15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Movie Piracy, Website Reputation, & Writing Your Novel
• Suddenly In The Spotlight: A Guide To Teenage Accounts [Weekly Facebook Tips]
• Pitch Us Your MakeUseOf Story Ideas! [We Ask You]
• Choosing An HDTV For Gaming: What Specs Matter Most
• Tetris Blitz Gives The Classic Puzzler A Free-To-Play Twist On iOS
• Google Launches Project Shield To Freely Protect Sites From DDoS Attacks
• Hire A Car In Most Major Cities Worldwide With Uber And MyTaxi
• 8 More Things The Internet And Technology Killed Off
• 3 Fun Tower Building Games To Get Hooked On
• 8 Super Websites For Soccer Fans
• Your iPhone Can Create 3D Photos. Don’t Believe It? Try Seene
• Do Personal Electronic Devices Really Interfere With Avionics?
• Meme Generator: Possibly The Most Amount Of Fun You Will Have On Your iPad
• 7 Best Resources To Monitor The Latest Google Search Algorithm Changes
• 3 Ways To Monitor Your Web Server For Free

Cool Websites & Tools – Movie Piracy, Website Reputation, & Writing Your Novel Posted: 23 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT Malwarebytes Anti-Malware – The world's most popular anti-malware technology has now gone mobile. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Mobile protects your Android phone or tablet from malware, infected apps, and unauthorized surveillance. Is that app or downloaded photo safe? With Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Mobile, you never have to worry again. PiracyData – Do people turn to piracy when the movies they want to watch are not available legally? That is the question posed by PiracyData which lists the top 10 most pirated movies of the week, and then researches into whether those movies are available for legal rental, purchase, or streaming. Most movies on... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Movie Piracy, Website Reputation, & Writing Your Novel

Suddenly In The Spotlight: A Guide To Teenage Accounts [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 23 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT Facebook recently decided to allow teens to share posts publicly and allow following. If you have teenage kids, or you are a teenage kid, you might be wondering what the implications of this are. Here’s what you need to know. In effect, the new Facebook teenager accounts are just like regular accounts, but with a few safety features built in. This is good in a way, as it means teens will learn how to moderate their own privacy before they are suddenly thrust into the spotlight. What’s Still Protected? Minors still benefit from certain protection, such as reminders when they... Read the full article: Suddenly In The Spotlight: A Guide To Teenage Accounts [Weekly Facebook Tips]

Pitch Us Your MakeUseOf Story Ideas! [We Ask You] Posted: 23 Oct 2013 02:15 PM PDT MakeUseOf is many things to many people, as we previously discovered when we asked you all to tell us how you would describe MakeUseOf to a friend. We are, at the core, a group of writers passionate about technology, and in particular technology that you can make use of, even if only for entertainment purposes. We publish dozens of stories each week, some of which are extremely well received, others which disappear off the radar with barely a glance. Which is where you come in. Who better to suggest ideas for what we, the MakeUseOf collective, should be writing about... Read the full article: Pitch Us Your MakeUseOf Story Ideas! [We Ask You]

Choosing An HDTV For Gaming: What Specs Matter Most Posted: 23 Oct 2013 02:00 PM PDT High-definition televisions are great for viewing Blu-Ray movies, but that's hardly their only purpose. They also serve as gaming displays for millions of people. You'd expect, then, for gaming performance to be a major focus – but it often isn’t. Some manufacturers pay only the slightest attention to how their television handles a game, leaving it up to console makers and game developers to try to accommodate the display's flaws. The HDTV you purchase for gaming matters, and it effects more than just image quality. Response time, refresh rate and preset modes can also change how you experience a game.... Read the full article: Choosing An HDTV For Gaming: What Specs Matter Most

Tetris Blitz Gives The Classic Puzzler A Free-To-Play Twist On iOS Posted: 23 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT Everyone knows Tetris. It’s the puzzle game that initially asserted Nintendo’s dominance in the handheld video game space, a crown the company still hasn’t relinquished almost 30 years later. What happens when you take the tried and true Tetris formula, make it free-to-play and then bring it to iOS? You end up with Tetris Blitz, a game with enough quality to be featured on our Best iPhone Games Page, and with good reason. In spite of the F2P hooks, it maintains the classic Tetris gameplay with just enough twists to make it feel like something new and exciting. Gameplay In case... Read the full article: Tetris Blitz Gives The Classic Puzzler A Free-To-Play Twist On iOS

Google Launches Project Shield To Freely Protect Sites From DDoS Attacks Posted: 23 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT In a move to protect freedom of expression on the internet, Google is launching a new tool to help websites protect themselves from attacks by hacker groups and other elements. Project Shield leverages Google’s infrastructure to ward off DDoS attacks. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the favoured tools of hacker and activist groups. What’s a DDoS attack? Basically, several computers across the world start pinging one website incessantly, until its servers can no longer handle the load and the site crashes or is unavailable for viewing. It’s a crude attack, but effective and used often... Read the full article: Google Launches Project Shield To Freely Protect Sites From DDoS Attacks

