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- Cool Websites and Tools – August 21st 2013 – Looped Videos, Image Compression, & Remote Android Setup
- Besides Android & iPhone, Is There Room For Another Mobile OS? [You Told Us]
- Selling Online? Make Sure Your Photos Sell Your Goods
- Puzzle Alarm Clock for Android Makes Sure You Never Oversleep Again
- Game On: 10 Windows 8 Metro Games You Don’t Want To Miss
- Why Email Can’t Be Protected From Government Surveillance
- 10 Breathtakingly Beautiful Fantasy Landscapes
- 10 Of The Best IFTTT Recipes To Bring Order Into Your Online Social Life
- Keep Your Data Private With These 4 VPN Apps For Android
- How To Build a Home Automation System with Raspberry Pi and Arduino
- 5 Ways Tech Can Help You Foster Better Study Habits
- Freshdesk: A Refreshing Take On A Help Desk Application For Your Business [Sponsored]
- 5 Ways To Harness The Power Of The Crowd
- Enhance Android Gaming With These Controller Options
- Join These Today: 10 Of The Most Interesting Communities on Google+
| Posted: 21 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including looped videos, a cloud eBook reader, image compression, remote Android setup, and optimizing your bills. Read on below! Coub – A coub is a looped video up to 10 seconds long. Capture a moment with a tiny bit of motion and create the illusion of a moving photograph. Show off your artwork and products from every angle. Bring your characters to life and invent neverending stories. Collect your favorite movie quotes and snippets from songs, TV shows, and YouTube videos. Add a full-length audio track... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 21st 2013 – Looped Videos, Image Compression, & Remote Android Setup |
| Besides Android & iPhone, Is There Room For Another Mobile OS? [You Told Us] Posted: 21 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT  Mobile phones slowly but surely became dominant, with everyone from students to octogenarians, from cleaners to CEOs, owning one. And then came the smartphone, which is currently growing just as ubiquitous. This means there is a war taking place among hardware manufacturers, software giants, and app developers to decide which brand and which operating system is king. One operating system is way out in front in terms of market share at the time of writing, with another very well established in certain countries. But these two, as-yet-unnamed, entities face challenges from the also-rans and new contenders… possibly. Which led to... Read the full article: Besides Android & iPhone, Is There Room For Another Mobile OS? [You Told Us] |
| Selling Online? Make Sure Your Photos Sell Your Goods Posted: 21 Aug 2013 02:20 PM PDT  How many times have you bought something second-hand in a shop without properly inspecting it first? Any answer other than “never” means you’re doing it wrong, and the same is true for Internet sales too. While the price and description you decide on will influence potential customers, it’s your photos that will draw in potential buyers. Regardless of whether you make a living selling items on eBay or simply have an attic full of junk you need to shift, you’ll get a better price and more interest by following these tips. Actually Take Some Photos This one’s pretty easy and... Read the full article: Selling Online? Make Sure Your Photos Sell Your Goods |
| Puzzle Alarm Clock for Android Makes Sure You Never Oversleep Again Posted: 21 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT  Alarm clocks are fundamentally very simple things: They wait until the designated time, and then wreak havoc. Or so the basic concept goes, at least. But these simple alarm clocks all face an age-old problem: What if you switch them off an go back to sleep for “five more minutes” only to wake up hours later? Supposedly, you could use self control to solve this problem. But why use self control when you can use technology instead? So, this is where things start getting creative. The next step up from a mechanical clock is one with a snooze function, of... Read the full article: Puzzle Alarm Clock for Android Makes Sure You Never Oversleep Again |
| Game On: 10 Windows 8 Metro Games You Don’t Want To Miss Posted: 21 Aug 2013 01:15 PM PDT  Windows 8 has long been a controversial operating system, with concerns about the user interface, the lack of the Start button and menu, and a general mashing of two completely different user interfaces at the top of many people's lists of complaints. There is, however, another dimension to this. Gaming on Windows 8 has also proved a provocative talking point, with people such as Valve chief Gabe Newell declaring that the platform would be “a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space” (although interestingly the 64 bit edition of Windows 8 is now the second most used OS on Valve's... Read the full article: Game On: 10 Windows 8 Metro Games You Don’t Want To Miss |
| Why Email Can’t Be Protected From Government Surveillance Posted: 21 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT  "If you knew what I know about email, you might not use it either," said the owner of secure email service Lavabit as he recently shut it down. “There is no way to do encrypted e-mail where the content is protected,” said Phil Zimmermann as he suddenly shut down Silent Circle’s secure email service. The reality is that email is fundamentally insecure and can never be protected from government surveillance in the same way some other communications can. Sure, you may be using a different encrypted and “secure” email service that hasn’t shut down yet. But they’re vulnerable to the... Read the full article: Why Email Can’t Be Protected From Government Surveillance |
| 10 Breathtakingly Beautiful Fantasy Landscapes Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Does your imagination sometimes roam free, and suddenly you’re in a majestic kingdom high up in the clouds? Perhaps you find yourself in a lovely mountainside with flower petals streaming through the air? Anything’s possible when you close your eyes and let your creativity take over. Deviantart member fangmin did just that, and these are 10 of his most breathtaking drawings. Click to enlarge. Desert City The Kunlun Mountains City Gates Trial Dynasty Rise The Temple Olympus Xanadu Dali Kingdom Elf Kingdom Read the full article: 10 Breathtakingly Beautiful Fantasy Landscapes |
