15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

Cool Websites and Tools [June 17th 2013]
New IFTTT Channel JetSetMe Triggers Every Time You Set Down In A New Country [Updates]
The Journey Of A Coder: How To Enhance Your Coding Skills By Contributing To An Open Source Project
How To Encrypt Data on Your Smartphone
7 Facebook Status Ideas That Show How To Engage Better With Your Social Network
Dispatch Is Your Action-Based Email Client for the iPhone
FaveBucket: Save And Share Your Favorite Links From Across The Web
Stay Connected Smartly: Use LinkedIn Contacts For Better Relationship Management
5 Sites To Learn How To Write A Book And Get It Published
Find A Topic Worth Studying With The Open University On YouTube [Stuff to Watch]
Mozilla Opens ScienceLab To Help Shape Science’s Future [Updates]
How To Create A Custom Timeline Cover Photo In Minutes With Timeline Cover Photo Maker
How To Replace The Nexus 4 Battery (It Can Be Done) [Android]
How to Wipe Your Hard Disk Drive Leaving the OS Intact
Getting A New PC? 12 Must Have Applications To Install First

Cool Websites and Tools [June 17th 2013]

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 09:31 PM PDT

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool websites round-ups delivered to your email daily email subscribe here....

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New IFTTT Channel JetSetMe Triggers Every Time You Set Down In A New Country [Updates]

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 08:30 PM PDT

You can now automatically tweet your current location every time you land in a new country. It may not be ideal for 007, but it's perfectly possible for other British residents, thanks to a new IFTTT channel: JetSetMe by mobile carrier O2.

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The Journey Of A Coder: How To Enhance Your Coding Skills By Contributing To An Open Source Project

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 07:30 PM PDT

If you're looking to market yourself as a competent programmer, there's no better time to show off your skills in the best way possible — by contributing to open source projects. There are many reasons why you should contribute to open source projects , but the most important reason of them all is that you can "learn by doing". And once you learn, you can not only claim that you have coding skills, but you can prove it by showing your work.

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How To Encrypt Data on Your Smartphone

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 07:00 PM PDT

With the Prism-Verizon scandal, what allegedly has been happening is that the United States of America's National Security Agency (NSA) has been data mining. That is, they have been going through the call records of Verizon's approximately 99 million users looking for, well, anything! If the thought of the occasionally overzealous government official isn't enough reason to encrypt your smartphone, then all the identity thieves and scammers out there ought to be. Today, I'm going to show you a few things you can do to make that information a bit more secure.

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7 Facebook Status Ideas That Show How To Engage Better With Your Social Network

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 06:30 PM PDT

Facebook can suck. Really. That's a blunt statement, but regardless of the medium, it's the content that makes up in publication. In Facebook's case, it's a great medium, but sometimes it has some horrible content. Only the users are to blame. Fortunately, I'm here to help you enhance your content output so you can develop some truly engaging status ideas to help you connect better with those on your social network.

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Dispatch Is Your Action-Based Email Client for the iPhone

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 05:30 PM PDT

If you check your email a lot on your iPhone like I do, you now have some awesome choices as to which iOS mail client you use. Quite frankly, Apple's default iOS Mail client can't compare to the recently released third-party mobile apps, including Mail Pilot, Mailbox, Cloze and my favorite, the one trick pony Triage. If you want to actually do something with your emails, and get the functionality of many desktop mail clients, then you might want to check out the recently released Dispatch mail app for the iPhone.

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FaveBucket: Save And Share Your Favorite Links From Across The Web

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 05:00 PM PDT

FaveBucket which allows you to not only collect and organize your links in one place, it also gives you options on how to share it with your friends online. FaveBucket has a somewhat Pinterest-inspired layout, with a grid of boxes featuring all of your latest links. It's a slick and easy-to-use service that is just getting started.

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Stay Connected Smartly: Use LinkedIn Contacts For Better Relationship Management

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 04:30 PM PDT

Being at the right place at the right time is often squarely tied to luck. While it's true that you can't be everywhere, it is also true that nurturing your professional relationships could help you hear the knock when opportunity comes calling. The little things done right there can help to foster career growth. We tend to sometimes use social media too casually. Tuned just right, it is a minimal effort tool for managing our relationships en masse.

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5 Sites To Learn How To Write A Book And Get It Published

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT

There are millions of people all around the world who want to be professional writers, yet only a tiny fraction of them ever make enough money to write full-time. It's a market that is saturated in terms of supply, so you need to be excellent or revolutionary to even be noticed. Fortunately, there are many resources out there that will get your feet wet. Here are five of my favorites.

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Find A Topic Worth Studying With The Open University On YouTube [Stuff to Watch]

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 03:30 PM PDT

The Open University is a world renowned British institution of higher education offering people all over the world the chance to earn a first-class degree without ever stepping foot in a lecture theater. Thanks to the Internet, the Open University is now able to offer more courses to more people than ever before, and their YouTube channel helps market their wares.

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Mozilla Opens ScienceLab To Help Shape Science’s Future [Updates]

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Mozilla has just opened ScienceLab, believing that the project will help foster scientific ideas and will be an open platform for making scientific research more collaborative. The ScienceLab is an initiative that aims to use the open web to build a community around ideas, tools, and implementation of best practices for using next-generation web solutions to solve real problems in science.

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How To Create A Custom Timeline Cover Photo In Minutes With Timeline Cover Photo Maker

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT

As you can imagine, things change in the Timeline arena. Facebook has changed since, changing the way profiles look along the way, and Timeline photos are now bigger and more prominent than they used to be. In addition, some new tools have popped up that can help you reach that coveted goal: an awesome and original Timeline.

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How To Replace The Nexus 4 Battery (It Can Be Done) [Android]

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Got a dead or worn-out Nexus 4 battery? Replacing the defective battery is dead-simple – simply crack your phone open, pry the old battery out and pop in a fresh one. However, unless you want a broken hunk of glass, take a little time to prepare and buy some cheap tools, before getting started.

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How to Wipe Your Hard Disk Drive Leaving the OS Intact

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT

So you want to get rid of your computer. To keep your data secure you will want to securely wipe the drive. This ensures that no one can recover the deleted files. However, you might not want to remove the entire operating system itself. Just re-installing your operating system or restoring from your recovery partition isn't enough to guarantee that your files won't be recoverable. When getting rid of a PC that has potentially sensitive data, you should wipe the drive to be sure your data can't be recovered.

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Getting A New PC? 12 Must Have Applications To Install First

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT

It's a fuzzy feeling when you unbox that brand new desktop or laptop and consider how fast and responsive of an experience you're about to be in for. When you purchase a new computer, treat it like a new car. Take care of it and give it no more or less than what it needs. Is there really a need for you to download six different media players? None of that! If you consider buying a new PC, or you've just purchased one, go down this list and let me make your job easier on you.

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