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- Cool Websites & Apps July 31st 2013 – Coverbud Facebook Photos & Driving Test Exam Papers
- What Would You Ban From The Internet? [We Ask You]
- 4 Ways Online Reviews Are Being Manipulated By Manufacturers
- Get Two Android Apps That Display Crucial Phone Information for Free
- 4 Examples Of Video Games With Romance Done The Right Way
- Free App Swipes Simplifies Your Daily Schedule With Gestures & Tags
- Automate Your Computer Maintenance With Ashampoo WinOptimizer 10 [Giveaway]
- How to Record Only Your Important Phone Calls on Android
- Google Algorithm Fail: 3 Examples Of Really Bad Google Results
- 5 Password Management Tools Compared: Find The One That’s Perfect For You
- 5 Things Beyond Graphics To Get Excited Over With The PS4 & Xbox One
- 5 Options to Consider For Your Next Media Center
- 9 Retro Typographic Posters To Remind You of The Good Old Days
- How To Enjoy Flash Video on Windows Phone
- Power Up Your Mac With Advanced BetterTouchTool Automations
| Cool Websites & Apps July 31st 2013 – Coverbud Facebook Photos & Driving Test Exam Papers Posted: 31 Jul 2013 09:31 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including customizing your Facebook timeline with a high resolution cover picture, reviewing past driving exam papers to give you the edge in your own test, a place to try out programming languages with minimal setup and much more. Read on below! Metronome – The Metronome has come full circle with this free online version from the guys at 123. Find the tempo and boost your rhythmic state with a real metronome. Choose from a wide range of BPM’s, patterns and beats right here to find the... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Apps July 31st 2013 – Coverbud Facebook Photos & Driving Test Exam Papers |
| What Would You Ban From The Internet? [We Ask You] Posted: 31 Jul 2013 08:30 PM PDT  As any of you who follow the news will no doubt be aware, the British Prime Minister David Cameron recently announced plans to ban Internet pornography. ISPs in the U.K. will, by the end of this year, be required to block all porn sites (and any other sites that get lumped in with them) from being viewed unless users actively opt-out of the filters and opt-in to being able to look at pornography. This isn’t illegal porn, which the vast majority of people would accept has no place in normal society. Instead, this is run-of-the-mill pornography that is perfectly legal... Read the full article: What Would You Ban From The Internet? [We Ask You] |
| 4 Ways Online Reviews Are Being Manipulated By Manufacturers Posted: 31 Jul 2013 07:30 PM PDT  We all know that the Internet is full of advertisements, but what some may not know is the fact that some advertisements pop up where you would least expect it. Where specifically? Online reviews. Yep, manufacturers and companies actually manipulate reviews in a variety of ways right here on the Internet. It’s all about good press, of course. However, some ways are sketchier than others as you’ll soon be able to tell. Some methods companies use are rather direct while others are a little more hands-off than others. Either way, you should know that it’s very important to investigate reviews while you are simultaneously... Read the full article: 4 Ways Online Reviews Are Being Manipulated By Manufacturers |
| Get Two Android Apps That Display Crucial Phone Information for Free Posted: 31 Jul 2013 07:00 PM PDT  Sometimes I need to check information on my phone that the notifications bar doesn’t show – such as GPS signal strength and CPU temperature. For example, when traveling, knowing whether your mobile is on the verge of an overheated shutdown or if your GPS signal might soon conk out, helps a lot. I spent a lot of time puttering around with different ways of visualizing this data and discovered two apps that stand out: Power Line and Cool Tool. Power Line and Cool Tool allow you to monitor a huge amount of information, regardless of what you’re doing on the... Read the full article: Get Two Android Apps That Display Crucial Phone Information for Free |
| 4 Examples Of Video Games With Romance Done The Right Way Posted: 31 Jul 2013 06:30 PM PDT  In most forms of entertainment, romance is a key part of the story. Even horror movies tend to have some sort of hidden or not so hidden romance tucked away in the film. Video games tend to escape this in many cases, as the storytelling in video games has not evolved as well as some of the other mediums. After all, it’s a pretty new way for people to tell stories, so it has not had much time to mature. That being said, there are some examples of video games with romance done right. I am not talking about the... Read the full article: 4 Examples Of Video Games With Romance Done The Right Way |
| Free App Swipes Simplifies Your Daily Schedule With Gestures & Tags Posted: 31 Jul 2013 05:30 PM PDT  I’m one of those people who wishes they were more organised. It’s not that I don’t relish a deadline, if anything pressure is productive, but when it comes to remembering a thousand and one personal notes and work tasks, I’m a mess without some sort of organisational aid. Swipes is another personal organiser that promises to extend a helping hand when it comes to managing your ridiculous schedule. Utilising a series of gestures and a simple, time-saving approach; Swipes offers up an enticing alternative to Apple’s in-built Reminders app in more ways than one. Chin up Android owners: even though this review... Read the full article: Free App Swipes Simplifies Your Daily Schedule With Gestures & Tags |
| Automate Your Computer Maintenance With Ashampoo WinOptimizer 10 [Giveaway] Posted: 31 Jul 2013 04:30 PM PDT  Technology has come a long way over the past few decades with the advent of increasingly complex bits of software, hardware, and networking. Despite this progress, technology still hasn’t managed to solve one of the most fundamental forces in life: entropy. No matter how hard you try to fight it, time breaks down all things and the result is clutter – computers are no exception. The best we can do in light of entropy is to repair the chaos ourselves and that’s where WinOptimizer 10 steps in. Ashampoo WinOptimizer 10 is available for $39.99 USD on Windows XP, Vista, 7,... Read the full article: Automate Your Computer Maintenance With Ashampoo WinOptimizer 10 [Giveaway] |
