Facebook Likes Brands, Siri Superpowers, Twitter Parody Police Raid [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, why you should stop liking brands on Facebook, Siri secures superpowers, Facebook finds Nearby Friends, shocking Lumia 2520 sales, Office Online in Chrome, and a Twitter parody gone wrong. PSA: Stop Liking Brands On Facebook If you want to preserve your right to sue a brand for any reason then you should resist the temptation of Liking them on Facebook. This is due to new clauses in terms of service which potentially protect brands from litigation if a customer has interacted with that brand in any way. The New York Times cites General Mills as...

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Facebook Likes Brands, Siri Superpowers, Twitter Parody Police Raid [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, why you should stop liking brands on Facebook, Siri secures superpowers, Facebook finds Nearby Friends, shocking Lumia 2520 sales, Office Online in Chrome, and a Twitter parody gone wrong. PSA: Stop Liking Brands On Facebook If you want to preserve your right to sue a brand for any reason then you should resist the temptation of Liking them on Facebook. This is due to new clauses in terms of service which potentially protect brands from litigation if a customer has interacted with that brand in any way. The New York Times cites General Mills as...

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EasyUEFI: Edit UEFI Boot Entries In Windows 8.1

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When it comes to editing boot entries and managing multi-boot Windows entries, EasyBCD is definitely the best software out there. The EasyBCD software not only enables you easily create and edit boot entries but also lets you perform various other tasks such as backup or repair BCD, create bootable USB, and boot from USB even […]

Amazon Combines Kindle Personal Documents With Cloud Drive

Anyone who uses a Kindle eReader knows the utility of the “Send To Kindle” feature. Click it (or email) and send documents, selected text from webpages, and even your own DRM free ebooks straight to the eReader. Amazon will now automatically archive all personal documents sent to Kindle in a new “My Send-to-Kindle Docs” folder on Amazon Cloud Drive. This can be a user-friendly location to organize and manage all your documents in one central location that’s reachable from all devices. The automated folder also comes with another side benefit — the 5GB of storage allocated to Kindle device owners...

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Multiple Ways To Capture Or Print What You See On Your Screen

Print Screen is a term that lost its original meaning decades ago. Back in the MS-DOS era, before computers had graphical user interfaces, the Print Screen key would indeed send the contents of the current screen to the printer. Today, the Print Screen button triggers a screenshot, meaning it captures a still of your screen and temporarily stores it in the clipboard. Actually printing a screenshot takes a few more steps. In return, this offers opportunities for editing and optimizing the image. Combine that with shortcuts and third party software and you have a powerful tool of the 21st century...

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Multiple Ways To Capture Or Print What You See On Your Screen

Print Screen is a term that lost its original meaning decades ago. Back in the MS-DOS era, before computers had graphical user interfaces, the Print Screen key would indeed send the contents of the current screen to the printer. Today, the Print Screen button triggers a screenshot, meaning it captures a still of your screen and temporarily stores it in the clipboard. Actually printing a screenshot takes a few more steps. In return, this offers opportunities for editing and optimizing the image. Combine that with shortcuts and third party software and you have a powerful tool of the 21st century...

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7 Tiny Things You Can Do In A Few Minutes For Your Writing Creativity

Ideas are fun. Writing is sweat. Ideas are like the fleeting romances in our fantasies. Writing is the marriage. It is the hard work. Writing is waking up in the morning and putting pen to paper. Writing is going to work. If you like writing as a creative exercise, then you can find comfort in that old cliché that says, creativity is knowledge having fun. The exercise of putting words to paper will feel less dreary then. Still unconvinced? Don’t worry; with little steps you can spur your writing creativity. To most of us, creativity doesn’t happen overnight. It needs...

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Office Online Tries To Push Google Docs Aside On Chrome

Microsoft is starting to frequently jump onto other operating systems with their products lately. First they brought Office onto the iPad after a long wait, and now they have put Office Online in the Chrome Web Store. Right now, these Chrome extensions consist of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneDrive, and OneNote. So bad news so far to all Access and Publisher fans. Just to be clear though – what this all amounts to are only bookmarks to Office Online, Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs. When you install these Chrome plugins, all you really get are nice shiny new bookmarks on...

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Office Online Tries To Push Google Docs Aside On Chrome

Microsoft is starting to frequently jump onto other operating systems with their products lately. First they brought Office onto the iPad after a long wait, and now they have put Office Online in the Chrome Web Store. Right now, these Chrome extensions consist of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneDrive, and OneNote. So bad news so far to all Access and Publisher fans. Just to be clear though – what this all amounts to are only bookmarks to Office Online, Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs. When you install these Chrome plugins, all you really get are nice shiny new bookmarks on...

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5 Top Tips for Managing Your Media Center Library

Shows that don’t exist anymore showing up. Shows you wish would show up that don’t. Movie posters from the remake, instead of the original. If your media center is a mess, here’s how to clean it up. All-in-one media center software is great, in that it can scan your many files and offer things like cover art and episode summaries. But this can get annoying, quickly, if the wrong information shows up – or if a show refuses to import. Here are some tips for keeping things clean. This article was written with XBMC in mind, but most of it...

