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- Cool Websites & Tools – Plan Your Finances, Answer Questions, & The Meaning Of Numbers
- Free Online Courses You Can Study From Anywhere With iversity [Stuff to Watch]
- 3 Ways For New Players To Enjoy Eve Online For Free
- Intellinote Launches Smart Note-Taking App for Work on Web & iOS
- $1 Billion In 2 Years: The Story Of Instagram, As Told By Its Founders
- Caption Contest: Off Target
- SoundHound iOS 7 Update Includes Music Map And User Registration
- The Mana World: An Open Source MMORPG For All Platforms
- Need A Laugh? Brighten Up Your Day With These Bad Lip Readings
- External Drive Not Recognized? This Is How To Fix It In Windows
- Why Are First-Person Shooters Not As Watched As Other eSports
- 6 Android Apps For Rubik’s Cube Fans, Whether Novice or Seasoned Speedcubing Pros
- Feedly Updates With Custom Sharing, Article Search & More
- Find Out Who’s Eating Your Bandwidth With These Tips
- Google Books Ngram Viewer Spells Change With Wildcards And Inflection Search
| Cool Websites & Tools – Plan Your Finances, Answer Questions, & The Meaning Of Numbers Posted: 21 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Planwise – allows you to see and understand the impact of current and future financial decisions. You can enter as little or as much detail as you want and start planning today. Create a quick profile of your current income, spending and debt – in under a minute you can see how your current finances actually look in our beautiful large graph. Add your first plan to see how your finances will be affected by your next big decision. Pushpage – is the addictive way to learn all about your friends, colleagues and favorite people. You and your friends have... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Plan Your Finances, Answer Questions, & The Meaning Of Numbers |
| Free Online Courses You Can Study From Anywhere With iversity [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 21 Oct 2013 02:30 PM PDT  This week we brought you the news that iversity launched with 24 available courses, so now it’s time to bring you a video prospectus of some of the service’s most interesting courses on offer. Just like Coursera, iversity is a completely free learning experience that delivers the educational goods via video lectures, discussion and assignments; all of which are planned and delivered by lecturers at some of the world’s top universities. If you’ve been thinking “I could study that”, but don’t have the funds or nearby institution, iversity might be just up your street. Here are 5 of the most... Read the full article: Free Online Courses You Can Study From Anywhere With iversity [Stuff to Watch] |
| 3 Ways For New Players To Enjoy Eve Online For Free Posted: 21 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT  Recently I wrote about five reasons gamers should give Eve Online, a notoriously intimidating space MMO, a second chance. One reason I cited is the game's unique monetization, which allows players to pay for their monthly fee with an in-game items called a Pilot's License Extension. If you can buy these, you can play Eve free, forever. They're not cheap, however; currently about 600 million ISK (Eve's currency) and rising at a slow but steady rate. New players with a dinky ship and a few million space-bucks may look at the cost of a PLEX and believe it far too... Read the full article: 3 Ways For New Players To Enjoy Eve Online For Free |
| Intellinote Launches Smart Note-Taking App for Work on Web & iOS Posted: 21 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT  Intellinote wants to re-imagine how your organisation communicates. Calling itself an "intelligent notepad to get work done", this app combines note-taking, social networking and project management for a single organisation. “We were all fed up with the reliance on paper notes, phone calls, mass emails, endless meetings and complex, IT-driven systems that bog down workforce creativity, knowledge sharing and productivity,” said Tony Lopresti, co-founder and CEO, Intellinote. “Intellinote organizes your digital work life to make it easier to get everything done. It's the only application that allows people to instantly capture notes, files and other information, collaborate with colleagues, leverage... Read the full article: Intellinote Launches Smart Note-Taking App for Work on Web & iOS |
| $1 Billion In 2 Years: The Story Of Instagram, As Told By Its Founders Posted: 21 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT  “What are some good places to get professional business cards printed for someone in the Bay Area? I’ve got a design, I just need printing.” When Kevin Systrom (one of Instagram’s founders) put this innocuous question to the Q&A forum Quora on Jan 29, 2010, little did he know how valuable those business cards would be one day. Instagram is a different kind of company. When it was bought by Facebook for a billion dollars last year, it had only 13 employees — and no furniture in their office space. Its founders, Systrom and Mike Krieger, are multimillionaires who haven’t yet... Read the full article: $1 Billion In 2 Years: The Story Of Instagram, As Told By Its Founders |
| Posted: 21 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT  See, I told you we should have updated the GPS device’s firmware before we took off! Caption this image! What’s your funniest take on this image? Share your best captions with us in the comments and you’ll be in the running to win a MakeUseOf t-shirt of your choice! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Off Target |
| SoundHound iOS 7 Update Includes Music Map And User Registration Posted: 21 Oct 2013 11:15 AM PDT  The song identification app, SoundHound (Free) released a significant update this week of its iPhone app which now includes an iOS 7 redesign, a new Music Map feature and the option to register for a SoundHound account for syncing and saving your search history across devices. SoundHound is a music app which can instantly identify a song when you hold your iPhone up against a speaker, or sometimes when you sing a few lines of a song’s lyrics. It works best for popular songs, and less so for obscure instrumental music tracks. When SoundHound identifies the song, it provides the... Read the full article: SoundHound iOS 7 Update Includes Music Map And User Registration |
