8 Child-Safe Websites Where Kids Can Catch All The Recent News

I probably picked up my first newspaper at the age of seven or eight and haven’t stopped since. It started with reading the comic strips first and then the sports page and that too hasn’t stopped since. Of course, I did catch all the happenings between pages one and last too. Sadly, what also hasn’t changed is the cliché – there’s no news like bad news. I don’t think a diet of bad news is quite right for children before they hit the right age. Agreed, you cannot keep the bad winds away but just like using parental controls to...

I probably picked up my first newspaper at the age of seven or eight and haven’t stopped since. It started with reading the comic strips first and then the sports page and that too hasn’t stopped since. Of course, I did catch all the happenings between pages one and last too. Sadly, what also hasn’t changed is the cliché – there’s no news like bad news. I don’t think a diet of bad news is quite right for children before they hit the right age. Agreed, you cannot keep the bad winds away but just like using parental controls to...

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Technophilia 73 Live From MakeUseOf

This week: we’re talking with Joe and Ethan from Poppy3D, a Viewmaster-like device for the iPhone that turns your phone into a 3D camera. Check out their Kickstarter campaign to learn more about their device. Also, the British government plans to block some of James’ favorite online content. Hear him rant, only to point out America is somehow worse because reasons. Biz Stone thinks people would pay to use Facebook, which makes sense because of all those people he persuaded to pay for Twitter. And Netflix, coming off a great quarter when it comes to online streaming, says it’s not...

This week: we’re talking with Joe and Ethan from Poppy3D, a Viewmaster-like device for the iPhone that turns your phone into a 3D camera. Check out their Kickstarter campaign to learn more about their device. Also, the British government plans to block some of James’ favorite online content. Hear him rant, only to point out America is somehow worse because reasons. Biz Stone thinks people would pay to use Facebook, which makes sense because of all those people he persuaded to pay for Twitter. And Netflix, coming off a great quarter when it comes to online streaming, says it’s not...

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How To Check If Your PC Supports UEFI/EFI

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Computer users who have ever installed or reinstalled Windows operating system probably aware of the term BIOS as most of the time we need to change the BIOS settings to enable boot from CD/DVD/USB. As you probably know, PC makers have been replacing the outdated BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) with the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware [...]

Create A Private Company Social Network With Bitrix24 [HTC One Giveaway]

As technology continues to advance at such a rapid pace, the methods of business management and communication advance alongside it. More people are telecommuting from home now than ever before and the nature of the business entity is being tested. The traditional office environment doesn’t work well when most, or all, employees are at home. So what do you use then? The answer is Bitrix24. Bitrix24 is a cloud-based network service that allows you to collaborate over the Internet with others within your company. You can think of it as a social network that focuses less on wall posts and...

As technology continues to advance at such a rapid pace, the methods of business management and communication advance alongside it. More people are telecommuting from home now than ever before and the nature of the business entity is being tested. The traditional office environment doesn’t work well when most, or all, employees are at home. So what do you use then? The answer is Bitrix24. Bitrix24 is a cloud-based network service that allows you to collaborate over the Internet with others within your company. You can think of it as a social network that focuses less on wall posts and...

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Vlogbrothers Launch Subbable, The NPR-Pledges-Meets-Kickstarter Funding Platform [Updates]

Love online video, but worry advertising isn’t enough to fund quality content? Two of the biggest names in online educational video agree. Hank and John Green – the sibling pair behind Vlogbrothers, The Crash Course, SciShow and numerous other YouTube channels – this week launched Subbable, a subscription service for content creators. The site hopes to fund content with enthusiastic, but not necessarily large, followings. “Advertisers just want the most views, not the most engaged views,” says the Subbable About page. “We fear this might turn the Internet into the Great Distractor, a place where huge wells of content exist...

Love online video, but worry advertising isn’t enough to fund quality content? Two of the biggest names in online educational video agree. Hank and John Green – the sibling pair behind Vlogbrothers, The Crash Course, SciShow and numerous other YouTube channels – this week launched Subbable, a subscription service for content creators. The site hopes to fund content with enthusiastic, but not necessarily large, followings. “Advertisers just want the most views, not the most engaged views,” says the Subbable About page. “We fear this might turn the Internet into the Great Distractor, a place where huge wells of content exist...

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Download Service Pack 2 Final For Microsoft Office 2010

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Two years after releasing the first Service Pack for Office 2010, Microsoft today released the final version of Service Pack 2 for Office 2010 and is now available for download. As you probably know, the software giant had released the beta version of Office SP2 in the first week of April. According to the Office [...]

Do You Watch What You Say Online? [You Told Us]

The Internet is still considered to be something akin to The Wild West, a lawless, still-emerging set of disparate communities all vying for attention. But this isn't actually the case, and it hasn't been for many years. Contrary to popular belief many of the laws and rules which apply in the real world also apply online.

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Can We Contribute To Space Exploration? These 7 Online Tools Say We Can

What about the man on the sidewalk? The high-schooler in the science class? The mother who once dreamt of suiting up for a space flight? Will there dreams remain so, or can they contribute to space exploration in some little ways? Thanks to the interconnectedness of the Web, they can. Let's take a look at seven online (and free) ways a citizen of Earth can contribute to understanding space.

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