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2016

The Growth of Sharing Services

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Over the past few years, the tech sector has seen an emergence of, for lack of a better term, “sharing services,” or companies that network and rent out dist...

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2015

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2014

Useful Python Packages – Part I

1 minute read

Python has one of the largest package libraries. Packages range from tools to simulate networks or graphs to frameworks like Django and Flask, Python’s devel...

Three Free Online Learning Sites

1 minute read

Autodidactism is the practice of teaching oneself. Benjamin Franklin is the classic example of a self-taught scholar. In today’s age of ubiquitous knowledge,...

Online Coding Environments

2 minute read

An online coding environment is exactly how it sounds: incorporating coding directly into your web browser. Part of the advantage of online coding is that yo...

bop.fm – Awesome Music Sharing Service

1 minute read

It can be quite overwhelming to pick an online music service, like Spotify, Rdio, or SoundCloud. After you have settled in with a service, you may want to sh...

Perl Tutorial – Building a Local Network

2 minute read

Perl is slowly growing out of fashion, despite it’s ubiquitous influence on developing modern languages. Much of Perl’s syntax and structure has been cleaned...

CoffeeScript – An Introduction

1 minute read

JavaScript developers (or any developer that uses JavaScript) know that the language can be, at times, awkward and clunky to use. While web developers try to...

Coin – One Coin for All of Your Cards

1 minute read

Coin is a product with the much sought after goal of reducing wallet size. With rewards cards, gift cards, credit cards, and debit cards, it is easy to lose ...

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2013

Google Gigabit Could Get Gloomy

3 minute read

As Google pushes forward with its plans for gigabit fiber Internet access, I wonder if they are considering the repercussions from competitors. As they offer...

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2012

Top 15 Jailbreak Apps and Tweaks

8 minute read

Jailbreaking your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad enables you to install thousands of apps and tweaks from Cydia. If you’re reading this, you’re probably conside...

How Night Vision Works

3 minute read

Watch any action movie and there is sure to be a scene where some soldier or cop is stuck facing the enemy in the dark and lo and behold he just happens to h...

The Five Best Alarm Clock Apps for Android

2 minute read

Smartphones are great for many things, and one great use of your smartphone is as an alarm clock. Smartphones make great alarm clocks because they are always...

Ultrabooks: A Hit Or A Miss?

2 minute read

Today, ultrabook is the hottest new term in the laptop market. The term was initially created by Intel and inspired by the sleek MacBoo...

MIT “Hack” Wars

2 minute read

The term “hack” is an over glorified term for pranking used by the two most prolific technology schools in the country. Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

10 Apps for the Travel Entrepreneur

3 minute read

Entrepreneurs who travel around the country or to different countries as part of their business have specific travel needs. Fortunately for those with an ...

Where Technology is Headed in 2012

2 minute read

After another action-packed Consumer Electronics Show in glittering Las Vegas this year, it seems that there’s plenty of high-tech kit to keep an eye on duri...

5 Essential iPhone Business Apps

2 minute read

When the Apple iPhone was introduced by the late Steve Jobs to the tech-hungry masses back in 2007, the thought of the gizmo becoming an essential business p...

Best iPhone Fitness Apps

3 minute read

You can now ditch your diet-tracking notebook and gym membership for few exercise and nutrition iPhone apps that will take your workouts to a new level. For ...

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2011

Top 3 Free Screen Capture Tools

2 minute read

Whether you’re trying to provide some tech support for a friend, showing off that new computer game you bought, or trying to include some screenshots in a bl...

Three Text Editor Alternatives To TextMate

2 minute read

TextMate is one of the greatest text editors for the Mac. Unfortunately, many would be developers are deterred by its price tag (around $55) or simply cannot...

9 Wacky But Successful Website Ideas

4 minute read

A lot of people play it safe, when trying to make money online. Ebay, Adsense, affiliate marketing, consulting or something along those lines. And, m...

Dojo – Unbeatable JavaScript Tools

2 minute read

JavaScript has become essential amongst Web Developers (probably developers in general). Whether it be AJAX, jQuery, JSON, or CoffeeScript it has become very...

MOG Goes Free, Rdio To Follow

2 minute read

We’re big fans of streaming music websites, as you could probably tell from our post about 5 great online music streaming services. We’re even bigger fans of...

12 Cool Screen Savers For Mac

2 minute read

After your computer sits unused for a certain amount of time, a special program called a “screensaver” runs. It may display anything from a beautiful animati...

