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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…

Will The New Xbox And PlayStation Block Used Games?
Things are heating up, with the 20th of February just around the corner. If you’re not aware yet, that date is when Sony is supposed to make official announcements about the PlayStation 4, something that many a gamer has been waiting for. Maybe, we’ll finally know whether the rumors... Read more
Google Summer of Code 2013
Applications will be accepted soon to Google’s Summer of Code program.  College students around the world often use the summer break as time to find ways to bolster their resumes and gain real world experience.  Google is once again providing students with this experience, through their Summer of Code... Read more
Gmail Reads Your Email: Microsoft’s New Campaign against Google
Microsoft has been unrelenting in its attacks on Google. Whether it is a product launch or a lawsuit, Microsoft doesn’t let go off any opportunity to attack the search engine giant. This time round, Microsoft has launched a whole new campaign against Google. Being touted as Gmail Reads Your... Read more
The Room: Popular iPad Game Gets 5 Stars
Fireproof Games is the creator of the Room, a mind-bending, HD puzzle game for the iPad 2. The original game designed for the iPad was named Apple’s iPad Game of the year for 2012, and with good reason.  Players’ assessments of this game are nothing but positive, earning and... Read more
This Week’s Top 5 Trending Videos
This week’s list of the top 5 trending videos is diverse to say the least. It features a girl enjoying her first train ride, YouTube stars covering songs by this year’s Grammy nominees and a person eating a pizza in one minute. You may wonder where are all the... Read more
Twitter App Vine Changes User Rating
Vine’s user rating has now been changed from 12 and up to 17 and up.  When Vine, the video sharing iOS app, was released in the App Store at the end of last month, it quickly took root.  Vine took over the number one free app spot in the... Read more
New Zealand Police To Receive 9,900 iPhones, iPads
New Zealand Police will soon be fighting crime — with iPhones and iPads? The countries 6000 frontline officers will receive a new iPhone to carry in the field and 3900 officers are set to receive an iPad for their cruisers. Government officials have approved the plan which was finalized... Read more
Ouya Announces Two New Partners
Ouya, the crowd funded game console maker, announced a new deal recently. Ouya has partnered up with two major players in the gaming industry that include Paul Bettner’s Verse Studio and Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions. The android powered gaming console’s news was music to the ears of fans... Read more
Facebook Launching Location Tracking App
During the last three months of 2012, Facebook’s mobile daily users, for the first time ever, surpassed the site’s web daily users. To accommodate Facebook’s 680 million monthly active mobile app users, 2013 will be spent developing ways to entice even more mobile users, keep users active and interested,... Read more
Basecamp Finally Creates an iOS App
The popular project management platform, Basecamp, finally has an official iOS app.  Formerly only available through mobile web and third party Android and iOS apps, Basecamp already has a massive amount of users .  Basecamp already manages over 8 million projects. With their new iOS app, it is easy... Read more
Docracy Tracks Terms Of Service Changes
Remember when Instagram made some changes to its Terms of Service? How can anyone forget the ruckus that followed and the resulting backpedalling of Instagram? What the average consumer may not realise, however, is that entities making changes on their TOS is not a totally rare occurrence. It does... Read more
One in Three of All PCs Sold Were Tablets in Q4 of 2012
It comes as no surprise that tablets are taking over the PC market. Their popularity has been on the rise in recent years. An increasing number of consumers are shifting to this latest touchscreen technology. The latest numbers from the Q4 in 2012 show that one in every three... Read more
Amazon Coins for Kindle

Amazon Coins for Kindle

Internet February 14, 2013

To encourage more user activity and spending, Amazon announced Wednesday that it would be introducing a virtual currency called Amazon Coins. Kindle Fire users can expect some free coins this May, as Amazon gives away tens of millions of dollars worth of the coins during the launch of the... Read more
Microsoft Surface Pro Less Repairable Than iPad
The Microsoft Surface Pro went on sale last week and the team at gadget repair platform iFixit has already ripped it apart. The Surface Pro teardown reveals that the Microsoft tablet/hybrid is less repairable than the Apple iPad. According to the company Microsoft chose to glue down any component that could... Read more
The Wikipad: A Tablet Designed for Gaming
There may be a new must have device for gamers.  Or perhaps not.  The Wikipad was supposed to launch late last year.  However, the release of the new gaming tablet was delayed due to a flaw in production.  However, the company behind Wikipad may have turned lemons into lemonade,... Read more
Ubuntu’s Open Source OS Announced for October
Linux is planning to invade the smartphone market through one of its biggest players, Ubuntu. Linux has been on the rise over the past few years and this year it may finally find a way into the handheld devices market. It is no secret that the open source platform... Read more
Russian Railways Sue Apple
Russian Railways has sued Apple Inc. for trademark infringement. According to reports, the suit is valued at $65,000. Although the exact reason for the lawsuit remains unclear, it is believed that the Russian Railways is suing Apple for using their logo in the App Store without permission. In a... Read more
Spotify Arrives to the New Windows Phone 8
If you love music and have a Windows 8 Phone you are in luck.  Spotify is now available on the Windows Phone 8 platform.  The app was previously only available on iOS, Symbian, Android, and legacy Windows Phone users.  Thanks to the change, it is now available on the... Read more