15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Social Media Aggregator, Mobile Comic Reader, & Minions Ipsum
• Relive Punk’s Glory Days With Vintage CBGB Gigs & Footage [Stuff to Watch]
• 5 Incredible Games For Under $6 You Can Play DRM Free From GOG
• What Is A Wireless “Dead Zone” And How To Eliminate It?
• Caption Contest: PC Repair
• Transport Tycoon Review: Infrastructure Has Never Been So Fun
• AdTrap Is A Little White Box That Blocks All Ads From The Internet For $139
• How to Make Your Own Dashcam For Your Car or Bike
• Need More After Finishing GTA V? Try GTA III For iOS & Android
• 5 Scenic North American Drives To Enjoy Online
• Science Doesn’t Care What You Believe: PopSci Turns Off Comments
• 10 Online Cycling Games To Get Your Ride On Even When The Weather’s Bad
• How to Write Tweets That Your Followers Will Want To Retweet
• 8 Easy Exercises To Help You Stay Fit At Your Desk
• What Is Connected Lighting & What Are Its Uses?

Cool Websites & Tools – Social Media Aggregator, Mobile Comic Reader, & Minions Ipsum Posted: 14 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT Pixelhub – is a hybrid of a social media aggregator and a traditional website builder, offering websites that stay up-to-date with minimum maintenance effort. Bundle your own content, social networking updates and contact details to present everything about YOU on a beautifully crafted website. Pixelhub is easy to set up in a matter of minutes, no web design skills required. Promobucket – allows you to store images and other visual files securely online. Send and Share them with ease. Invite viewers and contributors and control who sees what. In marketing, the final work is so much more than a file... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Social Media Aggregator, Mobile Comic Reader, & Minions Ipsum

Relive Punk’s Glory Days With Vintage CBGB Gigs & Footage [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 14 Oct 2013 02:15 PM PDT CBGB was a New York club that launched the careers of influential artists like Blondie and The Ramones, and its archive footage is must-see stuff for fans of punk, new wave and art rock. The name stood for Country, Bluegrass and Blues and the now-famous institution was located at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It opened in 1973 and sadly closed some 33 years later in October 2006. While many of the musicians have since hung up their six strings (or succumbed to a life of “live fast die young”), CBGB lives on in the hearts... Read the full article: Relive Punk’s Glory Days With Vintage CBGB Gigs & Footage [Stuff to Watch]

5 Incredible Games For Under $6 You Can Play DRM Free From GOG Posted: 14 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT Gaming culture can be somewhat enigmatic if you don't follow it heart and soul. New games can demand prices upwards of $60 USD and, unfortunately, price has no correlation with the final quality. Not to mention first having to invest in buying a console (most recently the Xbox One and PS4) or building a gaming PC. And then are other issues like digital rights management. But when you want affordable, high-quality, DRM-free games, GOG will always have your back. GOG, formerly known as Good Old Games, is a game distribution service that focuses on classics that are natively available on... Read the full article: 5 Incredible Games For Under $6 You Can Play DRM Free From GOG

What Is A Wireless “Dead Zone” And How To Eliminate It? Posted: 14 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT We take Wi-Fi for granted, but it’s not magic — it’s radio waves. These radio waves can be interfered with or obstructed, producing wireless “dead zones” or “dead spots.” Wireless signals won’t penetrate these dead zones, so wireless devices won’t receive a Wi-Fi signal within them. Wireless dead zones are easy to locate if you stroll around your house, apartment, or office. Once you’ve found them, you can experiment with a variety of solutions and fix whatever is causing the problem. What is a Wireless Dead Zone? A dead zone is simply an area within your house, apartment, office, or... Read the full article: What Is A Wireless “Dead Zone” And How To Eliminate It?

Caption Contest: PC Repair Posted: 14 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT And that’s when I realised I’ve been watching too many episodes of “Will It Blend?” Caption this cartoon! Share your wittiest captions in our comment section and you’ll stand a chance to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! New designs are rolling in all the time, so even if you’ve won one before, don’t let that stop you! Read the full article: Caption Contest: PC Repair

Transport Tycoon Review: Infrastructure Has Never Been So Fun Posted: 14 Oct 2013 11:30 AM PDT If you get warm and fuzzy at the thought of a well oiled transportation system, the long-awaited release of Chris Sawyer’s classic Transport Tycoon should bring a smile to your face. The series has enjoyed massive success over the years, leaving infrastructure-obsessed gamers hungry for more, and now it’s all aboard for the iOS, Android and Kindle versions. But is this asphalt-laying simulator still roadworthy? Are fans on track for a smooth ride? And just how many of these terrible puns can I make before I run out of steam? (Yeah, sorry – here’s the review). Note: This review focuses... Read the full article: Transport Tycoon Review: Infrastructure Has Never Been So Fun

