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• Cool Websites & Tools – Mute Noisy Tabs, Drugs Index, & Remove Facebook Stickers
• Wow, There Are A Lot Of Superhero Movies Between Now And 2020
• What’s The Best Easter Egg You Have Ever Seen? [We Ask You]
• Add a Ghost to Your Facebook Profile Picture
• These Notification Centre Widgets Make Dashboard Irrelevant
• What Does Continuity Mean for Yosemite & iOS 8?
• Do More With The Web & Safari Actions For iOS 8
• Meet Hi-Fi, The Hashtag-Themed Social Network For iOS
• Smartphone Privacy Settings You Need To Activate Today
• How To Install OS X Yosemite & Save The Installer
• 10 Simple Office 2013 Tips That Will Make You More Productive
• Why Steam Music Won’t Replace My Music Player
• Powerful Hosting You Can Trust For Just $27 A Year
• How To Turn Your Tumblr Blog Into A Beautiful Book
• Scares On The Cheap! Modern Horror Games Under $20

Cool Websites & Tools – Mute Noisy Tabs, Drugs Index, & Remove Facebook Stickers Posted: 22 Oct 2014 09:31 PM PDT Noyze Volume Panel – is a free app that gives you complete control over your device’s volume buttons. It is the only volume panel that does not require root, a custom ROM, or XPosed. Just activate noyze in Accessibility and enjoy. It comes preloaded with tons of settings. Mute Inactive Tabs – There is nothing worse, when having lots of tabs open, when some of those tabs start playing music and / or video, and you can’t locate its source. This Chrome app enables you to mute all inactive tabs that play a sound. There is also a Pro Version... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Mute Noisy Tabs, Drugs Index, & Remove Facebook Stickers

Wow, There Are A Lot Of Superhero Movies Between Now And 2020 Posted: 22 Oct 2014 07:30 PM PDT If you’re a geek, there’s a good chance that you love superheroes. What better way to get your fill of heroes like Batman, The Avengers, Deadpool, and all of the others than through their upcoming movies? As it turns out, between now and 2020, there’s a lot of supermovies coming out. A whole lot. Via Comic Alliance Click To Enlarge Read the full article: Wow, There Are A Lot Of Superhero Movies Between Now And 2020

What’s The Best Easter Egg You Have Ever Seen? [We Ask You] Posted: 22 Oct 2014 06:30 PM PDT If you have clicked on this article hoping to regale us with tales of chocolate, bunnies, and chocolate bunnies, then I’m afraid you’re out of luck. This week’s We Ask You is all about the kind of Easter eggs that are hidden in computer software, in video games, and on websites. Yes, the geeky kind. Evocative Easter Eggs We want to know, What’s The Best Easter Egg You Have Ever Seen? Easter eggs of the kind we’re keen to discuss, are, for the uninitiated, those hidden messages, inside jokes, and strange little tricks inserted into something by its designers or... Read the full article: What’s The Best Easter Egg You Have Ever Seen? [We Ask You]

Add a Ghost to Your Facebook Profile Picture Posted: 22 Oct 2014 12:30 PM PDT With Halloween coming up, now is the perfect time to freak out your friends by adding a ghost to your profile picture. While you can go all out and find a creepy location for staging your ghost photo, I prefer to make one with a normal selfie. Adding supernatural creatures to photos is a time honoured pastime of photographers. The tools available now make it easy for anyone to do it. You don't even need a professional camera, all the photos I used were taken on an iPhone. In this tutorial I'm going to use Adobe Photoshop but you can use any... Read the full article: Add a Ghost to Your Facebook Profile Picture

These Notification Centre Widgets Make Dashboard Irrelevant Posted: 22 Oct 2014 11:30 AM PDT Replace all of your Mac’s Dashboard widgets using the new Today view in Yosemite. Here’s where to find Notification Centre widgets for sports scores, currency value, package tracking, and literally anything you can get by typing a Terminal command. The Dashboard is dying. Most users ignore it, and not many developers are building things for it. Apple knows this, and added an option to Yosemite to turn the Dashboard off altogether. Of course, there might be some Dashboard widgets you actually still use – I know there were for me. Which is where the new Today view in Notification Centre... Read the full article: These Notification Centre Widgets Make Dashboard Irrelevant

What Does Continuity Mean for Yosemite & iOS 8? Posted: 22 Oct 2014 10:30 AM PDT OS X 10.10, better know as Yosemite, is a major Mac update that offers numerous features never seen before in an operating system. One of the most important is Continuity. While the name is slick and simple it actually represents a variety of interconnected features across the entire operating system that make using an iPhone or iPad alongside OS X easier than ever before. What does Continuity do, and does it work? Here’s what you need to know. Calls & Text Messages The most prominent feature of Continuity is its ability to turn your Mac running OS X Yosemite into an... Read the full article: What Does Continuity Mean for Yosemite & iOS 8?

