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- Cool Websites & Tools – Amazon Price Tracker, Private Print Lab, & How Well Do You Know Africa?
- How To Add Interesting & Important Apps To Your Facebook Page
- Which PS4 Launch Games Should You Buy?
- iOS Apps on Sale for Black Friday 2013: Synthesizers, 1Password & Board Games
- 7 Rugged Bluetooth Speakers To Bring On Your Next Outdoor Adventure
- WriteRoom for iOS: A Minimal, Productive Text Editor for iPhone & iPad
- Caption Contest: HATE 9000
- VMWare Fusion 6 Opens Windows On Your Mac
- Control iTunes & Apple TV From The Palm Of Your Hand With Remote
- Think Twice about Buying a PlayStation: How Getting Hacked Made My PSN Content Useless
- 6 Games And Apps On Sale This Black Friday
- Use Your Computer, Don’t Let It Use You: Five “U”s For Reduced Stress Online
- Microsoft Updates OneNote With OCR, Camera Scan, Share Charm
- Reflect, Refract, And Be Puzzled: Lazors For Android Reviewed
- Steam Introduces User Reviews For Improved Game Ratings
| Cool Websites & Tools – Amazon Price Tracker, Private Print Lab, & How Well Do You Know Africa? Posted: 29 Nov 2013 03:31 PM PST  Price Drop You Save – is an Amazon price tracker and price drop alerts service. It’s totally free, and no registration is required. When the price falls, it will notify you via RSS. Just subscribe to the RSS notifications via your RSS reader. Therefore, you have an option to buy something at a favorable price and save money. In addition, an email notification may be sent. What Is The Best? – is a buying suggestion and Amazon product comparison tool. Getting confused about a large variety of goods is so easy. So how do you pick the best, being a... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Amazon Price Tracker, Private Print Lab, & How Well Do You Know Africa? |
| How To Add Interesting & Important Apps To Your Facebook Page Posted: 29 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST  Have you ever seen those really cool Facebook Page App Tabs on Facebook Pages and wondered how you could get them yourself? No worries — in this post you’ll learn how to add those cool app tabs for Twitter, Google+, YouTube and more, so they’re all beautifully linked from your Facebook Page. What’s the benefit to having those on your fan page? Once you establish a really strong fan base on Facebook, they’re going to want to interact with your website, product, or whatever you’re promoting with the Facebook Page. If you’re promoting your blog for example, those might include your... Read the full article: How To Add Interesting & Important Apps To Your Facebook Page |
| Which PS4 Launch Games Should You Buy? Posted: 29 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST  The PlayStation 4 is here, and gamers around the world are ready to usher in the next generation of video games with it. Of course, if you are going to buy a video game console, one other thing you are going to need is games. After all, while the PS4 works just fine as a media player, so does the PS3, which doesn’t make that enough of a reason to upgrade. It’s all about prettier games with impressive graphics, and the PS4 has that. But which one should you buy when you run out to the store to get your... Read the full article: Which PS4 Launch Games Should You Buy? |
| iOS Apps on Sale for Black Friday 2013: Synthesizers, 1Password & Board Games Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:15 PM PST  Thanksgiving celebrations take hold in US and the whole App Store gets in on the Black Friday deals. Fortunately, apps aren’t in limited quantity so there will be no scrambling for these bargains. This week’s sales are dominated by music apps and board games, so if you’ve got your hands on a new iPad now would be the perfect time to discover your musical talent or simply relax with your family over a good board game or two. Whatever you’re up to this weekend, be kind to each other. Apps 1Password ($17.99, now $9.99) Probably our favourite commercial password solution,... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for Black Friday 2013: Synthesizers, 1Password & Board Games |
| 7 Rugged Bluetooth Speakers To Bring On Your Next Outdoor Adventure Posted: 29 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST  Music goes well with a campfire, and is one of the few forms of electronic entertainment that’s acceptable on a backpacking excursion. All you need is a phone or MP3 player – and a set of speakers. The latter requirements tend to be problematic. Lots of small, portable speakers exist, but most of the models you’ll find on sale at your local retail store are designed to sit on a night stand rather than a fallen tree. There are, however, some portable Bluetooth speakers that can meet the challenge of the great outdoors. Braven BRV-1 ($125) The big, bad Braven... Read the full article: 7 Rugged Bluetooth Speakers To Bring On Your Next Outdoor Adventure |
| WriteRoom for iOS: A Minimal, Productive Text Editor for iPhone & iPad Posted: 29 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST  There are those who say you can’t get any real work done on an iPad, but I’m not so sure. For me, WriteRoom ($4.99) provides the perfect environment to write wherever I am. Sure, tapping at a non-tactile screen instead of a keyboard isn’t the most appealing of text input methods, but WriteRoom actually goes some way toward closing the gap between tablets and laptops with some empowering software tweaks. I wrote this whole article using WriteRoom, just to see if I really could get some serious work done on a tablet. Turns out I could. Distraction-Free Writing Writeroom is a... Read the full article: WriteRoom for iOS: A Minimal, Productive Text Editor for iPhone & iPad |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST  I made a few modifications — now, it does what you tell it to, but it carries out the task according to my preferences! Caption this image with your wittiest lines and you’ll win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! It couldn’t be simpler. Each week, we’ll feature two Caption Contests; just submit the most original and funniest captions and you’ll be chosen as the winner! Congratulations to Panayiotis Tsaousis for his winning caption in our previous contest, “Gadget Graveyard“: Let’s plug and pray! Read the full article: Caption Contest: HATE 9000 |
