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- Cool Websites and Tools – Rewind Live Audio, Military-Grade Encryption, & Creating 3D Homes
- 5 Must-Have iOS Apps For Salespeople Looking To Close The Deal
- Which Search Engine Do You Use, & Why? [We Ask You]
- 10 Amazing Technology Ideas You Can Find On Pinterest
- Doctor Who? Enjoy The Show’s 50th Anniversary With These Mobile Apps
- EA Launches FIFA 14 On Mobile, Free To Download On Android And iOS
- Learnist For Android Tries To Make Munching RSS Feeds Into An Educational Experience
- How To Capture Time-Lapse Photography With Your Raspberry Pi and DSLR or USB Webcam
- Caption Contest: Spy
- 15 Ridiculously Awesome Videos For Bicycle Enthusiasts Of All Kinds
- World’s First $100 3D Printer & Scanner, Peachy Printer, Gets Kickstarter Funding
- Getting to Know iTunes 11.1: From Radio Stations to Genius Shuffle
- 6 Unexpected Ways To Use Social Networks To Increase Your Productivity
- Turn Back Time: 4 Tools & Tips To Restore Deleted Files In Windows
- Best Ways To Spell-Check As You Go In Chrome
| Cool Websites and Tools – Rewind Live Audio, Military-Grade Encryption, & Creating 3D Homes Posted: 25 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT  Rogue Amoeba – Turn back time? Yes! Intermission lets you pause and rewind live audio on your computer. Streaming audio will never be the same! With Intermission, you can jump back and replay something you missed, then resume live playback. You can even pause streaming audio on services like Pandora, iTunes Radio, or Spotify to build a buffer, then skip right past the ads and songs you don’t want to hear. Tame – No more streams. Tame delivers at a glance the most important links, topics, and people from Twitter. Get a digest from your own timeline or search for... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – Rewind Live Audio, Military-Grade Encryption, & Creating 3D Homes |
| 5 Must-Have iOS Apps For Salespeople Looking To Close The Deal Posted: 25 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT  Being a salesperson can be an incredibly challenging career path. Thankfully, our beloved iOS devices can make things go more smoothly with the help of some very useful applications. In the end, the job is all about making the client happy so that the deal gets closed. Whether selling cars, electronics, or a service, you want to accurately portray your message, meet the demands of the client, and get yourself a nice commission. It all sounds easy, but if it really was, everyone would be doing it. The iOS apps that follow will serve to help you meet those goals and... Read the full article: 5 Must-Have iOS Apps For Salespeople Looking To Close The Deal |
| Which Search Engine Do You Use, & Why? [We Ask You] Posted: 25 Sep 2013 02:15 PM PDT  As we discovered last week when we enquired what you would rather give up than the Internet, this series of tubes you’re currently travelling through seems to be rather important to many of you. But the Web is also rather epic, with too many sites, blogs, videos, social networks, and pictures (mainly of cats) to just blindly click around. Which is where search engines enter into the equation. Search engines come in all shapes and sizes, with some indexing the whole Web, and others indexing a more niche collection of content. We’ve highlighted some of these lesser-known Google alternatives, and... Read the full article: Which Search Engine Do You Use, & Why? [We Ask You] |
| 10 Amazing Technology Ideas You Can Find On Pinterest Posted: 25 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT  The world of Pinterest is a visual delight. Whether you carry a camera and an appetite, whether you’re a geek who likes to geek it out on Pinterest, or whether you’re just looking for technology boards on Pinterest to pique your interest. You can find anything on Pinterest, from cyborgs to warp drives, among other things. But there are also boards which take you to your backyard with simple technology hacks you can create yourself. DIY hack-a-day websites like Instructables.com and Makezine.com easily switch over a few lessons to image boards on Pinterest. They are not alone, as active “pinners”... Read the full article: 10 Amazing Technology Ideas You Can Find On Pinterest |
| Doctor Who? Enjoy The Show’s 50th Anniversary With These Mobile Apps Posted: 25 Sep 2013 01:30 PM PDT  British TV series Doctor Who celebrates its 50th anniversary in November, marking a half century of time travelling adventure. Express your love for the show with these great mobile apps! In 1963 a television phenomenon was born, one that has since spread into books, comics, video games, radio and cinema. Doctor Who tells the ongoing tale of a time travelling alien who habitually saves the universe, travels (mostly) with attractive women and occasionally changes his appearance in order to cheat death. It is a hugely flexible format, both within the series' internal narrative (the Doctor has met historical figures, aliens, creatures... Read the full article: Doctor Who? Enjoy The Show’s 50th Anniversary With These Mobile Apps |
| EA Launches FIFA 14 On Mobile, Free To Download On Android And iOS Posted: 25 Sep 2013 01:15 PM PDT  Electronic Arts, makers of some of the biggest video game franchises in the world, have released the latest version of their popular football (soccer) series, FIFA 14. This is the first title in the FIFA series be released as a free download on both Android and iOS. Walking in the path of other games that have gone free-to-play, FIFA 14 follows the emerging “freemium” model, where in-app purchases drive its economy. The default game lets you play matches, while upgrading unlocks three extra modes: Manager, Tournament, and Kick Off! Unlike other football games for the armchair pro, this one is... Read the full article: EA Launches FIFA 14 On Mobile, Free To Download On Android And iOS |
| Learnist For Android Tries To Make Munching RSS Feeds Into An Educational Experience Posted: 25 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Learning is an admirable goal. We all strive to better ourselves, and gaining new knowledge is one of the best ways to do so. Traditionally, learning meant hitting the books — sitting down for an extended period of time with a few authoritative resources, gradually working your way through a curriculum and (hopefully) ending up with a new skill or a clearer understanding of whatever it is you’re trying to figure out. That was the past, though — today, this traditional view of learning feels almost quaint. In today’s brave new world, when you need to know something, you just... Read the full article: Learnist For Android Tries To Make Munching RSS Feeds Into An Educational Experience |
