06 December 2013

5 Ways You Can Make And Mine Bitcoin Currency



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Have you heard of Bitcoins — the digital currency that has recently experienced a dramatic increase in value? Now estimated at over $1,200 per Bitcoin, the revolutionary and controversial method of payment has been making headlines around the world. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to start performing transactions using Bitcoins, but before you can even do that you’ll have to find a way to collect Bitcoins! Here are 5 different ways you can start earning yourself some Bitcoins. Investing Investing is the easiest way of accessing Bitcoins. This works in the same way as exchanges for...


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Medium 1.0 Redesigns The Reading And Writing Experience



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Launched last year by Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, Medium has been making waves as a writing platform. Now, it has got its first major update, pushing it to version 1. “With 1.0, we’ve redesigned the reading and writing experience to make your stories look better and have more impact. We’ve also changed how collections work to enable curation and improve discoverability,” Williams says. The team has made refinements to the typography, spacing, and responsiveness of the design, so that posts look better on all devices, PC and mobile. The big new addition is cover images, which lets...


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Patent Trolls, Android 4.4.1, Satoshi Nakamoto, Real Robocop [Tech News Digest]




Today in Tech News Digest, the U.S. takes on patent trolls, Android 4.4.1 arrives with added camera goodness, there’s a difference of opinion over Bitcoin, with China and America on opposing sides, the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is possibly revealed, Google gives you your Gmail data, Twitter comes to dumbphones via USSD, Any.do Cal arrives on Android, and the real-life Robocop makes its (his? hers?) debut. Patent Trolls Begone The first step in fighting back against patent trolls: http://t.co/Tz4k0gN5ph. But only the first step. — Paul Graham (@paulg) December 5, 2013 The United States House of Representatives has passed...


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Google Page Rank Update - December 2013



Looks like finally Google has rolled out the second Page Rank update for the year of 2013. This is a major update and I see a lot of fluctuations. Many sites have dropped their page rank in this update and some have boosted up.

If you don't know Page Rank is one of the major Google Algorithm which varies from 0 to 10 based upon the number of backlink's a site has. Higher the better.

Page Rank has lost its importance with time. I can clearly see the page rank algorithm has changed to a certain extent this time.



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Change Windows 8.1 Charms Bar Icons Using Charms Bar Customizer



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About two years ago, when Windows 8 Consumer Preview was released to the public, a Windows enthusiast had released a free tool called My WCP Charms Bar Customizer to fully customize the newly introduced Charms bar. The tool let users change the default search, share, devices, settings, and Windows logo icons in the Charms bar […]

Build A Custom Windows 8 Start Menu Using Toolbars



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Is the removal of the reliable, familiar and perhaps loved Windows Start Menu the most controversial thing in computing ever? When Microsoft announced that Windows 8 would be released without a Start button and accompanying menu, there seemed little sense in the decision. After all, Windows 7 was probably the most efficient version of the operating system yet, in terms of how quickly a user could switch from tapping the Start button to finding the file they needed or running their preferred task. To drop the vast number of possibilities that found a home in the Start Menu was an...


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Auto Awesome, Winter Special



This is beautiful and clever. Google+ added 2 auto awesome effects just in time for Christmas.



1) Twinkle: upload a new photo of something that sparkles (like a Christmas tree or a chandelier), and we'll gift you a version with lights that actually twinkle.



2) Snow: upload a new photo with snow to Google+, and we'll gift you a version with snow that’s actually falling.



Here are 2 examples:









Please note that this only works for new photos. Check the animations generated for other Google+ users: #AutoAwesomeTwinkle and #AutoAwesomeSnowGlobe.

Export Gmail and Google Calendar Data



Google Takeout now lets you export your calendars and it will soon add a similar feature for Gmail. The calendar exporting feature is not new - you could find it in the Google Calendar settings, but it's nice to see that Google Takeout gets more comprehensive and adds support for new services.



The Gmail exporting feature is completely new and it will be gradually released next month. It will let you download a big MBOX file you can import in mail clients like Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail. You can also use this feature to backup your Gmail messages and read them offline.






"You can download all of your mail and calendars or choose a subset of labels and calendars. You can also download a single archive file for multiple products with a copy of your Gmail, Calendar, Google+, YouTube, Drive, and other Google data," informs Google.