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- How Does Mining Diamonds In Minecraft Compare To Real Life?
- 42 Of The Best Geek Movies Of All Time… How Many Have You Seen?
- Upgrading Hardware? Tips For Moving Your Windows Installation Without Having To Reinstall
- 11 Best Video Game Soundtracks For Studying
- Internet Archive Brings 900 Classic Arcade Games To Your Browser. Here Are 7 Of The Best
- Find Out Which Apps Are Killing Your Android Battery
- Google Chrome’s New Bookmark Manager Focuses On Organization And Search
- Brain Control With Light: It’s Possible With Optogenetics
- Looking For A Smart Dialer App For Android? Truedialer Delivers
- Stop Bashing Microsoft: 5 Ways In Which They’re Awesome
- Keep Your Android’s Battery Healthy With These Tips
- Mozilla Teases Browser For Developers, Who Is Alex From Target? [Tech News Digest]
| How Does Mining Diamonds In Minecraft Compare To Real Life? Posted: 04 Nov 2014 06:30 PM PST  Ask any Minecraft player, even a newer player, and they’ll tell you that mining diamonds is where it’s at. Diamonds are not easy to come by, which makes sense, as diamonds in the real world are also precious and rare. But just how does mining diamonds in the game compare to doing it in real life? The infographic we are taking a look at today breaks down the differences in detail, and the results are fascinating. Via 911metallurgist Click To Enlarge Read the full article: How Does Mining Diamonds In Minecraft Compare To Real Life? |
| 42 Of The Best Geek Movies Of All Time… How Many Have You Seen? Posted: 04 Nov 2014 05:30 PM PST  “Geek” has, in recent years, morphed from being a negative epithet to a positive term for anyone with an interest considered niche or nerdy. This change for the better means people are now happy to call themselves geeks, and has led to the entertainment industry catering more and more to this potentially lucrative market. Hollywood has taken full advantage of this, with geek movies such as the current crop of comic-book movies proving to be box-office gold. But what, you may be wondering, are some of the best movies for geeks ever released? Wonder no more, my fellow geeks, as... Read the full article: 42 Of The Best Geek Movies Of All Time… How Many Have You Seen? |
| Upgrading Hardware? Tips For Moving Your Windows Installation Without Having To Reinstall Posted: 04 Nov 2014 10:00 AM PST  Upgrading PC hardware is exciting, but it isn’t without its problems. One of the most serious is dealing with your Windows installation. You probably want to use data from an existing installation, but doing so can be difficult if you’re switching computers or performing a serious upgrade (like replacing the motherboard). Here are three ways you can move your existing Windows install – and the pros and cons of each. Moving The Hard Drive The simplest way to move a Windows install is to move the hard drive it’s installed to. You can re-use a drive when performing a major upgrade or move it... Read the full article: Upgrading Hardware? Tips For Moving Your Windows Installation Without Having To Reinstall |
| 11 Best Video Game Soundtracks For Studying Posted: 04 Nov 2014 09:00 AM PST  Video games are awesome. Beyond their gripping stories, engaging gameplay, and social aspects, though, lies an oft-overlooked aspect: the music. A good video game original soundtrack (OST) is tough to get right; it needs to highlight whatever emotion the player should be experiencing at a point in time, as well as being submissive so as not to be distracting to the player. In the past, we’ve written about using music to boost your productivity, as well as some awesome full soundtracks you can listen to on Spotify. Today, we’re going to celebrate the best video game soundtracks for those times... Read the full article: 11 Best Video Game Soundtracks For Studying |
| Internet Archive Brings 900 Classic Arcade Games To Your Browser. Here Are 7 Of The Best Posted: 04 Nov 2014 08:30 AM PST  Your town’s arcade may have shut down in the mid-90s, but that shouldn’t stop you from getting your classic games fix. Archive.org – best known as that site you go on when you want to see what the Internet looked like in the 90s – has launched ‘The Internet Arcade’, allowing players to relive classics from the 70s, 80s and 90s. No Coins or ROMs required. The Internet Arcade is part of the JSMESS project, which aims to bring classic games to the browser through a simple JavaScript-based emulator. The JSMESS project also aims to make it easy to embed emulated... Read the full article: Internet Archive Brings 900 Classic Arcade Games To Your Browser. Here Are 7 Of The Best |
| Find Out Which Apps Are Killing Your Android Battery Posted: 04 Nov 2014 08:00 AM PST  Everyone has dealt with battery problems at one point or another; it comes with the territory of using a pocket-sized computer. Much has been written on the topic of battery conservation — an issue that isn’t specific to Android — but there’s one important aspect that keeps tripping people up: battery draining apps. Apps can kill your battery without you realizing it. Sometimes it’s done maliciously (e.g. smartphone malware) but more often than not, it can be explained by poor app design or an app that has gone rogue and can’t quit through normal means. If your first reaction to... Read the full article: Find Out Which Apps Are Killing Your Android Battery |
