We’ve already taken a look at how the slick photo sharing site 500px has been luring away Flickr’s heavyweight photographers, and today it might manage to lure a few more people away from the ailing site. For today only, 500px has announced that users can upgrade to a premium account for just $ 24.95...
Steven Spielberg’s animated feature The Adventures of Tintin opened this week, closing out another year full of big-budget movies based on comic books and graphic novels. Tintin joins properties like Captain America, X-Men, Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens, and Thor in the seemingly endless cavalcade of four-color characters to make it to the big...
Lighter planes means less fuel, means less money and, hopefully, lower ticket prices. Carbon fiber reinforcements are a major part of this plan; both Boeing’s latest bird and the double-decker Airbus make liberal use of the light and strong composite. However, they’re not without their own dangers; minute amounts of water can get into...
Dropbox knows it’s not the only cloud storage option for Android, so the company is handing out an early Christmas present to get more green bots on board with its services: early access to its unreleased Android app. This new version, along with the usual debugging, adds a flood of fresh new features such...
After a controversial presidential election that saw Joseph Kabila retain the office amid fierce protests, the Democratic Republic of Congo has shut down the nation’s text messaging services in order to restore public order. Civil liberties concerns aside, it’s proving to be highly dangerous for the one point four million deaf residents who rely...
New images leaked this weekend demonstrate what the Windows 8 onboarding process will look like in the public beta of the operating system, due in late February of next year. The amount of Windows 8 leaks has remained steady in recent weeks, perhaps indicating that development activity in Redmond is at a fever pitch. Today...
Facebook’s Timeline feature has only just begun to roll out across the globe, and now an iOS version has sidled up next to its Android counterpart — making it even easier for us to recheck our social network back stories. The new app is currently only available for the iPhone, but Facebook states that...
Firefox: Most browsers allow you to change the size of the font on the actual site, but the address bar always remains the same static size, which can be tiny for those with vision problems or those with a huge screen resolution. The Make Address Bar Font Size Bigger extension takes care of this...
A new product has hit the Android Market and we think you might find it quite nifty. Known as PocketCloud Explore, the app allows users to search for and view files across their PCs and Macs, all without ever needing to surrender data to the cloud. Simple file management is also part of the...
Ever feel like you know better than the executives who the star performers in your organization are? IGN Entertainment’s “viral pay” program puts the power over rewards in employees’ hands. Most companies hand out bonuses at the end of the year, and many of them do so as a form of profit sharing. But...