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- Cool Websites & Tools – Personal Wiki, Audio Extracting, & Detecting Unusual Network Activity
- 4 Compelling Security Reasons Not To Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPad
- MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 129 – OMG Leak!1
- Run Competitions On Your Website Simply and Easily, With Gleam.io
- Samsung and Oculus Announce “Gear VR” Mobile VR Platform
- Autonomous Cars: Are Robots Good for the Environment?
- Fit More Into 15 Seconds With Instagram’s New Hyperlapse Videos
- Reminder: You Can Make Greeting Cards With iPhoto
- Love Food & Healthy Recipes? Check Out These Windows 8 Apps
- Intocircuit Power Castle 26,000mAh Portable Charger Review and Giveaway
- The Electronic Cigarette Debate: Are They The Future Of Smoking?
- 5 Smart Home Appliances You Should Be Buying
- Phablets Growing In Popularity, Apple Gunning For Switzerland, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Personal Wiki, Audio Extracting, & Detecting Unusual Network Activity Posted: 04 Sep 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Scribbleton – is your own personal wiki, where you can store everything from quick notes, to detailed checklists for work, to the outline for that next bestseller novel. With Scribbleton, you can easily create clickable links between words, phrases, and pages, allowing you to quickly locate cross-reference information. Your Scribbleton wiki files live on your local machine. Nothing is sent to any outside servers. Pomodoro One – is an iOS app for increasing productivity using the Pomodoro technique. As you may or may not know, the Pomodoro Technique is a time management method which uses a timer to break down... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Personal Wiki, Audio Extracting, & Detecting Unusual Network Activity |
| 4 Compelling Security Reasons Not To Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPad Posted: 04 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT  iOS is one of the most secure, safest mobile operating systems out there, but this security also comes with a lot of restrictions; the App Store is very tightly policed, and it’s impossible to install third-party apps without jailbreaking. But jailbreaking can put you at risk, so it’s important to weigh the benefits and potential drawbacks. Here are a few potential security risks that you should keep in mind. What Is Jailbreaking? In a nutshell, jailbreaking removes the security restrictions on your iPhone or iPad. This means apps are given a lot more access to the core functions of the phone,... Read the full article: 4 Compelling Security Reasons Not To Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPad |
| MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 129 – OMG Leak!1 Posted: 04 Sep 2014 10:30 AM PDT  A brand new episode of the Technophilia podcast is here, and in it, we talk about the leak, Nintendo’s terrible names, and so much more! We’re back in HD, so enjoy some serious visual splendor. Let us know in the comments what you think of the new format and the show in general! If you want to make sure you never miss an episode, subscribe to MakeUseOf’s YouTube channel, and subscribe to the video feed for the Technophilia Podcast. If you prefer podcasts of the audio variety, head on over MakeUseOf.tv, subscribe to Technophilia on iTunes, or just add the... Read the full article: MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 129 – OMG Leak!1 |
| Run Competitions On Your Website Simply and Easily, With Gleam.io Posted: 04 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT  There’s something about getting stuff for free that ignites a frenzy in anyone, and it’s that compulsive fact of human nature which makes competitions so effective for any website. Gleam.io is the newest, and best way to run a promotional competition on a web project. You’ll notice our new competitions are running on the Gleam platform too: we wouldn’t tell you something is the best, if we didn’t use it ourselves. Check them out – we’ve got some fantastic prizes on offer, this week and every week. Gleam certainly isn’t the only competition platform available though – you might also want... Read the full article: Run Competitions On Your Website Simply and Easily, With Gleam.io |
| Samsung and Oculus Announce “Gear VR” Mobile VR Platform Posted: 04 Sep 2014 09:30 AM PDT  If you’ve tried Google Cardboard and liked it, then brace yourself: the real thing is on its way. Speaking today at an event called “Samsung Unplugged,” which was live-streamed to Youtube, Samsung executives and Oculus CTO John Carmack got up on stage to finally talk about a secretive project they’ve been toiling away at for the last year called “Gear VR.” Gear VR is a peripheral for Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 4 that physically encloses the phone and turns it into a high-performance VR headset. The Gear, based on specs alone, is impressive: it renders at 2560 x 1440 display resolution... Read the full article: Samsung and Oculus Announce “Gear VR” Mobile VR Platform |
| Autonomous Cars: Are Robots Good for the Environment? Posted: 04 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Autonomous cars are coming. Exactly when is anyone’s guess, but ten years seems like a safe bet for mass-market availability. The way we use cars is going to change. Those changes will be wide-ranging, from car culture to the economy to the global death rate — but, one area that hasn’t been investigated in as much detail: the impact on the environment. Cars are one of the biggest contributors to CO2 production in the developed world, and any change in the way we use cars should be considered in that light. Can self driving cars beat conventional public transit for... Read the full article: Autonomous Cars: Are Robots Good for the Environment? |
