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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…

‘Ok Google’ Coming To Chromebook
Google might be porting another Android feature to Chrome OS in the next update, this time the virtual assistant, which responds to ‘Ok Google’ commands. François Beaufort announced the feature would be coming to the experimental version of the Chromium project, and will be further tested before an official... Read more
Need Enhanced Remote Computing? Try MobaXterm
MobaXterm is a complete toolbox for remote computing. The application is an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, a tabbed SSH client and several other network tools for remote computing (VNC, RDP, telnet, rlogin). MobaXterm has the essential Unix commands for Windows desktop, in a single portable... Read more
Withings Activite Offers A Classic Smartwatch Design
For the most part, smartwatches in 2014 featured poor design, decent performance and an overwhelming sense of tediousness. Withings wants to change the model for smartwatches, by offering an experience extremely close to a normal watch. The Withings Activite is the first smartwatch to fit the normal watch aesthetic,... Read more
Blow Up The Death Star With This Fire Pit!
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I am a big Star Wars fan. I loved the original trilogy, I enjoyed the prequels (though not as much as the original movies), I owned an army of the action figures, armed myself with more than a few fake lightsabers, and... Read more
Microsoft XboxOne Lead Designer Quits
The guy who orchestrated Xbox Live, Boyd Multerer, announced last week on the social network, Twitter, that he would be departing from Microsoft after working for the tech giants for the last 17 years. In his announcement, Multerer wasn’t just ready to confirm what or indeed where he will... Read more
Apple 12-inch MacBook Air Coming In Early 2015
Apple’s MacBook Air range currently consists of 11 and 13-inch screen options, but for the past two years customers have been pleading for a 12-inch option to fit in the middle. This year might bring the new 12-inch MacBook Air to market, alongside the anticipated Apple Watch, according to... Read more
Apple Pay & Bitcoin For NYC Parking Meters
The good ol’ people of New York City want to make it simpler for the users of the fair city to make it even easier to pay for their near 10 million annual parking tickets fines. The city is currently accepting peoples pitches for different payment systems that would... Read more
Apple Pay coming to UK in 2015
Apple Pay is starting to turn heads in the contactless payment market, in the U.S. 90 percent of banks are working with Apple on the mobile payment solution, and more retailers are coming to the fold everyday. In order to keep growing, Apple needs to expand its borders, and... Read more
Keep Your Passwords Safe with Password Safe
Password Safe allows you to manage your old passwords and to easily and quickly generate, store, organize, retrieve, and use complex new passwords, using password policies that you control. Once stored, your user names and passwords are just a few clicks away. Using Password Safe you can organize your passwords... Read more
South Korean Nuclear Facility Hacked
South Korea is the newest victim of hacking, after officials at Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) confirmed a large scale hack had occurred, stealing large amounts of information from South Korea’s largest nuclear supplier. The attack was reported shortly after U.S. officials confirmed a connection between North Korea... Read more
Xiaomi Raising Over $1 Billion, Valued At $45 Billion
Xiaomi is fast becoming the most interesting smartphone maker in the world, already the third largest smartphone seller with 19 million units sold this year. Even with the millions of smartphone sales, Xiaomi is still looking for private funding, instead of making its company publicly available on the stock... Read more
Zuckerberg Is Starting A Book Club
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is going to be reading approximately 26 books this year, thanks to a New Year’s resolution he made at the suggestion of some 50,000 people. And besides simply reading the book, he’s also starting an online book club where whoever else wants to read and... Read more
Tree Shaped Wind Turbines Provide Green Energy
In the past there have been  great debates from many different people of ranging viewpoints regarding the efficiency, cost and renewability of wind energy. The general consensus now, is that wind-generated power has the potential to make a massive contribution to varying renewable energies across the planet. The main... Read more
VAIO Android Smartphone To Make Debut At CES 2015
Japanese Industrial Partners (JIP) are looking to make the VAIO brand viable for more than just laptops, following the acquisition of the brand and technology from Sony. VAIO will start in the smartphone market this year, with JIP preparing to launch an Android smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show... Read more
How To Find Cheaper Airfares Online
I didn’t know the until recently, but on on any airline there maybe up to ten different price points for a single economy seat! Ridiculous isn’t it? For instance, there maybe someone who paid £60 for a seat and they could be sat next to someone who has paid... Read more
Samsung To Unveil 360-Degree Speakers At CES 2015
Samsung has decided to early reveal some of the products coming to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Jan. 6 to Jan. 9, following the lead of LG in audio. The most eye-catching announcement in the audio department has to be the 360-degree egg-style speakers, formally named the WAM6500... Read more
Star Trek 3 To Release On Classic Show’s 50th Anniversary
I don’t know how you felt about them, but I was pretty impressed with J.J. Abrams take on the newest Star Trek films. I’ll be the first person to admit that I was a little hesitant to watch the first one after I saw the original trailer (where I saw laser-swords... Read more
The Last of Us 2 Mentioned In Resume
A sequel to the popular Naughty Dog series ‘The Last of Us’ could already been in the works, according to lead character artist Michael Knowland. On Knowland’s LinkedIn resume, the character artist claims he worked on “prototyping head sculpts” for one month on The Last of Us 2. It... Read more