| How to Record Only Your Important Phone Calls on Android Posted: 31 Jul 2013 04:00 PM PDT  We live in a time where the NSA is having a field day with data snooping and projects like PRISM, so it feels weird to tackle an article about recording phone calls in Android. It seems outrageous when a government agency does it on a widespread scale, but personal call logging has been a thing as long as phones have been in existence, and with these apps you’ll be able to save your important phone calls for later revisiting. Phone call recordings can come in handy in a number of ways – for example, saving a phone call interview so... Read the full article: How to Record Only Your Important Phone Calls on Android |
| Google Algorithm Fail: 3 Examples Of Really Bad Google Results Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:30 PM PDT  In my online work, I spend a lot of time examining what people are searching for on the Internet. I’m not the only one. We’ve always been into Google search here at MUO. We’ve offered everything from a cheat sheet of Google search shortcuts and tips, and help with getting search results for your site to look the way you want them to. We’ve also closely watched the value of search results as Google has continually attempted to upgrade its algorithm. In 2012, Yaara felt that search results were much cleaner, while Justin offered up tips on how to extract... Read the full article: Google Algorithm Fail: 3 Examples Of Really Bad Google Results |
| 5 Password Management Tools Compared: Find The One That’s Perfect For You Posted: 31 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT  Choosing some sort of password management strategy to deal with the huge amount of passwords we need is crucial. If you’re like most people, you probably store your passwords in your brain. To remember them all, you have to cut corners — choosing weak, easy-to-remember passwords and reusing them for multiple accounts. But there are better ways — a good password management tool will allow you to use secure passwords without devoting lots of time to memorization. We’ll cover a variety of different password management tools here, from the high-tech to the traditional. It’s important that you sit down and... Read the full article: 5 Password Management Tools Compared: Find The One That’s Perfect For You |
| 5 Things Beyond Graphics To Get Excited Over With The PS4 & Xbox One Posted: 31 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT  The next-gen video game consoles are almost here, with both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 due to be released before the end of 2013. We’ve taken a first look at both consoles, with Matt explaining why he’s firmly in the Xbox One camp, and myself explaining why I’m firmly in the PS4 camp. But to be honest, both deserve a place underneath your television. A new generation of consoles obviously brings better visuals with it, but graphics aren’t everything. While previous console generations relied rather heavily on improvements to how the games looked, this one is set to value... Read the full article: 5 Things Beyond Graphics To Get Excited Over With The PS4 & Xbox One |
| 5 Options to Consider For Your Next Media Center Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT  It’s soul destroying process – it will eat away at you until you’re left cowering the corner with a remote control in one hand and a driverless TV-card in the other. I’ve spent the last 5 years of my life searching for it and countless thousands of dollars in the process. I’m talking of course about the holy grail – the ultimate media center. Truth be told, I still haven’t found it. There is no one solution that suits all my needs, that can do everything and do it with panaché – but some of these 5 hardware options certainly... Read the full article: 5 Options to Consider For Your Next Media Center |
| 9 Retro Typographic Posters To Remind You of The Good Old Days Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:30 PM PDT  When he was young, designer and illustrator Jay Roeder always found himself with a pencil or pen in his hand drawing his favourite Nintendo characters. Out of Jay’s hundreds of drawings, I found several that most geeks will enjoy. Jay Roeder’s drawings will soon be on sale on his website. Which do you like most? Breath of Life Friday Nights I Got Next Ode to Gameboy Retro Hustle Retro Skills Simpler Days Strapped Video Games Bonus: Coffee Type Read the full article: 9 Retro Typographic Posters To Remind You of The Good Old Days |
| How To Enjoy Flash Video on Windows Phone Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:00 PM PDT  I was recently on holiday and one day found myself with a bit of spare time waiting for my family outside a wildlife park. Feeling the boredom, I decided to browse the web on my Nokia Lumia 920 and try to find something interesting to watch. Now, I could have used the YouTube or BBC iPlayer apps; I could have relied on many other apps but instead I decided to have a browser-only mobile experience. The results, sadly, were mixed – the problem being that Windows Phone doesn't support Adobe Flash. Although the Internet Explorer mobile app has HTML5 support,... Read the full article: How To Enjoy Flash Video on Windows Phone |
| Power Up Your Mac With Advanced BetterTouchTool Automations Posted: 31 Jul 2013 11:00 AM PDT  I started using BetterTouchTool back in 2011, and since then it has become one of the top three Mac applications (the other two are Keyboard Maestro and TextExpander) for boosting my productivity and streamlining my workflow. BetterTouchTool is a free application that allows you to use finger gestures with your Magic Mouse, MacBook Trackpad and Magic Trackpad to activate keyboard shortcuts, move and resize windows, launch applications and URLs, select windows, and add functions to applications. I’ve written an overview of BetterTouchTool’s main features and how to get started using it. Though BTT can be used by any Mac user, it... Read the full article: Power Up Your Mac With Advanced BetterTouchTool Automations |
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