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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…

Furniture Maker Ikea Creates an Emoticon App
IKEA is great, isn’t it? Many a time I have spent rearranging the back seat of the family seven-seater to pack in numerous boxes of household furniture Tetris-style.  In fact, I think I have been to my local IKEA store so many times since I’ve been married that I... Read more
How To Use Chromecast Guest Mode
One of the many joys of owning a Chromecast is the ability for multiple devices to connect to it. This means if you have several people in front of your television, any of them with a smartphone or tablet can cast content to the screen, add videos to a... Read more
Global Drop in Smartphone Theft Thanks to iPhone Activation Lock
Smartphone theft is a big issue; but there is relatively new fight against the war and it looks like the stats show it is winning, for the moment anyway. With pressure from the communications industry and government regulators alike, the decision to implement a ‘kill switch’ in Apple’s flagship mobile... Read more
You Can Build Your Own Millennium Falcon Drone
I haven’t purchased a drone yet, but someday I hope to own one. Having written several stories about them, I like to think I have some kind of an idea of what to do vs. what not to do with one of the small flying machines. For instance –... Read more
Rapidshare Will Shutdown in March
Back in the day, Rapidshare was one of the most popular file-sharing websites around. The time has now come to close the doors on the site as it has been officially announced that Rapidshare will close in March. The decision comes after a long period of decline for the... Read more
Microsoft Creates A Theater Mode For Smartphones
For as great as smartphones are, sometimes they’re really inconvenient. Case(s) in point: you’re in the middle of a very important job interview and your phone starts loudly ringing in your pocket because you forgot to put it on silent. Or, you’re at the movie theater and someone calls... Read more
How To Bypass the Logon Screen on Windows 10
Microsoft Windows, as an operating system, is ok. I say ok, because I like some features of it and others I don’t. In every version of Windows that Microsoft has released, there have been some features that really standout. Windows 10 is no exception. Obviously it is still in... Read more
Need Drivers? Try IOBit’s Driver Booster
Have you ever needed to update your drivers for your system? I’m sure you have. There is numerous  software available to fulfill your need, some of which are paid for products, some of which are freeware. What you need is well written software, combined with a comprehensive scan for... Read more
Boston Dynamics Announces New Quadruped: Spot
Boston Dynamics employees have recently showcased their newest member of the ‘Dog’ team: Spot. Boston Dynamics’ latest quadruped has an incredible ability to self-stabilize and more than one employee has been given the opportunity to literally kick Spot, to see if he will get up after being kicked down... Read more
Apple Employees Charged in Complex Gift Card Theft
Stealing is bad. Which ever way you chop it up and change it around, the fundamental act of theft is wrong. Stealing from your employer is also really bad. The law in some countries, state that theft from your employer also carries the heavier issue of breach of employers’... Read more
Robot Vacuum Attacks Sleeping Woman
Beware the vacuums! A South Korean woman is happy to be out of the clutches of her robot vacuum, after it decided to attack her while she was sleeping. Here’s apparently what happened: The woman set the robot vacuum to sweep the floor and then decided to take a... Read more
JetBlue Airways Launches Apple Pay on Flights
With the ability to pay for your goods and services in so many different ways these days, it was only a matter of time before the tech giants figured out they are going to make lots of revenue from NFC mobile payments. Both Google and Apple have entered the field... Read more
Use A PlayStation Controller As A Coffee Table
Are you an avid gamer who’s trying to spruce up your living room a little bit? Haven’t found just the right feng shui yet? Can’t get everything coordinated just the way you want it? Why not just use the PlayStation 3 controller as a coffee table? Of course I... Read more
Need To Recover Lost iOS Data? Try iFoneBox
Have you ever been in the unfortunate circumstance where you wreck your iPhone? Well, let me tell you, it’s not pretty; smashed screen, unable to turn on your device properly, and maybe worst of all, you haven’t made a backup in a while or you have but you can’t... Read more
Apple Working On Bug Fixes, Stability With iOS 9
Apple is apparently scaling back from two large updates to the iOS platform this year, content with bug fixes, stability issues and an overall performance buff for users of the forthcoming iOS 9. Two years ago, Apple launched iOS 7 with the fully redesigned look, followed in 2014 by... Read more
Samsung Starts Mass Production of EPOP Memory
The South Korean electronics giant, Samsung, have recently announced they have gone into mass production of the industry’s very first ePoP memory for smartphones. ePoP stands for embedded package on package. The memory module is a single memory package, which has 3GB LPDDR3 DRAM, a 32GB eMMC (Embedded Multi-Media... Read more
Man Who Walks 21 Miles To Work Gets Car Thanks to the Internet
With so much bad news circulating around the internet these days, sometimes it’s just refreshing to read about something good that happened thanks to the internet and social media. We often focus on the bad side of social media, but at the end of the day, a lot of... Read more
Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition Smartphone Coming Soon
Smartphones are a mixed bag. They all have their differences, but behind the operating system they are all pretty much the same. They have a display, a data connection,  a web browser and a camera or two. What is different is the operating system that the phone runs on.... Read more