What Can I Do With My Spare Computer?
We all know the mantra of efficient product usage: Reduce; Reuse; Recycle. When it comes to computers though, changing technology and the need for tech-minded people to upgrade makes it hard to reduce consumption. This means we're plagued with the problem of old computers lying around our sheds with need of a good home or project to give them new life.
Learn A Language And Translate For Practice With Duolingo (Now Open To All!)
The internet has given us some fantastic tools for language learning, and Duolingo is the latest site to give it a go. It's just come out of closed beta and is now available for everyone to use, after being the talk of language learning communities online for months. Duolingo is currently teaching German, Spanish and French for free to anyone who wants to learn.
Fund & Publish Books With Unbound Crowdfunding
Are you a writer or artist wondering how you could ever afford to put out a book? As long as you have a bit of a following already, you could potentially raise funds using sites like Kickstarter. But what you may not know is that there's a crowd-sourcing site a lot like Kickstarter specifically designed for books. You should give it a try!
Two Essential Free Guitar Lesson Sites For Beginners
What new guitar players really need are some basic lessons and some sort of plan to help them practise the skills they need to get better at playing. Both of these are easily achieved with the help of two great websites, Justin Guitar and Music Discipline.
The Most Awesome WordPress Theme You Probably Don't Know About: P2
Even the most seasoned WordPress enthusiast can't have seen all of the free themes going around, so there's every likelihood the P2 theme passed you by too. But, the P2 WordPress theme is not like other themes at all. The way P2 works, it fundamentally changes the ways in which WordPress can be used and opens up a world of possibilities.
10 Essential Websites For IT Managers Wanting To Stay In The Loop
Have you suddenly been promoted from regular coder to team leader or manager? Or have you recently side-stepped your way from managing one group of people you understood well to leading an office full of geeks? It doesn't really matter how you got into IT management, you still need to know both how to manage well and how to lead a team of geeks.
8 Of The Best Mobile Apps For Your Dropbox [Android / iOS]
We've really only just reached the point were lots of apps are being written with integration to cloud storage in mind. Because of this, you may not have realised that quite a few very useful apps have popped up with integrated Dropbox syncing. We'll be covering some of the best of these today.
3 Really Inspiring Fitness Infographics, Plus Create One Of Your Own!
When you're trying to eat healthily, exercise daily and generally be good to your body, it can be a bit of a drag without regular inspiration and motivation to keep you going. Plus, we all like to find tips and hacks that will make the process of getting into shape easier for us. So, where do you get your inspiration? One cool way to get inspired is to look at some of the best infographics out there.
10+ Best Apps for Your Dropbox
If you've been using Dropbox for a while, you may not have noticed that a whole ecosystem of applications have been built up to use the service. Over time, these apps have sprung up to fill all of the little holes Dropbox left unfilled. There are apps now for just about everything. Read on to find out about some of the really useful ones.
Play Dominion With Style Using These Cool Apps [Web/Android/iOS]
If you're a board game geek, you've probably heard of the game Dominion and its ever-growing list of expansion packs. That's because it's an excellent board game and everyone who plays it feels the need to pass that message on. In short though, it is a deck-building game where each card you pick up determines what you can do each turn.
7 Free Resources to Learn About Sound Engineering
Here's a handful of great resources for you to use if you want to learn more about how to make great music recordings.
4 Ideas for a Fun Date Using a GPS Smartphone and Some Romance
Almost everybody has a smartphone with a GPS these days, but they're still sorely underused when it comes to creative days out of the house. If you're a geek looking to impress a date with your creativity, passion for life and cool tools, then using your GPS to liven things up could be the answer.
Get Someone Else To Do Your Odd Jobs With Airtasker
You know something like this has happened to you before. You're stuck trying to work out the supposedly obvious IKEA manual for something you just bought; you're staring at your miserable garden wondering if you'll ever get the time to cut it; you're looking for a new flat, but too busy working to find the good listings. So, where do you go to find someone who can help out for a small fee?
How Your Music Band Can Rock Pinterest
Musicians, by necessity, need to be good at self-promotion. There are just so many bands in the world that you need to take charge of your own marketing and ensure you get noticed. Thankfully, the Internet is here to help you promote yourself easily and the latest shiny tool for you to get acquainted with is Pinterest. Musicians can really make use of Pinterest, so we'll try to help you do a good job of it.
6 Best Sites to Find Summer Internships Across the World
With most of the world in various states of recession, it's no wonder many students are considering spending their summers doing internships. Internships give you an insight into the specific roles in your chosen field and could help you to decide where to specialise in the final stages of your courses. You learn a great deal about the positions available and what extra study could be beneficial to you.
4 Ways Many Americans (and Others) Are Ethnocentric on the Web [Opinion]
Are your ears burning? Did you click on this title to find out what those awful non-Americans think Americans are doing wrong this time? If so, maybe this article is written for you more than you'd like to believe, whether you're American or not. See it all in action than in the melting pot of the web where people from all walks of life are thrown in together.
4 Ways to Get Your Google Plus RSS Feeds
RSS feeds are still a very popular method for sharing within social networks these days, so we'll go through a few ways to get your posts and +1s out of Google+ via RSS. There are several options to choose from, with varying degrees of difficulty to use, risk and stability. The choice is yours!
How 3 Companies Turned Social Media PR Disasters Into Happy Endings
The Internet makes it so easy for customers to get the word out about great businesses they've found and other things they really like. Conversely, it's also quick to promote and pass around evidence of awful customer service. If you ever make a huge PR blunder, even in your bricks-and-mortar business or something more personal in nature, you can be sure someone will get proof of it online in no time.