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- Cool Websites & Tools – Do Yoga, Web Citations, & Encrypted Phone Conversations
- 50% Off Broken Age, Fantastical 2 & Clear [iOS Sales]
- Is Smarter Technology Dumbing Down the Human Race?
- Top 6 Android Apps We’d Like To See On Chrome OS Soon
- How do Optical and Quantum Computers work?
- 3 Fun, Simple Ways To Enjoy Audiobooks On Android
- How To Learn Programming Without All The Stress
- What’s The Real Difference Between A Gaming Laptop And Desktop?
- Facebook Changes Your News Feed, Apple Protects Your Privacy, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Do Yoga, Web Citations, & Encrypted Phone Conversations Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Citable – sick of manually tracking sources when collecting quotes? For students, researchers, and other professionals who do secondary research, Citable simplifies collecting quotes, notes and other data points along with the additional reference information needed to make a web citation. Tile Calculator – Are you a professional tiler or just a handyman that loves doing DIY tiling jobs? Hate having to calculate the amount of tiles you require because you might be over/underestimating? If so, use Tile Calculator to work out how many tiles you will need for the job, along with 10% for wastage. Do Yoga With Me... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Do Yoga, Web Citations, & Encrypted Phone Conversations |
| 50% Off Broken Age, Fantastical 2 & Clear [iOS Sales] Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:00 PM PDT  iOS 8 is here and many developers are busy rolling out updates to take advantage of the new features like Notification Centre widgets, better communication with other apps and installable photo filters. That means most are too busy to bother with sales. That said, ther are a few bargains to be had this week including a dashboard tool for statistic freaks and one of the plaform’s best tower defense titles is completely free. Apps Numerics ($19.99, now free) Numerics is an ordinarily rather expensive tool for displaying numerical data in stunningly gorgeous fashion. It allows you to create several dashboards to display a myriad of information, from more... Read the full article: 50% Off Broken Age, Fantastical 2 & Clear [iOS Sales] |
| Is Smarter Technology Dumbing Down the Human Race? Posted: 19 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT  As a child, you memorized your friend’s phone numbers; now you just add them to your phone. You used to memorize directions; now you just use your GPS. Are humans becoming stupid? It depends what you mean. You could argue we’re becoming less good at memorizing things, including phone numbers and directions. But does that mean we’re less intelligent? Not necessarily. Intelligence is more than rote memorization, of course. But is not using our brains to memorize things making us less intelligent, due to lack of practice? And are the many distractions the digital world offers keeping us from learning... Read the full article: Is Smarter Technology Dumbing Down the Human Race? |
| Top 6 Android Apps We’d Like To See On Chrome OS Soon Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT  During June 2014 Google held their annual I/O conference in the Moscone Center, San Francisco. One of the biggest surprises to emerge from the event was the news that the tech giant aimed to bring the Chrome and Android operating systems closer together – with the first Android apps becoming available on Chromebooks by the end of this year. Google have issued a word of caution, explicitly stating that they have no plans to support every app immediately. Nonetheless, they have asked for user recommendations, and you can let them know your thoughts via an online form. In light of... Read the full article: Top 6 Android Apps We’d Like To See On Chrome OS Soon |
| How do Optical and Quantum Computers work? Posted: 19 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Computing history is full of Flops. The Apple III had a nasty habit of cooking itself in its deformed shell. The Atari Jaguar, an ‘innovative’ games console that had some spurious claims about its performance, just couldn’t grab the market. Intel’s flagship Pentium chip designed for high performance accounting applications had difficulty with decimal numbers. But the other kind of flop that prevails in the world of computing is the FLOPS measurement, long hailed as a reasonably fair comparison between different machines, architectures, and systems. FLOPS is a measure of Floating-point Operations per Second. Put simply, it’s the speedometer for a... Read the full article: How do Optical and Quantum Computers work? |
| 3 Fun, Simple Ways To Enjoy Audiobooks On Android Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Audiobooks have never been more popular, and this can be seen in the number of player apps currently available on Google Play. In fact, the choice is so great that you would be forgiven for installing a substandard app. So we’ve come to your rescue. It’s time to make sure you’re using one of the best audiobook players on your phone or tablet. We’ve whittled it down to a choice of three: Audible, Librivox, and Akimbo Player. Read on to find out which one we think is best. Audiobooks: Take Them Anywhere! For the uninitiated, audiobooks are recordings of a... Read the full article: 3 Fun, Simple Ways To Enjoy Audiobooks On Android |
| How To Learn Programming Without All The Stress Posted: 19 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Programming knowledge can lead to some great jobs and that’s got more and more people scrambling to learn how to code. Maybe you’ve decided to pursue programming, whether for a career or just as a hobby. Great! But maybe you’re starting to feel overwhelmed. Not so great. We’ve written before on choosing a programming language and we’ve compiled places where you can learn programming, but there isn’t much about how to approach the learning process in a way that keeps you from wanting to tear your hair out. I’ve gone through my own share of coding-related frustrations and I hope... Read the full article: How To Learn Programming Without All The Stress |
| What’s The Real Difference Between A Gaming Laptop And Desktop? Posted: 19 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Most gamers know that large PCs tend to be faster than small ones. Quicker chips require more power, generate more heat, and have more transistors, all of which adds up to more space. Very few people believe, even for a second, that a laptop can outrun an equally expensive desktop built in the same year. Yet many gamers still struggle when choosing between the two. The fact that laptops are slower than desktops is common knowledge, but how much slower can be hard to quantify, and many gamers find themselves weighing the reduction in performance against the price tag and the portability a notebook... Read the full article: What’s The Real Difference Between A Gaming Laptop And Desktop? |
| Facebook Changes Your News Feed, Apple Protects Your Privacy, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, Twitpic lives another day, Amazon buys .Buy, BlackBerry reveals Porsche Design, Aubrey Plaza is Grumpy Cat, and the best iPhone unboxing of all time. Facebook Messes With The News Feed I think half my Facebook are on my news feed ranting about Scotland turning down independence???????? — Emma Ritchie (@emmaritchiexx) September 19, 2014 Facebook is once again messing with the News Feed. Yours, and everyone else’s. The two changes will affect what shows up in your News Feed, as well as when it shows up, and for how long it remains visible. Timely news posts and trending topics will... Read the full article: Facebook Changes Your News Feed, Apple Protects Your Privacy, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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