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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…

Netflix Confirms Offline Playback Will “Never Happen”
Netflix foolishly announced offline playback would be coming to Honeycomb tablets back in 2011, and ever since fans of the streaming service have waited for the feature. Well the wait is now over, Netflix’s director of communications and technology Cliff Edwards has revealed offline playback is “never going to... Read more
Steam Starts Region Locking Games After Low Currency Exploits
Even though Steam regularly offers deals and sales for digital games, some people are not happy with the prices and head over to third party key sellers, for cheaper prices. It looks like Steam is not happy with these key sales from other regions, taking thousands of digital keys... Read more
Sony Claims ‘The Interview’ May Be Released Online
The past week has seen lots of change in the Sony Pictures hacking case, starting with U.S. officials confirming a connection between North Korea and hacking group #GOP. It has not been disclosed how the connection was found, but either way it has sparked major backlash against the communist... Read more
Check Out The U.S.S. Enterprise in Gingerbread
You know the holiday season is upon us when you start seeing iconic space vehicles recreated in gingerbread, specifically the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek. I have to admit – I enjoyed the movies, but I was never much of a trekkie, but I think even I could get... Read more
Motorola Returning To China Under The Veil Of Lenovo
Motorola has been focusing on the U.S. market ever since the restructure in 2011, following the $12.5 billion acquisition from Google. Ownership has changed hands since then, and now Chinese giant Lenovo owns Motorola, after a $2.91 billion acquisition. Lenovo now wants Motorola in the Chinese market, according to... Read more
Disneyworld To Accept Apple Pay & Google Wallet
Walt Disney World is one place that my wife has always wanted to holidays. Personally, I don’t want to stand in the long queues or drive around endless parking lots. Bu,t one reason I have held off so far is the cash. I really don’t want to have to always... Read more
Grandma Assaulted For Not Friending Granddaughter On Facebook
People are taking their Facebook friends way too seriously these days. I’ve read about some crazy things that happened because of Facebook, but this one almost takes the cake! A 72-year-old woman from Florida was recently slapped in the face over and over by her granddaughter (a 27-year-old) who... Read more
Duck Hunt is Coming Back on Christmas Day!
If you’d like to get a little bit of nostalgia for Christmas this year and you own a Nintendo Wii U, you’ll be able to purchase/download the classic Nintendo game Duck Hunt through the Wii virtual console. Techbeat reported some months ago that the classic game would be rereleased, but... Read more
Bitcoin Exec Jailed for Silk Road Transactions
A former Bitcoin Foundation board member and CEO of the now-obsolete exchange BitInstant, Charlie Shrem, has been incarcerated for two years in prison for assisting Silk Road users swap cash for digital currency anonymously. As you will probably be aware, The Silk Road, was an online marketplace that was... Read more
Sony Pictures Hackers Warn Cinemas Previewing The Interview
The #GOP group has become highly active in the past week, invoking 9/11 terror threats to moviegoers going to see “The Interview” on Christmas. Sony Pictures has already sent emails to cinemas, saying it will allow “The Interview” to be pulled from screening. The new film starring Seth Rogen... Read more
Google to Include Tegra K1 Processor in Project Ara
Project Ara, the futuristic modular smartphone from the minds of Google, is getting ever closer to its promised 2015 release. The ‘concrete’ information received so far is that you will be able to hot-swap most of the components. These include the camera, RAM and Storage capacity. There are also... Read more
FileZilla 3.10.0 Beta 3 Now Released
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface. The FileZilla Application allows you to transfer files and navigate among folders, Web sites, and your computer. A great feature of FileZilla is that you can... Read more
You Can Now Preorder a $30,000 Apple Watch
Everything’s so much better with a little bit of bling added to it, right? Even though the Apple Watch is still forthcoming and we don’t have all of the details we’d like (such as pricing, etc.), it isn’t too early to preorder an extremely blinged-out version of the upcoming... Read more
Volvo Accident Prevention Helmet Concept Announced
The Swedish car manufacturer Volvo has previously shown the world some of their in-car cyclist collision detection systems that help prevent accidents for both parties on the road. It appears as though now the safety conscious Volvo is about to publicly show case a piece of technology for bike... Read more
WhatsApp Potentially Coming to Desktop
WhatsApp is available on almost every mobile platform, including discontinued platforms like Symbian and Nokia Series 40, but has never developed a web client. New reports say WhatsApp will finally come to the desktop, after five years of availability. The new web client will use OAuth, sending a message... Read more
Instagram Purge Spam Accounts
The extremely popular photo-sharing app, Instagram, has erased millions of accounts that they believed to be posting spam. In the process this has angered, nay, outraged many of  the app’s legitimate users. There are many people who have lost a stack of followers who have criticised the action, some have... Read more
Google Adds New SDK on Android & Unity for Cardboard VR
Google is starting to get serious with the Cardboard VR, despite vice president Sundar Pichai brushing it off as a small project worked on for a few hours at Google I/O. A new update to the software side of the virtual reality platform adds developer support for Android and... Read more
Continuity: How to Disable Calls On iPad
Apple are great innovators. They make great products, which are well built and have some amazing features. With the announcement of OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Apple introduced a great new feature called, Continuity. This feature allows you to field phone calls and text messages from your iOS devices and... Read more