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- Cool Websites and Tools – September 4th 2013 – Hire Clothes, Make Animation Videos, & Download Abandonware
- Which Games Console Are You Buying Next? [We Ask You]
- The Only Apps You Need To Follow 2013/14 Football On Your iPhone
- Help! My DVD Is Stuck in the Tray!
- Start Creating Games In No Time With Unity3D Free
- 10 Spectacular Female Superhero Posters You’d Want To Gawk At
- #Clueless? Everything You Need To Know About Twitter Hashtags
- Gingko: An Online Word Processor That Could Change The Way You Write
- A Quick Guide To Get Started With The Linux Command Line
- Collaborate And Edit Meeting Notes In Realtime Using Sync.in
- Get Fooducated About the Snacks, Meals, and Drinks You Buy
- Anita Sarkeesian, Gaming And Attempted Mob Censorship – Why It Didn’t Work
- 4 Tips On How To Go Around The World With Your Travel Writing
- Shazam On iOS Gets More Speed, Improved Recognition, And Twitter Integration [Updates]
- Technophilia 79 Live From MakeUseOf
| Posted: 04 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including hiring clothes online, making animation videos, downloading abandonware games, tracking your credit card rewards programs, and a Firefox extension to search all loaded tabs. Read on below! Le Tote – Complete your profile and define your style by selecting items that you love. Your tote arrives at your doorstep with 3 garments and 2 accessories. Keep everything for as long as you want. Never worry about return dates or late charges. When you’re ready for your next tote, use the pre-paid bag to send everything... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – September 4th 2013 – Hire Clothes, Make Animation Videos, & Download Abandonware |
| Which Games Console Are You Buying Next? [We Ask You] Posted: 04 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT  With the summer holidays drawing to a close, and kids going back to school, thoughts will invariably turn to the forthcoming holidays and, in those countries that celebrate it, Christmas. Gadgets galore are purchased over the next few months, whether as gifts or just treats for oneself. Perhaps you’re in the market for a new tablet, in which case you should read our 2013 tablet buying guide. Perhaps you’re looking for a new laptop, in which case you should consider buying a Chromebook instead. Perhaps you’re eyeing a 4K television, in which case you should let us gently persuade you... Read the full article: Which Games Console Are You Buying Next? [We Ask You] |
| The Only Apps You Need To Follow 2013/14 Football On Your iPhone Posted: 04 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT  There are an overwhelming number of apps for following live sport, reading match reports and catching up on news as the new 2013 football season gets going. Each year it seems like more apps are churned out, updated and in some cases spoiled with poorly executed updates. Frustrated at the dizzying choice and the fact that my previous favourite app for following Premiership football has gone to the dogs, I took it upon myself to download the lot and try to decipher which are worth your time. Because this information is freely available from news sources across the web, my only criteria... Read the full article: The Only Apps You Need To Follow 2013/14 Football On Your iPhone |
| Help! My DVD Is Stuck in the Tray! Posted: 04 Sep 2013 01:45 PM PDT  What happens when your DVD gets stuck in the tray? Can you remove it easily, or is it trapped in the drive until you can take your computer to a technician? Thankfully, the answer to that last question in most cases is no. Pretty much all that happens when your disc becomes stuck is that the tray will not open, likely due to a power or device driver issue. Several methods have been tried and tested to help you retrieve your stuck disc – so many, in fact, that they can be attempted in the order described below. Remember, however,... Read the full article: Help! My DVD Is Stuck in the Tray! |
| Start Creating Games In No Time With Unity3D Free Posted: 04 Sep 2013 01:00 PM PDT  The world of video games has gone through many changes in the relatively short time it's been around. First it was cutting-edge with Pong and Pac-Man. Over time, it became nerds-only, then boys-only, and now people from all demographics are enjoying games that range from mobile gaming to Flash gaming to competitive gaming. But recently, there's been a growing popular trend towards developing video games, not just playing them. There are plenty of free game development tools out there and many of them are super easy to use. However, for the longest time, game development tools suffered from one huge... Read the full article: Start Creating Games In No Time With Unity3D Free |
| 10 Spectacular Female Superhero Posters You’d Want To Gawk At Posted: 04 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT  After a couple of years of practice, digital photo-manipulation artist Jeff Chapman finally mastered the technique of designing the perfect movie poster featuring female superheroes like Wonder Woman, Power Girl and Supergirl, just to name a few. Although the women pictured in his posters aren’t real, they are surely empowering. His recent works are really nothing short of amazing and really deserves some attention. See his entire collection on deviantART. Read the full article: 10 Spectacular Female Superhero Posters You’d Want To Gawk At |
| #Clueless? Everything You Need To Know About Twitter Hashtags Posted: 04 Sep 2013 12:00 PM PDT  Some people #use #them #for #every #freaking #word; others ignore them altogether. It might leave you wondering: what are hashtags even for? Am I using Twitter wrong if I don’t use them? And are people making fun of me when I overuse them? Hashtags are a tool on Twitter (and lately other social networks too) that makes it easy to sort tweets by subject and quickly create global conversations. They’re not mandatory if you’re on Twitter, but using them can help you find and participate in worldwide discussions. It is possible to abuse hashtags, and doing so will lead to... Read the full article: #Clueless? Everything You Need To Know About Twitter Hashtags |
