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• Cool Websites & Tools – Earth View, Discuss Medical Cases, & Interpret Music Lyrics
• The Most Annoying Things You Can Do In An Open Office
• Pumpkin Tips For Halloween, Draw A Perfect Freehand Circle & More With DaveHax [Stuff to Watch]
• The Doom Of The Double Irish, And How It Affects You
• Free, Unlimited Cloud Storage Is Here! Is Hive Right For You?
• 8 Cheap & Classic Halloween Decorations To Trick Out Your Home
• 8 Steam Curators You May Have Missed
• How The Future Gigabit Internet Is Likely To Play Out
• Probox2 EX Android TV Box Review and Giveaway
• I Make $2000 A Year Selling My Personal Information, You Can Too
• Manage Your Business For Better Results With Intellinote
• 10 Simple, Customisable Invoice Templates Every Freelancer Should Use
• Jail Time For Trolls, Microsoft Releasing Smartwatch, And More… [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Earth View, Discuss Medical Cases, & Interpret Music Lyrics Posted: 20 Oct 2014 09:31 PM PDT Bond – is a simple app that reminds you to keep in touch with all the people that really matter to you. You have different ways to keep in touch with different people. You can either call, text or send them a Facebook message. Once set up, the app gives you regular reminders to reach out to them. Earth View – displays a beautiful and unique satellite image from Google Maps every time you open a new tab. Click the Globe icon in the lower right corner to launch the current view in Google Maps. ODrive – simplifies access to... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Earth View, Discuss Medical Cases, & Interpret Music Lyrics

The Most Annoying Things You Can Do In An Open Office Posted: 20 Oct 2014 07:30 PM PDT Plenty of businesses are switching to open offices because they offer some interesting advantages such as the free flow of ideas and an open line of communication. However, they require a certain amount of etiquette, or things can become really, really annoying. This infographic shows you some of the most annoying things that happen in an open office. Do you do any of these, or do you have a coworker who does? Hit the comments section below and let us know! Via Account Temps Click To Enlarge Read the full article: The Most Annoying Things You Can Do In An Open Office

Pumpkin Tips For Halloween, Draw A Perfect Freehand Circle & More With DaveHax [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 20 Oct 2014 06:30 PM PDT DaveHax is a YouTube channel full of useful and not-so-useful tips and tricks – including amazing pumpkin ones! Read the full article: Pumpkin Tips For Halloween, Draw A Perfect Freehand Circle & More With DaveHax [Stuff to Watch]

The Doom Of The Double Irish, And How It Affects You Posted: 20 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT Technology companies currently using a tax scheme known as the Double Irish will soon have to look for other ways to reduce their tax burdens. Starting next year, the controversial tax reduction measure will no longer work for new companies. Companies already using it — including tech giants Google, Apple, Adobe, Amazon and Oracle — will have until 2020 to stop. How the Double Irish Works Companies use the Double Irish, a strategy which leverages Ireland’s corporate tax laws, to reduce their tax burden in their home country, usually the United States. The strategy is so named because it requires... Read the full article: The Doom Of The Double Irish, And How It Affects You

Free, Unlimited Cloud Storage Is Here! Is Hive Right For You? Posted: 20 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT There are lots of cloud storage services to choose from — but they all limit the amount of storage you get to some number of gigabytes, or cost money (sometimes both). When you hit a cap, you have to start deleting your files or, shudder, open a new account with a new service. Until now: Enter Hive. Hive, which launched October 13 this year and was included in this week’s Cool Websites & Tools, is… The first free unlimited cloud service in the world. That's a bold claim, so there are a few important things you need to know that make... Read the full article: Free, Unlimited Cloud Storage Is Here! Is Hive Right For You?

8 Cheap & Classic Halloween Decorations To Trick Out Your Home Posted: 20 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT You’d love to make an effort for Halloween this year, but just don’t have the time. Sound familiar? Halloween is fast-approaching, so it’s time to think about how you’re going to scare the hoardes of trick-or treaters. If you’re stuck for time (and can’t, for instance, make Arduino Halloween decorations), the quickest way to make your house incredibly scary is to buy some classic decoration pieces from Amazon. After hunting around, we’ve decided that these items will make the biggest impact without breaking the bank. Time to get scary… Mossy Bat Tombstone Price: $9.99 Tombstones in the garden are a... Read the full article: 8 Cheap & Classic Halloween Decorations To Trick Out Your Home

