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Here is the list of the laptops we thing you should be looking out for in 2014 as your old devices break down or you are going to get a new laptop after graduation for your years in college. This list will serve as the best guide to help you make the best choices.
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Even those who dwell in the darkest of caves will still have heard of the day YouTube was merged with Google+, or, in other words, the day Google shoved it’s social networking site down our throats. It was the day the Internet exploded with rage, anger, and frustration. Campaigns and petitions immediately popped up in all corners of the interwebs, but till this day Google has not responded to the voices of these netizens.
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On October 31st, 2013, Google finally unveiled their latest operating system—Android Kit-Kat—and to match it, a new smartphone named the Nexus 5. This reference-design phone (manufactured by LG) is the first to be equipped with Android 4.4, and it’s electrified the market. Specs, display, price, there’s nothing it lacks except design. The Nexus 5 also works unlocked, so you can use it anywhere in the world.
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Phonebloks is envisioned to be a modular smartphone made up of interchangeable blocks that are easily upgraded or restored if broken. Users can simply design and assemble their phones according to their needs and wants and leave out the components that they do not desire. Furthermore, the device can be upgraded using bits, one at a time. Though it’s an innovative and somewhat convenient idea, the appearance of the Phoneblok will certainly not be appealing, which is a major market setback for the project.
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Snapchat, one of the newer rising messenger apps, is becoming the center of attention among the companies of Silicon Valley.
Recently, Snapchat was offered three billion dollars to assimilate into the Facebook network. This begs the question of what makes Snapchat unique enough to be considered for purchase by Facebook. Compared to Kakaotalk, Line, and WeChat, Snapchat is only famous for its one of a kind idea of ‘disappearing photo messages’. Once these messages are read, one cannot come back to those messages and look at it again.
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What once began as a college student’s pet project turned social network titan--has always been a patron of ‘white hacking’ and user reporting. People who found bugs within Facebook were known to be rewarded, usually exceeding hundreds of dollars. This is actually an ingenious system as these bugs and flaws could be exploited and sold to the black market if there was no immediate profit alternative by reporting it to Facebook. Yet, a recent incident seems to illustrate that Facebook has started to turn its back on the little guys who come in good will?
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In a move that made history for the tech giant, Apple released twonew products on September 10th: the iPhone 5S and 5C. Similar to last year’s 4S, the 5S is a new and improved version of the previous iPhone. Coming in gold, silver and metallic black, the 5S is already looking to be more eye-catching and higher quality than the iPhone 5.
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On October 18th, Windows 8.1 will be ready for download. Windows 8.1 is the first major update since Window 8’s release on October 26th, 2012. With the new OS update comes new features such as the ability to additionally customize the start screen and countless default Application updates. The new update is expected to improve the widely criticized Windows 8.
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Blackberry, a one-time leader in the smartphone industry, is up for sale after years of declining sales and failed revamps. The company’s position is that it is undergoing this switch in ownership in order to try to “enhance value and increase scale in order to accelerate the deployment of BlackBerry 10 .” Now, this new BlackBerry 10 OS which is supposedly the driving force for the sale has a terrific layout and world-class features incorporated, but few consumers will probably be convinced to choose this innovation over the iPhone and Android.
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What is WordPress? Contrary to popular perception, it isn’t something that people use to create boring blogs that document miniscule details about their dull lives. Created in 2003 with minimal amount of coding, today it is the biggest self-hosted blogging tool in the world. It is utilized by millions of sites and is seen by millions of people every day. As an open source project, it was not created by a single person, but rather, by hundreds of people all over the world working on it to make it the very best. Now, it is not only a blogging system, but also a full content management system thanks to the thousands of plugins, widgets and themes that are available for use.
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