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- Cool Websites and Tools – August 26th 2013 – 7 Minute Workout, Remove Image Background & Chess Learning
- Test Your Hearing Age & Other Fun Science Videos With AsapSCIENCE [Stuff to Watch]
- Can You Run Your Business Purely From Your Smartphone?
- Read, Study & Highlight With Diigo and eHighlighter
- Caption Contest: Giant
- Use Your Raspberry Pi Like a Desktop PC
- 5 iOS Apps To Help You Become An Interior Design Master
- Thought Maps Were Dull? 7 Creative Google Maps Mashups Prove You Wrong
- 6 Ways To Free Up Space On Your Windows Computer
- The 1-2-3 Guide To Spring Cleaning Your Android Smartphone
- WPS Office For Linux Looks As Good As MS Office, Performs Even Better
- How To Make a Simple Arduino Alarm System
- 4 Easy Ways To Keep Up With Breaking News Online
- WordPress Editorial Calendar: The Most Useful Plugin You Never Knew You Needed
- 4 Simple and Easy Tools to Flash Android ROMs Compared
| Posted: 26 Aug 2013 03:00 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including removing background from images, deleting your online accounts, a website of worst YouTube videos, a chess learning, and exercising for 7 Minutes per day . Read on below! Clippingmagic – This web service lets you easily remove the background from your images to create masks, clipping paths or cutouts. It is free and simple to use. All you need to do is upload image, mark some foreground green and some background red and the algorithm takes care of the details. Once satisfied with the results... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 26th 2013 – 7 Minute Workout, Remove Image Background & Chess Learning |
| Test Your Hearing Age & Other Fun Science Videos With AsapSCIENCE [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 26 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT  YouTube and education goes well together with courses, lectures and experiments from the world’s finest educational establishments, but much of the time videos of kittens outdo solid informative efforts. It’s no secret that the best way to make people learn is to engage them with your subject, but this is easier said than done. That’s particularly true on the Internet, where everything is a distraction. Striking the balance between education and entertainment (go on, use the word edutainment, I dare you) is difficult, but many have achieved it. AsapSCIENCE is another channel that fuses short bursts of truly interesting knowledge into light, hand-drawn... Read the full article: Test Your Hearing Age & Other Fun Science Videos With AsapSCIENCE [Stuff to Watch] |
| Can You Run Your Business Purely From Your Smartphone? Posted: 26 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT  Ah, the smartphone. This device that many would have you believe can literally do anything. Is it even worthy of being called a mere phone? We have so many apps that can turn it into almost any tool that we need, and the word “phone” seems a bit limiting. Regardless, can your smartphone really do anything? Furthermore, can you run your business from your smartphone? MakeUseOf wanted to find out, so we nailed down the five main cores of business when it comes to basic operations and we’ve take the smartphone approach to these essential needs. Here’s how they compare. Communication The... Read the full article: Can You Run Your Business Purely From Your Smartphone? |
| Read, Study & Highlight With Diigo and eHighlighter Posted: 26 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT  The best way to study and review text is to highlight and annotate what you read, and two of the most useful tools for doing this are the online and iPad app, Diigo, and the recently updated eHighlighter. I won’t pretend that making annotations with a traditional yellow highlighter and sticky notes is sometimes faster and better for study purposes, but digital annotations offer so much more when it comes to reviewing, sharing, and even archiving annotations. The little extra effort you make to use Diigo and eHighlighter can be worth it when it comes to taking in information, studying... Read the full article: Read, Study & Highlight With Diigo and eHighlighter |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Wow, your plug is huge, George. Caption this image! Share your funniest captions with us in the comments section for a chance to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! More t-shirt designs will be added to the inventory shortly. The winner will be chosen and announced the following day. Hop to it! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Giant |
| Use Your Raspberry Pi Like a Desktop PC Posted: 26 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT  There are so many amazing things that you can do with a Raspberry Pi, from running your own space program to building a media centre. But what about using it as a desktop PC? Although ostensibly intended as a compact computer that can be produced cheaply in order for students to learn programming basics, the Raspberry Pi has developed into something of a phenomenon. But rather than build a retro gaming centre or NAS box, how does it measure up performing basic desktop tasks? After all, there may be times that you need to check your email or browse the... Read the full article: Use Your Raspberry Pi Like a Desktop PC |
| 5 iOS Apps To Help You Become An Interior Design Master Posted: 26 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Is there anything an iPhone or iPad cannot help you with? If there is, I have yet to find it. Turns out, you can even use the magical devices to help make your home a more beautiful and comfortable place. Planning an interior design project is hard, and that is why there are people who do it for a full-time job. However, we can’t all afford to hire a professional, and that’s where some awesome iPhone apps can come in and save the day. I will readily admit that I spend way too much of my time watching shows on... Read the full article: 5 iOS Apps To Help You Become An Interior Design Master |
