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Technology Today, Collectibles Tomorrow

By: Unknown on 17:59

Mice, USBs, computer screens and Blu-Ray players are some examples of technology that we use in every day life and take for granted.

As technology is always evolving, it is possible that there may be no such thing as a keyboard in 2020. If you’re an avid techie who constantly upgrades your equipment, or even just a normal every day computer/phone/tablet user, consider keeping old technology rather than throwing it out. You never know, one day it might become an expensive collectors item.

Below is a list of gadgets and devices that may change or not even exist in the future. Consider keeping them (even if they don’t work), after all you may not be able to buy a new one in the future.

Desktop computer
Computer screen
Computer mouse
Computer keyboard
Smartphones
iPods/Walkmans/MP4 Players
Fitness trackers
DVD/CD Players
USBs/Portable HDD’s
CDs/Floppy Disks (collectible already!)
Landline
Printer
Computer/home entertainment projector
Laptop
TV/Air conditioner remotes
Lamp (with light bulb)
Phone chargers
Tablet
iPod dock/Bluetooth speaker
Modem/router/WiFi

Did we leave something off the list? What was it? Let us know in the comments!

Also let us know if you have begun collecting tech gadgets already!

Windows 10 Release Date

By: Unknown on 17:29

Windows 10 has been a rumor online for quite a while now, however speculation was confirmed when Microsoft announced the update in mid-January 2015.

What is Windows 10?

A new operating system. Aimed at replacing Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.

10 new Windows 10 features (compared to Windows 8.1)

Redesigned interface for touch (no more task switching on the left and the removal of the charms bar)
The return of the start bar (also features live tiles)
New Task View (way to navigate between apps and desktop programs)
Snap Assist – more options to rearrange windows
Updated Command Prompt (addition of keyboard shortcuts)
Additions to Windows Explorer
Continum – for 2 in 1 devices
Universal apps between all Windows 10 platforms (phone, tablet and PC)
Apps can be opened to the desktop in a window
Support for multiple virtual desktops

How much will it cost?

Windows 10 will be free for one year for most Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 users.

When is it expected to be released?

June 2015 (rumored)

GoPro Hero 4 vs 3+ (Comparison Chart)

By: Unknown on 16:32

Chart available at http://vegasaur.com/gopro-hero4-hero3-comparison

Leaked: new Android operating system design (Quantum Paper)

By: Unknown on 18:36

THIS ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE HERE: http://androidandme.com/2014/06/news/rumor-google-is-going-to-change-modern-software-design-with-quantum-paper/

There have been an extraordinary amount of rumors and leaks over the last several months related to how Android and several key Google apps will look and work. We’ve heard rumors that Google will completely change the Android homescreen and multitasking experience, and seen leaked versions of Gmail and Google calendar that go against the Holo we’ve all come to know and love. All of the changes detailed in these leaks and rumors can fit under one massive initiative at Google called Quantum Paper.

So what is Quantum Paper? As Android Police, the source for this information, puts it:

Quantum Paper is the overarching name for a new, unified design framework intended to make experiences consistent across all platforms. According to information available to us, it represents Google's effort to both create (with Google apps) and encourage consistent, beautiful design that delights across all platforms. Quantum Paper is a hugely ambitious project, looking to unify and codify paradigms for visual, motion, and interaction design across all platforms, including web, Android, and iOS.LIAM SPRADLINAndroid Police

For as complicated as Quantum may seem, it’s actually rather simple. Google is going to be releasing the design tools necessary to make all software a cohesive experience from the web, to Android, to iOS. If Quantum is anything like Polymer, from Google I/O 2013, then we have a good idea of how Quantum will function. Take a look at the Polymer announcement from last year’s Google I/O below, and look at some of the leaks featuring Quantum elements that have popped up over the last several months. There’s a very good chance Polymer is essentially Quantum beta. If that’s true, Quantum will provide developers with assets along the lines of toolbars, icons and animations. Developers will be allowed to customize those assets to a certain extent while still maintaing a consistent experience between apps, developers and platforms.

Once Quantum is officially released, which is said to happen with Android’s “L” release, most everything Google will be built using Quantum following the Quantum Paper Spec. Just how far reaching Quantum will be remains to be seen. With the web as open as it as, and with Apple just releasing Swift, it’s not like every software developer making apps is going to jump on Quantum. But Google has a lot of pull in the development community. And if you want your software to work on the world’s most popular mobile operating system, you’ll be using Quantum too. Let’s hope we hear more on Quantum Paper at Google I/O just a couple weeks away.

$99 Windows tablets and $199 notebooks on the way

By: Unknown on 18:34

Microsoft expects that consumers could soon see a seven inch tablet running Windows 8.1 in stores priced as low as $99, along with notebooks as cheap as $199.

