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- Cool Websites and Tools – August 15th 2013 – The Facts Of Life, Page Speeds & NYT Time Machine
- Become A More Organized And Productive Leader With Wrike
- 5 Awesome Reasons To Use Google Forms
- Caption Contest: Tangled
- Who Needs Kindle? Fabrik is a Stylish eReader App for Android That Supports Cloud Sync
- 3 Ways You Can Preserve Your Online Presence While In Jail
- Going Back To School? Save Money On A New Computer With 7 Secret Tips
- Bite The Entrepreneurial Bug By Taking 7 Free Online Courses On How To Start A Business
- TimeWarp Redirects Distractions, Keeping You Focused [Chrome]
- Linux Archive Managers Compared: Ark vs. File Roller
- 4 of the Best Personal Wikis to Keep You Organized
- Access Files & Folders In Record Time With Default Folder X
- Personalize Google Search Results With Information From Gmail, Google Calendar or Google Plus [Updates]
- Automate Your Hard Drive Organization With UltraDefrag
- Custom Budget Gaming PC Build and Giveaway
| Cool Websites and Tools – August 15th 2013 – The Facts Of Life, Page Speeds & NYT Time Machine Posted: 15 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including getting children to understand the facts of life, website speeds, teaching children programming skills, donating $1 to charity, and reading old New York Times articles. Read on below! The Facts of Life – is an app that will help children understand “where babies come from” in an interactive, wholesome, and fun way. It is thoughtful and age appropriate and it answers many questions children may have about this topic—in a “just enough” way. PageSpeed Insights – is a Google product which allows you to input... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 15th 2013 – The Facts Of Life, Page Speeds & NYT Time Machine |
| Become A More Organized And Productive Leader With Wrike Posted: 15 Aug 2013 02:01 PM PDT  Taking on new roles and responsibilities is very often a part of life. As you get older, there will be situations where you need to manage projects, people, and overall goals of an organization, or maybe even a company. Life can get pretty crazy, unless you learn real fast how to get organized and get serious about setting up a long-term vision, and then putting together plans to get there quickly. Whether you’re heading up a single project at work, or you’re managing a small company, either role requires extreme organization and planning. This isn’t always possible with just a... Read the full article: Become A More Organized And Productive Leader With Wrike |
| 5 Awesome Reasons To Use Google Forms Posted: 15 Aug 2013 01:32 PM PDT  If you’ve ever tried to make an online survey, you’ve probably tried a few tools here and there. You’ve no doubt enjoyed some features of one product, and some of another, while being frustrated at the limitations you’ve come across. Survey tools we’ve tried and loved at MakeUseOf include PollDaddy, SurveyMonkey, Survey Legend, SIS, and MicroPoll: They all have their benefits and shortfalls. You may have already heard of Google’s Form feature, but not given it a try yet. Today I plan to convince you to give it a go. As a previous worshipper of SurveyMonkey and PollDaddy, I am... Read the full article: 5 Awesome Reasons To Use Google Forms |
| Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Are you more of a cable person? Has wireless technology let you down on more than one occasion? Caption this image! Leave your funniest captions in the comments section below and be in the running to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! The winner of this caption contest will be selected the following day and announced right here. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Tangled |
| Who Needs Kindle? Fabrik is a Stylish eReader App for Android That Supports Cloud Sync Posted: 15 Aug 2013 11:49 AM PDT  Let’s face it: When it comes to eBooks, there is pretty much just one big name that matters. One ecosystem; one line of apps; one source of books; one maker of devices. I don’t even have to name it for you to know which corporate behemoth I’m referring to. If this makes you feel a little uneasy, I can certainly understand why (after all, I too think you should own the books you buy). And if you are one of the tiny, nonconformist minority still resisting assimilation into this oh-so-convenient eBook ecosystem, you may be interested in Fabrik. This beautiful... Read the full article: Who Needs Kindle? Fabrik is a Stylish eReader App for Android That Supports Cloud Sync |
| 3 Ways You Can Preserve Your Online Presence While In Jail Posted: 15 Aug 2013 11:05 AM PDT  Prisons are by no means fun places. The world in which you live narrows down to just a few small acres of barbed wire and concrete. You’re isolated from those you love. Phone calls are expensive, short and monitored by those in control. There’s also no internet. Horrible. I’ve never been to prison myself, but entrepreneur and blogger Alvin Tan found himself behind bars. He recently managed to offend the religious sensibilities of the conservative Muslim country of Malaysia by posting a photo of himself and his girlfriend tucking into a pork dish on Facebook, which he captioned with “Happy... Read the full article: 3 Ways You Can Preserve Your Online Presence While In Jail |
| Going Back To School? Save Money On A New Computer With 7 Secret Tips Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:21 AM PDT  Computer prices drop in September. But even in a land of plenty, getting the best deals requires a strategy and planning. I approach seasonal sales using a seven-part multi-spectrum approach: Alerts on price drops. Browser extensions. Aggressive price matching. Rebates and rebate tracking. Coupon stacking. Discounted gift card stacking. IFTTT's recipe database. All of these methods will save you money. But together, these will save more than any would individually. So, let’s look into them one-by-one. Alerts on Price Drops Getting the latest alerts on sales takes work. Hunting for a specific item can mean refreshing a page several times... Read the full article: Going Back To School? Save Money On A New Computer With 7 Secret Tips |
