That video there is a “remix” of one of the earliest viral videos from YouTube, originally uploaded in 2007 to the tune of 17 million views. This was long before touchscreen laptops started flooding the market for $400 a pop. I wonder what this guy could do with the new Paint 3D app. Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post....

It happens to everyone, you sit down and start writing an email to your boss when you notice a message from a co-worker linking to a funny ninja cat video or comic. Before you know it you’ve watched the first one and moved onto six more, whoops there go 2 hours that should have been work time. Solution?? LeechBlock! Install LeechBlock for Firefox Visit the Official Mozilla Add-on Page for LeechBlock and Click Add to Firefox....

Vine Vanity URL Head over to the Vine.co page and you’ll see that profiles are coming soon, but you can claim your vanity address now. If you’re a heavy user of the service, you’ll want an address that is easy for people to quickly. For instance, I got mine and it’s vine.co/BrianBurgess … which is much better than something like vine.co/Brian1_!408435 or something less memorable. There’s a couple of requirements you need in order to reserve your profile URL....

Windows Mail is unlike previous versions such as Windows Live Mail or Outlook Express. Instead, Mail works more like a viewer that caches emails stored on a mail server, similar to how the IMAP messaging protocol works. In this article, I’ll show you how the Mail app works and how it can make your life easier. Whether you want to consolidate all your email accounts into a single inbox, search your inbox for messages, send attachments or send messages to multiple contacts, Mail lets you do it with just a few mouse clicks....

Google amended its Terms of Service and now states the company does in fact scan and analyze your content to create targeted ads. This fact has been known by Google watch dogs and tech privacy pundits for quite some time. The company finally came clean and the amended terms now state: Now, before you get too bent out of shape by this, it’s not like Google has a team of individuals reading your emails....

But I know you’re all dying to take a sneak peek, so I figured I’d show you around. I first got my invite while I was away from my computer, so my first experience with Google+ was on my iPhone. Even though it’s just a web app that lives inside Safari, it looks great, I must say. Here’s the home screen. I know the new Google navbar along the top isn’t exclusive to Google+ but I love it anyway....

Rescheduling Meetings in Google Calendar If you have a large organization, when it comes to scheduling a meeting, it can be a tedious process, but Google is trying to make things easier with new additions to Calendar. A couple weeks ago the company added Out of Office Mode to Calendar. It helps your coworkers know when you’re not available to respond to requests or accept meetings. And today’s announced new feature will help your organization manage meetings, too....

I think everyone was expecting something like this to happen. As Google clears inventory to make room for the next generation of Nexus devices, it has dropped the price on the Nexus 4 by $100 in one day. Expected to be announced in September, the Nexus 5 is likely to blow its predecessor away in terms of performance and features seeing as its supposedly based on the LG G2, while simultaneously devaluing the 4 as well....

Recently the web giant introduced a few new search options at their Inside Search event. Some new Mobile features were implemented, but the desktop search ones are the grooviest. Nearby location shortcuts First of all, let’s talk about the new mobile search feature. Google is focusing in on local, and they’ve made the Google mobile search page more convenient. You now get shortcuts to Restaurants, Coffee Shops and Bars on the home page, allowing you to search for these locations faster....

Anyway, Google just released a new browser plug-in which will block all tracking about you on sites running their free Google’s Website Analytics. Being that Google Analytics is both free and one of the fastest growing Google Services out there used by webmasters around the globe, this is excellent news and a tremendous step forward for privacy. The Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on is available for all newer versions of browsers including Internet Explorer 7+, Chrome, and Firefox....

The mobile app comes on the heels of Google’s recent expansion of the service to dozens of cities and new partners in the deals industry. What I find most useful about the app is the ability to not only run through the Google Offers service on the go but you can also purchase deals from it as well. Nice. What do you think of Google offers? Have you tried it yet in your city?...

According to the announcement, Google Chrome, Search and Ads have all been updated to either block or warn users before taking them to a site which Google has flagged for either installing software without the users permission or tricking them into installing malware. As in the past, webmasters who are encouraged to register their sites with Google’s Webmaster tools so Google can notify them when their sites have been flagged under this new update....

The new voice of Google is Kiki Baessell, aka the spam fighter extraordinaire who usually handles abuse for Google consumer products. She has no experience in voice acting but she can talk, and her voice is nice so, sold. The idea is that the Voice team figured it would be best to hear a friendly co-worker when you pick up your phone, not the overtly pronouncing “I’m better at talking than you” voice actor, as we’re accustomed to hearing....

Enabling The Input Panel Gesture If you have a tablet, or touchscreen display that supports pen input, you really should try out the handwriting recognition features of Windows 7. To enable the gestures for the handwriting input panel in Windows 7, do the following: Open up the Start Menu and type in handwriting. When the search results appear, Click Change tablet pen settings to open up the Control Panel settings for tablets....

By default, wp-config.php sits in the same folder as your WordPress blog. So, if the homepage of your blog is at mysite.com/blog, so is your wp-config.php. That’s not as reckless as it seems since .php files are server-side scripts that are processed by the server. When you are looking at a .php file, you are actually looking at the output of the file. The same goes for when you view the source....

Pocket Casts One of the best podcast apps across multiple platforms, Pocket Casts is packed with features often missing with other solutions. With Pocket Cast, you’ll get cross-platform and cross-device syncing, Android Auto, CarPlay, AirPlay, and Chromecast support, and much more. At the time of this writing, Pocket Casts is available on Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Alexa, SONOS, Apple Watch, Siri, and the web. For added benefits, consider Pocket Casts Plus, which includes themes, features, and exclusive access....

For instance, say you have a Windows 7 PC and want to transfer the ones from Windows 10 to it. Here’s how to find them. Windows 10 Wallpapers Location in Version 10586 Simply head to C:\windows\web and there you should find a bunch of folders for 4K, Screen, and Wallpaper. The 4K folder has the Windows 10 hero image. It’s worth noting that the manufacturer of you PC might have put more wallpapers in these folders, these are just the defaults....

This won’t have an impact on the pages you load, but it will allow you to see the background in new tabs before you load a page. You can add your own photos or use custom images as your Safari background, but make sure the images are the right size—otherwise, they might stretch. If you want to know how to add a background to Safari on your iPhone or iPad, follow these steps....

If you’re not a foobar2000 user already, make sure you take a look at our review of this highly customizable and feature-filled music player. If you like to rip your CDs to your hard drive for easy listening, you’re probably annoyed when the ripped tracks don’t have the original album artwork. Well, foobar2000 makes it easy to add. Add Album Artwork to Songs Start by clicking Add Folder in the File menu, at the top of the foobar2000 window....

Currently, Microsoft doesn’t offer a native caption solution in PowerPoint as it does in Word. However, this omission provides much more flexibility, as you’ll see below. Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows Before getting started, make sure you’ve already added your image to the presentation. Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac If you’re using Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, the steps are nearly the same. Make sure you’ve added your image to the presentation before going further....