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• Cool Websites & Tools – Broadsheet Webpages, Math Camera Calculator, & Drone Flight Video Collection
• Can You Find All The Hidden Messages In These Brand Logos?
• Waste Away Your Life Playing All The Games On Pong.com [Weird & Wonderful Web]
• Trick Or Treat? Install Spooky Halloween Windows Themes & Sound Effects
• 1.2 Million Routers Are Vulnerable To Being Hijacked. Is Yours One Of Them?
• How To Stop The POODLE Exploit From Biting Your Browser
• Does Drinking Coffee Really Make You More Productive?

Cool Websites & Tools – Broadsheet Webpages, Math Camera Calculator, & Drone Flight Video Collection Posted: 25 Oct 2014 09:31 PM PDT Broadsheet – is an easy-to-use digital publishing tool designed to create modern, eye catching webpages for any device. Broadsheet’s cutting edge design tool lets you visually construct webpages of almost any size, shape or format – without the restrictions of other content management tools. You can use it free of charge on your own site or on a hosted Broadsheet URL. PhotoMath – is the world’s first camera calculator. Just point the camera towards the mathematical expression, and PhotoMath instantly displays a correct result. By pressing the steps button, you can see the full step-by-step solution. PhotoMath currently supports basic... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Broadsheet Webpages, Math Camera Calculator, & Drone Flight Video Collection

Can You Find All The Hidden Messages In These Brand Logos? Posted: 25 Oct 2014 07:30 PM PDT Chances are great that you’re probably heard of most of the brands featured on this infographic. You’ve probably seen each of these logos. But have you really examined them? Turns out there’s more to each of them than meets the eye. Take a look, and see if you can find all of the hidden messages. Don’t worry if you can’t figure it out, because it’s all explained on the image. Via Made By Oomph Click To Enlarge Read the full article: Can You Find All The Hidden Messages In These Brand Logos?

Waste Away Your Life Playing All The Games On Pong.com [Weird & Wonderful Web] Posted: 25 Oct 2014 06:30 PM PDT Video Games are absolutely everywhere these days. On dedicated games consoles, high-end PCs, set-top boxes, TVs, tablets, smartphones, and even dumb phones (who could ever forget Snake, God rest his soul). Games permeate through our lives so much that you don’t even have to buy or download them in order to enjoy them these days. Because they’re right there on the Web just waiting to be played. OK, this usually means having to install Adobe Flash on your system, but that’s surely a small price to pay for hours of gaming goodness. Did I say hours? I meant days, weeks... Read the full article: Waste Away Your Life Playing All The Games On Pong.com [Weird & Wonderful Web]

Trick Or Treat? Install Spooky Halloween Windows Themes & Sound Effects Posted: 25 Oct 2014 01:00 PM PDT Halloween is upon us once again. What better time of year to learn how to terrorise your PC than with haunting Halloween themes? Forget the pumpkin-spiced lattes, Day of the Dead celebrations and hordes of (undead!) children attacking your homestead. Windows is surprisingly customisable. We show you how it’s done, including themes you can use. Choosing a Windows Theme Pack Before turning your desktop into the nightmarish experience you require, you’ll need to locate a Windows theme pack. For this tutorial we will be using the free Windows Trick or Treat theme, but this method will also work nearly any other Windows theme... Read the full article: Trick Or Treat? Install Spooky Halloween Windows Themes & Sound Effects

1.2 Million Routers Are Vulnerable To Being Hijacked. Is Yours One Of Them? Posted: 25 Oct 2014 11:30 AM PDT Millions of switches, routers and firewalls are potentially vulnerable to hijacking and interception, after American security firm Rapid7 discovered a serious issue with how these devices are configured. The problem – which affects both home and business users – is found in the NAT-PMP settings used to allow external networks to communicate with devices operating on a local network. In a vulnerability advisory, Rapid7 found 1.2 million devices that suffer from misconfigured NAT-PMP settings, with 2.5% vulnerable to an attacker intercepting internal traffic, 88% to an attacker intercepting outbound traffic, and 88% to a denial of service attack as a... Read the full article: 1.2 Million Routers Are Vulnerable To Being Hijacked. Is Yours One Of Them?

How To Stop The POODLE Exploit From Biting Your Browser Posted: 25 Oct 2014 08:30 AM PDT When do people not like a puppy? When they know it’s not a puppy, but a browser exploit aimed at stealing their vital information. The POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) we’re talking about is a serious security attack. As a security exploit, it can affect all web browsers, and therefore any one of us. Let’s find out what POODLE is, what it does, and what you can do to prevent it from biting you. Background Info To understand POODLE, you need to know a bit about SSL and TLS. They are two cryptographic protocols that were developed to help... Read the full article: How To Stop The POODLE Exploit From Biting Your Browser

Does Drinking Coffee Really Make You More Productive? Posted: 24 Oct 2014 07:30 PM PDT Everyone loves coffee. It’s filled with caffeine that helps us make it through a busy work day… or does it? Check out the graphic below that provides you with all kinds of information about coffee, and a look at some data about just how coffee alters your work, and the best ways to use it to your advantage. Need more coffee? Check out these iOS apps for coffee lovers and even some cool games you can play while on a quick coffee break. Via Toll Free Forwarding Click To Enlarge Read the full article: Does Drinking Coffee Really Make You More Productive?

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