This Painfully Ordinary Chrome Plugin Is Probably Slightly Less Boring Than Working

What do you do when you want to attract eyeballs to your site? You could spend time and effort curating content which is well-written, fact checked and original. You could craft your art and build a following. You could engage with your readers and let your content (and audience) grow naturally. That sounds like hard work, though. Why bother doing all that when you can just share someone else’s content and give it a linkbait headline? Linkbait headlines are truly shocking It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Upworthy has been doing rather well of late. They’ve been described by Fast Company...

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Your Favorite Song Is Playing Somewhere. Find It With RadioSearchEngine

One hand on the steering wheel, one hand on the “seek” button. There’s always a better song, you’re going to find it. If that’s how you drive, you’ve probably always wished there was a search engine for radio. And now there is – for your computer (cars will just have to wait). Radio Search Engine regularly indexes online radio stations, allowing you to search for a specific song playing…somewhere. You can then listen to the song (usually halfway through), then continue to listen to whatever station you stumble upon. You might find yourself listening to a Japanese top-forty station, but...

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8 Ways To Find And Enjoy Your Personal Internet Music Nostalgia Trip

Intimidated by your MP3 collection because it is too big to manage, or frustrated because it is too small? Use the Internet to find and enjoy your favourite songs, streamed to your computer or mobile device. Go back in time and evoke memories with these music tools. Play Your Favourite MP3s In iTunes It’s all too easy to load up iTunes and expect your favourite songs to play. The truth is, they’re unlikely to start pumping on your stereo unless you actively go searching for them, or use a custom playlist to collect the songs together. After all, who wants...

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Mercury Browser For Android: A Worthy Contender In The Browser Stakes?

Not satisfied with the browsing experience on your Android tablet or smartphone? Mercury Browser could help fix that. Google’s Play Store lists several excellent browsers for devices running on Android. If you’re looking to install one, chances are that you’re leaning toward choices like Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, especially if you’re accustomed to their desktop versions. Other popular choices such as Dolphin Browser and UC Browser are probably on your list too, as they were on mine when I bought a Samsung tablet last year. In search of a comfortable Web experience, I tried various Android browsers and then some....

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Google Glass Lenses, Netflix Expansion, Chrome Lego, Prince Bootlegging [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Google Glass gets prescription lenses, Chrome apps come to iOS and Android, Netflix prepares to invade mainland Europe, the Netherlands overturns its block on The Pirate Bay, Lego comes to your browser thanks to Build With Chrome, and Prince gets his purple knickers in a twist. Google Glass Gains Prescription Lenses Google has revealed the Titanium Collection, a quartet of frames which can be paired with its wearable Glass headsets. The four distinct frames are designed to appeal to different aeshetic sensibilities. All are made from titanium, are thin and light, and cost $225 apiece....

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10 Things To Do When The Internet Goes Down [We Ask You Results]

The Internet is an important – some would say dominant – part of modern life. It provides opportunities for work and play, education and entertainment, and everything else you care to mention. It’s this unending well of variety that has people more addicted to the Internet than they are more traditionally addicting substances, such as alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine. The impact the Internet has had on our lives, and its continued presence in almost everything we do, makes it all the more frustrating when it suddenly and inexplicably disappears. When the Internet goes down, life goes on, as we discovered...

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An Important Notice From Gmail

It's the first time I see an important notice in the mobile Gmail interface. Here's the message:

You may have been impacted by a recent issue in Gmail that inadvertently caused some actions (e.g. delete, report spam) taken while viewing a message to be applied to a different message. The issue occurred between January 15 and January 22 and is now fixed.



We encourage you to check your Trash and Spam folders before February 14, 2014 for any items you did not intend to delete or mark as spam and move them back to your inbox. We apologize for any inconvenience.

I couldn't find other references to this notice, so it's very likely that a very small percentage of Gmail users got it. It's interesting that the message is not displayed in the desktop Gmail, I only see it in the mobile Gmail interface.

Not Just For Developers: 7 HTML Tags Any Writer Should Know

Would you sketch a drawing without having an eraser handy? Would you paint a room, without first taping the edges of the walls? Well then, don’t even think about blogging without an understanding of the following 7 HTML tags, which any online writer really should know. There are a lot of situations when you may need to tweak the formatting of a blog entry or online article. If you’re a freelance author, having the ability to deliver a well formatted article utilizing nothing but a text editor and HTML code is an excellent skill to have. To be marketable and...

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