8 Steam Curators You May Have Missed Posted: 20 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT Right now, there are close to 4,000 games available on Steam. Do you have the time to sort through all of them to find the few that you’ll enjoy? I know I don’t. Even with the search feature, it can be hard to determine which games are worth playing. That’s where Steam Curators come into play. Recently, Steam users gained the ability to make public game recommendation lists, effectively turning them into content curators. As a user, you can follow individual curators and their recommendations will pop up on your Steam home page and community feed. The top curators are prominently... Read the full article: 8 Steam Curators You May Have Missed

How The Future Gigabit Internet Is Likely To Play Out Posted: 20 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT The Internet as we know it is almost completely unrecognizable from its Department of Defense-funded origins of the mid 1960’s, where as part of a DARPA project, UCLA and Stanford were wired up with the first packet-based network with copper links rated for a whopping 50 thousand bits per second. Fast forward to today, and it’s estimated that 2.93 billion people are active Internet users, tripling over the past decade. Every second, Google handles 40,000 search queries, Facebook processes over 40,000 likes and comments, almost 2 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube, while 2000 hours of video are being watched.... Read the full article: How The Future Gigabit Internet Is Likely To Play Out

Probox2 EX Android TV Box Review and Giveaway Posted: 20 Oct 2014 06:30 AM PDT Why wait for an official Android TV? Android boxes designed for connecting to a TV have been around for ages – the Probox2 EX is the latest and most powerful model in the market. How does it perform, and does it serve a genuine need in the living room? Read on to find out, then enter to win your own at the end of the review. What’s in the box? Probox2 EX unit and wireless antenna Standard Remote Remote+ (in a separate box, with USB dongle) and generic media remote Power adapter (ours included a UK plug adapter) HDMI, and... Read the full article: Probox2 EX Android TV Box Review and Giveaway

I Make $2000 A Year Selling My Personal Information, You Can Too Posted: 20 Oct 2014 06:00 AM PDT If you use the Internet, everything you do is being tracked and sold, and you’re not making a penny from it. I’m not here to encourage you to install some plugins to block it all though – far from it. I want you to do as I’ve done and embrace the idea of selling your personal information and feedback, but actually get something in return. Don’t be one of those suckers that sells their information for nothing! Am I crazy? Maybe, but the $2000 worth of cash, coupons and free products I receive every year from using all these tactics... Read the full article: I Make $2000 A Year Selling My Personal Information, You Can Too

Manage Your Business For Better Results With Intellinote Posted: 20 Oct 2014 05:30 AM PDT Intellinote is an all-in-one project management, collaboration and organization tool for businesses, owners, managers and professionals. It can be used to drive productivity, boost employee or client engagement and reduce operational costs while doing so. The platform revolves around a system of individual workspaces that offer a vertical level of accessibility to employees, team members and even clients who need access, without being a distraction for those who don’t. While Intellinote is fairly straight forward to get up and running, effective use of any platform relies on knowing exactly how to use it best. We’ve come up with a few real-world usage... Read the full article: Manage Your Business For Better Results With Intellinote

10 Simple, Customisable Invoice Templates Every Freelancer Should Use Posted: 20 Oct 2014 05:00 AM PDT Being a freelancer is hard. You’ve got to constantly be on your A-Game – delivering a high quality of work for your clients – whilst simultaneously handling a morass of complicated tasks that are needed for managing your business. Everything from client discovery, to ensuring you’re tax compliant, to getting paid is a chore. Let’s look at the last one. Billing. If you’re anything like me, you spend hours each month creating new invoices from scratch. You don’t bother with a template, just out of sheer laziness, or simply not having found one that meets your needs. Thanksfully, Vertex42 has... Read the full article: 10 Simple, Customisable Invoice Templates Every Freelancer Should Use

Jail Time For Trolls, Microsoft Releasing Smartwatch, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 20 Oct 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, Snapchat ads, Facebook censures DEA, the Android Lollipop Easter egg, and Titan City in Minecraft. Trolls Face Longer Prison Sentences Internet trolls who post abusive or threatening messages online could be sentenced to two years in prison, at least in the UK. This is due to planned changes to British laws which would see serious cases of cyber-bullying passed onto the crown courts, with the defendants facing a maximum of 24 months in jail. The maximum sentence meted out for verbally abusing someone on the Web is currently six months, but a number of high-profile cases have led the... Read the full article: Jail Time For Trolls, Microsoft Releasing Smartwatch, And More… [Tech News Digest]

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