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18 Feb 2015
Inside the Dark Web
Inside the Dark Web If our popular culture is to be believed, most people assume there’s a place online where the worst of the headlines you read about drugs, money laundering, murder for hire, and vast child pornography rings are born. It’s called many things, though “Dark Web” is the most dramatic. Although it’s true
18 Feb 2015
SSD vs. HDD: What’s the Difference?
SSD vs. HDD: What’s the Difference? Until recently, PC buyers had very little choice for what kind of file storage they got with their laptop, ultrabook, ordesktop. If you bought an ultrabook or ultraportable, you likely had a solid-state drive (SSD) as the primary drive (C: on Windows, Macintosh HD on a Mac). Every
18 Feb 2015
Microsoft Cozies Up to More Cloud Providers
Microsoft Cozies Up to More Cloud Providers Microsoft today beefed up support for third-party cloud storage in a move that will let you open documents from other services without leaving the Office apps. Going forward, cloud services can integrate with the “Locations” picker within Microsoft’s Office apps, allowing you to access, edit, and save documents
18 Feb 2015
Samsung Tips Wireless Charging for Galaxy S6
Samsung Tips Wireless Charging for Galaxy S6 Samsung has been dropping hints about its next-generation flagship smartphone, and the latest clue suggests the Galaxy S6 will support wireless charging. In a Tuesday blog post, Samsung’s lead engineer for IT and mobile, Seho Park, discussed making wireless charging an industry standard. “It is expected that 2015
18 Feb 2015
Facebook ads get smarter
Like it or not, Facebook advertisements just got even smarter. On Tuesday, the social network announced Product Ads, a set of tools that lets businesses more effectively target Facebook’s 1.4 billion or so users with a new, automated process. With Product Ads, businesses who upload their product catalogs to Facebook can manually create ad campaigns.
18 Feb 2015
Microsoft Office for iOS now lets you save to Apple’s iCloud
Microsoft just beefed up its support for third-party storage apps — adding ways to hook up to Box, iCloud Drive and other storage apps to the iOS version of its Office suite Tuesday. The updated Office apps for iOS, including Word, Powerpoint and Excel, now allow users to save files directly to Apple’s iCloud Drive
16 Feb 2015
Android Lollipop Crashes Less Than iOS 8
Android Lollipop Crashes Less Than iOS 8 Stick a feather in your cap, Android users. The next time your friends pull out their shiny new iPhones and show off its pretty iOS platform, you can whip out a new report from Crittercism, which indicates application crashes on Android 5.0 Lollipop are a fraction of a
16 Feb 2015
Want to Make Money on Pinterest? Good Luck
Looking to make a fortune on your Pinterest popularity? We have some bad news: affiliate linking is no more. The practice had largely been banned for most users, but Power Pinners, as they’re known, still had the opportunity to use affiliate links—referrals, really—to make money on the side for all their Pinterest popularity. Click on
16 Feb 2015
11 Antivirus Apps for the Mac
11 Antivirus Apps for the Mac Mac users are lucky enough to miss out on some of the heartbreak that’s part of the Windows experience. They will never, for example, have to suffer the confusion of Windows 8 or the madness of Windows RT. But many also don’t experience the joy of installing antivirus software[link
16 Feb 2015
Explore Venues in 3D Via Nokia HERE for Android
Nokia’s HERE mapping service is dropping its beta tags on Android and pulling on its big-boy pants. Now with improved routing, interactivity, 3D venue maps, and a visual polish, the updated application is available todownload for free in the Google Play store. “Most of the refinements you’ll find in the new version come from user