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- Cool Websites and Tools [July 30th 2013
- Roon Is A Slick, Easy-To-Use Blogging Platform You May Want to Try
- Would You Pay To Use Facebook? [You Told Us]
- 6 Useful iOS Apps for Photographers
- Give Your Ears A Treat: 5 Alternative Ways To Discover New Music Online
- Less is More: 5 Beautifully Barebones iOS Apps That Embrace Simplicity
- Don’t Get Suckered By The Facebook Graphic App Hoax [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- Get Rid Of Facebook Annoyances With These 4 Great Firefox Add-Ons
- Open Source Matters: 6 Source Code Search Engines You Can Use For Programming Projects
- The Internet In 60 Seconds
- 5 Handheld Video Game Consoles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
- 2 Windows 8 Swype-Like Touch Keyboards Tested
- Stop For A Grammar Check: 4 Areas Where You Can Improve Your Spelling & Grammar
- 5 Ways To Grab Free Console Games
- Stuff I Found On The Web – Excel Shortcuts, Teabag Ghosts, Crazy Texts & Free Coffee
| Cool Websites and Tools [July 30th 2013 Posted: 30 Jul 2013 09:55 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 website round-ups delivered to your daily email, subscribe here. QuotesCover – f you have a Facebook account, you must have come across images that display text against a backdrop of some solid color. These images are used on Facebook as profile images, cover photos, and on other websites for the same purpose. If you want to easily create such images, you can do so through a website called QuotesCover.... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools [July 30th 2013 |
| Roon Is A Slick, Easy-To-Use Blogging Platform You May Want to Try Posted: 30 Jul 2013 08:30 PM PDT  While WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr dominate the blogging scene, there are a few minimalist platforms that strip down the blogging experience to focus entirely on simply sharing your writing. Medium, launched by Twitter’s founders, is a slick, minimalist blogging platform that is doing a slow and gradual roll out for its users, so you’ll have to wait before you get the chance to try it hands on. Ghost is another platform that looks promising, but has yet to launch, while we also recently introduced you to the Evernote-powered blogging solution – Postach.io. Another great and easy-to-use blogging platform is Roon. Roon... Read the full article: Roon Is A Slick, Easy-To-Use Blogging Platform You May Want to Try |
| Would You Pay To Use Facebook? [You Told Us] Posted: 30 Jul 2013 07:30 PM PDT  Every single one of the 1.2 billion people who have signed up to use Facebook will have, at some point, seen the promise on the homepage: “Sign Up, It’s free and always will be.” It’s a nice note to attach to the process, providing an assurance that Facebook will never start charging for basic access. But what about added features that could be part of a “premium” package? This was the notion recently put forth by Biz Stone, who co-founded Twitter and is the current CEO of Jelly Industries. He suggested that Facebook switch to a freemium business model, offering... Read the full article: Would You Pay To Use Facebook? [You Told Us] |
| 6 Useful iOS Apps for Photographers Posted: 30 Jul 2013 06:30 PM PDT  With dozens of iPhone photographers moving to and fro throughout the bustling city streets of social media, things may be getting a bit disheartening for photographers. Let’s face it: people can get some pretty great shots with their iPhones, and these same people don’t even have a technical knowledge of how a camera works. Of course, this isn’t to bash the photography profession. After all, iPhones realistically can’t capture images akin to those which are made with high quality glass, right? Regardless of how you may feel about the iPhone photography trend, you too can use the device (and its tablet... Read the full article: 6 Useful iOS Apps for Photographers |
| Give Your Ears A Treat: 5 Alternative Ways To Discover New Music Online Posted: 30 Jul 2013 05:30 PM PDT  As we mature (or to put it more bluntly, grow old) our tastes in many things change. The movies that we loved as teenagers will no longer appeal, the food we turned our noses up at as kids will now set our taste buds on fire. And the music that shaped our formative years will give way to new genres, new tempos, and new bands. Unless you’re a fan of the Rolling Stones, whose music will probably outlive us all. But where to find this new music our brains long for and ears crave? Why, on the InterWebs, of course.... Read the full article: Give Your Ears A Treat: 5 Alternative Ways To Discover New Music Online |
| Less is More: 5 Beautifully Barebones iOS Apps That Embrace Simplicity Posted: 30 Jul 2013 04:30 PM PDT  The simplicity hype is taking the world by storm. What started as a small trend with apps like Clear for iPhone is now a full-blown design convention, which looks to have inspired even Apple in their latest iteration of iOS (read more about iOS 7 to see what I mean). Personally, I love this new trend. The old iOS wooden shelves and protruding buttons never really appealed to me, and I’m glad to see more and more of these apps taking over the App Store. Unfortunately, although it might be expected of a new hype, most of these apps are... Read the full article: Less is More: 5 Beautifully Barebones iOS Apps That Embrace Simplicity |
