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- Cool Websites & Tools – Old Typewriter, Improve Your Eyesight, & iOS Podcast Player
- Would You Survive Doomsday?
- What Cloud Storage Service Do You Use? And Why? [We Ask You]
- How To Play Railroad Tycoon And Similar Games On Android
- How To Work The Willpower Muscle
- Call It A Comeback: 5 Xbox Franchises Ripe For A Reboot
- Could Programs Like Wiki Bot Ever Produce All Internet Content?
- What Is A Ping, And Is Zero Ping Possible?
- Lifetime Membership To OSTraining For $79, Be An Expert Web Developer
- 5 Beginner Linux Setup Ideas For Cron Jobs & Shell Scripts
- Open Source Software Licenses: Which Should You Use?
- Apple Deflects Blame In iCloud Hack, Yelp Cleared Of Extortion, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Old Typewriter, Improve Your Eyesight, & iOS Podcast Player Posted: 03 Sep 2014 09:31 PM PDT  MIX by Camera360 – is a creative and comprehensive standalone DIY photo effects layering and blending app. Designed as a companion to Instagram, MIX has close to 200 hand-picked effects and filters. These effects include light leaks, tilt shift blur, grunge textures, comic effects, starry night texture, grit and grain textures, original vintage filters, and more. Typing Writer – works just like your old typewriter. When you type over something, you still see the original letter underneath. When you reach the end of a line, if you don’t manually go to the next line, the typewriter will go to the... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Old Typewriter, Improve Your Eyesight, & iOS Podcast Player |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2014 07:30 PM PDT  We’ve talked about surviving an apocalypse before. Be sure to have some duct tape and never underestimate common household items during a disaster. National Geographic published their version of a doomsday survival guide, but on a more serious note. There are certainly a few things you might learn from reading the infograph, and perhaps a career change if you’re a believe in the apocalypse. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: Would You Survive Doomsday? |
| What Cloud Storage Service Do You Use? And Why? [We Ask You] Posted: 03 Sep 2014 06:30 PM PDT  We suspect now may be a good time to talk about the cloud and how we’re all increasingly trusting our data to online storage services. Why? Because a number of celebrities recently found out the hard way that cloud storage services aren’t as secure as they, and indeed all of us too, had been led to believe. Cloudy With A Risk Of Hacks We want to know, What Cloud Storage Service Do You Use? And Why? As if you hadn’t guessed by now, this question was prompted by The Fappening, AKA Celebgate, AKA the Celebrity Nudes Hack. Whichever moniker you... Read the full article: What Cloud Storage Service Do You Use? And Why? [We Ask You] |
| How To Play Railroad Tycoon And Similar Games On Android Posted: 03 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT  As you may have read before, I have a love of games by Sid Meier. As an Android owner, this leaves me with a problem, as there are no Sid Meier games available for the platform. While finding a way to play Civilization on my HTC One (M7) ultimately ended up with the embracing of an emulator, I’m hoping that a better solution can be found to my current need to play Railroad Tycoon. Relying on one of the Android DOSBox ports or even an Amiga (a 16-bit system from the 1980s and 90s) emulator seems to be the easy... Read the full article: How To Play Railroad Tycoon And Similar Games On Android |
| How To Work The Willpower Muscle Posted: 03 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Picture this: you’re sitting at your desk, face mashed into your palm, and you’re browsing Reddit (or Tumblr, or Facebook). You have things to do (more than you want to think about), but somehow you keep convincing yourself that five more minutes of Internet will be fine. And, as you get ready to go to bed, you find that you’ve achieved nothing today. This seems to happen more days than not. Sound familiar? Some people don’t have that problem. Some people seem to set goals, and work tirelessly towards them, putting in crazy hours and ignoring everything else to get... Read the full article: How To Work The Willpower Muscle |
| Call It A Comeback: 5 Xbox Franchises Ripe For A Reboot Posted: 03 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Microsoft’s Xbox isn’t doing so well these days. The new console’s potential was squandered by poor planning and underwhelming hardware. A lack of quality exclusives is part of the problem; there just aren’t enough games, either currently available or in development, that take advantage of the Xbox One’s hardware. Perhaps the answer is to look backwards at old franchises that had potential but, for various reasons, never hit their stride. There are numerous examples in the history of Xbox and the Xbox 360, and some of them could be resurrected to provide compelling content for Microsoft’s floundering hardware. Crimson Skies This franchise can be summed... Read the full article: Call It A Comeback: 5 Xbox Franchises Ripe For A Reboot |
