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- Cool Websites & Tools – Word Counter, Personal Radio, & Distraction-Free Writing
- It’s Never Too Late To Start On The Road To Success
- Why Does Rain Smell? It’s Okay To Be Smart Answers This & More [Stuff to Watch]
- Elementary OS Freya: The Next Major Update To A Rising Linux Distro
- 4 Useful, Safe Android Apps You Can Use In Your Car
- 5 Things Users Tell IT Support and What They Really Mean
- Warlords Of Draenor Is The WoW Expansion You’ve Always Wanted
- Make The Best Choices & Watch Movies You Love With Movli
- Bitdefender Internet Security 2015: The Ideal Choice For Home PCs [Giveaway]
- Use Your iPad As A Recipe Book? 10 Accessories For Kitchen Tablet Users
- BiggiFi Android TV Stick Review and Giveaway
- 9 Free Programming Books That Will Make You A Pro
- Ello Starts Charging For New Features, Yahoo Directory Shutting Down, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Word Counter, Personal Radio, & Distraction-Free Writing Posted: 29 Sep 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Rapid Word Counter – is a word count and character counter tool. Basically put your cursor in the box and start typing. Word Counter will immediately count the number of words and characters when you type. You may copy and paste a doc you’ve already composed into the word counter box and it’ll display the word count and character count for that bit of writing. Raddio – is a collaborative real-time radio with friends. While listening to radio you can chat, and add new songs to your radio. Try it now – there’s no sign up and no fees. It’s... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Word Counter, Personal Radio, & Distraction-Free Writing |
| It’s Never Too Late To Start On The Road To Success Posted: 29 Sep 2014 07:30 PM PDT  If you’ve every thought that you were too old to follow your dreams, you might want to reconsider that idea. The same goes for being too young! Age is just a number, it all comes down to how hard you’re willing to work, and whether you are willing to push yourself to achieve your goals. The infographic below breaks down the ages at which some of the most successful people found their big break. It starts with Michael Dell (of Dell) at age 18 and goes all the way to Charles Flint (of IBM) at age 61. For an interactive... Read the full article: It’s Never Too Late To Start On The Road To Success |
| Why Does Rain Smell? It’s Okay To Be Smart Answers This & More [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:30 PM PDT  YouTube has taken on the role of educator for an entire generation of connected young people, and that means channels that actually focus on education are more important than they have ever been. PBS Digital’s It’s Okay To Be Smart is one such channel that successfully bridges the gap between education and entertainment. Hosted by Joe Hanson PhD, new videos are uploaded every Monday and tackle the weird, wonderful and weirdly wonderful science of the everyday. The Physics of Space Battles Did you know the science behind your favourite Hollywood space battles is laughably inaccurate? You can probably blame George Lucas for this, whose yardstick Star Wars battle scenes were based on... Read the full article: Why Does Rain Smell? It’s Okay To Be Smart Answers This & More [Stuff to Watch] |
| Elementary OS Freya: The Next Major Update To A Rising Linux Distro Posted: 29 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Elementary OS is a Linux distribution that has been making waves as of late. For a lot of people, including our own Akshata, it made them switch to Elementary OS full-time from Windows. However, the latest stable release, “Luna”, is becoming quite old. Now, we’re getting a glimpse at the first beta of the next released, codenamed “Freya”. What’s new in Freya, and is it worth upgrading or switching to it from other distributions? Let’s take a look. Release Schedule Elementary OS appears to only make new releases each time there is a new LTS release of Ubuntu. However, it’s... Read the full article: Elementary OS Freya: The Next Major Update To A Rising Linux Distro |
| 4 Useful, Safe Android Apps You Can Use In Your Car Posted: 29 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT  I like driving in my car, and perhaps you do too. But what do you do with your Android device? Some people might leave it in the map pocket inside the driver’s door, while others might just leave it in another easily accessible place. More and more drivers are starting to mount their Android device on their dashboard or windscreen. This might be for convenience in making and receiving calls (hands-free, of course, otherwise you’re breaking laws in most countries) or even as a means of playing music through your car stereo. An increasingly popular use for an Android smartphone... Read the full article: 4 Useful, Safe Android Apps You Can Use In Your Car |
| 5 Things Users Tell IT Support and What They Really Mean Posted: 29 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Sometimes what people tell you they need, isn't always what they really need. Sometimes, you just have to know better. This is especially the case in the world of IT, or in face any field where you have a certain degree of technical expertise on a topic, and you need to help someone who doesn't. It isn't easy. Whether you work at an IT help desk, work the phones at a technology company, or are part of the tech support crew at a college or major corporation – the following are some of the most frequently stated problems from Windows users,... Read the full article: 5 Things Users Tell IT Support and What They Really Mean |
