14 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites and Tools – August 2nd – No Excuses, Making Home Movies & Encrypting Cloud Documents
• How To Embed YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, And Google Maps Responsively
• Get More Organized and Productive With BusyCal for Mac
• The Final Showdown: Google+ vs. Facebook, Which One Is REALLY The Best?
• Amazing Games You Can Play on the Raspberry Pi without Emulation
• 5 Tips To Research A Company Before You Sit Down For A Job Interview
• Managing Notifications in Windows 8
• Automatically Bundle Your Browsing History With cottonTracks For Chrome
• Kids: Past Vs. Internet Generation
• 3 Bitcoin Alternatives Tested & Compared: Litecoin, Feathercoin, And Terracoin
• Keep An Eye On Everything with Panic StatusBoard for iPad
• 6 Best Netvibes Widgets For Bloggers And Journalists
• 5 Games You Can Play For Over 100 Hours – That’s Value!
• Flipboard Now Offers Web Based Magazines [Updates]

Cool Websites and Tools – August 2nd – No Excuses, Making Home Movies & Encrypting Cloud Documents Posted: 02 Aug 2013 09:31 PM PDT Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including learning a new skill, making home movies, connecting with like-minded music fans, remotely saving computer files to your cloud account and encrypting your cloud documents so the government can’t read them. Read on below! No Excuse List – It’s very easy to procrastinate and find excuses for not doing something. So sometimes it’s good to have someone give you the motivation you need and the resources required to stop you from making excuses about why it can’t be done. Enter the No Excuse List, an... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 2nd – No Excuses, Making Home Movies & Encrypting Cloud Documents

How To Embed YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, And Google Maps Responsively Posted: 02 Aug 2013 08:00 PM PDT One of the biggest buzzwords in the online design world in the past two or three years has to be ‘Responsive.’ With the advent of browsing on everything from a 4 inch smartphone screen to a 27 inch display, it can be difficult to make sure that your website or blog looks good no matter what. That’s why a responsive design is essential because it can automatically detect what device you’re using to access the site, and adjust it to fit the size of your screen. While you can design your entire website to be responsive, when you’re embedding external... Read the full article: How To Embed YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, And Google Maps Responsively

Get More Organized and Productive With BusyCal for Mac Posted: 02 Aug 2013 05:30 PM PDT The OS X Calendar (formerly iCal) has been a stable application ever since the operating system was released. Many Mac users were not been too happy with the latest design of replacement app Calendar, though the beta release of the OS X Mavericks version of Calendar includes several updates and a redesign of the application. Many other Mac users have turned to an award winning third-party calendar called BusyCal ($29.99). This powerful productivity tool contains most all the features found in Calendar, but it also includes unique features like customizable calendar views, scrolling month and week views, event icons, live weather feeds and... Read the full article: Get More Organized and Productive With BusyCal for Mac

The Final Showdown: Google+ vs. Facebook, Which One Is REALLY The Best? Posted: 02 Aug 2013 04:30 PM PDT It’s an age old dispute (well, two years old, anyway): which is better, Facebook or Google+? Even here at MakeUseOf, we can’t quite agree. While my colleague Erez stated 18 months ago that Google+ will take over Facebook in two years (time’s almost up!), I had my doubts. When it comes to social networks, especially big ones like Facebook and Google+, we all have our opinions. Some think Facebook is better due to its larger user base. Others think Google+ is better because of its slicker interface, or because it’s, well, owned by Google, which is considered by many less... Read the full article: The Final Showdown: Google+ vs. Facebook, Which One Is REALLY The Best?

Amazing Games You Can Play on the Raspberry Pi without Emulation Posted: 02 Aug 2013 03:30 PM PDT I'm a little obsessed by my Raspberry Pi, and have spent hours of the past 12 months finding new ways of using it. So much so, in fact, that I'm about to take receipt of a second device. However, I'm also obsessed by a particular game: Civilization by Sid Meier. This one game (and its various sequels/updates) has eaten up more time in my life than nights out, and it never fails to enthuse. You can probably see where I'm going with this, but I'll spell it out just in case. A few nights ago I decided that rather than... Read the full article: Amazing Games You Can Play on the Raspberry Pi without Emulation

5 Tips To Research A Company Before You Sit Down For A Job Interview Posted: 02 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT If you’re looking for a job, the interview aspect is probably the most nerve-wracking aspect of the search. Bombing an interview means losing out on an opportunity that was within your grasp but slipped through your fingers at the last moment. And while most people focus on dressing well and being charismatic, the importance of pre-interview research is often overlooked. Companies aren’t just looking for another grunt worker to add to their team – they want someone who’s excited, motivated, and eager to contribute to said company’s mission. You aren’t the only one interviewing, so if it comes down to... Read the full article: 5 Tips To Research A Company Before You Sit Down For A Job Interview

