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• Google Explains What You Need To Know About Ad Viewability
• What Was Your Favorite YouTube Video Of 2014? [We Ask You]
• New Malware Highlights Importance Of Updating & Securing Your WordPress Blog
• 5 Reasons Your To-Do App Is Making You Less Productive
• 6 Classic Adventure Remakes That You Need To Play
• iPhone & iPad Last Minute Gift Guide for 2014
• Proper Gmail On Your iPhone: 4 Google-Friendly Email Apps
• 79% Off: Back Up Your Mobile Device Forever For Only $10
• It’s Happening: Robots May Be The Creative Artists Of The Future
• Get A Modern Start Menu For Windows 7 & 8
• Apple Innocent In iTunes Indictment, Facebook Enhances Your Photos [Tech News Digest]

Google Explains What You Need To Know About Ad Viewability Posted: 17 Dec 2014 06:30 PM PST Who knows more about serving advertisements than Google? The search engine giant runs ads all over the Internet. As such, it has a ton of data on what makes an ad actually appear on a user’s screen. After all, what good is serving an ad if no one sees it? The infographic, just released by Google, breaks down the five key factors of ad viewability. If you’ve ever spent money to advertise on the Internet, you need to see this. Via Think With Google Click To Enlarge Read the full article: Google Explains What You Need To Know About Ad Viewability

What Was Your Favorite YouTube Video Of 2014? [We Ask You] Posted: 17 Dec 2014 05:30 PM PST There are so many videos uploaded to YouTube it’s hard to know where to start sorting the wheat from the chaff. Which is why we’re not going to attempt such an impossible feat. Instead, we’re crowdsourcing the whole thing, asking you to name your favorite video of 2014. You Choose YouTube Yucks We want to know, What Was Your Favorite YouTube Video Of 2014? More than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube each and every minute. It’s a startling statistic that means there are far too many videos posted to the site for anyone to watch them all…... Read the full article: What Was Your Favorite YouTube Video Of 2014? [We Ask You]

New Malware Highlights Importance Of Updating & Securing Your WordPress Blog Posted: 17 Dec 2014 10:00 AM PST WordPress blogs are easy to install, simple to administer and hugely popular. Although there are no public statistics, 23.2% of the top 10 million websites were running WordPress software as of August 2013. The platform is the most popular option for sole bloggers, organizations, educational facilities and media outlets, which is why we’ve produced a guide to setting up WordPress websites. So when a malware infection as devastating as the newly discovered SoakSoak.ru comes along, it is vital that WordPress blog owners act. Fast. After all, you wouldn’t want your visitors’ computers to become infected with malware, would you? That would... Read the full article: New Malware Highlights Importance Of Updating & Securing Your WordPress Blog

5 Reasons Your To-Do App Is Making You Less Productive Posted: 17 Dec 2014 09:00 AM PST Let me take a guess about how your Monday mornings start. You wake up, get ready and head to work. When you get to work and take a look at all of your projects, you figure out what needs to be done. Now you get out your trusty to-do list app and start making a monstrous list of tasks you’ll carry around all week and swear to finish. Friday comes and you did the bare minimum…again. Your problem isn’t your ambition or the task planning app you use. The problem is in how you are using your to-do list in... Read the full article: 5 Reasons Your To-Do App Is Making You Less Productive

6 Classic Adventure Remakes That You Need To Play Posted: 17 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST The adventure game genre has been around for decades. It was at one point the most popular genre in gaming, way back before action and FPS games crowded the scene. While it still remains strong, many consider the classic and golden era to be set firmly in the past. Years later, we are now seeing these older adventure games come back. Enough time has passed for the developers to reassess their creations, consider improvements and bring their work to new platforms that weren’t around in their day. These adventure games that have either been remastered or simply rereleased, ready to... Read the full article: 6 Classic Adventure Remakes That You Need To Play

iPhone & iPad Last Minute Gift Guide for 2014 Posted: 17 Dec 2014 07:30 AM PST Apps are the best last minute Christmas presents. The secret to a memorable gift is to make it something that is feasible and useful for the receiver, says a recent study. That almost sounds like a description for buying apps that your loved one wants or should use, but probably wouldn’t purchase. 2014 ushered in changes to the way apps interact thanks to iOS 8 (which you should install right away), and plenty of awesome updates to old apps that made them must-haves. And of course, there were plenty of fantastic games to play too. Many of these apps are dirt cheap, so why... Read the full article: iPhone & iPad Last Minute Gift Guide for 2014

