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- Cool Websites and Tools – Tracking Activities, Streaming Large Files, & Learning Algebra
- 10 Signs Your Computer Is Going To Crash & What To Do
- It’s Not Word Bling: 7 Interesting Ways You Can Play With Word Clouds
- Digital Threats To Your Offline Security You Should Know About
- Caption Contest: Red Phone
- Looking for Great Games at Pauper Prices? Score Some Game Bundles
- Traveling To The US? Three Ways To Save Money On Your Cell Bill
- Ant Video Downloader: Dead Easy Tool For Downloading Online Video [Firefox, IE]
- 8 Unusual and Surprising Uses for WordPress
- Love GitHub? 4 Reasons Why You Should Host Your Code On BitBucket
- How to Build a Raspberry Pi Twitter Bot
- Salty Bet Lets You Gamble On Awesome Video Game Character Fights
- Secrets Of YouTube You Should Know…
- Go Back to School Paperless With Notability for iPad & iPhone
| Cool Websites and Tools – Tracking Activities, Streaming Large Files, & Learning Algebra Posted: 06 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Human – Human is the easiest way to get and stay healthy. It helps you move 30 minutes or more, every day. Human tracks your outdoor activities like walking, running and biking automatically. Carry your phone in your bag or pocket, and go about your day. Automatically records your outdoor walking, running and biking. Tells you how much you’ve moved, and need to move. See all your individual activities including maps and details. Cloudup – Cloudup set out with one goal in mind: to make sharing anything – files, videos, links, music, documents, code, text, etc – simple and beautiful... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – Tracking Activities, Streaming Large Files, & Learning Algebra |
| 10 Signs Your Computer Is Going To Crash & What To Do Posted: 06 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT  Computer crashes often occur suddenly and with little obvious warning. Once it happened, there is not much you can do, other than wait for the reboot or manually force a reset. The randomness with which a crash can strike is what makes it frustrating; one moment your PC is fine, the next it’s down and your files with it. Most crashes are not as random as they seem, however. There are a number of potential warning signs. Most of them are minor issues that the average user would brush off as an annoyance, but they hint at a larger problem that... Read the full article: 10 Signs Your Computer Is Going To Crash & What To Do |
| It’s Not Word Bling: 7 Interesting Ways You Can Play With Word Clouds Posted: 06 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT  We, the denizens of the Web, who live and work here also call them as tag clouds. Call them "word clouds" or "tag clouds" – they are visualization tools that helps your brain process information in a rather unique way. But there's a method behind the apparent jumble you see. As Wikipedia explains, it is a weighted list where the importance of each word is indicated with the size of the font and color. Earlier, we have looked at ways to generate nice looking tag clouds. Tina also showed us a few uses of tag cloud around the web. But... Read the full article: It's Not Word Bling: 7 Interesting Ways You Can Play With Word Clouds |
| Digital Threats To Your Offline Security You Should Know About Posted: 06 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT  It seems like with every passing year, the Internet flares with more talk about privacy, security, and how to protect oneself from the dangers that creep in from every nook of the web. We’ve covered topics ranging from email security tips to privacy mistakes to avoid and security myths that just aren’t true. Most of these deal with your online security, but did you know that your offline security might be in jeopardy as well? As the Internet becomes increasingly intertwined with our day-to-day lives thanks to the prevalence and ubiquity of mobile phones, it only makes sense that the... Read the full article: Digital Threats To Your Offline Security You Should Know About |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2013 12:29 PM PDT  Are we in a museum? Caption this image! What would a red telephone be doing there? Send in your funniest captions via the comments section and you stand a chance at winning a lovely MakeUseOf t-shirt of your choice! There are so many to choose from! Competition will be fierce so give it all you’ve got. The winning caption will be chosen the following day. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Red Phone |
| Looking for Great Games at Pauper Prices? Score Some Game Bundles Posted: 06 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT  Do you like getting hundreds of top-shelf games for cheap? My library includes more than a hundred great titles – and I paid around $50 for all of them. It’s easy: Build a Steam Box and buy game bundles. These, such as the famous Humble Bundle, lets you get around ten games for about $5, while contributing to charity. Considering that a single console title costs the entirety of my library, buying in bulk can save you lots of cash. To this end, I put together a list of some of the best deals around. My criteria for reviewing each... Read the full article: Looking for Great Games at Pauper Prices? Score Some Game Bundles |
| Traveling To The US? Three Ways To Save Money On Your Cell Bill Posted: 06 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Planning on traveling to the United States and need phone service? Thanks to the complicated tangle of wireless networks in the US, it's hard finding the best carrier. Fortunately, we can help get you the best plan for your money. Also, you can find out the best equipment to take with you on the road. The four largest networks in the US are AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint. All four networks lease out broadcast spectrum to Mobile Virtual Network Operators (or MVNOs) at much cheaper rates. Getting started is easy. You simply choose between buying either a phone or SIM... Read the full article: Traveling To The US? Three Ways To Save Money On Your Cell Bill |
