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Cool Websites and Tools [July 27th 2013]

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 09:35 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.   OX for Chrome – Most of us do not have the time to check out the articles that interest us in a single sitting. This is where bookmarks come into play. However we do not always remember the webpages and articles that we have bookmarked. OX for Chrome is a nifty tool that reminds you of these bookmarks whenever you...

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Who Is Gabe Newell And Why Do Gamers Care?

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 07:30 PM PDT

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In every area of technology, we have figureheads. For the desktop, laptop, and now even smartphones, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs should both be names that ring bells. For our internet and social networking, someone like Mark Zuckerburg is viewed as the key example. For many years now, and especially for those of us with personal computers, gaming has been represented very well by a man named Gabe Newell. Gabe Newell isn’t the genius behind the Xbox, PlayStation, or any Nintendo consoles. Gabe Newell isn’t behind any of the games in the Call of Duty franchise. What Gabe always has...

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A Quick Tour Of The Leap Motion Touchless Input Device

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 01:30 PM PDT

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Novelty fades quickly. While we have become used to touch screens, the latest fad are touch-less interfaces. Game consoles have long embraced natural interaction and even your webcam can detect motion and gestures to some degree. Right now the first application driven gesture recognition devices for personal computers are hitting the market, most notably the Leap Motion. The Leap Motion Controller is a novel user interface device for Windows and Mac. It lets you control your computer through finger gestures painted into the air above the small device. Leap Motion promises to make interaction with the computer and software more...

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop: Better Than Red Hat?

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 11:30 AM PDT

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Recently, I took a closer look at Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or “RHEL”, to see how good of an enterprise desktop operating system it really is. I found that it’s a top quality product, and Fedora users would be extremely familiar with it (no surprise there). However, Red Hat isn’t the only company in the Linux enterprise desktop market — there’s also SUSE. While aiming towards the same goals, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, or “SLED” which costs $120 for a one-year subscription, and offers different technologies and software to get the job done. But just what can SLED offer, and...

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Speed Up Social Time With These Social Media Shortcuts

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 09:20 AM PDT

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Did you know that if you pressed Alt + 1 while browsing Facebook, you’d be brought to your homepage? Alt + 2 brings you to your profile page. Knowing these keyboard shortcuts for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google Plus can save you a tremendous amount of time. And learning them couldn’t be easier with this helpful infograph by Quintly. Did you spot any missing shortcuts?

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