The amount of hassle you will face if someone guesses your password and gains access to your mobile phone and/or online accounts is no joke. In this video I discuss various password tips, tricks and advice.
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With the rising popularity of smartphones, more and more people are filling their spare moments by playing games, checking their social networks and having a quick gamble online; but of these three options we find the last is becoming more and more commonplace. It's estimated that out of the 780 million participants who play social games on Facebook alone, 98 million of these play casino games and even while the number of members on Facebook dropped in 2011 the utilisation of casino games increased by 60%.
However You Want,
There are quite a few benefits to playing online casinos on your mobile, but the variety of options for how to play is by far the biggest one. No matter your game, you will find something to your liking on a mobile site, native app or local app; most good gambling websites now have their own mobile sites which are optimised for iPhone, Android and iPads. Studies show that one in twenty iPhone owners are users of sport betting apps, mostly used on public transport or while watching TV.
Whatever You Want,
The many game and theme choices are completely open to players. While websites like http://www.bgo.com offer casino games, slot games and video poker games on their optimised mobile site as well as blackjack, live baccarat and roulette, other websites will specialise in themed slots or specific card games. There is also a huge amount of bingo games on offer, from quick, small bets to longer games where chat options are popular.
With Whomever You Want!
Speaking of chat, the sociable aspect is one of the most appealing features of mobile gambling. With Facebook gaming, players are able to compete with or against their friends, and on many bingo sites live chats are commonplace, unlike a bingo hall in real life where chatting among players is strictly prohibited. First time or nervous players can also get a lot of additional help on gambling sites from live chat hosts.
A study released in 2010 revealed that expectations are that by 2015 the total sum wagered on mobile casinos games will be over $48 billion, and another forecast predicts that the 2014 mobile gaming revenues from around the world will reach $11.4 billion. The online casino industry is estimated to be worth over $30 billion, with mobile capitalising on bringing entertaining and challenging games to the pockets of those in desperate boredom on trains, bus stops and waiting rooms around the country.
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Play enough slots and sooner or later they all begin to look the same. Dedicated slots fans face the unique problem of finding slot machines that will entertain them even after they’ve played a hundred variations of what is essentially the same game, so it’s just as well that the Da Vinci Diamonds slot brings something a little different to the table.
On the surface, the Da Vinci Diamonds slot looks just like any other slot game such as Rainbow Riches, Cleopatra Slot, Monopoly Plus slot and Pixies of the Forest Slot – five reels adorned with symbols based on the Renaissance period and on Da Vinci’s work in particular; beautiful antique portraits combined with bright jewels including rubies, pearls, emeralds and of course diamonds. The slot has 20 paylines which is good news for beginners who may not want to bet too much per spin, but if you’re an experienced slot player then the option of increasing your bet per line is a good idea – there’s a maximum bet of £500 per line which can yield you a whopping jackpot of 250,000 coins.
Like most slots, it also has a wild symbol which can help you complete winning combinations, and a bonus symbol that triggers a free spins round. The free spins round consists of six free spins and is able to be retriggered again and again, up to a maximum of 300 free spins.
So if it’s similar to a lot of slots, why should you choose to play Da Vinci Diamonds slot?
The difference lies in a feature called ‘Tumbling Reels’, which is something that is so inventive that players often don’t want to go back to playing regular slots afterwards! How it works is that every time you form a winning combination, the symbols that make up that combination explode, leaving room for other symbols to ‘tumble down’ from above. With those symbols in place, the slot machine recalculates to see if you’ve formed any new winning combinations. That means that with a single spin you can win multiple times with no extra effort or coins on your behalf.
It’s an incredibly interesting and lucrative game, and with the Da Vinci Diamonds Dual Play version available you can easily double your fun!
Apple has added new 'Tips and Tricks' sections to its iPhone marketing websites, giving new and old iPhone users a handy guide to the new features of iOS 7 and the new iPhone models.
The three pages, one each for the iPhone 4s, 5c and 5s, include sections about photography, swipe gestures, FaceTime, Maps, Siri, Calendar, Music, Mail, Safari, AirPlay and Wireless, Settings, Compass, and Find My iPhone...
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Samsung executives might have been able to access patent-licensing terms between Apple and Nokia, despite rules disallowing such access.
Foss Patents' Florian Mueller on Thursday published court documents filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday that suggest Samsung might have been inappropriately given access to a patent-licensing deal between Apple and Nokia...
