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• 5 More Sites & Apps To Enhance Your Music Experience
• Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About 90s Video Game Consoles
• 4 Basic Android Homescreen Replacements For New Smartphone Users
• Forget Band Aid: 7 Charity Singles Perfect For Christmas
• Meet Instagram’s Five New Filters (And Learn What They Are Best For)
• 4 Books That Need Video Game Adaptations
• Disconnect This Holiday With 10 Inspiring Microadventures
• How A Little Tech Knowlege Can Save You Thousands Every Year
• Wikipedia Has Millions In The Bank – Why Beg For More?
• 6 Cool Watch Faces For Your Android Wear Smartwatch
• So You Want To Make iPhone Apps? 6 Projects For Beginners
• Sony Pulls The Interview After Terror Threat From Hackers, & More… [Tech News Digest]

5 More Sites & Apps To Enhance Your Music Experience Posted: 18 Dec 2014 08:30 PM PST Music touches people in many different ways. For some, it is like a religion — they can’t get enough of it. For others, like myself, it is just background noise. Regardless of how you feel about music however, there are countless music apps online which serve music fans of all stripes. We have covered a tremendous amount of them already — too many to list here. Today on Cool Websites & Apps, we take a look at 5 great apps and sites you should be taking a close interest in. Flowkey As well as the violin, the one instrument I would love... Read the full article: 5 More Sites & Apps To Enhance Your Music Experience

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About 90s Video Game Consoles Posted: 18 Dec 2014 06:30 PM PST Think you know about video game consoles? Sure, you might know a thing or two, but there’s a lot of consoles out there you might not have heard of. And for the ones you do know, I can promise there’s some facts about them of which you aren’t aware. Don’t worry though, because we’ve found an infographic that will break it all down for you! Want more? Check out these unknown portable consoles that you’ve probably never played! Via Reddit Click To Enlarge Read the full article: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About 90s Video Game Consoles

4 Basic Android Homescreen Replacements For New Smartphone Users Posted: 18 Dec 2014 10:00 AM PST Homescreen launcher replacements generally focus on advanced users, folks who want to customize their phones past the limitations imposed on them out of the box. But what about the folks who find the default launchers too intimidating? There are no shortage of people who want the features of a smartphone or tablet without all of the complexity, especially among our elders. This is the list of Android launcher replacements made just for them. Wiser (Free) What does nearly everyone who owns a smartphone expect to do at some point? Why, the same things they did with their dumbphones! People need to place calls, save contacts, and... Read the full article: 4 Basic Android Homescreen Replacements For New Smartphone Users

Forget Band Aid: 7 Charity Singles Perfect For Christmas Posted: 18 Dec 2014 09:00 AM PST Band Aid is back. If you loved it before, you’ll love it again. But for those who don’t like it, there are plenty of other charity singles to celebrate Christmas. “There won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas.” Well, perhaps not specifically on 25th December, but it does snow in Africa, particularly in the South. I’m not a big fan of Band Aid, but it carries considerable weight with acts like Paloma Faith, One Direction, and Rita Ora. Yet it’s unrelentingly depressing and condescending, its lyrics cringe-worthy – or at least, that’s what I think. I can’t be the only... Read the full article: Forget Band Aid: 7 Charity Singles Perfect For Christmas

Meet Instagram’s Five New Filters (And Learn What They Are Best For) Posted: 18 Dec 2014 08:30 AM PST Photography social network Instagram has issued a new update, which brings five new filters, the ability to reorder the filters, and thumbnail previews. Instagram is releasing new filters for the first time in two years. Using the right filter is an important method to get noticed on Instagram. The five new filters—Slumber, Crema, Ludwig, Aden and Perpetua—are available on both the iOS and the Android app. Capitol OTC notes that the new photo trend is moving towards cleaner and less dramatic textures and colours. Originally, Instagram caught on because the filters masked the shortcomings of smartphone cameras. Now, with phone... Read the full article: Meet Instagram’s Five New Filters (And Learn What They Are Best For)

4 Books That Need Video Game Adaptations Posted: 18 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST Great video games have been made by adapting everything from movies to comic books. Where book-to-video game adaptations are concerned, the gaming industry hasn’t even scratched the surface. These four books that would make fantastic video games. Zorro For all our love of Batman, and the very successful Arkham series we can’t seem to get enough of, we’ve never really bothered to make a good game for the character upon whom Batman is based. That character is Zorro, one of the original rich-idiot-by-day, vigilante-by-night heroes. Zorro is one of those heroes most people have heard of, but his story hasn’t been told... Read the full article: 4 Books That Need Video Game Adaptations