Hire A Car In Most Major Cities Worldwide With Uber And MyTaxi Posted: 23 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT It’s been years since the first iPhone and Android phones were released, so you’d expect by now that hiring taxis with an app on your fancy GPS-enabled device to tell the drive your location would be an everyday event, right? Wrong. Taxi services in New York have toyed with the idea, but until now there has been little advance on this. What a waste! So, here are a couple of services you can check out. Both are limited to major cities and the area they hail from, but they are expanding rapidly. Uber Uber (available on Android, iOS or m.uber.com)... Read the full article: Hire A Car In Most Major Cities Worldwide With Uber And MyTaxi

8 More Things The Internet And Technology Killed Off Posted: 23 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT In my first list of 15 things the Internet and technology killed off, readers pointed our several debatable entries. It’s true — some are still around, while others evolved. Some entries were quite localised to particular countries, and perhaps I was pushing the boundaries quite a bit. In the spirit of debate, here are 8 more things and practises the Internet and technology have killed off, are in the process of killing off, or not quite dead but will eventually (most likely) kill off in the near future. What else would you add? 1. Bookstores Image credit: Martin Kalfatovic/flickr 2.... Read the full article: 8 More Things The Internet And Technology Killed Off

3 Fun Tower Building Games To Get Hooked On Posted: 23 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT Tower-building games have come a long way since the days of SimTower: The Vertical Empire, and smartphone users today can find three awesome games just waiting to become your next procrastination method. These games emulate the classic tower-building games of years past while also improving and innovating the genre for the mobile era. While a lot of tower games seem to simply be stacking games, seeing how high you can stack various objects, the games you’ll see below are more like city simulators adapted to a 2D platform. You have citizens living, working, and spending money in your tower. Tower-stacking... Read the full article: 3 Fun Tower Building Games To Get Hooked On

8 Super Websites For Soccer Fans Posted: 23 Oct 2013 11:30 AM PDT Former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once said, “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death … I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” While that was clearly said with tongue firmly lodged in cheek, football, or soccer as it’s known in some parts of the world, is a sport that incites passion in people. Soccer fans the world over will follow a team and not deviate from supporting a football club for their whole life. Wins are celebrated with wild abandon, losses are mourned with real sadness. Such an obsession can only... Read the full article: 8 Super Websites For Soccer Fans

Your iPhone Can Create 3D Photos. Don’t Believe It? Try Seene Posted: 23 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT Taking photos, sharing photos, photo filters…. are you still awake? While it’s a popular pastime, taking photos with your iPhone is really nothing special. Anyone can do it, even 2-year-old kids, and only the extremely talented can get something that’s truly out the ordinary. It doesn’t mean you have to stop taking pictures with your iPhone. It only means you have to start taking 3D ones too. How? With Seene. What Is Seene? Seene is a relatively new app that takes a different approach to iPhoneography. No longer do you just point and shoot — you now get to point, shoot,... Read the full article: Your iPhone Can Create 3D Photos. Don’t Believe It? Try Seene

Do Personal Electronic Devices Really Interfere With Avionics? Posted: 23 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT You’re sitting in a plane, enjoying the view out of your window after finding a great deal for your flight, when the plane starts decending. A few moments later, the flight crew makes an announcement of the decent, and tells everyone to turn off their electronic devices for the remainder of the flight. Why aren’t we allowed to use our electronic devices during a flight? What allows us to now use them except for during takeoff and landing? Is there enough evidence to keep a ban on electronic devices during portions of flights? What Started The Ban? Image Credit: williamcho... Read the full article: Do Personal Electronic Devices Really Interfere With Avionics?

Meme Generator: Possibly The Most Amount Of Fun You Will Have On Your iPad Posted: 23 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT There are lots of ways you can be entertained on your iPad, and I am not just talking about the sheer number of games available for the device. I am also talking about things like memes (pronounced “meems”). Memes make up a large part of the Internet. You know, all those pictures of furry cats with amusing captions, which XKCD once captured brilliantly. Of course, the Internet being what it is, things have rapidly progressed beyond feline creatures. To quote Wikipedia: An “Internet meme” is a concept that spreads rapidly from person to person via the Internet, usually in a... Read the full article: Meme Generator: Possibly The Most Amount Of Fun You Will Have On Your iPad

7 Best Resources To Monitor The Latest Google Search Algorithm Changes Posted: 23 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT Having a site that’s popular in the search engines is like balancing on a log that’s floating on a river.  You may try to lean in the direction you think the log is going to go, but one wrong move and you’re in the water. The log — like Google’s algorithm — is very unpredictable. The point of the game when you’re trying to make your mark in Google’s search listings is to know exactly when the change took place in the algorithm, and to understand exactly what changes were made. In some cases, you’ll immediately know that a search... Read the full article: 7 Best Resources To Monitor The Latest Google Search Algorithm Changes

3 Ways To Monitor Your Web Server For Free Posted: 23 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT I recently wrote an article about why you should use a VPS instead of shared hosting. Those who read the article have obviously now upgraded to a VPS, because my argument was so compelling. Right? Of course you have. But all joking aside, if you do have your own web server, it’s very important to keep a close eye on what resources are being consumed. Maybe your server is under-powered, or maybe it’s too powerful and you’re wasting money when you are not utilizing it optimally. Monitoring your web server will not only tell you this kind of useful information, but... Read the full article: 3 Ways To Monitor Your Web Server For Free

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