| Gingko: An Online Word Processor That Could Change The Way You Write Posted: 04 Sep 2013 11:40 AM PDT  At MakeUseOf, we’re always on the look out for innovative text editors that can make our life as writers just a little bit easier. We’ve taken a look at a variety of distraction-free writing editors, like Quabel and WriteApp. The latest service to throw its hat into the ring is Gingko. The relatively new service is unique and may just be the key you need to change the way you approach your writing. It could make you more productive too while making your workflow just that little bit easier. Rather than adhere to the traditional blank page format — a Gingko document... Read the full article: Gingko: An Online Word Processor That Could Change The Way You Write |
| A Quick Guide To Get Started With The Linux Command Line Posted: 04 Sep 2013 11:15 AM PDT  Think working on the command line is complex, old school and obsolete? Think again. In Linux, the command line is a peerless tool that performs complex tasks with very little effort. For example, try using a GUI (Graphical User Interface) to delete every file with names ending with .tmp and were created within the last 3 months. Then learn how to do the same task through the command line. You will be surprised by the ease and speed with which you can perform this task through the command line, especially if you have to do it regularly. You can do lots... Read the full article: A Quick Guide To Get Started With The Linux Command Line |
| Collaborate And Edit Meeting Notes In Realtime Using Sync.in Posted: 04 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Whenever you need to work with a team online, or even if you just have to collaborate with other colleagues that may work at other remote locations, the ability to have something visual to look at and work on collectively is invaluable. It’s one thing to have 5 or 6 people talking on the phone about plans for a big project with everyone takes down notes individually, but it’s quite another to share a sort of collaborative notebook where everyone can simultaneously jot down notes and ideas. Jessica outlined this concept a while back, with her list of 6 collaborative meeting... Read the full article: Collaborate And Edit Meeting Notes In Realtime Using Sync.in |
| Get Fooducated About the Snacks, Meals, and Drinks You Buy Posted: 04 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT  If you want to get educated about the food you eat, you might start by checking out Fooducate, a website, iOS and Android app that grades the food and beverages we purchase from supermarkets and fast food outlets. Fooducate consists of a team of parents, dieticians, and techies who have established a way to evaluate the ingredients in food and report on their nutritional value. From sandwiches and breakfast foods, to meat, fish and baby food formula, Fooducate reveals both the healthy ingredients and the not so healthy additives that food manufactures don’t always want you to notice. With Fooducate... Read the full article: Get Fooducated About the Snacks, Meals, and Drinks You Buy |
| Anita Sarkeesian, Gaming And Attempted Mob Censorship – Why It Didn’t Work Posted: 04 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT  Anita Sarkeesian is a feminist vlogger who apparently wants to destroy video games. The plan, according to an easily agitated section of the web, goes something like this: Analyze common video game troops as they relate to gender. ??? VIDEO GAMES ARE GONE FOREVER! I know this sounds stupid, but when Sarkeesian launched a Kickstarter in early 2012 to make a “Tropes Versus Women In Video Games” series on YouTube, some of the feedback was…unpleasant. People flooded her social media accounts with rape jokes, pictures of video game characters molesting her, and worse. Her existing videos were flagged as spam... Read the full article: Anita Sarkeesian, Gaming And Attempted Mob Censorship – Why It Didn’t Work |
| 4 Tips On How To Go Around The World With Your Travel Writing Posted: 04 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT  “Draw £1,000 now, and when you have gone through that, draw another £1,000, and when that is spent, draw another £1,000, and when you have finished that, draw another £1,000, and so on — but find Livingstone!” Travel writing used to be very different. Take Henry Morton Stanley for example. He was a 19th Century, Anglo-American journalist who spent a significant chunk of his thirties traipsing around Sub-Saharan Africa searching for the noted Scottish missionary and explorer, David Livingstone. An interview with Livingstone would have been a surefire seller. He could best be described as an archetype of Bear Grylls and... Read the full article: 4 Tips On How To Go Around The World With Your Travel Writing |
| Shazam On iOS Gets More Speed, Improved Recognition, And Twitter Integration [Updates] Posted: 04 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT  Shazam has just launched an awesome new update for its iOS application that adds some useful new features, as well as improves the way the app performs for individuals using older iOS devices. For people who enjoy using the app to recognize TV shows and music, this new update most certainly comes in handy. The first, and most inherently important part of this update comes to the improved recognition. After all, the main function of Shazam is listening to and identifying various forms of entertainment. I always found Shazam to be dead on for finding most things, but this update is... Read the full article: Shazam On iOS Gets More Speed, Improved Recognition, And Twitter Integration [Updates] |
| Technophilia 79 Live From MakeUseOf Posted: 04 Sep 2013 07:59 AM PDT  This week: Google is naming its next operating system after Nestle's KitKat brand, yet somehow ads on the Google homepage are off-limits? Give me a break. Microsoft bought Nokia's phone division, meaning they'll be able to produce phones no one buys completely in house. And Yahoo is revolutionizing the photography market by adding filters to it's iPhone app. I'll tell ya, that's a billion dollar idea right there! This week's show is brought to you by Bitdefender's Family Pack, which protects all your family's devices. It secures all the PCs/Macs/Android devices in a home with just one license at a... Read the full article: Technophilia 79 Live From MakeUseOf |
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