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- Cool Websites & Tools – Smart Email, Personalized Business Documents & Share Screens With Facebook Friends
- Free & Fantastic: 10 Jazz Albums To Download [Sound Sunday]
- 5 Ways to Tilt-Shift Your Photos for Model-tastic Mockups
- Avast 2014 Launches With Do Not Track, Boot Disc, and DeepScreen Technology
- 5 Productivity Tips for Incredibly Busy People
- Do You Use A Third Party Firewall On Your Computer? [MakeUseOf Poll]
- Everything You Need to Know About Backing Up & Restoring Your iPhone from iTunes
| Posted: 20 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT  Solayo – enables you to search for online music & videos from Youtube, SoundCloud and more. Once you have found what you are looking for, you can play the music in a player, as well as collecting the music and videos in playlists. To begin, either sign up with Facebook or by email. Skimbox – describes itself as “smart email for busy people”. Important mail goes into your mainbox, and the rest goes into your skimbox. Skimbox is simple, secure, and free. Smart classifier separates important and non-important emails. Classifier learns from your actions and improves over time. Simple swipe... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Smart Email, Personalized Business Documents & Share Screens With Facebook Friends |
| Free & Fantastic: 10 Jazz Albums To Download [Sound Sunday] Posted: 20 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT  Sound Sunday is your chance to taste a new musical flavor every week. After listening to this edition, you will appreciate Jazz! And if you already do, you’ll love what I have for you this week. What Is Jazz? Like hip hop, Jazz has its origins in African-American communities. The genre became popular around the world in the early 20th century. It rapidly evolved and diversified into several dozen sub and fusion genres. Jazz knows no boundaries. Trombonist J.J. Johnson once said: “Jazz is restless. It won’t stay put and it never will.” This edition features only a small selection... Read the full article: Free & Fantastic: 10 Jazz Albums To Download [Sound Sunday] |
| 5 Ways to Tilt-Shift Your Photos for Model-tastic Mockups Posted: 20 Oct 2013 11:30 AM PDT  Tilt-shifting is a popular way of presenting digital photos which “miniaturises” a scene – giving the impression it’s a toy or model diorama. Several tools now exist which can help you apply this effect to existing photos, so let’s take a look at your options. Fundamentals Before we get into the tools themselves, it’s important you have a basic understanding of what the effect actually is, and why it works – this will help you to get the best results. Take a pen and hold right in front of your eyes, focussing on it. Your peripheral vision – everything else... Read the full article: 5 Ways to Tilt-Shift Your Photos for Model-tastic Mockups |
| Avast 2014 Launches With Do Not Track, Boot Disc, and DeepScreen Technology Posted: 20 Oct 2013 10:15 AM PDT  Avast, one of the best Windows antivirus software out there, has released the latest version, Avast 2014, which it claims provides faster and better protection than any other in the market. The new Avast has a new design that sports a flatter look to go with the new Modern UI. Apart from being streamlined, it puts everything in the same place for both Free and Paid product lines, making migration easier. Even in our tests, we found it to be the ultimate fuss-free antivirus choice because of its interface. The big new feature is actually under the hood. It's called... Read the full article: Avast 2014 Launches With Do Not Track, Boot Disc, and DeepScreen Technology |
| 5 Productivity Tips for Incredibly Busy People Posted: 20 Oct 2013 09:15 AM PDT  What’s your personal strategy to staying productive even during explosively busy times? It’s easy to get sidetracked when your to-do list is a mile long, not to mention colleagues barging in and interrupting you every few minutes. From Open Forum comes these five productivity pointers from extremely busy CEOs, for incredibly busy people. What’s your favourite tip? Read the full article: 5 Productivity Tips for Incredibly Busy People |
| Do You Use A Third Party Firewall On Your Computer? [MakeUseOf Poll] Posted: 20 Oct 2013 08:30 AM PDT  Last week we asked you if you still own physical board and puzzle games, and if you still play them. Thought we were living in a digital age? Think again! Out of 240 votes in total, less than 1% of the voters don’t own board games and think they’re outdated, 3% don’t own any but love playing them, 6% own physical board games but never use them, 32% own them but use them rarely, and a full 58% own them and still play often. Full results and this week’s poll after the jump. Don’t forget to check out last week’s... Read the full article: Do You Use A Third Party Firewall On Your Computer? [MakeUseOf Poll] |
| Everything You Need to Know About Backing Up & Restoring Your iPhone from iTunes Posted: 20 Oct 2013 07:30 AM PDT  By now, most iPhone users take for granted that the contents of their iPhone is backed up wirelessly to their iCloud account, and they can restore that content if need be back on their iPhone or to an upgraded iPhone model (see this article about restoring from iCloud). But it is still useful to know how to restore your iPhone from iTunes. Ideally you can backup all your iPhone’s data to your iCloud account, including the apps and app data, Camera Roll photos, purchased music and other media, messages, wallpaper and so on. But if you haven’t noticed yet, your... Read the full article: Everything You Need to Know About Backing Up & Restoring Your iPhone from iTunes |
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