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- Cool Websites and Tools [July 24th 2013]
- Would You Pay To Use Facebook? [We Ask You]
- Shop From Your Desktop On eBay Now As It Rides Into More U.S. Cities [Updates]
- Just What Should You Be Paying For A Used iPhone?
- The Best Way to Manage Your Files in Android: Dual-Pane File Managers
- 4 Fantastic Video Games Based On Dungeons And Dragons
- Put Your iPhone To Work With IFTTT
- How To Diagnose And Fix A Dead Hard Drive To Recover Data
- 6 Gorgeous, Minimalistic Android Games You’ll Keep Coming Back To
- Finally Get Two Functional Desktops With Actual Multiple Monitors
- Buffer Adds Its Most Surprising Feature To Date: Custom Scheduling [Updates]
- Everything You Need To Know About Passwords
- 5 Beloved & Acclaimed Games That Are Incredibly Overrated
- Learn Today & Earn Tomorrow: 8 Hobbies The Web Can Help You Start For Fun
- How A Computer Virus Spreads Online, And What You Can Do To Stop It
| Cool Websites and Tools [July 24th 2013] Posted: 24 Jul 2013 09:28 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. Add Your Website Here! 4sync – Most of us use multiple devices to store and access our files – the desktop PC at work, the laptop at home and a tablet or smartphone on the go. And nowadays it is more convenient to store and access files from the cloud rather than locally. If you are using cloud storage services... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools [July 24th 2013] |
| Would You Pay To Use Facebook? [We Ask You] Posted: 24 Jul 2013 08:30 PM PDT  Facebook is, at the present time, completely free to use. Anyone can sign up for the social network, create a profile, and connect with other people. The social network does make money though, mainly from the adverts on Facebook. I spend so much time on the Web I don’t notice adverts any more, but some people bitterly resent their presence. Others, such as Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, think there are better business models for those willing to experiment. In a recent editorial he suggested Facebook start charging $10 per month for an ad-free version of the site. “If 10% percent... Read the full article: Would You Pay To Use Facebook? [We Ask You] |
| Shop From Your Desktop On eBay Now As It Rides Into More U.S. Cities [Updates] Posted: 24 Jul 2013 08:00 PM PDT  eBay is shifting gears with an initiative to cover more of the U.S. with its same day delivery service, eBay Now. Along with its expansion to new cities, eBay itself is expanding to new platforms from its hitherto web-based and mobile presence. eBay now allows you to place orders right from your desktop or laptop with a launch of the PC version of eBay Now. Desktop users can now shop for products from stores like Macy's, Home Depot and Target right from the desktop and place orders to have them delivered at their doorsteps within the hour. eBay Now covers... Read the full article: Shop From Your Desktop On eBay Now As It Rides Into More U.S. Cities [Updates] |
| Just What Should You Be Paying For A Used iPhone? Posted: 24 Jul 2013 07:30 PM PDT  Maybe you’re still using that old flip-thing that has only survived by some miracle. Perhaps you’re an Android kind of guy and you’ve finally decided to come to the light. Whatever your reason, you want an iPhone. We understand you’re strapped for cash, though. After all, this is an Apple product, and Apple products are worth at least 5000% more than all three human basic needs combined, right? MakeUseOf has decided to put together a little buyer’s guide for cashing in on a recycled iPhone. The main question we are trying to answer is: how much should you be paying?... Read the full article: Just What Should You Be Paying For A Used iPhone? |
| The Best Way to Manage Your Files in Android: Dual-Pane File Managers Posted: 24 Jul 2013 07:00 PM PDT  Do you occasionally need to move and organize files in Android? For this purpose, Android’s conventional methods of organizing files sucks. Don’t get me wrong – ES File Explorer provides one of the best file management tools, but when you need to move files from one directory into anther, it can feel confusing and awkward. That’s because tiny cell phone screens aren’t designed with file manipulation in mind. Fortunately, “two-pane” file managers can make moving files around a snap. Like the name suggests, a dual-pane manager allows the user to open up two separate folders simultaneously and copy from one... Read the full article: The Best Way to Manage Your Files in Android: Dual-Pane File Managers |
| 4 Fantastic Video Games Based On Dungeons And Dragons Posted: 24 Jul 2013 06:30 PM PDT  If I mentioned tabletop RPGs to you, what is the first one that pops into your head? If I had to guess, I would assume you are thinking of Dungeons and Dragons. Sure, some people might think of Warhammer or Shadowrun, but for most outside of the tabletop space, Dungeons and Dragons is the first game they think of. In fact, for many people, it might even be the only game in the genre they know at all. As with most popular things, there are plenty of video games out there based on the Dungeons and Dragon universe. Some are... Read the full article: 4 Fantastic Video Games Based On Dungeons And Dragons |
| Put Your iPhone To Work With IFTTT Posted: 24 Jul 2013 05:30 PM PDT  IFTTT is an acronym for “If This, Then That” and it’s pronounced like the latter part of the word “gift”. The service promises to put the web to work for you, using a system of triggers and actions to automate a huge range of actions. Finally, IFTTT has released an iPhone app along with some iOS-only channels. The iPhone app marks the first mobile outing for the platform, a result of our increasing eagerness to be able to control everything using our phones. Look out for some specialised IFTTT iPhone recipes on MakeUseOf later this week, today we’ll take a... Read the full article: Put Your iPhone To Work With IFTTT |
