15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites and Tools – Crowdsourced Address Book, Analyzing Twitter Profiles, & Posture Sensor
• How To Make Sure Your Fans Know Your Facebook Page Is Real [Weekly Facebook Tips]
• The Future Is Here: Sketchfab Puts 3D Models Right In Your Browser
• CyanogenMod’s Focal Camera App Lands In The Google Play Store
• Don’t Forget You Can Make & Receive FaceTime Calls On Your Mac
• 10 Beautiful Minimalist Smartphone Lockscreens You’d Want
• Internet Valued More Than Alcohol, Caffeine, Random Body Parts [We Ask You Results]
• Autodesk and Circuits.io Launch New Electronics Design Tool 123D Circuits
• How You Can Learn A New Language While Browsing The Web With Lingua.ly
• 10 Reasons To Give BlackBerry 10 A Try Today
• Steam Introduces Free-To-Download SteamOS, Streams Windows & Mac Games
• Beat the Bloat! Try These Lightweight BitTorrent Clients
• Kopete vs. Pidgin: Which Linux Instant Messaging Client Has More Features?
• New Firefox For Android Beta Brings Guest Browsing & Better HTTPS Security
• Want A “Cheap” iPhone? Buy The 4S (But It’ll Cost You)

Cool Websites and Tools – Crowdsourced Address Book, Analyzing Twitter Profiles, & Posture Sensor Posted: 24 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT Dubb – is the simplest way to connect people and keep contacts up to date, by replacing your phonebook and crowdsourcing your social network(s). Dubb helps you leverage your network, creating a mobile rolodex of contacts. When you become friends with someone on Dubb their contact list is aggregated with yours. No need to call your friends anymore to see if they have someone’s contact – simply look into your network, and request the contact. Twibitz – When you evaluate a Twitter Profile, whether to follow them or to reach out to them as an infuencer, you can’t get a... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – Crowdsourced Address Book, Analyzing Twitter Profiles, & Posture Sensor

How To Make Sure Your Fans Know Your Facebook Page Is Real [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 24 Sep 2013 02:45 PM PDT How do you prove to your Facebook fans that you are who you say you are? Have you been thinking about verified Pages? Here’s what you need to know. Many businesses have started Facebook Pages, yet have no idea how to prove the Facebook Page is legitimately connected to them. Even worse, some don’t realise they should try to prove themselves to their customers. However, this is an important step in gaining trust, so it’s worth looking into properly when you next give your Facebook Page a makeover. Who Should Prove Their Page Is Legit? If you’re a business with... Read the full article: How To Make Sure Your Fans Know Your Facebook Page Is Real [Weekly Facebook Tips]

The Future Is Here: Sketchfab Puts 3D Models Right In Your Browser Posted: 24 Sep 2013 01:30 PM PDT With free, powerful 3D modeling applications like Blender and SketchUp, creating high-quality 3D models is more affordable and doable than ever before. Judging by the comments to my interview with Rafael Grassetti, there’s lot of interest in creating models and working in 3D. Sharing those models with others, however, remains tricky. SketchUp has its 3D Warehouse where users can share models, but the warehouse requires you to log in — and you must share the actual model, rather than a 3D render of it. Sketchfab is an interesting service that tries to solve this, by letting you upload 3D models... Read the full article: The Future Is Here: Sketchfab Puts 3D Models Right In Your Browser

CyanogenMod’s Focal Camera App Lands In The Google Play Store Posted: 24 Sep 2013 01:15 PM PDT Before CyanogenMod became a company, their ROM came bundled with a camera app called Focal; it was a highly loved aspect of the ROM, but when developer ”xplodwild” left CM, he took the advanced camera app with him. However, Focal has now officially landed on the Play Store for anyone running Android 4.1+ to download. Team BBQ, the group that xplodwild is now a part of, says that the app is still in Beta, so you should expect some bugs. But many users still swear by Focal as the best camera app available. It uses a simple interface that shows only the shutter... Read the full article: CyanogenMod’s Focal Camera App Lands In The Google Play Store

Don’t Forget You Can Make & Receive FaceTime Calls On Your Mac Posted: 24 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT Apple’s FaceTime is seen in many of its commercials, but some Mac users may not realize that the application is also available for use on their desktop computer. Perhaps this is because the Mac version of FaceTime has to be purchased from the App Store for $0.99 for users not running OS X Mountain Lion or later. FaceTime is free to use over Wi-Fi, including international connections, and it can also be used via some cellular networks, such AT&T. However, FaceTime calls can only be made with other FaceTime users who have the application installed on a supporting device including the iPhone,... Read the full article: Don’t Forget You Can Make & Receive FaceTime Calls On Your Mac

10 Beautiful Minimalist Smartphone Lockscreens You’d Want Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:15 PM PDT And you can have them. Every lockscreen and homescreen featured in this list can be implemented in Android and iOS (if jailbroken). By clicking through on the links, you’ll find detailed descriptions of the setup, along with the apps used to achieve the particular look, icon sets, wallpapers and so on. Which is your favourite? Airtistic Fir Shh… iPhone 5 Setup by raresey lajal Android New HomeScreen by Slaro001 Travel MNML SPACE POTATO SSC’13 Typo Whiteline HD Screen Read the full article: 10 Beautiful Minimalist Smartphone Lockscreens You’d Want