| Thought Maps Were Dull? 7 Creative Google Maps Mashups Prove You Wrong Posted: 26 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Truth be told — I don’t have to break sweat to prove how Google Maps can show you the world in new fantastic ways. Seafarers used them to find new lands. We use them today to understand information. Oh, maps still do take us from New Delhi to New York, but they are also turning us into virtual tourists or helping us go back in time. That’s no magical trickery, because Google Maps gives a creative programmer or designer a free rein to make something amazing out of a mashup. Mashups are combinations or composites of two different things and... Read the full article: Thought Maps Were Dull? 7 Creative Google Maps Mashups Prove You Wrong |
| 6 Ways To Free Up Space On Your Windows Computer Posted: 26 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Clutter can be a big downer on productivity, whether it's your workstation, your home, or your computer. Entropy is the reason why clutter builds up over time, and entropy takes many forms in the context of computers. Files get lost, programs go unused, and little by little various nooks and crannies in your computer are taken up by stray bits of data. Suddenly, your once spacious hard drive is packed with useless things and you have to clean it up. But how? It's not enough to delete things left and right. You need to find the big space hogs, identify... Read the full article: 6 Ways To Free Up Space On Your Windows Computer |
| The 1-2-3 Guide To Spring Cleaning Your Android Smartphone Posted: 26 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT  Android smartphones fill up over time with apps, photos, media, and even leftover app data. Worse yet, if your smartphone is nearly full, the write performance of its flash memory will decrease, slowing everything down. Luckily, cleaning up your smartphone and freeing up files should be fairly easy. You can do this all yourself with tools built into Android. The steps here were written for Android 4.3 on a Nexus 4 and should be very similar on devices running Android 4.0 and newer. Devices running older Android versions like Android 2.3 may not have all of these features available in... Read the full article: The 1-2-3 Guide To Spring Cleaning Your Android Smartphone |
| WPS Office For Linux Looks As Good As MS Office, Performs Even Better Posted: 26 Aug 2013 09:00 AM PDT  It's about time someone made an Office suite that can actually claim to be better than Microsoft Office. With WPS Office for Linux, Kingsoft has a winner. We have shown you how to get Microsoft Office running in Linux through Wine, but if the one thing keeping you back from using Linux is a native Microsoft Office alternative you're in luck. WPS Office is essentially a Linux port of the Kingsoft Office suite available for Windows, and is a darn impressive clone of MS Office. The current package, Alpha 11, includes three apps: Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheet — alternatives for the... Read the full article: WPS Office For Linux Looks As Good As MS Office, Performs Even Better |
| How To Make a Simple Arduino Alarm System Posted: 26 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT  Detect movement, then scare the heck out of an intruder with a high pitched alarm sounds and flashing lights. Does that sound fun? Of course it does. That’s the goal of today’s Arduino project, suitable for beginners. We’ll be writing completely from scratch and testing as we go along so you can hopefully get some idea of how it’s all being done rather than simply installing something I’ve already made. Disclaimer: this isn’t going to actually protect your house. It might give your sister a nasty shock when she sneaks into your room though. You’ll need: An Arduino Ultrasonic “ping”... Read the full article: How To Make a Simple Arduino Alarm System |
| 4 Easy Ways To Keep Up With Breaking News Online Posted: 26 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT  In today’s world of fast-paced breaking news, it can often times be difficult to keep up with everything that’s going on. Between Twitter, Facebook, news networks, email and RSS, there’s no shortage of places to find the latest in local and global news. But if you want a more targeted experience — one that includes smartphone alerts from your preferred news networks, emails with breaking news as it happens, and, of course, a healthy dose of Twitter-delivered news — we’ve got you covered. Taking a look at the key places you would want breaking news delivered to — your phone, email inbox, RSS... Read the full article: 4 Easy Ways To Keep Up With Breaking News Online |
| WordPress Editorial Calendar: The Most Useful Plugin You Never Knew You Needed Posted: 26 Aug 2013 07:00 AM PDT  If you run a blog, you have no doubt at some point made great plans to publish regular content, to keep your blog fresh and relevant to your readers. But did you stick to that ideal? Did you find it difficult to track whether you had posts ready for the times you’d planned to publish? Most people do have trouble tracking their posts – and that’s because WordPress doesn’t have a calendar view by default. Here’s how you can start viewing your upcoming posts in a way that actually makes sense – that is, with a calendar. The WordPress Editorial... Read the full article: WordPress Editorial Calendar: The Most Useful Plugin You Never Knew You Needed |
| 4 Simple and Easy Tools to Flash Android ROMs Compared Posted: 26 Aug 2013 06:00 AM PDT  Ever wanted to flash a new ROM on your Android device but didn’t have the patience to deal with the whole flashing process? I remember spending hours trying to download, transfer, reboot, flash, reboot, wait, reboot, all just to try out a new ROM. I don’t have the time for that anymore and it’d be nice to be able to flash a ROM straight from an app with an intuitive interface. Fortunately, there are some available on the Play Store. But before we go on, I must warn you that flashing an Android ROM is not a newbie procedure. It’s... Read the full article: 4 Simple and Easy Tools to Flash Android ROMs Compared |
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