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• Your Password Might Be Next to Get Nabbed
• Building the Perfect Smartphone
• Are Blackberry and Windows Phone Users Discriminated Against? (No.)
• Time Your Tasks And Tackle Your To-Do List With Do Now For Android
• 10 Video Game Soundtracks from 2014 You Should Listen To
• 5 Ways Passwords & Other Data Can Be Stolen From Right Under Your Nose
• Can’t Wait for Evolve? 5 Asymmetrical Multiplayer Games You Can Play Now
• Why Gamification Is Not The Magic Bullet Everyone Thinks It Is
• 6 More Awesome Apps For Your Android Wear Smartwatch
• GIFs, The Language Of The Web: Their History, Culture, and Future
• 4 Boring Tasks You Can Automate With the Windows Task Scheduler
• Casual Games with Surprisingly Good Stories
• Get 10 Great Mac Apps to Supercharge Your Productivity For Only $10!
• How to Create a Vision Board and Meet Your Big Goals
• Facebook Goes Down for an Hour, As Drone Crashes into White House [Tech News Digest]

Your Password Might Be Next to Get Nabbed Posted: 27 Jan 2015 06:30 PM PST Passwords are a tricky beast. Too many users set the same password for every single thing, and this can lead to catastrophic problems. For business owners, this can be an even greater problem, as a password breech can mean a huge loss of money. To really understand how to make a secure password, you need to understand passwords, and you need to understand the possible problems that could occur if your password is stolen. How? Just take a look at the infographic below. Via Meldium Click To Enlarge Read the full article: Your Password Might Be Next to Get Nabbed

Building the Perfect Smartphone Posted: 27 Jan 2015 05:30 PM PST Smartphones are improving all the time. The current models make the early attempts look ancient, despite it being less than a decade since the original iPhone was introduced to an awestruck world. However, the perfect smartphone doesn’t yet exist. Which is a problem we’re seeking to remedy. Smarter Smartphone Features As much as you may love your current smartphone, there are bound to be things about it with which you’re unsatisfied. If not, then you’re either easily pleased or lying through your teeth to make yourself feel better about having paid a small fortune for your pocket-dwelling gadget of choice.... Read the full article: Building the Perfect Smartphone

Are Blackberry and Windows Phone Users Discriminated Against? (No.) Posted: 27 Jan 2015 12:00 PM PST Last week, Blackberry CEO John Chen wrote an op-ed on the future of net neutrality. It got…weird. “.. if we truly want a free, open and non-discriminatory internet. All wireless broadband customers must have the ability to access any lawful applications and content they choose, and applications/content providers must be prohibited from discriminating based on the customer's mobile operating system. Discrimination, John Chen? I’m a longtime Blackberry user who loves the platform, but this is just ridiculous. Discrimination is a word with a very specific meaning, and is generally understood to mean exclusion or ill-treatment of a protected group. In the... Read the full article: Are Blackberry and Windows Phone Users Discriminated Against? (No.)

Time Your Tasks And Tackle Your To-Do List With Do Now For Android Posted: 27 Jan 2015 11:00 AM PST When you need to get things done, there are a few basic principles to keep in mind: You need to prioritise your to-do list, you need to know how much time each task takes, and you need to account for breaks to keep concentration levels high. Do Now automates these processes to help you tackle your action items. Do Now is special because it recognises the link between these principles and marries them into a cohesive interface. Over time, you will be able to use this free Android app to get better at time management and set up routines to... Read the full article: Time Your Tasks And Tackle Your To-Do List With Do Now For Android

10 Video Game Soundtracks from 2014 You Should Listen To Posted: 27 Jan 2015 10:30 AM PST Video games have always had excellent music. No matter how far back you go in the timeline, you’ll probably find a game that had memorably catchy tunes. We all have at least one video game song or score in our music library. The video games that came out last year had some great music. It doesn’t matter if you need music for studying, driving, or conquering the world; 2014 had a video game soundtrack perfect for it. So get ready to create a new playlist! Destiny Frankly, Destiny‘s score is more of a fun adventure than the game itself was... Read the full article: 10 Video Game Soundtracks from 2014 You Should Listen To

5 Ways Passwords & Other Data Can Be Stolen From Right Under Your Nose Posted: 27 Jan 2015 10:00 AM PST Your password is you. It’s the key to your life. Whether it unlocks your email account, your computer or your smartphone, the password is vital to your online persona, the usernames, website accounts, perhaps banking and credit cards, cloud storage, and even gaming accounts. If you lose your password to criminals, your entire existence can potentially be rewritten. At best, you can expect to find some mischief conducted on a Twitter or Facebook account, but at worst… well, the risk of identity theft is something that we’ve explained previously, and the warning signs can be spotted if you know what you’re looking... Read the full article: 5 Ways Passwords & Other Data Can Be Stolen From Right Under Your Nose

Can’t Wait for Evolve? 5 Asymmetrical Multiplayer Games You Can Play Now Posted: 27 Jan 2015 09:30 AM PST Next month, Turtle Rock Studios’ Evolve finally comes out. It’s an asymmetrical multiplayer game that pits a group of four hunters against a single player-controlled monster that grows and evolves the longer it survives. It looks like a it’ll be a solid break from the team-on-team firefights that we’ve been seeing from Call of Duty, Halo, and Destiny. But you don’t have to wait until Evolve hits the shelves—you can play these 5 asymmetrical multiplayer games right now. Left 4 Dead Series Unsurprisingly, two of Turtle Rock’s previous games include asymmetrical modes that make for really fun multiplayer action. In both Left 4 Dead and Left... Read the full article: Can’t Wait for Evolve? 5 Asymmetrical Multiplayer Games You Can Play Now

