Your Holiday Counterfeit Gift-Buying Guide!

With Christmas right around the corner, we’re heading into the busiest shopping period of the year. As always, though, the closer we get to December 25, the more barren the store shelves become. So what can you do if your kids are dying for a PlayStation 4 and the stores are sold out? Simple, just give them a shiny new PolyStation, the gift that says “I didn’t care enough about time management to get you what you really wanted, but I do care enough to give you something from the international world of knockoff goods.” OK, so your kids are likely to immediately spot that your gift of a PolyStation...

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Facebook and Twitter Join Tech Giants in Call for Obama to Curb Government Spying

The world's most powerful technology firms united today in calls to curb government spying on internet users. Bosses from Apple, Facebook, Google, AOL, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo said 'it's time to change' surveillance laws and practices in the wake of revelations about massive U.S. spying on citizens. The rare show of unity by usually fierce competitors is seen as a reflection of the damage in public confidence inflicted by leaks from Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower. Earlier this year he revealed how U.S. and British spy agencies were able to...

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Microsoft develops 'smart' bra

It's no longer enough to have smartphones, smartwatches, smart TVs and smart cars. Now a tech company is bringing artificial intelligence to lingerie. Researchers at Microsoft have developed a prototype of a "smart bra" embedded with physiological sensors that seek to monitor a woman's heart activity to track her emotional moods and combat overeating. The sensors can signal the wearer's smartphone, which then flash a warning message to help her step away from the fridge and make better diet decisions. The company says it has no plans to make the bra into a commercial product, however. So...

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Create a 3D Book Animation with CSS

For his  new book, Photography for Designers, author Tom Kenny wanted to do something interesting with the image of the book itself on the website. His first thought was to perfectly render a physical book in Photoshop, right down to the very last detail but then he decided to do something interesting with CSS. Read what Tom has done: With the introduction of transforms in CSS, we can now replicate 3D objects. The 3D book I’ve created consists of two elements, the spine and the cover. Step 1 The HTML <div class="book-container"> <div class="book"> <div class="book-cover"> ...

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Just a Blogging Platform

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customizable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do. It's simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time messing with making your blog work - and more time blogging. The Story So Far In late 2012, John O'Nolan put together a post with some wireframes about his idea for a new blogging platform. After years of frustration building blogs with existing solutions, he wrote a concept for a...

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Google Patents ‘Throat Tattoo’ Technology; May Be Used as Lie Detector

Google has filed for the patent of a system that allows users to communicate with devices and people via a temporary electronic throat tattoo, reports CNN. The throat tattoo will be in similar size to a band-aid and it's worth noting that at this stage, this is merely a patent. Here's what you need to know: 1. Just Stick the Tattoo to Your Throat The patent documents state that the electronic tattoo, which users will stick to their throats, will be able to communicate with phones, tablets and Google Glass. The technology will be voice-operated and will not require users to wear an earpiece 2....

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Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity

So this is where they collared the man they call the Dread Pirate Roberts. It’s up a flight of stone steps, past the circulation desk and the Romance stacks, over in Science Fiction, far corner. On a sunny Tuesday in October, federal officers entered the public library in the Glen Park section of this city and arrested a young man who they say ran a vast Internet black market — an eBay of illegal drugs. Their mark, Ross William Ulbricht, says he is not the F.B.I.’s Dread Pirate Roberts, the nom de guerre of the mastermind behind the marketplace, Silk Road. And the facts, his lawyer says,...

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Free Resume Builder - JobTabs

Build a first class resume for free with fill in the blank simplicity. Pick the sections you want in your resume and simply fill in the fields. Click Build Resume and you have a resume you can save as docx, pdf, doc, text, html, etc. No bait and switch. You can print and save your resume to your computer with no strings attached - for life Very easy to use. Just point and click, drag and drop and you are done. Resume sections provided include Contact Info, Qualifications Summary, Objective, Professional Experience, Education, Awards, Affiliations, Certifications, References and Personal. All...

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10 Highly Profitable 2-Year Degree Jobs

Think a bachelor’s or master’s degree is the only way to advance your career? Think again. There are many associate’s degree careers that pay high salaries. In fact, going after the highest paying jobs with a 2-year degree is a great way to handle debt after college graduation and reduce job-search anxieties after college. Whether you’re looking for a fresh start in a new, more lucrative field or enrolling in college for the first time, a 2-year associate’s degree from a community college is one of the quickest routes to bringing home more bacon each week. This is especially good news for those...

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Who is that hot ad girl?

Question: Who is the hot girl, ‘Amy’, in the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX “Mayday Button” commercial? Answer: Amy Paffrath Amy is an actress/TV host originally from St. Louis, MO. You can see Amy online at Hollywood Minute. Here is Amy’s official site and IMDb page. Follow Amy on her Twitter and YouTube pages...