| Google Chrome’s New Bookmark Manager Focuses On Organization And Search Posted: 04 Nov 2014 07:30 AM PST  Bookmarks have been an integral part of browsers since long before Google Chrome was launched. Now, Google is looking to make them more useful than ever before. The new Bookmark Manager extension for Chrome wants to make it easy to organize your bookmarks and have the bookmarks look great at the same time. To download Bookmark Manager, you need to be running Chrome 38 or above (check in Settings > About Google Chrome and update if necessary). What’s New In Google Bookmark Manager? The extension doesn’t come with a huge number of new features. Instead, it focuses on doing the... Read the full article: Google Chrome’s New Bookmark Manager Focuses On Organization And Search |
| Brain Control With Light: It’s Possible With Optogenetics Posted: 04 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST  Medical scientists have been studying the brain for more than five hundred years – and, after all that time, the enigmatic organ still holds plenty of secrets. Finally, over just the last few years, a new technique called “optogenetics” is emerging, which may help scientists to unravel the brain’s secrets (and treat its disorders) in an entirely new way. Why Do We Need Optogenetics? In many ways, it’s amazing that psychiatric medication works at all. The state of the art – the very best modern science can do – amounts to immersing the brain in a chemical bath, and hoping... Read the full article: Brain Control With Light: It’s Possible With Optogenetics |
| Looking For A Smart Dialer App For Android? Truedialer Delivers Posted: 04 Nov 2014 06:00 AM PST  Got a missed call from an unknown number? It might be spam, or it might be a genuine concern. The easy way to find out is if you have the new Truedialer app, made by the team behind Truecaller, a free caller identification app. The app stands out from the crowded market of the best phone dialer apps on Android, of which Contacts+ is our current favourite. Truedialer’s approach is to integrate your phone book with a globally crowd-sourced phone book, so that it can fill in contact information that you are missing. What Is Truedialer All About? Truedialer’s feature... Read the full article: Looking For A Smart Dialer App For Android? Truedialer Delivers |
| Stop Bashing Microsoft: 5 Ways In Which They’re Awesome Posted: 04 Nov 2014 05:00 AM PST  Microsoft doesn’t always get fair treatment. When it comes down to it, they’re a pretty awesome company. They invest huge amounts in research, create innovative hardware and software, develop great applications while supporting everything that’s come before. There’s been enough Microsoft bashing, now it’s time for some love. Here are five reasons Microsoft is awesome. Microsoft Research Microsoft Research is huge. More than 1,000 scientists and engineers — including winners of some of the most prestigious prizes in physics, computer science and mathematics — develop new ideas and try to solve global challenges with the use of technology. Unlike many... Read the full article: Stop Bashing Microsoft: 5 Ways In Which They’re Awesome |
| Keep Your Android’s Battery Healthy With These Tips Posted: 04 Nov 2014 04:00 AM PST  How can you make your smartphone or tablet battery last longer? Forget apps, we’re talking about good practice here: how you treat your phone, when and how often to charge it, and how these things differ across battery types. With more and more devices being produced with unibody cases, there is a greater requirement to make batteries last longer. After all, there’s no longer an option to replace the battery! You Can Use Apps: But They Need Your Help We’ve shown you many software-based ways of preserving battery life, and which apps and services you need to turn off. The thing is,... Read the full article: Keep Your Android’s Battery Healthy With These Tips |
| Mozilla Teases Browser For Developers, Who Is Alex From Target? [Tech News Digest] Posted: 04 Nov 2014 03:30 AM PST  Also, Taylor Swift dumps Spotify, Disney Movies on Android, Apple flies high with Beats, and the movie which looks like a video game. Mozilla Teases Browser For Developers Mozilla is releasing a new Web browser designed specifically for developers. The mysterious browser, currently known only as the Firefox Developer Browser (#Fx10), will launch on November 10. In the teaser trailer embedded above, Mozilla promises the new browser will “debug the whole Web” and be “unique but familiar.” Mozilla’s blog post goes some way to explaining the thinking behind the new browser for developers: “When building for the Web, developers tend... Read the full article: Mozilla Teases Browser For Developers, Who Is Alex From Target? [Tech News Digest] |
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