| Warlords Of Draenor Is The WoW Expansion You’ve Always Wanted Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Are you a World of Warcraft junkie who has been sitting out for a while? I was right with you, but the promises of the upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion pack are just too good to resist. The release date is November 13th 2014, which means you don’t have a lot of time to get your characters ready to jump in for the grind to level 100. Still not convinced? Take a look at the big changes coming in Warlords, and you just might decide that this is the WoW expansion you’ve been dreaming of. Even if you’re a new player, this... Read the full article: Warlords Of Draenor Is The WoW Expansion You’ve Always Wanted |
| Make The Best Choices & Watch Movies You Love With Movli Posted: 29 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT  The perfect movie watching experience starts with a big tub of popcorn and the right movie and the right kind of company on the couch is the bonus. While Movli can’t microwave popcorn, or get a date for you just yet, it can do something about the choice of movies you watch. Movli is a three part deal – it is a personal record keeper of the movies you like, a movie recommendation service, and a social network. These are arguably essential needs for any movie lover who is looking for the Cine Gods to light his path towards unblemished entertainment. Can Movli lay... Read the full article: Make The Best Choices & Watch Movies You Love With Movli |
| Bitdefender Internet Security 2015: The Ideal Choice For Home PCs [Giveaway] Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:30 AM PDT  Offering anti-virus, privacy protection, safe banking, firewall and parental control for just $79.95, Bitdefender Internet Security 2015 would seem to be the optimum choice for anyone looking to give their home computer security a boost. Bitdefender’s protection has been well-regarded over the past few years, regularly scoring ahead of Kaspersky, Symantec and McAfee in a number of reviews, and is now considered one of the main online security solutions. Bitdefender Internet Security 2015 builds on these past successes – but does it deliver on its promises? In this giveaway, we’re offering unlimited licenses for Bitdefender Internet Security 2015 with 180... Read the full article: Bitdefender Internet Security 2015: The Ideal Choice For Home PCs [Giveaway] |
| Use Your iPad As A Recipe Book? 10 Accessories For Kitchen Tablet Users Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Feed yourself with your iPad – not by using it is an extravagant pie slicer (tempting as it might be) but by using it is a portable, all-in-one, instant access pass to a world of culinary information. With a few taps you can find not one but dozens of recipes for anything you can possibly imagine. Then, with equal ease, you can find alternative ways to make the same dish, find affordable places to buy ingredients and watch a video of the dish being made. There’s only one flaw, really – you need one free hand to use the iPad, and you can’t easily hold it while... Read the full article: Use Your iPad As A Recipe Book? 10 Accessories For Kitchen Tablet Users |
| BiggiFi Android TV Stick Review and Giveaway Posted: 29 Sep 2014 05:30 AM PDT  As of late, a lot of smart TVs come with a bunch of apps (like the Vizio E3201-A0 which we reviewed) that allow you to use services such as Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and more. If you don’t have one of those TVs, you can also resort to other devices in order to provide the same (or better) functionality, such as with the Chromecast (read our review), Apple TV (our review), or any Roku device (we reviewed that too). But none of these devices do is let you play games and they’re also restricted to apps designed specifically for the particular... Read the full article: BiggiFi Android TV Stick Review and Giveaway |
| 9 Free Programming Books That Will Make You A Pro Posted: 29 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT  What’s better than a free book? Nine free books! Calling all programmers, whether new, old, or aspiring: we’ve found a great selection of free (as in beer) books to boost your coding skills to the next level. There’s a little bit of everything for everybody, so hop in and enjoy. 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Seriously, every programmer should know these things. Based on an online collection of essays all about proper programming practices, this book is a must-read for any and all coders ranging from aspiring to newbie to master. In fact, the wisdom therein is so useful... Read the full article: 9 Free Programming Books That Will Make You A Pro |
| Ello Starts Charging For New Features, Yahoo Directory Shutting Down, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 29 Sep 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, Thom Yorke sells torrents, the end of PlayStation Home, and BendGate continues into a second week. Ello Will Charge You For Features Ello, the newest social network on the block, has been getting a lot of attention over the past couple of weeks. We have written an introduction to Ello, and various other publications have talked it up as a potential Facebook killer. Yes, another one. The biggest reason Ello is getting so much attention is its total lack of advertising. This is a refreshing change from the approach favored by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, which both... Read the full article: Ello Starts Charging For New Features, Yahoo Directory Shutting Down, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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