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What Is Cloud Computing?

The 'cloud' is a real buzzword these days, but what exactly is the cloud, how does it impact what you do, and is it anything really new?  "What's the cloud?" "Where is the cloud?" "Are we in the cloud now?!" These are all questions you've probably heard (and not just from Amy Poehler in Best Buy's Super Bowl ad) or even asked yourself. The term "cloud computing" is everywhere.  Let's explain further. In the simplest terms, cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computer's hard drive. The cloud is just a metaphor for the Internet....

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How to Migrate your Blog from Blogger to WordPress

Your blog (abc.blogspot.com) is hosted on Blogger but you would now like to move your blog from Blogger to WordPress (self-hosted) with a personal domain name like abc.com. What is the easiest way to switch from Blogger to WordPress without losing search traffic and your existing subscribers? WordPress provides an easy one-click option for importing blog posts and reader comments from Blogger into a new WordPress blog but there’s more to migration than just transferring content. For instance: Some of your articles on the old blogspot blog could be ranking very high in search engines...

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Apple Orders DMCA Takedown of "Apple-Tracker" Website

Apple has a beef with the site's use of page-scrape tools for data on Apple's official online store A website that takes inventory of Apple products in nearby stores has been shut down by the Cupertino giant itself. Apple-Tracker, which was developed and maintained by Mordy Tikotzky, was a site that compiled data on in-store pickup purchases only from Apple's official online store. So if you were shopping for an iPad Air and wanted a specific model, you could've used Apple-Tracker to see which stores nearby had the item in stock. However, Apple sent Tikotzky a Digital Millennium Copyright Act...

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5 Things to Know About Twitter's IPO

When the markets open Thursday morning, Twitter will officially become a public company. The microblogging service begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange starting at 9:30 a.m. ET under the ticker symbol TWTR. Here are five things you need to know about Twitter's IPO. 1. The magic number is $26. Twitter priced shares at $26 a pop, above the $23-$25 that had been predicted. The $26 price values the company at $18.34 billion. That's more than Macy's, which has a market capitalization of $17 billion, and Bed Bath & Beyond, which is around $16 billion. According to markets service Dealogic,...

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5 Of The Best WordPress Video Plugins

Being one of the most popular content management systems, Wordpress happens to be an excellent platform for open source blogging. With its new video sharing option, Wordpress bloggers have found a happy way to post videos via blogs. A plenty of video plugins have been released so far to help you add videos to your blogs. So what does this video plugins actually do? These plugins, once installed into your Wordpress, lets you to add and share videos to your blog. Each video plugin comes with its own unique feature. Here, in this blog you will get to know about five Wordpress plugins, which can be...

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iPad Air Problems Reported Early On

The Apple iPad Air release took place November 1, 2013, and the device is currently making its way into the hands of eager customers. We often hear about the odd flaw or issue with a new major device launch, and it appears that some iPad Air problems are being reported regarding screen and text issues. Before we go further we want to stress that we have no idea of these iPad Air issues are widespread or if these are very isolated incidents, so don’t panic if you have just purchased or are about to buy your iPad Air. Very often some minor issues are reported on new devices to the market,...

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5 Odd Phobias You Never Knew Existed

Everybody's afraid of something. Whether it be flying, public speaking, spiders or the dreaded dentist, we all have things that make us squirm. When that fear becomes strong enough and irrational enough though, it develops into a full-blown phobia. Of course, not all phobias are created equal; some are just more irrational than others. It's pretty easy to understand how the fear of heights (acrophobia) or dying (thanatophobia) can fill somebody with paralyzing dread, but what about the fear of chickens (alektorophobia) or chopsticks (consecotaleophobia)? Guess somebody isn't ordering the...

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Circumvent Blocked Websites Easily

Access UK and US websites from anywhere in the world. One of the great ironies of the Internet is that it is meant to connect everyone together and break down barriers, but at the same time media companies erect location-based barriers around their properties. This practice is known as geo-blocking. For example, web services like Hulu, Pandora, Google Voice, and Google Music are not available outside of the United States, while BBC iPlayer and Grooveshark are blocked to anyone outside of the UK. Then there's all the music uploaded to YouTube, which is blocked in various parts of Europe, depending...

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Free - Advanced Open-Source 3D Computer Graphics Software

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. Blender's features include 3D modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging and skinning, fluid and smoke simulation, particle simulation, soft body simulation, sculpting, animating, match moving, camera tracking, rendering, video editing and compositing. It also features a built-in game engine. Below is a sample video tutorial: Features: Interface The Interface allows you to change, adapt and re-distribute the layout of all UI components and tools to suit the task at hand. From the smallest adjustment in size to a full custom interface, all this...

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