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- 10 Free Music Albums: The Wild Folk Americana Edition [Sound Sunday]
- Beautify Your Android Phone With These 5 Stunning Custom Icon Packs
- Would You Subscribe To A Monthly MakeUseOf Magazine? [MakeUseOf Poll]
- Caption Contest: Oversized
- Rdio Rolls Out New and Improved Stations [Updates]
| 10 Free Music Albums: The Wild Folk Americana Edition [Sound Sunday] Posted: 11 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT  Sound Sunday brings you the best free and legal music downloads on the net. Towards the end of the week I sit down to go through my album archives, browse Twitter and Bandcamp, review recommendations and submissions, and put together the edition for the same week. Often I find more than I can feature and I file it for another time. This week I emptied my over-bursting folk & americana folder. The amount of talent in this world is truly inexhaustible. It should give us joy and hope. If you know of a talent that deserves to be featured here,... Read the full article: 10 Free Music Albums: The Wild Folk Americana Edition [Sound Sunday] |
| Beautify Your Android Phone With These 5 Stunning Custom Icon Packs Posted: 11 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT  Looking to beautify your Android icons, but don’t want to pay money? I tested out a large number of free custom icons packs and found five of the best you can find anywhere — without paying a dime! Criteria for Evaluation My criteria for evaluating icon packs focuses on three elements: First, how does the pack handle icons that it lacks an icon for? For example, some packs use a visual style that’s in line with the majority of default app icons. Others apply a template design to unthemed apps, which reduces or eliminates clashes between completely different looking icons.... Read the full article: Beautify Your Android Phone With These 5 Stunning Custom Icon Packs |
| Would You Subscribe To A Monthly MakeUseOf Magazine? [MakeUseOf Poll] Posted: 11 Aug 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Last week we asked you what you think of the whole smartwatch concept that’s slowly creeping up on us. The votes were scattered all over the spectrum, but the majority of you seem to have decided that smartwatches are….. Out of 570 readers who voted, 6% understand those who buy it, but don’t plan to do so themselves; 8% think smartwatches are a waste of money; 14% think it’s mostly a gimmick, but an awesome one; 23% like the concept, but are waiting for it to become more useful; and 48% of the readers who voted think the smartwatch concept... Read the full article: Would You Subscribe To A Monthly MakeUseOf Magazine? [MakeUseOf Poll] |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2013 09:30 AM PDT  Clever product photography can make you believe that an item looks better than it actually is. Have you ever bought something, then realised that it doesn’t resemble what you saw in the advertisement? Caption this image by leaving your wittiest comments below and be in the running to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! The best caption will be selected the following day. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Oversized |
| Rdio Rolls Out New and Improved Stations [Updates] Posted: 11 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT  With the growing competition between streaming music services, Rdio.com rolled out its new and improved Stations for its web, desktop, mobile player clients. Stations acts as a personal music DJ for the type of music you want list to. In the new version, Rdio members can choose stations based on music genre, or playlists based an aggregated listening history of your Rdio friends. Stations are created from a large catalog of over 20 million songs, which Rdio subscribers get unlimited access to. Stations also makes use of what is called Taste Profiling technology from Echo Nest that tracks your listening... Read the full article: Rdio Rolls Out New and Improved Stations [Updates] |
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