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PowToon Makes It Easy To Create Animated Videos And Slideshows

There’s something special about animation. It has a wonderfully potent ability to capture the attention of people by drawing them in – in a way that the written word, and live action video simply cannot. There’s a reason why some of the longest running TV franchises (with Family Guy, The Simpsons and South Park being three very good examples) are animations. There’s something unambiguously magical about the format. Indeed, as a marketing tool, animation has no equal. Some of the most iconic advertising campaigns have been animations. The problem is that it’s remarkably expensive to create compelling animations. You need...

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Stamp Out Junk Mail: 4 Tips To Stop Unwanted Snail-Mail

The only things worse than junk mail are paying taxes, having a colonoscopy, and passing a kidney stone. Yes, I hate junk mail that much. Junk email is bad enough, but at least thanks to the wonders of technology, most modern email clients are highly skilled at identifying and routing spam mail into a special spam mail folder that you can promptly nuke to the trash bin every now and then. Traditional snail-mail junk on the other hand? Not so easy. In 1775, the American government appointed the first postmaster General. Seems pretty long ago, but over in Europe, the...

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Support For Windows XP, Google Camera App, First Heartbleed Arrest [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Custom Support for Windows XP, Google Camera app, first Heartbleed arrest, personalized Microsoft Bing, Tuckaway Stand on Kickstarter, Samsung vs. Steve Jobs’ ghost, and Super Mario wine. Microsoft Slashes Support Prices For XP IRS (uncle Sam) will pay millions to MS for custom XP support ~ is it so hard to move on?? #wow — Umair Aziz (@umairazizz) April 13, 2014 Microsoft may have ended support for Windows XP installs used by the general public, but it isn’t above extending that support for organizations willing to pay for the privilege. And, according to Computerworld, it...

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Support For Windows XP, Google Camera App, First Heartbleed Arrest [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Custom Support for Windows XP, Google Camera app, first Heartbleed arrest, personalized Microsoft Bing, Tuckaway Stand on Kickstarter, Samsung vs. Steve Jobs’ ghost, and Super Mario wine. Microsoft Slashes Support Prices For XP IRS (uncle Sam) will pay millions to MS for custom XP support ~ is it so hard to move on?? #wow — Umair Aziz (@umairazizz) April 13, 2014 Microsoft may have ended support for Windows XP installs used by the general public, but it isn’t above extending that support for organizations willing to pay for the privilege. And, according to Computerworld, it...

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WinToUSB: Tool To Run Windows 7 From USB Flash Drive/Hard Drive

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While installing and running Windows 8/8.1 on a USB drive is relatively easy, installing Windows 7 on a USB drive isn’t that easy. Unlike Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 doesn’t come with Windows To Go feature, the feature that lets you easily install and run Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise edition on USB drives. Over the past couple […]

How Do You Manage Your Passwords? [We Ask You]

With everything online rightly requiring a password to be chosen, stored, and entered, it’s getting increasingly difficult to manage these random collections of numbers, letters, and symbols. Difficult, but not impossible. With your help perhaps we can turn difficult to easy. If A Thief Has Your Key, Change The Locks We want to know, How Do You Manage Your Passwords? This question is asked in light of the Heartbleed bug recently discovered in OpenSSL. One simple programming error led, two years later, to the Internet being broken. And it will remain broken until all of the affected websites update OpenSSL...

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Windows XP Running Your ATM Or Ticket Machine? Time To Buy Online!

Windows XP goes end-of-life in April 2014, after which Microsoft will no longer release bug fixes. If you’ve upgraded your PC then everything should be fine – but what about your bank? Have they upgraded? The Risk Isn’t Necessarily With You Have you upgraded from Windows XP yet? If not, you can choose from several different options, but don’t feel that the onus is completely on you to stay secure. While it is important to ensure your home computer system is as up to date as possible – thereby ensuring that your copy of Windows is equipped with all of...

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Creativity Unleashed: 3 Online Art Projects That You’ll Love

From simple doodles to elaborate paintings, art can soothe, entertain, and inspire in equal measure. With the Web making geographical barriers disappear, you can delve into the works of various artists with ease. We have already featured some useful museum websites and online art galleries. Today we bring you a selection of three online visual art projects that you’ll fall in love with. They Draw & Travel What do you get when you bring together individuals who have a passion for drawing as well as for places? You get They Draw & Travel (TDAT). Set up by the brother-sister duo...

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The Death Of XP: Advantage Linux [We Ask You Results]

Microsoft wants nothing more to do with Windows XP, unless you’re willing to pay for the privilege of Custom Support. XP is still an option, but with Microsoft abandoning the past-its-sell-by-date operating system, most sensible people are looking for alternatives. Most have just one option in mind. Linux Breaks Microsoft’s Windows We asked you, Microsoft Has Killed Windows XP… Now What? This question was, rather self-explanatorily, asked as a result of Microsoft ending official support for Windows XP for the vast majority of users. Some bigger organizations, such as the IRS, have paid out for Custom Support, gifting them critical...

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The Death Of XP: Advantage Linux [We Ask You Results]

Microsoft wants nothing more to do with Windows XP, unless you’re willing to pay for the privilege of Custom Support. XP is still an option, but with Microsoft abandoning the past-its-sell-by-date operating system, most sensible people are looking for alternatives. Most have just one option in mind. Linux Breaks Microsoft’s Windows We asked you, Microsoft Has Killed Windows XP… Now What? This question was, rather self-explanatorily, asked as a result of Microsoft ending official support for Windows XP for the vast majority of users. Some bigger organizations, such as the IRS, have paid out for Custom Support, gifting them critical...

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