15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites and Tools – Find a Parking Space, Converting PDF to Excel, & Internet On / Off Switch
• Preparing An External Hard Drive For Use With Mac OS X
• Editorial Brings Powerful Text Editing and Automation to iPad
• 4 Bone-Chilling Horror Games From The PlayStation 2 You’ve Never Heard Of
• Ads Coming to the Instagram Feeds of US Users
• 10 Curiously Geeky Virtual Tours You Can Take On Google Street View
• Caption Contest: Drone
• Lucidpress Launches Drag-And-Drop Collaborative App For Design & Publishing
• Enable Dyslexics to Read Better with Dyslexie
• How to Boost Your PC Startup Time With BootRacer and MSConfig
• What’s the Best Way to Calculate the Value of Your Website?
• These Are The Apps You Need After You Reinstall Windows
• Are You Taking Friendly Fire? 3 Tips To Stop Spam From Friends
• Get Free Xbox Live Gold For The Weekend
• Which Android Launcher Should You Use? We Compare The Best!

Cool Websites and Tools – Find a Parking Space, Converting PDF to Excel, & Internet On / Off Switch Posted: 04 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT Copy All Links – This lightweight Firefox add-on allows you to copy all the links on a web page, or only the ones in selection. It also allows you to choose whether to copy all the links or only download links. It supports direct file links as well as the links to the most popular file download sites. It is also able to copy non-clickable text links on the pages. Apparcar – About 30% of drivers circulating the streets of your city are looking for parking. With Apparcar you no longer have to rely on luck to find a free... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – Find a Parking Space, Converting PDF to Excel, & Internet On / Off Switch

Preparing An External Hard Drive For Use With Mac OS X Posted: 04 Oct 2013 02:30 PM PDT If you’ve just purchased a new external hard drive for your Mac, it’s important to take the time to prepare your hard drive for use with Mac OS X. Like a lot of operating systems, Mac OS X offers only limited support for other file systems. Without proper preparation, you might even have issues writing files to the drive. Between Mac OS X, Windows and Linux, there are a lot of different file systems on the market, and each operating system has its own preference. On Windows, you’re likely to encounter FAT and NTFS, Linux normally goes with ext3 or ext4 and Mac... Read the full article: Preparing An External Hard Drive For Use With Mac OS X

Editorial Brings Powerful Text Editing and Automation to iPad Posted: 04 Oct 2013 02:00 PM PDT If the iPad ever becomes a viable replacement for laptop computers, it might be because of mobile apps like Editorial ($4.99). This text and Markdown editor allows you to use time saving built-in workflow, as well as customize your own automations, similar to what you find in Mac programs like Keyboard Maestro, Automator and the iOS and OS X app TextExpander. Imagine working in an iPad text editor that allows you to find and replace selected text, turn lines of text into a numbered list, copy an entire document with a single tap, embed the current URL and title of a webpage in selected... Read the full article: Editorial Brings Powerful Text Editing and Automation to iPad

4 Bone-Chilling Horror Games From The PlayStation 2 You’ve Never Heard Of Posted: 04 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT When gamers think about the PlayStation 2, and the range of horror games available on the platform, a few generally come to mind, with Resident Evil and Silent Hill are the two most prominent, and with good reason, as each of them is a fantastic. Of course, being released at the right time with a good marketing budget most certainly helped their success as well. However, with the popularity of the more known franchises, a slew of other games hit the market as well. Some of these were truly fantastic, but for one reason or another, not too many gamers... Read the full article: 4 Bone-Chilling Horror Games From The PlayStation 2 You’ve Never Heard Of

Ads Coming to the Instagram Feeds of US Users Posted: 04 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT The last time Instagram made a big announcement, with changes to its terms of service, it wasn’t received very well. Their latest announcement — that they’ll be introducing ads — has made a little less of an impact, and doesn’t have thousands of users threatening to quit the app. News of ads in your Instagram feed have been rumoured for over a month, and the official announcement was made on Thursday. So what does it actually mean? This time, at least Instagram has left no room for confusion. Ads are going to appear in your feed, whether you like it or not.... Read the full article: Ads Coming to the Instagram Feeds of US Users

10 Curiously Geeky Virtual Tours You Can Take On Google Street View Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT A geek is an explorer at heart. It could be the search for mysterious knowledge. It could be an expedition through the Internet. To quote St. Augustine — the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Our collective heads may be buried in books or the computer, but what better way to set your bowlines free than to travel. And what could be better than going to some of the geekiest landmarks around the world? You probably won't make it to all the places on your bucket list. Don't worry, there's a lifetime... Read the full article: 10 Curiously Geeky Virtual Tours You Can Take On Google Street View

Caption Contest: Drone Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:15 PM PDT Looks like the NSA is at it again! Submit your captions! The author of the most hilarious captions will win a coveted MakeUseOf t-shirt! There are 13 lovely designs to choose from. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Drone