| 10 Of The Best IFTTT Recipes To Bring Order Into Your Online Social Life Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT  Tell yourself how many minutes of the day you give to the time sink that goes by the name of Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or any other. The minutes add up. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to balance social media and productivity with a bit of automation that can do all the grunt work for us while we can sit back and enjoy its tidbits? We really can because we came to know about IFTTT around 2011, which its creator Linden Tibbets aptly calls a “digital duct tape”. IFTTT (If This Then That) is a wonderfully useful service that helps you set... Read the full article: 10 Of The Best IFTTT Recipes To Bring Order Into Your Online Social Life |
| Keep Your Data Private With These 4 VPN Apps For Android Posted: 21 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Our readers had a lot of great suggestions for free VPN apps for Android over at MakeUseOf Answers, and I’m here to put some of those to the test. VPNs can be useful for a whole host of reasons, but their main benefits are that they keep your data private even over a public WiFi connection (which are surprisingly easy to exploit) and they allow you to access region-blocked content (although there are other ways to do that). There are plenty of great VPN options for PCs and Mac, but there is a surprisingly diverse array of options for Android... Read the full article: Keep Your Data Private With These 4 VPN Apps For Android |
| How To Build a Home Automation System with Raspberry Pi and Arduino Posted: 21 Aug 2013 11:15 AM PDT  We’ve talked about the relative merits of Arduino and Raspberry Pi before – they each have their strengths. They needn’t be an either or choice though – combine them to get the best of both worlds. Home automation is the perfect candidate for this. The home automation market is flooded with expensive consumer systems, incompatible with one another and costly to install. If you have a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino, you can basically achieve the same thing at a fraction of the price, assuming you’re willing to put in the time and the effort. Heimcontrol.js by Willi Thiel is... Read the full article: How To Build a Home Automation System with Raspberry Pi and Arduino |
| 5 Ways Tech Can Help You Foster Better Study Habits Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT  It’s been a while since I’ve been in school, but I know a few friends who are still studying their way towards graduation. It amazes me how many tools currently exist out there to aid in the study process – tools that I would’ve loved to make use of back before I earned my degree. Unfortunately, my time for improved study habits is over, but you can still benefit! Technology is wonderful like that. If there’s a lack, then someone will find a way to create technology that works to help alleviate some of that lack. Can’t focus or concentrate?... Read the full article: 5 Ways Tech Can Help You Foster Better Study Habits |
| Freshdesk: A Refreshing Take On A Help Desk Application For Your Business [Sponsored] Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT  This post was made possible by Freshdesk. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of MakeUseOf.com. The general idea of a company is to create new customers and retain existing ones. The best companies follow a customer-oriented credo. But keeping customers happy isn’t easy. A well-honed customer support team is just one part of the equation that goes into making a customer-centric company. To keep every smile intact, you also need the help of technology. In Customer Relationship Management (CRM), this comes in the form of a help desk solution which is a combination of a business process... Read the full article: Freshdesk: A Refreshing Take On A Help Desk Application For Your Business [Sponsored] |
| 5 Ways To Harness The Power Of The Crowd Posted: 21 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT  Crowdsourcing can take on lots of different forms. Between social media and niche crowdsourcing sites, you can harness the power of the crowd to get just about anything. Whether it’s raising funds, looking for information, news, photos, or videos, there are niche sites that can cater to your exact needs. We’ve asked you before what you think of crowdfunding sites, but what about crowdsourcing sites in general? We’ve listed five of the most popular types of crowdsourcing websites below. Crowdfunding The most common form of crowdsourcing that has taken off has to be crowdfounding, in large part due to the... Read the full article: 5 Ways To Harness The Power Of The Crowd |
| Enhance Android Gaming With These Controller Options Posted: 21 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Gaming on a touchscreen can be difficult and frustrating. While being able to whip out your Android phone and sneak in a little Final Fantasy on your lunch break is great, having no tactile feedback or physical buttons can degrade the experience. Thankfully, there are a bevy of controllers that can easily connect with your Android device and have you gaming in no time. Many Android games found in the Play Store are compatible with these Bluetooth controllers, and you can even use them with all your favorite emulators. Of course, you could connect your Wiimote, Xbox 360 controller, or... Read the full article: Enhance Android Gaming With These Controller Options |
| Join These Today: 10 Of The Most Interesting Communities on Google+ Posted: 21 Aug 2013 08:15 AM PDT  What’s the deal with Google+ anyway? Is it awesome? Is it a flop? Are communities and groups out there using it and growing? Will it some day become equal to or even greater than the monster social network known as Facebook? It’s hard to say, and impossible to predict the future, but one thing that’s for certain is that there’s no shortage of opportunities to find some pretty interesting stuff on Google+, especially if you’ve ever browsed through the many Communities located there. You can get to the Communities area of Google+ by hovering your mouse over the “Home” button... Read the full article: Join These Today: 10 Of The Most Interesting Communities on Google+ |
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