| Fit More Into 15 Seconds With Instagram’s New Hyperlapse Videos Posted: 04 Sep 2014 08:30 AM PDT  We live in an age of short-form content; say what you can in 140 characters, show what you see in 6 to 15 seconds. But there are always cheats and tricks, and that’s what Instagram’s new app feels like. Meet Hyperlapse (free). What Is Hyperlapse? Put simply, Hyperlapse takes videos that play back faster than normal, like those old Charlie Chaplin movies. Whip out your iPhone (it’s available only on iOS right now) and start shooting any scene. On the left, you’ll see how much time you have actually been shooting. On the right, you’ll see how many seconds that is when played at high speed.... Read the full article: Fit More Into 15 Seconds With Instagram’s New Hyperlapse Videos |
| Reminder: You Can Make Greeting Cards With iPhoto Posted: 04 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT  When it comes to greeting cards, iPhoto makes it easy to create your own using one or more photos and your own unique message. Though over the years iPhoto has grown beyond a simple publishing tool, creating a greeting card is a bit like laying out and publishing a photo book with iPhoto. While Apple has announced that iPhoto will be discontinued and replaced by a new photo editing application, iPhoto will still be the go-to image management application when OS X Yosemite lands soon. So in the meantime, let’s take a look at how you can create your own personal greetings for the upcoming holidays and other special... Read the full article: Reminder: You Can Make Greeting Cards With iPhoto |
| Love Food & Healthy Recipes? Check Out These Windows 8 Apps Posted: 04 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT  These five Windows 8 recipe apps will give you some great meal ideas for all types of diets. With a portable touchscreen device (such as the Microsoft Surface Pro 2), you can even prepare your meals with your computer in the kitchen! Benefits Of Using A Touchscreen Device In The Kitchen (And Some Advice!) You don’t necessarily have to use your Windows 8 device in the kitchen; these apps will still run on a standard desktop computer that runs Windows 8 or 8.1, and you’ll be able to save and print the recipes should you need to. However, having a tablet... Read the full article: Love Food & Healthy Recipes? Check Out These Windows 8 Apps |
| Intocircuit Power Castle 26,000mAh Portable Charger Review and Giveaway Posted: 04 Sep 2014 06:30 AM PDT  The biggest complaint about mobile devices today is short battery life. While computers have grown exponentially faster, battery technology hasn’t improved significantly – and that’s a problem. While we eagerly await the next generation of batteries, we’re left with but one choice to extend the life of our gadgets: external batteries. Intocircuit are battery specialists, and their Power Castle PC26000 is a real beast, packing versatility and oodles of power into a real value-for-money package. Read on to find out why – and win your own. The Intocircuit Power Castle 26,000 mAh external battery pack is available now from Amazon... Read the full article: Intocircuit Power Castle 26,000mAh Portable Charger Review and Giveaway |
| The Electronic Cigarette Debate: Are They The Future Of Smoking? Posted: 04 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT  If I told you that you could smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and no longer face the risk of lung cancer or other ailments usually associated with smoking, would you believe me? Well, if claims by manufacturers of e-cigarettes are true, that’s exactly the case. There are two sides to electronic cigarettes. On the one side, you’ve got organizations traditionally fighting against tobacco companies. On the other side, you’ve got traditional tobacco companies and new companies marketing this new nicotine-delivery system. E-cigarettes are a big unknown when it comes to long-term safety. However, they are facing a barrage of... Read the full article: The Electronic Cigarette Debate: Are They The Future Of Smoking? |
| 5 Smart Home Appliances You Should Be Buying Posted: 04 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT  The “smart home” concept is taking off and you should be keeping up, otherwise you’ll end up missing out on the future. A lot of folks scoff at the idea of smart appliances but we’re shifting into an age where it’s becoming less of a gimmick and more of a desirable luxury. It’s the year of the smart appliance and here’s the proof. Smart Home Appliances: What Are They? Don’t know what a “smart” appliance is? Rest assured, you probably already do. Back when the iPhone first came out, people began to recognize a new category of phone: the smart... Read the full article: 5 Smart Home Appliances You Should Be Buying |
| Phablets Growing In Popularity, Apple Gunning For Switzerland, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 04 Sep 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, tweets in space, the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, cheap Windows tablets, next-generation Minecraft, and Ikea mocks Apple. Phablet Shipments Are Set To Soar Phablets are set to keep on growing, that is, in terms of sales rather than screen size. This is according to International Data Corp. (IDC), which predicts phablet shipments will soon surpass shipments both of tablets and laptops. For the uninitiated, “phablet” is a portmanteau of phone and tablet, coined due to the size of these devices (between 5.5-inches and 6.9-inches). IDC estimates shipments of 175 million phablets in 2014, which is slightly more than the... Read the full article: Phablets Growing In Popularity, Apple Gunning For Switzerland, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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