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- Cool Websites and Tools – August 14th 2013 – Stock Markets, Video Creation, & Amazon Art
- Besides Android & iPhone, Is There Room For Another Mobile OS? [We Ask You]
- 7 Tips To Get A Great Deal Selling Your Unused Domain Name
- New Spellcheck Mode And Customizable Lists Arrive On Google Drive [Updates]
- Quickly Check RSS Headlines With Fresh Feed for Mac
- Turn Your Internet Relationships Into Real World Friendships With A Meetup
- How To Broadcast Live With A Green Screen
- Handy Social Media Spec Guide For Designers
- Don’t Overpay For A Car Again With These iPhone Apps
- 10 Fictional Characters That Are Insanely Popular On Facebook
- How To Upgrade Your PS3 HDD
- Should You Buy A 4K / Ultra HD Television?
- Tech Recipe: Optimum Hardware Components for a Perfect Hackintosh
- Run A Local PHP Web Server on Mac OS X With Zend Server
- Facebook Usage Is Changing – So Which Online Social Activities Are Growing?
| Cool Websites and Tools – August 14th 2013 – Stock Markets, Video Creation, & Amazon Art Posted: 14 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including live CSS editing, opening times for the world stock markets, visually browsing the web, animated video creation, and Amazon art. Read on below! Emmet LiveStyle – is a plugin for live bi-directional (editor?browser) CSS editing. Currently, it works in Google Chrome, Safari and Sublime Text, more browsers and editors will be available later. Instant updates – see changes as-you-type. No file saving, no page reloading. You can open the same page in different windows and get instant updates in all of them. Is The Market... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 14th 2013 – Stock Markets, Video Creation, & Amazon Art |
| Besides Android & iPhone, Is There Room For Another Mobile OS? [We Ask You] Posted: 14 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT  Smartphones are absolutely everywhere these days, with lovers of technology keen to keep up with the latest models hitting the market. Smartphones are so prevalent that when someone (such as our own Justin Pot) admits to not owning one, it’s newsworthy. With so many people owning smartphones, and their constant desire to upgrade to a better model, it’s no wonder that more manufacturers are trying to get a foothold on the bottom rung of the ladder. But is it too late? Have Google and Apple pulled up that ladder behind them to ensure it’s a one-on-one fight for dominance rather... Read the full article: Besides Android & iPhone, Is There Room For Another Mobile OS? [We Ask You] |
| 7 Tips To Get A Great Deal Selling Your Unused Domain Name Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:53 PM PDT  Domain Name buying and selling is one of those things that many people don’t even realize is an activity that goes on, yet there are a surprising number of entrepreneurs out there that are making a tidy profit from domains within that online marketplace. All you have to do is browse the list of top 100 domain name sales on DN Journal to realize just how much money is at stake here. Domain names can sell for anything from a few hundred dollars, to tens of thousands of dollars in some cases. There are even sales in the hundreds of... Read the full article: 7 Tips To Get A Great Deal Selling Your Unused Domain Name |
| New Spellcheck Mode And Customizable Lists Arrive On Google Drive [Updates] Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT  Two new improvements you can try out on Google Drive include a new way to spellcheck your whole document in one go and a way to have better control with customizable lists. Granted, Google Drive has a long way to go before it matches up to the variety of features available on Microsoft Office, but with these incremental efforts, Google is meeting two oft-requested demands. The smarter link tool introduced last week and the two changes here make document creation just a little bit smoother and quicker. With the new spellcheck, you can do “real-time” spelling corrections on your document. On... Read the full article: New Spellcheck Mode And Customizable Lists Arrive On Google Drive [Updates] |
| Quickly Check RSS Headlines With Fresh Feed for Mac Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:25 PM PDT  Quickly check headlines from your Mac’s menubar. Fresh Feeds is a small Mac RSS reader for quickly skimming the latest news. Sometimes you want to read every article, in order – and that’s what advanced RSS services like Feedly are for. Sometimes, however, you simply want to glance at headlines and possibly read a couple of articles, and Fresh Feed is perfect for that. It lives in the menu bar, so it’s always a click away. Even when open it doesn’t take up a lot of screen real estate. You can scroll through headlines, click anything that looks interesting and... Read the full article: Quickly Check RSS Headlines With Fresh Feed for Mac |
| Turn Your Internet Relationships Into Real World Friendships With A Meetup Posted: 14 Aug 2013 01:10 PM PDT  There is one thing you must know when organizing a virtual meetup with an online compadre: don’t be creepy. The prime consideration you must have is that your friend — regardless of how close you may seem in the virtual world — is going to be on guard when they meet with you. Don’t be surprised if they have a gun, pepper-spray, or pocket sand with them. The slightest hint of awkwardness could also cause them to leave or send a text asking a friend to call the cops. Dramatic? Yes. Practical? I’d say so. Put yourself in their shoes. Just because... Read the full article: Turn Your Internet Relationships Into Real World Friendships With A Meetup |
| How To Broadcast Live With A Green Screen Posted: 14 Aug 2013 12:51 PM PDT  I’ve already showed you the basics of green screen videography with pre-recorded footage in iMovie or Premiere, so you could superimpose yourself onto any video or background. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could use this green screen effect for a live broadcast – like on Google Hangouts, or Skype? “Yes indeed it would be, James” – is the answer you’re looking for there, and you’re in luck because I’ve been having a go at doing that very same thing. Read on to join the cool kids club as we play with live green screen broadcasting on Mac or Windows.... Read the full article: How To Broadcast Live With A Green Screen |
