Box Introduces Notes For Real-Time Collaborative Documents

Cloud storage service Box — which some say is great for photo storage — has stepped into the online collaborative note-taking game with the launch of Box Notes, a new free service that lets you create documents, share them with friends and work on them in real time. Box Notes is currently in beta and you can sign up to ask for an invitation. A few users we know have already got access to the service a few hours after registering their email. Essentially, Box Notes is a blank online text field for you to start writing. The rich text...

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Love Indie Music? Check Out MusicFellas

Spare a thought if you will for the hipsters amongst us, and the travails they face on a daily basis. It’s hard finding the right Urban Outfitters flannel and skinny-jeans combo to go with your finely-groomed, ironic upper lip hair. It’s hard when you rush to your nearby organic-cooperative craft ale bar only to find that their seemingly endless supply of copies of Vice Magazine have run out. Perhaps most crucially, it’s hard finding bands to talk about that your equally hip friends have never heard of. MusicFellas aims to solve the latter problem. Recently formed in India by four...

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Hack Attack: How To Keep Your Webcam Secure From Online Peeping Toms

Someone could be watching you through your webcam right now. Chances are you’re safe so don’t freak out, but you should be aware that the possibility exists. There was a time when webcam hacking wasn’t a mainstream thing, but times have changed and nowadays it’s a real threat that’s being put to the microscope thanks to spying programs like PRISM. If you have a webcam, it would behoove you to listen up. What would you do if someone had control of your webcam without your knowledge? It’s a maddening thought, really, and one that I don’t particularly enjoy dwelling on....

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How to Blog For Search Engines Without Becoming a Content Mill

Being a blogger is not the easiest job in the world. It requires patience, determination, and persistence. You have to be willing to write for nothing, and sometimes less than nothing, when you’re starting your own site. One of my favorite bloggers Darren Rowse – the owner of Problogger and one of the Internet’s more financially successful bloggers – once wrote, “The Internet makes money for you when you build something that is real and when it matters to people.” There are lots of web designers and Internet entrepreneurs that believe they can build a website within some popular niche,...

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How to Blog For Search Engines Without Becoming a Content Mill

Being a blogger is not the easiest job in the world. It requires patience, determination, and persistence. You have to be willing to write for nothing, and sometimes less than nothing, when you’re starting your own site. One of my favorite bloggers Darren Rowse – the owner of Problogger and one of the Internet’s more financially successful bloggers – once wrote, “The Internet makes money for you when you build something that is real and when it matters to people.” There are lots of web designers and Internet entrepreneurs that believe they can build a website within some popular niche,...

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Calligra vs. LibreOffice: Which Is The More Productive Linux Office Suite?

Is LibreOffice the only worthwhile office suite for Linux users? Possibly not, thanks to KDE’s Calligra. LibreOffice, and its predecessor OpenOffice, have long been known as the leader in free office suites available for all Linux. While it’s certainly the most popular choice among Linux users, it certainly isn’t the only full-fledged office suite available for that operating system. Calligra is another choice for a complete office package. With two very good choices at hand, which one do you go for? I compared these two office suites head-to-head on features, design, and compatibility to see which one is the best....

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Don’t use Google+? You can still use it for Enhancing your Photos

You can use the photo editing tools inside Google+ to quickly fix your photos and make them look awesome with a click. The online editor also offers Instagram like filters and stylized borders.

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This story, Don’t use Google+? You can still use it for Enhancing your Photos, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 17/09/2013 under Google Plus, Image Editing, Internet

Gmail's Old Compose Interface, Still Available

A lot of people complained about Gmail's new compose interface. Google addressed some of the issues with the "full-screen" mode, but there are still people who dislike the new UI.



If you want to go back to the old interface, there's a Chrome extension that does this. I rarely recommend third-party apps that change Gmail, especially if they're not from a reliable company or developer. I checked the extension's source code and I was surprised to see how it works: it only changes your browser's user-agent to IE8's user-agent, but only when loading Gmail. I'm not sure why the extension is not restricted to mail.google.com.

Obviously, this is a temporary workaround. At some point, Google will stop supporting Internet Explorer 8 and this will no longer work. It's a better idea to get used to the new interface.

How To Find And Use The Wallpaper And Lock Screen Images In Windows 8

Windows 8′s Start screen. You either love it or hate it. Or more likely, you’re just indifferent to it. And why shouldn’t you be? On most full Windows 8 machines, you rarely even have to look at it. But if you take a closer look, you may find some surprises. For starters, the Start screen and lock screen are more customizable than you think. You can use different backgrounds and themes for them, customize and rearrange the tiles, and use all kinds of different hacks to make things look just right. You can even make the whole thing work right...

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How To Change Folder Background In Windows 8.1

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In Windows XP, we could change the folder background colour without having to install third-party tools. In Vista and Windows 7, one could set a custom picture as folder background with the help of third-party tools such as Folder Background Changer. A quick search on the web reveals that there is no workaround or free […]

This Is What Computer Animation Looked Like In 2001 [Stuff to Watch]

In 1974, SIGGRAPH was formed by a small group of professionals who shared a common interest in an emerging trend: computer graphics. Since its conception, conferences, events, and award ceremonies have been held to promote the generation and dissemination of this relatively new artform, and thanks to the Internet Archive the entries from 2001 have been preserved in time for all to see. This is a snapshot to some 13 years ago, when Wikipedia first graced the Web and Apple released an odd-looking white box of tricks known as the iPod. That year Microsoft put the final touches to Windows...

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