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- The 5 Best OCR Tools for Extracting Text from Images
- Own a Business? These Website Mistakes Could Cost You Money
- Women in Tech: What Future Tech Companies Need to Know
- Programming Burnout: How to Regain Your Lost Motivation
- Keep A Portable Ubuntu Installation With You Wherever You Go
- 20 Micro Jobs to Help You Make Money in Your Free Time
- Dropbox for Gmail: Why Google Chrome is Now the Best Dropbox Client
- How To Create Your Own Extensions For Your iPhone & iPad
- 5 Ways to Stay Healthy During a Long Gaming Binge
- Need a Break, but Don’t Want to Get Caught? Check out These Slacker Sites
- Syma X5C Quadcopter Review and Giveaway
- How To Find & Change Your WiFi Password
| The 5 Best OCR Tools for Extracting Text from Images Posted: 13 Feb 2015 08:30 PM PST  I have written before about the benefits of a paperless office, the zen feeling of being able to walk into the room and not somersault headfirst over a stack of paper and break your neck. But when you have reams of paper, how do you get all of that printed text converted into something that a digital program will be able to recognize and index? Yes, that’s right, you use an OCR service or app. Text extraction with OCR is a subject which we have covered endlessly, since MUO’s birth back in 2006. But the OCR apps in this area... Read the full article: The 5 Best OCR Tools for Extracting Text from Images |
| Own a Business? These Website Mistakes Could Cost You Money Posted: 13 Feb 2015 06:30 PM PST  In a lot of cases, the first thing a customer sees from your business if your website. They type your name into Google, and land on a homepage that tells them about your company. First impressions stick, and if your website isn’t good, then they probably won’t seek out the product or service you are selling. But if you offer them a well-designed website with the right information, you could end up with a new customer on your hands! So how can you make sure not to lose customers to poor website design? Just avoid the mistakes on the infographic... Read the full article: Own a Business? These Website Mistakes Could Cost You Money |
| Women in Tech: What Future Tech Companies Need to Know Posted: 13 Feb 2015 11:00 AM PST  For tech companies to thrive today, there’s no getting around the need to fix the “gender gap” — not just for equality’s sake, but to protect the bottom line. Few reasonable people suggest that women under-perform in tech. This list from the Huffington Post is just the tip of a large, expanding iceberg of influential women in tech, including: Gina Bianchini, CEO and Founder of Ning Mary Hodder, Founder of Dabble.com Lynne D. Johnson, Director of Social Media, Fast Company Rebecca Moore, Director of Outreach, Google Earth Rashmi Sinha, Co-Founder SlideShare Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM Another excellent example is Sandy Lerner,... Read the full article: Women in Tech: What Future Tech Companies Need to Know |
| Programming Burnout: How to Regain Your Lost Motivation Posted: 13 Feb 2015 10:00 AM PST  Have you lost the passion that you once had for programming? Is it affecting your motivation to get things done? Are you falling behind on all of your projects and finding it difficult to catch up? If yes, here’s the good news: it happens to everyone at one point or another so don’t despair. Imagine that your campfire has just died. Instead of fretting about how it went out or what you could have done differently, the best thing to do is to sit back and take a deep breath. The fire is already dead. The only thing that matters... Read the full article: Programming Burnout: How to Regain Your Lost Motivation |
| Keep A Portable Ubuntu Installation With You Wherever You Go Posted: 13 Feb 2015 09:00 AM PST  There’s so much you can do with an Ubuntu installation. But what if you could take that same Ubuntu installation and make it portable so you can have it with you wherever you are? We’ve looked at several options where you can use Linux with your USB drive, but now we’re going to take a look specifically at keeping a portable Ubuntu installation with you so that you have access to all your apps, settings, and files wherever you go. Prerequisites All you need to have is a USB drive that’s as large as you need it to be. If... Read the full article: Keep A Portable Ubuntu Installation With You Wherever You Go |
| 20 Micro Jobs to Help You Make Money in Your Free Time Posted: 13 Feb 2015 08:00 AM PST  Do you find yourself living paycheck to paycheck? Are you a student or single parent who needs extra income to get by? A little extra cash is always nice, whether or not you are struggling financially. Online opportunities to earn additional income are everywhere and are often relatively easy to implement. However, it can be difficult to sniff out the legit companies from the scams. Below are 20 legit opportunities to easily make some extra income in your free time. Depending on your skills and the amount of free time you have, some of these may be more relevant to... Read the full article: 20 Micro Jobs to Help You Make Money in Your Free Time |
