Today in Tech News Digest, the Amazon Fire TV, Windows Phone 8.1 with Cortana, Windows 8.1 Update 1 for mouse and keyboards, GoBe on Indiegogo, Rdio, Vudu, and Crackle on Chromecast, and a PSA about the dangers of binge watching. Amazon Launches Fire TV Set-Top Box Amazon has unveiled Fire TV, a powerful set-top box for streaming content and playing games. The Amazon Fire TV is available immediately and priced at US$99. The remote control is included, with a custom controller for playing games priced at $39.99. The Amazon Fire TV is an Android-powered set-top box with a quad-core CPU,...
Read the full article: Amazon Fire TV, Windows Phone Cortana, Indiegogo GoBe, Binge Watching PSA [Tech News Digest]
Another April Fools’ Day has been and gone, which is a huge relief for anyone who works online. Determining the real news from the fake news can be tough, especially with so many companies and websites entering into the spirit of the occasion. It’s time, with your help, to sort the wheat from the chaff. Foolish Foolhardy Fools We want to know, What Is The Best Online April Fools’ Day Prank Ever? Please do limit your comments to online April Fools’ Day pranks because, as interesting as your real-world April Fools’ Day pranks may be, they’re not quite what we’re...
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You know that good health and habits are vital for a better life. But perhaps you lack the know-how, the motivation, or both to work on these key areas. The result? You’re trapped in a vicious cycle of bad habits, failure, and dejection. The good news is that you can release yourself from it with a healthy dose of inspiration. To help you find the motivation to work on your fitness and habits, we have shared resources like body contests that pay you for being fit, apps for self-improvement, and subreddits that focus on health. But there’s nothing more inspiring...
Read the full article: Improve Your Health, Improve Yourself: 3 Fitness Bloggers Show You How
Would you not like Google Chrome (and Google) to keep a record of websites that you have visited recently? Well you can remove your browsing history from Chrome in two easy steps. Type chrome://history in the browser’s address bar, click the “Clear Browsing Data” button and your history will be deleted permanently.
Now consider a slightly different scenario. You want to preserve most of the browsing history in Chrome but would like to selectively remove certain items from the history. Maybe you want to remove all traces of visits to a particular website. Or you are trying to remove all web pages from Chrome’s history that contain a particular keyword.
That’s not difficult either. Use the search box in the Chrome history page to find web pages from a particular website, then hover your mouse over the items you wish to remove and select the checkbox. Do this for every page you need to remove and then click the “Remove Selected Items” button.
If you are to remove 50 pages from the history, you will have to select 50 different checkboxes manually. There’s no “Select All” button in Chrome’s history pages.
That can be tedious task so here’s a simple workaround that requires no Chrome extensions.
Select the checkbox against the first item in the history results and then scroll to the bottom of the history page. Now select the checkbox against the last item but keep the SHIFT key down. This will select the entire list and you can now remove them from history with a click.
Name the first online auction site that comes to your mind. Can you even think of any besides eBay? For most of us it’s the only online auction site that matters, but if you’re browsing through eBay to find great deals on computers, you may be better off using an alternative auction platform. Why look somewhere other than eBay? Less competition when placing bids. Less dependence on PayPal. Avoid common eBay scams. If you need a very specific item and price isn’t a top concern, by all means keep using eBay. The site is so massively international that you won’t...
Read the full article: Computer Auctions And Why eBay May Not Be Your Only Option
Google’s $35 media streaming device known as the Chromecast is picking up steam with users, and as such, more companies are launching support for it. Rdio, Vudu, and Crackle have just joined the ranks of Chromecast supporters with updates for each of its services. Starting with Rdio, both the iOS and Android application have received updates that add support for the Google streaming stick. It features a very simple big-screen interface that puts the album art right in the center of the screen. You can also pause and scrub through the track using the smartphone’s controls. Additionally, Rdio also added...
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Google’s $35 media streaming device known as the Chromecast is picking up steam with users, and as such, more companies are launching support for it. Rdio, Vudu, and Crackle have just joined the ranks of Chromecast supporters with updates for each of its services. Starting with Rdio, both the iOS and Android application have received updates that add support for the Google streaming stick. It features a very simple big-screen interface that puts the album art right in the center of the screen. You can also pause and scrub through the track using the smartphone’s controls. Additionally, Rdio also added...
