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- 5 Cool Chrome Experiments You Should Check Out
- You Won’t Believe How Much These 80s Toys, Gadgets, And Video Games Are Worth
- 5 Mobile Games With Phenomenal Touchscreen Controls
- What Can You Do With The New Raspberry Pi A+?
- 7 Unique Ways To Practice Your Coding Skills
- Why Taylor Swift Is Wrong About Spotify
- Chat Outside The Browser With Current, A Facebook App For Mac
- Big Changes Are Here In The League Of Legends Summoner’s Rift Update
- How To Turn Off Facebook’s In-App Browser & More Facebook Productivity Tips
- Zap Yourself Smarter With This DIY tDCS Brain Stimulator
- Glyph BlackBox Portable Hard Drive Review And Giveaway
- 3 Online Fraud Prevention Tips You Need To Know In 2014
| 5 Cool Chrome Experiments You Should Check Out Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:30 PM PST  The browser has come a long way since its humble beginnings in the 1990’s with Nexus, Mosaic, and Netscape Navigator. Not to mention Internet Explorer. Over the years, the browser has improved tremendously, and now as well as Internet Explorer, we also have Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Tor, and many others. Chrome though seems to be leading the way with its HTML5 experiments, showcasing exactly what the browser is capable of, and more. Below are 5 Chrome experiments you should check out, two of which require the use of your smartphone as well, showcasing the potential of that tiny computer in your... Read the full article: 5 Cool Chrome Experiments You Should Check Out |
| You Won’t Believe How Much These 80s Toys, Gadgets, And Video Games Are Worth Posted: 14 Nov 2014 06:30 PM PST  Might you be sitting on a gold mine in your attic? Some gadgets and toys from the 1980s are actually worth huge amounts of money to collectors. Whether it’s crazy valuable video games, or even the Walkman, which has exploded in popularity thanks to Guardians of the Galaxy, you could be sitting on a ton of money without even knowing it. Want more? Check out these crazy valuable Sega Genesis games and even some rare Atari 2600 games you might have. Via 80sRetroToys Click To Enlarge Read the full article: You Won’t Believe How Much These 80s Toys, Gadgets, And Video Games Are Worth |
| 5 Mobile Games With Phenomenal Touchscreen Controls Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:00 AM PST  As smartphones and tablets become increasingly powerful, more game developers are taking the time to port their titles over to the platform or are building new ones entirely from scratch. Unfortunately, many of them shoehorn virtual controls into the corners of your screen and hope you don’t realize that they’re not physical buttons. This just isn’t ideal. The best mobile games have accepted that touchscreens aren’t the same as gamepads and utilize them differently. Here are five Android and iOS games that really show how this is done. Monument Valley ($3.99 Android / iOS) It would be easy to populate this list with... Read the full article: 5 Mobile Games With Phenomenal Touchscreen Controls |
| What Can You Do With The New Raspberry Pi A+? Posted: 14 Nov 2014 09:30 AM PST  A second Raspberry Pi device has been released, just months after the revised B+ model sported additional USB ports. Curiously, this new device doesn’t feature any additional hardware. In fact, it has fewer ports. Just what are the Raspberry Pi Foundation up to? What The Raspberry Pi A+ Is For Released as a revision of the original Raspberry Pi model A from 2012, the A+ looks pretty much the same. It has just a single USB port, for instance (unlike the two found on the Model B, or the quarter on the Model B+), but is also smaller than the... Read the full article: What Can You Do With The New Raspberry Pi A+? |
| 7 Unique Ways To Practice Your Coding Skills Posted: 14 Nov 2014 09:00 AM PST  I am 24 years old and just started learning coding. I want to be a programmer. Am I too late in the game? One of the upvoted answers to this on Quora.com came from graphic artist Michel Poisson. I’m 63, and eight months ago I decided to teach myself Blender 3D. It’s open source, written in C, and uses Python for scripting. Last summer it was HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and PHP. So from my perspective, 24 is as good a time as any. The 40 years between the respondent and the doubter is the chink in our thought process that... Read the full article: 7 Unique Ways To Practice Your Coding Skills |
| Why Taylor Swift Is Wrong About Spotify Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:30 AM PST  I was ten when I pirated my first track. During one of Pokemon’s commercial breaks my best friend at the time showed me this cool new program that let you download anything you wanted. He asked what I wanted to listen to. I can’t remember what I said but I’m sure I’d be embarrassed by it now. He entered it’s name into the search bar, clicked download and ten minutes later we were listening to it. This was my introduction to Napster. After Napster came LimeWire. Then it was Warez-BB and finally torrents. I never made it to Usenet. I... Read the full article: Why Taylor Swift Is Wrong About Spotify |