Microsoft announced during BUILD that it would ditch its manufacturer royalty fee to OEMs for devices smaller than nine inches.

Turner said that there are Windows 8.1 notebooks priced as low as $249 that compete with the budget priced Chromebooks from Google. They include the Acer Aspire ES1, which is already out, and an 11.6-inch Toshiba notebook that will be released in time for the holiday shopping season.

Information from

http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-99-windows-8-tablets-and-249-notebooks-coming-fall

Stream Full Songs Within Shazam

By: Unknown on 18:30

The popular music discovery app has released an update to its iOS version that allows users who Shazam a tune to listen to the full song. The new feature is powered by streaming service Rdio and will be seamless, and free, for users of both products.

With the update, Shazam users who already subscribe to Rdio can just click on the Rdio preview button to hear the song. Shazamed tracks are automatically collected in an Rdio playlist, giving users an easy way to keep track of their discoveries.

Information from

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/6157583/shazam-partners-with-rdio-to-stream-full-songs-inside

iPhone 6 Rumours

By: Unknown on 15:47

According to reports, Apple is set to release two new iPhone 6's in September.
The new iPhone will boast a pixel density of 441ppi (as compared to the 5s/c at 326ppi). It is expected that it will come in two sizes: 4.7/5.7 inches. The Korea Herald reported yesterday that the iPhone 6 would adopt a "bezel-free" display, instead of the expected curved screen.

Sony SRS-BTS50 Bluetooth Speaker - Review

By: Unknown on 17:47

I was lucky enough to win a Sony SRS-BTS50 Portable Bluetooth Speaker, valued at AUD$179 it's worth the money.

The speaker has NFC, Bluetooth and AUX functions, with a battery life of 10 hours (for plenty of hours to party). The speaker boasts rich, clear sound in its normal mode, capable of being turned up loud without becoming distorted. The speaker has two modes, normal and surround, which can be changed by placing the speaker upward (surround) or forwards (normal). The surround feature works well, with the audio spreading in all directions (as compared to the one-direction normal mode). Sadly the speaker loses its bass punch when placed in the surround mode. The speaker is loud enough for indoor use, however it unfortunately does not perform so well outside. After testing the unit, we found that it was louder on Bluetooth as compared to AUX.
You can check the battery charge by simply pressing the 'batt' button on the bottom of the speaker, where a Siri like voice alerts you 'about 70 percent' (and so on).
There is a range of stylish colours to chose from including; pink, blue, red, black or white.

For a fashionable, lightweight, high quality Bluetooth speaker with long battery life, the Sony SRS-BTS50 is an option if you can look past the $179 rrp, and don't require loud music outdoors.

Our rating: 3/5

This review was updated March 2015.

iWatch Concept - Todd Hamilton

By: Unknown on 16:24

Read more about Todd Hamilton's iWatch concept: http://toddham.com/blog/iwatch-concept/

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An iPhone 5S with Flappy Bird installed is going for $100,000 on eBay

By: Unknown on 16:23

(eBay has removed this listing)

Another listing has an iPhone 5S (32GB) with Flappy Bird for $15,000. It has not yet received any bids, but has 11 watchers so far.

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Artistic Branding

By: Unknown on 19:38

You find some cool things whilst searching the web. Here’s another!

(Pasted from http://www.dorithegiant.com/2013/10/pro-bono-promo-street-art-series.html)

My latest project is a street art series located downtown Brampton titled Pro Bono Promo. It's kind of like graffiti, although I created the logos using that brand's main product. For example, the Cheez Whiz logo is actually made out of Cheez Whiz! The name came from poking fun at the fact that this almost looks like free advertising for the companies - with free samples included! A big thanks to my friend who helped me make this happen! :) Some of them didn't last long at all, while others are still out there deteriorating slowly. This has probably been my favourite project I've done so far.

JustDelete.Me! Easy account deletion online.

By: Unknown on 18:20

We are all signed up to a heap of web services, whether it’s Social Networking, Cloud Storage or a Club Membership. Signing up and becoming involved can be fun, but it’s the account deletion that is difficult. Luckily, there is a service to help you delete these accounts (of course!). JustDelete.Me has (at the time of posting) 238 sites listed which are colour coded indicating how hard it is to delete the services. Green for easy, orange for medium, red for difficult and black for impossible.

So if you need to delete an account, JustDelete.Me is the place to go!

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Crazy Google facts you might not know!

By: Unknown on 18:36

Google was originally called BackRub. The homepage read: "BackRub is a 'web crawler' which is designed to traverse the web."

Google has acquired an average of one company every week since 2010.