| VMWare Fusion 6 Opens Windows On Your Mac Posted: 29 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST  While Apple provides Bootcamp, a built-in OS X application for installing Windows on your Mac, the virtualization program VMWare Fusion 6 ($59.99) allows users to run Windows without restarting their Mac, which Bootcamp requires. This is why we have added Fusion 6 to our Best of Mac page. On occasion I use or test Windows only programs like Dragon Naturally Speaking, MarkdownPad, and DesignPro 5, and I can easily do so by firing up VMWare Fusion and it, in turn, launches Windows inside a separate window on my Mac desktop. There’s little or no hassle using Fusion, and in fact the only learning... Read the full article: VMWare Fusion 6 Opens Windows On Your Mac |
| Control iTunes & Apple TV From The Palm Of Your Hand With Remote Posted: 29 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST  If I’m honest with myself, I would have to admit I’m quite a lazy person. If I’m lying on the sofa, I don’t like to get up unless I absolutely have to, and anything that involves using energy is something which I generally don’t like doing. Think of how lazy Garfield the cat is and then multiply that by 100. Then you will have a rough idea of what I am like. So when I took a closer look at Remote, a free app provided by Apple, I realised I could take my laziness to new heights. Remote is an... Read the full article: Control iTunes & Apple TV From The Palm Of Your Hand With Remote |
| Think Twice about Buying a PlayStation: How Getting Hacked Made My PSN Content Useless Posted: 29 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST  I'm a strong advocate for digital purchases, and I really don't have objections about DRM: I'm not trying to cheat anyone, and I understand I need to authenticate devices. I’ll even accept “always online” DRM as long as it actually works (I’m talking to you, SimCity). I think borrowing games is only marginally better than pirating, and I would never buy used games unless they were out of print. It irks me when a digital version of a game can’t be bought cheaper than a physical copy, but I do it anyway because discs can be scratched or stolen. I believe... Read the full article: Think Twice about Buying a PlayStation: How Getting Hacked Made My PSN Content Useless |
| 6 Games And Apps On Sale This Black Friday Posted: 29 Nov 2013 08:30 AM PST  What do you do when you’re curled up in bed, feeling bloated after the previous day’s imposingly luxurious Thanksgiving festivities? For the frugal geeks amongst us, it’s time to stock up on apps and games. But what you don’t want to do is to spend more money than you have to. Thankfully, Black Friday is almost upon us, and with it comes more inexpensive games and software than you can shake a stick at. Here are some of the best (and none of the rest). Bioshock Infinite – $20 (was $40) Bioshock Infinite is one of the most successful video games... Read the full article: 6 Games And Apps On Sale This Black Friday |
| Use Your Computer, Don’t Let It Use You: Five “U”s For Reduced Stress Online Posted: 29 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST  Remember when getting an email was exciting? Or when seeing a particular post on Facebook was an event? It feels so long ago, but it wasn’t. In the past few years the amount of information in our various inboxes has exploded, and we all feel overwhelmed as a result. And when I say “inboxes”, I'm not just talking about email. At this point you probably have several “inboxes” that consistently require your attention. There's your email, but there's also probably some combination of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and maybe an RSS reader demanding your attention. Really, any place where you don't... Read the full article: Use Your Computer, Don't Let It Use You: Five “U”s For Reduced Stress Online |
| Microsoft Updates OneNote With OCR, Camera Scan, Share Charm Posted: 29 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST  Microsoft's OneNote is great for research, especially when used with Windows 8 and 8.1's SkyDrive integration. And the popular note-taking app has now had a major update on the desktop OS that brings some cool new functions, including 'Camera Scan' for smart scanning and the ability to read and search scanned items. Camera Scan lets you capture important data like what's written on the whiteboard in a meeting or that crucial document you don't want to lose. Train your device's camera at it, use OneNote's Camera Scan and it will automatically crop, rotate, straighten, remove shadows and sharpen the image... Read the full article: Microsoft Updates OneNote With OCR, Camera Scan, Share Charm |
| Reflect, Refract, And Be Puzzled: Lazors For Android Reviewed Posted: 29 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST  While RPG games for Android can be incredibly fun, sometimes the best games are just simple puzzles games that you can pick up for a couple minutes in your free time. Lazors, available for both Android and iOS, is a delightful combination of pick-up-and-play simplicity, along with a surprisingly difficult array of challenges. It’s on our list of Best Android Games for a reason, after all. Gameplay Getting started is incredibly easy. Blocks start out on each level placed randomly, and to move them all you do is drag one to one of the empty squares on the screen. There... Read the full article: Reflect, Refract, And Be Puzzled: Lazors For Android Reviewed |
| Steam Introduces User Reviews For Improved Game Ratings Posted: 29 Nov 2013 06:30 AM PST  Steam has just launched Steam Reviews, a system for users to rate the games they’ve played, much like Amazon’s review system for products. Users can review any game that they’ve played in Steam, even if not purchased through the Steam Store. Included in your review will be the amount of time that you’ve played the game, which Steam hopes will work as a deterrent for people who would otherwise leave malicious reviews of games they haven’t played for more than 2 minutes. Users can then upvote or downvote specific reviews, allowing for the more helpful reviews to rise to the... Read the full article: Steam Introduces User Reviews For Improved Game Ratings |
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