Proper Gmail On Your iPhone: 4 Google-Friendly Email Apps Posted: 17 Dec 2014 06:00 AM PST According to most estimates, Gmail is the largest webmail provider in the world—which means there are a lot of ways to access it from your iPhone. But which are the best? Which take full advantage of Gmail’s features? Which give you the purest Gmail experience from your phone? We looked at a wide variety of today’s popular iOS email apps to find out. Apps that Didn’t Make the Cut Because of the wide variety of options available, we had a hard time deciding on the number of apps to include. A number of high-quality mail apps didn’t make the cut simply... Read the full article: Proper Gmail On Your iPhone: 4 Google-Friendly Email Apps

79% Off: Back Up Your Mobile Device Forever For Only $10 Posted: 17 Dec 2014 05:30 AM PST You don’t like spending a lot of money, right? No one wants to spend big bucks, and that’s why we love seeking out the best deals and bringing them to you! Today, we’re going to take a look at a lifetime subscription to IDrive for the low price of $10. That’s a staggering 79% off the full retail price of $50! With this deal, you’ll be able to back up your mobile devices without spending a lot of money! This deal won’t last, so grab it quickly! What You Get You might be thinking that you don’t need any kind of... Read the full article: 79% Off: Back Up Your Mobile Device Forever For Only $10

It’s Happening: Robots May Be The Creative Artists Of The Future Posted: 17 Dec 2014 05:00 AM PST It’s no secret that the world is being automated and that millions of people are losing work as a result. With a properly programmed machine, any unskilled laborer can be replaced. Factory workers, cashiers, drivers — these are all employees at risk of losing their jobs to more efficient workers with silicon chips and no desire for a paycheck. Even some white collar professionals should be worried. But creative people are safe, aren’t they? No machine or piece of software can emulate the passion of an artist, right? Wrong, sort of. Human creativity is important, but — sorry guys — the robots... Read the full article: It’s Happening: Robots May Be The Creative Artists Of The Future

Get A Modern Start Menu For Windows 7 & 8 Posted: 17 Dec 2014 04:00 AM PST Sometimes, you don’t know how much you need something until it’s gone. Before Windows 8 came along, it didn’t seem like the Start Menu was a particularly popular Windows feature. After it was removed, however, we suddenly realized how much we depended on it. We have covered alternative Start Menus for Windows 8 in several different articles. This article looks at creative Start Menu alternatives and replacements that also work with Windows 7. A modern Start Menu can be a good way to bring something fresh to any version of Windows. Start Menu Reviver A Start Menu and Start Screen replacement... Read the full article: Get A Modern Start Menu For Windows 7 & 8

Apple Innocent In iTunes Indictment, Facebook Enhances Your Photos [Tech News Digest] Posted: 17 Dec 2014 03:30 AM PST Also, Instagram adds filters, a free Chromecast for all, GTA V teases Online Heists, and Cards Against Humanity is bulls**t. Apple Not Guilty Of Anti-Competitiveness Awesome ad for Apple iPod and iTunes pic.twitter.com/KJay46ba70 — Brilliant Ads (@BrilliantAdx) December 17, 2014 A jury has unanimously found Apple not guilty of anti-competitive behavior, rejecting claims that iTunes 7.0 harmed users’ ability to play music purchased elsewhere. The eight-man jury decided that iTunes 7.0 equated to “genuine product improvement,” and was therefore a good thing for consumers. If Apple had lost this case then the company was facing paying damages of around $1... Read the full article: Apple Innocent In iTunes Indictment, Facebook Enhances Your Photos [Tech News Digest]

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