How to Install Windows 10 on Your PC

Want to install Windows 10 on your own PC? We’ve got you covered with the instructions, although it’s just like installing any other version of Windows.
How to Install Windows 10 on Your PC

With Windows 10, Microsoft Finally Gets It

Call me crazy, but I think businesses are going to like Windows 10. By reintroducing the start menu, adding easy-to-access multiple desktops and even giving the Command Prompt its first upgrade in years, Microsoft is doing more than paying lip service to a disenfranchised business customer — it's delivering what could be the best Windows for business ever.
With Windows 10, Microsoft Finally Gets It

Latest New Family Friendly sites and links listed on Blackstump Australia - Issue 7, 2014

The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on Beyond The Black Stump.
Issue 7, 2014

Australian Government: 'There Is a Very Real Threat by the Death Cult in Syria'

The threat of a terrorist attack on Australian soil may be likely as the heightening of the national terror alert to high looks imminent, Australia's Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has said. "We know there is a very real threat by the death cult that is operating over in Iraq and Syria and we know that that threat is not just over in the Middle East," Morrison told the National Press Club on Wednesday.
Australian Government: 'There Is a Very Real Threat by the Death Cult in Syria'

Living On The Edge: Australians Design House That Hangs Off Cliff

SYDNEY — Hold on to your hat, don't look down and prepare for vertigo. This edgy concept home by Australian module-home designers Modscape will take your fear of heights to a new level.
Living On The Edge: Australians Design House That Hangs Off Cliff

The iPhone Australia Tax: What's The Damage?

A few flashy new gadgets from Apple were unveiled overnight. We already know exactly what we’re going to pay for them (spoiler: lots), but is there an Australia Tax attached? What’s the damage bill?
For those out of the loop on the so-called Australia Tax, it’s the idea that large companies charge Aussies more for everything from tech and content right through to gadgets and even clothing simply due to the isolation of the Australian market. There’s been a big government inquiry on it, which you can catch up on here.
The iPhone Australia Tax: What's The Damage?

How to Really Stop Checking Your Email Constantly

“Don’t check your email all the time!”

You’ve heard it before, and you’ll hear it again as a way to improve your productivity and stop being a slave to your inbox.
How to Really Stop Checking Your Email Constantly

Google Unveils The Cartographer, Its Indoor Mapping Backpack

If you have been following the development of Google Maps over the years, you are probably familiar with the Trekker, the backpack that includes a complete Street View camera setup for mapping anything from hikes into the Grand Canyon to walks through penguin colonies in Antarctica. Today, a new backpack is joining Google’s mapping tools: the Cartographer for indoor mapping.
Google Unveils The Cartographer, Its Indoor Mapping Backpack

12 Things You Should Do on Your Personal Google+ Account Right Now

Like it or not, Google+ is becoming more important in the digital marketing landscape. Google+ is not just a Facebook redux. Instead, it comprises a huge part of the social milieu of your online existence. Google+ has subtly creeped into your emailing, browsing, article writing, creating Google+ business pages, and a variety of other activities across the web.
12 Things You Should Do on Your Personal Google+ Account Right Now

You've Been Throwing Paper Airplanes Wrong Your Whole Life

David Rees is a man on a mission — a mission to find out how to properly throw a paper airplane. This may not seem like a life-saving quest, and that's because it's not. But it is incredibly fun.
You've Been Throwing Paper Airplanes Wrong Your Whole Life

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 6/2014

The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on Beyond The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 6/2014 - August 2, 2014

The Day After: A Look at Friday's MH17 Front Page Headlines

For the second time in less than six months, the loss of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet tugged on the world's heartstrings. A plane carrying 295 passengers and crew was shot from the sky on Thursday over Ukraine, crashing near the Russia-Ukraine border in an area called Torez. U.S. Intelligence officials confirmed the plane was brought down by a surface-to-air missile, but the responsible parties have not yet been officially identified.
The Day After: A Look at Friday's MH17 Front Page Headlines

19 Real Reasons Not To Go To The Beach This Summer

Last week, BuzzFeed published an article titled “19 Reasons Not To Go To The Beach This Summer.” In reality, the article contained only one reason—and as they hinted, it “rhymes with shmarks.”
19 Real Reasons Not To Go To The Beach This Summer

A Simple Blood Test Could Predict The Onset Of Alzheimer's

Scientists have developed a new blood test that can predict who will develop Alzheimer’s disease a year after having mild memory problems — and it could be in clinical use within two years.
A Simple Blood Test Could Predict The Onset Of Alzheimer's

What Can Police Learn From Mobile Phone Tower Data?

Metadata is in the news again with revelations that police in Australia have been getting access to data collected from mobile base stations (cell towers).
What Can Police Learn From Mobile Phone Tower Data?

This Is How a 'Go-Around' Avoids Disaster at an Airport

Everything seems fine as the pilot guides the aircraft into the final approach. Suddenly, there's another plane where there isn't supposed to be one: right on the runway where the pilot is set to land. The engines roar, the nose lifts and the jetliner heads skyward once more. Crisis averted.
This Is How a 'Go-Around' Avoids Disaster at an Airport

Extremely Graphic Surgery Video Shows The Miracle Of Heart Transplants

Human heart transplantation is a medical miracle that saves the lives of thousands of patients every year. A heart transplant can add years, sometimes even decades, to a very sick patient’s life. It’s a game-changer, and it’s breathtaking to watch. It’s also EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. You’ve been warned.
Extremely Graphic Surgery Video Shows The Miracle Of Heart Transplants

Happy 42nd birthday, Leap Second!

It was on this date in 1972 that the first leap second was added to a day. The modern definition of a “second” was settled in 1874 by European scientists working from Muslim scholars’ improvement on Ptolemy’s Second Century calculations. But in the early 1960s astronomers realized that the rotation of the earth is irregular -- fundamentally, it is slowing.
Happy 42nd birthday, Leap Second!

Woman's Photoshop Experiment Shows There Are Many Ways to Be Beautiful

What does it mean to be beautiful? To show how different countries have very different standards when it comes to beauty, journalist Esther Honig had her face photoshopped by people in 26 countries — and the results are stunningly disparate.
Woman's Photoshop Experiment Shows There Are Many Ways to Be Beautiful

5 Facts You Didn't Know About Disney

Disney, the company with near-exclusive ownership of our childhoods. It continues its legacy of wonder and magic for audiences of all ages. There has never been another company equally revered ... and polarizing.
5 Facts You Didn't Know About Disney