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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…

How to Hack Flatpack Furniture
Before 3D printing, before holograms, before virtual reality, people were creating their own three dimensional objects, it was called carpentry, or as most people would experience it now – building flatpack furniture. It’s a lot like coding, you are given a specific set of building blocks and a set... Read more
Tech Giants Band Together to Curb NSA Surveillance
Tech giants from all corners of the Internet world, including AOL, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and others, have banded together to fight the NSA surveillance. Sadly, even with this large alliance of technology companies sending an open letter to the Senate, the bill – dubbed the USA... Read more
Meet the Impossible Electric Folding Bike
The Impossible is the envy of bike manufacturers the world over. Finally someone has reached the, seemingly impossible, goal of manufacturing a vehicle that is capable of actually fitting inside an average sized backpack…Yes, I did say, ‘a backpack’. The Impossible bike was three years in the making and it... Read more
Microsoft Band Back in Store After High Demand
It’s hard to quantify Microsoft’s sales on tablets and other hardware, because every time a product “runs out of stock” they don’t give any information on how much stock was available in the first place. Microsoft Band – the new wearable health tracker – went out of stock earlier... Read more
CCleaner 5.0.0 Beta is Now Available
After months of design, development and testing, Piriform are very excited to announce that CCleaner v5.0 is available to download in Beta! CCleaner v5.0 sees a change with a redesigned, modern interface. The current interface you know and love has remained largely the same since its first release almost... Read more
Adobe Lightroom 5.7 Released
Lightroom is Adobe’s state-of-the-art professional photo development, manipulation and organization software. Lightroom’s powerful features enable users to transform RAW photographs into beautiful images of any kind. Sharpness, contrast, tone, white-balance and color can be adjusted in fine detail manually or through a large range of default and downloadable presets.... Read more
Google Advances in Image Recognition Technology
Those really clever folks over at the Google Science labs, have created artificial intelligence software, which can describe the contents of photographs in a far more accurate manner than ever before. The Internet giant have said that as well as making it far simpler to search for specific images,... Read more
The Weirdest Websites You’ll Find On The Net
The Internet is awash with websites on every subject imaginable (and let’s face it, quite a few you probably don’t want to imagine). But occasionally, just occasionally, you may stumble across a real gem of uselessness, an absolute triumph of terrible design or a monument to incredible human stupidity. So... Read more
How to Erase your Download Logs in OS X
If you didn’t already know, Mac OS X keeps a continuous log of every file that you download, from MP3’s to PDF’s and everything in between. The only exception to this is apps from the Mac App Store. The system is set up that way, so in the event... Read more
How to Create Preset Templates in Photoshop
When you open a new document in Photoshop, do you take advantage of the preset document options? Or do you do what many users do and just click OK, set your image name as Untitled-1 and then change your image options later on in Photoshop itself? If you are... Read more
TextSecure Protocol Now Used to Encrypt WhatsApp
Are you ever concerned that the messages you share between friends can ever be read by others? Most messaging services such as LINE and WhatsApp have more features than just text support; you can send audio and video as well. So should you be overly concerned about your data?... Read more
Intel Merging Mobile & PC Chip Division
Intel is not happy with the performance of its mobile division, sinking $1 billion into Intel’s profits this year. To fix the issue, Intel will be merging its more profitable PC division with the mobile division. Named “client computing group” the new division will work on most of Intel’s... Read more
Comodo Internet Security Updated
The latest version of Comodo has been released. The guys behind Comodo claim that their firewall is unique in that it passes all known leak tests to ensure the integrity of data entering and exiting your system. Comodo has put firewall through all kinds of sophisticated tests to ensure... Read more
Prynt: Polaroid Printing Smartphone Case
We all love our Smartphones don’t we? And with the amalgam of phone and camera we are now all budding shutterbugs. Whether your choice of weapon is iOS, Windows or Android, you always keep your favourite handset close by, just in case you need to snap that perfect picture.... Read more
Nokia Announces N1 Android Tablet
Nokia is back in the hardware business. After selling its mobile division to Microsoft for $7.2 billion, many thought that was the end of Nokia, but the services division has revealed the N1 Android tablet. Considering Nokia was shackled to Windows Phone for so long, its no surprise the... Read more
Encrypt your Keystrokes with AntiLogger
AntiLogger is a very powerful and efficient app which can block various attempts by hackers to access your PC. Although the application is very lightweight, it can detect any attempts to modify your computer’s settings and place malicious code in your system. The app can also detect when someone... Read more
Make Star Wars Gingerbread Cookies this Holiday Season
It’s that time of the year again for Christmas trees, Christmas shopping, and Christmas cookies. This year, though, why not make some unique cookies? Forget about the Santa cookies and the Christmas tree cookies – why not make some cookies that come from a galaxy far far away? ThinkGeek... Read more
Apple Watch UI Available on Jailbroken iPhone
The world watched and waited. For a long time there were rumours about how the face of mobile communications would change with the Apple watch. When it was unveiled, many were stunned at how the device looked and how there was a completely new UI to navigate.  The Apple... Read more