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- Cool Websites and Tools – Tracking Your Life, Shipping API, & Creating 3D Shapes In CSS
- How To Run Facebook Competitions With The New Page Promotions Policy [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- Stuff I Found On The Web – Aliens! 101 Useful Websites! The Internet Of Things!
- 5 Things You Need To Know In Order To Buy The Right UPS
- 6 Tips to Save Money on PC Repairs
- 7 Stunning Fictional Justice Magazine Covers
- How I Watch TV On My Smartphone
- Which Games Console Are You Buying Next? [You Told Us]
- 3 Ways To Remove EXIF MetaData From Photos (And Why You Might Want To)
- 8 Cool Smartphone-Controlled Toys You Secretly Desire!
- Emergency Battery Hack – Make an AAA Battery Work as an AA Battery
- Eco-Friendly Computing 101: Buy or Build Silent and Green PCs
- Need A Break? Watch These 5 Epic Rap Battles of History [Best of YouTube]
- Hack Windows Explorer for Efficiency Boosts
- Thunar vs. Nautilus: Two Lightweight File Managers For Linux
| Cool Websites and Tools – Tracking Your Life, Shipping API, & Creating 3D Shapes In CSS Posted: 10 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Chronos – is the best way to understand how you’re spending your life. See where you’ve been and who you’ve spent time with, all without lifting a finger. You can also set goals and track progress, helping you to align the life you’re living with the life you’d like to live. See where and how much time you spend with each of your friends. Look at your day in the map view and see how long you spend at various locations. Easypost – is the simple shipping API for adding shipping to your apps or sites. They provide seamless access... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – Tracking Your Life, Shipping API, & Creating 3D Shapes In CSS |
| How To Run Facebook Competitions With The New Page Promotions Policy [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 10 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT  Non-technical Facebook Page owners can now breathe a sigh of relief. Facebook has finally changed their promotions guidelines so you no longer have to make apps in order to run competitions on your Facebook Page. This is a huge change to their rules. If you’re a small business owner or run a club, you probably own a Facebook Page. You may have taken a look at Facebook’s old promotions policy, however, and wondered how you could ever run a promotion within their guidelines. You may have been avoiding running any competitions on your Facebook Page due to Facebook’s restrictions. Good... Read the full article: How To Run Facebook Competitions With The New Page Promotions Policy [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| Stuff I Found On The Web – Aliens! 101 Useful Websites! The Internet Of Things! Posted: 10 Sep 2013 02:01 PM PDT  Today, we’ll be looking at icky aliens, Google preparing for screenless computers, 101 useful websites, offline and desktop apps from Chrome, and the “Internet of Things”. Don’t say we’re not good to you here at MUO. Ick! How The ‘Aliens’ Chestburster Was Created The Aliens movies are probably some of the best movies ever made, and one of the most iconic scenes is near the end, when John Hurt suddenly goes into spasms, and a baby alien comes bursting out of his body, like so : But would it surprise you to learn that this was done with absolutely no... Read the full article: Stuff I Found On The Web – Aliens! 101 Useful Websites! The Internet Of Things! |
| 5 Things You Need To Know In Order To Buy The Right UPS Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:45 PM PDT  Power is unpredictable. A car crashing into a pole or a small flaw in a transformer’s equipment can cause a blackout or, in some cases, a surge strong enough to destroy most electronics in your home. Although rare, these events can knock your computer offline when you need it most and cause thousands of dollars of damage to other electronics. The solution is not any mere surge protector but instead a UPS, or uninterruptible power supply. These big, beefy units combine a high-quality surge protector with a battery that will keep electronics running through a blackout (for a short time,... Read the full article: 5 Things You Need To Know In Order To Buy The Right UPS |
| 6 Tips to Save Money on PC Repairs Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT  You don’t have to pay for expensive technical assistance to repair your PC – 90 per cent of repairs are simple, and can be completed in a matter of minutes. In 2004, I got my first IT-related job, working in the UK National Health Service. Up to this stage, my knowledge of computers was completely self-taught, and I could regularly be found deep in cables and PC cases, swapping out parts in order to push performance that little bit further, one component at a time. Before the home PC revolution of the 1990s, the most techy thing I had ever... Read the full article: 6 Tips to Save Money on PC Repairs |
| 7 Stunning Fictional Justice Magazine Covers Posted: 10 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Sadly, the Justice Magazine is a work of fiction by artist Stanley Lau. But it feeds our insatiable hunger for superheroes, much like these superheroine posters, and this re-imagination of X-Men set in medieval times. Catwoman is looking especially alluring. Meow. Read the full article: 7 Stunning Fictional Justice Magazine Covers |
| How I Watch TV On My Smartphone Posted: 10 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT  The tide is turning against the traditional TV model of schedules and weekly serials. You can now easily watch television on your smartphone thanks to a handful of apps and a data connection – this is how I do it. Why I Watch TV On My Smartphone Before we get into the details, I don't exclusively watch TV on my phone. Naturally, I mostly use my wall-mounted HDTV, through which I take advantage of on demand TV and PVR catchup whenever I have a spare hour. I also use my first generation Apple iPad and my Windows 8 tablet, the... Read the full article: How I Watch TV On My Smartphone |
