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• Cool Websites & Tools – Learning Resources, 3D CSS Shape Creator, & Track Your Cross-Training
• 8 Twisted & Terrifying Films To Indulge In This Halloween [Stuff to Watch]
• 10 Creepy Halloween Decorations & Cases For Your iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Yay For Choice: 10 Excellent Unofficial Social Apps You Should Be Using
• Want To Know But Afraid to Ask? 5 Sex Education YouTube Channels
• Caption Contest: Frankenstein 2.0
• How To Manage Your Household Using Just One Simple App: Famjama & Cozi Compared
• Zombie-Shooter Dead Trigger 2 Launched On Android & iOS; Desktop Coming Soon
• Tweet7 Is The Perfect Way To Use Twitter On iOS 7
• 14 Websites To Find Free Creative Commons Music
• Get Into The Halloween Spirit With The Best Horror Films Ever Made
• Is Facebook Going The Same Way As MySpace?
• Use Your Browser To Play With Classic Games And Vintage Software On The Internet Archive
• Clip, Save, And Tag Your Way To A New Language With Phraseum
• Get Your Streaming Music Fix On Your iPhone With Sky.FM

Cool Websites & Tools – Learning Resources, 3D CSS Shape Creator, & Track Your Cross-Training Posted: 28 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT We Do Listen – describes itself as a site that “enables children to feel good about themselves”. The site consists of animated books, games, and lessons. There is also a shop where you can buy things at a steep discount. The site is aimed and marketed at very young children. Please note that opening the site will automatically start music. SMART Exchange – is a one-stop destination designed to provide teachers with access to all of SMART’s learning resources & lesson plans and the opportunity to connect with colleagues in a professional community. Custom-designed searches save time by delivering relevant... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Learning Resources, 3D CSS Shape Creator, & Track Your Cross-Training

8 Twisted & Terrifying Films To Indulge In This Halloween [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 28 Oct 2013 02:30 PM PDT I’m so bored of “scary movie” lists that consist of Scream, Saw and The Ring – so this year I’ve racked my brains (and the Internet) for some of the most unsettling movies you can indulge in this October 31. I’ve purposefully omitted many of the usual cliché horror films that pop up year after year, while including some that sit proudly under the “disturbing” banner. So feast your eyes on some scary, if a little different and downright unsettling, films this Halloween! Don’t forget to check out our other collections of free horror movies online, horror shorts from FEWDIO and classic... Read the full article: 8 Twisted & Terrifying Films To Indulge In This Halloween [Stuff to Watch]

10 Creepy Halloween Decorations & Cases For Your iPhone, iPad and Mac Posted: 28 Oct 2013 02:00 PM PDT Let me say this outright: I don’t own an iPhone or a Mac (although I do own an iPad). But sometimes I wish I did. Why? Because the really cool cases, decals and laptop sleeves are always for Apple products. And there are lots of them. So when I set out to find the coolest and creepiest Halloween decorations and cases, I knew was in for something far more interesting than my boring Nexus 4 case. And I was right! eForCity Silicone Case Since Halloween is a pretty short holiday, you may not want to invest too much in your... Read the full article: 10 Creepy Halloween Decorations & Cases For Your iPhone, iPad and Mac

Yay For Choice: 10 Excellent Unofficial Social Apps You Should Be Using Posted: 28 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest: they all offer official Android apps – but are those really the best mobile experience out there? Many users say no. Good thing there are so many unofficial clients. It doesn’t matter if your favorite social network is Facebook or Twitter, Reddit or Pinterest – there’s an unofficial client for Android that can make your experience better. Which is right for you depends on what you’re looking for, but here are a bunch to start with. Unofficial Facebook Clients For Android Facebook’s Android app is famously terrible. It slows down many a device, constantly tries to use... Read the full article: Yay For Choice: 10 Excellent Unofficial Social Apps You Should Be Using

Want To Know But Afraid to Ask? 5 Sex Education YouTube Channels Posted: 28 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT While there are some amazing websites on sex education, not everyone has the time or patience to surf around the Web looking for information on this under-discussed topic. But everyone has time for YouTube, right? There are some hilarious educational channels on YouTube, and even an entire educational section, but what about sex education? For teenagers, getting  information about sex and sexuality can be a challenge. Conversations about sex can be awkward, but they’re an integral part to receiving a complete education. If you find yourself wondering about anything related to sex or sexuality, but don’t know who to ask, these YouTube... Read the full article: Want To Know But Afraid to Ask? 5 Sex Education YouTube Channels

Caption Contest: Frankenstein 2.0 Posted: 28 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT Share your best caption! Send in your funniest, most creative captions via the comments and you’ll be in the running to win a fabulous MakeUseOf t-shirt! It couldn’t be simpler. So start thinking! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Frankenstein 2.0

How To Manage Your Household Using Just One Simple App: Famjama & Cozi Compared Posted: 28 Oct 2013 11:30 AM PDT If you’re in charge of organising your family, you’ve probably realised that having great tools at your disposal goes a long way. Calendars, to-do lists, shopping lists, project planning: all of these need to be managed well so that you can co-ordinate the needs of each and every family member. And that’s a tough ask of any app. Ideally, you need a system that’s easy to use, reliable and easy to share with the family. Everyone needs a way to get the information in and out of the tools when they need it. So, which tools are the best? After... Read the full article: How To Manage Your Household Using Just One Simple App: Famjama & Cozi Compared

