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• Cool Websites & Tools – Analyze Your Browser History, Keep Social Media In One Overview, & OSX Menu Bar Clock Replacement
• Learning To Code Becomes More Fun As Codeacademy Reveals New Design
• Bringing Life To The Hard Drive
• iOS Apps on Sale for 26 Apr: Grab Classic Sonic Titles For 99c
• Nine New Features Added to the Google Keyword Planner Tool
• Hit By a Manual Spam Action? Here’s What To Do
• Meet Invoiceable: A Free Invoicing Solution For Small Businesses
• 5 Ways Kids Can Make Their Own Movies With A Smartphone
• Learning To Drive in the UK? You Need Theory Test Pro
• Facebook Launches FBNewswire With Verified News As It Happens
• How Nielsen Ratings Determine What You Watch on TV
• 8+ Awesome Clocks Every Geek Will Love
• The Intrepids: 5 Inspirations From 5 Digital Nomads Who Work & Travel
• Malicious Spam Tweets Flood Twitter From Hacked Accounts
• Mailbox Comes To Android, But Is It Good Enough To Replace Gmail?

Cool Websites & Tools – Analyze Your Browser History, Keep Social Media In One Overview, & OSX Menu Bar Clock Replacement Posted: 25 Apr 2014 09:31 PM PDT Surfkollen – is a plugin for Firefox and Chrome that analyzes your browser history to see how you spend your week on the Internet. It checks your online habits, from which sites you visit the most, to what day of the week you do it. The outcome is a Surf Selfie that summarizes your weekly online activity. However, it only checks home domains but not sub-domains. Preact – It’s far less expensive to keep good customers than find new ones, which is why growing recurring revenues is the most cost-effective way to drive profitable growth. Preact Revenue Maximizer works 24×7... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Analyze Your Browser History, Keep Social Media In One Overview, & OSX Menu Bar Clock Replacement

Learning To Code Becomes More Fun As Codeacademy Reveals New Design Posted: 25 Apr 2014 08:30 PM PDT Codeacademy just pressed enter on a complete makeover. Learning how to code? Visit the popular programming language learning platform and test the completely new look. What you get to see is a more unified “visual language” across all the different areas of the site – from the layout to even the business cards, postcards, and posters. But what does the new layout do for you, the user? The new Codeacademy layout is fresh and responsive – so in essence it works across all devices. When you are learning code-dense languages like Ruby, Python and JavaScript it makes sense to have a... Read the full article: Learning To Code Becomes More Fun As Codeacademy Reveals New Design

Bringing Life To The Hard Drive Posted: 25 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT You use it every day, yet do you know how hard drives are made? Using components mined in South Africa, hard drives are mostly made of magnesium, with a bit of iron, zinc, silicon, and copper thrown in. For the full story, refer to this insightful infographic from Mozy. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: Bringing Life To The Hard Drive

iOS Apps on Sale for 26 Apr: Grab Classic Sonic Titles For 99c Posted: 25 Apr 2014 06:30 PM PDT It’s that time of the week where we round-up the best offers currently on the App Store, cutting through vast swathes of terrible apps and bad deals to bring you a few gems in the rough. This week you can grab a slice of classic Sega platforming action, as everyone’s favourite blue hedgehog goes on sale for $0.99. Also included is an award-winning annotation and note-taking app, NoteSuite and Facebook’s latest acquisition in the form of activity tracker, Moves. Apps NoteSuite ($4.99, now $0.99) One of the most popular and celebrated annotation, note-taking and to-do list managers in the App Store, NoteSuite is... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for 26 Apr: Grab Classic Sonic Titles For 99c

Nine New Features Added to the Google Keyword Planner Tool Posted: 25 Apr 2014 05:30 PM PDT The Google Keyword Planner Tool has always been one of the leading resources for web publishers and advertisers to research search engine query activity on the Internet, but now Google has added nine more features to the popular service. On Thursday, April 24th, Google rolled out nine new features to Keyword Planner, providing users with much more in depth information about search queries. Those new details include things like query changes over time, mobile device trends, enhanced location data and better visualizations. The new features are intended to give potential Adsense advertisers more insight into popular keyword queries online, but... Read the full article: Nine New Features Added to the Google Keyword Planner Tool

Hit By a Manual Spam Action? Here’s What To Do Posted: 25 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT Imagine you’ve just created your best work of art. It’s a oil-paint masterpiece the likes of which you’ll probably never be able to accomplish again. Then, someone comes along and streaks a permanent marker across the canvas. That’s what a Google manual spam action feels like. SEO and site popularity in general is a fickle thing. Just when you think you’ve got everything right and you’re coasting along with loads of visitors and activity, you get sideswiped by some Google algorithm update called Penguin, Panda, Possum or whatever the heck they decide to name it these days. The point is,... Read the full article: Hit By a Manual Spam Action? Here’s What To Do

Meet Invoiceable: A Free Invoicing Solution For Small Businesses Posted: 25 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT It doesn’t get cheaper than free. There are some excellent free invoicing tools out there that your small business can benefit from. Invoiceable is one of them. Perhaps you have known it (and used it?) in its early avatar called Invoice Bubble. If you have tried many invoicing apps and discarded them for various reasons, you might be inclined to think that Invoiceable is just more of the same. Be ready to be pleasantly surprised. Here’s What You’ll Be Looking For Invoiceable has an intuitive interface and workflow. With minimal tabs and settings, it ensures that you have fewer things... Read the full article: Meet Invoiceable: A Free Invoicing Solution For Small Businesses

