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• Cool Websites & Tools – Never Miss Another Tweet, Fix Email Design Issues, & Host Live Conversations On Your Website
• Chatrooms Aren’t Dead. Meet Rooms.me, From Facebook
• Great Future Retirement Jobs For Programmers
• 10 Creepy Halloween Wallpaper Images For Your Desktop & Start Screen
• Texting Can Kill You, And Other Hard Truths: 5 Thought-Provoking Videos
• Record Your iPhone or iPad Screen Over Lightning With Your Mac
• Want To Become An Expert At Something? Try Deliberate Practice
• Can A Laptop Last All Day? You CAN Do That On A Chromebook!
• 5 Things You Can Do In 5 Minutes To Exercise Your Brain
• 5 Brilliant Online Resources For Fans Of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
• Ello Promises No Ads Ever, Facebook Parties Like It’s 1999 [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Never Miss Another Tweet, Fix Email Design Issues, & Host Live Conversations On Your Website Posted: 24 Oct 2014 09:31 PM PDT Camera51 – automatically detects and analyzes faces, scenes, objects and lines and guides you to the perfect frame in every click. Camera51 invites you to start taking photos like a professional. It uses photography principles used by professional photographers and artists and applies this vast knowledge in a fun and simple interface. Driplr – are you overwhelmed with Twitter? Driplr offers a new and innovative way to stay up to date with your Twitter timeline, providing an easy to use yet powerful and full-featured Twitter app. Driplr syncs your Twitter timeline automatically and with its own views makes it easy... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Never Miss Another Tweet, Fix Email Design Issues, & Host Live Conversations On Your Website

Chatrooms Aren’t Dead. Meet Rooms.me, From Facebook Posted: 24 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT Facebook has released a new app that allows for semi-anonymous chatrooms. Called Rooms, it’s currently available for iOS, with an Android and iPad native port not far away. The decision to release an anonymous chat app is an unusual one for Facebook. Previously, they’ve deactivated the accounts of anyone with a name that’s even moderately unusual, and their strict stance on the use of real names has resulted in the creation of Ello, an ad-free social network which permits pseudonymous usage. If you thought the chatroom died in the late 90s, this app proves you wrong. It allows users to... Read the full article: Chatrooms Aren’t Dead. Meet Rooms.me, From Facebook

Great Future Retirement Jobs For Programmers Posted: 24 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT In the field of technology, you’re either learning new skills, or you’re falling behind the times. But, what happens to older programmers and technology leaders who are looking for interesting part time work after retirement? The truth is that an avid programmer typically became a programmer because they love the craft. It isn’t really something you retire from. Others may volunteer at the local hospital or spend time with their buddies each morning at McDonald’s, but a programmer has many other doors open to them in retirement. The following are a few examples of some of the opportunities you may have... Read the full article: Great Future Retirement Jobs For Programmers

10 Creepy Halloween Wallpaper Images For Your Desktop & Start Screen Posted: 24 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT Booo! It’s that time of year again. Either be scared or stuff the neighbor’s kids with candy. Get into the mood now by placing a creepy wallpaper on your desktop. It’s easy, we show you how at the bottom of this article, and we’ve got a horrible selection right here for you to pick from. Discover Wallpapers Ready to be spooked? Instead of merely throwing randomly selected wallpaper images at you, I’ll also show you where to find more of them yourself. GoodFon On GoodFon you can search wallpapers by keyword in a specific category, sort by relevance, downloads, rating,... Read the full article: 10 Creepy Halloween Wallpaper Images For Your Desktop & Start Screen

Texting Can Kill You, And Other Hard Truths: 5 Thought-Provoking Videos Posted: 24 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT There are important questions we should all be asking ourselves about the influence social media has on our lives. That’s why I’ve pulled together a few short, entertaining videos to get us thinking and talking. Facebook Is An Anti-Social Network. YouTube creator Prince Ea has a talent for rhyme, but what I really want to talk about here is the substance of his poetry: Does technology drive us further apart? Is Facebook an ‘anti-social network’? Do you use it because you like to, or because you feel you have to? Have you ever tried to quit Facebook, and how did it... Read the full article: Texting Can Kill You, And Other Hard Truths: 5 Thought-Provoking Videos