Read the full article: Rdio, Vudu, and Crackle Add Chromecast Support
How do I contact the owner of a website? Where is a particular website hosted? What other websites are hosted on that same server ? Is the site using WordPress or the Drupal platform? What ad networks are they using to monetize a site? Is the site accessible from China?
Here are some of the most useful online tools that will help you know each and every detail of any website. Let’s get started.
Also see: 101 Most Useful Websites
32GB of sweet USB flash drive storage space just sits in your office drawer, ironically taking up space. Why? Because you can’t put anything else on it. It’s write protected and you can’t format the stupid thing! Or can you? We get a lot of people asking about formatting write protected USB flash drives. First, make sure this is what you need to do. Are you sure you don’t just have a dead USB port? Maybe it’s just that your flash drive is corrupted? We’re going to get to the bottom of this problem and either you’ll be stashing all...
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Today in Tech News Digest, enjoying April Fools, Apple versus Samsung, Mozilla CEO speaks out, Amazon adds Metacritic scores, Zuckerberg takes pay cut, Coursera on Android, and Kaspersky maps the Cyberwar. April Fools Hits The Web Dumbledore is alive! April Fools. — Professor Snape (@_Snape_) April 2, 2014 April 1 is the worst day of the year for anyone seeking real technology news, which is why yesterday’s edition of Tech News Digest wasn’t all it at first appeared to be. Fake news was everywhere on the Web, so what follows are just a few of our favorites from the roundups...
Read the full article: April Fools Roundup, Apple Attacks Samsung, Mozilla CEO Controversy [Tech News Digest]
Drag and drop a file; send it to the desktop of another computer on your network. Dukto makes local file sharing simple, regardless of operating system. Setting up a home network can be complicated, especially if some combination of Mac, Linux and Windows is involved. Sometimes, giving someone access to your shared folders isn’t worth it – when a guest wants to quickly share a few files, for example. Don’t reach for the thumb drives: any two computers with Dukto installed can quickly share files and text. There’s no setup, and no cloud service to sign into: the transfer occurs...
Read the full article: Dukto Offers Cross-Platform, Drag-And-Drop File Sharing
Drag and drop a file; send it to the desktop of another computer on your network. Dukto makes local file sharing simple, regardless of operating system. Setting up a home network can be complicated, especially if some combination of Mac, Linux and Windows is involved. Sometimes, giving someone access to your shared folders isn’t worth it – when a guest wants to quickly share a few files, for example. Don’t reach for the thumb drives: any two computers with Dukto installed can quickly share files and text. There’s no setup, and no cloud service to sign into: the transfer occurs...
Read the full article: Dukto Offers Cross-Platform, Drag-And-Drop File Sharing
Lisa Sugar worked in advertising but loved celebrity gossip. Ray Chen was a university student who just wanted to share funny images. Craig Newmark was new to San Francisco and worked for a brokerage and banking company. These three sound everyday people. They also created little websites — PopSugar, 9GAG, and Craigslist in that order. These were all personal projects of the three founders while they were busy earning their bread doing something different. Dig deeper and you will find many success stories that came from following large passions with tiny first steps. Do you have a passion that is...
Read the full article: What A Busy Day: 10 Savvy Ways To Find Time For Your Personal Projects
If you’re looking for VPS hosting – whether to run a Minecraft server, host a bunch of files, or simply to run a 24/7 remote computer – you would do well to start with DigitalOcean. Not sure what the difference is between VPS hosting and shared hosting? We’ve got you covered with a quick explanation of the various types of web hosting. If all you need is a cheap server to run a WordPress blog, you’d be better off with one of these web hosting services. But if shared hosting is too limited for you, you’ll want to look into...
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Back in the 1980s, we knew considerably less about the world around, above and within us. In a world gripped by Cold War, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos served as a reminder that science is about discovery and knowledge, rather than just a means of increasing your arsenal. Thirty years on we can stream Carl Sagan‘s groundbreaking documentary for free on YouTube, and still learn something from it. Despite the decades of knowledge gained since the show’s inception, the show is still brimming with intrigue and relevance, so sit back and enjoy the show that inspired a whole generation of scientists to...
Read the full article: Watch Carl Sagan’s Cosmos Right Now On YouTube [Stuff to Watch]