5 Ways Kids Can Make Their Own Movies With A Smartphone Posted: 25 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT Spielberg crashed his toy trains. Michael Bay blew his toy trains up. Either way, people who grow up and become multi-million-dollar directors all started when they were just kids. I remember when I got my first camera: it was a Quasar VHS-C camcorder (placed in a Barbie camcorder box by my parents, who thought it was utterly hilarious). My first “film” was a stop-motion piece about G.I. Joes fighting a remote-controlled rat in our family kitchen. Had I access to a device that shot, edited, and distributed my mini-films… I would have been in heaven. Fortunately, such a device exists today:... Read the full article: 5 Ways Kids Can Make Their Own Movies With A Smartphone

Learning To Drive in the UK? You Need Theory Test Pro Posted: 25 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT Learning to drive in the UK is an arduous, expensive experience. There are two tests to take (one theory, one practical), each being ludicrously pricey. You’ll also need to have an astonishing amount of lessons (I’ve had over 50) just to even be in a position where you can take your practical test. Half a million learner drivers have to take their theory test each year, in addition to the thousands who have lost their license and had to start from scratch. Thankfully, there’s a product out there that promises to make it easy to revise for — and pass... Read the full article: Learning To Drive in the UK? You Need Theory Test Pro

Facebook Launches FBNewswire With Verified News As It Happens Posted: 25 Apr 2014 10:30 AM PDT Facebook is launching a really interesting new service that’s aimed specifically at journalists who are covering the latest happenings in the world called FBNewswire. It’s also useful for anyone who wants up-to-the-minute information on world events from verified sources. This new service, which uses Facebook’s partnership with News Corp-owned Storyful, offers real time information shared publicly by the users on Facebook who are actually at the event in question. When a major world event happens, such as a natural disaster, social media usually ends up breaking the story long before traditional media has the chance to cover it, and this... Read the full article: Facebook Launches FBNewswire With Verified News As It Happens

How Nielsen Ratings Determine What You Watch on TV Posted: 25 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead. What do these shows have in common? They’re all examples of TV shows that have gained significant viewership over the course of their runs, a feat so rare as to be near impossible. But how is a TV show’s audience size determined? More importantly, why does it matter? That’s where the Nielsen Company steps in. It should be noted that the Nielsen Company is only responsible for TV ratings in the United States, but similar techniques are used by comparable organizations in other regions of the world (e.g., BARB in the... Read the full article: How Nielsen Ratings Determine What You Watch on TV

8+ Awesome Clocks Every Geek Will Love Posted: 25 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT Are clocks passé? Just because everyone has a smartphone doesn’t mean a dedicated time piece is unnecessary. On the contrary, now that clocks and watches are not really needed to tell the time, you can use them for other means as well. While watches are getting smarter and smarter, wall clocks generally remain their old stupid self. But they no longer have to be circles with plain numbers. Whether you’re actually a geek or not, you won’t be able to withstand these unique clocks. Super Mario Bros 3 Clock ($9.99) Who said geeky clocks need to be expensive? icentre9 is... Read the full article: 8+ Awesome Clocks Every Geek Will Love

The Intrepids: 5 Inspirations From 5 Digital Nomads Who Work & Travel Posted: 25 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT Are you out and about on an adventure with laptop and iPhone in tow? Or are you stuck in that same cubicle fighting to stay on top of a never-ending rat race? For many of us, the first is a dream. The second – a nightmare. We have all dreamed about breaking out by escaping the cubicle and finding a dream job. Personally, I succeeded by getting away from a ten year corporate career to the freedom of freelance writing. Like many, my struggle for the right work-life balance is very much on. Thanks to the Web, we can take... Read the full article: The Intrepids: 5 Inspirations From 5 Digital Nomads Who Work & Travel

Malicious Spam Tweets Flood Twitter From Hacked Accounts Posted: 25 Apr 2014 07:30 AM PDT Every now and then it’s common to see spam messages on Twitter promoting some weight loss pill or dating site, but this Thursday hundreds of tweets flooded Twitter promoting a weight loss “miracle pill”. The attack started at approximately 10pm UTC and initially showed up as regular users tweeting the message, “If I didn’t try this my life wouldn’t have changed.” The link was a carefully parsed URL made to appear as though it was a link for a women’s health website, while the actual URL led users to a spoof women’s health magazine site. The spoof page appears as a... Read the full article: Malicious Spam Tweets Flood Twitter From Hacked Accounts

Mailbox Comes To Android, But Is It Good Enough To Replace Gmail? Posted: 25 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT Since its launch, Mailbox has been one of the hottest iPhone apps—it was so popular that Dropbox bought it. Well, it’s now finally hit Android. Can it also become one of the best Android apps? It’s a free app and not much has changed from the iOS version. There are a few additions, of course. Mailbox now requires you to have a Dropbox account or create a new one before you start using it. Plus there’s a new intelligent feature called Auto-Swipes, but we’ll come to that later. But more or less, it’s what we saw already on the iPhone... Read the full article: Mailbox Comes To Android, But Is It Good Enough To Replace Gmail?

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