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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…

New Battery Lasting 20 Years Takes Just Minutes to Charge!
Researchers from the Nanyang Technology University have developed a new battery that boasts a life span of over 20 years, that’s an extra 18 years more than the current lithium-ion batteries that are found in our smartphones and tablets. As well as promising to last a whole lot longer,... Read more
How To Add Lens Flare In Photoshop
The film Easy Rider deliberately allowed natural light into the camera lens, the recent Star Trek movies added in CGI lens flare, some people hated it, some love it, it divided opinion and now so can you with Photoshop’s built in Lens Flare filter. For a long time, allowing... Read more
Friends is Coming to Netflix
Happy New Year’s Day! I don’t know how big you are into the whole New Year’s resolution thing, but I’ve found one you might be able to keep: watching all 10 seasons of Friends from the comfort of your couch with no commercial breaks. As of January 1st, 2015,... Read more
How to Create Custom Ringtones for your iPhone
When you get your brand new iPhone, un-box it and start to play with it, isn’t it great to start messing around with all your settings, set your apps on your home screen, just how you like them, you know, things like that?  Then you come to setting up... Read more
7 Fantastic Features in iOS 8
By now you’ve probably had enough time to have a good poke around iOS 8 and get to grips with some of the cool new features that Apple have added. However some features are easier to find than others, so here is a guide to our favorite ones to... Read more
Blackphone Making A Secure Tablet
A little over nine months have passed since the joint venture between privacy specialists Silent Circle and the team which brought people the first Firefox OS hardware; Geeksphone, teamed up to announce to the world the ultra secure mobile phone, Blackphone. The Blackphone is apparently the most secure phone on the market today. I say... Read more
Nexus 6, Nexus 9 & Nexus Player All Launched By Google
The Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 have been announced by Google earlier today, alongside Android 5.0 Lollipop, the new updated operating system. Google has also launched a new Android TV media player, called Nexus Player. The announcement happened on Google’s official blog, sadly without an event. The two new... Read more
ClevX DriveSecurity: Protection for your USB Flash Drives
ClevX DriveSecurity is an antivirus utility that has been specifically designed for use with USB portable drives, which prevents malware from spreading via portable devices. The application is designed to run without any installation on a host computer; ClevX DriveSecurity will operate from the portable drive itself, thereby eliminating malware... Read more
AMPY Charges Your Phone Using Your Movement
Smartphones, tablets, and MP3 players are all great, but they all have a common flaw. Eventually, they each have to be charged lest they lose their charge and die; and all the gadgets in the world are useless with a dead battery. Honestly, it’s not too hard to carry... Read more
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0.3 is Now Available
Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware can detect and remove prevalent threats, which even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware will monitor all processes and stops any malicious processes before it start to affect your system. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Key Features include: Light speed quick scanning. Ability... Read more
Google Testing “Doctors On Demand” Service in Search‏
Getting medical advice on the Web has never been easy, with most queries getting answered by anonymous Yahoo! Answers instead of factual information. Google is looking to change this, with a new “doctor-on-demand” service, as part of their Helpouts expansion. Helpouts, for anyone unaware, lets work-at-home professionals teach or... Read more
Need System Information? Check Out CPU-Z
CPU-Z is a free utility, which gathers information on some of the main devices of your computer system. Information about your CPU, Mainboard, Memory and System can all be gleaned from this lightweight and useful utility. CPU Name and number. Core stepping and process. Core voltage. Internal and external... Read more
Ghostbusters is Getting A Reboot!
It’s no stretch for me to say that I was a huge Ghostbusters fan when I was a kid. I had all the figures, I had my own Proton Pack, I even had the Firehouse playlet. I can even remember playing one of the Ghostbusters games on the Super Nintendo.... Read more
Samsung Has Developed Faster WiFi
WiFi has come a long way in the last few years and the current speeds are ample for what most users need. However, we all grow impatient at times if our connection speeds slow down. Samsung has decided to solve this issue by developing  a new Wi-Fi technology, which... Read more
Hackers Put Nude Snapchat Pictures Online
It’s not been a good past couple of days for Snapchat or their users. Approximately 200,000 photos which users thought had been deleted have reportedly been put online by hackers, some of them believed to have been of nude underage children, since half of Snapchat’s users are between the... Read more
SecureDrives Creates A Self Destructing Drive
“This message will self destruct in five seconds” cue Mission Impossible theme music…Self-destructing gadgets have only been in the minds of writers and special effects crews in the movie business. Such classic character series as Mission Impossible and James Bond come to mind. All that is about to change... Read more
Microsoft Releases New Keyboard for Android Wear‏
It looks like Microsoft’s smartwatch project is good few years away, with the company launching a new keyboard for Android Wear. This is after Satya Nadella cancelled all of Nokia’s Android devices, looking to keep the focus on Windows Phone. The Android Wear keyboard will let users write the... Read more
Google & Microsoft Team Up With Code.org
Code.org, the Seattle-based organization, wants 100 million students to learn the fundamentals of computer science and in order to help them reach their goal,  they have just launched a crowdfunding campaign, which is aiming to raise $5 million. Hopefully they can help 100 million students from all over the... Read more