4 Ways to Recycle Your Old Gadgets

We all have some old-fashioned gadgets that are unwanted or we have never used. So how would you deal with them? We guess you just put it at one corner of your closet or let it lie in your drawer. Well, here we are going to introduce four ways to recycle those old gadgets:

1. Give them to tech company recycling programs
Some tech companies have recycling programs or you can find some recycling organizations which are typically free and easy to recycle or trade in your unused tech gadgets responsibly.
2. Donate to Non-Profits and Refurbishing Programs
There are many non-profits organizations or programs to which you can donate these gadgets. They will deliver them to those who need it badly.
3. Sell or Trade In Your Gadgets
You can resell your old stuff on ebay or some second-hand websites. Make sure you don’t waste any money.
4. Repurpose Gadgets Through DIY Projects
Rebuild your old gadgets or reuse them in different ways.
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3D Home Interior Design App for Android & iOS

Decorating a living space involves more than just placing furniture along the walls and matching the carpet with the curtains; it has a lot to do with finding the right furniture, lighting fixtures, curtains, carpets, and what not. It takes a lot of work, and there’s no ‘try room’ for furniture like there is for clothes, so unless you know what you’re getting will work for sure, you might end up buying the wrong design, style or color of furniture, fixture or decoration items.

Autodesk’s Homestyler is a multiplatform app that lets you plan how you’re gong to furnish a room and share your design with other users. You can choose empty rooms to furnish with virtual furniture by picking items that you can actually buy, or using mock ones that don’t have a real-life replica but that you can perhaps get made by a designer or a carpenter. The app is equipped with all types of rooms, furniture pieces, fixtures, electronics, and even a large selection of paint colors for your walls. Homestyler started off as a web app, was brought to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch a couple months ago and now finally has an Android variant as well.
Homestyler lets you create a room in one of three different ways: taking a picture of an actual room, choosing an existing room (furnished or empty) from the app’s gallery, or starting with a blank, empty room and furnishing it from scratch.

Read more at addictivetips.com or Install Homestyler for Android or Install Homestyler for iOS

 

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Gmail: Sort Emails, Files, Links & Images In Separate Tabs with Mikey

For many, Gmail has now become the de facto email service but despite being powerful, customizable and fairly intuitive, there are a few features Gmail fails to offer out of the box. Though that’s where a number of Google Chrome extensions fill the gap, with Mikey For Gmail being the newest one in this genre. If you fancy Gmail’s new tabbed interface, you’re gonna love Mikey, as the extension allows you to quickly find things in your account by sorting them out under relevant tabs. It does this by indexing results in your Gmail and presents images, links and files from sent and received emails under their pertaining tabs. No, it doesn’t add a search box or anything of the sort, but the extension is just designed to present things separately from one another.

A few things to keep in mind before getting started: needless to say, Mikey requires access to your Gmail account in order to index content, for which it also stores your data overs its own SSL AES-256 encrypted server. While a service like this might raise a few privacy questions , the developers claim that this is the only way they can index content from your Gmail, and your information is not only encrypted but can also be deleted upon your request anytime you want, by sending an email. More details can be found under the FAQ section on Mikey’s website.

To get started, install the extension from Chrome Web Store. Once ready, sign in to your Gmail account that needs to be tied with Mikey. A small pop up automatically appears in your inbox, prompting you to connect Mikey to your Gmail. You may also go through the FAQ, or click ‘Not right now’ or ‘Never this account’. Clicking ‘Connect’ takes you to the permissions screen, showing you the permissions it requires. To proceed further, you must grant these permissions…

Read more at addictivetips or Install Mikey For Gmail from Chrome Web Store

Use Google as a Timer with a Simple Search Command

Google has all kinds of clever search commands that save you time, but Reddit user Blemish points out that you can use a command to keep track of time as well.

