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- The Seven Deadly Sins Of Punctuation
- Cheap Music Apps, Warhammer Quest & 2K DRIVE Free [iOS Sales]
- The Sims 4 Supports Mods. How To Add Them To Your Game
- 6 Personal Alerts You Should Set Up Today
- Worse Than Heartbleed? Meet ShellShock: A New Security Threat For OS X and Linux
- Are You Getting The Most From Your DSLR?
- What Is The Best Free Internet Radio App For Android?
- How The Simplicity Of Mindful Web Surfing Can Help You Focus
- ActiveInbox Gmail Task Manager, 58% Off Lifetime License Until October 8
- Scam Apps In The Play Store You Need To Avoid
- Apple Dismisses iPhone 6 Bending, Hollywood Uses Drones, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| The Seven Deadly Sins Of Punctuation Posted: 26 Sep 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Are you committing a deadly grammar sin? Don’t let your mistakes send you to punctuation purgatory. For goodness’ sake, learn to use punctuation properly. Need help? Here, allow us to explain it using bacon. Yeh, you’re welcome. via TheVisualCommunicationGuy Click to enlarge. Read the full article: The Seven Deadly Sins Of Punctuation |
| Cheap Music Apps, Warhammer Quest & 2K DRIVE Free [iOS Sales] Posted: 26 Sep 2014 07:00 PM PDT  Another week of app sales follows another iOS update, with iOS 8.0.2 hopefully fixing the problems caused by Apple’s botched update earlier this week. If you’re looking for apps for your new iPhone 6 or 6 Plus, or you just fancy a bargain – you’re in the right place. This week’s offers include music apps for a dollar from developer Yonac, a free 2K racer and a Warhammer hack-and-slash from Games Workshop. Apps Developer Sale: Yonac Music Apps $0.99 each Yonac is celebrating six years of iOS music apps by reducing everything to 99 cents. Their impressive array of apps include synthesizer Magellan and... Read the full article: Cheap Music Apps, Warhammer Quest & 2K DRIVE Free [iOS Sales] |
| The Sims 4 Supports Mods. How To Add Them To Your Game Posted: 26 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT  The Sims 4 launched on September 2nd, and one of its most notable differences from The Sims 3 is the loss of the Create-A-Style function. With Create-A-Style, players could recolor almost any texture in the game to express their personal creativity with custom clothing and furnishings. The feature’s absence leaves The Sims 4 feeling somewhat limited with its smaller handful of color swatches for each item. The good news is, like The Sims 3, The Sims 4 does include powerful modding support. Ambitious creators are already churning out new fashions, recolored hairstyles, gameplay mods, and more to enhance your game.... Read the full article: The Sims 4 Supports Mods. How To Add Them To Your Game |
| 6 Personal Alerts You Should Set Up Today Posted: 26 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Most people who own a smartphone or tablet are subject to a swarm of notifications which, to be honest, are often useless. Do you really need to know a bar halfway across town has sweet happy hour deals? Or that some guy who works in accounting is at the Red Robin? There are some useful notifications, however. They can help you keep tabs on your finances, your family and important social connections. Here are six personal alerts that are easy to set up and will help you keep tabs on what actually matters. Birthday And Anniversary Alerts Forgetting to tell a friend Happy Birthday can cause some... Read the full article: 6 Personal Alerts You Should Set Up Today |
| Worse Than Heartbleed? Meet ShellShock: A New Security Threat For OS X and Linux Posted: 26 Sep 2014 08:30 AM PDT  A serious security issue with the Bash shell – a major component of both most UNIX-like operating systems – has been discovered, with significant implications for computer security worldwide. The issue is present in all versions of the Bash scripting language up to version 4.3, which effects a majority of Linux machines, and the entirety of computers running OS X. and can see an attacker exploiting this issue to launch their own code. Curious about how it works and how to protect yourself? Read on for more information. What Is Bash? Bash (standing for Bourne Again Shell) is the default... Read the full article: Worse Than Heartbleed? Meet ShellShock: A New Security Threat For OS X and Linux |
