Burned: Why Trusting Shopping Reviews On FocalPrice.com Is a Bad Idea

“Absolutely terrible,” I wrote, proceeding to explain exactly what was wrong with the LED light I bought from FocalPrice.com and protect future buyers against making the same mistake. Only the review was never published: When I signed back on a couple of days later to check on it, I discovered it had been inexplicably marked as Rejected: The Story I first found out about FocalPrice after I wrote about 3 Interesting Shopping Websites Offering Free International Shipping. One of the sites I mentioned was DealExtreme, and FocalPrice was mentioned in the comments as an alternative. While the review’s title may...

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What Is the Best Podcast Manager For Windows?

The tech world is obsessed with mobile apps and web-based software, but the reality is that many people — if not most people! — still use Windows most of the time. If you want to listen to podcasts while at your Windows PC, the best option is still a Windows desktop application that will play them for you. With these programs, you can listen to the MakeUseOf podcast and all your other favorite podcasts. As with many things in life, there’s no one best podcast manager for everyone. If you have an iPod you want to sync your podcasts to,...

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7 Photography Websites Every Shutterbug Should Keep A Click Away

Whether you’re looking for inspiration, want to see what other photographers are up to, see the latest gadgets and toys, read reviews, or even feature your own work, there are a variety of sites that every photographer should follow to do just those things. There is no better way to improve your photography technique than by keeping up with the latest — whether on the amateur or professional level — on sites that are run by people who are just as passionate about photography as you are. These seven sites fit that description and are a surefire way to keep...

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Panoramic Virtual Tour Of CERN Comes To Google Street View

The Large Hadron Collider is the centerpiece of CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research). It is the world’s largest laboratory for studying particle physics. Now, thanks to Google Street View, you won’t have to travel to Geneva to understand how it is helping to develop our understanding of the universe we live in. The Google Maps and the Google Street View project team have created a panoramic virtual tour of the CERN site and some of the behind the scene experiments. Start your CERN virtual tour. The CERN home webpage had this to say about the process, which must...

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Google Mobile Image Search Regression

Google has a great mobile interface for image search. It was launched in 2010 and improved multiple times since then. You can use swipes to go to the next image result or to the previous one. It looks like Google changed the image search UI for smartphones and tablets and now sends you to a landing page that shows the image and loads the corresponding page in the background. Intuitive gestures are gone and now you have to use the back button.

This seems to be limited to iPhones and iPads running iOS 7, so it's probably a bug. A lot of people complain about this in the Google Search Forum.



There are many reasons why the new interface is strange: loading the associated page uses more bandwidth and that's not a good idea for mobile devices, it's more difficult to check multiple search results, thumbnails are smaller and even the desktop interface shows a bigger image instead of sending users to a new page.

How To Select Specific Wallpapers In A Theme To Use As Desktop Background In Windows 7/8.1

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Desktop slideshow, a feature first introduced with Windows 7 (available in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 as well), is a handy feature designed to automatically change the desktop background at pre-defined time intervals. Microsoft has been releasing new themes almost every week ever since the release of Windows 7 and one can download hundreds of […]

4 Great Windows 8 Apps For Entertaining Little Kids

Bored kids are a nightmare, and that’s why tablets were invented. Weren’t they? Much as you may love your tablet, if there are kids around you know sometimes your tablet is going to wind up in their hands. It might be that you want to keep them entertained while you wait somewhere, or maybe the kids just really love to play with it. Either way, you’re going to want to have a few apps ready and waiting. Here are a handful of apps which are perfect for entertaining little kids, from toddlers to nearly school age. There’s a paint app,...

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