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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…

Microsoft Launches Project Spark
In the third quarter of 2013, Microsoft introduced to everybody, Project Spark. If you don’t know about Project Spark it is basically a tool that has been created by Microsoft to entice gamers on the Xbox One and Windows platforms to produce games of their own. There are lots of hit indie... Read more
Amazon is Opening an Actual Store in NYC
For just about as long as I can remember, since I’ve been using the internet, there has been Amazon.com. I really can’t remember a time without it, that’s how big it is. Of course when I first started using it, I mainly used it to only purchase books, but... Read more
Defense Distributed Selling 3D Printed Ghost Gunner Semi-Automatic Rifle
Cody Wilson is the man behind the world’s first fully 3D-printed handgun and is the founder of the organization Defense Distributed.  He is now selling a machine priced at $1,299, which could make semi-automatic weapons that are untraceable. Wilson is calling it “The Ghost Gunner.” This rifle could be made... Read more
New Moto 360 Update Doubles Battery Life‏
Out of all the Android Wear smartwatches, the Moto 360 has been by far the most well received. The circular display and premium build differentiate from the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live, less interesting options. One of the biggest complaints on the Moto 360 is the battery... Read more
iPhone & iPhone 6 Plus Gets Support For Gmail
With the development of larger displays for all kinds of Smart devices, such as tablet computers and mobile telephones, developers have been working to ensure, amongst other things, the size of the text is readable on larger displays. In line with this, software developers at Google have updated the Gmail app... Read more
Media Player Classic Home Cinema Updated
Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a media player for the Windows platform, which providesclean and crisp video playback. Although there are plenty of media players out there, this application is a free utility that is light-weight and easy to use with a simple interface. Media Player Classic Home Cinema... Read more
Man Selling His House For An iPhone 6
Are you in the market for a new house? This may just be the craziest thing you read online all day. A Detroit man has put his 3-bedroom house up for sale. The asking price? An iPhone 6 or an iPad with at least 32 GB of storage. No,... Read more
Destiny Bug Reveals Two DLC Packs On Disc
Destiny has hit a bit of controversy in the past week, with questions on where the original 2013 story went after Joe Staten, the Creative Director for Destiny, left the studio to work at Microsoft Studios. To hit the icing on the cake for people who don’t like the... Read more
Xbox One Gets Plex

Xbox One Gets Plex

GamingNews October 9, 2014

Plex has a massive fan base. In fact, it’s huge, mainly due to Plex’s powerful and versatile streaming media capabilities.  Doubtless you will have a few video files that are knocking about on your computer and with Plex you’ve got a reasonable chance that Plex will be able to... Read more
iPhone Panel Press Claims to Fix Your Bent iPhone 6!
As most all of us know by now, Apple has had quite a few problems with the iPhone 6, the least of which not being what the online world dubbed “#bendgate”, referring to the iPhone 6 Plus’s tendency to bend while resting in user’s pockets. (Whether you believe them... Read more
Microsoft Furthers Research into RoomAlive
Microsoft’s RoomAlive could turn your entire room into an interactive gaming environment. Microsoft Research developed RoomAlive approximately two years ago but I guess the guys over at marketing took a while to change the name from Beamatron and later IllumiRoom until finally they came up with something half decent. The new demonstration video was... Read more
Probably the Smartest Beer Mats in the World
The Danish brewer Carlsberg is introducing what they are saying is the world’s first ‘digital beer mat’.  Carlsberg has sent out NFC-enabled beer mats to over 200 pubs and bars in Denmark.  The aim is to support their Crowdit lifestyle app.  The app keeps users updated on the local... Read more
Redbox Instant is Going Offline
Beginning on October 7th, Redbox will shut down their “Instant” video streaming service through Verizon. What started back in 2012 as a Netflix alternative never really took off or was able to make a dent in the market so handedly held by other streaming services such as Netflix and... Read more
Sony Expects $1.2 Billion Loss from Smartphones this Year‏
Sony has had another hard year, as CEO Kazuo Hirai works on creating the “One Sony” motive across all platforms, their businesses in television, mobile and camera continue to slope down, losing up to $1.2 billion this year alone. The company is projecting a „90 billion ($1.2 billion) net... Read more
Concerned Over Password Security? Download KeePass
Are you concerned over your passwords?  If so, don’t worry as there are many free password managers that are available, one such application is KeePass.  It is a free open source password manager that helps you to manage your passwords in a secure manner. Your passwords are secured in one... Read more
Mercedes: A Self-Driving Truck is in the Works
I’ve never been a truck driver, but I’d imagine it’s not the easiest job out there. First, they’re always away from their family for long stretches at a time. Then, they’re on the road for hours and hours every single day trying to get to their destination address on... Read more
How to Reverse an Audio Clip in Adobe Audition
Ever since someone realised you could manually spin a vinyl record the wrong way, people have been experimenting with playing sound backwards. The Beatles did it to great effect using reverse tape effects on Sergeant Pepper, and some bands tried mind control by hiding hidden messages via phonetic reversal... Read more
Drone Captures Insane Video of Volcano Erupting!
While it’ll likely never happen safely, I’ve always wanted to witness a volcano erupting. Luckily, even when we can’t physically witness something, we live in the day and age when technology is able to come to our rescue time and time again. With the advent of drone technology, we’ve... Read more