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Chemical reaction networks make up an old language of equations that detail how chemicals behave together. Now engineers at the University of Washington are taking this language into the 21st century with a computer program for chemistry that can help direct the movement of synthetic molecules.
This standardized set of instructions on how to "program" how DNA molecules interact in a test tube or cell could pave the way for smart drug delivery systems and disease detectors at the cellular level, the researchers report this week in the journal Nature Nanotechnology...
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The electronic cigarette market is expanding rapidly with new products and brands launching all of the time. There is one new e-cigarette which looks different and stands out from the crowd.
New premium e-cigarette brand Vype have released a range of realistic disposable electronic devices. Designed to both look and feel like a traditional tobacco cigarette, they are completely different to the first generation of electronic vaping devices, which were large and bulky to carry around. Aimed at current smokers, Vype have produced a lighter and more realistic looking device.
There are many different types of electronic cigarettes on the market, but research shows that many people when they first start to use electronic devices prefer those which look more like a tobacco cigarette and less obviously like an e-cigarette.
Vype have used the latest technology to provide a lightweight electronic cigarette with a soft tip, making it similar in look and feel to a conventional tobacco cigarette. Vype e-cigarettes are the same size as a king-size tobacco cigarette and contain ECOpure e-liquid, which is manufactured and tested in the UK. It is one of the cleanest and purest e-liquids and gives users a real nicotine hit. There are currently three different flavoured Vype electronic cigarettes, these are menthol, classic regular and classic bold.
Electronic cigarettes are battery powered vaping devices containing a water based e-liquid which is available in varying strengths of nicotine and different flavours. Using the same hand to mouth action as a tobacco cigarette you inhale the e-liquid through the soft-tip filter. When you begin inhaling the e-liquid is heated until it turns into a vapour which can then be inhaled.E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco, and are not affected by the UK smoking ban.
With new revolutionary technology, Vype offers a genuine alternative to smoking while looking and feeling like a tobacco cigarette but without the tobacco. Visit http://uk.govype.com/ to find out more.
Watchdogs have set out new rules for stopping games from tricking kids into racking up huge bills. The Office of Fair Trading has set out eight guidelines governing in-app purchases -- with fines for anyone failing to live up to the rules.
One new guideline is that games and apps makers must make sure the bill-payer is giving their informed consent to a purchase, although how that should be done is left up to the industry.
Currently, when a parent or account holder downloads a game or authorises a purchase on an iPhone or iPad, the password doesn't have to be entered again to approve further purchases for another fifteen minutes, allowing kids to potentially rack up expensive in-app purchases...
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Getting bored with Facebook? You’re not alone! Luckily, there are some really exciting, more niche social channels that can put some fun back into networking!
It seems that the kings of social media land, such as Facebook and Twitter, have grown so large that users tend to get a bit dizzy and feel lost in the overload of trivial and often uninteresting information. A new research for example has shown that Britains are suffering from ‘Facebook fatigue’. Many users describe it as boring, not relevant or not useful. Users are increasingly looking for a more personalised experience, which bigger networks with a one-size-fits-all approach simply cannot offer.
In the shadow of the dominant networks, new social networks are springing up everywhere and pushing social networking into more specialised directions. These niche social sites allow users to connect with fewer people who share the same interests. They embrace the fact that they are different, so find your own niche and get personal:
1. 43Things
Are your goals and hopes piling up in front of you as a huge mountain? List your goals and accomplish them with the help of 43Things. Discuss your goals with others, share how-to stories, write about successes you’ve had and cheer others on towards achieving their goals. Don’t forget to set up a designated e-mail reminder in case you are forgetting about your life-changing plans. Through the website you can also find other users who are working towards the same goals and maybe even make some friends along the way.
After you achieved a goal, you can give yourself a pat on the back and finally make the long-awaited 'I Have Done This'-click, but you can also ask yourself if the goal was worth accomplishing and how exactly you achieved it. Your responses are not only a good tool for some self-reflection, but they can help others who are seeking to achieve the same goals. Best of all, your profile comes with a ‘Year in Review’ page that keeps track of all your goals! Finished? Simply browse the network to get inspired by thousands of goals that others have created and list some new ones!