Zombie-Shooter Dead Trigger 2 Launched On Android & iOS; Desktop Coming Soon Posted: 28 Oct 2013 11:15 AM PDT Developer Madfinger Games has launched its much-awaited sequel to the zombie-shooting game that took the touchscreen world by storm last year. Dead Trigger 2 is free to download on both the Google Play Store and iTunes App Store, and the devs plan to launch versions for Steam, Mac and Facebook soon. How good was the original Dead Trigger, the first person zombie shooter arcade game launched last year? Apart from amassing over 22 million downloads, it made it to both our Best Android Games and Best iPhone Games lists. Dead Trigger 2 improves on its predecessor’s successes with a more... Read the full article: Zombie-Shooter Dead Trigger 2 Launched On Android & iOS; Desktop Coming Soon

Tweet7 Is The Perfect Way To Use Twitter On iOS 7 Posted: 28 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT So you’ve upgraded to iOS 7. Everything looks different. Except for most of your apps, that is. While some apps have already upgraded their design to fit iOS 7, many (understandably) haven’t. After all, you can’t expect the developers to jump every time Apple says jump. You may love or hate iOS 7, but there’s one thing’s about it that’s almost universally liked: it’s clean and uncluttered. Tweet7 is a Twitter client made especially for iOS 7, following its flat and clean design rules. It claims to do away with most of the conventional buttons, leaving only one button on... Read the full article: Tweet7 Is The Perfect Way To Use Twitter On iOS 7

14 Websites To Find Free Creative Commons Music Posted: 28 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT We’ve introduced you to a variety of quality image sites where you can find Creative Commons images, but the Creative Commons license goes far beyond just images. Different types of content are licensed online using Creative Commons — videos, music, and even blog content. You’ll find plenty of it online to share, remix and use commercially. When it comes to Creative Commons music — there are certainly no shortage of websites with audio you can use for any occasion. With Creative Commons licenses, you do have to be sure to take a careful look at the specific license which will show... Read the full article: 14 Websites To Find Free Creative Commons Music

Get Into The Halloween Spirit With The Best Horror Films Ever Made Posted: 28 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT Looking for a terrifying horror film to watch this Halloween? Thanks to sites that aggregate movie reviews, we now can get the scariest ever made, without tons of searching. Sites such as Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, and Reddit keep vast databases of compiled film reviews. These sites then handily synthesize lists containing the top genre films of all time. To get the absolute scariest films, though, you need to filter out other genres. In this article I’ve already filtered out other search results. The movies listed are, according to their respective sites, the best reviewed horror films ever made. Metacritic Metacritic... Read the full article: Get Into The Halloween Spirit With The Best Horror Films Ever Made

Is Facebook Going The Same Way As MySpace? Posted: 28 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote: “The only constant is change”. This is especially true on the Internet, where some of the most popular apps, websites and services of today are nothing more than a memory tomorrow. In a fantastic article this month, Matt Smith described some of the past social networks that preceded Facebook. You may remember many of them, like Friendster, LiveJournal, and of course the former King of the Internet — MySpace. In the couple of decades that I’ve been crawling around on this sprawling and growing web, I’ve seen one pattern occur over and over: Everyone becomes convinced that... Read the full article: Is Facebook Going The Same Way As MySpace?

Use Your Browser To Play With Classic Games And Vintage Software On The Internet Archive Posted: 28 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT The Internet Archive is the repository of the digital world's artifacts. Along with the huge library of archived webpages, ebooks, movies, and music, it now offers an in-browser emulator that will allow you to run classic games and old programs inside the browser. So, if you get hit by nostalgia you can fire it up and play classic games like PAC-MAN, Adventureland, and The Hobbit among others. The not-for-profit organization has also curated the Historical Software Collection, with selective picks of historically significant software in one place. The rapid pace set by technology makes applications and games obsolete very fast;... Read the full article: Use Your Browser To Play With Classic Games And Vintage Software On The Internet Archive

Clip, Save, And Tag Your Way To A New Language With Phraseum Posted: 28 Oct 2013 07:30 AM PDT The Web is the new language tutor you should pay attention to. In most cases, it does not charge a dime. You only need to charge yourself up so you can supplement your language learning routines with the many online aids that are at your disposal. Phraseum is a simple but handy browser tool that turns your day-to-day browsing into a language learning class. But only if you are thinking of learning something new. We can harp on the fact that learning a new language improves the way our brain works; we can dwell on its benefits while travelling; we... Read the full article: Clip, Save, And Tag Your Way To A New Language With Phraseum

Get Your Streaming Music Fix On Your iPhone With Sky.FM Posted: 28 Oct 2013 07:00 AM PDT Do you want to listen to your music, but not pay for it? Well you can. Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not advocating illegal music downloads, but instead a fantastic streaming music app called Sky.FM. Of course, it has its own premium paid plan but the free service is fantastic, provided you don’t mind the occasional advert being thrown in. Normally I would want Spotify on my phone, since I am a fan of the service. But I refuse on principle to pay $10 a month just to have it on my phone and tablet. Sky.FM fits in nicely – high... Read the full article: Get Your Streaming Music Fix On Your iPhone With Sky.FM

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