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- Cool Websites & Tools – Encrypted Chat, Movie Suggestions, & Personal Wiki
- Sure-Fire Tips To Memorise A Speech
- 19 Cloud Storage Services Recommended By Our Readers [We Ask You Results]
- Stuck In A Boring Job? Here Are 10 Ways To Be Creative Within The Cubicle
- Not Just For Selfies: 6 Ways Outdoorsy Travelers Can Use Instagram
- Remember Interactive Movies? They Could Be Set To Make A Comeback
- Make These 4 Changes Before You Delete Any Online Account
- The Best Unlocked, Off-Contract Smartphones Available
- PromptSmart Scrolls For You While You Read Your Speech
- How To Workout Without Going To The Gym
- Twitter Tests Buy Button, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Encrypted Chat, Movie Suggestions, & Personal Wiki Posted: 09 Sep 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Mirage – is a one tap messaging app that lets you send unrecorded photo, video, text and voice messages. Send a picture or a video and add text to it. Messages are viewed once and then they’re gone. Once you sign up all your contacts are added immediately. Movli – Find new movies to watch based on your and your friends’ taste. Interact with friends and automatically get their movie suggestions. See movie and celebrity information displayed according to your individual taste. Use endless combinations of movie search filters to find exactly what you want. Tox – Nowadays, every government... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Encrypted Chat, Movie Suggestions, & Personal Wiki |
| Sure-Fire Tips To Memorise A Speech Posted: 09 Sep 2014 07:30 PM PDT  A few days ago, we shared the ultimate cheat sheet to becoming a great public speaker with tips on how to prepare yourself to face an audience. Today’s infograph is just slightly different and focusses on a particular technique for memorising your speech. via Essay Tigers Read the full article: Sure-Fire Tips To Memorise A Speech |
| 19 Cloud Storage Services Recommended By Our Readers [We Ask You Results] Posted: 09 Sep 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Individuals and businesses are increasingly using the cloud to back up data, to store files, and to share them with other individuals or businesses. With increased usage has come increased competition, and there are now a sizable number of cloud storage services available to use. You will be well aware of some of these options, while others will likely be new to you. But now, thanks to the ever-helpful MakeUseOf readership, we can share a list of all the cloud storage services you’re either already using or should consider using in the future. Colossal Cloud Collection We asked you, What... Read the full article: 19 Cloud Storage Services Recommended By Our Readers [We Ask You Results] |
| Stuck In A Boring Job? Here Are 10 Ways To Be Creative Within The Cubicle Posted: 09 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT  The mundane, humdrum office cubicle is a place few workers dare to express creativity. Despite incessant research showing that creativity both increases the well-being of employees, and also elevates the standard of their work, it’s routinely beat-down in place of routine, order, tedium and staleness. Despite (and in spite of) those shackles enforced from further up the chain, here are ten ways to creatively escape your cubicle monotony and bring some imaginative innovation and originality to those four walls each and every day. Invent a Clever Workaround Sick of routinely performing the same task over and over again? If you’re a technophile... Read the full article: Stuck In A Boring Job? Here Are 10 Ways To Be Creative Within The Cubicle |
| Not Just For Selfies: 6 Ways Outdoorsy Travelers Can Use Instagram Posted: 09 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Who said technology and nature can’t be merged together? Though they’re on opposite spectrums, they compliment each other quite well. That said, technology can take over the outdoor or travel experience, and we’ve covered some tips on preventing that. Often, we look at social media as a time-wasting and ego-boosting outlet, but it’s all in how each of us use it. Case in point — Instagram. Let’s face it – Instagram is overpopulated with teenage duck face selfies, but it’s more than that – a community. And there’s quite the community of adventurous Instagrammers who’ve saturated the site with incredible scenic photos... Read the full article: Not Just For Selfies: 6 Ways Outdoorsy Travelers Can Use Instagram |
| Remember Interactive Movies? They Could Be Set To Make A Comeback Posted: 09 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT  As game genres go, interactive movies suck. Probably less popular than text adventures, interactive movies – which enjoyed a brief spell of popularity on early laser disc (and later the first CD ROM platforms) home entertainment systems – were poorly made, badly executed and ultimately unsatisfying. It’s hardly a surprise no one makes them anymore. Or is it? Is the technology more suitable now, with Blu-ray discs and portable media devices like the iPad? Could it be that those quite awful games of the late 1980s and early 1990s were pioneering a form of gameplay that the technology of the... Read the full article: Remember Interactive Movies? They Could Be Set To Make A Comeback |
| Make These 4 Changes Before You Delete Any Online Account Posted: 09 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Closing an online account? Wait! There’s something you need to do first. While surfing the Web, it’s second nature to register on various websites in order to gain access to a variety of services, features, and goodies. Once the mystery is solved, you move on to something newer and shinier, leaving behind a trail of unused accounts. Get rid of clutter like that for a better digital life. Before you set about closing all unwanted accounts, follow the steps outlined below. They’ll help ensure that you won’t be going “Uh-oh” after you erase some of your online identities. Check For Dependencies Many services... Read the full article: Make These 4 Changes Before You Delete Any Online Account |
| The Best Unlocked, Off-Contract Smartphones Available Posted: 09 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Phones can be purchased in two ways. You can buy it from a carrier, which means you get it for a lower price, but you are tied to using that mobile service provider alone for the full length of your contract, and usually end up paying more for your service. Or you can buy an unlocked phone, which means it’s yours to do with as you please. Unless you’re super happy with your mobile carrier and are willing to pay more for that service, it almost always makes more sense to buy an unlocked phone. Why Buy Unlocked? There are... Read the full article: The Best Unlocked, Off-Contract Smartphones Available |
| PromptSmart Scrolls For You While You Read Your Speech Posted: 09 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Most of us would rather babysit hungry baby twins than give a speech to an audience of strangers, but unique iOS app called PromptSmart ($9.99) promises to make the task a little easier. PromptSmart is a smart, almost magical app, that listens and scrolls the contents of your speech as you read it. If you think I’m talking about automatic page scrolling, I’m not. PromptSmart follows your voice and only scrolls text when you read the highlighted part of the speech. Sounds good? Read on and found out more. How It Works There are many occasions during which you might need to read a formal speech... Read the full article: PromptSmart Scrolls For You While You Read Your Speech |
| How To Workout Without Going To The Gym Posted: 09 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT  You only have 24 hours in the day. It’s hard enough setting aside time for actual exercise, but throw in your commute to-and-fro and it can add up to a lot of wasted time – time that you can’t afford to lose. So here’s the good news: you can still have an effective workout without ever leaving your home. If you look in the right places, you’ll find some great at-home workout routines that you could do in your pajamas if you were so inclined. Here are some good starting points. Where to Find Workout Routines Fitness Plan Generator The Fitness Plan... Read the full article: How To Workout Without Going To The Gym |
| Twitter Tests Buy Button, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 09 Sep 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, Home depot suffers major hack, SheTaxis hates men, Spotify adds video ads, Facebook adds view count to videos, and see what happens when teenagers try playing the Nintendo Entertainment System. Twitter Goes Buy Buy You will soon be able to buy products directly from within Twitter. This is due to the social network testing a Buy button that will sit inside tweets which mention specific items. The testing of this new commercial element will initially be limited to “a small percentage of U.S. users” with tweets from “test partners,” but the effort will grow over time. Partners already on... Read the full article: Twitter Tests Buy Button, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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