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- Cool Websites and Tools – Personal Startpage, MX Email Records, & Creating Chrome Tasks
- Simplenote Launches Official Android App For Easy Note-Taking
- 5 Websites For Every Portable Application On The Web
- Caption Contest: Cranking
- Turn Chrome Into a Research Hub With These Extensions
- Rome II: Total War Review And Giveaway
- Can You Really Be Anonymous Online?
- Google Plus Now Offers More Powerful Image Editing For Chrome Users
- 15 Awesome Life Hacks You Can Find On Instagram
- Don’t Be A Fender Bender: 5 Driving Simulators That Teach Road Safety
- Opera Releases Coast: A Web Browser Specifically For The iPad
- The 5 Best Office Chairs You Can Buy Right Now
- 3 Hilarious Giant Bomb Quick Looks For Games You Will Never Play
- OneFeed Lets You Manage Social Networks, Cloud Drives & News Feeds Under One Roof
- Apple Releases iPhone 5s With Touch ID, Faster Processor & New Camera Features
| Cool Websites and Tools – Personal Startpage, MX Email Records, & Creating Chrome Tasks Posted: 12 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT  StartMe – allows you to design your own personal startpage with your most important bookmarks and RSS feeds. Easy to use, reliable and completely (ad) free. Your startpage is stored in the cloud so that you can access it anywhere and on any device. Categorize bookmarks and RSS feeds in pages and lists. Import and export your bookmarks and RSS feeds. Make your pages public and share them. XnRetro – enables you to create stunning images with vintage or instant effect on your desktop or mobile. It has some great features such as 20 color effects and 28 frame borders.... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – Personal Startpage, MX Email Records, & Creating Chrome Tasks |
| Simplenote Launches Official Android App For Easy Note-Taking Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:30 PM PDT  Finally, the long wait is over! Simplenote, one of our favourite note-taking apps, has released a free official client for Android, which is similar to the one that has been on the iOS App Store for a while now. Till now, Simplenote users on Android have had to use third-party apps like Fetch Notes, but the official free app obviously works better and looks more like the web version. You can create a new account or hook up an existing one, and in a surprise twist, Simplenote has announced that there is no need to have an account at all... Read the full article: Simplenote Launches Official Android App For Easy Note-Taking |
| 5 Websites For Every Portable Application On The Web Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT  You already know that some applications offer portable or “soft” installations, but don’t you wish there was some place on the Internet where you could find any portable application? Although few, the good news is that there are some! Portable applications are incredibly useful. If you’re someone who is constantly carrying around a flash drive, you should always have a few of your favorite portable applications (or even a portable application suite) on it. I’ve found that portable applications are just as useful for a wide variety of uses — like when you’re setting up synchronized folders. I have a folder... Read the full article: 5 Websites For Every Portable Application On The Web |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Bob, I knew upgrading to the hyperserver was a bad idea. Caption this image! What’s your take on the cartoon? We’d love to read your captions — send them in via the comments and be in the running to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt (there are several new designs, by the way). Get cranking! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Cranking |
| Turn Chrome Into a Research Hub With These Extensions Posted: 12 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT  The Internet is a wonderful resource for students, but these Chrome extensions can make the process of finding, marking up, organizing, and citing information a million times easier. Many students — myself included — keep a bunch of websites bookmarked, due dates written on random papers, and spend too many hours on Facebook. That ends today. With these Chrome extensions you’ll be focused and ready for pumping out some amazing research papers. We’ve covered a few tools like this before, like Diigo and Google Drive, but I’ll be going through four of the extensions that help me out the most as a... Read the full article: Turn Chrome Into a Research Hub With These Extensions |
| Rome II: Total War Review And Giveaway Posted: 12 Sep 2013 11:40 AM PDT  The Second Punic War killed my interest in fiction. Tolkein’s fantastical Battle Of Helm’s Deep seems but a minor skirmish compared to the Battle of Lake Trasimene, where Hannibal managed to hide his entire army, surprise the Romans, and drive them into the lake, killing an estimated 15,000 with less than 2,500 causalities of his own. My mind can’t begin to comprehend what such a fight might have looked like, or the desperate thoughts that must have risen in Roman men forced to choose between drowning in their armor or dying on a Carthaginian spear. Surprisingly, most games abstract this... Read the full article: Rome II: Total War Review And Giveaway |
| Can You Really Be Anonymous Online? Posted: 12 Sep 2013 11:20 AM PDT  We all have things we’d rather not tell the world about — whether that be a flagrant disregard for copyright law, a penchant for specialist videos, or a desire to simply stay out of Big Brother’s ever-probing eye. Whatever the reason, I think it’s about time we clear up a few things about anonymity online — and answer once and for all, whether it’s really possible. We’ve already tackled the topic of why email can never be secure from government surveillance, but I think it is worth tackling the Internet as a whole. If you’d rather watch than read —... Read the full article: Can You Really Be Anonymous Online? |
