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Best Shoes Ever: Magnetized Shoes Allow You To Walk On Ceiling

Posted: 23 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT

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After seeing this incredible gadget, you’ll be literally ready to walk on the ceiling. Meet the Magnetto boots, everyone!

We could say these boots grant you powers akin to those of spider-man, but the science behind them has nothing to do with radioactive spiders but magnets, so they’re called after the coolest mutant of them all, Magneto. But you didn’t come here to see us ramble about how incredible these boots are, scroll down below to see them in action. Be warned, though, it’s absolutely amazing.

Source: Technabob

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7 Key Considerations When Shopping for a New Web Host

Posted: 23 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT

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Lengthy, frequent periods of downtime, painfully slow access, and unreachable tech support are enough to make any webmaster’s blood boil. But why deal with bad service when there are other web hosts keen for your business?

Consider these points carefully when you’re shopping for a new web host.

Does It Have a Good Uptime Record?

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When your website is down, it affects your reputation and your bottom line. If it starts to become a consistent pattern, your search engine rankings will dive and brand loyalty will suffer. So it’s vital you choose a web host with a good uptime record. No web host can actually guarantee 100 percent uptime, but it should offer at least 99 percent.

You can’t trust the marketing spin, though, as web hosts will always try to present themselves in the best light. Instead, look to unbiased, data-driven reviews for a more reliable web hosting uptime analysis.

Does It Offer Good Customer Service?

While you’re reading those reviews, pay attention to any comments about the customer service that a web host provides. Independent testimonies will tell you whether a host provides responsive and knowledgeable service.

It’s also worth researching their customer service hours. The Internet never sleeps, especially for businesses with a global customer base. If you have a problem with your website outside traditional business hours, it’s comforting to know that a 24/7 support team is just a phone call away.

Is the Control Panel User Friendly?

Most of us would prefer to spend time managing our website ourselves rather than troubleshooting with tech support, though. A user-friendly control panel can make website maintenance stress-free. A web host’s control panel lets you manage your services in one convenient place. Control panels should make performing basic tasks like uploading and editing web pages, creating email accounts, installing web-based applications, and accessing and reviewing website statistics easy for everyone, no matter what their tech knowledge.

DirectAdmin, cPanel, and Plesk are some of the most common control panels. Research which control panels the web hosts you’re interested in use, and look at them closely to decide which works best for you.

Does It Meet Your Needs?

There are plenty of web hosting options on the market, including shared, virtual private server, dedicated, and cloud hosting. But what do all these terms really mean? Rather than putting the power into the hands of web hosts, businesses should educate themselves on the different hosting types to ensure they sign up with one that best serves their needs.

Does It Give Your Site Room to Grow?

As businesses grow, they tend to receive much more website traffic. Can your web host handle that? Many web hosts will offer you a better deal if you sign a long-term contract, but you don’t want to find yourself locked into a deal you’ve outgrown. To avoid this, look for web hosting providers that allow you to upgrade your plan to accommodate growing traffic.

How Much Bandwidth Do You Need?

Bandwidth is the amount of data that flows from your web host’s server to a visitor’s computer in a set period. The more web traffic you have and the more large files people download from your site, the more bandwidth you’ll need.

For example, if you’re a small retail store with a local audience and a simple website, you’ll need far less bandwidth than global music site iTunes, which customers rely on for delivering large audio and video files. Most web hosts have a variety of bandwidth options. They should be able to advise you which plan will best suit your needs.

Is It Within Your Budget?

Price shouldn’t be your only consideration, but it’d be naïve to suggest businesses shouldn’t think about web hosting costs. Basic shared plans won’t work for big corporations that get a lot of traffic, but they can work well for small businesses that experience a relatively small number of hits. Larger companies will find the added expense of a dedicated or managed hosting service is worthwhile.

No matter what your size, make sure you consider set-up fees, ongoing annual costs, and the price of buying a new domain if appropriate when calculating whether a web host’s service is within your business budget.

There’s no need to put up with bad service when there are so many great online providers. Consider these points carefully when shopping around to ensure you find the best web host for your business needs.

Interactive Football Game Using A Food Tray & Smartphone

Posted: 23 May 2014 05:56 AM PDT

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Waiting for your food at this Brazilian restaurant is no longer a boring snooze-fest thanks to an interactive football game using a food tray and smartphone.

Today people have tons of options for where to eat, and so it's up to restaurants to come up with clever ways to attract folks. One such eatery in Brazil, Giraffas, has come up with a terrific idea that ties in with the country's great love for the sport of football (soccer as we know it here in the states.)