| Could Programs Like Wiki Bot Ever Produce All Internet Content? Posted: 03 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Imagine finishing a novel, and realizing that it’s one of the best novels you’ve ever read. Then, someone tells you that the novel was written by a robot. Would you believe them? Today, the world of linguistics and artificial intelligence is in the earliest, pioneering development stage of “bot” authors. At present, at least two of the most significant content producers on the Internet – Wikipedia and Associated Press – both use robots to write online articles. At first blush, this seems like a shocking evolution of the art of writing. Most people believe that there are certain human tasks... Read the full article: Could Programs Like Wiki Bot Ever Produce All Internet Content? |
| What Is A Ping, And Is Zero Ping Possible? Posted: 03 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Ping is a command used to measure the latency between two devices on a network. The ping command is available on every operating systems, and many online games display a visible ping you can use to understand latency. Ping is just a measure of the latency we feel in everything we do online, whether it’s clicking a link, posting a status update, sending a message, playing a game, uploading a file, streaming an online video, or anything else. If you’re using a website and it takes a long time to load a new page every time you click a link, you’re... Read the full article: What Is A Ping, And Is Zero Ping Possible? |
| Lifetime Membership To OSTraining For $79, Be An Expert Web Developer Posted: 03 Sep 2014 06:30 AM PDT  There are literally millions of websites online right now. But surprisingly few people know how to build one. I’m not referring to those pre-made website templates — I mean coding a site from the ground up. If you’re ever thinking of becoming a web developer (or if you already are), this is an essential skill. It’s really not that difficult to learn, especially with the right guidance. OSTraining provides just that, and lifetime access to their entire library of 1,800 tutorials is currently available at a whopping 96% discount. Gain lifetime access to OSTraining and their 1,800 video tutorials plus... Read the full article: Lifetime Membership To OSTraining For $79, Be An Expert Web Developer |
| 5 Beginner Linux Setup Ideas For Cron Jobs & Shell Scripts Posted: 03 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT  One of the best productivity features of Linux is bash scripting. With it, you can do a complex series of tasks in one quick go so it’s great for elaborate and repetitive needs. Bash scripts and cron jobs are also a great way to get to know terminal commands, as both make use of terminal commands that get used repeatedly. Interested in using fun tools to learn terminal commands? Following are are five ideas for shell scripts and cron jobs to get you started. But first, a little introduction. What Are Shell Scripts? Like I mentioned earlier, bash scripts (also called shell... Read the full article: 5 Beginner Linux Setup Ideas For Cron Jobs & Shell Scripts |
| Open Source Software Licenses: Which Should You Use? Posted: 03 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Slowly but surely, open source software is taking over. If you don’t believe it, just look at some of the most popular tools that we all use: Firefox, WordPress, 7-Zip, MediaWiki, BitTorrent, Android, plus all of the free alternatives to paid software. But did you know that not all open source licenses are the same? Indeed, there are dozens of them out there and that’s not including the unique self-written licenses that some open source products use. What are the differences and what do they mean for you? If you write open source software, which should you use? Disclaimer: This... Read the full article: Open Source Software Licenses: Which Should You Use? |
| Apple Deflects Blame In iCloud Hack, Yelp Cleared Of Extortion, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 03 Sep 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, Xbox One expansion incoming, Netflix Likes Facebook, BlackBerry teases something or other, Destiny Planet View, and the ram who hates drones. Apple Defends Itself After The Fappening At the end of “The Fappening” everyone on reddit finds out they were jerking off to pictures of M Night Shyamalan the WHOLE time. — Matt Mira (@MattMira) September 2, 2014 Apple has declared itself blameless in the events surrounding the Fappening, which saw hundreds of nude photos of celebrities leaked online. In a statement regarding its investigation into the incident, Apple declared that, “None of the cases we have investigated has... Read the full article: Apple Deflects Blame In iCloud Hack, Yelp Cleared Of Extortion, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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