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- Cool Websites and Tools – August 30th 2013 – Track Your Movements, Improve Your Grammar, & Tracking Your Budget
- ArtistX: The Linux Distribution Tailored For Any Artist, Whether Graphical or Musical
- Sick Of Yahoo? Move Your Tumblr Blog Into WordPress
- Worms 3: Finally, A Proper Worms Game For iPhone & iPad
- Caption Contest: Atomic Phone Charger
- How to Easily Root, Unroot and Unlock any Nexus Device
- 4 Hidden Gems From Sega’s Forgotten 32X Console
- 6 Great Tech Tips To Beat College On A Budget
- 5 More Productivity Apps for Your Mac-Based Home Office
- 10 Windows 8 Start Screen Hacks
- Wii Fit Trainer? Seriously? 4 Other Characters We Didn’t Ask For In Smash Bros
- Four Easy Sugru Recipes To Make Your Own Awesome Smartphone Case
- Make Your Own Temperature Controller with an Arduino
- How To Make Videos Your Friends Will Want To Share
- Sony Xperia Z Review and Giveaway
| Posted: 30 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including online craft classes, tracking your movements with an iOS app, a learning platform for improving grammar, extracting data from webpages, and an iOS app for tracking your budget. Read on below! The Amazings – Learning to knit with your grandma. Baking cakes with a favourite aunt. Spending long afternoon’s swapping stories and dropping stitches. Many of us learned to make, mend and master from our elders. The Amazings are here to keep this tradition going. They create online craft classes, each one the product of... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 30th 2013 – Track Your Movements, Improve Your Grammar, & Tracking Your Budget |
| ArtistX: The Linux Distribution Tailored For Any Artist, Whether Graphical or Musical Posted: 30 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT  There are custom Linux distributions that are made for everyone imaginable. Students, scientists, and even various artists can enjoy special Linux distributions made just for them. The joy of the flexibility Linux provides is that any person with the right skills can take an existing distribution and change whatever they want about it to release their own one. While there are a few distributions which make some major technical changes from the distribution they’re based off of, a majority of them are simple remixes — distributions that are technically identical to the one they’re based on, but they just include... Read the full article: ArtistX: The Linux Distribution Tailored For Any Artist, Whether Graphical or Musical |
| Sick Of Yahoo? Move Your Tumblr Blog Into WordPress Posted: 30 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT  Are you sick of Yahoo’s meddling with Tumblr blogs? Time to relocate to WordPress. Here’s how! Recently, Yahoo bought the up-and-coming blog platform, Tumblr. If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ll have noticed that this came with more than a few changes, such as the domain settings for blogs using a personal domain. Most notably, Tumblr seem to be trying to take a stand against pornography and blogs of a sexual nature, but also including LGBT support blogs in the process. Tumblr have removed the erotica category, filtered these tags to make sure these posts aren’t found easily,... Read the full article: Sick Of Yahoo? Move Your Tumblr Blog Into WordPress |
| Worms 3: Finally, A Proper Worms Game For iPhone & iPad Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Team 17 originally released Worms for the Amiga in 1995, and it didn’t take long before the world took note and the game was ported to the PC, PlayStation and even the GameBoy. Now, nearly two decades later, Team 17 are still releasing invertebrate-themed turn-based war games with the latest being iOS-exclusive Worms 3 ($4.99). The first Worms game designed entirely with the iPhone and iPod Touch in mind, it is by far the most complete mobile version yet and compromises on very little to bring strategists and masochists alike a pure Worms experience. Whether you remember masterpieces like Worms: Armageddon... Read the full article: Worms 3: Finally, A Proper Worms Game For iPhone & iPad |
| Caption Contest: Atomic Phone Charger Posted: 30 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT  I think we might have overdone it, Bill. Caption this image! What do you think happened here? Share your captions with us in the comments section, and the wittiest one will be selected to be awarded a coveted MakeUseOf t-shirt! The winner will be announced the following day. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Atomic Phone Charger |
| How to Easily Root, Unroot and Unlock any Nexus Device Posted: 30 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT  The great thing about the Nexus devices like the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 is that they’re easily upgradable, they’re free of any bloatware provided by vendors and carriers, and they’re made to be tinkered with. Google knows that nerds would want to get customize devices like that, so they don’t try to get in the way of such actions — the bootloader on Nexus devices is easily unlockable, which opens up a world of possibilities with the effort of a single command. Depending on your own needs from your Nexus device, there are a few ways of rooting, unrooting, and... Read the full article: How to Easily Root, Unroot and Unlock any Nexus Device |
| 4 Hidden Gems From Sega’s Forgotten 32X Console Posted: 30 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Everyone remembers the Sega Genesis (aka MegaDrive). If nothing else, you probably remember the slogan from the commercials – “Genesis does what Ninten-don’t.” What people don’t remember as often, and generally with good reason, is the 32 bit attachment called the 32X. This interested console was not actually a console at all, at least not in the traditional sense. Instead, it plugged into the cartridge slot of the existing Genesis and was unable to function on its own. Right off the bat, you can already tell that it was a terrible idea, but alas, Sega released it, and to say... Read the full article: 4 Hidden Gems From Sega’s Forgotten 32X Console |