Google Rolling Out Updated Sign-In Pages

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In what is the start of the next step of Google’s redesigned user interface, stylish log-in pages are now available for preview. To view them:

How to Begin Programming Part I

6 minute read

Programming is a dead useful knowledge one could acquire. It could be applied to any sciences job. It could help one create their own software tailored to th...

Ten Best iOS Games of 2011 (Jan. to Jul.)

4 minute read

In the past couple of months, several very interesting new games came out that require the usage of puzzles and games that have very unique graphics. Here ar...

P versus NP – Destruction of the Internet

5 minute read

You are going to look at me like I’m crazy, but hypothetically one could destroy the internet. All one would have to do was solve the P versus NP problem (wh...

YouTube Tests A Brand New User Interface

1 minute read

YouTube announced by blog post yesterday that they are testing out a new user interface called “Cosmic Panda”. Users of the popular video sharing service can...

How To Link To A Time In A YouTube Video

1 minute read

All of us are familiar with YouTube, the massive video sharing website where you can upload your own videos or view other people’s videos. What some of us ma...

Skype Version 5.2 Released For Mac

1 minute read

Earlier today, a new version of Skype for Mac was released. You probably already have a version of Skype installed in your personal computer or smartphone, b...

Make Your Lists Social With List.ly!

1 minute read

I recently stumbled upon this appealing website that enables users to build social lists. “How can you make a list social?” you might ask. Well, List.ly allo...

Team Fortress 2 By Valve Now Free-To-Play!

1 minute read

This week Valve is making noise with Team Fortress 2, its popular online shooter game, that was released in 2007. How can such an old game make such news ...

Nerd Rhymes Are On The Rise

1 minute read

Most nerds are not into the whole “rap scene”, however that hasn’t stopped a few geeks from pursuing a career in making rap music! You may be asking yourself...

C++ Tutorial II – Float vs. Int

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You may be wondering what is a Float and why it has certain uses that Int cannot handle. All will be explained concisely so you can go back to whatever you d...

HTML Tutorial I – The Basics

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Regardless of what people tell you, HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) is not hard to learn. It is arguably the easiest of the 4 major Web Development langua...

Groovy Music Video – Code Monkey

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Jonathan Coulton is “a musician, a singer-songwriter and an internet superstar” who, back in September of 2005, decided to start a “thing a week” campaign. T...

C++ Tutorial I – Hello World!

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Many consider C++ to be cliche and a bit ancient. But nonetheless, it is great for beginners who want to start programming, but don’t know where to start. If...

Ning – Create Your Own Social Network

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Social Networking has taken the Internet by storm. From MySpace to Facebook to Formspring to Twitter to Tumblr, Social Networks surround us infinitely. 500 m...

Top 10 iPhone Games – Role Playing Games

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RPG Games are quite prolific and there are a million of them on the app store. It may be hard to sift through them to find the best RPG games, so here is a l...

Top 10 iPhone Games – Ported iPhone Games

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Ported iPhone Games is a term for games that were intended for other platforms (such as PC) but translated over to iPhone. Here are some of the most prolific...

Angry Birds Released As Free Web Game

less than 1 minute read

Angry Birds, the extremely popular physics game where you launch wingless birds at green pigs, has been released by Rovio Mobile (the developers of the game)...

Top 10 iPhone Games – Physics Games

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Wow. Physics games happen to be the best selling throughout the iPhone App store. Well, they do have pigs getting splattered or feeding chubby little monster...

Top URL Shortening Services

1 minute read

URL shortening services have been around for many years. They make life simpler by taking long URLs and making a shortened version. This shortened version is...

Javascript Tutorial I – Hello World!

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I see you are back at ByteRevel, and for a good reason. You are interested in the art of Javascripting your HTML page! Well, we cannot progress any further t...

Unity3D

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Most video game developers require a solid game engine to make a successful game (I say most due to the fact Zork is a text-based adventure and is quite popu...

New iMacs Announced On May 3rd

less than 1 minute read

On Tuesday, May 3rd, Apple unveiled an update to the line of iMacs. The online store was down for a brief period while Apple updated it. The new iMacs featur...

Plex Media Center (for Mac)

less than 1 minute read

Plex is another amazing mac-only media center that makes accessing your favorite videos and music a breeze!

Boxee Media Center (Cross Platform)

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Boxee is a media center for Mac, Windows, Linux, and AppleTV. It boasts social network features, 200+ apps, and a local media aggregator and organizer.

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