AdTrap Is A Little White Box That Blocks All Ads From The Internet For $139 Posted: 14 Oct 2013 11:15 AM PDT We've shown you how to remove ads from native Windows 8 apps, but how much would you be willing to pay for an Internet without ads? If your answer was close to $139, you're in luck. Meet AdTrap, a new device that promises to block all online ads, whether on your computer or on your mobile. At its most basic, AdTrap is a firewall for online advertisements that sits between your modem and your router, filtering out commercials. The little white box is a small, zero-configuration device that works with video and music streaming services, regular web pages and almost... Read the full article: AdTrap Is A Little White Box That Blocks All Ads From The Internet For $139

How to Make Your Own Dashcam For Your Car or Bike Posted: 14 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT There are so many awesome uses for an old smartphone – but have you considered setting it up as a dashcam? Having a video recording of your driving, especially in the event of an accident, can prove extremely useful, and there is little reason to waste money on a dedicated dashcam for your car or bike if you have a suitable smartphone that can be used instead. So What Is A Dashcam? Over the past few years, dashboard-mounted cameras have become more and more popular in cars across the USA and Europe. Although there doesn’t seem to be a reaction... Read the full article: How to Make Your Own Dashcam For Your Car or Bike

Need More After Finishing GTA V? Try GTA III For iOS & Android Posted: 14 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT When most people think about where the Grand Theft Auto series really began, GTA III is generally the game that comes to mind. The first two games featured a top-down view, which was fun, but the series really took off with the 3D world introduced in GTA III. All these years later, and we are hot on the heels of Grand Theft Auto V (which is not actually the fifth entry in the series, with Vice City and San Andreas being un-numbered releases). It feels like the perfect time to go back and see where the series captured the hearts and... Read the full article: Need More After Finishing GTA V? Try GTA III For iOS & Android

5 Scenic North American Drives To Enjoy Online Posted: 14 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT The Autobahn isn’t the be all and end all of highways. The famous German highway system is riddled with speed limits — yes, speed limits! — traffic, and lack of space. If you desire more from a road trip than the occasional speed kick, enjoy the spacious lanes and stunning views of your local North American highways. Better yet, cut both the traffic and your gas bill and virtually enjoy these scenic drives from wherever you are. This is also a great option while some National Parks and Monuments remain closed during a government shutdown. Below I present 5 iconic... Read the full article: 5 Scenic North American Drives To Enjoy Online

Science Doesn’t Care What You Believe: PopSci Turns Off Comments Posted: 14 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT Comments can be bad for science. That’s what Popular Science argued when it announced it was shutting down its comment section back in September. “A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics,” wrote online editor Suzanne LaBarre. “Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again.” This is undemocratic. It reduces the power of the reader. It’s contrary to everything the Internet believes to be sacred. And it just might be exactly the right thing for Popular Science to do. Medium Matters... Read the full article: Science Doesn’t Care What You Believe: PopSci Turns Off Comments

10 Online Cycling Games To Get Your Ride On Even When The Weather’s Bad Posted: 14 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT Fall is just around the corner, and depending on where you live, that could mean that your cycling season is coming to an end. But if you enjoy gaming and biking, you might as well de-stress with some games that you’ll enjoy and be able to relate to. From stickmen to a naked, bald guy on a tricycle, I sought out to find the most enjoyable (and funny) biking games on the Internet — you’ll find them quite entertaining. Mountain Bike Yep — the name is that simple. But as basic as the name and concept of the game are,... Read the full article: 10 Online Cycling Games To Get Your Ride On Even When The Weather’s Bad

How to Write Tweets That Your Followers Will Want To Retweet Posted: 14 Oct 2013 07:30 AM PDT If you do it right, you could go viral on Twitter. In fact, Twitter is one of the fastest ways you could go viral today. The key? Write compelling tweets that others will want to share. One retweet could reach hundreds or thousands of new people and each new person is another potential retweet. Imagine how quickly that could snowball. Before continuing with the article, though, you should really prepare yourself with this: retweets and virality are never guaranteed. There's a huge element of luck and coincidence involved in all of this. With that said, there are some things you... Read the full article: How to Write Tweets That Your Followers Will Want To Retweet

8 Easy Exercises To Help You Stay Fit At Your Desk Posted: 14 Oct 2013 07:00 AM PDT How many hours a day do you spend sitting? Whether you’re gaming, freelancing or have a hardcore desk-bound job, you’re probably not moving enough. Not everyone has the time or ability to leave everything for 2 hours and go for a run or a bike ride, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up. Staying fit at your desk is actually possible. Below you’ll find a collection of exercises anyone can do. Some don’t even require getting up, others take no longer than 10 minutes out of your daily routine. Find some you can do. Find some you want... Read the full article: 8 Easy Exercises To Help You Stay Fit At Your Desk

What Is Connected Lighting & What Are Its Uses? Posted: 14 Oct 2013 06:30 AM PDT The Internet of things is upon us, and its next victim is your household light bulb. Are you ready to bathe your room in a world of colours, or ditch the humble light switch for an intelligent smartphone app? Read on to find out all you need to know about “connected lighting”. Full disclosure, and warning: I love lighting. Interactive lighting systems are entirely to blame for my shockingly bad lecture attendance during university – I had spent most nights operating lighting shows for clubs, making the huge lights move, beaming pretty shapes and changing colours in time to the... Read the full article: What Is Connected Lighting & What Are Its Uses?

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