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- Cool Websites and Tools – September 3rd 2013 – Birdsong, Screen Capturing, & 3D Printer Hiring
- How To Make A Shared Photo Album On Facebook [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- 5 Laptop Maintenance Tips To Extend Its Life Expectancy
- Stuff I Found On The Web – Breaking Bad, Buying A Startup On The Cheap, & More!
- The 3 Best Tablets For Senior Citizens
- An Inspirational Comic Strip For All Struggling Freelancers
- Fraudsters Still Clone Credit Cards: Keep Plastic In Your Pocket
- Where Should Microsoft Go From Here? [You Told Us]
- How To Prolong Laptop Power When Running Off A Car Battery
- MakeUseOf Had A MakeOver
- Play Music From Multiple Android Devices At Once With SoundSeeder
- Play Paper and Pencil D&D Online With Distant Friends With Free Apps
- MinuteTaker and Meetings Help You Produce Professional iPad Minute Reports
- Better Than Gmail for Android: Boomerang For Android Reviewed
- Is All Of The Hate For The Nintendo 2DS For Good Reason?
| Cool Websites and Tools – September 3rd 2013 – Birdsong, Screen Capturing, & 3D Printer Hiring Posted: 03 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including relaxing to birdsong, a cross-platform screen capture app, an iPhone camera app which automatically takes a photo from both the front and the back, hiring out your 3D printer, and an iPhone app to help you look good. Read on below! Birdsong.fm – Relax to the tranquil sounds of birdsong with the new Birdsong.fm app. Escape the city and liberate your senses and mind. Listen at home, whilst you’re commuting or unwind at the end of a stressful day. Access a members-only area, and buy... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – September 3rd 2013 – Birdsong, Screen Capturing, & 3D Printer Hiring |
| How To Make A Shared Photo Album On Facebook [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 03 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT  After every great party these days there is an influx of photos on Facebook. Until recently, every Facebook user who turned up to the event with a camera would upload their photos to Facebook into an album: maybe specifically for this event, maybe an album for the month or maybe just their basic iOS photo album. What it meant was that there was no one album for the event – all the photos were disjointed and kept all over the place. Until now. Now, Facebook has decided we can make shared photo albums. They’re easy to set up, easy to... Read the full article: How To Make A Shared Photo Album On Facebook [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| 5 Laptop Maintenance Tips To Extend Its Life Expectancy Posted: 03 Sep 2013 02:15 PM PDT  Laptops are replaced every few years. We crave fancier hardware, novel features, and maybe our old device has become unresponsive and suffered some damage over time. Consequently, most laptops get thrown out prematurely. Unless you are looking for a silly excuse to buy a new and shiny device, you will love to hear that there are many ways to make your laptop last longer. Apart from delaying the headache of setting up a new computer and moving all your files over, this will also save you money in the long run. So let’s see what you can do to turn... Read the full article: 5 Laptop Maintenance Tips To Extend Its Life Expectancy |
| Stuff I Found On The Web – Breaking Bad, Buying A Startup On The Cheap, & More! Posted: 03 Sep 2013 02:01 PM PDT  Today on Stuff I Found On The Web, which character in Breaking Bad are you? Plus, buying an abandoned startup on the cheap, the DeLorean Time Machine in Lego, having your dog poop delivered to your front door, and a site that tries to give you a comprehensive list of ways to close down web accounts. Which Breaking Bad Character Are You? Right now, with only a handful of episodes to go before the series ends for good, everyone is going totally NUTS over Breaking Bad. They’ve even gone all Big Brother on us by having a talk show on... Read the full article: Stuff I Found On The Web – Breaking Bad, Buying A Startup On The Cheap, & More! |
| The 3 Best Tablets For Senior Citizens Posted: 03 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT  Seniors often find themselves the butt of jokes about technological ineptitude. In truth, many senior citizens have as much an interest in technology as the punks who mock them. But people do grow older, and as we do, our priorities tend to change. Senior citizens often find themselves looking for products that are powerful yet easy to use, not only out of a desire to simplify, but also because older buyers can often afford exactly what they want. Not every tablet will do for a crowd as discerning as senior citizens. They want a product that just works, and works... Read the full article: The 3 Best Tablets For Senior Citizens |
| An Inspirational Comic Strip For All Struggling Freelancers Posted: 03 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Striving freelancers, listen to me. Keep going. Just because you work from home doesn’t mean you’re worth less than your office-constrained counterparts. Don’t sell yourself short. In 1990, Bill Watterson, creator of the beloved comic ‘Calvin & Hobbes’, took the podium and delivered an inspirational commencement speech to the graduates of Kenyon College. He shared unforgettable moments from his personal life and the struggles he faced with what he referred to as a real job — a job that’s creatively and intellectually unfulfilling. A job you take just for the money. A job you hate. As a tribute to Bill... Read the full article: An Inspirational Comic Strip For All Struggling Freelancers |
| Fraudsters Still Clone Credit Cards: Keep Plastic In Your Pocket Posted: 03 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT  If you regularly pay by credit or debit/cheque card (and who doesn’t these days?) you should be aware that your card can be cloned. But how is this done, and what types of business are particularly vulnerable to criminals hanging around pinching your card details? Speaking personally, I had a credit card cloned back in 2007 at a popular pizza restaurant chain in the UK – by a member of the serving staff. When I next checked my balance I saw that I had been shopping in Liverpool later that day – a good 100 miles away from where I... Read the full article: Fraudsters Still Clone Credit Cards: Keep Plastic In Your Pocket |
