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- Cool Websites and Tools – August 19th 2013 – Energy Consumption, Android Screencasts, & Big Clocks
- These Films Will Stop You Texting & Driving For Good [Stuff to Watch]
- Missing Shark Week? Enter The Amazing Animal World On The Smithsonian Channel
- How To Select The Best Educational Apps As Kids Go Back To School
- Caption Contest: Tech Support
- The Best 10 Google Docs Tips For Teachers As They Go Back To School
- 4 Of The Best Pinball Video Games Of All Time
- Key Differences Between Google Adwords Tool And The Keyword Planner
- 3 Series From The Nintendo 64 Worth Bringing Back
- 4 Online Courses You Could Take Instead Of Going Back to School
- How The Next Web Was Born: A Talk With Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten
- Better Manage & Browse Your Mac’s Files With Path Finder
- Move Over, Sim City: The Best City Building Games for iOS
- Access FTP Servers Using Your Native File Browser
- How To Organize Your Research With The Power Of Google Drive
| Cool Websites and Tools – August 19th 2013 – Energy Consumption, Android Screencasts, & Big Clocks Posted: 19 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including monitoring your energy consumption, scanning short URL’s, Android screencasts, Firefox big clocks, and designer feedback. Read on below! Efergy Engage – Once you have installed the engage app on your iPhone you will have access to a range of features that allow you to monitor your energy consumption remotely. The energy graph widget allows you to see your demand in kW along with your consumption over daily and monthly periods. If you rotate your phone between landscape and portrait orientations you change the level on... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 19th 2013 – Energy Consumption, Android Screencasts, & Big Clocks |
| These Films Will Stop You Texting & Driving For Good [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT  In 2010 US telco AT&T started a campaign to reduce the number of accidents, deaths and permanent injuries as a result of drivers being distracted by their phones. What began as a campaign for no texting while driving has picked up speed as more and more US states adopt laws that punish and hope to deter this activity. Recently AT&T got on-board with Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon in a concerted effort to spread the word even further with a new documentary, directed by a rather special German filmmaker. If you drive or intend to one day get behind the wheel then... Read the full article: These Films Will Stop You Texting & Driving For Good [Stuff to Watch] |
| Missing Shark Week? Enter The Amazing Animal World On The Smithsonian Channel Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:45 PM PDT  Shark Week seems to be a pretty big deal to a lot of people, at least here in in the United States. The Discovery Channel is awesome, and the shark is one of the most feared and interesting animals in the world. We tend to be attracted to things that we’re afraid of, and there’s no more magnetic predator than the king of the seas. The Discovery Channel decided to kick off the 2013 edition of Shark Week with a “documentary” that attempted to prove the current existence of a shark that lived around millions of years ago during the... Read the full article: Missing Shark Week? Enter The Amazing Animal World On The Smithsonian Channel |
| How To Select The Best Educational Apps As Kids Go Back To School Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Kids are precocious and know their way around the app jungle. I guess kids will be kids and they will prefer killing zombies rather than downloading a math app to study the Binomial Theorem. App developers have realized it’s the fun element that’s making edutainment such a big deal today. It is. Edutainment is a multi-billion dollar industry. But how do you as a parent judge if the educational app you downloaded is the right one? Apple and Google both are dedicated to education. Apple took a lead with the many K-12 educational apps in its kitty. Google Play for... Read the full article: How To Select The Best Educational Apps As Kids Go Back To School |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Do you often feel like your head’s going to blow off when helping others to troubleshoot their PC problems? Don’t just you just feel like yelling, “Turn it off and on again!“? Caption this image! Share your wittiest captions with us in the comments and you might win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt of your choice. A winner will be selected the following day. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Tech Support |
| The Best 10 Google Docs Tips For Teachers As They Go Back To School Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT  Back-to-school time is underway, and I’m sure you teachers are already balancing your lives, your classroom, and your pesky administrations. What could make life just a little bit easier for you? Google Docs, my dear educator friend. Google Docs. Below, we have ten awesome tips to help you out when handling your students and their parents. Some of them you may know, but others, you very well may not. Bear in mind that the only way this will work is if you are already integrating Google Docs into your classroom. Make sure you establish this before you get started! Also, if you are afraid... Read the full article: The Best 10 Google Docs Tips For Teachers As They Go Back To School |
| 4 Of The Best Pinball Video Games Of All Time Posted: 19 Aug 2013 11:20 AM PDT  Playing video game pinball can be almost as good as the real thing. Of course, playing on a real pinball table is the optimal way to do it, but a well-made simulation can come pretty close. Add in the fact that you can play from the comfort of your home, and you have a truly winning experience. Today, we are going to have a look at the very best virtual pinball experiences you can get your hands on. It’s funny how it has actually come full circle, with pinball machines leading to the arcade games that ultimately let to us having... Read the full article: 4 Of The Best Pinball Video Games Of All Time |
