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5 Sites To Help You With Your “Keeping Fit” New Year Resolution

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 08:30 PM PST

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Come every January 1st, we all make a resolution to keep fit and lose weight. But by January 3rd, that resolution has been forgotten, and we find ourselves lying on the sofa all day, while eating chocolate bars and cream cakes. Willpower can be a hard thing to come by these days. But there are websites that can help you with the whole getting fit promise. You still have to give yourself that push to actually do it, but these 5 websites will give you a prod in the right direction. Keeping fit can cover a broad spectrum of areas, not just...

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An Animated Look At How A Speaker Makes Sound

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 06:30 PM PST

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We use speakers all of the time. In fact, I’d guess that the device on which you are reading this article has a speaker on it somewhere. Do you know how a speaker works? I’ll admit, I had no idea before I found this awesome animated infographic. Sure, I knew that there was a cone and a bunch of other components that allows them to push the sound towards my ears, but other than that, it was complicated nonsense. Now, I understand, and if you read through this beautiful animated infographic, you will too! Via Animagraffs Click To Enlarge Each...

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4 Surprising Ways Google Will Soon Impact Your Life

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 07:00 AM PST

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Have you heard of Google X? It’s a secret laboratory located within the vicinity of Google’s headquarters where a special team of scientists and entrepreneurs aim to make world-shattering advancements to technology — the kind of progress that’s so advanced that you may confuse it with science fiction. That’s the hope, anyway. The reality is that while Google’s employees are some of the most brilliant in the field, they’re still human. We won’t be seeing interstellar spaceships and time travel machines any time soon, but that doesn’t mean that their discoveries aren’t impressive. They definitely are. Here are a few...

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How To Use WhatsApp On Your PC And Sync With Your Phone

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 06:00 AM PST

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Getting bought by Facebook hasn’t done anything to harm WhatsApp’s popularity. The instant messaging client has more than 600 million active users now, and over 65% of our readers rely on it. But it still doesn’t have a client for your computer. If you go to the official WhatsApp forum, you’ll see a request for a desktop client almost every week. But the company seems to have no interest in this. So it’s up to third-party developers to come up with a solution. And the best one so far has to be WhatsRemote. The Problem With “WhatsApp On PC” Apps...

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How Eel Drones Will Turn The Tide On Underwater Warfare

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 05:00 AM PST

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Stealth has long been a staple of the U.S. Navy’s most important national security operations. As such, many of these operations take place underwater, where submariners can discreetly eavesdrop on enemy forces and carry out missile strikes if necessary. But things are changing, and crewed submarines are being replaced by drones. Technology has disrupted just about every industry over the last couple of decades, and warfare is no exception: the U.S. government is now pouring significant resources into the development and deployment of unmanned undersea drones. And that comes as no surprise, considering the ubiquity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Need...

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How To Fix Windows Registry Errors & When Not To Bother

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 04:00 AM PST

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Did you hear that fixing your registry would speed up your computer? Or did you read somewhere that ‘fixing’ your registry will remedy any Windows malaise on your machine, that a quick registry clean-up will solve your computing problems for good? Many of these articles are not only wrong, but some can be downright harmful for your machine in the long run. Here we’ll explore how to identify, isolate and fix registry problems – and when to just not bother at all. What Is The Registry? The registry is essentially a massive internal database containing important, machine specific information regarding almost...

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