Too Many RSS Feeds? Use These Tools To Make Reading Easier

Many RSS users complain of information overload with too many RSS feeds cluttering their inbox. Fortunately, a number of RSS organization tools can tame even the wildest of feed collections. Some of the most effective methods include using “folders” and “views” in aggregators, filtering web apps, and prioritization tools. This article covers some of the Internet’s best tools for organizing, filtering, and prioritizing feeds. In short, by combining a variety of methods, RSS use can be made more efficient, without wasting time with feeds that focus on information you don’t care about. For example, Facebook articles tend to plague my...

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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2013 For Download

Microsoft have been busy lately. First they bring out the highly anticipated Windows 8.1, then they bring out a new remote Windows desktop app for iOS and Android, and now they have released Visual Studio 2013 for you to download. Keeping in line with their desire to get everyone to tie a Microsoft account to the services they use, you are prompted to sign in to Visual Studio with your Microsoft account, once you have downloaded and installed the program. This will allow you to keep all of your settings synced across devices, via the Cloud. You can read more...

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Kaspersky Lab launches new Internet Security - Multi-Device

Kaspersky Lab has today launched Kaspersky Internet Security – Multi-Device, a new security product that aims to provide protection to the commonly-used devices such as tablets and smartphones. Kaspersky says the new product gives users a way to secure their Internet activity across multiple computers and mobile devices, all through a single product. Users can install the device-specific technologies on any combination of devices. They can visit the Kaspersky Lab online store for licensi [...]

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Laser has met its match.

The world may be moving online, to the cloud and into virtual spaces faster than you know it, but the truth is several hundreds of businesses still rely on paper. Invariably choosing a laser printer over noisy, slow and undependable inkjet printers that guzzle cartridges faster than you can say “Print that please!” One never thought the laser printer would meet its match. From the inkjet family, we used the HP OfficeJet Pro 3620 Black & White e-AIO to show you how. We picked a [...]

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Sony launches three new headphones in India

Sony India today launched three new pairs of headphones into the Indian market, to augment their already vast lineup of audio gear. The three headphones in question are the MDR-10RNC, the MDR-10RBT and the NWZ-WH303. The MDR-10RNC is the first noise cancelling headphone from Sony to be introduced to the Indian market. Featuring three noise cancelling modes that can be activated by pressing an AINC button, the headphones also feature not one, but two microphone sensors to measure the noise. One [...]

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Facebook Home update brings Tumblr, Instagram and more to Android Lock screen

Facebook Home gets new update, adds Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram integration for all Home users. The Home launcher can be found in the Play Store and is currently sitting at version 1.1. This lockscreen replacement runs on Android 4.0 or later and still supports only a limited number of devices including Samsung Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S III, HTC First, HTC One X, One X+, HTC One and Nexus 4 smartphone. Users can now view content from these four additional social networks on their locks [...]

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Downloads4u sale offers up to 75% off on popular games

I don't know how many of you remember Game4u's digital game download service – we spoke about it a year ago. If you've never used it, now probably is a good time to check it out. To celebrate its 1st anniversary, Downloads4u has just announced a bumper sale on select game titles in its catalogue. They're giving huge discounts (up to 75 per cent off, in some instances) on multiple blockbuster titles. You can Grab games like Battlefield 3 Premium Edition, Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands GOTY [...]

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Instagram reveals look for sponsored ads

Instagram has revealed how ads will look like on the social network once they come to the photo-sharing app. The company stated that it will gently introduce users to the concept by posting a one-time sample ad for its US-based users “within the coming week.” What makes them different from the regular content on Instagram. Firstly, Instagram ads will look like normal Instagram photos or videos but will be labeled with the word “Sponsored” at the top right corner and user [...]

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Google Tests Image Ads for Top Search Results

Back in 2010, Google launched a feature that allowed local businesses to add yellow markers to the map and promote their websites. Tags were actually ads that were placed inside local search results. It was a weird way to mix organic search results with ads and this feature was discontinued in 2011.



Now Google tests a similar feature for web search results. Instead of adding links and markers, advertisers can add huge banners above their search listings, but only for navigational searches. "The banners allow brands to take over the ad space on branded search queries and essentially present a branded search results experience," reports Search Engine Land. "The team at Synrgy has learned from a source at Google that the brand image experiment is live with about 30 advertisers, including Crate & Barrel and Virgin America. The test is showing for less than 5 percent of search queries," mentions Barry Schwartz. Basically, instead of displaying ads for competitors, Google shows a huge banner for the top search result.

"We're currently running a very limited, US-only test, in which advertisers can include an image as part of the search ads that show in response to certain branded queries. Advertisers have long been able to add informative visual elements to their search ads, with features like Media Ads, Product Listing Ads and Image Extensions," explained Google.



Well, that's not exactly true. The images are added to the search results, not to the search ads. Even though the top search result and the corresponding sitelinks are grouped with the image ad and the entire section is labeled "sponsored", this is actually the top search result.



The truth is that Google has continually added features from the organic search results to the search ads and Google has also started to mix search results with ads. For example, Google Shopping results are now ads, since companies need to pay to be included in the list of results. Booking links from flights search and hotel search are sponsored links.

For some searches, Google shows so many ads that you have to scroll to find some actual search results. Here's a screenshot of a Google search page for [tablet]: I highlighted the only organic result you can see without scrolling down.

