How To Post Stack Overflow Questions From Android? Using The Official Client

Today I’d like to share one of the best ways to ask and answer questions when you’re not at your PC: The Stack Exchange app. Stack Exchange is a network of Q&A sites, the best-known of which is Stack Overflow – an excellent Q&A site which we mentioned as one of 10 websites that can help the beginner programmer with sample code snippets. It’s easy to explain what’s so good about the Stack Exchange app: It lets you ask questions. Yup, up until recently there was simply no good way to do this from a smartphone. There were apps for...

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How to Make Your Own Uniquely Gorgeous Android Home Screen

A beautiful and well-planned home screen on your Android tablet or smartphone is not just cool to look at, but is also functionally efficient. This is why it’s a good idea to spend some time creating one for yourself. Last week, I decided to get myself a gorgeous home screen to replace the default one I had stuck with for so long. Here’s a detailed look at the whole process. If you follow it step by step, you can get the same eye-catching home screen for your device and learn to experiment with more design recipes. Step 1: Hunt For...

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Get Instant Winter Olympics Schedules And Medals Tally On Bing Search

Bing joins the Winter Olympics with a top of the page display of search results from the quadrennial sporting event that’s on in Sochi, Russia. Users searching for Winter Olympics events and news will get to see Olympic-related schedules and content at the top of their search results. Bing will also display a running tally of the medals won by participating countries. The “Winter Olympic Medal Tally” will help sports buffs track the countries, teams, and athletes who make it count on the podium with medals. To find Olympic event schedules, search with specific sport to see the scheduled events...

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How To Enter The BIOS On Your Computer

Inside the BIOS you can change basic computer settings, like the boot order, system time and date, or which hardware components are enabled; that’s why the BIOS is also referred to as ‘Setup’. Entering the BIOS just takes a simple key stroke at the right moment while the system is booting. To save you the guesswork, we have compiled the different ways you can enter the BIOS. As mentioned above, entering the BIOS is pretty simple. Unless your computer came with UEFI, e.g. on a new Windows 8 laptop, you just need to boot your computer, wait for the right...

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Synata Offers A Better Way To Search Through All Your Online Stuff

What’s the most common thing you do online? Chatting? Emailing? Writing? Sharing? Not quite. One of the most common actions done online by anyone is searching. We search Google, we search Gmail, we search our computer and cloud storage for files, we search our phone for contacts…it’s all just an endless search. Synata (beta) is a free (for individual use) Web app and Chrome extension that wants to make this endless search easier. Keep on reading, I’ll show you how. What Is Synata? Similar to CloudMagic (our review), FindIt (our review) and other apps, Synata aims to alleviate the pain...

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Add 40+ New Layout Features To WordPress with Shortcodes Ultimate

Add pull-quotes, spoiler warnings, column layouts and much more to WordPress. Shortcodes Ultimate makes it easy. WordPress-powered blogs can be enhanced by all manner of plugins, many of which introduce new features. Installing and updating additional features can be time-consuming, however – which is where a plugin like Shortcodes Ultimate comes in. What Are Shortcodes & What Makes Them Ultimate? Shortcodes are small snippets of text that you can introduce into a blog post, page or PHP file to add new features. These features will be coded into a separate file that you don’t need to access – all you...

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Isn’t It About Time You Rediscovered Stargate? [Stuff to Watch]

Everyone shut up about the coolest HBO show, and instead turn your attention to one of the greatest series the sci-fi world has ever known: Stargate.

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Do You Agree That Windows XP Needs To Die? [We Ask You]

Windows XP was quite the operating system in 2001. It was also pretty good in 2007. Now, in 2014, it’s not so great. It’s old, outdated, and not able to handle much of what a modern computer user will throw at it. And yet Windows XP is still being used on around 30 percent of PCs. And 3 million ATMs around the world. Is it time for Windows XP to be euthanized? Age Is No Barrier We want to know, Do You Want Windows XP To Die? Windows XP has, unfathomably, remained popular long after its best days were declared...

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