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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery

Who doesn’t love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…

Adobe Acrobat Pro is the ultimate solution for increased productivity

Disclosure: Our team is always looking for things we think our readers will value. We have received compensation for publishing this article. Despite our many technological advances today, we still sit with situations where we open several apps for a task. You use one to compile a document, another one…

GOM Mix Max’s Big Launch

GOM & Company is releasing its newest video editing software, GOM Mix Max, with a big launch celebration. Focused on balancing high-quality and plentiful features, GOM Mix Max will be a powerful tool for new editors and veterans alike. Users who sign up now can get GOM Mix Max for free for…

Samsung continues its run as one of the leading tablet makers in the world after the Korean company announced it has sold 5 million units of the Galaxy Note II in just two months. A statement from the firm stated that the phablet has been performing as per expectations... Read more
Google And Apple Partner To Purchase Kodak Patents
Google and Apple are usually in court to battle one another over patent infringements, however this week the two tech giants have announced a partnership aimed as securing the rights to Kodak’s vast library of technology patents. According to various reports the company’s will team up to offer $500... Read more
The Best iPhone Travel Apps for the Holidays
During the busy holiday season, many people travel across the state or the country to visit family and friends.  Even those who don’t travel too far will find themselves making more trips to the mall to finish their holiday shopping or going out to a special event or party. ... Read more
Return of the GNOME – Linux Bringing Back Desktop Environment
Linux users don’t like the newest version of the GNOME desktop, the GNOME 3. They have expressed their sentiments on forums and elsewhere on the internet. With Ubuntu, MATE and Cinnamon offering better desktop user experience, it is no surprise that people were drifting away from GNOME 3. Yet,... Read more
Top Facebook Games of 2012
Facebook games have changed the landscape of gaming, to the delight of some and to the irritation of many. I am not sure about the percentages, but if my Facebook news feed is any indication, there are a lot more people who declare that they do not and will not... Read more
Is Next Issue the New Netflix of Magazines?
Next Issue is an app that provides unlimited magazine reading for a monthly subscription fee. It recently announced expansion of its library with 8 new titles to reach a total of 80 magazines. Currently, this is an Apple app only, but the company has promised that Android users will... Read more
Australian Police Claim Apple Maps Dangerous
Using Apple Maps in Australia could leave you for dead. Police in Victoria are urging motorists to completely avoid the beleaguered iOS 6 application after several motorists received unreliable directions that ultimately stranded them in the countries treacherous outback. In some cases motorists who ran out of gas were... Read more
Apple Moves Up to No.2 behind Samsung in US Mobile Market Share
For all the huge sales, the billions of dollars of revenue, the spaceship campuses, iPads, iPods and iPhones, Apple still lagged behind LG in terms of the US mobile market share. Well, that has changed, at least for this past quarter. Samsung leads the way in terms of mobile... Read more
The Viggle-GetGlue Merger
Viggle made the announcement that it acquired GetGlue just a week after Nielsen bought SocialGuide.  The two major moves promise to make a difference in social TV.   Viggle is taking all 34 GetGlue employees in the acquisition, including the CEO Alex Iskold. Several similarities exist between the two... Read more
The New Look of YouTube
YouTube is rolling out a new look for its website.  The site is more user-friendly with less clutter to appeal to its wide audience.  Since people who visit the site are looking for videos, they are front and center right under the logo for the most direct attention. YouTube... Read more
New IE 10 Ad Just Might Change Your Mind…A Little
Let’s face it. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is a browser we all love to hate. It just sucks. And yet, not matter how many times we say it sucks, or how many times we hear about its flaws – securityand otherwise, the web browser continues to be the most widely... Read more
Nationwide Google Fiber Project Would Cost $140 Billion
A Google Fiber project that spanned the entire continental United States would cost the software giant $140 billion to build. The network which is being tested in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri could theoretically be placed inside every home in America, however the company’s cash reserves of $45... Read more
Google Buys Bufferbox – Could Compete with Amazon
Google looks to have taken a giant stride towards planting its foothold in e-commerce with its purchase of Canadian startup Bufferbox. The Canadian company is a package storage facility which allows people to keep the things they have ordered online. It provides Google an avenue to target shipping and... Read more
Ex-Googlers Build Travel App Triposo
Countless admirers of Google rave about the company’s culture of nurturing and encouraging creativity, so much so that their employees are treated to things that workers from other companies can only dream of. As a result, some of the best and most ingenious minds can be found in Google,... Read more
Research in Motion (RIM) Becomes Hottest Technology Stock
Believe it or not, but BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has managed to topple Apple, Samsung and Microsoft to become the hottest technology stock over the past week. The company has been in doldrums during the past few months and their stock price had plummeted badly. In fact,... Read more
New Windows 7 PCs Available Until 2013
Windows 8 has been out for over a month but the general perception remains people are taking their time to warm up to it. In this day and age, where the new iPad and iPhones are lapped up by the public, slow appreciation could spell doomsday for a product... Read more
Spotify Premium Hits 5 Million Users Worldwide
Spotify’s streaming music service has become an instant hit in every single country where it has launched, now just over one year since arriving in the United States the company has proven its proof of concept. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced during a Thursday press event in New York... Read more
Before 2012 Ends, We Can Download All Our Tweets!
Earlier this year, the Twitter’s numbers were already impressive, with 140 million active users sending 340 million tweets every single day. Come to think of it, how many tweets do you send every day? How many tweets have you sent since you signed up? You may or may not... Read more