| Dropbox for Gmail: Why Google Chrome is Now the Best Dropbox Client Posted: 13 Feb 2015 07:30 AM PST  Dropbox, one of the best cloud storage providers, requires a local client installed on your computer to be truly useful. However, if you use Google Chrome, you might not need that any more. Amidst the plethora of useful Chrome extensions, there are a few that give Dropbox users added functionality—almost to the point where Chrome itself can serve as a Dropbox client. Dropbox For Gmail Dropbox itself has just officially launched a new extension that is at the top of these nifty Chrome add-ons. Dropbox for Gmail integrates with the popular email service to attach Dropbox files in any email... Read the full article: Dropbox for Gmail: Why Google Chrome is Now the Best Dropbox Client |
| How To Create Your Own Extensions For Your iPhone & iPad Posted: 13 Feb 2015 07:00 AM PST  For years, iOS was so tightly locked down that apps couldn’t communicate with each other. Simple actions such as uploading a picture to Instagram or sharing it to WhatsApp were not possible from the Photos app. Thanks to iOS 8, those days are now gone. You can now share content between apps with just two taps. The only problem? Developers have to create extensions and these aren’t always top priority for them. The aforementioned WhatsApp and Instagram still don’t have share extensions, which is a major inconvenience. Fortunately there exists a new app that allows you to finally create your own extensions. Meet Workflow ($1.99), a... Read the full article: How To Create Your Own Extensions For Your iPhone & iPad |
| 5 Ways to Stay Healthy During a Long Gaming Binge Posted: 13 Feb 2015 06:00 AM PST  A few weeks ago, KitGuru reported on a Taiwanese man who died of heart failure and over-exhaustion after going on a three-day gaming binge, the second binge-gaming-related death this year. At least four other deaths have been reported in the past three years. While most people don’t need to worry about their health while they’re playing games, going on long binges does require a bit of forethought to make sure you stay healthy. Here are 5 ways you can make sure you’re not putting yourself at risk. Sleep Not sleeping can have some very serious affects on the brain and body—hallucinations, confusion,... Read the full article: 5 Ways to Stay Healthy During a Long Gaming Binge |
| Need a Break, but Don’t Want to Get Caught? Check out These Slacker Sites Posted: 13 Feb 2015 05:00 AM PST  Look busy at work without actually doing anything. Here are some sites that let you browse Reddit, play 2048 or even go for a walk without your boss thinking you’re a slacker. A long time ago we showed you how to hide your web surfing from the boss. Many of those links no longer work, but I’m happy to report there has been great strides in the field of not working since then. Let’s go over a few, shall we? Make Reddit Look Like Work Reddit is the ultimate time-wasting site, something bosses everywhere are catching onto. If they see... Read the full article: Need a Break, but Don’t Want to Get Caught? Check out These Slacker Sites |
| Syma X5C Quadcopter Review and Giveaway Posted: 13 Feb 2015 04:30 AM PST  Let’s get this out of the way: if you’ve any interest in drones but have been put off by the price, buy the Syma X5C. The X5C flies remarkably well, handles smoothly and the drone is surprisingly well built. It’s not without its flaws however: the remote is poorly made, the battery life is pretty short and the camera is barely worth mentioning. The Syma X5C can be purchased on Amazon for around $60, but at the end of this review we’ll be giving ours away! Although the Syma X5C is one of the cheapest quadrocopters with an HD camera, the Juyo... Read the full article: Syma X5C Quadcopter Review and Giveaway |
| How To Find & Change Your WiFi Password Posted: 13 Feb 2015 04:00 AM PST  Once your laptop is connected to WiFi, you feel no reason to remember the password. Until you need to connect another device or change your code. What’s the password again? Don’t worry, it’s easy to find out and even change it if the situation demands. It’s not hard to crack a WiFi network, so it’s best practice to change your password often. Make a secure password with lots of special characters and a long string. In fact, security expert Troy Hunt says the best password is the one you can’t remember. But when someone else needs to log in, you... Read the full article: How To Find & Change Your WiFi Password |
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