According to a study published last year in the New York Times, 43% of Americans are reported to have worked remotely at least once in 2016. From work-oriented instant messaging to flight-booking applications, all a remote worker needs is an internet connection to break the boundaries of a traditional job. While keeping Android and Apple […]
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New and Improved Skype is Rolling Out to Desktops Today
Earlier this year, Skype launched a new version of its mobile app, adding options to share media and react to conversations via emoji, likening it to less archaic communication services such as Messenger, Snapchat and Slack. After months of receiving feedback from mobile users, Skype is now ready to roll out a slightly different version […]
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Facebook Original Programming Makes Sense
Facebook has long been one of the more popular social media sites, where friends and families can connect, communicate and share pictures. Total strangers become friends and random kitten and cooking videos come together to offer us a diverse and interesting feed, one many of us can lose ourselves in for hours at a time. […]
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Facebook is Working On a New Feature That Could Protect Your Profile Picture From Abuse
A few months ago, some questionable individual saved my wife’s profile picture (which happened to be a picture of our 5 year old son) and used it to create a new account using her name. He (or she) went on to send friend requests to everyone on her friends list. I got one, as did […]
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People in Pittsburgh Can Report Bad Smells Via App
CREATE Lab (which stands for Community Robotics Education And Technology Empowerment) came up with the app, Smell PGH, as a way to help Pittsburgh’s residents to help improve the quality of the air they breathe. Pittsburgh and surrounding areas have the 8th worse air quality in the United States by the American Lung Association, mainly […]
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Why Online Website Building Tools Are Helpful: A Look at ucraft
With so much emphasis on the digital, it is clear that if someone has a business, they need a website. That said, one must consider quite a few things when going down the path of website creation. Many people and business owners have already made those decisions. However, that doesn’t mean that a person shouldn’t take a […]
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Run Your Online Meetings From Your Fav Mobile Gadget
When you’re on the road, the solutions that run your online meetings have to play nice with your mobile devices. That includes being able to not just attend, but also run meetings. Unfortunately, many meeting solutions are not mobile responsive and some of those that are only allow attending – not managing. Three free solutions […]
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10 WordPress E-commerce Themes and Plugins
With the advent of social media and blogging being used as a promotional tool, many e-commerce merchants want to integrate their online store with their blog sites and/or utilize the WordPress software they’re most familiar with to design and run their online store. The following are five plugins and five themes that allow merchants to […]
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How to Deal with Hacked Email
The downside of having a web-based or cloud-based email account is that it could be hacked. Accessing email online has many advantages that outweigh the possibility of hacking. Besides, those using computer-based email can still become victims of hacking by opening suspicious attachments or clicking phishing links. Even if your email account remains safe, follow […]
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5 Best Real Estate Search Tools
Given the huge population of not only the world but also any given major metropolitan area, matching houses, condos and properties with the people they’re best suited to can be a major challenge for real estate professionals. While the market slows down and speeds up on a whim, the fact is that many thousands of […]
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4 Sites to Troubleshoot Your Car
Are you of the widespread opinion that anything and everything can be found on the internet, at the touch of a button, and for free? If so, you’re far from alone. In fact, the internet has evolved into such an incredible hub of instantaneous information that some scientists believe it’s affecting our memory. However, while […]
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HOW TO: Set Up an Online Course
If you need to provide an online training course, whether for your employees or to your students, the ProProfs Training Maker is a simple, intuitive tool to help you do it quickly and with absolute minimal hassle, allowing you to focus on content instead of technical headaches. 1. Organize Your Needs and Ideas The first […]
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Jailbreaking the iPhone – Worth It Or a Waste of Time?
You have probably been hearing the term “jailbreaking” a lot lately. No, it doesn’t mean busting out of jail and going on the run. It is a technical term applied to network-connected devices, and you can jailbreak anything from a Playstation to an Android. However, the real debate has come from the jailbreaking of the […]
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5 Facebook Apps for Androids
Using Facebook through a PC is a wholly difference experience from using one on a tablet or phone between the smaller screens and the use of fingers to interact with the app. While you can use Facebook through your Android browser, working with an app made with the Android in mind improves the user experience. […]
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8 Web Apps to Compare the Way and Cost of Living in Different Cities
Moving to another city is stressful, much less moving to another state or country. But it is something most of us find ourselves planning to do at some point, whether that means going because of a job, family, school or just as a change of scenery. Just as it is with any change, it is […]