Lucidpress Launches Drag-And-Drop Collaborative App For Design & Publishing Posted: 04 Oct 2013 11:15 AM PDT Creating a publishable design layout, whether for a paper magazine or a digital poster, is no easy task if you don’t have finely honed Photoshop skills. So Lucidpress, a new publishing tool, wants to make it dead simple to create beautiful designs and collaborate on them with others. This should make it even easier to design and publish your own digital magazine. Made by Lucid Software, the team behind LucidCharts, the new Web app claims to be the “ideal alternative for those tired of the complexity of pricey design applications and the limitations of desktop software suites. With Lucidpress, users... Read the full article: Lucidpress Launches Drag-And-Drop Collaborative App For Design & Publishing

Enable Dyslexics to Read Better with Dyslexie Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:30 AM PDT Could changing the font really help dyslexics? Dyslexia is a very common and serious learning disability that shows no prejudice. Intelligence, sex, race, and culture do not affect who is born dyslexic. Up until just recently in the developed world, dyslexics were generally deemed illiterate or just plain stupid. With early identification of dyslexia, teachers are now able to introduce different tools and tactics to help the dyslexic stay on top of their schoolwork. Now there is another tool that they can put in their arsenal – Dyslexie, a font for dyslexics. I first heard of this via a tweet... Read the full article: Enable Dyslexics to Read Better with Dyslexie

How to Boost Your PC Startup Time With BootRacer and MSConfig Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT A slow-booting PC is enough to drive anyone completely up the wall. You’ve cleaned and scanned all of the nasty viruses and malware off your computer, but still the problem remains. You turn on your computer, and it feels like it isn’t until half an hour later when you can actually start using it. No viruses. No Malware. Yet, it runs as though it was built in 1995. What’s the deal? Why is your PC so….horribly….slow!? I’ve known people to get so completely frustrated with this problem that they’ve literally thrown out the computer, and gone out to buy a... Read the full article: How to Boost Your PC Startup Time With BootRacer and MSConfig

What’s the Best Way to Calculate the Value of Your Website? Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT “Worth” is a difficult thing to define. My father often told me that something is only worth what someone else will actually pay for it – but if you’re trying to sell your website, what’s a reasonable figure to ask for or expect at auction? Right now, I’m fairly certain I could sell my little niche gaming blog for about $20k. How did I get to that figure? Now that’s the million dollar question. Let’s look at the options. The Easy, Useless Way: Online Tools Let’s start by doing this the wrong way: using sites that try to estimate a... Read the full article: What’s the Best Way to Calculate the Value of Your Website?

These Are The Apps You Need After You Reinstall Windows Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT Just your luck: for some reason – maybe a virus infection, maybe a corrupted hard drive – you had to reinstall your operating system. In the process, you lost all of your data and your favorite programs and now you're left with a blank slate. Instead of fretting over the situation, consider this an opportunity to start off on the right foot. Here are the essential apps that will take care of 99% of your computer activity and, best of all, they're available for free. Anti-Malware: Malwarebytes Malware and virus infections can be a pain in the neck. Best case... Read the full article: These Are The Apps You Need After You Reinstall Windows

Are You Taking Friendly Fire? 3 Tips To Stop Spam From Friends Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT “Help this abused puppy! Every time someone shares this photo, the Humane Society will donate $1 to help this miserable puppy! Open your hearts! Sharing takes just one click!!!” Sounds familiar? We all get spam from time to time, it can’t be helped. But when it’s our own friends that send this spam our way, things can get sticky. Knowingly or unknowingly, much of the spam we receive (that does not get filtered out automatically) comes from people we know. People you can’t or don’t want to block, mark as spam, unfriend or unfollow. So what do you do to... Read the full article: Are You Taking Friendly Fire? 3 Tips To Stop Spam From Friends

Get Free Xbox Live Gold For The Weekend Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT From October 4th to October 6th, Microsoft has made everything normally reserved only for Xbox Live Gold members — apps, multiplayer gaming, etc. — free for anyone with an Xbox 360. The goal is to entice folks into signing up for a real Xbox Live Gold membership, but even if you have no plans to sign up, you can still snag these three free days. The offer is available in the following regions: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, Saudi Arabia,... Read the full article: Get Free Xbox Live Gold For The Weekend

Which Android Launcher Should You Use? We Compare The Best! Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:30 AM PDT What does your Android launcher say about you? Is it really the best launcher for you, or maybe there’s a better one waiting just around the corner? The Play Store has a multitude of launchers, some popular and even some you may never have heard of. For the uninitiated, a launcher is an app that lets you customize the look of your homescreen (or “desktop”, in the traditional sense) as well as your app drawer (the place where you see apps when you hit the Home button). Now, given the huge number of launchers available, there’s something for everyone. So... Read the full article: Which Android Launcher Should You Use? We Compare The Best!

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