15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites and Tools [June 19th 2013]
• Tips To Maximize Your Listening Pleasure In iTunes
• 5 Websites All Beginner Starcraft II Players Need To Read
• Create Amazing Levitation Photos With iOS App Levitagram
• Spending Too Much Time On The Computer? 5 Ways To Bring Nature To Your Desktop
• Don’t Get Fragged: 5 Must-Have Free Voice Chat Clients For Gamers
• Why Can’t I Charge All Gadgets From The Same Charger? [MakeUseOf Explains]
• Create Your Own Stylish Magazines With The Flipboard Browser Bookmarklet
• Share Your Web Browser With Strangers Using We See In Every Direction
• How To Recreate The Classic Pong Game Using Arduino
• 10 Brilliant Geeky Minimalist Movie Posters
• How This Freelance Writer Maximises Productivity With Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8
• Why Do Some Apps Look Bad On My Retina Display? (And How to Fix It)
• CleanMyDrive Cleans Up After Your Mac So You Don’t Have To
• Every Windows 8 Shortcut – Gestures, Desktop, Command Line

Cool Websites and Tools [June 19th 2013] Posted: 19 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.... Continue reading the article Read full post: Cool Websites and Tools [June 19th 2013]

Tips To Maximize Your Listening Pleasure In iTunes Posted: 19 Jun 2013 07:30 PM PDT With Spotify, Pandora, and - sigh - The Pirate Bay in the mix, it's very rare that you hear someone say they just love listening to iTunes. It's not like people don't do it, though. It just seems as if it has faded into the background as the simple default music player for Macs, iDevices, and more. So here are five tips to aid you in maximizing your listening pleasure with iTunes. These basic cheats can be customized according to your listening preferences, so grab your headphones and check 'em out. Continue reading the article Read full post: Tips To Maximize Your Listening Pleasure In iTunes

5 Websites All Beginner Starcraft II Players Need To Read Posted: 19 Jun 2013 06:30 PM PDT Starcraft II is a complicated game filled with deep nuances and intense strategy that can be rather intimidating for newer players to get a hold off. Many hours of dedication are required, and if you really want to learn the game, one of the best things you can do is take advice from other players. Why try to figure it out yourself when you can soak in the knowledge of those who have come before? Continue reading the article Read full post: 5 Websites All Beginner Starcraft II Players Need To Read

Create Amazing Levitation Photos With iOS App Levitagram Posted: 19 Jun 2013 05:30 PM PDT A few years ago when I did a year-long photo self-portrait project along with a group of other Flickr.com members, one type of self-portrait photo nearly all of us took was a levitation photo. It was a type of optical illusion that could only be accomplished using the tripod, Adobe Photoshop, and lots of patience. These days you may not need expensive photo editing software to shoot levitation photos, as a recently released iPhone and iPad app called Levitagram ($1.99) enables you to create levitation photos in a few relatively easy steps. Continue reading the article Read full post: Create Amazing Levitation Photos With iOS App Levitagram

Spending Too Much Time On The Computer? 5 Ways To Bring Nature To Your Desktop Posted: 19 Jun 2013 04:30 PM PDT If you are tied to your desk or lack the natural draw to be outside, give nature a chance to brighten your day. She can help you relax as you experience her wonderfulness through the eyes and ears of others. Nature will stun you with her beauty! And who knows, you might be tempted to go outside and meet her in person after all. Continue reading the article Read full post: Spending Too Much Time On The Computer? 5 Ways To Bring Nature To Your Desktop

Don’t Get Fragged: 5 Must-Have Free Voice Chat Clients For Gamers Posted: 19 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT Have you ever heard about the paradox of choice? Here's the gist of it: the more choices you have, the harder it becomes to make a satisfying decision. This is slowly becoming a reality in the world of voice communication because the number of available programs is rising - which one is the best? Which one should you use? Continue reading the article Read full post: Don’t Get Fragged: 5 Must-Have Free Voice Chat Clients For Gamers

Why Can’t I Charge All Gadgets From The Same Charger? [MakeUseOf Explains] Posted: 19 Jun 2013 03:20 PM PDT Years ago, at my previous job, my boss came into the office and asked a group of us if we had a spare cellphone charger. As everyone scrambled to help the boss out by offering their own cellphone charger, I pondered for a moment how odd it was that no one was bothering to ask him what model of phone he was using. Continue reading the article Read full post: Why Can’t I Charge All Gadgets From The Same Charger? [MakeUseOf Explains]

