15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites and Tools [June 5th 2013]
• Are Smartphones The Future Of Photography? [We Ask You]
• How Money Is Made On YouTube [MakeUseOf Explains]
• Love Asynchronous Multiplayer But Hate Word Games? You’ll Love These [iOS]
• Spread Disease & Destroy Humanity With The Best Pandemic Games [Web, iOS & Android]
• 3 Ways To Breathe New Life Into An Old Hard Drive
• Shuttle Player: The Robust and Feature-Complete Music Experience [Android]
• Create an RSS Feed Reader Using Google Spreadsheet
• Gmail’s New Inbox Arrives On iOS Along With An Improved Notification System [Updates]
• How To Sync Your Windows 8 Settings Via The Cloud
• Take a Physical Health Check With These 10 YouTube Test Videos
• Top Lost Hardware Services to Trace Your Stolen iPhone or Android
• How I Freelance Without My PC – Using Windows Phone As A Mobile Office
• More iTunes 11 Tips For Better Browsing and Playing Your Music [Mac & Windows]
• Clipping Magic: Remove The Background From Any Photo In Just A Few Clicks

Cool Websites and Tools [June 5th 2013] Posted: 05 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 5th 2013]

Are Smartphones The Future Of Photography? [We Ask You] Posted: 05 Jun 2013 08:31 PM PDT Smartphones are slowly but surely taking over the world, with more people getting their hands on these portable devices with multiple uses. Feature phones aren't dead yet, and probably never will be. As long as there are smartphone haters such as Justin around then there will always be a place for simple phoning and texting devices that eschew extraneous added features. Continue reading the article Read full post: Are Smartphones The Future Of Photography? [We Ask You]

How Money Is Made On YouTube [MakeUseOf Explains] Posted: 05 Jun 2013 07:30 PM PDT Until a profitable, mutually beneficial alternative arrives, advertisements have to exist in order for us - the consumers - to receive content free of charge. YouTube isn't evil because it places advertisements at the beginning of videos and throughout the site. Where else can you legally watch terabytes and terabytes of video content that you can't even completely view in your lifetime for free? Continue reading the article Read full post: How Money Is Made On YouTube [MakeUseOf Explains]

Love Asynchronous Multiplayer But Hate Word Games? You’ll Love These [iOS] Posted: 05 Jun 2013 06:30 PM PDT It all really blew up with the popularity of Words With Friends, and since then a huge number of games have been released to take advantage of the "with friends" turn-based multiplayer system. Some have come from Zynga, the original creators of Words With Friends, and some have come from other developers. Regardless of who is making the games, more keep coming, and a few of them are really good. The games on this list feature asynchronous multiplayer, but instead of being simple word games, this list features quite a bit more action. Continue reading the article Read full post: Love Asynchronous Multiplayer But Hate Word Games? You’ll Love These [iOS]

Spread Disease & Destroy Humanity With The Best Pandemic Games [Web, iOS & Android] Posted: 05 Jun 2013 05:30 PM PDT The aim of the game is simple: you must infiltrate the human race, spread your disease and try to wipe-out humanity. It's a game of strategy and vengeance! I was immediately hooked, and over the last decade or so have played as many variations on the pandemic simulation as possible. I've collected the best of the best, from old browser games to cross-platform mobile versions. Continue reading the article Read full post: Spread Disease & Destroy Humanity With The Best Pandemic Games [Web, iOS & Android]

3 Ways To Breathe New Life Into An Old Hard Drive Posted: 05 Jun 2013 04:31 PM PDT It's in the human nature to collect stuff and in the digital age we mostly collect data. For a long time, the storage capacities of hard drives seemed to increase too slow to match user demands. We have now reached a turning point. With the aid of generous free Cloud storage and streaming services, it seems like local data storage needs are peaking and will eventually level off. Continue reading the article Read full post: 3 Ways To Breathe New Life Into An Old Hard Drive

Shuttle Player: The Robust and Feature-Complete Music Experience [Android] Posted: 05 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT Finding that one perfect music player can be tough. Finding one that's free? Nearly impossible. Rocket Player has been my near-perfect choice for the past few months, but I recently found a successor: Shuttle Player. I would never have found this gem if it weren't for MakeUseOf reader Jarrod Bush, so shoutouts to him. And wow, what a find. This may just be the most polished free music player available on Android. Continue reading the article Read full post: Shuttle Player: The Robust and Feature-Complete Music Experience [Android]