Do More With The Web & Safari Actions For iOS 8 Posted: 22 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT iOS has long been known as a tightly controlled operating system, especially compared to Android and its easy app interactions. With the release of iOS 8, Apple loosened their grip just a little bit — enough to allow apps to talk to each other in a few cases. It’s a new era for iOS with these extensions — let’s take a look at how you can best use them! Actions: How Do They Work? Much like a browser add-on gives additional functionality to your browser from other apps (like being able to pin an image, share a link on Facebook, or... Read the full article: Do More With The Web & Safari Actions For iOS 8

Meet Hi-Fi, The Hashtag-Themed Social Network For iOS Posted: 22 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT Hashtags. What are they good for? When they were first invented in 2007, they were used by Twitter users to easily follow a chain of events, or to easily track posts that relate to a single theme. Now, they’re mostly used as glib statements of how one is feeling. #boring Floridian startup Life In Hi-Fi think the humble hashtag could be put to much better use. Meet their debut app, Hi-Fi. It’s the first ‘mobile lifestyle network’, and melds the best of Tumblr and Pinterest with the concept of hashtags… but is it any good? Do You Need Another Social Network?... Read the full article: Meet Hi-Fi, The Hashtag-Themed Social Network For iOS

Smartphone Privacy Settings You Need To Activate Today Posted: 22 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT Default settings are a blessing and a curse. If you haven’t started customizing your devices, it’s great to have the creator-recommended settings to begin with, but these aren’t always in your best interest. Sometimes, they may value features above battery life, or could be sharing your information without explicitly asking you. No matter what mobile platform you’re using, there are some options you should tweak for increased security and privacy. If you’re not used to diving into your phone’s settings, don’t worry! We’ll walk you through how to reach each setting. For All Devices Before we get to the settings... Read the full article: Smartphone Privacy Settings You Need To Activate Today

How To Install OS X Yosemite & Save The Installer Posted: 22 Oct 2014 08:30 AM PDT Hot on the heels of iOS 8 and a couple of new iPhones comes Apple’s latest release of OS X 10.10, codename “Yosemite”. As if that wasn’t enough, the company has also rewritten Christmas lists around the world by refreshing its iPad and iMac range too. OS X 10.10 Yosemite is free, comes with a brand new look, and is packed with features and security improvements over its predecessor, Mavericks. Here’s how to install it right now, as well as a look at the latest changes in Cupertino’s hardware line-up. OS X Yosemite Released We’ve taken a look at why you should be salivating at the thought of Apple’s latest version... Read the full article: How To Install OS X Yosemite & Save The Installer

10 Simple Office 2013 Tips That Will Make You More Productive Posted: 22 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT Bring out a $20 bill the next time you launch Microsoft Office. Use the secret “rule of the $20 dollar bill” to ramp up your productivity. Not with a bribe. It’s in something as trivial as a font. Yes, just by using a large font size (3.6 mm) compared with a smaller font (1.8 mm or 2.2 mm). The green serial number of the bill is about 3.5mm in size. The Optometry & Vision Science study said that the positive effects were more pronounced in the younger groups. That could be a low-tech productivity tip for working with Microsoft Office.... Read the full article: 10 Simple Office 2013 Tips That Will Make You More Productive

Why Steam Music Won’t Replace My Music Player Posted: 22 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT It’s been almost a month since the launch of Steam Music and my verdict only swings one way: there’s no good reason for it to exist. Despite being a big fan of Steam, I can’t help but think that the music player falls flat and ends up being a big misstep for Valve. I don’t listen to much else besides Internet radio and streamed music these days, but when I want to listen to my MP3 library, I always fall back on the tried-and-true Foobar2000. Steam Music Player just doesn’t compare and here’s why. Setting Up Music Libraries Before you... Read the full article: Why Steam Music Won’t Replace My Music Player

Powerful Hosting You Can Trust For Just $27 A Year Posted: 22 Oct 2014 06:30 AM PDT Just Host offers reliable and affordable web hosting so you can run your site worry-free. Whether you set up your site for a business or a blog, you’re going to need two things: a domain name, and web hosting. Just Host provides both. And if you sign up now, you’ll qualify for even further savings. Take advantage of this limited offer and get the best hosting for only $27! Why Just Host is Perfect For You Just Host puts the customer first. Not only will you have high quality web hosting, but you’ll also be getting high quality service and... Read the full article: Powerful Hosting You Can Trust For Just $27 A Year

How To Turn Your Tumblr Blog Into A Beautiful Book Posted: 22 Oct 2014 06:00 AM PDT The content of your Tumblr shouldn’t be confined to an online site, when it can be printed, shared,  cherished as a book; to be viewed, and read for generations to come. Too often we take our blogs for granted, and we don’t realize how important it is to preserve our blogging content in more than one format. Booklrs, a new company out of the Netherlands, can now turn your Tumblr blog into a beautiful book, and the process process takes just three simple steps. Booklrs is the best solutions for your self-publishing needs — it doesn’t require you to upload or layout... Read the full article: How To Turn Your Tumblr Blog Into A Beautiful Book

Scares On The Cheap! Modern Horror Games Under $20 Posted: 22 Oct 2014 05:00 AM PDT October is upon us, and with Halloween approaching, it’s a great time to get your yearly dose of horror. From creepy websites to free classic horror movies, there’s spooky entertainment for every taste. If you’re in the market for brand new video games, The Evil Within and Alien Isolation both launched this month, offering you two solid, big budget options to get your fix. If games at full retail price are a little too scary for your wallet, have no fear! Great horror games have been coming out all year for PC, and many of the best ones are twenty... Read the full article: Scares On The Cheap! Modern Horror Games Under $20

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