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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…

9 Ways to Repurpose That Old Smartphone
In the market for a new smartphone? Whether yours has taken a splash in the pool one too many times or you’re just ready to take advantage of the hottest new device releases coming up in the next few months, you may be wondering what to do with your... Read more
Computer Slow and Unresponsive? Try Defraggler
Most defragging tools only allow you to defragment an entire drive. Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment. When it reads or writes a file, it uses the exact same techniques that Windows uses. Using this application is just as safe for your files as... Read more
Tim Cook Wanted To Give Steve Jobs Part Of His Liver
What’s the measure of a good friend? A shoulder to cry on? A willingness to spend time no matter what else might be happening? Someone who would drop everything in an instant at the moment you needed them most? Or, let’s take it to a more extreme level; is... Read more
Supercard from Travelex Erases Charges Abroad
It is really easy to use your bank cards when paying for goods and services whilst abroad. The down side is that more often than not, you are going to return to a few charges in the way of additional fees and charges that have been bolted on by... Read more
8 Life Hacks Using Your Old Legos
There’s not much that isn’t awesome about Legos, even if you’re solidly anti-pink ones. But unless you’ve got a secret stash of bricks that you pull out to play with in times of mental distress, you’ve probably outgrown them by now. They cost too much to just get rid... Read more
Cortana Coming to iOS & Android Phones
I really take advantage of Siri on my iPhone. I know a lot of people who have iPhones and don’t utilize her at all, but I’ve found the digital assistant to be very helpful. I especially use her for reminding me to do things so I don’t forget them,... Read more
Need To Manage Your Music? Try Tag&Rename
Tag&Rename is a utility for Windows created to manage a wide range of popular music formats. This tool allows for quick and easy editing of tag data, for example MP3 ID, Windows media and iTunes tags. If you need to write new or update existing tag data, then this... Read more
Ericsson To Cut 2000 Jobs in Research and Development
Research and Development are the key parts to any organisation that is based around technology. Especially so in the case of hardware manufactures. It does beg the question then, why has Ericsson, the world’s largest mobile network vendor, planning to make 2,200 redundancies in Sweden, mainly in the R&D... Read more
BiVACOR: The Bionic Heart Set To Replace Cardiac Implants
A new ground-breaking bionic heart without a pulse is going to be the next big thing in cardiac implants with within the next three years. The world-first device was designed by an engineer form Brisbane, Dr Daniel Timms, who started the project back in 2001 while studying at the... Read more
Dropbox Patches Remotely Exploitable Vulnerability in SDK
The developers at Dropbox have recently patched a vulnerability in the Android SDK version of the Dropbox app. The remotely exploitable vulnerability could have enabled an attacker, under specific circumstances, to potentially save files to their Dropbox account, via compromised third party apps.* Researchers at IBM, who found the vulnerability,... Read more
Google Maps Everest Region
When a good friend of mine said he was going to Nepal to make the long and arduous trek to Everest Base Camp, I must admit, I thought to myself ‘rather you than me mate!’ The Everest region has some of the most hostile environments known to man. I’m... Read more
Making Of Grand Theft Auto To Be Subject Of BBC Show
There are now all kinds of television shows on the air I never thought I’d see, such as: Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo, Toddlers and Tiaras, Teen Mom, and my personal favorite, Dance Moms. It seems just about anything counts as entertainment, and proving my point, a new show documenting the making of the... Read more
Microsoft Create Free Online Courses With EdX
Microsoft is partnering with EdX to create online educational courses for software developers. EdX has recently announced on Tuesday of this week that the online courses would be the latest addition to their curriculum of interactive and massive open online courses (MOOC) programs. According to a recent release, Microsoft... Read more
Will The Next iPhone Be Waterproof?
Even though the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus are selling hotly off the shelves, people are still enamored by the prospects of what the next iPhone will have. One of the top questions seems to revolve around whether it will be waterproof or not. While I’ve never... Read more
Samsung Announce ‘Charge The Life’ Animal Battery Packs
As I have mentioned one or two times in the past, it is really irritating when your battery runs out on your device. You may have had one of those super hectic days where all you seem to be doing is staring at a screen. The result of which... Read more
Apple Shareholders Want Tim Cook To Acquire Tesla Motors
Two prominent Apple shareholders asked CEO Tim Cook if he was considering acquiring Tesla Motors, the most prominent electric car company headed by inventor Elon Musk. It has been rumored before, although shareholders have not been quite so vocal on the subject. Cook averted the question, simply stating he... Read more
UK Schoolchildren To Receive A Free Computer
In order to address a future skills shortage, the BBC is taking part in an initiative to give away a million free computers to students that are starting secondary school. Reports state that a skills shortage of some 1.4 million will occur over the next five years. The UK-wide Make... Read more
Check Out These Jedi Squirrels With Lightsabers
Remember how I’ve said many times I can’t wait to see all the different things people are coming out with thanks to the upcoming new Star Wars film(s). Well, we’ve seen some pretty neat gizmos in the past few months, including the Millennium Falcon drone, the Tie Interceptor drone, and the... Read more