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- Cool Websites and Tools [July 29th 2013]
- 3 More Awesome Google Services That You Probably Never Knew Existed
- CoffeeScript Is JavaScript Without The Headaches
- 6 Places To Create Gorgeous Twitter Cover Images For A Head-Turning Profile
- How To Check New & Used Devices For Problems Using Simple Tips & Software
- Get Creative And Make Your Own Maps With Custom Layers On The New Google Maps
- How Can I Override Silent Mode With a Text Message? [Android]
- To The Manner Born: Essential Technology Etiquette Tips For Our Digital Age
- 6 LEGO-Tastic Brickfilm Channels To Follow On YouTube [Stuff to Watch]
- Airfoil Adds Extended AirPlay Functionality To Mac and PC
- Want To Stand Out On Instagram? Edit Your Photos With The Amazing Handy Photo
- Your Favourite Characters Re-imagined As Epic Illustrations
- How the New iWork for iCloud Works With Your Apple Devices
- 7 Fun Uses For Twitter You Haven’t Figured Out Yet
- Arch Linux: Letting You Build Your Linux System From Scratch
| Cool Websites and Tools [July 29th 2013] Posted: 30 Jul 2013 12:27 AM 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. Errplane – If you are a web developer, you will know how important it is that your web service/web app is working with optimal performance, with no errors, delays or downtime. Usually, to track different performance metrics of your web app you will have to use different online services like Pingdom, New Relic and others. Now you can view all... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools [July 29th 2013] |
| 3 More Awesome Google Services That You Probably Never Knew Existed Posted: 29 Jul 2013 07:30 PM PDT  Though it’s where its fame and fortune first came from, Google has advanced far beyond just being the world’s most popular search engine. You and I both know that Google plays host to many amazing services that we use on an everyday basis. Gmail is a great example. I have Gmail. I bet you too have Gmail! How about the late, great Google Reader? That was a service that so many of us would already love to have back. Why Google, why? These are just two examples, and you’d be pretty surprised to know how many other goodies Google has... Read the full article: 3 More Awesome Google Services That You Probably Never Knew Existed |
| CoffeeScript Is JavaScript Without The Headaches Posted: 29 Jul 2013 07:00 PM PDT  I’ve never really liked writing JavaScript all that much. From the day I wrote my first line using it, I’ve always resented that whatever I write in it always ends up looking like a Jackson Pollock painting. Blegh. Yep. Despite its power and flexibility, JavaScript is by no means a pretty language. It takes verbosity to an extreme and has so many quirks and idiosyncrasies, even the most famous book about the JavaScript programming language nods to its inherent nastiness with its title ‘JavaScript: The Good Parts’. A Better JavaScript It doesn’t have to be this way though. JavaScript has... Read the full article: CoffeeScript Is JavaScript Without The Headaches |
| 6 Places To Create Gorgeous Twitter Cover Images For A Head-Turning Profile Posted: 29 Jul 2013 06:30 PM PDT  Your Twitter header image is an important part of your social media identity, but as always, it’s just one more thing to decide on. After all, your profile picture was hard enough, right? Fortunately for you, there are quite a few sites out there on the Internet available for you to find fantastic looking Twitter header images for your personal usage and for free. Below are six of these wonderful sites, and each one of them brings something just a little special to the table. Try ‘em out, see which ones you like, and take one of their offerings for a spin. Furthermore, these... Read the full article: 6 Places To Create Gorgeous Twitter Cover Images For A Head-Turning Profile |
| How To Check New & Used Devices For Problems Using Simple Tips & Software Posted: 29 Jul 2013 05:30 PM PDT  Are you thinking of purchasing a new or used smartphone or computer? This new device might suffer from a fault or defect. Before you take the plunge, there's a variety of stress-tests and diagnostics you should perform. While you absolutely must test used electronics, even brand new smartphones and computers can suffer from defects that you may not notice until after a 30-day return policy expires. To this end, testing all newly acquired equipment remains extremely important. The basic idea of "stress-testing" your devices is to force the CPU to work as hard as possible – if any internal component... Read the full article: How To Check New & Used Devices For Problems Using Simple Tips & Software |
| Get Creative And Make Your Own Maps With Custom Layers On The New Google Maps Posted: 29 Jul 2013 05:00 PM PDT  With Google unveiling a completely revamped Maps, now available to all, creating your own maps has become easier than ever. You can create private and public maps, share the maps with specific individuals, add descriptions to locations, and choose from several map styles and appearances. The new Google Maps features makes map creation easier than ever, and with Google’s solid sharing settings, you have complete control over who sees the maps, who can add items to the maps, or if you prefer, you can simply keep the maps completely private. Getting Started After launching Google Maps, click on the settings... Read the full article: Get Creative And Make Your Own Maps With Custom Layers On The New Google Maps |
| How Can I Override Silent Mode With a Text Message? [Android] Posted: 29 Jul 2013 04:30 PM PDT  People set their phones to silent or vibrate mode when in meetings, lectures, theaters, or anywhere else where it would be rude if the phone made noise. But what if there’s an emergency and someone needs to quickly get in touch with you? We’ll show you how to have your Android phone override silent mode and play an alert when a text message containing something like “Emergency” or “SOS” comes through. There are multiple ways to do this and we’ll cover two. You can easily use a free app created just for this purpose or take the geekier route and... Read the full article: How Can I Override Silent Mode With a Text Message? [Android] |