Managing Notifications in Windows 8 Posted: 02 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT Windows 8′s new app platform provides an integrated notification system for Modern apps. Windows 8-style apps can use several different types of notifications — traditional toast notifications, lock screen notifications, and live tiles. All of these can be managed, whether you want to disable an app’s notifications, allow notifications only for certain email accounts, or temporarily silence notifications so they don’t bother you. Unfortunately, Windows 8 doesn’t include a notification center that allows you to view a history of your notifications in one place. Windows 8′s pop-up notifications are much more transient, while its live tiles and lock-screen apps display... Read the full article: Managing Notifications in Windows 8

Automatically Bundle Your Browsing History With cottonTracks For Chrome Posted: 02 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT Are you sick of trawling through your browsing history to find that one article you saw last week and suddenly wanted to send to someone? Or have you been researching a particular topic only to wonder which of the many pages you viewed was the one you want to take another look at? Or do you just love seeing intuitive apps in action and want to see what this is about? Right, then cottonTracks is going to blow your socks off. cottonTracks is the latest and greatest Chrome extension for organising your browsing history. It automatically aggregates the sites you’ve... Read the full article: Automatically Bundle Your Browsing History With cottonTracks For Chrome

Kids: Past Vs. Internet Generation Posted: 02 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT Back in the day, kids played outdoors. Now, children are 6 times more inclined to stay indoors and play video games. Have you slept with your phone in bed? Well, apparently 83% of Gen Y kids have slept with their smartphones — yes, they’re that attached. For an interesting look at how Baby Boomers, and Generation X, Y and Z kids differ in terms of how they consume news, media, and overall intelligence, take a look at this revealing infograph. Click to enlarge. via Hostgator Read the full article: Kids: Past Vs. Internet Generation

3 Bitcoin Alternatives Tested & Compared: Litecoin, Feathercoin, And Terracoin Posted: 02 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT Lately, I've been trying to earn some money by mining the Bitcoin alternatives, Litecoin, Feathercoin and Terracoin. After spending the entirety of last week attempting to get free money, I may have succeeded, to an extent. This introductory article covers how I got started mining cryptocoins and which coin provides the best returns on investment, for beginners. It’s shockingly easy. If you know nothing about Bitcoins and virtual currencies then here's a short primer: Bitcoin is an uncollateralized digital cryptocurrency subject entirely to the market forces of supply and demand. As long as individuals demand it, it will possess value,... Read the full article: 3 Bitcoin Alternatives Tested & Compared: Litecoin, Feathercoin, And Terracoin

Keep An Eye On Everything with Panic StatusBoard for iPad Posted: 02 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT Are you the kind of very important person that needs to have one eye on stock prices every second? Are you constantly juggling appointments so much that opening up a dedicated calendar app to see when you’re free is just not efficient enough? You’re a very busy person, I know that. Panic Status Board ($10) is here to help. Now you can use your iPad to keep an eye on all of the things, all the time. Status Board began life as a Panic blog post 3 years ago, when the team showed off a gorgeous at-a-glance graphic display they’d coded... Read the full article: Keep An Eye On Everything with Panic StatusBoard for iPad

6 Best Netvibes Widgets For Bloggers And Journalists Posted: 02 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT Through the years, we’ve always had an interest in good Internet start pages here at MakeUseOf. Of course, one of the most popular and well-used start pages, iGoogle, has been sacrificed by Google. This provided Netvibes with a surge of new users and of course even greater interest here at MUO. We’ve offered interesting ways to to use Netvibes to do things like manage your life, or use it as a feed reader. The growing volume of widgets and tools that are available on Netvibes makes it a useful tool for all sorts of great things. One of the uses... Read the full article: 6 Best Netvibes Widgets For Bloggers And Journalists

5 Games You Can Play For Over 100 Hours – That’s Value! Posted: 02 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT One of the many traits unique to video games is the sheer volume of entertainment a game can provide. While a movie is over in two hours on average, and a TV show may offer ten to twenty hours in a season, an amazing game can be played for hundreds of hours. Because many games have no final end, there are many choices, but a few titles stand out for their incredible tendency to drag almost everyone who plays them deep into their world. These games are so enthralling they can ruin report cards, strain marriages and make you want... Read the full article: 5 Games You Can Play For Over 100 Hours – That's Value!

Flipboard Now Offers Web Based Magazines [Updates] Posted: 02 Aug 2013 04:00 AM PDT Flipboard, the popular social magazine app for mobile users, announced on July 23rd that its socially curated magazines are now available via the web, accessible from any desktop PC. Flipboard users are able to create virtual magazines by sharing collections of articles and content from around the web. Up until now, after creating a Flipboard magazine covering any topic imaginable, those Flipboard curators were only able to share those magazines with other mobile users. Now, anyone can read Flipboard magazines that are published to the web by mobile users. The content of these online magazines cover everything from health and... Read the full article: Flipboard Now Offers Web Based Magazines [Updates]

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