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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…

First Time Rocket Engine Technique Is Used Outside NASA
Students at the University of California San Diego (USCD) have tested a liquid fueled, 3D printed rocket engine using a technique that has never been used to build a rocket before anywhere in the World aside from NASA. The students have built and successfully test fired a rocket that... Read more
Facebook Opens Its First Office In Israel
Facebook has been concentrating its mobile internet business. In an effort to increase the number of people connected to the internet in developing countries, Facebook has acquired several companies that can help them to achieve their goal. Most recently, the social network giant announced that they had successfully bought... Read more
Self-Serve Ad Platform Available at Foursquare
Foursquare hasn’t been performing as well as it would like over recent years. In fact, the social check-in site actually took on $41 million of debt in an attempt to hit the aggressive financial targets the company set for itself in 2013. It seems that self-serve ads are to... Read more
Jony Ive and Marc Newson Design Leica M Camera For RED Charity
Apple’s very own Jony Ive came together with his longtime friend and fellow designer, Marc Newson to create the one of a kind, Leica M Camera for charity. Although the two designers have known each other for years and are both incredibly successful designers, their preferred styles are quite... Read more
Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Update Supports Large Screen
Recently Microsoft announced the imminent launch of the latest Windows update for Windows Phone 8. The timing of the update matches previous updates which tend to be around fall time. The update, labelled GDR3 (General Distribution Release) sees the Windows Phone empire beginning to join the large screen phone... Read more
‘See It’ Feature Lets You Watch Your Favorite TV Show Via Twitter
Recently, Twitter announced a partnership with Americas number one pay TV broadcasting company, Comcast which they hope to propel the world of Social TV. With a new ‘See It’ feature on Twitter, Twitter users will be able to view or record their favorite TV shows. See It Comcast would... Read more
Robot Petting Zoo To Help Develop Robot Personalities
The face of the petting zoo has undergone a huge change thanks to the Minimaforms exhibition. Instead of petting furry little animals, visitors can be seen interacting with long plastic light-up tubes that move around according to the level of interaction visitors show them. This is the first robot... Read more
Sonos Play:1 Wireless Streaming Speaker Unveiled
The champion of wireless home audio systems, Sonos has recently launched their most compact wireless speaker to date. The Play:1 also carries the smallest price tag of all of the speakers to come from Sonos at only $199 per speaker. As a special treat to fans of the wireless... Read more
LG Curved Display Smart Phone To Be Announced In November
After the recent release of Samsung’s ‘Round’ smartphone, the first smart phone with a curved screen to be released, it seems that LG are almost ready to unveil their very own version of the curved display smart phone next month (November, 2013) some time.  There has been a lot... Read more
Hotel Wi-Fi Cheat: Say Goodbye To Bad Connections
How many times have you been in a hotel that boasts ‘free Wi-Fi’, you get up to your room and the connection is…. Barely there at all. What a nightmare. Sometimes though, hotels just don’t think about this, it’s hard to imagine in this day and age where almost... Read more
Google & Facebook Join Alliance For Affordable Internet
The Alliance for Affordable Internet is a group of tech companies and industry sponsors who are working together to reduce the cost of internet access, enabling developing countries to get connected via the internet. While it might seem incomprehensible to some people that a household might not have 4... Read more
McIntosh MT5: The Silent Magnetic Turntable
Vinyl has been making a comeback over recent years and for serious music lovers, there’s just nothing that compares to the sound of vinyl. It’s not about how many songs you can fit on a memory card in your smart phone or iPod, it’s about hearing every single stroke... Read more
Samsung Shape Wireless Audio System Starts At $400 For One Speaker
Sonos is probably the most successful wireless in home audio system available at the moment but Samsung are looking to go toe to toe with the new rival with the release of their very own wireless audio system named ‘Shape’. The Samsung Shape speaker is sleek, triangular and can be... Read more
Narrate Your Photo Stream With Shadow Puppet App
Carl Sojgreen and Adrian Graham built the Shadow Puppet application back in April 2013 but it launched at the same time as the iOS 7 update. The ex Google and Facebook executives who are used to building winning apps have created an application for people to turn their photos... Read more
Singing Machine Home:Most Usable Home Karaoke Machine Ever?
Singing Machine Home has more or less created a hole in the market that many of us may not have thought about, but with the appearance of this machine, realize that it was there all along. The traditional home karaoke machine is great fun but rarely put to use... Read more
Google Gem Smart Watch Released End Of October Rumors Say
Back in March, the Financial Times reported that Google were indeed making a smart watch and that at that stage, it was already past the stage of being a prototype. Now the respected rumor spreader Artem Russokakovski from Android Police has posted on Google+ about the possibility that the... Read more
Never Be Stuck For A Parking Spot Again Thanks To Anagog
For anyone who has driven round aimlessly staring out of the window waiting for the tell-tale signs of somebody finally leaving a parking spot, Anagog could be the answer to your dreams. Yaron Aizenbud created the smartphone based system which already has around 100,000 users back in Israel. The... Read more
FiLIP SmartWatch Helps Parents Locate Their Kids
The FiLIP smartwatch is set to come to be released on the market and it’s especially for kids. Well at least it looks that way. On closer inspection it seems to be more about the parents needs wrapped in a bright package that kids will love. The smartwatch is... Read more