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- Cool Websites and Tools – September 2nd, 2013 – Tab Replacements, YouTube on Wikipedia, & Randomly Generated Users
- Have You Seen Quentin Tarantino’s Top 12 Movies? [Stuff to Watch]
- SpellTower Is Boggle On Steroids For Your Phone
- 6 Video Games With Fantastic Local Multiplayer For Dorm Room Gaming
- Caption Contest: All Webbed Up
- Plugged Into Life: Why This TechStars Alum Moved On From Her Startup To Sell Mexican Candles
- How To Control Your Windows 8 PC From Your Mobile Device
- 6 Ways to Use WordPress That Aren’t Blogging
- Change the Way Windows Runs Depending on the Time of Day
- Roguelikes: A Unique & Challenging Spin On The RPG Genre
- 5 Beautiful Web Apps To Browse Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, & Instagram
- 4 Fantastic Tools to Manage Your Massive MP3 Collection
- How to Set Up a Projection-Based Home Theater, Step by Step
- 8 Really Geeky But Creative Ways To Use QR Codes At Home
- Minuum, Reviewed: A Truly Innovative Android Keyboard, Or a Useless Gimmick?
| Posted: 02 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including a tab replacement, edit your contacts and calendars in any device, watching YouTube in Wikipedia, placeholders in web mockups, and a tool to collect anything from the web. Read on below! Knew Tab – is an awesome new tab replacement. It’s way smarter than any other new tab replacement out there, and requires absolutely no setup. Instantly see the productivity increase with access to your unread emails, facebook notifications, and many other important news from the day. Fruux – Access and edit your contacts, calendars... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – September 2nd, 2013 – Tab Replacements, YouTube on Wikipedia, & Randomly Generated Users |
| Have You Seen Quentin Tarantino’s Top 12 Movies? [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 02 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT  As a director, screenwriter, and producer of such classics as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and more recently Django Unchained, you’d expect Quentin Tarantino to know a thing or two about what makes a good movie. From his humble beginnings as a video store clerk, Tarantino has been thrilling movie-goers with his flavour of stylised violence, satire, and gripping storytelling for 25 years. Last year the director (among other things) contributed a revised list of his top 12 movies for Sight & Sound’s 2012 poll. Many of the films on this list have clearly influenced his work throughout the years, and... Read the full article: Have You Seen Quentin Tarantino’s Top 12 Movies? [Stuff to Watch] |
| SpellTower Is Boggle On Steroids For Your Phone Posted: 02 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT  If you’ve been on the lookout for a new word game to play on your iOS or Android device, SpellTower may be just what you’re looking for. This is Boggle on steroids, and is well worth the $1.99 price tag it comes with. Some word games can often get tiring pretty quickly, but SpellTower is one of those games that will keep you hooked. The app is also available as a desktop Mac app, but in this review we’re looking solely at the mobile version, specifically on the iPhone. We’re big fans of word games here at MakeUseOf, especially ones that... Read the full article: SpellTower Is Boggle On Steroids For Your Phone |
| 6 Video Games With Fantastic Local Multiplayer For Dorm Room Gaming Posted: 02 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT  The addition of online multiplayer to consoles has had an unfortunate side-effect; the near-death of couch play. Many games no longer offer any form of a cooperative mode by default, and those that do often make no accommodation for the second player's presence, which can lead to some wonky results. There are still, however, some titles that faithfully provide an excellent couch experience for multiple players. They either allow for up to four people to play at once, or provide an entertaining enough experience to keep those left to watch entertained while they wait for their turn. Games that can... Read the full article: 6 Video Games With Fantastic Local Multiplayer For Dorm Room Gaming |
| Caption Contest: All Webbed Up Posted: 02 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Poor Margaret. She was only trying to install Windows 95. Caption this image! What do you think happened? Submit your most hilarious captions in the comment section below and be in the running to win a MakeUseOf t-shirt! That’s all it takes, and there can only be one winner. So start submitting! Read the full article: Caption Contest: All Webbed Up |
| Plugged Into Life: Why This TechStars Alum Moved On From Her Startup To Sell Mexican Candles Posted: 02 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT  A year ago Kelly James was wrapping up her time in the prestigious TechStars Boulder startup incubator, pitching her consignment web application to investors in New York City and Los Angeles. Now she’s living in Mexico, selling candles, and loving it. “I don’t want to be a part of the hype,” James says. “I don’t feel the need for that anymore.” She has gone from being a plugged-in startup head to ditching her iPad, quitting Facebook, and otherwise trying to figure out the pros and cons of her relationship with technology. She’s also started a new brand, Cera Company, which... Read the full article: Plugged Into Life: Why This TechStars Alum Moved On From Her Startup To Sell Mexican Candles |
| How To Control Your Windows 8 PC From Your Mobile Device Posted: 02 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Sometimes it’s nice to just plug your laptop into an HDTV and watch some Netflix — until you have to pause it or adjust the volume. Then you have to get up and walk across the room to click around on your computer, and what are you? A caveperson? There just has to be a better way to do it. Well, there is, thanks to an app called Windows 8 Controller. (Mac-owners, check out this article on remotely accessing your computer.) Apps like Air Display are nice, but it costs $10 on the Play Store and is intended more for displaying... Read the full article: How To Control Your Windows 8 PC From Your Mobile Device |