| Google Plus Now Offers More Powerful Image Editing For Chrome Users Posted: 12 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT  Google has just announced powerful new photo editing features for all Google Plus users. The features were developed by the team behind Snapseed, the excellent Google-owned image editor we’ve previously reviewed. Snapseed users will recognize many of the new controls, which are identical right down to the icons used: Filters such as Vintage, Drama, Retrolux and B&W can be applied via the browser, as can frames and tone adjustments. Even Snapseed’s excellent Selective Adjust feature has been implemented, allowing you to tweak specific areas of your photo without having to make complicated selections. Here’s a video from Google showcasing the... Read the full article: Google Plus Now Offers More Powerful Image Editing For Chrome Users |
| 15 Awesome Life Hacks You Can Find On Instagram Posted: 12 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Who doesn’t fancy a shortcut? Life hacks are ingenious tricks that can make your life easier, whether it’s as simple as fitting two bowls in a microwave oven or making a DIY stand for your phone. There are plenty of sites that life hackers should subscribe to and forums to discuss and learn cool stuff. But social networks are usually the best places to get and share such life hacks. And since we all know pictures are worth a thousand words, Instagram is an amazing place to find new ideas. Turn A Popcorn Bag Into A Popcorn Bowl Why dip... Read the full article: 15 Awesome Life Hacks You Can Find On Instagram |
| Don’t Be A Fender Bender: 5 Driving Simulators That Teach Road Safety Posted: 12 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Online car simulator programs are for entertainment and education purposes only. After all, the arrow keys are hardly a steering wheel. They cannot teach you how to drive. But they can give you a feel of the basics…like staying on the right side of the lane and parking properly among other things. Some simulations as we will see, also teach you the proper safety measures and important road manners. I was the fender-bender in the family. Jittery hands and a nervous disposition. But I still learnt to drive after guzzling a few gallons of fuel. I always wished that I... Read the full article: Don’t Be A Fender Bender: 5 Driving Simulators That Teach Road Safety |
| Opera Releases Coast: A Web Browser Specifically For The iPad Posted: 12 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT  For a different type of mobile web browser experience, Opera released this week a new iPad app, called Coast (Free), that focuses on swipe-gesture controls, home screen bookmarks and internet search, featuring a cool, uncluttered design. Opera’s Coast groups webpages front and center, with very little distracting buttons or a menu bar. It brings reminders of Google’s classic search homepage with nothing more than a single search box. If you know how to navigate the web, there’s little to figure out when it comes to using Coast. The app opens with a set of bookmarked website icons, including Google+, YouTube,... Read the full article: Opera Releases Coast: A Web Browser Specifically For The iPad |
| The 5 Best Office Chairs You Can Buy Right Now Posted: 12 Sep 2013 08:01 AM PDT  A good chair is an office worker’s best friend. While many people scoff at spending more than a hundred bucks on a place to sit, those who sit up to eight hour day after day often come to appreciate what a higher budget allows. The best office chairs are more comfortable, more ergonomic and more durable than anything you’ll find at Walmart. Of course, you’ll want to make sure you’re getting your money’s worth, as an expensive chair that falls apart is worthless (and such traps do exist). Fortunately, the best office chairs in the market are just a click... Read the full article: The 5 Best Office Chairs You Can Buy Right Now |
| 3 Hilarious Giant Bomb Quick Looks For Games You Will Never Play Posted: 12 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT  GiantBomb.com is, without question, my favorite video game website (besides our content at MakeUseOf, of course). While other sites are focused on reviews and news, Giant Bomb locks in on the lighter side of gaming with some amazing video content (although they still put out some more traditional content). When I think of Giant Bomb’s videos, the first that comes to mind is the Quick Looks. In these, the crew sits and plays a section of the game for our enjoyment. Generally, when I watch these, I prefer to watch videos for games I will never play. I don’t want... Read the full article: 3 Hilarious Giant Bomb Quick Looks For Games You Will Never Play |
| OneFeed Lets You Manage Social Networks, Cloud Drives & News Feeds Under One Roof Posted: 12 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT  Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, news, favorite websites, Dropbox, Google Drive, Gmail…. are you out of breath yet? This is just a fraction of the services an average user deals with on a daily basis. How do we do it? The hard way. OneFeed attempts to bring all of these together under one roof. Similar to what Stipple does for photos, OneFeed tries to do for your entire online presence. Chris briefly mentioned OneFeed in his recent post about 9 ways to customize the new tab page in Chrome, but the service warrants a deeper look, especially since the service is... Read the full article: OneFeed Lets You Manage Social Networks, Cloud Drives & News Feeds Under One Roof |
| Apple Releases iPhone 5s With Touch ID, Faster Processor & New Camera Features Posted: 12 Sep 2013 06:30 AM PDT  As expected, Apple introduced the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c at its product release event this week. iPhone 5s now comes in two new colors, gold and silver (in addition to the standard black model), and its internal makeup includes a A7 processor with a 64-bit architecture, a fingerprint identity sensor, a faster iSight camera, and a M7 coprocessor designed to measure motion data for the accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass. The form factor of the iPhone 5s is similar to the iPhone 5, with sleek aluminum housing, metal and glass. But the addition of the gold, silver, and spicy gray... Read the full article: Apple Releases iPhone 5s With Touch ID, Faster Processor & New Camera Features |
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