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• Cool Websites and Tools – Online Datasheets, App Crowdfunding, & Webpage Screenshots
• Relive The Golden Age Of Animation With Free Vintage Cartoons [Stuff to Watch]
• How To Force Chrome To Open iTunes Store Links In The iTunes Desktop App
• The New My Yahoo Gets A New Design To Emerge As An iGoogle Alternative
• Forget Power Features: Yandex.Shell Keeps It Light, Clean, and Easy
• Caption Contest: Multiple Monitors
• 10 Awesome Third-Party Apps & Their iOS 7 Updates
• QuickOffice Goes Free On Android & iOS, Offers 10GB Extra Google Drive Storage
• Unable To Log In To Your Bank Account? Try These Tips
• 7 Services For Taking Mobile Payment On Your Phone
• 5 Great Football (Soccer) Games for the Armchair Pro
• Get More Out Of Instagram With These 7 Chrome Extensions
• Google Translate Updates Includes Handwriting Translation and Seven New Languages
• Bring Mac’s Best Window Management Features To Windows
• What Is The Best Gaming Laptop For 2013?

Cool Websites and Tools – Online Datasheets, App Crowdfunding, & Webpage Screenshots Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT DatasheetLib – Are you looking for a datasheet online? DatasheetLib is here to help you save time spent on searching. The service is free and does not require any sign up. With DatasheetLib, you will no longer have to click multiple links and browse a large number of websites to grab a hard-to-find datasheet. Companies included are Panasonic, TDK, and Toshiba. Appsplit – is a crowdfunding platform for apps. Appsplit has three campaign types, each to help you with a different need. Are you looking to raise funds for your app? That’s what the fund campaign is for. Set a... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – Online Datasheets, App Crowdfunding, & Webpage Screenshots

Relive The Golden Age Of Animation With Free Vintage Cartoons [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT They just don’t make ‘em like they used to. Literally. The age-old technique of using hundreds of hand-drawn cels of animation to produce cartoons has long been replaced with more robust digital techniques. But like photographs shot on film and vinyl recordings, traditional animation retains that warm and rustic feel where even the imperfections are celebrated for their almost organic nature. Thanks to the Internet Archive and Film Chest, there’s a small collection of vintage cartoons to trawl through featuring the likes of Popeye, Woody Woodpecker, and Betty Boop. Betty Boop Somewhere around half of the cartoons included in the... Read the full article: Relive The Golden Age Of Animation With Free Vintage Cartoons [Stuff to Watch] This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

How To Force Chrome To Open iTunes Store Links In The iTunes Desktop App Posted: 23 Sep 2013 01:30 PM PDT I have a love-hate relationship with iTunes, and at the moment, having got my MacBook Air, iPhone, and iPad combo just the way I like it, I am all hot for iTunes again. But there’s a problem. Back when I was not talking to iTunes and cursing how bloated it was, I told Google Chrome not to open the iTunes desktop app whenever I was visiting an iTunes link online.  You know, this one…. I hated visiting the iTunes website to check something out, and suddenly the desktop app would pop up on the screen, telling me I had to... Read the full article: How To Force Chrome To Open iTunes Store Links In The iTunes Desktop App

The New My Yahoo Gets A New Design To Emerge As An iGoogle Alternative Posted: 23 Sep 2013 01:15 PM PDT Yahoo isn’t putting on the stops in its efforts to personalize the user experience for you. In the latest move, it has dusted off My Yahoo and given the personal start page a fresh look. The new design is a refreshing change from its static avatar of recent times. The start page is meant to be the portal that ties together all of Yahoo's offerings — email accounts, calendars, stock portfolio, sports scoreboard, weather, Flickr, and web content delivered by Yahoo or a web search. The latest redesign also puts My Yahoo in the contention ring of iGoogle alternatives. Google... Read the full article: The New My Yahoo Gets A New Design To Emerge As An iGoogle Alternative

Forget Power Features: Yandex.Shell Keeps It Light, Clean, and Easy Posted: 23 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT Have you found your perfect Android launcher yet? There are a lot of choices available out there and if you’ve been keeping up with our Android launcher roundups, you’d know that many of them are innovative, robust, and downright awesome. The downside to having so many great launchers, of course, is that it can be hard to decide which one to use – which is why, if you haven’t find your perfect Android launcher yet, I highly recommend giving Yandex.Shell a try. In one of our posts detailing 5 of the best Android launchers, one of our readers, Mithun, suggested... Read the full article: Forget Power Features: Yandex.Shell Keeps It Light, Clean, and Easy

Caption Contest: Multiple Monitors Posted: 23 Sep 2013 12:15 PM PDT I have one screen for every person I’m stalking on Facebook. Caption this image! Share your wittiest captions with us in order to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt. You know you want one! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Multiple Monitors

10 Awesome Third-Party Apps & Their iOS 7 Updates Posted: 23 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT If you’re pleased with the new iOS 7 redesign, you’ll like how some third-party developers have used the latest iOS upgrade to not only given their apps a modern makeovers, but have also included useful new features coupled with smoother controls and enhancements. Our recently released guide for iOS 7 will bring you up to speed on the shiny new things to check out, so today I will share ten of my favorite apps and their new redesigns and features. I’m sure you have your own favorites as well, so let us know about them in the comments section of this article. Amazon Kindle (Free) For... Read the full article: 10 Awesome Third-Party Apps & Their iOS 7 Updates