The first Google doodle was a Burning Man symbol. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin went to the Burning Man festival in 1998 and added the doodle to let users know they were away from the office that weekend.

Google hired its first in-house chef, Charlie Ayers, in November 1999, when the company had just 40 employees.

Ayers went on to become the firm's executive chef, overseeing a team of 150 employees across 10 cafes at its headquarters in Mountain View, California.

You can use Gmail in more than 50 languages. These include: Welsh, Basque, Tagalog, Malayalam, Telugu and Cherokee.

The first Google Doodle from 1998 – incorporating the Burning Man logo. Photograph: Google

Around 1,000 of Google's employees became millionaires when the company went public in 2004.

One of those millionaires was masseuse Bonnie Brown, who worked at the company giving back rubs for $450 a week back in 1999.

The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, which bypasses the results page to take users directly to the first result of their search, has been estimated to cost Google around $100m in lost ad revenue every year.

Google hires goats. In 2009, the company rented around 200 goats for a week to eat the grass and fertilise the soil at its California headquarters.

Google's first official tweet was the words "I'm feeling lucky" in binary.

Almost all of rival company Mozilla's money comes from Google. The firm pays $300m a year to be the default search engine on Mozilla's web browser Firefox.

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin own just 16% of the company.

That 16% gives them a combined net worth of around $46bn.

A new Google employee is known as a "Noogler" and a former employee is referred to as a "Xoogler".

Google.com, home to arguably the world's most important internet company, contains 23 markup errors in its code.

Its main page is so sparse because Sergey Brin and Larry Page didn't know HTML. For a long time you could only search by hitting the return key – it didn't even have a submit button.

In 2011, 96% of Google's $37.9 billion revenue came from advertising alone.

Google Doc’s Anonymous Animals

By: Unknown on 18:25

Google has had some fun with their Google Docs service. When an anonymous person opens a document in Google Drive, instead of only using different colors for each person, the users will be given an animal.
Including: alligator, anteater, armadillo, auroch, axolotl, badger, bat, beaver, buffalo, camel, chameleon, cheetah, chipmunk, chinchilla, chupacabra, cormorant, coyote, crow, dingo, dinosaur, dolphin, duck, elephant, ferret, fox, frog, giraffe, gopher, grizzly, hedgehog, hippo, hyena, jackal, ibex, ifrit, iguana, koala, kraken, lemur, leopard, liger, llama, manatee, mink, monkey, narwhal, nyan cat, orangutan, otter, panda, penguin, platypus, python, pumpkin (sic!), quagga, rabbit, raccoon, rhino, sheep, shrew, skunk, slow loris, squirrel, turtle, walrus, wolf, wolverine, wombat.

IMPORTANT: ANONYMOUS USERS WILL ONLY APPEAR ON DOCUMENTS THAT ARE PUBLIC - TO THE WEB. IF YOU HAVEN'T SHARED YOUR DOCUMENT, OR ENABLED PUBLISHING, ANONYMOUS USERS WON'T BE ABLE TO VIEW YOUR DOCUMENT.

Social Network Growth Stats

By: Unknown on 18:25

Wishpond has put together an infographic featuring data on worldwide social-network use.

To check it out and find out what parts of the world are likely to see the greatest growth click HERE.

InstAds–Instagram Ads

By: Unknown on 17:29

Today Instagram’s official account posted an image of what Instagram ads will look like.

You will see a “Sponsored” symbol in the top right-hand corner replacing the timestamp. The post looks like any other posting you’d see in the app. It is expected that the test ad will appear in the coming weeks.

Starbung vs Starbucks

By: Unknown on 18:29

Starbucks has filed a lawsuit against the owner of a Bangkok coffee stall.

Stall owner Damrong Maslae said his Starbung logo was created by a design-savvy friend, and not inspired by Starbucks at all.

NanoLeaf lightbulbs

By: Unknown on 17:32

NanoLeaf has designed a new energy-efficient lightbulb using a combination of LED bulbs. You get 30,000 hours of brightness equivalent to a standard 100W unit and they cost $35 each.

Watch your head when using Facebook

By: Unknown on 17:29

In May Facebook announced that they would ban videos showing graphic violence.

However they are once again allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared.

iPhone Prank Tricks People Into Thinking They're Getting a Text

By: Unknown on 19:46

You know the feeling. You and a friend are having a conversation via text and the little bubble with the blinking dots shows up indicating that she's typing. So much anticipation! You'd stare at those dots for hours waiting for a text, wouldn't you? Wouldn't it be funny if the dots just kept blinking? (http://gizmodo.com/this-iphone-prank-tricks-people-into-thinking-theyre-g-1442615551)