| Where Should Microsoft Go From Here? [You Told Us] Posted: 03 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Microsoft is facing an important next phase in its long and (sometimes) illustrious history. The past decade has seen the Redmond-based company struggle to maintain its once vice-like grip on computers. Apple has gained in both power and influence, and the move away from home computers to mobile devices has tempered Microsoft’s influence on the industry. Now, Microsoft is attempting to change from the inside out, with a new company structure and strategy as outlined in a memo from Steve Ballmer to the employees in July. Not that Ballmer will be there to see the transformation occur, as he has... Read the full article: Where Should Microsoft Go From Here? [You Told Us] |
| How To Prolong Laptop Power When Running Off A Car Battery Posted: 03 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Have you ever found yourself hovering on the edge of an online catastrophe, trying to resolve some issue at work via your VPN link, while your laptop’s battery level continues to sink down to 0%? This is a situation that a lot hard-working mobile users often find themselves in, and the options available to keep that laptop battery charged are not as well-known as you might think. Yes, you need an outlet. If you’re camping, you might desperately attempt to locate an outlet available on the outside of a building somewhere. If you’re traveling, you might stop at a rest area... Read the full article: How To Prolong Laptop Power When Running Off A Car Battery |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2013 10:10 AM PDT  Notice anything different about the site? MakeUseOf has undergone some major cosmetic changes and is now looking better than ever. It’s not just great looks — we’ve sped up the page load time and added a bunch of new features we think you’ll really like. Read on to find out what’s new, then voice your opinion in the comments. Fully Responsive Theme For years now, the MakeUseOf mobile experience has been rather less than satisfactory — we’ve tried everything from a custom app on a mobile domain, to specialist WordPress plugins and themes. We also fell back to the regular version... Read the full article: MakeUseOf Had A MakeOver |
| Play Music From Multiple Android Devices At Once With SoundSeeder Posted: 03 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT  Imagine being able to a play a song from your phone and your tablet at the exact same time, essentially giving you surround sound speakers. That’s JekApps‘s goal with their new set of apps: SoundSeeder Music Player and SoundSeeder Speaker. The concept is similar to the Galaxy S4′s Group Play feature, where users can play the same song at the same time across multiple Galaxy S4s, but really, do you and all your friends have a bunch of Galaxy S4s lying around? SoundSeeder Music Player can be installed on any 4.1+ device, and the SoundSeeder Speaker app works on 2.2+ devices,... Read the full article: Play Music From Multiple Android Devices At Once With SoundSeeder |
| Play Paper and Pencil D&D Online With Distant Friends With Free Apps Posted: 03 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Want to slay dragons old-school D&D style using cutting-edge technology? You and your distant friends can do that using video and audio chat, with the applications we are covering today. After Wizards of the Coast canceled its long-awaited Dungeons and Dragons Virtual Table product line, gamers took matters into their own hands and created amazing products for coordinating active table-top gaming sessions. Forget about D&D the MMORPG! What follows is three awesome products that will allow you to play D&D with friends all over the world. Roll 20 I can't go on enough about Roll 20. It allows Dungeon Masters... Read the full article: Play Paper and Pencil D&D Online With Distant Friends With Free Apps |
| MinuteTaker and Meetings Help You Produce Professional iPad Minute Reports Posted: 03 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT  In my free online MakeUseOf Online Meeting Guide where I provided some tips for planning and holding meetings over the Web, I referenced a few minute taking apps as well. While very few of us enjoy taking and producing minutes, Meetings ($3.99) and MinuteTaker ($7.99) not only make it easier to take minutes, but the reports you share will actually encourage meeting participants to read the minute reports. If you use your iPad as a laptop and you have the laborious job of taking minutes at meetings, I couldn’t make better recommendations than Meetings and MinuteTaker for iPad. MinuteTaker ($7.99) In order to get meeting participants to review minutes, reports should... Read the full article: MinuteTaker and Meetings Help You Produce Professional iPad Minute Reports |
| Better Than Gmail for Android: Boomerang For Android Reviewed Posted: 03 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT  Boomerang just might be the best email client for Android. Here’s why. Ever since Sparrow made Gmail on the iPhone spectacular, iOS developers have tried to re-invent the way Gmail users access their mail on mobile. The same can’t be said on Google’s Android, however, and this makes sense: the operating system includes a Gmail app out of the box. There is one app, however, that gives Gmail a run for its money. Last month the makers of the Boomerang browser extension released a full-blown email client for Android. This app not only brought Boomerang’s previously browser-only “snooze” button to... Read the full article: Better Than Gmail for Android: Boomerang For Android Reviewed |
| Is All Of The Hate For The Nintendo 2DS For Good Reason? Posted: 03 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT  If you haven’t heard yet, Nintendo is launching a brand new handheld in October that takes the concept of the Nintendo 3DS and crunches it down into a 2D sidekick. Nintendo fans are two things, if nothing else: loyal and critical. Nintendo supporters absolutely love the brand, and that love can sometimes look a lot like hate when Nintendo pushes out a product that fans feel aren’t up to their standards. Nintendo has had a lot of flops in the past. There was the Game Boy Printer, which allowed you to print out pictures you took with the Game Boy’s... Read the full article: Is All Of The Hate For The Nintendo 2DS For Good Reason? |
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