2. Goodreads
Goodreads unites bookworms around the world! The site revolves entirely around users’ ‘bookshelves’, a list of books they have read or are currently reading. Goodreads allows users to discover new books to read, browse through what others are reading, discuss literature, recommend books they love and keep track of what they have read. You can even start your very own online book club. Users can also integrate their lists and groups with Facebook and Twitter, but probably the best thing about Goodreads is how it allows authors to connect directly to their readers.
3. Care2
“Do you feel guilty tossing those spent toilet-paper rolls into the recycle bin? Check out some crafty ways to re-use them instead!” says a post on Care2. Well, do you? Then this website for the social philanthropist might be something for you. It’s the place to be for people who want to make a difference. Whether you want to go green, live healthy or take action on important causes such as human rights or animal rights, visit Care2 to: get informed about important causes; share tips; ask questions; and even start online petitions. Interestingly, the butterflies on their logo stand for the "butterfly effect", of course the concept where one small change in one place can cause a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena in the future.
4. Vizify
Looking for a job? Vizify, a visually-dominant online resume, might prove to be a big help. Although CEO Todd Silverstein, the website’s co-founder, doesn’t believe Vizify should be labelled as a social network, it retrieves all its information from a sea of social media accounts (such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram). Once you set up an account and grant Vizify access to your other social media accounts, it will create an entire profile page showing the best of you online.
But Vizify goes further than that. You can also list your past jobs, education and photos on your profile. Vizify gives your prospective employers a visually pleasant overview of your personality, interests, education, achievements and work history. So, for example, when you are applying for those ever-growing niche IT jobs, your well-designed Vizify profile can act as a showcase for both your skills and understanding of new media technologies.
5. Meetup
Imagine attending an event that gathered only people who share the same interests as you? Well that’s exactly what Meetup does; the network allows you to get in touch with other people in your niche and plan to take part specific events in your area. Meetup describes itself as the “world’s largest network of self-organised clubs and community groups.” No matter how extravagant or obscure your interests are, the chances are big that there is a Meetup for you. If not, you can always start planning your own event!
Haven’t found your niche yet? Don’t despair; there are plenty more of such targeted social networks out there, and the old-kid-on-the-block, Google, will probably help you find it.
We seem to have switched pretty swiftly from a long, hot summer to a cold, blowy autumn. And that means it’s not long until the clocks change and the nights get longer.
Even if you already have your autumn and winter TV viewing set up and have plenty of hobbies and pastimes to help the long winter nights fly by, it’s always good to get a few new ideas.
Check out our top five ways to use your smartphone, laptop or tablet to do something different, fun and, sometimes, even useful. Perfect ways to spend your long evenings in front of the fire. It almost makes us glad summer’s over!
Discover your artistic side
Even if you’ve never painted before, the chances are you will get hours of joy out of one of the many and varied art apps available for tablets. You can download something like Sketchbook Pro and then, just using your finger, learn to draw, paint in all sorts of different mediums, and unlock the artist inside. It’s a phenomenal use of technology and makes learning to draw and paint clean, easy and convenient.
Cook up a storm
Yep, cook. and yep, we do mean use your technology. You know there are so many websites, forums and apps out there for cooking, so why not spend some time really studying the ones that fit in with your taste in food and then spend some time in your kitchen. There’s a reason cooking shows have taken over the night time TV schedule - and that’s because cooking is creative, enjoyable, absorbing and skilfull. Find out whether it’s for you - and you get the amazing by-product of eating your experiments!
Visit a casino
Online casinos have become hugely popular over the last couple of years as technology and internet access has improved. You can now find some truly immersive and atmospheric sites offering casino games like roulette, poker, slots and bingo. And you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your sofa! Pour a glass of wine, sign up to freebets.org/casino and find out for yourself how much fun online casinos can be.
Get blogging
Many people enjoy writing and it’s a well known fact that everyone has one great novel inside them. But writing an actual book is not something most people have time for. Blogging is free, easy and a great way to stir up debates, get your opinion noticed or report on something that interests you specifically. Are you keen on movies? Blog about it? Like shopping? Write about it. In fact, there’s an audience for pretty much anything and everything and it’s as simple as signing up to a service like Blogger or Wordpress. We highly recommend it.
Watch what you want, when you want
Netflix or Lovefilm, or any other streaming app, is an amazing way to get access to the films and TV shows you enjoy, without worrying about timings or cost. For a very reasonable monthly fee you can have access to absolutely loads of US, UK and European shows - definitely worth it.