Create an RSS Feed Reader Using Google Spreadsheet Posted: 05 Jun 2013 03:30 PM PDT Looking for a more practical, everyday use for my growing collection of Google spreadsheets, I decided to see if I could use one function I haven't covered here at MUO yet called "ImportFeed", to try and develop a personal DIY feeder reader that I could actually make use of every day - rather than installing some desktop application, or visiting some online feed reader service. Continue reading the article Read full post: Create an RSS Feed Reader Using Google Spreadsheet

Gmail’s New Inbox Arrives On iOS Along With An Improved Notification System [Updates] Posted: 05 Jun 2013 03:00 PM PDT Gmail's new inbox was introduced only last week, and now the controversial Gmail categories have arrived on iOS. This Gmail update, just like the one on the Web, is meant to give users more control over their inbox, while eliminating the pain of having to manually create filters and labels for everything. The new system helps you organize your emails into five new tabs: Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates, and Forums. Continue reading the article Read full post: Gmail’s New Inbox Arrives On iOS Along With An Improved Notification System [Updates]

How To Sync Your Windows 8 Settings Via The Cloud Posted: 05 Jun 2013 02:30 PM PDT Logging into your Windows 8 computers with a Microsoft account enables access to the Windows Store and other Modern apps, but it's also used to sync Windows 8 settings with the Cloud. Your settings will be synced between all your Windows 8 computers and tablets, or backed up with your Microsoft account. Syncing is enabled by default. However, you can choose to disable sync entirely or sync only certain types of settings between your computers and tablets. Continue reading the article Read full post: How To Sync Your Windows 8 Settings Via The Cloud

Take a Physical Health Check With These 10 YouTube Test Videos Posted: 05 Jun 2013 02:00 PM PDT If you don't actually think you need professional help you can just test yourself for fun on the Web. You don't even need to visit a serious website to gain an informal assessment of your health, with YouTube videos offering a fun and innovative way of testing various states of being. Continue reading the article Read full post: Take a Physical Health Check With These 10 YouTube Test Videos

Top Lost Hardware Services to Trace Your Stolen iPhone or Android Posted: 05 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT Bad things happen. Devices got stolen. Maybe you leave your phone on the table in the pub after you've had a few. Maybe a sneaky trickster like the one on the right there manages to delicately extract it from your purse. Maybe a stray horse eats it. These things happen. But it's up to you to prepare for them. You can't trace your stolen phone after the fact, not easily. Continue reading the article Read full post: Top Lost Hardware Services to Trace Your Stolen iPhone or Android

How I Freelance Without My PC – Using Windows Phone As A Mobile Office Posted: 05 Jun 2013 12:01 PM PDT One of the things I love about a freelance career is being able to up sticks from my home office and go to a local café, bar or library to work in a different environment. It can prove extremely productive and as they say, a change is as good as a rest. I've even used the boot of my MPV as a makeshift office! While I generally have my Windows 8 Acer Iconia W7 series tablet with me in such situations, there are of course times when I've been caught out. Continue reading the article Read full post: How I Freelance Without My PC – Using Windows Phone As A Mobile Office

More iTunes 11 Tips For Better Browsing and Playing Your Music [Mac & Windows] Posted: 05 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT While we patiently wait for Apple to catch up with Google, Rdio, and Spotify and bring a music streaming subscription service to iTunes, there are still numerous ways we can get more out of the popular jukebox. While some users complain that iTunes has gotten a little bloated, I personally don't find that to be true. The recent 11.0.3 update of iTunes brings back even more cover art features, playlist functions and some other tips we haven't covered before that you may find useful. Continue reading the article Read full post: More iTunes 11 Tips For Better Browsing and Playing Your Music [Mac & Windows]

Clipping Magic: Remove The Background From Any Photo In Just A Few Clicks Posted: 05 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT Removing the background from a photo is something Photoshop pros can do in their sleep, but if you find the process hard – and Photoshop expensive – you can be forgiven. Thanks to Clipping Magic, however, you're also perfectly capable of removing backgrounds yourself. Continue reading the article Read full post: Clipping Magic: Remove The Background From Any Photo In Just A Few Clicks

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