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Cool Websites and Tools [July 9th 2013]

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 09:36 PM PDT

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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.   Calm – Whether you want to relax because you are going to bed or because [...]

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Which Dead Website Do You Miss The Most? [You Told Us]

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 07:30 PM PDT

The Web is constantly evolving. You can see these changes occurring gradually by charting how your favorite websites alter in look, feel, and even focus over the course of several years. Or you can plug a domain into the Wayback Machine and see the different stages of evolution in an instant. Either way, the Web is constantly evolving.

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9 Ways To Send Video Messages

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 06:30 PM PDT

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Voicemails, emails, and texts are out when you can't talk to someone right away and need to leave a message. Welcome to the future, guys. We have video messages now. (Okay, maybe emails and texts have their place, but voicemails don't. Voicemails suck. Don't use voicemails.) Today, I'm going to tell you just how exactly you can create video messages without much effort on your part.

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How Video Games Would Look In Real Life

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 05:30 PM PDT

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Video games have become infinitely more realistic over the decades, but they still offer a simple, stylized version of the real world we live in. These foibles often go unnoticed by gamers, but when you bring a video game into the real world the shortcuts and oddities are revealed in glaring detail. What follows is a collection of videos showing how certain games would look when played in the real world. Some are stutteringly short, others are effortlessly epic. Some will make you laugh, others will make you laugh even harder. All will make you glad real life doesn't play out like most video games.

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Discover New Music & Support The Artists Who Make It With Earbits Radio

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 04:30 PM PDT

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What do you do when you feel like new music? If you like popular music, the radio is still a great place to turn to. Services like Twitter #music, Band of the Day or Exfm are also great ways to find new music on the go. If, however, you're craving some fresh tunes from artists you've never heard of before, and also want to support them without breaking your pocket, you need to check out Earbits, and especially Earbits for Android (iPhone coming soon).

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Give Your Facebook Page A Makeover [Weekly Facebook Tips]

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 03:30 PM PDT

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Is this you? You made a Facebook page for your association, made it look alright, set up a few things, got a few fans and then left the page lying around dormant. Sound familiar? Probably. It's just so easy to get distracted with the rest of life. Things like Facebook pages can easily get left to go quite dusty.

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Stuck In A Job You Hate? Escape From The Cubicles & Figure Out The Best Job For Yourself

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT

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Millions of workers pursue career changes every year. It's not a foreign concept by any means. What's scary about making a career change, then, is the fear that you may end up replacing your old, crummy job with a new job that's equally, or more, crummy. What's even scarier is that only you know what the best job for you will be. That's a lot of pressure to handle on your own.

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10 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know Wolfram Alpha Could Do

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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I continue to be amazed by Wolfram Alpha and the way it crunches numbers around openly available data. The result – it shows us the world in a far more inter-connected and interesting way. It would seem Wolfram Alpha can do anything. Well, it hasn't given me the secret of happiness yet, but yes, it can do some surprising things. Let's look at ten.

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How Thieves Use Social Media To Rob You

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 12:30 PM PDT

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Thinking of tweeting about an upcoming holiday? Don't. Thinking of sharing a photo of your latest grand purchase? Don't. Thinking of checking in at the airport before your vacation? Don't. Our incessant need to share more personal information than ever before have drawn burglars to using social media to help them pick their next target.

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3 Interesting Shopping Websites Offering Free International Shipping

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 12:00 PM PDT

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For international shoppers, shipping is often a major pain: Items can be much cheaper on the Web than in your country, but once you factor in the shipping, so-called "killer" deals start looking much less attractive. That's the key attraction behind websites that offer free international delivery.

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Turn Your iPhone into a Lytro Camera with FocusTwist

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 11:30 AM PDT

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When the Lytro camera was announced it sounded like it was either the best thing since sliced bread, or too good to be true. If you can afford it, why wouldn't you want to own a camera that allows you refocus the image long after you've taken it? At $399 for the 8GB model, it's not necessarily something that all of us can afford. That's why we were pretty excited to find out about FocusTwist, the $1.99 iPhone app claims to be able to do what a $400 camera can do.

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5 Awesome iOS Games Shown Off At E3 2013

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 11:00 AM PDT

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Most of E3 this year was dedicated to the consoles. After all, it's not everyday that Microsoft and Sony go all out and show off next generation hardware for the first time. While everyone was drooling over the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, the rest of the video game industry did not stop moving forward. Sadly, people are not talking about the other games shown at the conference as much as they should. Plenty of quality iOS titles were on display at this year's E3, as long as you knew where to look.

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How To Get An Education For Free Using Only Your Android Phone Or Tablet

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 10:30 AM PDT

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Thanks to the Internet, a good education is more accessible than ever, and it doesn't have to empty your pockets. Many good-willed organizations out there release educational material for free, and some of it is actually very interesting and entertaining. The real question is, what is the best way to view this content? If you're using Android, here are three great options.

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Great Time Saving Tips For Managing Email in Windows 8

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 10:00 AM PDT

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Depending on the volume of messages you need to process, managing emails can be a tedious task. With the Windows 8 Mail app, Microsoft introduced an application that makes this task very convenient. The interface is visually pleasing, simplistic, intuitive, and yet the app is surprisingly comprehensive. For those of you using Windows 8 and looking for an application to manage multiple email accounts, give the native Mail app a try and consider the following tips&tricks to save time wile managing your emails.

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Kickstarter Spotlight: Pocket Spacecraft

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 09:20 AM PDT

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You may have dreamed of launching your own spacecraft, but felt it was solidly a dream, not something you'd ever be able to do. Most of us aren't rocket scientists, or scientists of any stripe, so we can't do much expect look at the stars and wonder. Rockets and satellites cost millions of dollars – far more than most individuals can afford. But is this how space exploration must work? One project on Kickstarter, Pocket Spacecraft, thinks the answer is a definitive "no."

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