| Are You Getting The Most From Your DSLR? Posted: 26 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT  The DSLR camera user guide is perhaps one of the most daunting collection of words ever written, but studying it is one of the necessities to get the most from your digital SLR camera. As beginners to digital photography, we have all skimmed through or avoided it altogether because we just wanted to get down shooting photos. There is something to be said for practice, but not at the expense of theory, which relates the camera’s features with proper usage. A great shot is a split second event. Getting it right is knowing which camera feature to use and when. So, a broader knowledge of... Read the full article: Are You Getting The Most From Your DSLR? |
| What Is The Best Free Internet Radio App For Android? Posted: 26 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Are you sick of having to download and manage your songs and podcasts on your Android device? Turn to Internet radio for hassle-free audio content, whether it’s music, talk shows, or whatever else. You can even tune into actual radio stations if that’s what you want — and all of this is available for free. Of all the Internet radio apps that are available for Android, here are the five that impressed us most. Can you guess which one came out on top? iHeartRadio This app is more than just music. Unlike most Internet radio apps, this one is actually... Read the full article: What Is The Best Free Internet Radio App For Android? |
| How The Simplicity Of Mindful Web Surfing Can Help You Focus Posted: 26 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT  If you’re like me, you’ve “woken up” from an Internet-induced daze already today. Maybe more than once. It’s like you get sucked into some kind of vortex of Wikipedia, news, and Twitter that keeps your mind completely devoid of meaningful thought. But that’s not how it has to be. You can be more mindful of your browsing—and of your time in general—to stay focused, reduce stress, and be a lot more purposeful with your time online. What Is Mindfulness? You’ve probably heard of mindfulness before; it’s a bit of a buzzword at the moment. We see the words “mindful” and “meditation”... Read the full article: How The Simplicity Of Mindful Web Surfing Can Help You Focus |
| ActiveInbox Gmail Task Manager, 58% Off Lifetime License Until October 8 Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:30 AM PDT  Who says email can only be used for communication? What if you could take the power of your Gmail inbox and turn it into a task manager? As it turns out, that’s quite possible thanks to the power of ActiveInbox, a really cool browser extensions that takes your email, the place where much of your work probably happens anyway, and turns it into the only place you need to keep track of your busy schedule. Normally, a lifetime license for this service costs $239, but you can get one right now for $99 — that’s a massive 58% discount. Don’t let... Read the full article: ActiveInbox Gmail Task Manager, 58% Off Lifetime License Until October 8 |
| Scam Apps In The Play Store You Need To Avoid Posted: 26 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Have you ever downloaded an app and found that it does something completely different from what you thought? Getting duped is a horrible feeling, and it’s even worse if you’ve wasted money in the process. Due to the openness of the Google Play Store, many ne’er-do-wells have taken to publishing all sorts of fake apps. Some of these are simply useless, but others are designed to steal your time and cash. Probably the most well-known recent example of this is Virus Shield, a $4 Android antivirus app that did absolutely nothing. People were fooled, however, and the developers made $40,000... Read the full article: Scam Apps In The Play Store You Need To Avoid |
| Apple Dismisses iPhone 6 Bending, Hollywood Uses Drones, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 26 Sep 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, iOS 8.0.2 makes everything right, Valve launches Steam Music Player, Sony offers free multiplayer gaming, Steve Ballmer hates iPads, and the iPhone 6 Plus gets blended. Apple Calls iPhone 6 Plus Bending “Rare” Apple has responded to multiple claims that the iPhone 6 Plus is bending in people’s pockets. Complaints about bent iPhones started trickling in this week, just a few days after the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus went on sale. This led to a video test which seems to show an inherent weakness in the iPhone 6 Plus, even compared to other similar smartphones. Apple... Read the full article: Apple Dismisses iPhone 6 Bending, Hollywood Uses Drones, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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