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- Cool Websites and Tools – iOS Swear Jar, Skilled Workers Social Network, & Listing Your Android Apps
- Audio Ammunition: Google’s 5 Part Documentary About The Clash [Stuff to Watch]
- How To Create A Windows 8 Recovery Disk
- Tweets From History: 8 Twitter Feeds Revealing The Past
- Apple Changed The Camera App In iOS7: Here’s What You Need To Know
- Caption Contest: Safe Gaming
- 7 Game Of The Year Editions That Were Worth The Wait
- Get Rid Of That Typo: Facebook Now Allows For Editing Status Updates
- Burned: Why Trusting Shopping Reviews On FocalPrice.com Is a Bad Idea
- Follow Them: 7 Novelists Making The Most Out Of 140 Characters
- What Is the Best Podcast Manager For Windows?
- 7 Photography Websites Every Shutterbug Should Keep A Click Away
- The Best Places On The Web To Learn About And Play Go
- Panoramic Virtual Tour Of CERN Comes To Google Street View
- YouTube Video Uploading on Windows Phone Solved
| Cool Websites and Tools – iOS Swear Jar, Skilled Workers Social Network, & Listing Your Android Apps Posted: 30 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Jukebox Lessons – lets you learn any subject with teachers who are located almost anywhere in the world. You can be at home in London and learn Spanish with a teacher from Argentina, or you could be on the beach in Brazil learning how to make sushi with a chef in Japan. All you need is a computer and a video conferencing program like Skype or Google Hangout. Jukebox Lessons is that simple. Logdown – promotes itself as the “missing blogging platform for hackers”. It supports GitHub Flavored Markdown, Latex and is compatible with Octopress syntax. It also provides in-editor... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – iOS Swear Jar, Skilled Workers Social Network, & Listing Your Android Apps |
| Audio Ammunition: Google’s 5 Part Documentary About The Clash [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:30 PM PDT  The Clash were the English punk band who famously fought the law and lost, and now thanks to Google Play you can relive the band’s story with some exclusive never-before-seen footage. Despite being more commonly associated with searches and apps, Google have turned their attention to the late great Joe Strummer and bandmates in a documentary that explores life in one of the most influential bands of the last century. The Clash first emerged in 1976 during the first wave of the British punk movement but internal struggles put an end to them only ten years later. Even if you’re... Read the full article: Audio Ammunition: Google’s 5 Part Documentary About The Clash [Stuff to Watch] |
| How To Create A Windows 8 Recovery Disk Posted: 30 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT  The days of reinstalling Windows whenever your PC runs into trouble are long since gone. All you need to fix Windows 8 is a recovery disk, either on CD/DVD, USB drive or an external hard disk drive. Whether you've upgraded from an old version of Windows or bought a new device, one of the first things that you should do is set up your own recovery disk, a process that basically installs a set of tools onto your chosen media that can then be used to repair issues with Windows 8. These useful tools will enable you to boot your... Read the full article: How To Create A Windows 8 Recovery Disk |
| Tweets From History: 8 Twitter Feeds Revealing The Past Posted: 30 Sep 2013 01:30 PM PDT  The history of the human race is full of epic events, monumental moments, and harrowing happenings. As individuals, we often ignore that history, choosing to live in the present and look to the future without ever glancing backwards through the murky mists of time. Which is a shame, as there are valuable lessons to be learned from the past. History can tell us where we went wrong, how bad things happened, and the timeline that led to truly world-changing events. Which is why it’s important to keep one eye on the past, learning about history so that we can all,... Read the full article: Tweets From History: 8 Twitter Feeds Revealing The Past |
| Apple Changed The Camera App In iOS7: Here’s What You Need To Know Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Every element of the new iOS interface has been updated. In addition to the home screen and menus, this includes core apps like the Camera which form a large part of the iOS experience. Apple claims iOS 7 is the largest update the operating system has ever seen, and they mean it. The camera app is part of that, of course, and it's been completely revised. Even experienced iOS users are likely to be a bit taken aback at first – not a single element of the old app remains. Functionally, however, it does everything it did before and tacks on... Read the full article: Apple Changed The Camera App In iOS7: Here's What You Need To Know |
| Posted: 30 Sep 2013 12:15 PM PDT  Your gaming habits affects your loved ones and those around you. Be sure to practise safe gaming. Give us your best captions and you’ll be in the running to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! There can only be one winner, so be creative! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Safe Gaming |
| 7 Game Of The Year Editions That Were Worth The Wait Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Video games vary widely in terms of quality. Some titles are truly terrible, and some, on the other hand, are exceptionally brilliant, and deserve to be played by as many people as possible. These games generally receive critical acclaim across the board, and are heralded as Game Of The Year by at least one of the major gaming websites. It’s at this point that the publishers of said game decide to release a Game Of The Year edition. This re-release could mean anything from just the same game repackaged for newcomers, or the original game plus a host of DLC and... Read the full article: 7 Game Of The Year Editions That Were Worth The Wait |