Create Your Own Stylish Magazines With The Flipboard Browser Bookmarklet Posted: 19 Jun 2013 02:30 PM PDT The news reading and content curation scene is a dog-eat-dog world. One of the reasons for the widespread popularity of Flipboard has been its momentum to add new features. One of the recent but not-so-little changes has been the power feature of creating your own personalized magazines with Flipboard. Continue reading the article Read full post: Create Your Own Stylish Magazines With The Flipboard Browser Bookmarklet

Share Your Web Browser With Strangers Using We See In Every Direction Posted: 19 Jun 2013 02:00 PM PDT Imagine having to share your Web browser with other people. I don't mean sharing in the sense of one person using the browser at a time, much like a family uses a computer now, but sharing in the sense of everyone trying to browse the Web at the same time. This has been made possible by the We See In Every Direction Web browser created by Jonas Lund. Continue reading the article Read full post: Share Your Web Browser With Strangers Using We See In Every Direction

How To Recreate The Classic Pong Game Using Arduino Posted: 19 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT Pong was the first ever videogame that reached the mass market. For the first time in history, the concept of a "video game" was brought into the family home, thanks to the Atari 2600 - so it's only right that we pay a little homage to this historical gem. Now, you can re-live that (admittedly somewhat boring gameplay) using an Arduino and some common components. Continue reading the article Read full post: How To Recreate The Classic Pong Game Using Arduino

10 Brilliant Geeky Minimalist Movie Posters Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:30 PM PDT Most of the time, when geeky designers and minimalism come together, we can almost certainly expect brilliant things. Graphic designer Adam Thompson from Carbondale, IL, published three series of eye-catching minimalist movie posters. Continue reading the article Read full post: 10 Brilliant Geeky Minimalist Movie Posters

How This Freelance Writer Maximises Productivity With Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8 Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT My personal desktop setup has changed considerably in the past few months since purchasing the Acer Iconia W7 series tablet, which I use as my primary PC. Gone is the tower of my old self build AMD-powered game station, replaced by far more compact dimensions, a new monitor and an external HDD. This is the main hub of my professional life: a Windows 8 tablet. Yes, you read that right. Let me demonstrate how you can be productive with Windows 8. It is possible, and with the right apps you can get great results. Continue reading the article Read full post: How This Freelance Writer Maximises Productivity With Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8

Why Do Some Apps Look Bad On My Retina Display? (And How to Fix It) Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT When Apple released the MacBook Pro with Retina display this time last year, they raised the bar for laptop display technology, as they previously did for the smartphone and tablet industries. The only issue they created was a software one: suddenly apps designed for non-Retina screens looked bad. If you've got a Retina-equipped MacBook, or are considering one, you should know why old software looks bad and what little you can do to help the situation. Continue reading the article Read full post: Why Do Some Apps Look Bad On My Retina Display? (And How to Fix It)

CleanMyDrive Cleans Up After Your Mac So You Don’t Have To Posted: 19 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT Macs leave all sorts of files on your drives that could potentially annoy Windows and Linux users. Some of these files – like the contents of the Trash – can take up a lot of space. Others – like DS_Store and Spotlight's various markers – are just plain annoying. Whether it's deleted files or the random crap like "DS_Store" OS X loves to leave behind, CleanMyDrive automates the removal of junk. Put simply: it's a free, automated way to remove crap files. Continue reading the article Read full post: CleanMyDrive Cleans Up After Your Mac So You Don’t Have To

Every Windows 8 Shortcut – Gestures, Desktop, Command Line Posted: 19 Jun 2013 09:20 AM PDT Windows 8 is all about shortcuts. People with touch-enabled PCs use touch gestures, users without touch devices must learn the mouse shortcuts, power users use keyboard shortcuts on the desktop and novel command-line shortcuts, and you can even use special swipe gestures on your laptop's touchpad. Here we collected all the shortcuts you need to master Windows 8. If you've upgraded to Windows 8 or bought a new PC that came with Windows 8, you'll find that a lot has changed. Continue reading the article Read full post: Every Windows 8 Shortcut – Gestures, Desktop, Command Line

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