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Monday, August 26, 2013

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Cool Websites and Tools – August 25th 2013 – Road Deaths, Personalized Browsing & Automatic Software Updates

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 03:01 PM PDT

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Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including a map of road deaths, scrolling with your mouse wheel, code mentoring, personalized browsing, and automatic software updates. Read on below! Roads Kill – is an interactive world map which gives statistics on deaths due to road accidents in each country. Simply hover over a particular country with your mouse to see the number of road deaths per 100,000 people, from the 2010 statistics. Countries on the map are also color-coded so you can see at a glance which countries are the worst offenders. 100...

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10 Free Music Albums: Flavors Of Pop & Rock [Sound Sunday]

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT

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Sound Sunday is back this week with a fine selection of free pop and rock albums. Whether you are craving indie dream pop or alternative roots rock, there is an album for every taste. All albums are available as free or name your price downloads from Bandcamp. Please leave a donation with artists you like or at least share their work. Feel free to contact me (tina at makeuseof dot com) with suggestions and genre requests for upcoming editions of Sound Sunday. Single: T E L E P L A Y – Victoria Genre: alternative, indie, ambient, dream pop, shoegaze This...

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10 Concept Product Designs That Should Be Brought To Life!

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 09:20 AM PDT

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In the past few weeks, we’ve looked at some amazing concept design. Take the U.DTR, for instance, an inspiring desktop replacement which seem to have attracted the attention of our readers. We also looked at 5 smartwatch concept designs that could potentially be made possible. Here are ten more awesome product concepts that need to be made, stat! Sound Cylinder Helivehicle Moleskine Trace Scale Scale E-inkey Vitro – Tactile Battery Case The DOCK v2 Echo Smart Watch FlipBook Nokia Lumia 1025 Phablet

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Google Launches Landing Page For Helpouts – A Live Video Marketplace [Updates]

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 08:30 AM PDT

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Ever wanted to bring a professional into your home to help you with fixing your computer? Thanks to Google Helpouts, you will soon be able to, and best of all, professional assistance won’t be limited to just tech support. With Helpouts, you’ll be able get help with nearly anything. Announced last month, the landing page for Helpouts was launched just on Tuesday. The service itself isn’t up and running just yet, but users can request an invitation to offer their own expertise on the site. The service utilizes the existing Google Hangouts to provide a “video marketplace” for users to receive consultations from experts...

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Are You Sad About Steve Ballmer Retiring? [MakeUseOf Poll]

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 07:30 AM PDT

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Last week we asked you to take a look at your browser and tell us how many tabs you had open at that very minute. Going into this poll, I was naïve. The largest number I gave was 20+, without even imagining the possibility of some users having over 1000 open tabs at once. Therefore, if you want to be amazed at some incredible tab feats, I recommend reading the comments to last week’s poll. But for now, let’s look at those results: Out of 795 votes in total, this was the breakdown: 5% of the voters had just 1...

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