| How To Capture Time-Lapse Photography With Your Raspberry Pi and DSLR or USB Webcam Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Watch the clouds move or a seedling grow. Time-lapse photography can really give you a sense of how the world works on a macroscopic level, beyond anything conceivable to the normal human experience of time. Or other words: it can turn watching paint dry into something quite interesting. Unfortunately, professional time-lapse equipment – whilst adding the ability to rotate or move your camera – like the Genie can cost up to $1000. Today, we’ll make a basic time-lapse controller with no movement – for DSLR or a USB webcam – with just a Raspberry Pi. Be sure to check out... Read the full article: How To Capture Time-Lapse Photography With Your Raspberry Pi and DSLR or USB Webcam |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:15 PM PDT  Ted still relies on old-fashion keylogging techniques. Caption this image! What do you think is happening here? Share your funniest captions with us and you might win a free, highly coveted MakeUseOf t-shirt! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Spy |
| 15 Ridiculously Awesome Videos For Bicycle Enthusiasts Of All Kinds Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Whether it’s enjoying a nice paved trail through countryside, doing the daily commute to the grocery store to get food, or bombing through some singletrack on a mountain side, biking is a huge passion for many. I still consider myself an amateur compared to experienced cyclists and mountain bikers, so on many occasions I turn to the Internet for improving my biking IQ. In the midst of doing that, I also discovered plenty of videos of incredible riders all around the world, even some right where I live. If Only Every Mountain Biking Video Was Shot Like This Some might argue... Read the full article: 15 Ridiculously Awesome Videos For Bicycle Enthusiasts Of All Kinds |
| World’s First $100 3D Printer & Scanner, Peachy Printer, Gets Kickstarter Funding Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:15 AM PDT  The prices of 3D printers have been slowly coming down, but even then the cheapest so far have been around the $500 mark. Canada-based inventor Rylan Grayston has hit upon a new formula that dramatically cuts the price, enabling him to make the world’s first $100 3D printer. And what’s more, the Peachy Printer doubles up as a 3D scanner when attached to any normal digital camera. Already, the Peachy Printer has blown past its Kickstarter goal of $50,000 and is at over $350,000 at the time of writing. The hand-sized cubic device needs to be connected to external apparatus... Read the full article: World’s First $100 3D Printer & Scanner, Peachy Printer, Gets Kickstarter Funding |
| Getting to Know iTunes 11.1: From Radio Stations to Genius Shuffle Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:00 AM PDT  Along with the release of iOS 7, Apple has updated iTunes with several new features including iTunes Radio, Genius Shuffle, Podcast Stations, and a few changes to managing iOS devices. All new upgrades are available for both the OS X and Windows version of iTunes, which can be downloaded here. As with our guide to iTunes 11, this article highlights what you should know about the desktop version of iTunes. iTunes Radio Provided you’re in the US, after you have downloaded and installed the new upgrade, iTunes opens with an invitation to iTunes Radio. This is Apple’s free streaming music... Read the full article: Getting to Know iTunes 11.1: From Radio Stations to Genius Shuffle |
| 6 Unexpected Ways To Use Social Networks To Increase Your Productivity Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Has your boss moved your desk a bit closer to his office? Yeah, he knows you are Facebooking on the job. However, don’t let him tell IT to shut it down just yet. You can use these networks as a means to make your work life just a bit better. Below you’ll find six ways to use social networks to increase your productivity in some unlikely ways. 1. Remind Yourself To Get Back On Track Think of this productivity tip as a reverse Pavlov’s dog experiment that is targeted at avoiding the social network black hole. Grab a small notepad and a... Read the full article: 6 Unexpected Ways To Use Social Networks To Increase Your Productivity |
| Turn Back Time: 4 Tools & Tips To Restore Deleted Files In Windows Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT  One of Windows’ biggest flaws could be your rescue, should you ever accidentally delete an important file: The Windows file system does not actually delete files. Until they are overwritten, deleted files can be restored. So you just completed that thesis paper and accidentally sent it to the land of erased files and destroyed dreams? Maybe you lost all of the photos from your three-month summer vacation – not quite as devastating as a deleted thesis paper, but painful nonetheless. Or perhaps the file you deleted wasn't so important but you want it back anyway. The files may not be... Read the full article: Turn Back Time: 4 Tools & Tips To Restore Deleted Files In Windows |
| Best Ways To Spell-Check As You Go In Chrome Posted: 25 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT  Proper spelling is more than a courtesy; it’s also a sign of intelligence and good education. These days, you don’t actually need to know how to spell to make a good impression. If you’re smart enough, you’ll just use one of the many free spell-check tools, some of which can also correct your grammar. And by paying a little attention to the corrections these tools make, you can also improve your native spelling skills on the go. The Situation In Chrome Chrome comes with a native spell-checker, which should be enabled by default. The dictionary is typically set to the... Read the full article: Best Ways To Spell-Check As You Go In Chrome |
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