Sunday, June 16, 2013

7 New Articles on MakeUseOf

Cool Websites and Tools [June 15th 2013]
Are You Taking Advantage Of All The Money Saving Deals On Amazon?
Foursquare Developers Release New Time Machine Feature With Samsung [Updates]
Print From Your Android With The Help Of Google’s Free Cloud Print App [Updates]
Solving The “Read Only” External Hard Drive Problem On Your Mac
Android Talks Back: 4 Voice Apps For Text-To-Speech
Microsoft Introduces Office App For The iPhone – But No iPad App [Updates]

Cool Websites and Tools [June 15th 2013]

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 09:31 PM PDT

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Are You Taking Advantage Of All The Money Saving Deals On Amazon?

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 07:30 PM PDT

I'm such a big fan of Amazon, and if you're someone who shops online then you have almost no choice but to be. You can get anything and everything on Amazon. It's trusted and reliable. It should be the first thing that comes to your mind when you turn to the internet to purchase something. Another thing that Amazon does quite well is offer some really great deals.

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Foursquare Developers Release New Time Machine Feature With Samsung [Updates]

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 06:00 PM PDT

Foursquare developers introduced a new feature on Friday: the Foursquare Time Machine. The Foursquare Time Machine is an in-browser app to play an animation that artistically depicts the entirety of a user's check-ins in their most-visited city.

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Print From Your Android With The Help Of Google’s Free Cloud Print App [Updates]

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 04:30 PM PDT

Cloud Print adds another arrow to your mobile office arsenal. Now, Google has released a free Android app for Cloud Print that enables you to print from any Android device with a Cloud Print connected printer. If you have always wanted to print from your phone or tablet easily and quickly, Cloud Print is probably the fastest solution you can set up.

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Solving The “Read Only” External Hard Drive Problem On Your Mac

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 01:30 PM PDT

If you've plugged a USB stick or external hard drive only to find out it's "Read Only", don't panic: there's a reason for this, and there's a way to fix it. Different operating systems organize files in different ways. For Windows computers to read HFS drives, Microsoft would have to pay Apple... something they won't do. Enabling Apple computers to write to NTFS drives would involve similar expense – the basic result is that your Mac cannot write to NTFS drives. For now.

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Android Talks Back: 4 Voice Apps For Text-To-Speech

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Our smart devices have become so advanced that we no longer need to read everything that's on our Android device's screen -- we can just have them read everything back to us. However, many apps tend to implement speech-to-text rather than text-to-speech despite the fact that there's an entire framework for it in the Android operating system, which is a shame. On the bright side, there are numerous apps out there which can add some text-to-speech functionality to your Android device.

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Microsoft Introduces Office App For The iPhone – But No iPad App [Updates]

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 10:30 AM PDT

No, it isn't April Fools Day, and no Steve Ballmer hasn't gone totally insane and switched to the Dark Side Of The Net. Microsoft really has introduced an iOS app for Office, but there's a catch - to use it, you need a paid Office 365 subscription. Now there's the Microsoft we all know and love - the money-obsessed company that would barf up a lung if they were asked to give away something free.

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