Record Your iPhone or iPad Screen Over Lightning With Your Mac Posted: 24 Oct 2014 08:30 AM PDT Recording an iPhone or iPad’s screen has long been an incredibly difficult task. YouTube’s gigabytes of blurry, glare-filled and out-of-focus video attest to this fact – slamming a camera in front of an iPad and recording was never ideal, but it’s always been the easiest option. Now Apple has made recording easier with a “hidden” feature to OS X Yosemite that lets users stream their iPhone or iPad display to a Mac. The company hasn’t spent much time talking about this addition, but don’t worry; it’s rather easy to use. You can start recording your iOS device within minutes. Getting Started To use this feature you... Read the full article: Record Your iPhone or iPad Screen Over Lightning With Your Mac

Want To Become An Expert At Something? Try Deliberate Practice Posted: 24 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT It’s all too easy to feel crestfallen when you’re arduously trying to improve a certain skill (say, learning a new programming language), yet seem to be fighting (and losing) an uphill battle. In cases like these, it may be high time to try your hand at some deliberate practice to get you over that infuriating plateau. Trying to improve at anything is tough. Especially if you’re trying to become “world class”, or at least better than average at it. Sometimes you’ll hear people talking about practicing something for 10,000 hours (The 10,000 Hour Rule?), and thereby becoming a “master” at... Read the full article: Want To Become An Expert At Something? Try Deliberate Practice

Can A Laptop Last All Day? You CAN Do That On A Chromebook! Posted: 24 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT Google’s Chromebooks are among the least expensive laptops available and have dominated the Amazon top 10 list for months now. Yet these systems are also extremely portable, as most have 13 inch (or smaller) display and power-sipping processor. This makes them an appealing alternative to affordable Windows notebooks, which often struggle to last more than four hours. But can you actually use a Chromebook for an entire work day? Buy The Right Chromebook The simple answer is “Yes, of course!” But you can only use your Chromebook all day if you buy one that’s capable of such endurance. A couple years ago... Read the full article: Can A Laptop Last All Day? You CAN Do That On A Chromebook!

5 Things You Can Do In 5 Minutes To Exercise Your Brain Posted: 24 Oct 2014 06:00 AM PDT With society’s current focus on getting more done, faster, and with less effort, we spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to automate everything from our phones to robotize our homes, and take our brains out of the equation. Brains can fatigue and make mistakes, so sometimes it makes sense to “rely on them less”. But keeping your brain healthy and in top shape requires that you exercise and challenge it on a regular basis. Here are five things you can do to increase your mental fitness in just a few minutes. #1. Work on a Crossword Puzzle... Read the full article: 5 Things You Can Do In 5 Minutes To Exercise Your Brain

5 Brilliant Online Resources For Fans Of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Posted: 24 Oct 2014 05:00 AM PDT One of the bestselling writers of all time, Terry Pratchett has created a literary juggernaut in the immense Discworld series, a world so complex that virtually any story can be told. With popular characters such as Commander Sam Vimes of the Watch, Moist von Lipwig, Death and his granddaughter Susan, Granny Weatherwax, Lord Vetinari and many others, Pratchett’s Discworld series mix comedy, fantasy and a fair bit of satire. Whether you’re a newcomer to Discworld or you bought ‘The Colour of Magic’ back in 1983, the following links are ideal for anyone trying to get a fix of Anhk-Morporkian magic... Read the full article: 5 Brilliant Online Resources For Fans Of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld

Ello Promises No Ads Ever, Facebook Parties Like It’s 1999 [Tech News Digest] Posted: 24 Oct 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, Christian Bale lands Jobs, PhotoMath solves sums for you, Memeoirs turns your dumb conversations into dumb books, and the comic sans typewriter no one asked for. Ello Promises No Ads Ever, Guaranteed Ello, the anti-Facebook that launched earlier this year, has committed to never showing ads and never selling user data. These key promises are made in the Ello Charter which the social network has sent out to all users. To enshrine these promises into law in some way, Ello has also converted to being a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) in Delaware. Ello has grown massively over the past... Read the full article: Ello Promises No Ads Ever, Facebook Parties Like It’s 1999 [Tech News Digest]

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