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- Cool Websites and Tools – August 23rd 2013 – Wikipedia Changes, Sexual Offenders, & Full Length Movies On YouTube
- Looking For A New Laptop? Get A Chromebook Instead!
- The Evolution Of The Podcast — How A Medium Was Born [Geek History]
- How To Backup & Restore Your WordPress Site Easily With UpdraftPlus
- Caption Contest: Shots Fired
- Linux Desktop Email Clients Compared: Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. KMail vs. Claws Mail
- What Are The Best Child Tracking Tools?
- Create and Store Network Settings Profiles With Simple IP Config
- iMPC: Akai’s Legendary Music Production Centre Comes To iPhone & iPad
- 10 Advanced Tips & Tricks For Google Forms
- FormLabs Release FreeForm 3D Printer Software For OS X Users [Updates]
- Emulate Android On Your Desktop Using Windroy
- Control Your MacBook Keyboard Lights With Lab Tick
- 4 More Awesome SNES Games You’ve Probably Never Played
- Bing Takes Students Back To School With Improved Digital Literacy Skills [Updates]
| Posted: 23 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including recent Wikipedia changes, information about sexual offenders in your area, a search engine to find the current market value for an item, full length movies on YouTube, and testing web fonts on any website. Read on below! Hatnote – Listen to Wikipedia’s recent changes feed. The sounds indicate addition to (bells) or subtraction from (strings) a Wikipedia articles, and the pitch changes according to the size of the edit. Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots.... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 23rd 2013 – Wikipedia Changes, Sexual Offenders, & Full Length Movies On YouTube |
| Looking For A New Laptop? Get A Chromebook Instead! Posted: 23 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT  Google’s Chromebooks are surprisingly good laptops. They’re cheap — only $249 for what’s probably the best one at the moment — lightweight, portable, and quick-to-boot. They may not be the ideal computer for a PC gamer or heavy-duty desktop software user, but they can be great portable web browsers to drag to class. Chromebooks have become surprisingly capable, but they can’t do everything. They can’t play the latest PC games or run the desktop version of Photoshop. You can’t install iTunes and maintain a 500GB collection of local music files. But you’d be surprised at all the things a Chromebook... Read the full article: Looking For A New Laptop? Get A Chromebook Instead! |
| The Evolution Of The Podcast — How A Medium Was Born [Geek History] Posted: 23 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT  Some say they’re already old-fashioned, others argue they’re more popular than ever. Whatever your take on podcasts, you have to admit: they’ve democratized broadcasting, and provided people with a smorgasbord of things to potentially listen to. But where did podcasting come from? To answer this, think about what podcasting is, and how it differs from mediums before it. A podcast is kind of like a radio show, but it’s not delivered (or intended to be listened to) at a certain time. Instead, it’s automatically delivered to a listener’s device — thanks to RSS. It’s stored on their own hard drive... Read the full article: The Evolution Of The Podcast — How A Medium Was Born [Geek History] |
| How To Backup & Restore Your WordPress Site Easily With UpdraftPlus Posted: 23 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Being a WordPress site owner myself I’ve seen servers fail and loss of data on more than one occasion. Hardware fails, and hackers will try to compromise your site. With that in mind it’s very important to have a tried and tested backup routine, so that you can restore your site should the worst happen. You spend a lot of time tweaking, changing, and managing your website. So imagine how awful it would be to lose all of that hard work at the hands of something that is completely out of your control. We’ve previously shown you some of the really useful... Read the full article: How To Backup & Restore Your WordPress Site Easily With UpdraftPlus |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Are 3D games starting to feel too real? Caption this image! Share your funniest captions in the comment section below and they might just win you a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! The winner will be selected and announced the following day. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Shots Fired |
| Linux Desktop Email Clients Compared: Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. KMail vs. Claws Mail Posted: 23 Aug 2013 11:45 AM PDT  Looking for a Linux email client? Here’s a breakdown comparing the four best options. Webmail use is still on the rise, and it’s not hard to understand why. There’s Gmail’s webmail-specific features, the ability to always see all of your email, and the convenience of viewing your email anywhere with just a browser and login credentials are just a few reasons why people have made email clients (outside of enterprise environments) almost obsolete. These advantages aside, there are still enough reasons to use a desktop email client as well. Some include desktop integration features such as system notifications for new... Read the full article: Linux Desktop Email Clients Compared: Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. KMail vs. Claws Mail |
| What Are The Best Child Tracking Tools? Posted: 23 Aug 2013 10:45 AM PDT  Every parent worries about their children’s safety. Whether its the nervousness when your young one is home late from school, or the fear that your teenage driver isn’t actually going where they say they are; there are apps and devices to help you and keep your children safe. There are a few apps for Android and iOS that can track your child using GPS and even offer some additional features, but there are also several physical devices that can offer a few advantages over the smartphone apps. For instance, their batteries last much longer than the average smartphone, and your child doesn’t need... Read the full article: What Are The Best Child Tracking Tools? |
