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8 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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Cool Websites and Tools – Project Management, Customized Address Links, & Gift Buying Buttons For Web Stores

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT

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Solo – is a free project management app for freelancers. Create contacts, manage tasks, upload files, track project progress, and keep notes – all in the same place. A project dashboard gives you quick access to all of your projects. See which items need your attention first with color coded status icons. Keep track of how much time is spent on a task using the task timer. Start Bootstrap – was built to help you get started on your next Bootstrap project. The HTML templates are ready to use. Download what you like and get started. The templates featured on...

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Bing Gets Prettier: Adds Pinterest Boards To Image Search

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT

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Bing has beefed up its image search by bringing Pinterest boards to its image search results. Go to Bing Image Search and type in your keyword. You will see the result in the form of Pinterest board collections appear on the right hand side of the regular Bing Image Search results. Clicking on any collection takes you to the next screen that displays all images on the pin board. Click on the image to enlarge and view it in a lightbox. As earlier, you can directly pin any image from Bing Image Search. Visual search has become richer and search...

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Windows 8 Transformation Pack Can Make Windows 7 Turn Modern

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT

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Is Windows 8 truly awesome or an utter failure? We have examined Windows 8 from various angles, including what it’s like in daily use, the impression from a Linux user’s perspective, or how to make Windows 8 suck less. The one thing most of us agree on, is that the Modern interface, formerly known as Metro, is pretty cool. I mean, it’s clean and so much better organized than a Windows 7 desktop. That, however, is not quite enough to provide motivation for a full upgrade or PC replacement. So, how do you keep everything you love about Windows 7,...

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WiiCan Turns Your WiiMote Into a Linux Gamepad, Mouse and More

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT

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Use your WiiMote as a gamepad, remote control or even a mouse for your Linux computer. If you’ve got Bluetooth, free application WiiCan is a great way to set up your WiiMote to do just about anything. You may not use your Wii as much as you used to, but that doesn’t mean you need to keep your WiiMotes in a dusty box somewhere. If you play games on your computer, you can use them for that. We showed you how to connect your WiiMote to your PC, use your WiiMote as a Mac gamepad and even connect it to...

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Create Beautiful Photo Collages With These Great Tools

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 11:00 AM PDT

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A picture is worth a 1000 words. So how many words is a 4-image collage worth? Sometimes, a nice collage is the best way to share an experience quickly. It takes minutes to make, it’s easy to share, and rather than bombarding your friends with several photos, you can only send one that tells the whole story. The tools below will help you create beautiful collages from your images, no matter which platform you’re on. Picisto [Web] Picisto is a feature-rich collage maker that employs an interesting business model. It’s not completely free to use (although all basic features are),...

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Runnable Wants To Be The YouTube For Code With A Searchable Repository

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 10:15 AM PDT

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Runnable aims to be a huge library of code anyone can search for code snippets and then reuse. For all practical purposes, they want to be the "YouTube of Code". Searching for code has become a Web activity now for many developers as they look to fast track development with re-usable bits of code, instead of going through the process of doing it from scratch and wasting precious time. Runnable wants to make it easier to search for those bits of code and fit them together quickly in any developmental project. Runnable aggregates APIs, scripts, frontend objects, database calls, and...

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It’s Tough Being A Geek: 9 Health Problems Due To The Geek Lifestyle

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 09:15 AM PDT

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Being a geek isn’t easy: they’re always the go-to person, constantly being forced to deal with the problems other people create. As a result, geeks tend to exhibit certain health issues, as illustrated by this infograph by BestMedicalDegrees. Click to enlarge.

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Snapchat Introduces Stories To Narrate The Last 24 Hours Of Your Life In Pictures

Posted: 05 Oct 2013 08:15 AM PDT

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The whole premise behind SnapChat is to send self-destructing photos or videos, letting you get a little risqué. When anyone saw the photo, it would instantly get deleted. But now it wants to change that with the launch of SnapChat Stories, allowing the images to stay for 24 hours. SnapChat Stories is all about narrating the last 24 hours of your life. Click a photo, add it to your Story and any of your friends can see it at any time. It takes away the current SnapChat implementation where you have to share a photo or video for the other...

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