Creative Sound Blaster Tactic 3D Sigma

Creative’s Tactic 3D lineup has proved itself to be quite capable at handling everyday computing tasks and is especially suited for bass-heads. The 3D Sigma is the mid-range entrant in the series and proves to be a solid performer. This is the younger brother of the Tactic 3D Omega, and only misses out on the latter’s wireless module and as a result, can be had for about half the price. Design and build The headset is entirely made of plastic, but despite that, feels sturdy enough [...]

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Accenture, Wipro and Infosys among most sought after employers in India: LinkedIn

Accenture has retained the top spot on the list of 20 most sought after employers in India for the second time, according to the 'most InDemand employer brand' list compiled by professional networking site LinkedIn. This is the second year in a row Accenture has retained its number one spot, the professional networking site said. IT majors, Wipro and Infosys are ranked second and third according to the list. The top 10 companies in the list are IBM (4th), Hewlett Packard (5th), Oracle (6th), Ta [...]

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Micromax Canvas Turbo smartphone: An Overview

Micromax has created quite the hype around the Micromax Canvas Turbo and even brought in the Wolverine to grab our attention. That said, is the product any good or is it merely propped up a great marketing campaign? That question will be answered when we get the smartphone in for review, but here, let's take a look and see how the device compares to the competition in terms of the specifications and the features on offer. Starting off with the specifications of the Canvas Turbo, the device has [...]

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Yahoo NewsON to be available on Samsung Smart TVs

Yahoo NewsON will bring local news articles, videos and weather reports to Samsung Smart TV users with the click of a remote. The NewsOn Panel is available in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the middle East. Users will be able to click on the information through the NewsOn information panel and get instant information about current events. The NewsON main screen offers a collage of photos and headlines from Yahoo news stories with a snapshot of current weather conditions for local cities. To ac [...]

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Google+ is still irrelevant to a majority of users: Poll

Google may have doubled down on its home brewn social network but most active Internet users are yet to find anything redeeming in Google+. According to a poll on our site and newsletters that attracted 1,156 responses, more than half of the respondents stated that they “rarely use Google+ and consider Twitter and/or Facebook to be much more important,” while almost 25% said that although they thought that “Google+ has potential and (they) may start using it in the future&rdquo [...]

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LinkedIn launches 'Intro', shows profiles in your iPhone Mail app

LinkedIn Intro is an e-mail plug-in for iOS users that pulls LinkedIn profile information into e-mails to give a complete professional history, location, schooling of anyone who sends you a message. LinkedIn Intro skims different web-based data from social networks and other sources to create on-the-fly profiles of the people who email you. You can have access to complete information about the person. The sender’s job title appears front-and-center in e-mails on a user’s iPhone or i [...]

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RailYatri introduces new travel information and advisory alerting platform

RailYatri.in has launched National RailYatri Alert Service (NRAS), which is claimed to be the country's first travel information & advisory alerting platform. NRAS, RailYatri.in, explains uses customised algorithm to determine the impact of different types of major travel related announcements (new special trains, cancellations, delays, new stoppages, etc.), incidents (accidents, planned blockages, etc.) and events (historical, current, and upcoming) at a local station or train level. The [...]

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Google updates Offers self-service tool for businesses

Google has introduced an update to its Google Offers self-service tool for businesses, improving the speed of ad creation and adding support for Google Maps. The update is expected to be rolled out within the next week. According to Google, the update allows businesses create their posts “in minutes” and publish them to customers across Google products. “Simply choose the type of offer you’d like to create and assign a budget. Unlike traditional promotions or coupons, G [...]

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LG G Pro Lite available online for Rs. 18,300

LG recently announced the G Pro Lite and the smartphone is now available to users via Snapdeal.com. The smartphone is priced at Rs. 18,300. As of writing this article, the smartphone isn’t available on other online shopping portals such as flipkart or infbeam. Coming to the specifications of the LG G Pro Lite, it has a dual-core MediaTek MT6577 chipset with the processor clocked at 1GHz. It also houses 1GB of RAM. The 5.5-inch display has a 960x540 pixel resolution. It sports 8GB built-in [...]

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TRAI's recommendations on 800 MHz unfair and discriminatory: SSTL

Sistema Shyam Tele-Services Ltd (SSTL), which operates in the country under the brand name MTS India, has criticised the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on the 800 MHz spectrum band, used by CDMA operators. “SSTL has consistently maintained that it does not agree with the recommendations of TRAI specific to the 800 MHz spectrum band. The said recommendations have effectively blocked SSTL’s future growth path in India both in terms of expanding wit [...]

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Google Maps Easter Egg for Philadelphia

Here's a cool Easter Egg: search for Philadelphia, click the map thumbnail from the right sidebar and notice that your query is replaced by "city of brotherly love", one of the nicknames of the city. "Popular nicknames for Philadelphia are Philly and The City of Brotherly Love, the latter of which comes from the literal meaning of the city's name in Greek," informs Wikipedia.

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Choicest of Cameras for a Picture Perfect Diwali

Diwali is round the corner, and whether you celebrate the festival or not, it still ends up being a good photo opportunity. Whether you want to shoot your well-dressed family or go crazy photographing the insane fireworks your neighbors put together, Diwali is a time for some great photos and we have here a list of cameras that can do it best. Of course you could go out and sell your kidneys and cars to buy the Canon 1Dx or the Nikon D4 with the best lenses, but we’ve put together a concis [...]

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