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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…

Google Creating Wearable To Fight Body Odor
Google is known for a lot of good products around the world today, such as (but not limited to) their search engine (obviously), Gmail, Android, and last but not least, Google+ – their take on the whole social media thing. One thing they’re not known for though is ridding... Read more
Drunk Gorilla Punches Photographer Who Captures It On Film
While I’m sure you have many potential problems at your workplace, I’m fairly certain getting punched by a drunk gorilla isn’t one of them. But for at least one photographer it’s a very real threat that now hits a little too close to home for his comfort. Christophe Courteau is... Read more
You’ll Soon Be Able To Build Your Own Custom Lightsaber
Calling all padawans and wannabe Jedi Knights: The day is almost here when you’ll be able to design and create your own custom lightsaber! As diehard fans undoubtedly already know, creating a lightsaber is one of the final tasks a Jedi has to complete before he or she can... Read more
Californian Town Adds Facebook Warning To Road Signs
You know too many people are addicted to Facebook when even road signs have to warn people to pay more attention to what they’re doing. I’m sure we’ve all noticed people walking down the street paying far more attention to what’s happening on their Facebook Newsfeed than what’s happening... Read more
Meet The New Chewbacca Furby
I can still remember the days when Furby ruled the Christmas season and there wasn’t one to be found on a store shelf for miles around anywhere. It didn’t seem to matter where you went, they were sold out everywhere, and their popularity took the retail world by storm.... Read more
Now You Can Choose Who Gets Your Facebook Page After You Die
There’s a lot of decisions that have to be made before you die, such as figuring out who’s going to get your prized possessions, where you’re going to be buried, what kind of funeral you want to have, who’s going to get what share of your estate, etc. And,... 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
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
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
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
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
Crouching Tiger Actress Proposed To With A Drone
You may remember actress Zhang Ziyi for her role in the hit movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Today, though, she’s making the news headlines thanks to her engagement to Chinese musician Wang Feng. (Many congratulations to the happy couple!) It’s not the fact that she’s engaged that’s making the news though,... Read more
Pope Francis Doesn’t Know How To Use A Computer
Pope Francis is a man capable of many things: Inspiring people worldwide, reforming the Catholic Church, interacting with the “least of these” on a regular basis, breaking all the former papacy “rules” – but he’s at a loss when it comes to using a computer. He is currently 78-years-old,... Read more
Schools Are Now Banning All Watches From The Classroom
Things seemed so much easier when I was in school. I graduated at the time when some students were just starting to have cell phones (not smartphones) on a regular basis. Texting wasn’t all that popular, there was no Facebook, people weren’t Snapchatting each other – and it seemed... Read more
This Woman Wants To Have The First Baby On Mars
We all have ambitions – they’re what keep us going. Without some kind of a dream, it’s easy to lose hope and to just feel like quitting as life doesn’t seem worthwhile. Some dreams are smaller in scale, such as getting out of debt or landing that dream job;... Read more
Man Duped By Photo of MacBook On eBay
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but one eBay user has learned the hard way certain pictures aren’t even worth the paper they’re printed on. eBay member Paul Barrington decided to buy a MacBook on the auction site for what he thought was a good price... Read more
Prynt Case Prints Your Smartphone Pictures Instantly
When I was a kid, my family really only had one camera that I can remember, and it was a Polaroid. I thought it was awesome and always volunteered to take any photo I could with it just to watch the photo almost instantly develop before my eyes. You... Read more
Pay For Your McDonald’s Food With A Selfie
McDonalds is making the news post Super Bowl with the announcement that they’re going to be giving away some free food for those who “Pay with Lovin'”. Just what exactly is “lovin'”? Well, according to McDonald’s, it can range from high-fives to hugs to selfies and beyond. We should’ve... Read more