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Like reading William Shakespeare? Enjoy his works online for free!

Posted on April 24, 2014

If you enjoy reading Shakespeare, it might interest you to know that you can read all of his classics online for free.

Our friends at MIT have put all of Shakespeare’s writings online in HTML form and you can read them right in your favorite web browser. You can also print them if you wish.

Simply head over to shakespeare.mit.edu and click on the appropriate links!

As you probably know, most everything one could want to read or experience can be found online today. And if it’s in the public domain (as are the works of Shakespeare), it’s absolutely free for the “taking”!

Whatever you’re looking for can probably be found online within minutes with a quick Google search. Enjoy!

Netflix to raise their monthly fees

Posted on April 23, 2014

Netflix has just announced that they plan to raise the fees charged for their service by “1 or 2 dollars” per month.

The rate hike will affect new customers only for the time being, but current Netflix subscribers will see their monthly bill increase also “after a generous time period” has elapsed. [Read more…]

Facebook now penalizing pages that post ‘Like and Share Bait Posts’

Posted on April 23, 2014

We’ve all seen them in our news feeds, and most of us have “Liked” and “Shared” them at one time or another. I’m talking about “Like and Share bait posts”, and Facebook is now starting to penalize Pages that publish them.

Like and Share bait posts typically contain images that consist of a touching photo along with a written message that tons of people are sure to agree with. After all, plenty of folks have a daughter they love with all their heart, right?

The common thread between all of these bait posts is that you will be asked to “Like” and “Share” the post if you agree with the message or find the image to be “touching” in some way.

Sounds harmless, right? Well, it really isn’t. [Read more…]

How to change a VistaPrint order even when they say you can’t

Posted on April 17, 2014

As one of the world’s largest printing companies, VistaPrint offers thousands of items that can be customized to your liking. And they do a great job at it.

The folks at VistaPrint are very easy to work with, but if your order includes customized items you’ll receive a message stating that the order cannot be canceled or changed after it has been placed.

This is not always true however, even when they say it is. The key to getting your VistaPrint order changed is to contact their customer service department as soon as possible after placing the order. Here’s how: [Read more…]

Galaxy S5’s ‘Download Booster’ feature disabled by Sprint, Verizon and AT&T

Posted on April 15, 2014

galaxy-s5-download-booster The awesome Samsung Galaxy S5 smart phone comes with an equally awesome feature called “Download Booster”.

In a nutshell, Download Booster does just as its name implies by using a cellular signal and Wi-Fi connection simultaneously to speed up large file downloads to your phone.

Sounds great, right? Well, it is. But don’t count on using it if your cellular provider is either Sprint, Verizon or AT&T.

Those spoil-sports have apparently instructed Samsung to disable the Download Booster feature on Galaxy S5 phones that will be used on their networks and completely remove the option from the phones’ settings menus. [Read more…]