| The Mana World: An Open Source MMORPG For All Platforms Posted: 21 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT  Besides your typical first-person shooters or strategy experiences, plenty of people love MMORPGs, or “massively multiplayer online role playing games”. Although the most popular of this type of pastime is World of Warcraft, there are still plenty of others available for you to play. In fact, there’s even an open source MMORPG that you can play on any platform (including Linux) named “The Mana World”. About The Mana World The Mana World is a serious effort to create an open source MMORPG using 2D graphics. The project behind the game is aiming to create fully-developed and stable client and server... Read the full article: The Mana World: An Open Source MMORPG For All Platforms |
| Need A Laugh? Brighten Up Your Day With These Bad Lip Readings Posted: 21 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT  Are you a fan of nonsensical and silly parody humor? If so, you'll love the Bad Lip Reading series of videos on YouTube. The gist of the series is that they take well-known clips, for instance political speeches or movie scenes, and completely dub the audio with their own lip reading interpretations. The results are often hilarious, completely wrong, yet surprisingly fitting. I admit that I thought the idea was stupid when I first heard about it. However, upon watching a few videos, I will say that there's a lot of humor to be found in these Bad Lip Readings... Read the full article: Need A Laugh? Brighten Up Your Day With These Bad Lip Readings |
| External Drive Not Recognized? This Is How To Fix It In Windows Posted: 21 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT  External drives — either USB flash drives or external hard drives — should be easy to use. In some cases, you may connect your drive to a Windows PC or another device with a USB port and find that it’s not recognized. This problem can be caused by partition issues on your external drive, using the wrong file system, dead USB ports, driver issues in Windows, or other problems. In a worst case scenario, the drive itself may simply be dead. The steps below will be the same for both USB flash drives and larger external hard drives, which work... Read the full article: External Drive Not Recognized? This Is How To Fix It In Windows |
| Why Are First-Person Shooters Not As Watched As Other eSports Posted: 21 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT  First-person shooters are far and away one of the most popular competitive video games out there. Every year when a new Call of Duty game hits the scene, it sets some kind of record for fastest selling entertainment property. In spite of this, first-person shooters can’t even approach RTS and MOBAs in terms of popularity for being watched on sites like Twitch. Sure, FPS games have big tournaments, but they barely make a blip on the radar compared to events like the International and League Of Legends championships. Why? Simply because FPS games are not the most watchable games. The... Read the full article: Why Are First-Person Shooters Not As Watched As Other eSports |
| 6 Android Apps For Rubik’s Cube Fans, Whether Novice or Seasoned Speedcubing Pros Posted: 21 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT  There’s something addictive about Rubik’s Cube… There must be a reason why this vexing puzzle the world’s best-selling toy. It’s practically impossible to solve using intuition alone — if you pick up a scrambled cube and just try to solve it, you will most likely give up after a few moments, feeling somewhat frustrated. But if you go online and start searching for solutions, you will quickly find there is a world of knowledge about the so-called Magic Cube (and yes, even tools that help you cheat). Below are six Android apps divided into two groups: The first is for... Read the full article: 6 Android Apps For Rubik’s Cube Fans, Whether Novice or Seasoned Speedcubing Pros |
| Feedly Updates With Custom Sharing, Article Search & More Posted: 21 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT  In our books, Feedly is better than Google Reader. And this fantastic RSS reader has just got an update that brings six new features, including the ability to search in articles and define custom ‘send to’ URLs. However, not all of the features are available for free users. Article Search in Feedly is something users have been waiting for. Feedly now has a search box in the top-right corner of any page (All, Category or a Feed), where you can enter a keyword to search for it. The free account only returns the first result, but the Pro account —... Read the full article: Feedly Updates With Custom Sharing, Article Search & More |
| Find Out Who’s Eating Your Bandwidth With These Tips Posted: 21 Oct 2013 07:30 AM PDT  Click….wait. Click….wait. Click….ARG! Sound familiar? That’s the sound of someone running out of Internet bandwidth. A lot of things can drain away the capacity of that pipe that connects your computer to the Internet. It could be other people or devices on your network, or it could even be malicious applications or services running on the PC itself. The problem can get so bad that some people will toss out their computer and buy a new one. It doesn’t have to be that way. While the problem could be coming from anywhere, it isn’t impossible to troubleshoot if you know... Read the full article: Find Out Who’s Eating Your Bandwidth With These Tips |
| Google Books Ngram Viewer Spells Change With Wildcards And Inflection Search Posted: 21 Oct 2013 07:15 AM PDT  The Google Books Ngram Viewer finds use in the hands of word lovers and those interested in linguistics. Maintaining its tradition of continuous tinkering, Google made two major improvements to the analytical tool for a more powerful linguistic search. The Ngram Viewer gets wildcard search and the ability to search for inflections, aided by multiple capitalization styles. Anyone who has seriously searched the web knows the power of wildcards. Wildcards now allows anyone to dig deeper into phrase usage by placing a '*' next to the word. For instance, to find the most popular words following “University of”, search for... Read the full article: Google Books Ngram Viewer Spells Change With Wildcards And Inflection Search |
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