Internet Valued More Than Alcohol, Caffeine, Random Body Parts [We Ask You Results] Posted: 24 Sep 2013 11:45 AM PDT The Internet is an integral part of everyday life for many of us now, forming the central hub around which we live. You may consider that an exaggeration, but people work, play, date, and socialize online. Which is a pretty stunning revelation for a technology that only hit the mainstream in the 1990s. This means the Internet surely ranks pretty highly on a make-believe list of life’s essentials. But how highly? We sought to find out in last week’s We Ask You column, and the results were pretty illuminating. They suggest that there isn’t much that someone, somewhere wouldn’t give... Read the full article: Internet Valued More Than Alcohol, Caffeine, Random Body Parts [We Ask You Results]

Autodesk and Circuits.io Launch New Electronics Design Tool 123D Circuits Posted: 24 Sep 2013 11:15 AM PDT Autodesk expanded its offering of free 3D modeling tools last week  by joining with Circuits.io to launch a free electronics design tool called 123D Circuits. 123D Circuits allows the user to either learn circuit design or put their existing electronics knowledge to use by designing virtual electronic circuits that can be simulated inside of the software. It’s a web-based tool, so the user doesn’t need to install any software to create virtual circuits. What makes 123D Circuits unique from most other online circuit design tools is the fact that the designs created inside of 123D Circuits are part of Circuit.io’s... Read the full article: Autodesk and Circuits.io Launch New Electronics Design Tool 123D Circuits

How You Can Learn A New Language While Browsing The Web With Lingua.ly Posted: 24 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT If I look back at my day, I spend nearly all of it browsing the Web. I pick up a lot of information on the way. A new language isn’t usually one of them. The Internet has helped to do away with the language tutor – websites like Duolingo and Busuu can easily tell you if you have an ear for new languages; and how you can develop one. But once you get the basics right, you need to keep practicing. That's what inspired me to write the article on how to learn a new language with the help of... Read the full article: How You Can Learn A New Language While Browsing The Web With Lingua.ly

10 Reasons To Give BlackBerry 10 A Try Today Posted: 24 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT BlackBerry phones have some high profile fans, with the likes of Tim Allen, President Obama and Google CEO Eric Schmidt all having publicly came out as being users of the popular smartphone platform. For many years, it has gained a die-hard following of fans who love its powerful email capabilities, comfortable keyboard and robust build quality. But that’s not to say it didn’t had a rough few years. Sales are down, and it has struggled to keep up with the popularity of Android and iOS. But the Canadian phone manufacturer has a few tricks up its sleeve. They’ve just released... Read the full article: 10 Reasons To Give BlackBerry 10 A Try Today

Steam Introduces Free-To-Download SteamOS, Streams Windows & Mac Games Posted: 24 Sep 2013 09:15 AM PDT Valve, the makers of Half-Life, have unveiled a new operating system meant for gamers: SteamOS. According to Valve, it’s meant for “living room machines”, so this could be what the touted SteamBox runs on when it launches later this month. Of course, it’s going to be all about the digital distribution platform Steam. SteamOS is built on Linux, so it won’t run all of the nearly 3000 games on the Steam store, but Steam for Linux has been around for a while and there are a few great titles already in there, like Portal and Half-Life. However, Valve announced that... Read the full article: Steam Introduces Free-To-Download SteamOS, Streams Windows & Mac Games

Beat the Bloat! Try These Lightweight BitTorrent Clients Posted: 24 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT Guns don't share illegal files. People share illegal files. Or, wait, how does it go again? What I mean to say is, BitTorrent has a bad reputation for its piracy potential, but it shouldn’t. BitTorrent is a tool that allows people to share and receive files with other people and there are legal uses for BitTorrent unrelated to downloading illegal files. Torrenting is so popular that there are dozens of great clients out there, but many of them are packed with bloat and extra features that the average user will never use. What if you want a clean, simple, and easy client instead?... Read the full article: Beat the Bloat! Try These Lightweight BitTorrent Clients

Kopete vs. Pidgin: Which Linux Instant Messaging Client Has More Features? Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT While the idea of chat rooms aren’t quite as popular anymore as they used to be, instant messaging is still used by everyone. Whether it’s Yahoo, MSN/Skype, Facebook, and more, you need an application for your desktop that can handle all of these services while providing great integration. Under Linux, sticking with the applications meant for your given desktop environment is usually the best experience – but there are still pros and cons to the two major messengers. I compared Kopete, a popular KDE instant messaging application, with Pidgin, arguably the most popular open source instant messaging client, to see... Read the full article: Kopete vs. Pidgin: Which Linux Instant Messaging Client Has More Features?

New Firefox For Android Beta Brings Guest Browsing & Better HTTPS Security Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:15 AM PDT Just a few days ago, Mozilla unveiled Firefox 24 for desktop and Android, which brought the new "quickshare" feature and the ability to switch between day and night modes in Reader. Meanwhile, the beta version of Firefox For Android has gotten an update too, rolling out a few cool features. The big new change is ‘Guest Browsing’, with which you can give your phone to a friend for them to browse the Web without being able to affect your data. In effect, it logs the user out of his or her FF session to protect history, bookmarks and tabs. The... Read the full article: New Firefox For Android Beta Brings Guest Browsing & Better HTTPS Security

Want A “Cheap” iPhone? Buy The 4S (But It’ll Cost You) Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT Apple has taken the wraps off its new iPhone 5C, but it turns out that the “C” doesn't stand for cheap. The phone still sells for at least $99 on-contract (for a 16GB version) and off-contract versions are at least $549. Such pricing is far from unheard of in the mobile phone world, of course, but some were hoping (perhaps foolishly) for a new, free on-contract model. The iPhone 4S has picked up that torch instead. Though ageing, the 4S offers many recent features that have become selling points, including 3D maps, Siri and a great camera. Buyers who want... Read the full article: Want A “Cheap” iPhone? Buy The 4S (But It’ll Cost You)

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