| Create and Store Network Settings Profiles With Simple IP Config Posted: 23 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT  You’re in a rush. The boss wants you to run out to a customer site, hook up to their network and run a few tests, then return to the office and write up a quick report. On the way, you’re hoping to stop off at home for lunch and play a quick LAN game with your kids. Yes, this is the fast-paced life of a tech geek, and you love it. The only problem is that sometimes technology doesn’t keep up with us. To accomplish the sort of scenario described above, you may need to edit your network configuration settings... Read the full article: Create and Store Network Settings Profiles With Simple IP Config |
| iMPC: Akai’s Legendary Music Production Centre Comes To iPhone & iPad Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:45 AM PDT  Few devices have had an impact on music quite like the Akai MPC. The sampler, sequencer and all-round music making machine was first released in 1988 and soon took the hip hop world by storm. The ability to sample, chop and play back the results using with 16-pad percussion-like accuracy unleashed waves of creativity across the world, and Akai still make the MPC today. Luckily, Akai has recognised that not everyone has a couple of thousand dollars to spend on dedicated music-making hardware. iPad users have been able to make great use of their additional screen real estate with iMPC for... Read the full article: iMPC: Akai’s Legendary Music Production Centre Comes To iPhone & iPad |
| 10 Advanced Tips & Tricks For Google Forms Posted: 23 Aug 2013 09:15 AM PDT  If Google Forms is not yet your go-to form maker, it’s time for us to change your mind. You may think you know everything there is to know about Google Forms, but thanks to Google’s use-it-and-you’ll-work-it-out attitude, perhaps you don’t. There are a lot of powerful tools hidden away in places you may not ever find unless you know what you’re looking for. We’re here to make sure you know all the top tricks of Google Forms. If you’ve been using Google Forms for the occasional survey, you may already know a few great reasons to use Google Forms over... Read the full article: 10 Advanced Tips & Tricks For Google Forms |
| FormLabs Release FreeForm 3D Printer Software For OS X Users [Updates] Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT  The 3D printing technology company FormLabs, released this week its free OS X compatible software PreForm 0.8.4 which works with its 3D printer hardware, Form 1. FormLabs says in its blog that the Mac PreForm program is in complete feature parity with Windows version, which was released earlier this year. With the PreForm software, users can digitally design products that get printed using the Stereolithography for 3D print resolution and surface finish process. The software features include a workflow process that simplifies the print job setup, manual tools for rotation, scaling, and duplication, and the ability to save part layouts as a... Read the full article: FormLabs Release FreeForm 3D Printer Software For OS X Users [Updates] |
| Emulate Android On Your Desktop Using Windroy Posted: 23 Aug 2013 08:15 AM PDT  Do you wish you could run your favorite Android apps from the comfort of your Windows computer? As a PC enthusiast and desktop user, nothing is more frustrating than sitting down with my smartphone and finding an app that I really enjoy. Chances are, that app doesn’t offer any native desktop version. An app like Kik comes to mind. Kik is a great messaging service for your smartphone, but there’s no native way to use Kik from a laptop or desktop. You have to use an emulator. You’ve probably heard of BlueStacks before, and if you haven’t then you’re missing... Read the full article: Emulate Android On Your Desktop Using Windroy |
| Control Your MacBook Keyboard Lights With Lab Tick Posted: 23 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT  Take total control of the lights behind your MacBook keyboard. Lab Tick is a free Mac program that lets you manually control backlight levels with a simple slider. Taking control of the backlight on your Macbook Pro or Air keyboard isn’t hard: newer models specifically devote keys to the purpose. That wasn’t always true, however. Before the addition of keys for the job, there was basically no way to control the lights behind the keys manually. They did what they wanted based on a light sensor – and it wasn’t always what the user wanted. So why check out this... Read the full article: Control Your MacBook Keyboard Lights With Lab Tick |
| 4 More Awesome SNES Games You’ve Probably Never Played Posted: 23 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT  I think we can all agree that the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) is one of the best video game consoles ever made. If you don’t agree, you must be like my illustrious co-host of the Technophilia podcast, Mr. James Bruce, and prefer weird virtual reality games. The range of games on the console is truly staggering, with every genre from shooter to RPG represented. Nintendo was truly in its prime during the era of the SNES, and sadly, it has fallen off a bit, at least in the home console space (although the Wii certainly gained plenty of sales success).... Read the full article: 4 More Awesome SNES Games You’ve Probably Never Played |
| Bing Takes Students Back To School With Improved Digital Literacy Skills [Updates] Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:30 AM PDT  Bing for Schools is an education-focused initiative which aims to improve digital literacy skills in students through the power of search. One of the highlights is the strict attention to SafeSearch filtering and blocking of adult content. A recent Pew Pollrevealed that 94% of teachers think their students are most likely use a search engine during a typical assignment. Thus, it’s important that schools ensure students do it in a child-safe environment that doesn’t barrage them with ads. Bing has invited schools across the United States to take part in the program, which will expand gradually. According to Bing, schools... Read the full article: Bing Takes Students Back To School With Improved Digital Literacy Skills [Updates] |
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