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- Cool Websites & Tools – Visual Client Communication, Calculate Your Earnings, & Convert All Units Of Measurement
- Letting People Find Your Timeline Is Actually Good For Privacy: Here’s Why [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- Homeless Lego Mario Unboxing Ikea iMessage Memes [Weird & Wonderful Web]
- AntennaPod: A High-Quality, Free Android Podcast App With No Ads
- Bing Improves Search With Klout Verified Snapshots Of Social Profiles
- Social Media: Did It Really Start With Facebook? [Geek History Lesson]
- People Just Don’t Care About The Twitter IPO [We Ask You Results]
- TorSearch Aims To Be The Google For The Deep Web
- Overclocking For Gamers: Everything You Need To Know
- Why You Should Use A VPS Instead Of Shared Hosting For WordPress
- Tweets By Twitter? These Accounts By Twitter Are Worth A Follow
- 5 Horrifying Oculus Rift Demos Perfect For Halloween
- Breathing New Life Into an Old Android: How I Revitalized A Motorola Droid
- 10 Motivational TED Talks To Help You Chip Away At Your Mental Blocks
- Several Lost Doctor Who Episodes Are Now On Apple iTunes
| Posted: 15 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT  PixFiltre – is an amazing photo editing/ photo effects web application that does similar things like Instagram, but better. Upload your picture and start creating amazing effects on your photo, which will turn any photo to a beautiful photo. Exactli – provides visual client communication & project review tools for designs. Enable ongoing conversations from draft concepts to final completion, and every step along the way. Provide the ideal frame of reference for clients by centralizing designs, markups and feedback throughout the process. Exactli is easy-to-use and secure. It does not require special software or technical skill. Downside – is... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Visual Client Communication, Calculate Your Earnings, & Convert All Units Of Measurement |
| Letting People Find Your Timeline Is Actually Good For Privacy: Here’s Why [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT  A recent move by Facebook to remove a prominent privacy option has been slammed by many privacy advocates. However, it may be in your best interests as long as you know what to do about it. Facebook has removed the “Who can look up your Timeline by name?" feature, meaning that anyone who knows your name can now search for you in Facebook. Yes, this sounds like a huge privacy breach, but it’s actually somewhat of a boon. Why? Well, it was broken in the first place. How Was The Privacy Feature Broken? Most people who set the “Who can... Read the full article: Letting People Find Your Timeline Is Actually Good For Privacy: Here’s Why [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| Homeless Lego Mario Unboxing Ikea iMessage Memes [Weird & Wonderful Web] Posted: 15 Oct 2013 02:15 PM PDT  The Web is a weird and wonderful place full of content that it is far too easy to miss thanks to the size and scale of the Internetz. This column has one simple aim: to collect the best weird and wonderful content that appears on the Web and fit it all on one page for your delectation. In this edition of Weird & Wonderful Web, the U.S. Government shutdown gets explained using Lego, a cruel Carrie prank scares the crap out of coffee lovers, people pay to be homeless, Canadians get free beer, calculator unboxing is a thing, the faces... Read the full article: Homeless Lego Mario Unboxing Ikea iMessage Memes [Weird & Wonderful Web] |
| AntennaPod: A High-Quality, Free Android Podcast App With No Ads Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT  Tired of overly complicated Android podcatchers? Try AntennaPod. This open source app includes all the features you love and none of the crap you don’t. If you don’t listen to podcasts, you should. Some more conversational shows feel like overhearing a conversation between friends, while others present you valuable information. Explore long enough and you’re bound to find shows you like. Apps like Stitcher try to turn podcasting into a Pandora-like radio station, automatically playing shows you might find interesting. But what if you just want a more traditional podcatcher, that regularly downloads the shows you love so you can... Read the full article: AntennaPod: A High-Quality, Free Android Podcast App With No Ads |
| Bing Improves Search With Klout Verified Snapshots Of Social Profiles Posted: 15 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT  Google has Google Authorship where users are linked to their Google+ profiles. Bing has now taken a page out of their rival's social book by integrating Klout "Snapshots" alongside search results, which bring up LinkedIn public profiles. If you have a Klout profile, the Snapshots will be a reflection of your social media influence (as measured by the Klout score) alongside LinkedIn and any other social profiles connected to Klout. For anyone working on the Web, it is a good way to expand your social reach and get recognition for your work. It is also a nudge for you to... Read the full article: Bing Improves Search With Klout Verified Snapshots Of Social Profiles |
| Social Media: Did It Really Start With Facebook? [Geek History Lesson] Posted: 15 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT  Today, Facebook dominates social media. The world’s largest social network boasts over 1 billion users, an impressive fraction of the 2.5 billion people who have Internet access worldwide. Google+ has also breached the 1 billion mark, but in terms of logins per day is quite far behind the champion. The dominance of Zuckerberg's juggernaut makes it easy to forget there was a time when social media was considered an open field, ready for any to stake their claim. And many did, some years before Facebook entered the fray. So what were those early social networks – and what killed them?... Read the full article: Social Media: Did It Really Start With Facebook? [Geek History Lesson] |
| People Just Don’t Care About The Twitter IPO [We Ask You Results] Posted: 15 Oct 2013 11:45 AM PDT  Twitter is edging ever closer to floating on the stock market, with an IPO confirmed to be happening sooner rather than later. This is going to be less epic than the (troubled) Facebook IPO of 2012, with a lot less money being raised and nowhere near the amount of attention from the press and public. However, as the MakeUseOf readership comprises intelligent and educated geeks and nerds, all of whom love technology with a passion, we thought you would be interested in the Twitter IPO. It turns out we were wrong on the latter, and possibly on the former as... Read the full article: People Just Don’t Care About The Twitter IPO [We Ask You Results] |