QuickOffice Goes Free On Android & iOS, Offers 10GB Extra Google Drive Storage Posted: 23 Sep 2013 11:15 AM PDT It's been over a year since Google bought QuickOffice. There hasn't been much movement since, but a new announcement sure has our hopes up. Back in April, Google had made QuickOffice free for Google Apps for Business customers, and now the office productivity suite is free for anyone on both Android and iOS devices. There's also a new icon being debuted, which is a Q drawn with the Google Drive colours. Among other changes, QuickOffice now has the ability to create .ZIP folders and can view charts in Excel and PowerPoint files. Given that this is one of our favourite... Read the full article: QuickOffice Goes Free On Android & iOS, Offers 10GB Extra Google Drive Storage

Unable To Log In To Your Bank Account? Try These Tips Posted: 23 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT While banks usually do a good job of making it as easy as possible to log into your bank account online, it’s never entirely perfect. There’s always going to be a time when there’s some technological reason why you can’t log in even though you’re using the right credentials. Yes, sometimes it’s the bank’s fault, but a good number of times it’s a problem at your own end, and it’s something that can be easily fixed. Here’s a little checklist which you can follow step by step to make sure that it’s not an issue with your computer. If there... Read the full article: Unable To Log In To Your Bank Account? Try These Tips

7 Services For Taking Mobile Payment On Your Phone Posted: 23 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT Tired of dropping off checks and cash at the bank? Good news – you don’t have to. Small business owners and freelancers rejoice, for your smartphone – the thing you already use for communication, schedules, and organization – can also be used for payment processing. Check out these apps below for some fast ways to accept payment on your phone. Square Using a small (literally) square device that plugs right into your iPhone’s headphone jack, you can swipe credit cards just like the fancy card reader machines in retail stores. Square take 2.75% for every swiped transaction and 3.5% plus 15 cents for... Read the full article: 7 Services For Taking Mobile Payment On Your Phone

5 Great Football (Soccer) Games for the Armchair Pro Posted: 23 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, with millions of people in hundreds of countries playing it, and many more watching it in person and on TV. Many soccer fans are obsessive about their favorite sport, following a team through thick and thin, and supporting the 11 players wearing the team shirts with a fervor normally reserved for followers of a religion. When they’re not watching soccer at a stadium or on television, these people can usually be found playing soccer video games, of which there are plenty to choose from. All platforms have played host to a soccer game... Read the full article: 5 Great Football (Soccer) Games for the Armchair Pro

Get More Out Of Instagram With These 7 Chrome Extensions Posted: 23 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT It took Instagram a good while to make its service accessible from a computer browser, and even now there are a few features that are lacking from its web interface. This is no doubt an effort to keep Instagram’s users locked into where it all started — the mobile app. That said, there are some brilliant Chrome extensions that can add a ton of additional features to your Instagram in-browser experience. You can view Instagram in a small tab, accessible from a handy button in your Chrome browser; you can download photos; you can restore Instagram preview images to your Twitter... Read the full article: Get More Out Of Instagram With These 7 Chrome Extensions

Google Translate Updates Includes Handwriting Translation and Seven New Languages Posted: 23 Sep 2013 08:15 AM PDT Google this week posted a significant update to its powerful and easy to use Google Translate (Free) iOS app, to include handwriting input, seven new languages, and a modern redesign of the user interface. Google Translate works similar to the Google Search app which allows users to use voice to text technology to get super quick translations between more than 70 languages. Bosnian, Cebuano, Hmong, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, and Marathi were added in the new update. To use the app you simply select the two languages for translation and then type, dictate or write the text you want translated. Translations... Read the full article: Google Translate Updates Includes Handwriting Translation and Seven New Languages

Bring Mac’s Best Window Management Features To Windows Posted: 23 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT Bring Mac-style window management to Windows. If you’ve ever been jealous of features like Expose and Spaces, BetterDesktopTool is here to bring them to your PC. Linux and Mac users who switch to Windows tend to really miss their virtual desktops, and other unique ways of sorting your windows. Erez showed you Dexpot, a tool to add virtual desktops to Windows and VirtuaWin, a lightweight virtual desktop  manager. Both of these apps are great if virtual desktops are all you’re interested in, but they’re lacking if you also want to add Mac-style keyboard shortcuts and corners for viewing all open windows.... Read the full article: Bring Mac’s Best Window Management Features To Windows

What Is The Best Gaming Laptop For 2013? Posted: 23 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT 2013 isn't over yet, but with Intel's 4th-gen Core processors and Nvidia's GTX 700-series already out, it looks like the hardware gamers care about won't see any major upgrades until after the holidays. Anyone looking at a laptop gaming powerhouse will find that now is a great time to buy, and some sweet deals are likely to appear over the next few months. You might be wondering, then, what laptop is best. That's a difficult question. Processors and GPUs have become much more efficient over the last few years, and that's made gaming hardware available in a wider range of... Read the full article: What Is The Best Gaming Laptop For 2013?

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