| Handy Social Media Spec Guide For Designers Posted: 14 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Facebook. Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIN, YouTube. Each of these social networks allow you to tag on a beautiful large cover image, you know, to personalise your account and identify yourself. The trouble is, each of them have strict graphic requirements. Think you’d be able to use the same cover image on Google Plus and Facebook? Well, think again. Fortunately, Ashleigh Lay from raidious designed her very own all-in-one social media graphics spec guide, and it’s a must-have for the socially-inclined. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: Handy Social Media Spec Guide For Designers |
| Don’t Overpay For A Car Again With These iPhone Apps Posted: 14 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT  Buying a car can be a scary experience, especially for someone who has never been through the process before. You always hear the “let me go talk to my manager” quote thrown around when people talk about the car buying experience, and it’s true. As someone who had a brief run as a car salesman, I can tell you from experience, that the salesman is not always going back there to get you the better deal. Rather, he is probably conferring with his manager to figure out how to convince you to buy the car at the highest price possible. So... Read the full article: Don’t Overpay For A Car Again With These iPhone Apps |
| 10 Fictional Characters That Are Insanely Popular On Facebook Posted: 14 Aug 2013 11:40 AM PDT  Lots of people like to “Like” things. I am of course referring to the Facebook Like, which has become a simple shortcut to stamping your approval on something. Whether it’s an interesting update, a pithy comment, a brand, a website, a movie, an album, or a game, Facebook users the world over are addicted to clicking “Like” all over the social network to publicly state their personal tastes. MakeUseOf has a very popular Facebook Page, and the most popular Facebook Pages are owned by celebrities. Having already detailed the most popular comedians on Facebook and the most popular musicians on... Read the full article: 10 Fictional Characters That Are Insanely Popular On Facebook |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2013 11:20 AM PDT  The living room game console has become a central media hub for many, which can mean large movie downloads. Despite all the controversy surrounding DRM, digital game downloads have finally arrived too – nowadays, you can download premium AAA titles on launch day without having to wait for a piece of plastic to arrive in the mail. And if you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber, you have gigabytes of new games literally thrown at you every month. On environmental grounds, I couldn’t be happier about the move to digital – but it means local storage needs are growing rapidly. The days... Read the full article: How To Upgrade Your PS3 HDD |
| Should You Buy A 4K / Ultra HD Television? Posted: 14 Aug 2013 10:34 AM PDT  About a decade ago, manufacturers started to sell what’s now widely known as an HDTV. These advanced televisions boasted resolutions of 1280×720 or even 1920×1080, with picture clarity far beyond what was previously possible. These high-resolution sets also made major progress in color accuracy and contrast. We’ve come a long way in the last ten years. But now HD is old news, so the industry has decided to push another new technology; Ultra HD, also known as 4K HD. This new format, which offers a resolution of 3840×2160 (yes, the term “4K HD” is technically an exaggeration), has so far... Read the full article: Should You Buy A 4K / Ultra HD Television? |
| Tech Recipe: Optimum Hardware Components for a Perfect Hackintosh Posted: 14 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Thinking of building a Hackintosh? You can make a Mac Pro for half the price of the real thing. But throwing together a custom-built Hackintosh requires a very narrow range of hardware — most computer parts won’t work with Apple’s extremely picky OS X operating system. Minimizing troubleshooting requires carefully choosing your parts. But how do you know what to use? Fortunately, there are lots of internet resources that can help. And for those of you who don’t know what a Hackintosh is. I put together a custom Hackintosh using information gleaned from several Hackintosh enthusiast sites. Even with such... Read the full article: Tech Recipe: Optimum Hardware Components for a Perfect Hackintosh |
| Run A Local PHP Web Server on Mac OS X With Zend Server Posted: 14 Aug 2013 09:20 AM PDT  Applications are taking ever more to the web. It’s a smart move. Not everyone has a MacBook or a Windows laptop, but nearly everyone has access to a decent web browser. Make your application with a blend of PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS and MySQL instead of Java and C(++) and suddenly almost every device is a compatible device. You can learn about PHP like any other language. Jack Cola compiled a list of free sites to learn about programming in PHP. In addition, if you like to play with the language while you learn (you should), you’ll need a PHP... Read the full article: Run A Local PHP Web Server on Mac OS X With Zend Server |
| Facebook Usage Is Changing – So Which Online Social Activities Are Growing? Posted: 14 Aug 2013 08:15 AM PDT  Facebook isn’t cool anymore. It’s the website where your older relatives hang out. It’s the place where people post political screeds, religious diatribes, and personal drama you don’t want to read. It’s seen as a service that doesn’t care about privacy, one that constantly wants more and more of your data to sell and profit from. So what are the kids using these days? Interestingly enough, teens are moving away from social networks like Facebook that are linked to their real identity and toward other networks where they use pseudonyms that aren’t their real names and avatars that aren’t their... Read the full article: Facebook Usage Is Changing – So Which Online Social Activities Are Growing? |
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