Giraffas designed this neat, interactive football game where players can try to score penalty-kicks off a guarded football goal that works with only food tray and a smartphone. How it works is down-right smart: using the restaurant's own loyalty app, it quickly turns your iPhone into a tiny goal with a virtual goalkeeper that can be placed at the end of a football-field looking food tray.

Your ammunition, of course, are little footballs made from paper-printed cut outs that Giraffas provides with every dining table (along with the food trays.) Simply just tear off the cut outs and roll to make footballs, and then aim and flick them at your smartphone net – the app, wielding your phone's front camera, accelerometer, and microphone, will then force the A.I. goalie to defend his end of the field. It looks pretty rad in action!

From there, have fun passing turns with your friends and see how many goals you can score before your food arrives to the table. Loser buys a round of drinks sounds like a proper good wager to me! Uh, well, unless that one person in your party happens to be the legendary footballer, Pelé, then all bets are surely off.

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HP 7 Plus $100 Tablet Redefines Affordable Android Devices

Posted: 22 May 2014 01:55 PM PDT

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Chinese websites offer a plethora of affordable Android smartphones and tablets, but we had yet to see such a device coming from a reputable manufacturer. HP’s newest 7″ Android tablet seems to be the prime example of that.

When the company launched the $170 HP 8 1401 Android tablet back in March, the world received a hint regarding how affordable HP products could get. With the HP 7 Plus, the diagonal of the display might have been reduced, but also was the price. Drastically! As the name implies, the new tablet sports a 7-inch WVA IPS multitouch-enabled display with a resolution of 1024×600. Sure, that’s nothing revolutionary, but for that price, what more could you ask for?

The tablet is powered by an Allwinner quad-core ARM Cortex A7-based CPU clocked at 1Ghz that should be OK for basic tasks. In terms of memory, HP 7 Plus comes with 1GB DDR3 SDRAM and 8GB of internal storage. Fortunately, the internal memory can be furthermore expanded by up to 32GB with the help of a microSD card.

In terms of battery life, the 2800 mAh Lithium polymer accumulator should keep the device up and running for 5 hours and 30 minutes. Of course, that will be influenced a lot by your usage patterns. Supposing you play games or run complex apps while having the Wi-Fi on, that should have a major impact on the battery life.

Video chat lovers will be delighted to know that this budget Android tablet comes with a built-in microphone and two cameras, a 2 MP one on the back and a 0.3 MP one in the front. The sound quality might be great, though, as the HP 7 Plus only features a mono speaker.

I, for one, am not a big fan of HP products ever since I owned a Pavilion laptop that died without any last words or warnings, only to find out later that the entire DV6000 series had problems with the graphic chip. Their tablets may be OK, but I would still choose a Nexus over an HP anytime of the day, even though basically they’re from different price categories and their manufacturers target different audiences with them. Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks that consumer HP products are a joke. Their servers and workstations are top-class, so I’ll give them that!

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Samsung Targets Oculus Rift and Sony Morpheus with a VR Headset for Phones

Posted: 22 May 2014 01:15 PM PDT

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A lot of tech companies seem to think that virtual reality are the next big thing. Sony came up with its Morpheus headset, Facebook bought Oculus VR, the makers of Oculus Rift, and now Samsung rumoredly has its own VR headset in the works.

Samsung’s VR headset comes with a unique feature that’s meant to set it apart from all the other competitors. According to a recent report, the device will work with Samsung smartphones, pretty much the way the South Korean’s wearables do. Should the rumors turn out to be true, we’ll get to see a Galaxy (?) VR headset by the end of the year.

The Korean tech giant is heading into so many directions and is tackling so many niches that a VR helmet shouldn’t really surprise anyone. That’s a sign of uncertainty, though, and it seems that the company is not sure what the next big thing is going to be. In other words, such a product would help Samsung tick off a checkbox on a list of things tech companies must do in order to remain in the audience’s mind.

Engadget’s source claims that Samsung wants to launch such a product in order to beat Facebook’s Oculus Rift and Sony’s Morpheus in terms of market share. In order to do that, the company intends to adopt an aggressive pricing strategy, and the smartphone (presumably wireless) connectivity should convince shoppers to pick Samsung over the other two.

At the moment, the development version of the headset packs an OLED screen or screens. The device connects easily to Samsung smartphones and tablets, but the final version is said to have an even better compatibility with mobile devices that are yet to be released by the Korean company.

As for the name, given that it will connect to Android smartphones in order to play Android games, there’s no doubt that Samsung’s VR headset will be part of the Galaxy family. Still, this very selling point could be the feature that makes or breaks the product. Samsung would also have to convince Android game developers to offer support for the VR headset, and that’s a huge bet that I’m not sure the Korean company is yet willing to take. I guess we’ll all have to wait and see if Samsung even launches this VR headset or only plays with the idea of doing it.

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