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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…

World’s Most Advanced Flying Car: AeroMobil 3.0
Do you remember the classic cartoon from the minds of Hanna-Barbera called The Jetsons? I’m sure you do. It was set in the future where, amongst other things, people’s normal mode of transportation was the flying car. It look as though the future isn’t so far away after all,... Read more
As We Get Fatter, so do Crash Test Dummies
You know many of us have a bit of a weight problem when the crash test dummies are packing on the pounds so they can do a better job of representing us behind the wheel. Crash test dummies – those creepy manikin-looking things that we send slamming into walls... Read more
Hungarian People Take to the Streets in Internet Tax Row
There is a big issue in Hungary. When we say big, we mean huge! Thousands upon thousands of people have marched on Hungary’s economy ministry over the plans to impose a tax on people’s Internet use. The massive crowd held up smartphone torches outside the building in Budapest and in... Read more
Office for Mac Update Coming Early 2015 Say Microsoft
Some very convincing-looking Outlook screenshots, which are supposed to be part of Office For Mac 16, have surfaced from the Chinese site cnBeta. If these are indeed genuine, then Mac users will finally be getting a long-awaited update to Microsoft’s producivity suite. Looking at the screenshots themselves, you can... Read more
Kickstarter Pulls Tor Router Project
Crowdfunding project TorFi, has been removed from Kickstarter only days after a similar listing for the Anonabox router was also taken down. The TorFi project was a Wi-Fi router that has been constructed to run all Internet traffic through Tor, “the onion router,” in an bid to ensure total privacy. The TorFi... Read more
Researchers Using Drones to Study Killer Whales
People have found all kinds of wonderful uses for drones, not limited to delivering goods, shooting movie scenes, capturing great aerial photography shots, and picking fights with birds of prey. Now, researchers are even using them to study ocean animals in some unprecedented ways. Using a hexacopter drone, a... Read more
Google Exec Breaks Space Jump Record
A couple of years back, Felix Baumgartner successfully attempted to set the world record for the highest altitude free-fall jump. The world watched in awe as this skydiver from Austria jumped from a balloon at an altitude of 128,100 feet and successfully landed back here on earth. As you... Read more
The Most Bizarre Kickstarter Projects Ever!
Kickstarter has made a name for itself as one of the leading crowdfunding platforms, with a mission to bring creative projects to life. There is a vast array of projects to browse and even pledge money to. You only have to think of projects like Glyph from Avegant, the... Read more
How to Play the Hidden Flappy Bird Game on Android Lollipop
We all love hidden games, did you know each version of Android has hidden Easter eggs popped in by bored developers? The latest Lollipop release is no exception. This time it’s a hidden version of possibly the most annoying surprise hit of 2013 a version of the FlappyBird game.... Read more
You Can Now Order Taco Bell From Your Smartphone
Feeling a craving to go south of the border right about now? Need a little fourth-meal? Don’t have a lot of time to stand in line waiting for your food at Taco Bell? Good news – as of today, you won’t have to, because Taco Bell has fully gone... Read more
Sunset Overdrive Gains Highly Positive Reviews at Launch‏
Insomniac Games, the studio behind Spyro and Ratchet & Clank, have a brand new IP on Xbox One, and it appears to be some of their best work added into this colorful third-person open-world apocalypse. Sunset Overdrive came out of its shell earlier today and the Web has been... Read more
How to Swap Heads in Photoshop
Sometimes you don’t want to spend hours creating the perfect image, you don’t want to carefully fix every small mistake and make the most convincing photo collage the world has ever seen, sometimes you just want to stick someone’s head on someone else for humorous effect. Here’s a quick... Read more
Enforced Vacation Makes Your Work Emails Stay at Work
Most all of us have to deal with email at work. And, unfortunately, many of us also have to deal with work emails when we’re at home. Or at play. Or at the store. Or anywhere – you get the idea. In this technological age, even when we’re away... Read more
How to Get More Followers on Twitter
If you use Twitter regularly, you’ll have noticed that they are now pushing users into buying promotional packages. Twitter introduced promoted tweets way back in March 2012 and they have been met with mixed results from users ever since, many find them an annoyance, an invasion into their personal... Read more