6 Ways To Make Nature Sounds A Part Of Your Day

A dose of nature a day will keep the doctor away. Several scientific studies have shown that nature sounds can significantly decrease anxiety, stress, and pain. Next time you’re bursting from stress or have a roaring headache, try relaxing to the sounds of nature before automatically popping a pill. In a previous article, I showed you how to bring nature to your desktop. Today, I’ll point out how to get the sounds that will benefit your health and well-being. Take A Walk Outside Nature restores mental functioning in the same way that food and water restore bodies. - Adam Alter,...

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It’s Now Possible To Install Windows On Some Chromebooks

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A recent study by the NDP Group reveals that a whopping 1.76 million Chromebook units have been sold between January 2013 to November 2013. The study also reports that Chromebook accounts for the 21 percent of all notebook sales in 2013. As most of you know, Google has been updating its Chrome operating system with […]

Thousands Of Yahoo.com Visitors May Be Infected With Malware

Yahoo has been on a roll after Marissa Mayer took over, redesigning Yahoo Mail and giving 1TB of storage on Flickr. But not everything is well. A Dutch security firm has reported that users who visited Yahoo in the last week may be infected with malware. The malware is served through an advert made available through the ads.yahoo.com network. It exploits vulnerabilities in Java and installs a host of different malware, says security firm Fox IT. It estimates the reach of the attack as follows: Based on a sample of traffic we estimate the number of visits to the malicious...

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What Happened When I Went Completely Offline For A Week

Any day now, some biologist will declare that the DNA of the average 21st-century person is organized not into chromosomes, but into IP addresses. I, for one, won’t be shocked by any such announcement, because that’s the extent to which computers and the Internet seem to have taken over everyday living. Our lives now stand divided into two categories: online and offline. That we need a separate label to describe life without a computer/computer network is quite telling. In the past couple of years, I have often wished to slip back into the past to a simpler time when I...

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Chromebook Conquers, Digital Dwindles, Pandora Alarms, Snapchat Sorry? [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Chromebooks are revealed to have sold well in 2013, digital music sales are shown to have declined in 2013, the Vine app lands on the Web, Snapchat fails to apologize for the recent hack, a tweet becomes a newspaper advert, Pandora launches an alarm clock, Wikipedia adds a draft function, and a Tumblr tracking the source code used in film and TV gains attention. Chromebook Succeeds In 2013 The Chromebook may not be to everybody’s taste, but enough people bought one of these affordable Google netbooks in 2013 to justify its existence. According to NPD...

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Chromebook Conquers, Digital Dwindles, Pandora Alarms, Snapchat Sorry? [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Chromebooks are revealed to have sold well in 2013, digital music sales are shown to have declined in 2013, the Vine app lands on the Web, Snapchat fails to apologize for the recent hack, a tweet becomes a newspaper advert, Pandora launches an alarm clock, Wikipedia adds a draft function, and a Tumblr tracking the source code used in film and TV gains attention. Chromebook Succeeds In 2013 The Chromebook may not be to everybody’s taste, but enough people bought one of these affordable Google netbooks in 2013 to justify its existence. According to NPD...

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5 Ways To Keep The Christmas Kindness Going On The Digital Front

Christmas is over. By now, it has been over for a while. Of course, this means we can all go right back to hating each other, cursing people we don’t like, and generally just being, well, ugly. Right? Maybe not. Christmas, as we all know, is often surrounded by the ideas of good will towards men and peace unto others. From the end of November to December 25th, most of us are all about being nice! (When we aren’t consumed by Christmas consumerism, of course.) However, why should this end once December 26th rolls around? Below are five ways to...

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