| 6 Great Tech Tips To Beat College On A Budget Posted: 30 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT  There are some easy ways to get free textbooks, study more efficiently, and cut the time it takes to write a paper in half. I’m entering my final year of university in a few weeks. For the past three years I’ve seen my peers use sloppy research methods, spend hours worrying over their unpreparedness for an exam, and shell out major cash for textbooks. College is supposed to be fun, not four years of stress. Despite growing criticisms of the “value” of a degree, this generation has the best chance to make the most out of a course. Technology has... Read the full article: 6 Great Tech Tips To Beat College On A Budget |
| 5 More Productivity Apps for Your Mac-Based Home Office Posted: 30 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT  When your Mac is the hubbub of your home office, you want to outfit it with productivity tools that actually make you, well, productive, more efficient, and maybe a little faster at what you do. I introduced my first list of Mac productivity tools back in April, and in between that time, I’ve also written about powerful automation programs like Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, and BetterTouchTool. Today I will be highlighting another set of tools I regularly access. They each have a single purpose that makes them practical and easy to use for most Mac-based home office activities. All of them,... Read the full article: 5 More Productivity Apps for Your Mac-Based Home Office |
| 10 Windows 8 Start Screen Hacks Posted: 30 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Windows is moving towards a more locked-down direction with Windows 8 and its Start screen and “Modern” app environment. There’s no denying this — you can’t even set a custom Start screen background without installing a third-party utility. Luckily, Windows hasn’t completely shed its legacy of customizability, yet. There are many different hacks you can perform with the Start screen, although most of them should have been included with Windows 8 itself. Microsoft has always had urges to restrict users from customizing Windows, even in the past. That’s why, although a desktop-theme engine was introduced in Windows XP, you still... Read the full article: 10 Windows 8 Start Screen Hacks |
| Wii Fit Trainer? Seriously? 4 Other Characters We Didn’t Ask For In Smash Bros Posted: 30 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT  Dear Nintendo, We, your fans, haven’t bought the Wii U yet. It’s not because of the stupid name – though it would be hard to think of a worse one. Wii4u&me? WiiABC123? Wii McGee from Alpha Centuri 3? Wii U is dumber than all of those. Anyway, like I was saying: it’s not the name. And it’s not that you turned your controller into a tablet, or the low specs. There are some underrated Wii U features, sure, but the problem is you haven’t put out many games we really, really want. There’s a re-hash of 2009′s Super Mario Bros.... Read the full article: Wii Fit Trainer? Seriously? 4 Other Characters We Didn’t Ask For In Smash Bros |
| Four Easy Sugru Recipes To Make Your Own Awesome Smartphone Case Posted: 30 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT  Do you own an expensive phone, gadget or camera and can’t find a case? That’s a common problem nowadays with the huge variety of gizmos on the market. Fortunately, you can craft your own protective gear from relatively inexpensive and simple materials. I found four design styles for creating your own case using Sugru, a Flubber-like substance. The four styles: Adding a full bumper, bumper nubs, zebra stripes and an artistic design. Of the four, I went with using a full bumper – this turned out to be a mistake. And my craft skills suck. The Materials You don’t have... Read the full article: Four Easy Sugru Recipes To Make Your Own Awesome Smartphone Case |
| Make Your Own Temperature Controller with an Arduino Posted: 30 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT  Raise the perfect bread, brew beautiful beer, and rear happy chicks with an Arduino temperature controller. If you live in a less than reliable climate like England, directions that tell you to keep something at a set temperature aren’t particularly helpful – we don’t have air conditioners, and raising the thermostat for the whole house isn’t practical for just making a loaf of bread. Even kept inside, chicks can die if the temperature drops at night; and getting them to hatch in the first place has an even stricter temperature range. But I need my bread, and the chicks need... Read the full article: Make Your Own Temperature Controller with an Arduino |
| How To Make Videos Your Friends Will Want To Share Posted: 30 Aug 2013 06:00 AM PDT  What if you created the next viral video? Most of time, videos go viral without ever intending to do so. I mean, check this out: a baby talks into a camera and it gets over 500 million views. Who would have ever guessed something like that would garner so much attention? This seems to be true for most of the popular viral videos. Now, let's say you want to create videos that spread like wildfire and are seen by millions. Where do you start? Before we begin, you should instill one thing into your mind: virality is never guaranteed. I’m... Read the full article: How To Make Videos Your Friends Will Want To Share |
| Sony Xperia Z Review and Giveaway Posted: 30 Aug 2013 05:20 AM PDT  This post is about a surprise; it’s about a comeback, and about how a determined company can listen, learn, and make something beautiful once again. It’s about the Sony Xperia Z, a premium, powerful, and waterproof Android smartphone that made me rethink what’s important to me about a phone. And if I sound enamored, well, you can read on to see what made a longtime Samsung user ditch the South Korean powerhouse for a Japanese giant. Sony’s flagship device, the Xperia Z currently retails for $532, directly undercutting Samsung’s terrific Galaxy S4 by over $90. It’s also significantly cheaper than... Read the full article: Sony Xperia Z Review and Giveaway |
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