You can set a quick timer by typing, “set timer X minutes” into Google. Once you hit enter, the timer will count down, and then sound off when the time expires with an obnoxious, possibly never ending tone. If a countdown doesn’t do it for you, then you can also use the command, “set timer for X time.” It’s a pretty simple, but effective way to create an alarm without installing any special software.

 

via LifeHacker

 

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Google announces tool to track lost Android phones

Android owners will soon have a way to locate their lost devices. Later this month, anyone with a Google account will be able to locate their devices on a map in real time, activate their ringer, and even wipe their contents. The service will work as part of a new Android Device Manager website, which will seemingly be an upgraded version of a tool that’s already available for business users.

The remote tools will work on all devices running Android 2.2 and up — which, at 98.7 percent of devices, is just about every one of them.

For Google, the move is a long time coming. Android has quite notably been missing a tool to let users remotely manage their lost devices, while others like Apple and Microsoft have already implemented such features on their mobile operating systems.

via TheVerge

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How to configure Adblock Plus for Safe and Convenient Browsing

Adblock Plus is without doubt one of the most popular ad blocking tools on today’s Internet. It is available for browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, as well as mobile devices and does a solid job at getting rid of many of the annoying ads that you are exposed to normally on the Internet.

The extension has been criticized recently for its “acceptable ads” guidelines which allow some ads to be displayed. We do not want to rehash all that has been said about that, only that you can disable that in the program options so that all advertisement is blocked again. You can enable additional features on the page. You may know that the program uses subscription lists for the blocking that you subscribe to, and technically, those three suggestions you find listed here are just that.

Malware Blocking

This list is powered by Malware Domains, a service that aims to block malware by blocking connections to domains that are known to distribute it. It runs in addition to the browser’s own protection, which may warn you about attack pages that you are about to visit. The malware blocking in Adblock Plus does not display warnings on the other hand, it either blocks connections from happening outright, for instance if a clean page tries to load contents from a blocked site, or blocks the connection halfway-through when you visit a blocked domain.

Social Media Button blocking

Social Media buttons are everywhere, and yes, I’m also using them here on this site. They do have two main purposes for me: first, it gives site visitors options to share contents more easily. While experienced users won’t have any problems sharing contents manually, many users do not share contents if no such buttons are displayed on the page. Second, search engines may use those information as signals for a site’s popularity, and a site without them may be doing worse than a site that is making use of them. Anyway, if you do not use social media or never share contents, then you may want to block the buttons to avoid them from being displayed. It also gets rid of potential tracking issues and may increase the load time of websites.
The list that Adblock Plus uses is Fanboy’s Social Blocking List.

Tracking blocking

The third and final option that you have is to disable tracking on the Internet. While it does not take care of all tracking, it blocks a large amount of ad companies from tracking your movement on the Internet.
The list is based on EasyPrivacy.

VIA | ghacks.net

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ElectroShopWorld's Choice: “Play-Droid” – 7 Inch Android Gaming Console Tablet

Relive the past on this modern and stylish 7 inch gaming console tablet known as the “Play-Droid”. ElectroShopWorld has expanded its product range and have chosen the “Play-Droid” console due to its ability to play the classic games via an emulator as well as having a fantastic lay-out making a great handheld device.

7 Inch Android Gaming Console Tablet “Play-Droid”

Key Features
Android Gaming Console Tablet – A tablet with game controlling buttons located on either side of the screen to make this the ultimate media playing device.
7 Inch Screen – A large screen to enjoy watching movies that you have downloaded or to view streamed YouTube clips and of course to play classic video games.
1GHz CPU – A powerful CPU is more than enough of running media without any problems as well as giving the user a great platform to work on.
Emulator – In my opinion this is the selling point of this handheld device because it allows the user to relive the old school games of yester-year and provides you that second chance of completing classics such as Goldeneye, Super Mario and Star Fox.
8GB Internal Memory – Plenty of storage space to save all your data and media, however you can always give it an extra boost via the built-in SD card slot.

The essential playing device that will keep you entertained for hours is known as the “Play-Droid”