| Don’t Get Suckered By The Facebook Graphic App Hoax [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 30 Jul 2013 03:30 PM PDT  Remember the mass scare on Facebook a while back where almost everyone changed their status to “I want to stay connected to you PRIVATELY, but you need to uncheck this that and the other”? It has come around again, but this time it’s a meme about Facebook’s “Graphic App”. And guess what? It’s yet another completely pointless pile of rubbish tips that won’t protect anyone from anything. The first giveaway is in the supposed “Graphic App”, which doesn’t actually exist. From there on it just gets more and more silly. The “Graphic App” Update Spiel Here’s what it says: Hello... Read the full article: Don’t Get Suckered By The Facebook Graphic App Hoax [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| Get Rid Of Facebook Annoyances With These 4 Great Firefox Add-Ons Posted: 30 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT  Facebook is an incredibly polarized social network — some people love it and check in on an hourly basis while others have shunned it due to its security issues and violations of user privacy. Many users fumble around with Facebook's ever-changing interface and many reject what Facebook has become: ad-ridden and spammy. Is there any hope on the horizon? If you're on Firefox, there are a few add-ons you can use to change the Facebook experience. Whether you want a drastic change or a slight tweak is up to you, depending on which add-ons you select to use. Of course there... Read the full article: Get Rid Of Facebook Annoyances With These 4 Great Firefox Add-Ons |
| Open Source Matters: 6 Source Code Search Engines You Can Use For Programming Projects Posted: 30 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT  The Open source movement is playing a remarkable role in pushing technology and making it available to all. The success of Linux is also an example how open source can translate into a successful business model. Open source is pretty much mainstream now and in the coming years, it could have a major footprint across cutting edge educational technology and aerospace (think DIY drones). Open source projects need all the help they can get. If not with funding, then with volunteers contributing to open source programming and free tools they can brandish. Search engines tuned with algorithms to find source... Read the full article: Open Source Matters: 6 Source Code Search Engines You Can Use For Programming Projects |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Did you know that in just 1 Internet minute, over 72 hours of videos is uploaded to YouTube; 15,000 songs are downloaded from iTunes; over 500 new websites are created; and Amazon makes about $83,000 in sales. The Internet is a bustling place and various different things can be happening at the same time. To break it all down, Qmee designed this straightforward infograph depicting the various activities performed online in a single minute. How do you spend most of your time online? Click to enlarge. Read the full article: The Internet In 60 Seconds |
| 5 Handheld Video Game Consoles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Posted: 30 Jul 2013 11:00 AM PDT  When you think about portable video game consoles, you probably think of the Nintendo DS, GameBoy, and other popular Nintendo consoles. This makes sense, as these are some of the most well-known consoles in the space. The 3DS is still the best selling console in many recent months, and with good reason, as it’s a fantastic device. However, do you know about some of the random, obscure consoles that came out back in the day and somewhat recently? Nintendo and Sony were not always the only game in town, it just happens that they are the ones to stick it... Read the full article: 5 Handheld Video Game Consoles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of |
| 2 Windows 8 Swype-Like Touch Keyboards Tested Posted: 30 Jul 2013 10:30 AM PDT  On more than one occasion, I’ve found myself attempting to drag my finger around the keyboard on my Windows 8 tablet, only to be disappointed when only a single letter is entered. After typing so much on my Android phone, I’ve become accustomed to the Swype-like interface on the keyboard. It’s simple, intuitive, and fast. So why can’t a Windows 8 tablet do that? Well, it can—sort of. While Microsoft doesn’t seem to have given developers full reign over creating custom keyboards for Windows 8 as Google has done with custom keyboards on Android, there are a couple limited options... Read the full article: 2 Windows 8 Swype-Like Touch Keyboards Tested |
| Stop For A Grammar Check: 4 Areas Where You Can Improve Your Spelling & Grammar Posted: 30 Jul 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Being a freelance writer or journalist isn’t easy, particularly if you write in a language that isn’t your mother tongue. Yet, many foreign speakers are tempted to write in English because it promises a greater audience and thus better opportunities to earn a living. The drawback is that we are constantly struggling with the details of the little devils in the language. Regardless of how long, how thorough, or how well you have studied and mastered a foreign language, you’re always at a disadvantage to a native speaker. In writing, the accent is easily hidden, but the written word reveals... Read the full article: Stop For A Grammar Check: 4 Areas Where You Can Improve Your Spelling & Grammar |
| 5 Ways To Grab Free Console Games Posted: 30 Jul 2013 09:20 AM PDT  PC gamers are spoiled for choice when it comes to free and inexpensive games, but those who enjoy consoles are not as lucky. There's less selection, and development is closed, so free content is rare indeed. Rare – but not entirely absent. Grabbing free games for a console requires more effort, and may force you to settle for titles that aren't exactly AAA. But if you're willing to spend some time, or you don't mind signing up for certain services, there is a modest selection of free console games available. Xbox Live And PlayStation Plus Yes, both Xbox Live and... Read the full article: 5 Ways To Grab Free Console Games |
| Stuff I Found On The Web – Excel Shortcuts, Teabag Ghosts, Crazy Texts & Free Coffee Posted: 30 Jul 2013 08:34 AM PDT  After a brief hiatus, “Stuff I Found On The Web” is back in business. Today for your viewing pleasure, we have Excel shortcuts, flying teabags, a crazy dude texting people, and a coffee machine that gives out free coffee when you yawn. Do you have any links you want to share? Then send them to me via Twitter and I will check them out. No naughty NSFW stuff though. God is watching. Excel Shortcuts & Functions If there is one Microsoft Office program which I absolutely detest, it’s Excel. I can never understand it or get it to work. I’m... Read the full article: Stuff I Found On The Web – Excel Shortcuts, Teabag Ghosts, Crazy Texts & Free Coffee |
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