Why Gamification Is Not The Magic Bullet Everyone Thinks It Is Posted: 27 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST How do you make something boring more compelling? By turning it into a game! That’s the current line of thought that’s spreading across the web like a plague, as if slapping on a few badges and leaderboards is enough engage users. The truth? Gamification can be harmful. Gamification is a specific tool meant to address a specific class of problems – and in the right context, gamification can be immensely fruitful. But before you think about gamifying your business, your community, or your lifestyle, make sure that the context is the kind that will actually benefit from it. To help you... Read the full article: Why Gamification Is Not The Magic Bullet Everyone Thinks It Is

6 More Awesome Apps For Your Android Wear Smartwatch Posted: 27 Jan 2015 08:30 AM PST Recently, we took a look at some essential apps for any smartwatch owner. Those six apps are useful for anyone using Android Wear, no matter their preferences or technical experience. However, you’ll likely want to expand beyond the basics. Even if you skip the first list, be sure to install the indispensable Wear Mini Launcher before hitting this one, as it enables you to open apps on your watch much more easily. Today, we’re going to take a look at some more Android Wear apps that are still handy, but not as universally useful. From customization to automation, these offer... Read the full article: 6 More Awesome Apps For Your Android Wear Smartwatch

GIFs, The Language Of The Web: Their History, Culture, and Future Posted: 27 Jan 2015 08:00 AM PST There is something about GIFs that captures our attention. They have no sound, and are low-quality . In a way, it’s little more than the digital version of a flip-book. Yet, the Internet loves using a GIF as a reaction. How did this phenomenon start, what makes it so popular, and where is it headed? To understand GIFs, you need to understand that humour has always been at the core of their appeal. You’ve probably never heard of John Woodell, but you’ve seen his work. That’s right: Woodell is the web developer to whom we owe the Dancing Baby GIF, arguably the first... Read the full article: GIFs, The Language Of The Web: Their History, Culture, and Future

4 Boring Tasks You Can Automate With the Windows Task Scheduler Posted: 27 Jan 2015 07:00 AM PST How many Windows tasks do you carry out again and again? Wouldn’t it be great if these could be automated? You’re in luck, because that’s precisely what the Task Scheduler will do. While the basic functionality of the Task Scheduler is to open programs at a specified point, it’s actually capable of other functionality like sending emails, sending the computer to sleep, or deleting all files in a folder automatically. Let us show you how. The Basic ‘How To’ Of Task Scheduler Firstly, do a system search for schedule tasks or task scheduler and select the result to launch the utility. Even if you’ve... Read the full article: 4 Boring Tasks You Can Automate With the Windows Task Scheduler

Casual Games with Surprisingly Good Stories Posted: 27 Jan 2015 06:00 AM PST While most casual games are not known for having stories, some have very enjoyable ones! Some developers actually take the time to add a fun story to their light games. Shocking, I know. While the exact definition of what makes a “casual game” varies, everyone knows one when they see one. They’re the games you play on your iPad when you’re bored. They’re the games you can play on your Android phone during your break. They’re your gateway drug to more challenging games. When you can’t be in Hyrule, or Lordran, or the Tower, these are the small games that... Read the full article: Casual Games with Surprisingly Good Stories

Get 10 Great Mac Apps to Supercharge Your Productivity For Only $10! Posted: 27 Jan 2015 05:30 AM PST $1 an app. These 10 apps are designed to boost your productivity for just $10. It doesn’t get much cheaper than that, but this deal is only available for a limited time, so you need to make sure you purchase it quickly! Disk Map If you need to keep track of your Mac’s hard drive, this is a fantastic app for getting the job done. It provides a visual interface to judge the amount of space your files and folders take up on your drive. It also includes the tools you need to delete, compress, and move files. It’s your... Read the full article: Get 10 Great Mac Apps to Supercharge Your Productivity For Only $10!

How to Create a Vision Board and Meet Your Big Goals Posted: 27 Jan 2015 05:00 AM PST Can you dig through a hundred meters of solid rock alone? “No,” a reasonable person would say – and they’d be wrong. The “Mountain Man” of India proved otherwise. It took the humble laborer 22 years to break a road through a mountain, by himself, using only the most basic of tools.  When he finished, his village finally had access to medical care and transport.  Odds are pretty good that the toughest challenges in your life are not as big as the Mountain Man’s.  It should take us a lot less for us to break our big rocks. Some people call... Read the full article: How to Create a Vision Board and Meet Your Big Goals

Facebook Goes Down for an Hour, As Drone Crashes into White House [Tech News Digest] Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:30 AM PST Facebook suffers outage, drone crashes into White House, Microsoft announces financials, Nest replaces Dropcams, Funny or Die thinks weather is funny, and the BMW ad celebrating ignorance. Facebook was Down, Albeit Briefly Things to do when Facebook is down: 1. Tweet that Facebook is down. #facebookdown — Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) January 27, 2015 Facebook suffered an outage of around 40 minutes on Monday night (Jan 26), and the Internet immediately lost its head. Instagram, Tinder, Hipchat, Pinterest and others all seemed to be suffering similar fates at around the same time. Lizard Squad (the hackers who took down Xbox Live... Read the full article: Facebook Goes Down for an Hour, As Drone Crashes into White House [Tech News Digest]

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