Learn Vest - Revitalise Your Finances With Youth Money Management Tips
Do you ever get the feeling that maybe you could do a little better with your money management? Maybe that you could plan a little more thoroughly, save more money, learn more about financial products or be more disciplined about building good money habits and making more money? Well, you're not alone.
Optimise Your Article Content for SEO & Social Media as You Write
Maybe you have your own blog or maybe you write for someone else's blog. Maybe you're a journalist. Whatever your line of writing, it's likely that at least some of it will be on the Internet. If that's the case, you're probably quite good at writing about your favourite niches. But do you sometimes long to know what it is people are talking about?
ReadNow Brings Instapaper & Read-It-Later To A Sleek Mac Interface [Mac 10.6+]
You can't always read things you find online straight away. Sometimes you see great links in Twitter only to remember that you really should finish your work for the day before you start reading those articles. This is why so many of us use services like Instapaper and Read-It-Later - we love to get home and just cruise through all the interesting stuff we didn't have time to read before.
TamperMonkey Finally Brings Greasemonkey to Android [2.1+]
If you spend a lot of time online, you've probably come across Greasemonkey before, which allows you to run little scripts which affect the pages you're browsing. These scripts can do all sorts of useful things and you can now use them on your Android phone. TamperMonkey is the tool you need to get your favourite Greasemonkey scripts working on your Android.
How to Get Photos From Facebook Into Google Plus [Mac & Windows]
You've probably heard about Google Plus recently. You may love it or hate it or still be yet to try it, but most of us tech fans seem determined to give it a go. However, one of the big problems with any new social network is getting things set up just right. Google profiles used to have a section for Flickr photos, but Google is now determined to make us all use Picasa.
Facebook Introduces Video Calls Using Skype [News]
Facebook has just announced new video chat features using its long-awaited Skype integration. The announcement come hot on the tail of Google's Google Plus release, which features group video hangouts. Facebook users can try the new feature straight away, by clicking on "Get it now" in this video calling preview.
Suggest Romantic Date Ideas & Find Compatible Partners With HowAboutWe
If you've ever spent any time dabbling in the online dating scene, you've probably realised that it has some huge limitations. Mostly, that it can be really hard to find someone who you're actually going to like in real life. It's simply not enough to be able to say you're looking for a blonde 30-year-old. What you really need to know is whether your idea of a good time is in any way compatible.
How To Turn Off GPS In Private Places Using Tasker [Android]
With the plethora of amazing gadgets people own these days, it's really easy to overlook privacy concerns which, upon reflection, are quite obvious. One of the simplest of these is geotagging photos. While it's an incredibly handy tool for sight-seeing and worldwide data collection, it can be a pretty serious privacy threat.
Pocket Casts - An Awesome New Podcast App [Android & iPhone]
If you love your podcasts and love your smartphone, you may have noticed that this should be a perfect meeting of technology and that there's just not a lot of great applications out there that can do the trick. Well, there wasn't. Not until recently, anyway. Pocket Casts by Shifty Jelly has now jumped on to the scene with an incredibly feature-filled application.
OpenStudy - A Collection Of Online Study Groups On All Subjects
Are you a current student? A homeschooler or homeschooling parent? Have you decided to keep learning and to always be a student? Have you ever dreamed about the ideal study group? Well, OpenStudy has too, and they're determined to make it happen. It is a collection of study groups based on topic and it's an ideal way to meet your peers from all corners of the world.
Access Your Preference Panes From the Mac Menu Bar With MenuPrefs
Does Apple's System Preferences generally just annoy you? Well, there's a way out. The coders at iThink Software also got annoyed with Apple Preferences and decided to write MenuPrefs in order to make it more manageable. Now, instead of click after click, you can now access all of your favourite Apple Preference Panes via the Menu Bar. It's all just there.
How To Update Application Icons In Snow Leopard [Mac]
When you upgraded to Snow Leopard most things probably got much better, but occasionally you might stumble across something that doesn't suit you and you want to change it back. One of these little annoyances is changing the application icons. Once upon a time, you used to be able to copy and paste your preferred icons in order to change them to a new icon. But in Snow Leopard things are different.
Find Or Wipe Your Android Phone Remotely Using Android Lost [2.2+]
I'm guessing you've thought about what might happen if you ever lost your Android phone. That, or maybe you have once lost your Android and you now wish to have a better plan in place to find it, erase things and disable it, if it happens again. Once you get thinking about these things you realise there's a few good options out there, but it's still worth knowing which ones are the best and why.
Make Social Travel Plans With Gtrot Via Facebook
Have you been longing for an easy way to tell your friends where you're heading for your holidays and perhaps catch up with friends who are heading in the same direction? Or do you one day wish you could go travelling to a certain city but don't know which friends might be interested in taking the trip with you? Well, Gtrot will surely help. That's precisely what it aims to do.
Entrustet Ensures Your Digital Assets Are Smoothly Passed On After You Pass On
Have you thought about what's going to happen to your online assets after your death? Have you even really considered what might count as an online asset? Who do you want to give access to your accounts after death? Which accounts would you prefer closed immediately? Would you want your family to read your email? Entrustet gives us a way to get things under control from one single control point.
How To Set Up & Use Chicken Of The VNC For Remote Access [Mac]
If you've ever needed to get remote access for a computer, you've probably realised that some solutions are far superior than others. Even as far as VNC (Virtual Network Computing) clients go, there are a few really good clients out there and there are many clients that just don't cut it for some reason or other. Today we'll introduce you to another great Mac VNC client you'll love.
Time To Try A Slick, New Text Editor Called Tincta [Mac]
While you may already think you've found the text editor love of your life, you could hardly stand by it honourably without giving the competition a go. So, today we'll introduce you to a sleek new player in the Mac text editor game called Tincta. It's feature-filled, yet is also a tiny, free download. We're sure you're going to love it.
Make Home Button on Your Android Phone Open Your Favourite App
The home button on the Android phone normally redirects users straight to the home screen. It's handy but, with limited button choices on your phone, sometimes you want it to do something a little more useful. Have you ever wanted to redirect your home button to an application of your choice? Well, now there's a simple application which lets you do just that.
Two Simple Ways To Disable Ping In iTunes [Mac & Windows]
We're always looking for hacks and fixes to everyday iTunes problems and listening to iTunes users to see what they're still troubled with. Since Ping is one of the newer features in iTunes, Apple is only just realising that many people have legitimate reasons to want to turn it off. Thankfully, it's quite easy to disable in two very effective ways.
Malware Disguised As Antivirus Targets Mac Users [News]
A bogus version of the MacDefender antivirus application has recently fooled many Apple Mac OSX users into downloading and installing the malware on their computers. The fake antivirus, called MAC Defender, specifically targets Mac users using the Safari browser.