| Which Games Console Are You Buying Next? [You Told Us] Posted: 10 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT  The holiday season is fast approaching, though I’m sure all parents reading this would rather not think about it just yet. In those countries and cultures where gift-giving is a tradition at this time of year, kids and adults alike will be carefully considering what to put on their wishlists. And it’s entirely possible that a new games console will be high on that list. This is because two brand new consoles are being released over the next few months, with Sony launching the PlayStation 4, and Microsoft launching the Xbox One. After E3 2013, I argued for the PS4... Read the full article: Which Games Console Are You Buying Next? [You Told Us] |
| 3 Ways To Remove EXIF MetaData From Photos (And Why You Might Want To) Posted: 10 Sep 2013 10:40 AM PDT  Did you know that your photos contain hidden information, including the GPS coordinates of the location they were taken at, the date and time, camera shutter setting details, and possibly even the name of the program you used to edit them? This type of metadata can be useful, but you may want to remove it from your photos before sharing them online. Cameras — both standalone digital cameras and smartphone cameras — add this metadata to the photo when they create it. Software programs may also update the metadata later, noting what software was used to edit the photo. You... Read the full article: 3 Ways To Remove EXIF MetaData From Photos (And Why You Might Want To) |
| 8 Cool Smartphone-Controlled Toys You Secretly Desire! Posted: 10 Sep 2013 10:15 AM PDT  Who says toys are just for kids? As someone who grew up on remote-controlled cars, the prospect of a smartphone-controlled gadget is tantalizing to me even well into adulthood. And with the kind of cool gizmos that are in the market already, it’s hard to keep that credit card away. From helicopters to submarines and smart balls to robots, this is my (and soon, yours) wishlist of cool smartphone-controlled toys. CarBots Let’s start with the simplest of the lot, taking us back to our childhood: RC cars. CarBots by Desk Pets are tiny little toy cars that can be controlled... Read the full article: 8 Cool Smartphone-Controlled Toys You Secretly Desire! |
| Emergency Battery Hack – Make an AAA Battery Work as an AA Battery Posted: 10 Sep 2013 09:45 AM PDT  Did your TV remote control suddenly go dead? Wireless mouse died near the end of your term paper? Need AA batteries and all you have are AAA? I’ve got a quick hack for you to get you through those last minutes until you can get to the shops for some proper batteries. Time needed is about 5 minutes, supplies needed cost about 50 cents – not including your AAA batteries. You may very well have all these items on hand. I did this today when my mouse died and I realized all I had were AAA batteries. I popped out... Read the full article: Emergency Battery Hack – Make an AAA Battery Work as an AA Battery |
| Eco-Friendly Computing 101: Buy or Build Silent and Green PCs Posted: 10 Sep 2013 09:16 AM PDT  Computer fans clog with dust, make horrible noises and waste energy. Why put up with that when consumers can go silent and green? A huge number of options popped up for setting up highly efficient fanless computers. Because of their ideal acoustic properties, fanless PCs make ideal home theater PCs, workstations and industrial computers. There are effectively two kinds of fanless computer: Those powered by ARM-based chips and those with x86-based. ARM-powered CPUs generally consume less power at the expense of performance. In comparison, the x86 instruction set architecture possesses power at the expense of wattage, particularly at lower wattages. Hardware... Read the full article: Eco-Friendly Computing 101: Buy or Build Silent and Green PCs |
| Need A Break? Watch These 5 Epic Rap Battles of History [Best of YouTube] Posted: 10 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT  What do you get when you take two famous figures from history and pit them against each other in a rap battle to the death? You get Epic Rap Battles of History, an incredibly entertaining series of videos that will surely put a smile on your face and maybe even leave you impressed. Okay, so maybe the rap battles don’t end in death (with a few exceptions), but they’re just as wacky, insane, and fun all the same. If you’ve never listened to ERB before, you're missing out. YouTube channels don't always have to be about educational learning videos and... Read the full article: Need A Break? Watch These 5 Epic Rap Battles of History [Best of YouTube] |
| Hack Windows Explorer for Efficiency Boosts Posted: 10 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT  Windows Explorer — known as File Explorer on Windows 8 — is an application that you probably spend a good amount of time in. Even Windows geeks that avoid using any other Microsoft program tend to use Windows Explorer instead of a third-party file manager. But, while we spend time customizing our browser with extensions, we often don’t think about hacking our file manager. There are a lot of ways you can customize Windows Explorer to make your file management experience faster and more efficient. We won’t dwell on Windows Explorer’s built-in options here — just the most interesting ways... Read the full article: Hack Windows Explorer for Efficiency Boosts |
| Thunar vs. Nautilus: Two Lightweight File Managers For Linux Posted: 10 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT  Nautilus, the default file manager in Gnome, is extremely popular among Linux users. Not only is it easy to use, but it’s pretty common to find as it’s on all Ubuntu and other Gnome-based systems. However, Nautilus isn’t the only kid on the block. Just recently, I took a look at Dolphin, the default file manager for KDE, and found that it offers a lot of extra functionality compared to Nautilus. But Dolphin isn’t the only file manager Nautilus has to be worried about – there’s also Thunar, the Xfce file manager, to complete the big three. Is it better... Read the full article: Thunar vs. Nautilus: Two Lightweight File Managers For Linux |
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