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5 Sites With Nature Background Sounds and White Noise to Help You Focus
Make nature sounds a part of your day. Here are 5 free resources for sounds that will help calm you down so you can get things done – or just relax.
5 Music Apps Worth Listening to Now That Grooveshark is Dead
The quest to discover new music never ends. Grooveshark has closed down, but others continue to make it easier, or just better, to find and enjoy new music.
Hola is Basically a Botnet, Congress Redirected to Nude Photos, & More... [Tech News Digest]
Also: Google offers unlimited photo storage, how you can pretend to be a destructive cat, and YouTube celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Will Linux No Longer Work on Future Windows 10 Hardware?
Secure Boot can prevent some Linux distros from booting. On upcoming Windows 10 devices, manufacturers may remove the option to turn off Secure Boot. This will affect Linux Mint and several other popular distros.
5 Tools That Make Slack Even Better
If you want to see where the web is going, you need to try out Slack. It's replacing email for internal communications, and third-party tools make it even better.
Free Gift Cards, Games & Design Tools: 5 Sites with Great Giveaways
Free's always good, right? If you're willing to spend some time online, you can find all sorts of things for free. Here are 5 sites to check first.
Keep Your Landline, But Ditch The Phone Bill, With This Simple Device
Landlines cost too much; you should ditch yours. Here's how to do that, save hundreds every year, and still get unlimited long distance calling from a familiar device: your current home phone.
Considering Canceling Cable? The True Cost of Cutting the Cord
When you add everything up, do you really save money by cutting the cord? We do the math involved with cancelling cable in favor of Internet services.
If You Want People To Keep Using Cash, Support Killing The Penny
Pennies, to use tech parlance, are a seriously annoying bug – one that cash needs to fix if it wants to remain competitive.
How to Overlay Web Videos While You Work on Your Mac
Sometimes a little bit of a distraction is what you need to get the job done. Helium is a floating browser that lets you watch web videos while you do something else.
5 Sites for Anyone Interested in Learning to Make Games
If you've always dreamed of creating a game, these tools are a great place to get started. Apply yourself and you just might end up making something great.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Changing Stories Across Mediums
Mediums have different strengths and weaknesses, and adapting a text from one to another sometimes calls for substantial changes. No one understood this better than legendary science fiction author Douglas Adams.
5 Free Websites That Quickly Teach You New Skills
What will you teach yourself? If you want to learn something, you can. Take advantage of that with these five cool resources.
The Day the Music Died: A Grooveshark Retrospective
Grooveshark is dead. But how did this infamous streaming piracy service stay alive so long? And what does its closure mean for users? Let's take an in-depth look.
5 Apps for Getting More out of Wikipedia
Tools for getting more out of Wikipedia, from alternative interfaces to games that force you to explore articles and think creatively.
Are App Stores Really Safe? How Smartphone Malware Is Filtered Out
Unless you've rooted or jailbroken, you probably don't have malware on your phone. Smartphone viruses are real, but app stores do a good job of filtering them out. How do they do this?
You're Probably Richer Than You Know: These 5 Sites Show You How
Today Cool Websites and Apps hopes to provide some context, pointing out sites that can show you how rich you actually are.
5 Sites to Encrypt and Share Photos, IMs, Emails, and More
Privacy isn't dead: you just need to be smart about it. The right tools go a long way.
5 GIF Search Engines & Tools You Haven't Heard Of Yet
GIFs are the language of the web, but some people are better at speaking it than others. Speak it fluently yourself with these perfect reaction GIFs tools.
3 Emotions Caused by the Internet That There Are No Words For
There are plenty of Internet experiences we all have every day, that lack names. Let's name them, together.