15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Bebo Is Relaunching With A Rather Daring & Brutally Honest NSFW Video
• iOS Apps On Sale for 18 October: Episodes, Worms & Asphalt 8
• A Test Of Character: 10 Font Games That Prove Typography Can Be Fun
• Students Can Get Microsoft Office 365 For Free
• Buying A Refurbished Mac? Here’s What You Need To Know
• Caption Contest: Supercooling
• 5 Sites For Safely Trading Your Unwanted Games With Other Gamers
• F.lux Gets A Huge Update With Movie Mode And House F.lux Scheduling
• The Games, TV Shows, Movies, & Technology That Influenced GTA V
• What Is The Internet? We Asked Google Suggest. Here’s What It Told Us.
• Facebook Lets Teens Share Publicly, Allowing Follows & Launches App For Win 8.1
• Steel Storm: Burning Retribution Is A Great Cross-Platform Top-Down Shooter
• 5 Reasons Why Being An Early Adopter Is A Bad Idea
• How To Create An Automated Google Spreadsheet Report From Analytics Data
• Nero BackItUp 2014 Backs Up Android Devices In 3 Steps, Gives 5GB Online Storage

Bebo Is Relaunching With A Rather Daring & Brutally Honest NSFW Video Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:30 PM PDT Bebo’s original founder, Michael Birch, is about to relaunch the site after buying it back from the company who bought it from AOL in 2010. He has chosen to relaunch by making a brutally honest and rather risqué video. If his intention was to shock, he certainly succeeded. Do you remember when Bebo was around? Well, if you live in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, you will probably remember it as those seem to be the countries where it was most popular. The original Bebo was launched in 2005, sold to AOL in 2008 for $850 million (described by... Read the full article: Bebo Is Relaunching With A Rather Daring & Brutally Honest NSFW Video

iOS Apps On Sale for 18 October: Episodes, Worms & Asphalt 8 Posted: 18 Oct 2013 02:15 PM PDT Each week thousands of iOS apps go on sale, for free or for next to nothing. We’re always on the lookout for the best offers, so here’s our round-up for this week! This week we’ve got tools for tracking money, TV episodes and your innermost thoughts in addition to racing, management and multiplayer mayhem in the form of time-wasting games. Apps & Tools Agile Project Manager ($9.99, now free) Use Agile methodology and Scrum principles to plan and track your next software project (iPad only). Episodes ($0.99, now free) Track your favourite TV shows using your iPhone. Check off episodes as... Read the full article: iOS Apps On Sale for 18 October: Episodes, Worms & Asphalt 8

A Test Of Character: 10 Font Games That Prove Typography Can Be Fun Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This is the famous pangram for anyone who pays attention to fonts and the art of typography. If you haven't heard this ever, then it's time to exit the arena because the battle could get bloody as we head to some of the font games mentioned below. There will be a lot of kerning and only the strong characters will survive. You can't turn tail. Well, I did manage to playfully throw in some font terms there. But it was all done to point out that playing around with typography can... Read the full article: A Test Of Character: 10 Font Games That Prove Typography Can Be Fun

Students Can Get Microsoft Office 365 For Free Posted: 18 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT Starting on December 1st, Universities that license Office Education for their faculty and staff can offer students Office 365 ProPlus for free thanks to a new program called Student Advantage. For students at these institutions, that means free access to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher, and Lync. While many cheaper alternatives to Office have sprung up, many students still rely on Redmond’s good ol’ productivity tools. Office 365 University typically costs $80 for a 4-year subscription for students, which is already a heavy discount over the usual $99 per year subscription to Office 365 Home Premium. Microsoft has been... Read the full article: Students Can Get Microsoft Office 365 For Free

Buying A Refurbished Mac? Here’s What You Need To Know Posted: 18 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT Apple's computers – like its phones and tablets – have continually topped customer satisfaction and reliability surveys, and often by no small margin. Though Macs don't sell in the volume of other computers, their high prices make Apple the largest computer manufacturer by profit. Consumers with a fat wallet usually look towards a new iMac or MacBook. Buyers on a tight budget, however, find even the most affordable Mac unobtainable. This often leads to the consideration of a refurbished model. No one wants to lay down a wad of cash for a dinged-up, battered second-hand computer – here's what you need... Read the full article: Buying A Refurbished Mac? Here's What You Need To Know

Caption Contest: Supercooling Posted: 18 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT Give us your best caption! In your own words, tell us what you think is happening and you’ll be in the running to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! This is a tough one, so get cracking. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Supercooling

5 Sites For Safely Trading Your Unwanted Games With Other Gamers Posted: 18 Oct 2013 11:30 AM PDT Gamers, are you tired of trading titles only within your limited arena of friends? Does the game store not have the titles you want at a fair price? Below are five sites which can help you safely trade games on almost any platform. Whether you want all trades to be handled automatically, a more personal touch, or a rather indirect experience, the sites below are sure to help you with building up your gaming library to the best it can be. Goozex A quick Google search for online game trading will likely send you to Goozex, and rightly so. This... Read the full article: 5 Sites For Safely Trading Your Unwanted Games With Other Gamers