| Ant Video Downloader: Dead Easy Tool For Downloading Online Video [Firefox, IE] Posted: 06 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Download videos from almost any streaming site in just one click. The Ant.com Video Downloader is an extremely simple extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that makes downloading videos from sites like YouTube and Vimeo easy – and tries to work with every video site on the web. Whether you want to use a clip in your own video project or simple save a video for offline viewing, sometimes you’re going to want to take a video from the web and put it on your hard drive. There are lots of site-specific tools for this, but if you want a... Read the full article: Ant Video Downloader: Dead Easy Tool For Downloading Online Video [Firefox, IE] |
| 8 Unusual and Surprising Uses for WordPress Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT  From social networks to intranets, from directories to RSS aggregators – WordPress has you covered. Between all of the free and paid themes and plugins, you can make your WordPress site pretty much anything you want it to be. In fact, thanks to all of these features, you can create just about any kind of site using a self-hosted WordPress site. We’ve already taken a look a a few creative uses for WordPress – including creating a help desk, a Wiki, a task manager, and a directory. We’ve come up with a few more interesting options that take all the hard work... Read the full article: 8 Unusual and Surprising Uses for WordPress |
| Love GitHub? 4 Reasons Why You Should Host Your Code On BitBucket Posted: 06 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Any programmer worth their salt knows that source control is crucial. The most obvious perk is allowing you to securely store your code in a safe place. It doesn’t stop there. Having good source control makes it easier to experiment with new features without worrying about irreparably damaging your program. Source control is something we all should do. But regardless of what Version Control System (VCS) you use, you have to think about where you intend to store your code. It’s likely you’ve have heard of GitHub. That’s not surprising. GitHub is used by individuals and enterprises to host code,... Read the full article: Love GitHub? 4 Reasons Why You Should Host Your Code On BitBucket |
| How to Build a Raspberry Pi Twitter Bot Posted: 06 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT  Twitter is the world biggest repository of short messages from people with nothing to say – and now you too can contribute to that epic project with an automated Twitter bot, powered by your Raspberry Pi. I’m kidding, of course – some people actually tweet interesting things. I’m not one of them though – I use my mine for shameless product promotion in exchange for free stuff, competition entries, and auto-posting new episodes of our very own Technophilia Podcast. Whatever – my followers love me! @w0lfiesmith I hate your Twitter account. So much. — Justin Pot (@jhpot) August 21, 2013 Now... Read the full article: How to Build a Raspberry Pi Twitter Bot |
| Salty Bet Lets You Gamble On Awesome Video Game Character Fights Posted: 06 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT  Have you ever wanted to see how your favorite video game characters would do against each other in one-on-one battles? The Super Smash Bros. series has proven that it’s something that a huge audience seems to be interested in, and Salty Bet takes it one step further. Games like King of Fighters, Marvel vs. Capcom, and Mortal Kombat have dominated the fighting game scene for years. It’s always fun to see those Scorpion vs. Sub-Zero and Kyo vs. Terry matches. These are some of the most competitive games that have ever come to consoles, and there is an immense skill... Read the full article: Salty Bet Lets You Gamble On Awesome Video Game Character Fights |
| Secrets Of YouTube You Should Know… Posted: 06 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT  YouTube is a favourite past-time for many of us; the chance to lead your own TV station. From you, for you. And yet, for all the time we spend on this web site, we know very little about it. It’s not surprising, seeing the size of this site, that there are a lot of back doors. A lot of ways to do things you wouldn’t expect. If you like YouTube, as many of us do, it’ll pay off to look into these secrets. With this knowledge, it’s easier to get what you want, when you want it; to enjoy YouTube... Read the full article: Secrets Of YouTube You Should Know… |
| Go Back to School Paperless With Notability for iPad & iPhone Posted: 06 Sep 2013 06:00 AM PDT  With mobile apps like Notability, it’s a lot easier to go paperless when it comes to recording lectures and taking notes, annotating documents and keeping your digital files organized. I’ve reviewed in the past several writing apps and notebooks for the iPad, but newer apps like the best selling, stylishly designed Notability (currently $2.99) seem especially geared to students. The app allows users to mix handwriting with typed text, highlight and annotate scanned or imported documents, complete worksheets, add images, and record lectures. Like A Paper Notebook Notability, for both the iPad and iPhone, can be used like a paper notebook... Read the full article: Go Back to School Paperless With Notability for iPad & iPhone |
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