I have found is that some of the Mac’s best software actually comes pre-installed, out of the box. While many Windows systems... Read the full article: Some Of The Best Mac Software Comes Pre-Installed

Need A Cheap Laptop? Here Are The 5 Best Chromebooks In The Amazon Back-To-School Sale Posted: 13 Aug 2014 08:30 AM PDT The new school term is almost here, and with it, a deluge of Chromebooks at a rock-bottom price, courtesy of Amazon. The shopping giant lists as many as 17 Chromebooks on sale, with most reduced by around $20. This is impressive, considering some Chromebooks can be bought for less than $200 at full price. ChromeOS is fast becoming the darling of the classroom, as schools take advantage of the low hardware costs, and the ease in which devices running the operating system can be maintained and managed. There is a wealth of applications for ChromeOS, meaning Laptops running ChromeOS can... Read the full article: Need A Cheap Laptop? Here Are The 5 Best Chromebooks In The Amazon Back-To-School Sale

Get Nostalgic: Four PS1 Games We Still Love Going Back To Posted: 13 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT You can keep your Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U; the original PlayStation will always hold a special place in a generation’s hearts. Some now call it the PS1 or the PSX – but for many, it remains simply the PlayStation. The definitive article. It was hugely successful, launching in Japan late 1994 and spreading throughout the world the following year. Games were widely sold until Sony discontinued the console in 2006. Gaming hasn’t been the same since. It might just be the nostalgia talking, but these games really were exceptional. Spyro: Ripto’s Rage!/ The Gateway to Glimmer The second... Read the full article: Get Nostalgic: Four PS1 Games We Still Love Going Back To

8 Fitness Experts On The Web With The Best Health Advice For You Posted: 13 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT The last thing you want to do is take fitness advice from someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. It’s one thing to make a poor device purchase – you only lose out on money if you do that. On the other hand, bad fitness advice can have a serious and lasting impact on your body. Given the freedom of the Internet, it doesn’t take much effort to put up a snazzy website and build some social media presence. Nowadays, anybody can be a self-proclaimed “fitness expert,” which means that misinformation can spread fast. We can offer easy exercises... Read the full article: 8 Fitness Experts On The Web With The Best Health Advice For You

6 Secrets Every Windows User Should Know About Linux Posted: 13 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT Linux has progressed quite a bit in recent years to where it has become a better and better alternative for Windows users. If you’re simply tired of Windows, don’t want to pay for new Windows releases, or you’re still running Windows XP, it’s always a good time to take a good look at whether Linux can work for you. If you’re still a bit unsure, here are six secrets that Windows users may not know about Linux. Knowing these these six secrets should make you more comfortable trying Linux out. Interested? Let’s get started. You Can Test It Risk-Free In... Read the full article: 6 Secrets Every Windows User Should Know About Linux

6 Android Apps Every Raspberry Pi Owner Should Use Posted: 13 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT Ever found yourself plugging a keyboard into your Raspberry Pi because you could be bothered to boot your PC to SSH, or found yourself desperately trying to remember the tiny computer’s IP address on your network? There are a whole host of Android utilities that can be used by Raspberry Pi owners to make life easier, including a couple that are custom designed. We’ve collected six of them together, all of which are free to install to Android phones and tablets. AndFTP It’s not often necessary to move files to your Raspberry Pi, but if this is something you require,... Read the full article: 6 Android Apps Every Raspberry Pi Owner Should Use

Texting 911 In An Emergency, Twitter Launches Video Ads, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 13 Aug 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, Apple pays tribute to Robin Williams, Samsung’s VR headset looks like Google Cardboard, Google opens Classroom up to all teachers, OnePlus pulls sexist contest after condemnation, and a video explaining why you suck at video games. The FCC Rules On 911 Text Messaging The ability to text 911 in order to access the emergency services will soon be an option for all U.S. citizens. Texting 911 is already an option in some states, but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has now ruled that all cellular service providers are required by law to back the effort. On making the ruling... Read the full article: Texting 911 In An Emergency, Twitter Launches Video Ads, And More… [Tech News Digest]

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