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• These Movies Posters Will Make You Wish The Sequels Were Real
• 20 Gadget Gift Ideas For Geeks
• Converting Your Facebook Profile To A Page: What Happens?
• Why You Should Protect Your Waveable Visa Card From Mobile Fraudsters
• Supercharge Your Online Reading With The New Flipboard
• The Privacy Mine: National Security Letters and Warrant Canaries Explained
• Should You Buy Dragon Age: Inquisition?
• Turn Gmail Into A Trello-Like Task Board With Sortd
• Linux Vs Unix: The Crucial Differences That Matter To Linux Professionals
• Keep Your Hard Drive Healthy With Ashampoo HDD Control 3
• 6 Customization Tricks Only Possible In Firefox
• Making The Best Media Center Better, With a Plex Pass [Giveaway]
• Media Streamer, Media Player or HTPC: Which One Is For You?
• Grand Theft Auto V Reviews, Send Money Via Snapchat, & More… [Tech News Digest]

These Movies Posters Will Make You Wish The Sequels Were Real Posted: 18 Nov 2014 06:30 PM PST Surely you know of some movies that you wish would get a sequel. We all have our favorites, but some movies wrap things up in such a way that a sequel just isn’t possible. In other cases, the business of the movie business prevents a new release from coming along. Whatever the reason, the images in the IAm8Bit gallery called SEQUEL are imagining what the movie posters for these sequels that will never happen might look like. Many of them are downright gorgeous. Check out a sample below, and if you want to see them in person, head to the gallery in... Read the full article: These Movies Posters Will Make You Wish The Sequels Were Real

20 Gadget Gift Ideas For Geeks Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:30 PM PST “The holidays are coming, the holidays are coming.” So says a commercial for a popular carbonated beverage due to begin airing on television any day now. They’re right too, the holidays ARE coming, which means we all need to start compiling our Christmas lists. We’re here to help, with a list of 20 gadgets that geeks of all kinds would love to receive at this special time of year. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas or have a birthday coming up soon, you should find something of interest here. After all, geeks love gadgets 365 days a year. Geeky Gadget... Read the full article: 20 Gadget Gift Ideas For Geeks

Converting Your Facebook Profile To A Page: What Happens? Posted: 18 Nov 2014 12:30 PM PST You’re sick of trying to make sure you don’t accidentally post personal updates to all your Facebook followers. It’s time for a Facebook Page. Not only do Pages have great badges for your website, they also give you insights into your followers. And that’s just the start – there are lots of good reasons to migrate to a page. For instance, if your business is growing and you want your marketing co-ordinator to take over your social media management. If you’ve had a semi-public Facebook profile for a while now, and you’re thinking about turning it into a page, you... Read the full article: Converting Your Facebook Profile To A Page: What Happens?

Why You Should Protect Your Waveable Visa Card From Mobile Fraudsters Posted: 18 Nov 2014 10:00 AM PST Chip-and-PIN credit cards are very common in the UK, and they’re on the rise in the US, as well—they’re generally considered to be both more convenient and more secure than the long-used American signature cards. However, a team of researchers at Newcastle University recently performed some alarming experiments that has some chip-and-PIN card carriers worried. It’s time to learn the facts and protect yourself. Contactless Chip-And-PIN Technology To be more specific, the cards that are at risk those that use an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip to enable contactless payments.  This means that in addition to a small chip, there’s... Read the full article: Why You Should Protect Your Waveable Visa Card From Mobile Fraudsters

Supercharge Your Online Reading With The New Flipboard Posted: 18 Nov 2014 09:00 AM PST With just $1 I stood by the news stand not knowing what to pick. That – I bet – is a memory from childhood we all have. The choices too many; the dollars too few. The news stand is a relic. Thanks to the explosion of news websites and smartphone apps. All trying to quench the unquenchable – our thirst for information. Flipboard gives us a brimful bucket of it for free, and the bated breaths of anticipation have vanished. The third generation of Flipboard comes with a fresh design – and the claim to be called the world's best personal magazine.... Read the full article: Supercharge Your Online Reading With The New Flipboard

The Privacy Mine: National Security Letters and Warrant Canaries Explained Posted: 18 Nov 2014 08:00 AM PST In the past decade the American government has gained the ability to secretly observe and collect information on American, and foreign, citizens. Using legal proceedings like National Security Letters (NSLs) governmental agencies can demand that US-based companies turn over detailed customer information. The majority of companies affected are, understandably, not very pleased about this and they’ve started to fight back. National Security Letters The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) — an organisation dedicated to defending digital rights — describes NSLs as “one of the most frightening and invasive” expansions of government power granted by the USA PATRIOT Act. They are orders... Read the full article: The Privacy Mine: National Security Letters and Warrant Canaries Explained

Should You Buy Dragon Age: Inquisition? Posted: 18 Nov 2014 07:30 AM PST Three and a half years may as well be a lifetime in the video game industry. That’s about how long it’s been since we last saw an installment in the Dragon Age franchise, and we’ve seen critically acclaimed RPGs take many different directions since then. We’ve hiked the open (and often hilariously glitchy) world of Skyrim, survived the savage expeditions of two Dark Souls games, and taken a trip back to old school PC RPG gameplay in Divinity: Original Sin. When you play Dragon Age: Inquisition, you’ll see shades of all of these RPGs and more, tied together with developer... Read the full article: Should You Buy Dragon Age: Inquisition?