| How To Diagnose And Fix A Dead Hard Drive To Recover Data Posted: 24 Jul 2013 04:30 PM PDT  Several years ago, I experienced a hard drive failure. I was at work when my laptop suddenly started to act particularly strange. First, I thought it was because I had too many windows open and the RAM was full, but when the problems persisted after a reboot, I knew it was more than that. I immediately started to back up recent files. About half an hour later, the hard drive failed audibly and the laptop wouldn’t boot anymore. Thank God I had backups! Except that I didn’t have backups of everything. Just weeks earlier my backup drive had reached capacity.... Read the full article: How To Diagnose And Fix A Dead Hard Drive To Recover Data |
| 6 Gorgeous, Minimalistic Android Games You’ll Keep Coming Back To Posted: 24 Jul 2013 04:00 PM PDT  There is no better design for smartphones and mobile devices than minimalism. The medium’s very nature requires limitations on screen space and power usage, so you really get the most bang-for-your-buck with modern designs – especially for mobile gaming. If you want cutting-edge graphics, look to the console wars. But for Android games? I look to minimalism. The great thing about minimalism is that it’s fundamentally built on the principles of simplicity. Everything is reduced to its most core components, and when that’s applied to both gameplay and interface, you end up with games that are easy to play and... Read the full article: 6 Gorgeous, Minimalistic Android Games You’ll Keep Coming Back To |
| Finally Get Two Functional Desktops With Actual Multiple Monitors Posted: 24 Jul 2013 03:30 PM PDT  Having two monitors is one of those things that the first time you try it, you’ll never go back. There are lots of benefits to having two monitors to work with, but those benefits multiply even further when you use software like Actual Multiple Monitors. A while back, I went through the process of extending your laptop with two external monitors, which is fantastic. However, while two monitors give you double the workspace and boost productivity, utilizing two monitors has never been perfect. Sometimes the background or screensaver just doesn’t quite work right – for example, it’ll work on the... Read the full article: Finally Get Two Functional Desktops With Actual Multiple Monitors |
| Buffer Adds Its Most Surprising Feature To Date: Custom Scheduling [Updates] Posted: 24 Jul 2013 03:00 PM PDT  Popular social scheduler Buffer has added the one feature you (and they) never thought they’d add: custom scheduling. That’s right, from now on, Buffer users who don’t wish to make use of Buffer’s algorithm of automatic scheduling — or buffering — can set up their own dates and times for tweets and other updates to go out. This is not merely a revolutionary feature for users, it’s a controversial one for Buffer itself. “We attribute our rapid growth to 850,000 users and over $1.5m in annual revenue to the fact that we didn’t build Custom Scheduling for two and a... Read the full article: Buffer Adds Its Most Surprising Feature To Date: Custom Scheduling [Updates] |
| Everything You Need To Know About Passwords Posted: 24 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT  Passwords are important and most people don’t know enough about them. How do you choose a strong password, use a unique password everywhere, and remember them all? How do you secure your accounts so you’re safe even if someone discovers your password? How do you protect your files and operating system — and what if you ever lose a password? We’ve covered all this and more over the years. Be sure to read our password management guide for an in-depth overview to everything from choosing strong passwords to picking a password management technique and setting up two-factor authentication. How to... Read the full article: Everything You Need To Know About Passwords |
| 5 Beloved & Acclaimed Games That Are Incredibly Overrated Posted: 24 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT  We may all belong to the same species, but each of us is a unique individual. This means we have our own likes and dislikes, our own tastes in music, movies, and clothes, and our own idea of what is good and what is bad. Reviewing something, whether it’s hardware, software, art, or an experience, is a deceptively tricky thing to do. You have to try and put aside personal biases and focus on the actual positives and negatives of that thing. Even if you manage to do this successfully, there will always be someone out there who disagrees with... Read the full article: 5 Beloved & Acclaimed Games That Are Incredibly Overrated |
| Learn Today & Earn Tomorrow: 8 Hobbies The Web Can Help You Start For Fun Posted: 24 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT  It infuriates me when someone says they’re bored. We live in an interconnected world with the largest database of pretty much all of humanity’s knowledge at our fingertips — it is quite, quite impossible to ever be bored. You can learn literally anything on the Internet — and one of those might just go on to pay your bills someday. Sharpening your skills online is an open door to improving the quality of your life. You could be surprised at how the Internet could help you shallow out the learning curve once you decide to start with and learn about... Read the full article: Learn Today & Earn Tomorrow: 8 Hobbies The Web Can Help You Start For Fun |
| How A Computer Virus Spreads Online, And What You Can Do To Stop It Posted: 24 Jul 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Viruses are tricky. They exploit your computer’s every possible vulnerability; and if there are none, they’ll wait until you make a mistake — by opening an attachment you’re not supposed to or clicking on a malicious link — then they leap at the chance to harm your PC, or worse, infect others. Ignore the fact that this infograph was created by the team at Norton 360 Online. It’s still very solid and useful advice that you should share with everyone you know. And guess what? We were one of the quoted sources — how cool is that? Image credit: Shutterstock Read the full article: How A Computer Virus Spreads Online, And What You Can Do To Stop It |
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