| 6 Ways to Use WordPress That Aren’t Blogging Posted: 02 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT  WordPress: it’s not just for blogs anymore. We’ve already discussed numerous times that you can use WordPress in a variety of ways. We’ve written articles about it before, but every once in a while, we feel as though that- – as the WordPress platform evolves — we need to issue a refresher. Below are six different ways to use WordPress that aren’t blogging. Nope, you don’t have to use WordPress to blog at all! Some of these ways you may know about, but you may very well not know about the others. That’s why we’re here to help. Portfolios I’m speaking from experience: I... Read the full article: 6 Ways to Use WordPress That Aren’t Blogging |
| Change the Way Windows Runs Depending on the Time of Day Posted: 02 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Every day, the sun rises, marches through the sky, and then sets. The world changes with it as people wake up, go about their business, and then rest. But your computer just sits there all day, only acknowledging the change in time by updating its clock. Your computer is the same at night as it is during the day, even though it would make sense to adjust some settings automatically. There are a variety of third-party tools for Windows that can change the way your computer acts as the day goes on, from changing your screen’s color temperature to setting... Read the full article: Change the Way Windows Runs Depending on the Time of Day |
| Roguelikes: A Unique & Challenging Spin On The RPG Genre Posted: 02 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT  In 1980 a game called Rogue was released that spawned a whole sub-genre of role-playing games, aptly named roguelikes. The dungeon crawling game procedurally generated in-game content, providing infinite replay value by guaranteeing a different game every time. A chess-like turn-based system accompanied the ASCII graphics, and when you died, you really died. Permanently. And so the roguelike genre was born, bearing characteristics like permanent death, turn-based gameplay and games that rely more on your imagination than pretty graphics. These days there are an immeasurable number of roguelikes, a lot of them free to play, and many blending other genres... Read the full article: Roguelikes: A Unique & Challenging Spin On The RPG Genre |
| 5 Beautiful Web Apps To Browse Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, & Instagram Posted: 02 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Bored of how the Twitter website looks? Want to get rid of all the clutter on Facebook or YouTube? Is there a more beautiful way to browse Reddit? And can the already minimal Instagram look any prettier? Oh yes! There are no shortage of third-party web apps that take popular web services and give them a stunning new skin. Here are some of our favourites to get more out of five of the most popular websites in the world. Goodbye Twitter, Hello Streamie I have been a fan of Streamie since Justin first reviewed this real-time Twitter client over 2 years ago. Usually,... Read the full article: 5 Beautiful Web Apps To Browse Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, & Instagram |
| 4 Fantastic Tools to Manage Your Massive MP3 Collection Posted: 02 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT  Music library management can be an entirely frustrating experience, especially if you have years of unorganized music waiting to be sorted and labeled properly. Poor music library management will come back and bite you later when you're listening to music on-the-go and you can't navigate your songs without confusion. Fortunately, there are a few great tools made specifically to help you in these things. I purge my music collection on a regular basis so I, admittedly, don't have a huge music library, but it's still large enough that I avoid organizing it due to the inevitable headaches. I can't imagine... Read the full article: 4 Fantastic Tools to Manage Your Massive MP3 Collection |
| How to Set Up a Projection-Based Home Theater, Step by Step Posted: 02 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT  Watch movies on the big screen, at home, with the perfect home cinema set up for any budget. Nothing beats the big screen experience for movies or gaming, but home theater is an expensive hobby to get into. This is the guide you’re looking for, so get out your shopping list and tape measure as I walk you through every aspect of planning your own home theater, from layout to choosing curtains and the most important part of the set, the projector itself. Projector Projectors are the kind of device where you really do get what you pay for. Regardless... Read the full article: How to Set Up a Projection-Based Home Theater, Step by Step |
| 8 Really Geeky But Creative Ways To Use QR Codes At Home Posted: 02 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT  The plain-Jane QR code had a hi-tech beginning – Toyota used them in their manufacturing process for scanning automobile components. From there, QR codes have made the journey to even fashion ramps. That demonstrates their popularity, but not quite their usefulness. We need to give more examples. Tim gave a few when he talked about some great uses for QR codes. QR – Quick Response – codes have three noteworthy features. QR codes transport URLs very well. You can make them yourself easily, and you can read them just as easily with the many barcode scanning apps available for smartphones... Read the full article: 8 Really Geeky But Creative Ways To Use QR Codes At Home |
| Minuum, Reviewed: A Truly Innovative Android Keyboard, Or a Useless Gimmick? Posted: 02 Sep 2013 06:00 AM PDT  There’s something about typing on a touchscreen that really brings out developers’ creativity. After all, they are no longer bound by the rigid constraints of plastic: Buttons become a recommendation, rather than a must. Suddenly you can swipe, slide, and glide, or dictate to your phone. Heck, some keyboards will even correct your grammar. Minuum is a new keyboard for Android that does away with the traditional notion of, well, a keyboard. As the thinking goes, your phone’s screen is first and foremost just that: A display. Minuum does everything it can to occupy the least amount of space possible... Read the full article: Minuum, Reviewed: A Truly Innovative Android Keyboard, Or a Useless Gimmick? |
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