| Get Rid Of That Typo: Facebook Now Allows For Editing Status Updates Posted: 30 Sep 2013 11:15 AM PDT  Rejoice! Your mistakes no longer have to be etched onto your Facebook timeline for all of eternity. The Web and Android versions of Facebook have been updated to include an “Edit” button for all of your status updates, allowing you to go back and fix any embarrassing typos. Facebook has said that an update for iOS app is “coming soon.” On both the Web and the Android app, the edit function can be accessed by clicking on the small arrow in the top right corner of any status update. Note that even after you edit your post, there will be... Read the full article: Get Rid Of That Typo: Facebook Now Allows For Editing Status Updates |
| Burned: Why Trusting Shopping Reviews On FocalPrice.com Is a Bad Idea Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT  “Absolutely terrible,” I wrote, proceeding to explain exactly what was wrong with the LED light I bought from FocalPrice.com and protect future buyers against making the same mistake. Only the review was never published: When I signed back on a couple of days later to check on it, I discovered it had been inexplicably marked as Rejected: The Story I first found out about FocalPrice after I wrote about 3 Interesting Shopping Websites Offering Free International Shipping. One of the sites I mentioned was DealExtreme, and FocalPrice was mentioned in the comments as an alternative. While the review’s title may... Read the full article: Burned: Why Trusting Shopping Reviews On FocalPrice.com Is a Bad Idea |
| Follow Them: 7 Novelists Making The Most Out Of 140 Characters Posted: 30 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT  We’ve already taken a look at how creative you can get with Twitter if you’re a literature geek. If you’re interested in using Twitter to get your creativity out there in the world, start with the creativity worth following on the social networking site. Just as Twitter has become popular among journalists, photographers, singers, actors, and just about every profession imaginable, it has also taken off with the global writing community. A great place to start when it comes to looking for decent writers to follow on Twitter, is with the literary greats who have really taken to the network.... Read the full article: Follow Them: 7 Novelists Making The Most Out Of 140 Characters |
| What Is the Best Podcast Manager For Windows? Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT  The tech world is obsessed with mobile apps and web-based software, but the reality is that many people — if not most people! — still use Windows most of the time. If you want to listen to podcasts while at your Windows PC, the best option is still a Windows desktop application that will play them for you. With these programs, you can listen to the MakeUseOf podcast and all your other favorite podcasts. As with many things in life, there’s no one best podcast manager for everyone. If you have an iPod you want to sync your podcasts to,... Read the full article: What Is the Best Podcast Manager For Windows? |
| 7 Photography Websites Every Shutterbug Should Keep A Click Away Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Whether you’re looking for inspiration, want to see what other photographers are up to, see the latest gadgets and toys, read reviews, or even feature your own work, there are a variety of sites that every photographer should follow to do just those things. There is no better way to improve your photography technique than by keeping up with the latest — whether on the amateur or professional level — on sites that are run by people who are just as passionate about photography as you are. These seven sites fit that description and are a surefire way to keep... Read the full article: 7 Photography Websites Every Shutterbug Should Keep A Click Away |
| The Best Places On The Web To Learn About And Play Go Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:30 AM PDT  “The board is a mirror of the mind of the players as the moments pass. When a master studies the record of a game he can tell at what point greed overtook the pupil, when he became tired, when he fell into stupidity, and when the maid came by with tea.” This anonymous quote describes the intricacies and poetry of Go, one of the oldest surviving board games in the world. It’s a game that’s been around for at least 2500 years. Some claim it’s even older. It’s a game worth learning. Not just because of its cultural heritage, but because... Read the full article: The Best Places On The Web To Learn About And Play Go |
| Panoramic Virtual Tour Of CERN Comes To Google Street View Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:15 AM PDT  The Large Hadron Collider is the centerpiece of CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research). It is the world's largest laboratory for studying particle physics. Now, thanks to Google Street View, you won't have to travel to Geneva to understand how it is helping to develop our understanding of the universe we live in. The Google Maps and the Google Street View project team have created a panoramic virtual tour of the CERN site and some of the behind the scene experiments. Start your CERN virtual tour. The CERN home webpage had this to say about the process, which must... Read the full article: Panoramic Virtual Tour Of CERN Comes To Google Street View |
| YouTube Video Uploading on Windows Phone Solved Posted: 30 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT  You would think uploading a video to YouTube was easy. Not so on Windows Phone! Until now. Finally, apps have arrived and the days of fiddly and pointless email uploads have come to pass. Windows Phone and Google products don't generally get along, which is perhaps why it has been such a problem to find a reliable and consistent method of uploading video from a Windows Phone device to YouTube. We previously looked at ways of sharing your video clips online with Facebook and other services, in which it was revealed how to upload a clip to YouTube using email.... Read the full article: YouTube Video Uploading on Windows Phone Solved |
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