| Key Differences Between Google Adwords Tool And The Keyword Planner Posted: 19 Aug 2013 10:40 AM PDT  If you’ve logged into your Google Adwords account lately and attempted to use the Adwords keyword research tool, then you’ve probably seen the recent alert message at the top of your account notifying you that the Keyword Tool will no longer be available within the next few months. Instead, it’s being replaced with what Google has deemed the “Keyword Planner”. The warning message seems a bit ominous, and reactions across the Internet are a bit mixed. Some folks have erroneously claimed that local traffic data has “disappeared”, while others say that the new interface makes the search process much more... Read the full article: Key Differences Between Google Adwords Tool And The Keyword Planner |
| 3 Series From The Nintendo 64 Worth Bringing Back Posted: 19 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT  The Nintendo 64 was a console that changed the world of gaming and brought us things that we’ve never seen before. As the latest of all fifth-generation consoles, it came attached to a launch title that represents the entire brand: Super Mario 64. With nearly 40 million units sold worldwide, it goes without saying that the Nintendo 64 offered many more memorable games that put the console on such a pedestal. Games like GoldenEye 007, Mario Kart 64, Perfect Dark, and Pokémon Snap had loyal Nintendo fans going absolutely crazy. The Nintendo 64 also birthed several series of games, it’s... Read the full article: 3 Series From The Nintendo 64 Worth Bringing Back |
| 4 Online Courses You Could Take Instead Of Going Back to School Posted: 19 Aug 2013 09:20 AM PDT  Graduation is the most important part of any undergraduate’s academic career. I expect that in a couple of years, I’ll be standing outside my university wearing an absurd hat, looking like a slightly more rotund teacher from the Bash Street Kids, clutching a degree and ready to take big confident steps into the real world. Oh, and I would have also accumulated an eye-watering £50,000 worth of debt for the privilege. Ouch. Yep, going for a university education is an expensive proposition. There’s no doubting that. In the US, student loan debt recently topped $1,000,000,000 – A number that is so... Read the full article: 4 Online Courses You Could Take Instead Of Going Back to School |
| How The Next Web Was Born: A Talk With Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten Posted: 19 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT  “I remember the relief at the end of the first conference where we really felt like we pulled something off that was way bigger than we had ever done.” Part event, part website, The Next Web is among the most influential blogs and can easily be described as an online juggernaut. Founded in 2006 as a technology conference (which now runs annually), the popular TNW blog was launched in 2008. There are few overnight successes in business, but the positive reaction the then 24-year-old Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and his colleagues Patrick de Laive and Arjen Schat experienced following the first... Read the full article: How The Next Web Was Born: A Talk With Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten |
| Better Manage & Browse Your Mac’s Files With Path Finder Posted: 19 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT  The Finder for many Mac users is the hub for accessing, previewing, and navigating files. Depending on how it’s used, it can be a useful file manager, or it can be a time waster when you can’t quickly locate documents or move files. One of the alternatives to the Mac Finder is TotalFinder, which is an almost seamless replacement for the OS X Finder. But another alternative Finder application I’ve been using for the last few years is Cocoatech’s legendary Path Finder 6 ($39.95). It’s more expensive than TotalFinder, but it also has some great pro features that Mac power users... Read the full article: Better Manage & Browse Your Mac’s Files With Path Finder |
| Move Over, Sim City: The Best City Building Games for iOS Posted: 19 Aug 2013 07:20 AM PDT  When I decided to highlight the best city building games on the App Store, I didn’t realise what a shortage of quality titles there were. After last year’s SimCity fiasco in which EA screwed the pooch, disappointing gamers with tiny cities and always-on DRM; you’d be forgiven for thinking a few enterprising developers would take up the slack, so to speak. Unfortunately progress has been slow for the city building genre on iOS, despite the platform’s ability to monetize well-executed concepts. That’s not to say there’s nothing to sink your teeth into if your mayoral urges take over, though you... Read the full article: Move Over, Sim City: The Best City Building Games for iOS |
| Access FTP Servers Using Your Native File Browser Posted: 19 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT  FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is one of the most common protocols for transferring files. You’ll use HTTP while browsing the web, but FTP while communicating with a file server. Normally, you’d use an FTP client for this. Especially when you work over FTP a lot (e.g. web developers), it pays off to use a specialised client that supports favourites, synchronisation and improved batch transfers. We’ve listed some of these at our top Mac and Linux software pages. While there are a huge number of good FTP clients out there, sometimes you can get by without installing any third-party... Read the full article: Access FTP Servers Using Your Native File Browser |
| How To Organize Your Research With The Power Of Google Drive Posted: 19 Aug 2013 06:00 AM PDT  Google Docs has made its home on Google Drive. So after one year, it’s high time to get used to calling it by the new account name. Some digital habits die hard, and in my case I find it’s still kicking as I continue to call it by its former name. I am one of the stragglers here. But then there’s one thing which hasn’t changed – my continuing reliance on Google for my web research. Google Drive might be jogging steadfastly behind Microsoft Office, but Google Drive is adding muscles to its legs; at least enough to help out... Read the full article: How To Organize Your Research With The Power Of Google Drive |
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