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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…

Hemingwrite: A New Computer for Writing
I don’t know if you do much writing during the day, but in this technological world we live in, it’s hard to write without getting distracted. I love my Macbook, but it’s connected to my iPhone, which means that every time I get any kind of a notification on... Read more
Traffic Lights in Germany Let You Play Pong!
Are you bored waiting for the lights to change?  Perhaps you are like the rest of the British population and simply walk when it appears to be safe.  In Germany, two design students have come up with a solution for bored pedestrians: Street Pong! So what do you do... Read more
Microsoft VP Confirms Windows 10 Will Not Be A Loss-Leader
Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turne has confirmed Windows 10 will not be “loss leader” when it is released later in 2015. Turne said this in response to questions on whether Windows 10 would be free. Loss-leader means the product will ship at a profit loss, to gain more... Read more
Playstation Network Hacked
Hacking is becoming more high profile and more and more prolific. On Monday of this week, Sony’s online PlayStation store was hacked wide open by a group called Lizard Squad.  When any visitor navigated to the site they were are greeted with a message which read “Page Not Found! It’s... Read more
These Tommy Hilfiger Solar Jackets Charge your Phone
Back when I was in junior high school, if you wanted to wear the popular clothing, you needed to wear something designed by Tommy Hilfiger. His clothing designs always seemed slightly different than the other brands, and he had a nice logo. And while I owned my fair share... Read more
How to Make Windows Download Folder React Quicker in Windows 7
Microsoft isn’t the best at learning what you like to do with your files. In fact, come to think about it, no computer is really good at this. Sure you can use scripts to tell the computer to accomplish certain tasks in certain ways, but for the average user... Read more
The Most Amazing NASA Photos Ever Taken
NASA began operating on October 1st, 1958 and just look what it has achieved in those 56 years! We’ve picked our favourite photos ever taken but if your favourite hasn’t made the cut then tell us and we’ll add it to the list! Beautiful Planet Earth! Image 1 of... Read more
Try your Hand at Pro DVD Menu Editing With Voilabits
Have you ever seen a DVD menu and thought it looked so cool that you wished you could edit your movies to look just as good? Or maybe you want to choose a few movie files and want to edit them into one movie? Well now you can! Voilabits DVDCreator... Read more
Apple Wants your Phone to Fly Instead of Fall to the Ground
Smartphones are wonderful little pieces of technology, aren’t they? At the end of the day, they add up to about the equivalent of carrying around a tiny computer in your pocket all day, which is saying quite a lot. For as valuable as they are, though, they sure are... Read more
Will the MIPS Creator CI20 Rival the Raspberry Pi?
The Raspberry Pi is synonymous with small, handy and really, really useful.  You can use one to power all manner of different computer related projects and gadgetry.  The Raspberry Pi is not alone in the market and maybe it’s time to move over and let someone else take the... Read more
Amazon to Try Out Bicycles for Delivery
You just never know what Amazon has up their sleeve. First, they tell us they’re closer and closer to having drones deliver our packages to us, and now, they let us know they’re testing out a bicycle delivery system in New York City. Is it just me, or does... Read more
Zuckerberg Hits Out At Apple
Back in September, Tim Cook published an open letter in order to address some iCloud security and privacy concerns that had popped up. In the letter he said that  free online services treat you, the consumers, as product. In a recent interview with Time magazine about his mission to... Read more
FBI Makes Apple Comply to Encryption by Invoking 18th Century Law
The FBI is struggling to win over Apple and Google, now using an 18th century law to beat the tech companies in court and force them to unlock devices. Apple and Google both added encryption to their smartphones, to protect users from surveillance and theft. The smartphones cannot be... Read more
LG Creates OLED Division

LG Creates OLED Division

News December 10, 2014

LG Display, have just created a new division that has been tasked with developing OLED panels. The team are proactively promoting the technology even more aggressively then previously and the new OLED division will exclusively focus on commercialising OLED technology, the company has said. The South Korean technology firm... Read more
TGI Friday’s Drone Cuts Photographer’s Nose
You never know what could happen when you sit down to eat at a restaurant. You could get really bad service, you could get food poisoning, your food could end up tasting awful, someone could mess up your bill – the possibilities are near endless. Or, none of those... Read more
Need To Speed Up Your Downloads? Try Internet Download Manager
It is no wonder that Internet Download Manager is the application choice of many that want to increase their download speeds. IDM has the potential to increase the download speed up to 5x. The application has an intelligent download logic accelerator, which features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and incorporates safe multipart downloading technology to... Read more
Amazon Uses 15,000 Robots to Make Warehouses More Productive
Amazon is diversifying its workforce with 15,000 robots, in an effort to make the warehouses more efficient and give human workers a bit of a leg break from scouting the warehouse for a single toy. The news was announced in time for the holiday season, Amazon’s busiest time. The... Read more
How to Set Up a Chromecast on a HD TV
In the last few weeks Chromecasts have been available in online sales for as little as ÂŁ18, making an already inexpensive media streaming device an even more tempting proposition, and take up of the device has seen a spike with new adopters jumping on the bandwagon. It’s advertised as... Read more