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• Cool Websites and Tools – August 24th 2013 – Organizing GIF’s, Racial Dot Map, & Paranoid Browsing
• Kindle Giving You Trouble? Three Easy Fixes and Troubleshooting Steps
• 10 Cheap Things to Carry Around in Your Tech Toolkit
• How Do I Convert My Blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org?
• Improve Your English With New And Improved Definitions On Google Search [Updates]

Cool Websites and Tools – August 24th 2013 – Organizing GIF’s, Racial Dot Map, & Paranoid Browsing Posted: 24 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including organizing GIF images, capturing and sharing files on a Mac computer, a website of family friendly stories and videos, a racial dot map from the 2010 US Census, and a Chrome browser which freaks out advertisers. Read on below! GIF Me – is a chrome extension that makes saving, sharing and organizing gifs easier. You can tag and search, and quickly copy a link for sharing all from GifMe. It's completely free and you can access your library on any computer with the extension. Just... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 24th 2013 – Organizing GIF’s, Racial Dot Map, & Paranoid Browsing

Kindle Giving You Trouble? Three Easy Fixes and Troubleshooting Steps Posted: 24 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT The Kindle range of e-readers from Amazon are excellent, lightweight devices that enable you to carry your library of books around wherever you go – but what happens when a Kindle goes wrong? Amazon’s popular eBook readers are easy to setup and use, but from time to time they can run into problems. Issues related to wireless networks or the free international 3G network that can be used for buying and downloading eBooks are perhaps the most common. There are other problems that can arise from time to time, however, such as the Kindle display freezing, or the battery running... Read the full article: Kindle Giving You Trouble? Three Easy Fixes and Troubleshooting Steps

10 Cheap Things to Carry Around in Your Tech Toolkit Posted: 24 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT Do you repair computers? If you do, there’s a lot of household supplies you can throw in your “computer repair” bag and cheaply replace expensive chemicals and tools. For example, you can swap pricey heatsink cleaning compound with alcohol. Here’s a list of my ten favorite household products to get your MacGyver on. Petroleum Jelly (Vaseline) Vaseline, or petroleum jelly, possesses three useful characteristics: First, it doesn’t conduct electricity making it useful for work around electronics. Second, its antioxidant properties allow it to function as an anti-corrosive on metals. Third, it can coat plastic surfaces to prevent cracking and desiccation.... Read the full article: 10 Cheap Things to Carry Around in Your Tech Toolkit

How Do I Convert My Blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org? Posted: 24 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT Take control over your site: move it from WordPress.com to your own servers. Your data can be migrated to a WordPress.org blog with considerable ease. I've been maintaining a diary since my children were born in 2011, which I intend to one day publish for them to read. The contents are pretty verbose and combine their achievements with what is happening in the world, the state of the nation, and advice on making the right choices and living the right way. The bulk of the diary resides online on my WordPress.com account – but I've decided that I would rather have... Read the full article: How Do I Convert My Blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org?

Improve Your English With New And Improved Definitions On Google Search [Updates] Posted: 24 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT If Google Search has been standing in as your online dictionary of choice, then the search box will now take you deeper into a word. The latest update gives you sample sentences, synonyms, origin, and translations to go with the meaning of the word you put into the query. Google has updated both desktop and mobile search with the more comprehensive definitions. Unfortunately, for now it’s U.S. only. Knowing Google, you can be sure it will be rolled out elsewhere as well. Earlier, Google supported natural language queries. For instance, something like “definition Expeditious” or "What's the definition of expeditious?"... Read the full article: Improve Your English With New And Improved Definitions On Google Search [Updates]

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