| Bite The Entrepreneurial Bug By Taking 7 Free Online Courses On How To Start A Business Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:38 AM PDT  In any 21st century job, the work is hard and the hours are long. Thankfully, there's a secret mantra revealed to the truly courageous – if you are not in a perfect job; create one for yourself. That's where you stop swimming with the current and dare to go against it. Without a life jacket. From the cubicle cave you get to dunk yourself in the choppy waters of entrepreneurship. The work is hard and the hours are long. The reward – being the master of your own destiny. A couple of years back; I mentioned ten websites where you... Read the full article: Bite The Entrepreneurial Bug By Taking 7 Free Online Courses On How To Start A Business |
| TimeWarp Redirects Distractions, Keeping You Focused [Chrome] Posted: 15 Aug 2013 08:54 AM PDT  Automatically teleport yourself to a productive site every time you try to visit a site you know you shouldn’t. TimeWarp may be simple, but it’s effective at reminding you to stop procrastinating – sometimes so subtly you’ll forget you even wanted a distraction. “I’m going to get this done,” you tell yourself, and that was the first lie. “I just want to look at Facebook for five minutes,” you tell yourself, and that was the second. Scrolling through the feeds you notice that someone is wrong about a political issue – and is wrong. “Well, I need to respond to... Read the full article: TimeWarp Redirects Distractions, Keeping You Focused [Chrome] |
| Linux Archive Managers Compared: Ark vs. File Roller Posted: 15 Aug 2013 08:10 AM PDT  Whenever you download any large files or collection of files, they will more than likely be contained in archive files. These archive files can be in various different formats, including .zip, .tar, and .bz2. The default archive managers for Linux, File Roller and Ark, are great programs that can read and edit these kinds of files, but are they identical? Archive managers may seem pretty simple at first glance, but they could potentially offer a lot more than you think. I compared these two based on their interface, ease of use, functionality, and the amount of supported archive types. Ark... Read the full article: Linux Archive Managers Compared: Ark vs. File Roller |
| 4 of the Best Personal Wikis to Keep You Organized Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:27 AM PDT  Organization is a big buzz word these days, especially because there’s so much going on at any given time what with our smartphones, our tablets, our laptops, computers, and everything else. It can be difficult to stay focused, to keep all of your ducks in line, and to make sure you don’t forget any important tasks or appointments. Most people tackle this problem through gratuitous use of note-taking apps and to-do lists, but I submit to you a different solution: the personal wiki. After Wikipedia took the world by storm, the concept of the wiki has been applied to many... Read the full article: 4 of the Best Personal Wikis to Keep You Organized |
| Access Files & Folders In Record Time With Default Folder X Posted: 15 Aug 2013 06:43 AM PDT  The Mac Finder includes several shortcuts and features for navigating to recently opened files and folders, but if you still find yourself clicking through folder hierarchies or remembering where you saved files, you might want to download a free trial of Default Folder X ($34.95). Default Folder X is a directory assistant that you can access either from the menu bar, the Open and Save download window, via assigned keyboard shortcuts or from the application’s icon in the Dock. This Finder-connected application provides some powerful enhancements to the way you navigate regularly used folders and locate and save your most used... Read the full article: Access Files & Folders In Record Time With Default Folder X |
| Posted: 15 Aug 2013 06:30 AM PDT  In an effort to give us instant answers, Google Search is rolling out a feature that allows it to tap into your Gmail, Google Calendar, or Google Plus account. This feature is best illustrated with an example. Let’s say you are trying to find out when a package will arrive. Earlier, you would need to dig up the tracking number from your inbox and then process the query. The Google Search update will now help you save time because it does the digging for you when you query it with a — “When will my package arrive?” Google Search connects... Read the full article: Personalize Google Search Results With Information From Gmail, Google Calendar or Google Plus [Updates] |
| Automate Your Hard Drive Organization With UltraDefrag Posted: 15 Aug 2013 06:05 AM PDT  Defragging is one of those things – like doing the dishes or picking up the clothes off the floor – that you know you should get around to doing, but for some reason it’s so very difficult to find the time to do. There’s no doubt that it’s important. Tina explained why defragging is still important in her review of three useful defrag tools. Yet, still it’s one of those things that’s so easy to keep procrastinating about. Why is that? The truth is that defragging just isn’t part of the regular scheduled “cleaning” for most users, even many of... Read the full article: Automate Your Hard Drive Organization With UltraDefrag |
| Custom Budget Gaming PC Build and Giveaway Posted: 15 Aug 2013 05:20 AM PDT  How hard is it to get a decent gaming PC without breaking the bank? If you go out and buy yourself a pre-assembled name-brand computer, chances are, it won’t be powerful enough to be a viable gaming computer, or you’ll spend a lot more than you would prefer. Essentially, neither of these two possibilities are ideal, and it seems like you have no other options. Maybe if you put it in a little labor into building your own computer, you might be able to find a middle ground where you get decent gaming performance at the right price. To test... Read the full article: Custom Budget Gaming PC Build and Giveaway |
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