Disconnect This Holiday With 10 Inspiring Microadventures Posted: 18 Dec 2014 07:30 AM PST I first heard the term “Microadventure” back in 2012 while watching the TEDxOxbridge talk by adventurer Alastair Humphreys.  In short, microadventures are small but exciting adventures that we can experience without the presumed long distances, time-frames and deep wallets needed to realise more “traditional”, hard-core adventures. These are travel adventures that we can enjoy over a week, a weekend, or even just a few hours. They’re accessible by us all, in order to take some time away, to disconnect, and to help us experience something entirely beyond our own norms. Below are a selection of some of my favourite microadventure videos... Read the full article: Disconnect This Holiday With 10 Inspiring Microadventures

How A Little Tech Knowlege Can Save You Thousands Every Year Posted: 18 Dec 2014 07:00 AM PST Not sure where all your money goes every month? If you’re like most people, a good chunk of it goes to regularly-scheduled monthly expenses – and you’re just barely keeping up. With a little tech savvy, though, you can get those expenses down and save thousands every year. Yes, thousands. Cable TV, data plans, landlines – they’re all nice from time to time, but do you know how much they’re costing you? Because it’s likely more than you think. Lots of companies, in their marketing, try to make a monthly expense sound manageable by dividing the total into days. For example: instead of a... Read the full article: How A Little Tech Knowlege Can Save You Thousands Every Year

Wikipedia Has Millions In The Bank – Why Beg For More? Posted: 18 Dec 2014 06:00 AM PST If you have been on Wikipedia in the past few days, you must have noticed an appeal from co-founder Jimmy Wales. It comes up every December, like clockwork. The world’s largest publicly-edited encyclopaedia needs donations, from you, to keep running. But does it really? Earlier this year, the Wikimedia Foundation (which runs Wikipedia) raised over $140,000 in its first week of accepting Bitcoin donations, according to Coinbase. That’s a significant amount of money, but the annual fundraising drive’s goal this year is to raise $20 million in the month of December. What Does Wikipedia Need The Money For? Like any... Read the full article: Wikipedia Has Millions In The Bank – Why Beg For More?

6 Cool Watch Faces For Your Android Wear Smartwatch Posted: 18 Dec 2014 05:00 AM PST If you’ve read our guide to picking an Android Wear smartwatch and have a shiny new toy on your wrist, congratulations! While Android Wear hasn’t really become a must-have yet, it has lots of cool functions that are only getting better as time goes on. No matter which device you’re rocking — perhaps the LG G Watch (our review) or the Moto 360, which we’ve also reviewed — Wear allows you to set a custom watch face. The default ones are cool enough, but you go with Android because you want to customize, right? Let’s take a look at the coolest... Read the full article: 6 Cool Watch Faces For Your Android Wear Smartwatch

So You Want To Make iPhone Apps? 6 Projects For Beginners Posted: 18 Dec 2014 04:00 AM PST When you’re trying to pick a programming language to learn, it’s easy to gravitate toward the big ones that developers use to create masterpieces of digital content — things like Java, C++, Ruby, and Python. But there are a lot of programming languages out there (including some very weird ones), and they each excel at different things. Why not try learning Swift, the language that will let you create iPhone and iPad apps? These six projects will walk you through it. Getting Acquainted with Swift If you’re not familiar with Swift, it’s a language developed by Apple for creating iOS and... Read the full article: So You Want To Make iPhone Apps? 6 Projects For Beginners

Sony Pulls The Interview After Terror Threat From Hackers, & More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 18 Dec 2014 03:30 AM PST Also, the BlackBerry Classic brings sexy back, Netflix is never going offline, Yo gets festive, Wikipedia edits 2014, and the best Star Wars Christmas lights ever. Sony Pulls The Interview Because Of Hackers A Seth Rogen movie has caused an international incident. That’s it. I’m done. Reality has jumped the shark. — Jason Lee Byas (@jasonleebyas) December 18, 2014 Sony Pictures has pulled The Interview after several major movie theater chains decided against showing the movie. The Interview is a comedy film directed by Evan Goldberg, and starring Seth Rogen and James Franco. The latter play journalists sent to North... Read the full article: Sony Pulls The Interview After Terror Threat From Hackers, & More… [Tech News Digest]

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