| TorSearch Aims To Be The Google For The Deep Web Posted: 15 Oct 2013 11:15 AM PDT  "The Deep Web" is very real, and anonymity networks like Tor enable you to explore it. TorSearch is a new anonymous search engine that its founder Chris MacNaughton wants to turn into the "Google of Tor". The Tor network cannot be accessed by regular search engines like Google and Bing. Tor maintains its anonymity by routing web traffic through a series of open connections (onion routes) run by volunteers around the world, and encryption is added at various stages. The nature of Tor also makes it difficult to search as no search engine before TorSearch has indexed it so far.... Read the full article: TorSearch Aims To Be The Google For The Deep Web |
| Overclocking For Gamers: Everything You Need To Know Posted: 15 Oct 2013 10:50 AM PDT  Gaming remains one of the most demanding tasks a user can ask a computer to perform, and it often persuades gamers to upgrade their hardware in hopes of improving in-game framerate. There's more to the performance equation than what is under the hood, however; how fast hardware runs is also important. Overclocking, the practice of increasing a processor's clock speed to obtain better performance, has been used by gamers for two decades. Over the years hardware and software tools used in overclocking have become easier to use, which means this tweak can now be handled by even the greenest tech... Read the full article: Overclocking For Gamers: Everything You Need To Know |
| Why You Should Use A VPS Instead Of Shared Hosting For WordPress Posted: 15 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Starting a blog is a lot of fun. But choosing whether to go with a free solution, like Blogger or WordPress.com, or whether it’s best to go with a paid, self-hosted option is a difficult choice to make – especially when you’re new to blogging. So let me help you out a little here: the self-hosted option is the best choice. There are many advantages to hosting your own WordPress blog. You can make it look how you want it to look, and you can add whatever plugins you like. Basically, you have complete control of every single aspect of the blog.... Read the full article: Why You Should Use A VPS Instead Of Shared Hosting For WordPress |
| Tweets By Twitter? These Accounts By Twitter Are Worth A Follow Posted: 15 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Your Twitter experience lives or dies on the selection of accounts you choose to follow. If you follow boring people with little to say then you’ll have a terrible experience. Choose wisely, and follow accounts full of interesting content, and you may just spend your days engrossed in a fascinating stream of content. Having shared our nominations for inspirational entrepreneurs, technology journalists, computer security experts, and tech influencers to follow on Twitter, it’s time to get a little meta. Scrub that, it’s time to get very meta indeed. The following are all Twitter accounts about Twitter, run by Twitter, and... Read the full article: Tweets By Twitter? These Accounts By Twitter Are Worth A Follow |
| 5 Horrifying Oculus Rift Demos Perfect For Halloween Posted: 15 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT  Relive your favorite scariest movie – it’s the immersive properties of the Oculus Rift that make it precisely so great for gaming, and particularly horror. If you genuinely enjoy that feeling of sheer terror, you’re in for a real treat. So sit back, get a fresh pair of pants to hand, and get ready to be terrified. Alone in the Rift (download) Alone in the Rift is unlikely to ever become a full “real” game, but as a tech demo, the shock tactics are spot on. There’s nothing too complex here – it’s a cliché creepy forest scene, you have... Read the full article: 5 Horrifying Oculus Rift Demos Perfect For Halloween |
| Breathing New Life Into an Old Android: How I Revitalized A Motorola Droid Posted: 15 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT  Do you remember the first smartphone you ever owned? Was it the coolest thing you’d ever experienced from a single piece of electronic hardware? Were you shocked just how quickly that amazing marvel became outdated? I would love to say that an Android phone was my first love, but it wasn’t. If you’ve followed me here at MUO since my earliest days, then you know that I first started writing lots of articles about the original Windows Mobile OS, running on my Cingular 8124. To this day, I can’t even consider using a Windows Mobile because of that horrid early... Read the full article: Breathing New Life Into an Old Android: How I Revitalized A Motorola Droid |
| 10 Motivational TED Talks To Help You Chip Away At Your Mental Blocks Posted: 15 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT  We need a spark plug. Something to ignite us when the body is willing, but the brain is not. Motivation has been discussed, debated, and pulled threadbare; but it hasn't changed the fact that sometimes we have no control over it. Even the achievers of this world have admitted to frequent bouts of flagging motivation. But the valuable lesson from their lives is that they chip away at their mental blocks more consistently than others. TED.com always has ideas worth spreading. Sometimes they have taught us about creativity, inspiration, and passion…sometimes about human behavior. Many articles and websites have covered... Read the full article: 10 Motivational TED Talks To Help You Chip Away At Your Mental Blocks |
| Several Lost Doctor Who Episodes Are Now On Apple iTunes Posted: 15 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT  This time the rumours are true. Many of the lost Dr Who episodes have been found, remastered, and are on Apple iTunes right now, ready for you to buy. Doctor Who is the world’s longest running sci-fi show (it started in November 1963), so it makes sense that the show has a huge number of diehard fans, especially now that the show has been successfully exported to the US. Many Doctor Who fans grew up hiding under the couch from Cybermen, and cowering in fear from the Daleks at the Madame Tussauds museum in London. Now, the fans have something... Read the full article: Several Lost Doctor Who Episodes Are Now On Apple iTunes |
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