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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…

How To Install Skins For Winamp
The one thing about playing about with different types of software, is that you kind of get bored with how the interface looks.  Tweaking different settings is all well and good, but if you think the actual ‘look’ of the application is a bit odd, then without the ability... Read more
How To Add Subtitles In VLC Player
VLC player is a great application to play all sorts of your media files.  But what if you want to watch a movie with subtitles, but the file you have acquired has none?  Don’t panic, you can add them yourself!  It really is simple, once you know how to... Read more
Cars Won’t Have Steering Wheels For Too Much Longer
When I think of a vehicle there are several things that come to mind right away, no matter who the manufacturer is. I think of seat belts, mirrors, steering wheels, headlights, turn signals, and the list could go on and on. In the coming decades, though, many of those... Read more
What’s New In Firefox 31?
The latest offering of Firefox from Mozilla, features some major enhancements, new features, and the regular bug fixes, and stability and performance improvements for both desktop and mobile OS platforms. This time Mozilla has also focused on various developer-related functionality improvements. So, what’s new in Firefox 31? For the... Read more
15 Of The Funniest Photobombs
Photobombing is an art and if perfectly timed can produce the most hilarious results. Here are some of our favorite photobombs. This guy just made a memorable event more memorable! Image 1 of 15 Read more
Yahoo Launches Ending Service
Yahoo Japan is helping a person to prepare for the inevitable that comes to all human beings.  Well, digitally anyway.  The firm is offering “Yahoo Ending,” a service, which amongst other things, allows account holders from Japan to send e-mails to loved ones after they have died. Megumi Nakashima, a... Read more
Seinfeld Emojis Are Now Available For iPhones!
I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve used my fair share of emojis, especially when I first entered the smartphone world. I’ve used countless smiley faces, frowny faces, tongue-sticking-out faces, you get the picture. While I don’t use all that many of them anymore (I’ve just gotten lazy and... Read more
Worried About Unauthorised Access? Download AntiLogger
We are all worried to some degree about how secure our data is and there are many security programs that are available on the market. But for simplicity and ease of use, AntiLogger is both a very powerful and efficient app, which can block various attempts by hackers to access... Read more
The Flone: A Phone & Drone Combined
What do you get when you combine a smartphone with a frame that enables it to fly through the air? Why, you get a Flone, of course! Who says you have to be a multi-millionaire to own your very own drone? Some inventors have figured out a way to... Read more
5 In-Car Must Haves

5 In-Car Must Haves

News July 25, 2014

A lot of top end cars rolling off the production line now have as much technology and gadgets built in as the latest NASA spacecrafts but unfortunately not all of us can go for the highest spec vehicles. So we’ve put together a collection of some of the best... Read more
Love EA Games? Get Origin!
Origin allows you to purchase and play EA games any time and any place you want to. The social features of EA’s app allow you to create a profile, connect and chat with your friends, share your game library, and join your friends’ games with no effort at all. Perfect for the... Read more
Another Criminal Yet Again Gets Herself Caught On Facebook
Pretty soon, Facebook will be known for all of the criminals it helps catch and not just friends and news feeds. When Facebook was first created years ago, who would’ve thought it would be used to capture criminals? And who would’ve thought that it would be the said criminals... Read more
NASA Physicist Unveils Warp Speed Spacecraft Design
I am a bit of a nerd when it comes to Sci-Fi.  I love movies such as The Empire Strikes Back and Stargate, and as a kid I really enjoyed escaping reality by watching TV series like Star Trek.  To me, the idea of traveling to distant stars or... Read more
Get Firefox 31.0 Now!

Get Firefox 31.0 Now!

News July 24, 2014

With Mozilla’s Firefox as your web browser of choice, you can surf Internet easily with a simple user interface that has powerful features and is yet easy to manage.  If you couple that with great browsing speed and strong security capabilities then you will see why Firefox has consistently... Read more
Kim Jong-un Video Mash Up Goes Viral
A video mocking the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has gone viral after being watched millions of times via Chinese social media sites and YouTube. The three-and-a-half minute mash up, titled “Fat Guy Number 3” is made up of a number of animated GIFs, in which the North Korean... Read more
Facebook Announces New ‘Save’ Feature
Finally,  you can save those newsfeed bits and pieces you haven’t had the time to look at.  Facebook has recently revealed their latest ‘Save’ feature.  It allows users to bookmark items on newsfeed they’d like to view at a later time. Software engineer from Facebook, Daniel Giambalvo, states: ”Every... Read more
The FBI is Afraid Of Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving cars offer unlimited potential for us as drivers. Just imagine for a second how the roads would look if all of the cars drove themselves to wherever they needed to get. Drivers could do other things, like prepare for their meetings, etc. instead of focusing all of their... Read more
Microsoft Slashes 18,000 Jobs
Microsoft is making big news as of late, and it has nothing to do with Windows or any other Microsoft program. Rather, it turns out that the software giant is making headlines currently for some big and unfortunate job cuts. Just how many people are being laid off? Sadly,... Read more