| To The Manner Born: Essential Technology Etiquette Tips For Our Digital Age Posted: 29 Jul 2013 04:00 PM PDT  Technology impacts society in many ways — some of which are obvious and others more subtle — and those changes often call for changes in behavior. Etiquette is an important social construct that we tend to forget or ignore, but I would argue that etiquette has never been more important than now. One misstep could permanently damage or fracture your relationship with another. Technology etiquette could easily fall under the topic of "common sense" yet there are many who remain ignorant — and that's not a judgment against those who don't know any better. For a long while, I never... Read the full article: To The Manner Born: Essential Technology Etiquette Tips For Our Digital Age |
| 6 LEGO-Tastic Brickfilm Channels To Follow On YouTube [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 29 Jul 2013 03:30 PM PDT  Brickfilm – the art of bringing plastic building blocks to life, for the purpose of video entertainment. The Brickfilm scene is huge online, having started way back in the mid-80s when actual film was required. These days brickfilmers benefit from advancements in digital SLRs, stop-motion techniques and the endless range of LEGO on offer. If you’ve not encountered much in the way of stop-motion animation and plastic building blocks, be prepared for a pleasant surprise. The production values, time, effort and scale of some productions is mind-boggling. Some people even go as far as recreating some of their favorite movie... Read the full article: 6 LEGO-Tastic Brickfilm Channels To Follow On YouTube [Stuff to Watch] |
| Airfoil Adds Extended AirPlay Functionality To Mac and PC Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT  AirPlay is Apple’s way of wirelessly streaming audio and video to supported devices on your local network. If you have one of Apple’s more recent Airport base stations, an Apple TV or a Boxee box at home, you should already be able to stream music from your computer to your entertainment system, wirelessly. Originally, only iTunes was outfitted with AirPlay capabilities. Later, the option was added for you to route all system audio to an AirPlay device, like an audio counterpart to AirPlay screen mirroring. These AirPlay devices should simply show up in your sound output settings, though Apple has made... Read the full article: Airfoil Adds Extended AirPlay Functionality To Mac and PC |
| Want To Stand Out On Instagram? Edit Your Photos With The Amazing Handy Photo Posted: 29 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT  There’s one thing to be said for Instagram: it got us all into a photo-editing craze. Not that editing photos is anything new, but with Instagram in the picture, everyone wants to be editing photos on their smartphones, and if possible, not using those same old Instagram filters everyone else does. Editing photos on your smartphone is possible, but it’s not always easy. Many apps are too complicated and cumbersome, (e.g., Photoshop Express), some are good but a bit expensive (e.g., the $5 Photoshop Touch) and others, as would happen in a store full of apps, are just not up... Read the full article: Want To Stand Out On Instagram? Edit Your Photos With The Amazing Handy Photo |
| Your Favourite Characters Re-imagined As Epic Illustrations Posted: 29 Jul 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Calvin and Hobbes. Mario and Luigi. Sonic the Hedgehog. Popeye. If you’re a geek, I’m pretty sure just by reading those words, you’d be flooded by fond memories of your favourite comic, cartoon and video games. Designer and illustrator Coran Kizer Stone re-imagined some of the most loved characters into a series of epic illustrations. Read the full article: Your Favourite Characters Re-imagined As Epic Illustrations |
| How the New iWork for iCloud Works With Your Apple Devices Posted: 29 Jul 2013 12:00 PM PDT  Back in June, during its WWDC conference, Apple released the beta version of its iWork for iCloud applications to registered developers, but now the online programs are slowly being released to general iCloud members. iWork for iCloud is a suite of online office applications (consisting of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers) that sync with the Mac and iOS versions of the programs. The online versions of iWork mirror most of the main features of the desktop versions, and users will be able to import and edit Word files online as well. The final version of iWork for iCloud will likely be... Read the full article: How the New iWork for iCloud Works With Your Apple Devices |
| 7 Fun Uses For Twitter You Haven’t Figured Out Yet Posted: 29 Jul 2013 11:00 AM PDT  It isn’t difficult to get addicted to Twitter. After all, it hardly takes an effort to type in 140 characters. In those itsy-bitsy lines lies a great power, to either change the world with a tweet, or change your own world with a bit of Twitter-aided personal development. There are the obvious uses of Twitter we keep harping on, but isn’t it always the uncommon and unnoticed uses of social media that piques our interest? The list of creative uses of Twitter is a mile-long. With half a billion users, you would expect a percentage of the tweeples to find... Read the full article: 7 Fun Uses For Twitter You Haven’t Figured Out Yet |
| Arch Linux: Letting You Build Your Linux System From Scratch Posted: 29 Jul 2013 09:20 AM PDT  For Linux power users, it’s highly desirable to be able to completely customize your system. Sometimes, that can be best achieved from the start — by piecing together the components that you’d like to include on your system. This way, as there are usually multiple programs that achieve the same result in different manners, you can pick those applications which you’re most fond of. Having to piece together can also let you take a deeper look at the system for maximum control. Most common desktop distributions don’t make this high level of customization very possible (as it’s not ideal and... Read the full article: Arch Linux: Letting You Build Your Linux System From Scratch |
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