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- 5 Useful Sites & Tools To Save For Your URL Toolbox
- How Much Do You Know About Emojis?
- What Would You Film Using A GoPro Camera? [We Ask You]
- Travelling With Google Translate? 4 Tips To Improve Your Experience
- Upgrade Your Job Hunt: 3 Quick Ways To Improve Your Resume
- The 8 Best Office Suites On Android For Getting Work Done
- PAX Australia ’14: Reasons To Get To A PAX Event Near You
- Save On Microsoft Office! Get Cheap Or Free Office Products
- How To Manage Multiple Google Or Gmail Accounts On Android
- How To Use Windows 8 Productively Despite Its Modern Interface
- Are Hacked Email Account Checking Tools Genuine Or A Scam?
- The Problem With Gadget Reviews, Jawbone Reveals New Wearables [Tech News Digest]
| 5 Useful Sites & Tools To Save For Your URL Toolbox Posted: 05 Nov 2014 08:31 PM PST  Today we are going to look at sites & tools you can use with URLs. There’s lots of things you can do with URLs (apart from clicking on them, obviously). You can shorten them, expand them, send them to other devices, open multiple URLs at once, have a one-click self-destructing URL (no explosion, sorry), and much more. Let’s take a look at some of these free tools and pretty soon you’ll be doing more than clicking those links. A URL Shortener – Goo.gl If you’re looking for a tool to shorten all of those long URLs, then most sites tend to default... Read the full article: 5 Useful Sites & Tools To Save For Your URL Toolbox |
| How Much Do You Know About Emojis? Posted: 05 Nov 2014 06:30 PM PST  Emojis are a complicated beast. They allow us to show our thoughts and emotions in ways that words just cannot. You’ve probably used emojis at one point or another, but how much do you know about them? Let’s learn more about them together. Via WhoIsHostingThis Click To Enlarge Read the full article: How Much Do You Know About Emojis? |
| What Would You Film Using A GoPro Camera? [We Ask You] Posted: 05 Nov 2014 05:30 PM PST  GoPro cameras are primarily used by people doing extreme sports who want to capture all the action for posterity. But that’s far from their only use. It’s time to get the gray matter working by deciding what you would film using a GoPro. The more creative you get, the more (entirely fictional) points there are up for grabs. Go Go GoPro Pro We want to know, What Would You Film Using A GoPro Camera? It’s a simple enough question, but one which will require you to sit and ponder for a few minutes, perhaps while adopting a pose similar to... Read the full article: What Would You Film Using A GoPro Camera? [We Ask You] |
| Travelling With Google Translate? 4 Tips To Improve Your Experience Posted: 05 Nov 2014 10:00 AM PST  From Star Trek’s universal translator to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Babel Fish, we’ve all dreamed of a day when language barriers will be a thing of the past. We’re inching closer to that future with solutions like Google Translate on iOS and Android, but this powerful app isn’t as effortless as it first appears. If you depend on it for translations on the go without understanding its limits, you can end up in some frustrating situations. If you need a basic overview of the Google Translate app, check it out here. If you’re ready to actually take it... Read the full article: Travelling With Google Translate? 4 Tips To Improve Your Experience |
| Upgrade Your Job Hunt: 3 Quick Ways To Improve Your Resume Posted: 05 Nov 2014 09:00 AM PST  Your resume is key to landing that job interview. Technology can help check how readable your CV is, thus increasing your chances of making a good impression. Of course, for this exercise, you’ll need to already have a resume ready. Our all-in-one guide to the perfect resume takes you through the steps, or you could just turn your LinkedIn profile into a CV. Once you have the initial document, let’s check how good it is. How Readable Is Your Resume? Author Ernest Hemingway always had some solid advice for writers, chief among which was to phrase things more clearly, tighten... Read the full article: Upgrade Your Job Hunt: 3 Quick Ways To Improve Your Resume |
| The 8 Best Office Suites On Android For Getting Work Done Posted: 05 Nov 2014 08:00 AM PST  Towards the end of college, I used a Honeycomb tablet to take notes, type up papers, and manage presentations. Since then, Microsoft has brought a portable version of Office into the Play Store, and Google has released a set of dedicated Docs, Slides, and Sheets apps. Old players such as Polaris Office and OfficeSuite are still alive and kicking, while QuickOffice has disappeared after being bought by Google. Quite frankly, the entire landscape has changed over the last couple of years, and it’s now very easy to get work done using Android devices. These are the top eight office suites for... Read the full article: The 8 Best Office Suites On Android For Getting Work Done |
