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- Cool Websites and Tools – August 13th 2013 – App Analytics, Time Tracking & Responsive CSS
- Why Do People Like Facebook Pages? Make Yours Likable Too [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- 360 Mobile Security for Android: One Of The Best-Looking Free Security Tools Around
- The Demise Of Blackberry, Breaking Bad In 8 Minutes, The Crazy Korean Drummer, & Getting Revenge
- 5 Awesome Ways to Use Your Smartphone When Cycling
- Which Linux File Browser Is More Productive: Nautilus or Dolphin?
- How To Avoid Getting Hacked
- What Can You Learn From An Email Header (Metadata)?
- Print Vs. Digital: What Is The Future For News? [You Told Us]
- Trace and Relive Your Hiking Paths With My Tracks on Android
- 5 Uses For Animated GIFs Other Than Annoying Memes
- Power Up Phone Conferencing With UberConference
- Multiple Computers, One Keyboard: Quicksynergy Makes Sharing Simple
- The New York Times Joins The IFTTT Crowd [Updates]
- How to Avoid Embarrassing Yourself on Social Media
| Cool Websites and Tools – August 13th 2013 – App Analytics, Time Tracking & Responsive CSS Posted: 13 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including an apps analytics tool, an automatic time tracking tool, positivity in social media, an online collaborative editor, and responsive web CSS. Read on below! Applause – is a new type of app analytics tool. It monitors and measures mobile app quality and user satisfaction. By analyzing more than 80 million reviews and ratings across 1.5 million iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps, Applause enables companies to make informed decisions so they can win more users, earn greater loyalty and beat the competition. It then provides... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 13th 2013 – App Analytics, Time Tracking & Responsive CSS |
| Why Do People Like Facebook Pages? Make Yours Likable Too [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT  Have you ever wondered what makes a Facebook Page great? Do you wonder sometimes why anyone might want to like your Page? What can you offer them, really? Recently, a MakeUseOf reader wanting to create a great Facebook Page asked a great question: Why Do People Like Facebook Pages? There are a lot of great reasons for liking Pages, and even more reasons to like a great Page. Today we’ll take you through them. Brand Loyalty Sometimes users will like your Page simply because they like your brand and products. They don’t care whether your Page is any good — they... Read the full article: Why Do People Like Facebook Pages? Make Yours Likable Too [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| 360 Mobile Security for Android: One Of The Best-Looking Free Security Tools Around Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:20 PM PDT  One of the key advantages of Android is that it is a wide-open ecosystem: Everybody gets to play; you don’t have to install apps only from Google Play, but also from Amazon’s AppStore and other sources. You can even side-load apps you got from the darker corners of the Internet, though we’ve explained before why installing cracked apps is a bad idea. All of this openness is great, but also makes Android potentially risky – which is where antivirus apps come in. We’ve previously looked at Lookout and Advanced Mobile Care, and today it’s time to check out another free... Read the full article: 360 Mobile Security for Android: One Of The Best-Looking Free Security Tools Around |
| The Demise Of Blackberry, Breaking Bad In 8 Minutes, The Crazy Korean Drummer, & Getting Revenge Posted: 13 Aug 2013 02:01 PM PDT  Welcome to another edition of “Stuff I Found On The Web”. Today we have some great stuff for you that has been floating around the Interwebs, including a quick 8 minute roundup for all you Breaking Bad fanatics out there who haven’t watched the new episode yet, and need a refresher on where it left off last year. Plus we look at the implications of what a downfall of Blackberry could mean, as well as the return of the crazy Korean drummer, and the man who got his revenge in an unusual way after his Amazon package was stolen from... Read the full article: The Demise Of Blackberry, Breaking Bad In 8 Minutes, The Crazy Korean Drummer, & Getting Revenge |
| 5 Awesome Ways to Use Your Smartphone When Cycling Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:36 PM PDT  Cycling is picking up in popularity all across the world, and for good reasons. It’s better for the environment than driving a car or riding on public transportation. It’s cheaper in terms of vehicle maintenance. You don’t need a license to ride. Plus, it doubles as a form of exercise so future you will thank present you for taking the healthier route. But for most people, cycling and smartphones clash as badly as ketchup and ice cream. I’m here to convince you otherwise. Having a smartphone with you as you cycle around town, along a well-beaten path, or even through... Read the full article: 5 Awesome Ways to Use Your Smartphone When Cycling |
| Which Linux File Browser Is More Productive: Nautilus or Dolphin? Posted: 13 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Any regular Linux user will know that the two most common desktop environments are Gnome and KDE. Additionally, each desktop environment likes to pack its own software along with it, everything from core items such as system setting control panels to photo management software. Therefore, users of competing desktop environments will notice that they’re using different file managers — an important part of desktop productivity. Surprisingly, there are a lot of things that can go right or wrong with a file manager, so these applications do a lot more than simply show where your files are. I compared Nautilus, Gnome’s... Read the full article: Which Linux File Browser Is More Productive: Nautilus or Dolphin? |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Hackers want your information. In 2012, over 12 million unsuspecting internet users fell victim to cyber-security threats. Over $21 billion dollars was lost, 98% of which were contributed by stolen payment data (credit card information, bank account details) obtained by hackers through fraudulent transactions. In order to better protect yourself against identity theft, you would first need to understand the ways hackers steal your private information. And it couldn’t be easier, thanks to this infograph by Hotspot Shield. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: How To Avoid Getting Hacked |
