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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…

iOS 8 Leaked Images
Apple’s annual WWDC is just around the corner and we are in little doubt that somewhere within the walls of the Cupertino offices, there some people who have shiny new devices already running the new version of iOS. The guys over at PhoneArena have uncovered a selection of images that are... Read more
Leaked Microsoft Document Could Be A Sign That Nokia is Really Dead
Not that we haven’t seen so many signs over the years, have we? While Nokia is one of the most iconic mobile phone brands in the world – who does not have fond memories of clunky old Nokia handsets? – its time may really be over. According to a... Read more
XBMC Media Center 13.0 Beta 4
XBMC is a great, award winning media center application.  It is the ultimate hub for all of your media; XBMC is easy to use, has a slick look and has a huge community following. Why not try it now for free.  The software is available for Linux, Mac OS... Read more
Teen Rides in Plane’s Wheel Well From California To Hawaii
Teens do crazy things all the time – it’s just part of being a kid. But there’s some teens out there who do some really crazy things and are lucky to live to be able to tell about it. While I don’t remember doing anything overly crazy when I was... Read more
UK HMRC Plans To Share Tax Data
Under plans drawn up by Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Taxpayers’ personal data could be shared with private companies.  If the plans were indeed given the green light, it would then allow HMRC to release anonymous tax data to third parties.  These could include companies, public bodies and researchers.  Not... Read more
iTunes To Start Selling Subscriptions To Beats Music
The latest updated version of the Beats Music iPhone app is now taking new subscriptions utilising the iTunes billing system. The motive for this action is due to the high number of iPhone users, which the service currently has, coupled with the difficulty in getting a new subscriber base... Read more
Fake Your Mood With AgencyGlass
We can fake a lot of things, as that old saying “fake it till you make it” didn’t just come out of nowhere – but it’s really hard to fake things with our eyes. Unfortunately, our eyes are often tell-tale signs of exactly how we’re feeling inside – if... Read more
VMWare Player Update

VMWare Player Update

News April 23, 2014

This free desktop virtualization software application makes it easy to operate any virtual machine that has been created by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX.  The software also supports Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines or Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines. With VMware Player 6.0.2 you can... Read more
Microsoft’s “Office Mix” Makes PowerPoint Interactive
Death by PowerPoint is something that many an employee has to go through, especially when attending seminars, meetings, and pitches. While there is no dearth of useful advice about how to make PowerPoint presentations that will not bore your audience to death, these resources don’t seem to have much... Read more
Hogwarts is Accepting Online Students – Enroll Now!
I have some very good news for all of you Harry Potter fans out there…and let’s face it – who isn’t a Harry Potter fan? If you thought your adventure with Hogwarts was all over when you finished reading Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows for the seventh time or when... Read more
Ineda Raises $17 Million For Wearable Device Chip R&D
Some of the low power chips which are used in many wearable tech products are designed and made by Ineda Systems, a US and Indian start-up firm.  The company develops low-power SoC’s (system on a chip) for  wearable technology markets.  The company has managed to raise US$17 million in... Read more
Nike Fires Fuelband Team But New Colours On The Way
Recent reports towards the end of last week said that Nike were allegedly going to be shutting down its FuelBand department following a spate of layoffs on Friday.  If this were true however, it would marked a significant exit in the wearable fitness device market by one of the most prominent... Read more
Justin Bieber Won’t Be Deported From U.S. Says White House
You may remember a couple of months back when Techbeat reported that an online petition was filed with the White House to have singer Justin Bieber permanently deported from the United States. The petition, which collected over 100,000 signatures, had made quite the splash in the media and had... Read more
NASA’s Kepler Program Discovers Earth-Like Planet
For a long time now, the guys over at NASA have been searching for a planet that closely resembles Earth.  But there never seems to be a perfect match (surprisingly). Recently however NASA has found what they consider to be a close match to our Earth. According to a... Read more
Microsoft Opening 11 New Specialty Stores Across The US
Online stores have made it so much easier for us to throw our money at companies like Microsoft (to name only one, of course), but there is still something about going to a brick-and-mortar shop to browse, touch, and actually play with devices. Whether or not we actually buy... Read more
Facebook Nearby Friends Track Feature
Facebook is introducing a new mobile feature called Nearby Friends.  It can tap into the steady stream of location information that your phone gives out, so your friends will be able to track each other and thereby know where they are, in real time. This new feature will not be... Read more
Mom Creates UpSee Harness To Help Her Son Walk
Most parents would do anything to help their children succeed, whether it comes in the form of sacrificing financially so they can get a good education, or just being present with them in the small moments as well as the big ones. No parent likes to be told their... Read more
World’s First Heterogeneous System Architecture Server Chip
AMD is due to give the first public demonstration of their second-generation Opteron X-Series server processor, code-named “Berlin”, at the Red Hat Summit, San Francisco, US on Wednesday.  The demo will consist of X2100 Series Opteron that will run a Linux environment, which is based on the Fedora Project. Berlin is... Read more