| Chat Outside The Browser With Current, A Facebook App For Mac Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:00 AM PST  Sick of opening Facebook in your browser, just to use chat? Current for Facebook is a Mac app that brings your favourite social network to the OS X desktop. Once installed your chats live in their own windows, notifications can be explored from the menubar and media can pop-out from your timeline into its own dedicated window. Put simply, this the closest thing out there to a complete Facebook client for Mac. Twitter offers a Mac client; Facebook doesn’t. Current’s unofficial offering isn’t a direct analogue for Twitter’s desktop app – browsing your Timeline, for example, takes place in a dedicated browser. But... Read the full article: Chat Outside The Browser With Current, A Facebook App For Mac |
| Big Changes Are Here In The League Of Legends Summoner’s Rift Update Posted: 14 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST  Those of you who frequently play against bots and in the Team Builder game mode in League of Legends will be in for a pleasant surprise when you hit that launcher. Recent patches to the game have been larger than usual while Riot pushes out pieces of their complete map overhaul bit by bit. As of the night of November 12th, the new Summoner’s Rift is live on the North American servers! With Season 4 coming to an official end and rewards being pushed out just earlier this week, the League of Legends community is overwhelmed with hype for what... Read the full article: Big Changes Are Here In The League Of Legends Summoner’s Rift Update |
| How To Turn Off Facebook’s In-App Browser & More Facebook Productivity Tips Posted: 14 Nov 2014 06:00 AM PST  In August, Facebook started rolling out the final version of its in-app browser on Android devices. This month, the new feature reached me, and it’s been a nuisance. I’ll show you how to make Facebook open links in your external browser again and how to improve your Facebook News Feed reading habits. Pros & Cons Of The In-App Browser The in-app browser is potentially faster, especially if your external browser first needs to load. We previously ran tests to identify the fastest Android browser; Chrome came out as the winner, with Opera in close second. To compare Facebook’s in-app browser with... Read the full article: How To Turn Off Facebook’s In-App Browser & More Facebook Productivity Tips |
| Zap Yourself Smarter With This DIY tDCS Brain Stimulator Posted: 14 Nov 2014 05:00 AM PST  According to the United States Defense Department, zapping your brain with electricity can turn novices into experts – of anything. The application of current to the brain – known as transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) – received funding from DARPA, the US Defense Department, and more. And you can build your own with about $10 in parts, simple tools and some soldering experience. tDCS applies a small current from a 9v battery to the brain. This stimulation proved to enhance human cognitive powers (have a listen to NYC Radiolab episode entitled “9 Volt Nirvana” if you’re skeptical). Applying this current to different parts of... Read the full article: Zap Yourself Smarter With This DIY tDCS Brain Stimulator |
| Glyph BlackBox Portable Hard Drive Review And Giveaway Posted: 14 Nov 2014 04:30 AM PST  Can a portable hard drive really be worth $100? There’s a company in New York who thinks so. Meet Glyph Technologies, the makers of the BlackBox. We’re going to be looking at the 500GB version, which retails for around $99 (£79). There’s also a larger 1TB version, which goes for $130. Given that you can get a 1TB external hard-drive for half the price on Amazon, you could be forgiven for wondering why you would splash out on the BlackBox. There are countless examples of drives floating about the $50 price range, including the My Passport Ultra by Western Digital and... Read the full article: Glyph BlackBox Portable Hard Drive Review And Giveaway |
| 3 Online Fraud Prevention Tips You Need To Know In 2014 Posted: 14 Nov 2014 04:00 AM PST  You can do everything right and still have your identity stolen. If 2014 has taught us anything about security, it’s this: you cannot trust companies to keep your data safe. That doesn’t mean you should stop using their services, but you should be wary and learn how to protect yourself. “It Won’t Happen To Me” Syndrome is one of the worst security habits and it can lead you into a lot of trouble if it goes unchecked. If you think identity theft won’t happen to you, please reconsider. These days, nobody is safe from online fraud. The Customer Data Hackpocalypse... Read the full article: 3 Online Fraud Prevention Tips You Need To Know In 2014 |
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