F.lux Gets A Huge Update With Movie Mode And House F.lux Scheduling Posted: 18 Oct 2013 11:15 AM PDT The F.lux Windows app has just been given a rather significant update for Windows 7 and Windows 8 with some very cool new features. You can now F.lux your house with a schedule for Philips Hue, enter Movie Mode when you’re using your PC as a home theatre or disable it until morning if you’re planning on working all night. Every evening at 6.30pm, my screen starts to get less brighter and more Sepia-brownish-softer-colour. No, my monitor is not on the blink. Rather, that is my F.lux installation kicking in, a rather not-so-subtle hint to tell me to get off... Read the full article: F.lux Gets A Huge Update With Movie Mode And House F.lux Scheduling

The Games, TV Shows, Movies, & Technology That Influenced GTA V Posted: 18 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT Grand Theft Auto 5 is a veritable work of genius, which qualifies it as one of the best titles Rockstar Games has released to date. The single-player story mode is compelling, the visuals are stunning, the atmosphere is superbly realized, and the multiplayer madness that is GTA Online is bags of fun. Rockstar Games has achieved this high watermark thanks to a huge budget, an incredible team, and an existing user base that was, after an epic five-year wait, chomping at the bit to revisit the world of Grand Theft Auto. But as with every medium, video games are heavily... Read the full article: The Games, TV Shows, Movies, & Technology That Influenced GTA V

What Is The Internet? We Asked Google Suggest. Here’s What It Told Us. Posted: 18 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT We love the Internet. MakeUseOf readers would give up alcohol, caffeine and various limbs before giving up on this network. That’s the value of the Internet. But what is it, exactly? Let’s ask Google, together. Google’s Suggest isn’t just a useful feature: it’s insight into the minds of millions. Start typing something into the search bar and Google will guess what you might be asking, based on what others have asked. This view into the collective can be disturbing, but I’m convinced the meaning of life is hidden somewhere in it. Tina showed you interesting Google Suggest results and what... Read the full article: What Is The Internet? We Asked Google Suggest. Here’s What It Told Us.

Facebook Lets Teens Share Publicly, Allowing Follows & Launches App For Win 8.1 Posted: 18 Oct 2013 09:45 AM PDT Parents probably want to do everything they can to get kids to use Facebook responsibly, and the social network has accordingly had a long-standing policy for those aged 13 to 17 to make their first post to "Friends of Friends". In a new move, this is restricted even further to "Friends" itself for the initial post. But another update opens up the options for them to share more broadly. Facebook is now allowing teenagers to share all their posts publicly. Additionally, teens can turn on 'Follow' so that their public posts can be seen in people’s News Feeds. "While only... Read the full article: Facebook Lets Teens Share Publicly, Allowing Follows & Launches App For Win 8.1

Steel Storm: Burning Retribution Is A Great Cross-Platform Top-Down Shooter Posted: 18 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT One kind of shooter game you usually don’t hear about is a top-down shooter. With a world full of first-person shooters, there hasn’t been a whole lot of variety in shooting games (and no, a Tanks game doesn’t count). While modern top-down shooters are a bit rare to find, they’re far from non-existent. One of the best top-down shooters is Steel Storm: Burning Retribution, and it’s one you really should play. About Steel Storm: Burning Retribution Steel Storm: Burning Retribution is cross-platform so anyone can play it, even Linux users! It is a top-down shooter where the goal of the... Read the full article: Steel Storm: Burning Retribution Is A Great Cross-Platform Top-Down Shooter

5 Reasons Why Being An Early Adopter Is A Bad Idea Posted: 18 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT Are you the type of person who pre-orders the newest tech gadgets as soon as they're available? Then you're an early adopter. Whether it's the latest iteration of the iPhone/Galaxy/Lumia, the newest media format, or an innovation never seen before, you just got to have it ASAP. But wait! Early adoption may not be such a good idea. Personally, I don't believe in early adoption. I might think that the newest gadget is cool and awesome, but I'll never be in that group of first buyers because there are too many drawbacks. If all you want is the vanity and trendsetting... Read the full article: 5 Reasons Why Being An Early Adopter Is A Bad Idea

How To Create An Automated Google Spreadsheet Report From Analytics Data Posted: 18 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT What’s working smart? Well, it’s constantly looking for ways to streamline and automate just about every single “process” in your life – from making coffee and tying your shoes, to creating slideshow presentations and studying for a final exam. One very time-consuming task is analyzing information about your website in Google Analytics, and then somehow presenting that data in a way that makes sense to people who don’t pour through Google Analytics data and statistics all day. Creating Analytics reports can be time-consuming and at times extremely difficult, but by using some of the automation tricks I’m going to show you in this... Read the full article: How To Create An Automated Google Spreadsheet Report From Analytics Data

Nero BackItUp 2014 Backs Up Android Devices In 3 Steps, Gives 5GB Online Storage Posted: 18 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT Nero first came into the limelight as a CD burning tool, but has since expanded into various other software avenues. The BackItUp tool, launched on Windows a few years ago, has now made its way to Android for an easy 3-step backup, sync and restore solution — complete with 5GB of online storage. Nero BackItUp 2014 works with any Android device of v2.2 and upwards, and lets you easily back up and restore photos, videos, music, contacts, call logs and text messages to your SD card, PC (via Wi-Fi) or the online storage. Of course, since it doesn't ask for... Read the full article: Nero BackItUp 2014 Backs Up Android Devices In 3 Steps, Gives 5GB Online Storage

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