If you often use touchscreens, you have likely used a stylus once or twice before. While some may prefer swiping all over their screen with oily fingers, others may prefer to use a writing implement. Normally, this isn’t a problem as a stylus can be about the size of a pencil for an iPad, but what about your smartphone?
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If you are an aspiring comedian, chances are you’ve seen a tough crowd. There is an equally good chance that you have also had a great audience, which fueled you to give and even greater performance than ever before. When you get a good response, you give a better show. That’s show business, right?
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The only reason we use a USB drive is to move our important data around. While it may sometimes be frivolous things like papers for school or pictures, sometimes we need them to transfer important documents around. Should anyone get their hands on your flash drive, there could be serious problems.
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There are many keyboards out there that have extra keys, or the allure of being mechanical. However, most of the time, we find ourselves switching out between two different keyboards. The one for your computer, then the one for your smartphone. Not only that, it’s rather difficult to move between PC and Mac if you are an owner of both types of computers. This is why “The One” Keyboard boasts being, well…”The One.” It performs very similarly to the Apple…
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If you are a seasoned traveler, you likely know that you will want to get to the airport bright and early to get through security. Putting all of your carry on items from big bags to bracelets into a bin is obnoxious, but the most annoying part of the whole process is having to take off your shoes. While most frequent flyers usually just wear slip on shoes, there are always better alternatives. You could always wear your slippers to…
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Oh c’mon! It’s bad enough you eat us out of house and home, chew up the carpet and dribble on the couch, now you want to spend money on our puppy too? What does it matter…stop looking at me like that…what does it matter if the little mongrel comes from a royal English Corgi line? Nothing that’s what. And stop chewing that slipper.
Read MoreYou’ve just got back from vacation where you had a hugely fun time, and met lots of nice people. Perhaps someone even a little bit special? But the problem is they speak a different language to you, and you can’t wait until one of you learns the other’s lingo. How to keep the flame going without spending a fortune?
Read MoreOf all the recent online phenomena, probably the one with the biggest global impact has been Wikileaks, the anonymous whistleblowing site designed to let people submit information to the public gaze which might otherwise be kept secret. Whether you agree or not with the type of content they have released, it’s impossible to argue against the impact this kind of informational transparency has had on the political and commercial world.
Read MoreThere are many diverse and insane ways to lose weight. Whether you take a natural detoxifying route or a rapid weight loss supplement plan, both will mean less weight. (I’m not arguing their effectiveness here) However, the most frustrating method I’ve seen is sweating the weight off. While I can’t say that letting yourself lose water weight through sweat is going to help you achieve your weight loss goals, it may help you shed a pound or two (for a…
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Here’s a quick round-up of Red Ferret posts from the past week for those who missed them. Enjoy. PhotoRec freeware recovers lost videos, photos and other files from corrupt media [Daily Freeware] – There’s few things worse than… Library Mixer is an extremely cool open source platform for sharing and lending files privately with friends – Recent history is awash with file… Cool EZSAVE LockDock HDD Dock keeps your data really really extra safe – There’s no such thing as…
Read MoreThere are lots of alarm clocks in the world, and they seem to be getting more popular by the year. A symptom perhaps of our problems with getting up in the morning? Well anyhoo, the key challenge apparently seems to be making it hard enough to switch off the alarm so you wake up properly, and not so hard that you dig the sledgehammer out of the closet. What you don’t have a hammer in your closet? Tsk.
Read MoreWith the increased awareness of a growing global water crisis, finding ways to generate water are becoming critical. French inventor Marc Parent and his company Eole Water have created a proof-of-concept wind-powered refrigeration/condensation/filtration unit that essentially grabs water from thin air. The WMS1000 Wind Turbine is a fifth generation water production system that was installed in Abu Dhabi last October. It has steadily been extracting 130-200 gallons (approximately 500-800L) of clean, fresh water a day ever since. Equipped with a…
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In the recent Vince Vaughn movie, The Dilemma, the story revolved around a pair of car engineers who were developing a technology that would let hybrid and electric vehicles sound like regular beefy conventional gas powered cars. The movie apart, the idea of the tech seemed pertinent, since silent electric motors could cause a few issues if pedestrians can’t hear them coming.
Read MorePhoto and image editing has been dominated for a very long time by the Adobe product Photoshop, and quite rightly so. No other program has come close to delivering the level of sophistication and feature set that Photoshop does, and that’s why it’s been the choice of professionals for so long. There have been attempts by other commercial companies to compete, most notably PaintShop Pro, now owned by Corel, but by and large they’ve not made any impression on the…
Read MoreOnline Flash games are nothing new, but on the whole they’re restricted to fairly basic features, just you against the clock or computer. Most of the big services also restrict you to their platform of choice, so you’re limited in when and where you can play, which can be frustrating if you really enjoy a particular game.
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