| PAX Australia ’14: Reasons To Get To A PAX Event Near You Posted: 05 Nov 2014 07:30 AM PST  PAX Australia took place over Halloween weekend 2014 in Melbourne, Victoria – marking the second anniversary for the growing event, and another successful satellite show. Short for Penny Arcade Expo, PAX started in 2004 when Penny Arcade founders Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik wanted to attend a show focused specifically on gaming. Besides PAX Australia, you can also attend PAX East in Boston, PAX South in San Antonio and PAX Dev, a developer conference, in Seattle – and there’s plenty of reasons to do so. Indie Games Galore For me, one of the biggest highlights of PAX Australia 2014 was the nod given to indie development, particularly given that industry events are... Read the full article: PAX Australia ’14: Reasons To Get To A PAX Event Near You |
| Save On Microsoft Office! Get Cheap Or Free Office Products Posted: 05 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST  Whenever a new version of Microsoft Office comes out, everyone starts trying to find either a legal or illegal way of getting hold of a cheap copy. No-one wants to pay full price. Amazon has Office 2013 Home & Business at $178.02 – and that is just for one user and one PC! Obviously there are slightly cheaper versions for students (which we will be looking into, below), but nevertheless, it is a fair chunk of change. It would certainly bring tears to my eyes if I had to part with that kind of money. Let’s take a wander around... Read the full article: Save On Microsoft Office! Get Cheap Or Free Office Products |
| How To Manage Multiple Google Or Gmail Accounts On Android Posted: 05 Nov 2014 06:00 AM PST  If you’ve got more than one Google account, for example a private Gmail ID and another for a project or work, you may have wondered whether you can use them simultaneously on your Android phone. Well, you can and it’s pretty straight forward. Note that as of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, it’s possible set up multiple user accounts on your tablet, but that’s a different story. How To Add Additional Google Accounts Instructions below document the process on Android 4.4.2. The method was also confirmed on Android 4.0.4, where it works almost the same. From your Android device’s home screen,... Read the full article: How To Manage Multiple Google Or Gmail Accounts On Android |
| How To Use Windows 8 Productively Despite Its Modern Interface Posted: 05 Nov 2014 05:00 AM PST  Remember back when Windows 8 came out? It sure got a lot of hate – even being compared with the likes of Windows Vista and Windows ME (Millennium Edition). Partly because most of us hate change, but change is a constant in the technology field and the modern interface is here to stay. That said, it certainly isn’t the most ideal setup for non-touchscreen desktops and laptops. But don’t shut the door to it and revert back Windows 7 just yet. Give these tips a try and see if they help you be more productive – you might just like it! Add... Read the full article: How To Use Windows 8 Productively Despite Its Modern Interface |
| Are Hacked Email Account Checking Tools Genuine Or A Scam? Posted: 05 Nov 2014 04:00 AM PST  Following the news of a vast breach of Google’s servers that resulted in an alleged 5 million email addresses being hacked, various websites were suggesting that readers should check whether they had been victims by entering their email addresses into “checking tools” – websites that can determine whether an email address is in a list of hacked credentials. The problem is, some of these checking tools weren’t as legitimate as the websites linking to them might have hoped… 5 Million Email Addresses: The Truth Reported at the time as a massive leak of 5 million Gmail account usernames and passwords,... Read the full article: Are Hacked Email Account Checking Tools Genuine Or A Scam? |
| The Problem With Gadget Reviews, Jawbone Reveals New Wearables [Tech News Digest] Posted: 05 Nov 2014 03:30 AM PST  Also, GTA V gets first-person mode, Emoji becomes less racist, the new Amazon Prime Photos perk, and Conan O’Brien is clueless about CoD. Is The Nexus 9 Good, Bad, Or Ugly? The Nexus 9, made by HTC and stamped with the Google seal of approval, is a tablet powered by stock Android 5.0 (Lollipop). But is it any good? We honestly don’t know, because reviews of the Nexus 9 vary wildly. Thus the problem with gadget reviews is revealed. We know so because Reddit user Mejogid has looked through a number of Nexus 9 reviews to try and find common... Read the full article: The Problem With Gadget Reviews, Jawbone Reveals New Wearables [Tech News Digest] |
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