Turn Gmail Into A Trello-Like Task Board With Sortd Posted: 18 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST In the modern workforce, your email often turns into your task list. Trello is a great app to organise your tasks. Well, now you can get the same sort of organisation right in Gmail with a new Chrome extension, Sortd. Sortd is a skin that adds a new layer to your Gmail. Click the small red tab on the side to activate and you’ll be taken to the Sortd view, which is essentially a kanban board—columns where you can add and delete your tasks. How Does Sortd Work? Sortd lists all of your emails in a single pane on the... Read the full article: Turn Gmail Into A Trello-Like Task Board With Sortd

Linux Vs Unix: The Crucial Differences That Matter To Linux Professionals Posted: 18 Nov 2014 06:00 AM PST Lately, we hear a lot about Linux — how it’s dominating on servers, how it makes up a large chunk of the smartphone market, and how it’s becoming a highly viable option on the desktop. But Linux didn’t appear out of thin air; before the creation of Linux, and before the rise of Windows, the computing world was dominated by Unix. And for those who don’t know, Linux is very similar to Unix. Since we’ve already looked at the differences between Linux and Windows, what exactly is the difference between Linux and Unix? About Unix Before we go into that,... Read the full article: Linux Vs Unix: The Crucial Differences That Matter To Linux Professionals

Keep Your Hard Drive Healthy With Ashampoo HDD Control 3 Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:30 AM PST The hard drive is the most important component of your computer. Any other component that breaks down — e.g. motherboard, CPU, RAM — can be replaced with a bit of money, but if your hard drive fails and disk data recovery isn’t possible, you lose everything on it. In this day and age, that’s like having your house burn down. Are you taking care of your hard drives? Before you answer, think about this: what was the last thing you did to ensure that your hard drives are healthy? Do you know the state of your hard drives right now? If they... Read the full article: Keep Your Hard Drive Healthy With Ashampoo HDD Control 3

6 Customization Tricks Only Possible In Firefox Posted: 18 Nov 2014 05:00 AM PST Firefox is a great browsers for many reasons, but one of the most important reasons is how it can be customized. Mozilla has worked hard to ensure the latest versions provide options and features you won’t find without add-ons in other browsers. By making these available by default all users can have the same access without the hassle of installing extensions that may cause compatibility or security concerns. Here are a few important tricks that prove you should be using Firefox. Customize The Main Menu Okay, let’s start with the elephant in the room. Firefox 29, released in late April of... Read the full article: 6 Customization Tricks Only Possible In Firefox

Making The Best Media Center Better, With a Plex Pass [Giveaway] Posted: 18 Nov 2014 04:30 AM PST Love Plex? You’ll love a Plex Pass even more. Plex Pass gets you new features, earlier than everyone else – and exclusive features only available to Plex Pass holders. If you love your home media centre as much as I do, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. Read on to find out more about the premium Plex experience – and we’ve got four lifetime Plex Pass licences (worth a total of $600) to give away! What Is Plex? If you have no idea what I’m talking about but I’ve piqued your interest, I’ll make this brief: Plex is the... Read the full article: Making The Best Media Center Better, With a Plex Pass [Giveaway]

Media Streamer, Media Player or HTPC: Which One Is For You? Posted: 18 Nov 2014 04:00 AM PST TVs are no longer limited to watching straight television. Have you ever wanted to stream YouTube on the big screen? Wouldn’t it be nifty if you could play videos from a USB drive directly on the TV? With media players, media streamers, and HTPCs, all of that is possible. The problem: what’s the difference between these devices, and which is best for you? They all fulfill different purposes, so it’s important that you understand what they are meant to do before making a purchase. Fortunately, it’s all rather simple. The Media Player In the context of this post, media player... Read the full article: Media Streamer, Media Player or HTPC: Which One Is For You?

Grand Theft Auto V Reviews, Send Money Via Snapchat, & More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 18 Nov 2014 03:30 AM PST Also, Spotify teams up with Uber, Microsoft pits Surface Pro 3 against MacBook Air, Goat Simulator becomes MMO, and Tony Hawk rides a hoverboard. Is GTA V Worth Buying On PS4, Xbox One? When Grand Theft Auto V was launched last year on PS3 and Xbox 360, it broke sales records on the back of almost universal critical acclaim. Can this year’s updated release on the PS4 and Xbox One repeat that feat? And is this new version of the game worth buying if you already own the original? The early reviews of GTA V should help us figure it... Read the full article: Grand Theft Auto V Reviews, Send Money Via Snapchat, & More… [Tech News Digest]

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