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Tech Sources You Can Trust

It’s the technology age! With new technology rapidly become more and more central in our lives, finding advice from trusted sources should be easy. Sadly this is not the case. With technology becoming more common, with it comes the rise of more and more useless or poor technology blogs. So here are a few good tech blogs to help you out if you ever get stuck. We think they’re awesome, and hope you do to.

http://techcrunch.com/ : This blog is great. Suitably set-out it focuses on news. There’s always something interesting to read and make you think. It’s not always 100% right, but it is very helpful.

http://venturebeat.com/ : Cleverly designed it offers a wide range of articles, from new products to general news, this is a must for tech lovers.

http://www.wired.com/ : Focused more on the ‘real’ side of technology and our lives, this blog is all about how to use thing, useful news and tips as well as the odd super cool article.

http://thenextweb.com/ : This lot are far more witty and light-hearted when it comes to articles. However the news is still grand.

http://www.lostintechnology.com/ : One for the amateurs, this site is dedicated to offering simple advice and tips when it comes to new tech.

http://xkcd.com/ : Just visit this site. It’s pure genius.

There are a few to get you started. I could spend all day on XKCD myself, try to avoid doing that. You’ll thank me once you’ve had a productive day. These are just a few of some of the great tech blogs out there so get searching! There may be loads of rubbish ones, but there are also a lot of great and glorious sites.

2 Top Time Saving Tips

There are all too many little jobs and little nuances that slow us all down everyday when we make use of computers to both work and play or even now more than ever socialise. So I thought I’d take the time and give out a little advice to you all to help you to speed up your daily digital habits so that you have more time for doing what you truly enjoy.

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Decide on Your Ethics

How is it that people can turn their compassion on and off as they see fit? Why is there no sense of strong moral code, which stands stronger than anything else in peoples lives? It seems as though the majority of people have a care and concern about things, people and animals, only as far as it is convenient to. Everyone would presumably avoid murder if at all possible, and would probably condone murder of other men or women. They would also probably claim that they do not agree with mistreatment of animals, or murder of them. Yet when it comes to bringing these moral feelings into being, people forget about them when they become inconvenient. The majority of people would vote to save a cows life if it had been living in a petting farm for the last 10 years, yet they do not object to hundreds of thousands of cows being killed each year so that they can put a quick burger in the oven for tea.

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Apple’s iOS 5 To benefit Gamers

Apple Inc. is planning to upgrade its iOS. The company is hopeful to make the new service available for consumers in the later part of 2011. The update will be focused on allowing iOS gamers to obtain a better gaming experience. Such upgrade may not be able make iOS a perfect platform for games; however, it is going to be a real proof that Apple is on track.

Apple debuted its iOS 4 in its social network component Game Center. Today, Game Center has been utilized by a number of game developers to work more than just connecting friends and view each other’s game achievements. It’s not a good thing to know that the capability of Game Center is underutilized by iOS developers. What change could they there be with iOS 5?

iOS gamers will be amazed to see the changes in the upgraded iOS 5. Part of Apple’s plan is to add iCloud, a new cloud-based service which will now focus on gaming and would truly benefit gamers.

According to Apple, they are moving to socialize its gaming platform with the new iOS 5. With this upgrade, you can add a profile picture, get suggestions for adding new friends and know who are following you.

The overhauled Game Center will allow scoring according to your overall achievements.

As part of the iCloud service of Apple, there will be plenty of interesting benefits to come your way. For now, you can sign up for free to get storage space of 5GB so you can store your apps, music files and photos and thus no need for a R4i card. You better get hurry as rumors are abound that Apple will charge $25 per year after these limited free subscriptions.

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Suspiciously good weather

I thought it was always supposed to rain on Bank Holidays? And yet, we’ve had glorious sunshine and warm temperatures all weekend up where we stay. It’s meant I’ve managed to get very little preparation done for my new job, recruiting for special needs teaching jobs, but I’m pretty sure everyone in the office will be the same by the time we all drag ourselves back into the office on Tuesday morning, hungover, sun burnt and depressed that our four-day weekend is finished…
I love technology and there’s no doubt it has made all our lives easier and more pleasurable. There’s always a downside to that, though, and in my opinion this is the fact that technology advances have made it easier for all of us to do work at home. Not so long ago, we clocked out at 5pm on a Friday afternoon and that was that. Unless you could phsyically take home paper reports or calculations, then your weekend was work-free.
Now, if you have a tight deadline then there is definitely the pressure on workers to “take some work home” over the weekend. As I say, I have several emails in my inbox with messages from my new boss; suggestions of sites I should check out, reports I should read, forms I can get filled in online now and save time when I get into the office on Tuesday. I know I should get it all done and make a good impression on the new boss, but when the sun is shining, it’s just too tempting to switch off the laptop and get out there and enjoy it. After all, when was the last time you can remember having a sunny bank holiday??

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Halo

I hadn’t touched Halo until yesterday. Yes and if your wondering, it been a long time since the game had come out but i felt the gap I was in, the experience I missed out on. The thrill when you sit and wait in the interim 5 days away from the launch of the sequel. But with no regrets, the game is till in circulation. I picked up one for 50 pence from a second hand store.
The point to be made is at that time, Halo was a creation made from base to up reaching infinity. The story made from thin air didn’t necessarily create havok in the games industry at the time (with the release of the usual supermarios and GTA 3 stealing the show) Halo was not fully recognized but it got enough attention. The sequel was not the kind that beats its predecessor but Halo 3 was the icing on the cake. It gave the new potential console purchaser to go for the Xbox 360 rather than the PS3. From there on, Halo ODST and Reach have been smash hits. Unfortunately I don’t have the money to afford another console (as I own a PS3) but surely I will get my hands on it later.
While new solitaire model games will still remain all time classics, Halo will be remembered for up lifting the new age spirits of shooters to a whole a different dimension. Taking the war to outer space got Halo the honor it now receives. It surely was a watershed moment of 2001.

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Windows Phone 7: A Must Have

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