| What Can You Learn From An Email Header (Metadata)? Posted: 13 Aug 2013 12:03 PM PDT  Did you ever get an email and really wondered where it came from? Who sent it? How could they have known who you are? Surprisingly a lot of that information can be from from the email header, or by using info from the email header to do some detective work. The header is a part of the email message that most people never even see. It contains a lot of data that seems like gobbledygook to the average computer user, so as email use became a daily tool in everyone’s life, email clients started to hide this information out of... Read the full article: What Can You Learn From An Email Header (Metadata)? |
| Print Vs. Digital: What Is The Future For News? [You Told Us] Posted: 13 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Print media was once king, but sales of newspapers and other physical publications have receded sharply in the face of the wealth of options offered by the Internet. It has all been one way traffic to this point, with people invariably switching away from print media to adopt digital media as their new ruler. However, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, recently surprised a great many people by personally purchasing The Washington Post, an august newspaper most famous for breaking the Watergate scandal. Could this be a sign that there is life left in print yet? Or is this... Read the full article: Print Vs. Digital: What Is The Future For News? [You Told Us] |
| Trace and Relive Your Hiking Paths With My Tracks on Android Posted: 13 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT  Every day, I find some new way to be impressed by how much we use our smartphones in our daily lives. In fact, by now, we really should just be calling them our virtual assistants. Not only can smartphones facilitate instant communication with our friends and family, but we can and do use them for all manner of life management: notes, photos, web browsing, reading, music, and games. With My Tracks, we can add “path tracking” to the list. Coming straight from Google itself, My Tracks is an app with a singular purpose: to track your path as you travel... Read the full article: Trace and Relive Your Hiking Paths With My Tracks on Android |
| 5 Uses For Animated GIFs Other Than Annoying Memes Posted: 13 Aug 2013 10:03 AM PDT  GIF animations aren’t just for corny memes and annoying reactions (but it doesn’t mean you can’t use them as such). Here at MakeUseOf, we’ve got a whole bag full of uses for these cool little animations. Even in a world with Vine and Instagram, GIF animations are not dead. Never made a GIF before? No problem. Learn why you should make them and stick around for the end of the article. Are you a GIF genius? Settle down, boy. You have to have reason even if you have means. Below, we have five fantabulous uses for GIF animations that are both practical and... Read the full article: 5 Uses For Animated GIFs Other Than Annoying Memes |
| Power Up Phone Conferencing With UberConference Posted: 13 Aug 2013 09:32 AM PDT  Traditional conference calling is a faceless and often unproductive way of holding meetings. In the age of the Internet and mobile devices, conference calls and online meetings provide an array of features and functions for sharing and viewing documents, developing and keeping minutes, and even recording meetings for archive purposes. My recently released free MakeUseOf download, Online Meeting Guide: Software and Strategy introduces over a dozen different online meeting services and tools, like Google Hangouts, Meetings.io, and LiveMinutes. Another service that rivals the market leaders is UberConference, a phone and web conferencing service that also allows participants to access online... Read the full article: Power Up Phone Conferencing With UberConference |
| Multiple Computers, One Keyboard: Quicksynergy Makes Sharing Simple Posted: 13 Aug 2013 09:01 AM PDT  Stop jumping from one keyboard and mouse combination to another every time you switch computers. Control multiple computers using just one set – without the need for extra hardware. QuickSynergy for Linux and Mac, working with Synergy for Windows, means there’s no combination of systems that can’t be controlled this quickly and easily. If there’s more than one computer on your desk then you need to check this out. Multiple monitors are intuitive – you move your mouse from one screen to another and simply continue controlling. But what if your desk has multiple computers on it? Can you move... Read the full article: Multiple Computers, One Keyboard: Quicksynergy Makes Sharing Simple |
| The New York Times Joins The IFTTT Crowd [Updates] Posted: 13 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT  It seems these days as if you’re not getting anywhere unless you have a channel on the automation juggernaut known as IFTTT (If This Then That). In the past, we have highlighted lots of other companies who have allowed us to automate their service using IFTTT (the most recent one being Gmail attachments). But now the newspaper giant The New York Times has jumped right in with both feet with their own IFTTT channel, enabling you to have various stories and features from the NYT sent to you automatically. For those who love to read the news, this one could... Read the full article: The New York Times Joins The IFTTT Crowd [Updates] |
| How to Avoid Embarrassing Yourself on Social Media Posted: 13 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT  If you’ve never ever embarrassed yourself on a social network, stand up now. No, I mean it, stand up, and leave your computer, because you don’t need to read this. You probably don’t use social networks anyhow, so why would you need tips on how to avoid embarrassing yourself on them? Alright, it’s definitely possible that you’ve been extra careful, but even the most perfect of us makes the occasional typo, and when that happens in the one tweet you’ve sent in the past month, it gets kind of awkward. Typos are not the only way you can inadvertently embarrass... Read the full article: How to Avoid Embarrassing Yourself on Social Media |
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