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A lot of people think once you hit a certain age, you’re too old to learn anything new. This is blatantly untrue. Of course, there are certain activities that do have age limits. For instance, you can’t take part in your state’s Under-Nineteen competitive swimming contest if you’re thirty or start a career as a doctor when you’re a fifty ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about my wallet lately, thanks to Billetus. When I was a kid in the nineties obsessed with sci-fi, I always thought wallets would be touchscreen or something. We may not be there yet, but wallet design has certainly come close to sci-fi-esque practicality. I’m used to the standard wallets from brands like North Face. When ...

  In today’s social media-heavy environment, online bullying is all too easy. Especially vulnerable are children and teens, who are susceptible to harassment from their peers or even adults. Social media networks like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr make it easy to go anonymous and for bullies to be hurtful and trigger young teens without any sort of consequence. Unfortunately, many ...

Foreigners always feel anxious before the date with a Russian lady: different cultures, different languages and value systems and so on. Plus the fact that the first date is a chance to make a good impression and have another date often makes the men go out of their ways to appear better than they really are. This often leads to ...

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is the technology that allows for the private, secure transfer of information across a public, unsecure system such as the internet. Through encryption and other similar forms of security, VPNs ensure the privacy and protection of the user. FrootVPN is the latest service that offers you total obscurity and security in your online activities. The ...

Tim Aldiss writes for Spectrum Photographic – professional photographic & giclée printing After 35 years of success, an historic cycle is now drawing to an end. We’re talking about the cherished Holga, a lo-fi camera that brought photography to the masses and raised a cult following that persists even today. The Holga was created in 1981 by a Chinese inventor ...

Technology is dynamic and ever-changing. Every day it gets more cutting-edge and even more impressive. But there’s a dark side to all of this as well. Take, for instance, your brand new iPhone 6s. Your whole life is in that phone – starting from the list of meetings you’ll need to attend this week right down to reminders to stock ...

When it comes to being green in our day-to-day lives, many of us have the best intentions – but when it comes to putting them into practice, we somehow find that we don’t have time or are simply confused about what we’re supposed to be doing. Thankfully, the apps below take all the effort out of living a greener life. ...

This month has seen both CES and the North American International Auto Show, both showing some of the trends we can expect to see in the automotive market of the future. Many of the things we saw were once the realm of science fiction movies, but it might not be long before these ideas become commonplace. Autonomous Vehicles It turns ...

In a Piper Jaffray semiannual survey, teens were asked about their favorite social network and almost one-third of them reported the photo-sharing app Instagram as their most used social network. The results show that teens today are abandoning traditional social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter for Instagram. But is this a better option? Evaluate yourself after having a look at ...