15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Chrome Tab Manager, Android Guardian Angel, & Flame Painting
• The Story of Stuff: Where Exactly Does All Our Stuff Come From Anyway? [Stuff to Watch]
• Experience The Biggest Historical Events Of Our Times Through Twitter
• Caption Contest: Mega Router
• 10 Unusual Hashtags You Need To Follow On Instagram
• Clean Teeth and Gums: Maintain Hygiene With These 5 Free Dental Apps
• How To Upgrade To Windows 8.1 & How To Downgrade Back To Windows 8
• 3 Places That Should Be Used In The Next Assassin’s Creed Game
• Help Out Twitter With Their Android Experiment Alpha Program
• 8 Movies Featuring Technology All Geeks Should Watch
• Camera Plus Takes Your iPhoneography A Step Further [Giveaway]
• RunKeeper Update For iOS 7 Tracks Data In Background For iPhone 5s, Adds AirDrop
• Simple RSS App Sputnik Stays Out Of Your Way So You Can Read
• Voices In Your Head: 7 Biggest Video Game Voice-Over Stars
• Xbox One Leaks, iPhone 6 Rumors, YouTube Haters [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Chrome Tab Manager, Android Guardian Angel, & Flame Painting Posted: 11 Nov 2013 03:40 PM PST Fruumo Tab Manager – Why should only mobile browsers have tab managers? Fruumo Tab Manager is the easiest to use tab manager for Chrome. Current features include searching through open tabs, searching through bookmarks by starting your search with ‘,’, close any open tab, refresh any open tab, pin any open tab, and more. Lightbeam for Firefox – is a Firefox add-on that enables you to see the first and third party sites you interact with on the Web. Using interactive visualizations, Lightbeam shows you the relationships between these third parties and the sites you visit. As you browse, Lightbeam... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Chrome Tab Manager, Android Guardian Angel, & Flame Painting

The Story of Stuff: Where Exactly Does All Our Stuff Come From Anyway? [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 11 Nov 2013 01:30 PM PST You’re reading MakeUseOf, so you’re probably a bit computer-inclined. Chances are you own more than one, and all the extras too – so, where does this stuff come from? That’s a question with more than one answer – the simplified version, and the “spent my whole life researching it” extended version. The Story of Stuff is a 2007 short film about the material economy. It’s a politically-charged challenging look at the state of consumerism, prompting critics like Glen Beck, formerly of Fox News, to refer to it as an “anti-capitalist tale that unfortunately has virtually no facts correct.” That means... Read the full article: The Story of Stuff: Where Exactly Does All Our Stuff Come From Anyway? [Stuff to Watch]

Experience The Biggest Historical Events Of Our Times Through Twitter Posted: 11 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST From scavenger hunts to improving your vocabulary, there are many creative uses for Twitter, which goes way beyond being a simple social network,  There really is no end to how you can use Twitter for fun or educational experiences. We recently introduced you to 8 Twitter feeds that reveal the past with historic tweets, with pictures and facts shared on the social networking site. But there are other creative ways to learn your history from Twitter. With the help of the history books, these accounts live-tweet specific historical events in the exact sequence and on the same dates as they... Read the full article: Experience The Biggest Historical Events Of Our Times Through Twitter

Caption Contest: Mega Router Posted: 11 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST Why’s Tommy router on his roof? And why is it oversized? It’s time for the next caption contest, everyone! Let your creative juices flow and submit you your funniest captions in the comment area for a chance to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! Our previous caption contest “Virtual Dinner Date” attracted several interesting captions but the one by Netlurker takes home the trophy: “This way, she has a mute option.” Ouch! Congratulations? Read the full article: Caption Contest: Mega Router

10 Unusual Hashtags You Need To Follow On Instagram Posted: 11 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST On Instagram, you can't get anywhere without using hashtags to grease the wheels of your popularity. But with millions of photos already there, how do you ensure that you garner your share of likes on Instagram? In the crowded space of Instagram, it is the quirky photos that draw the eye. The ten hashtags below shine through the filters because they manage to appeal to quirky Instagrammers and their quirkier creativity. They’re a great way to discover some out of the ordinary Instagram content, and may inspire you to create some yourself. Follow them if you like your photos to... Read the full article: 10 Unusual Hashtags You Need To Follow On Instagram

Clean Teeth and Gums: Maintain Hygiene With These 5 Free Dental Apps Posted: 11 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST “Apps to help maintain my dental hygiene? You can’t be serious! Everyone knows how to brush their teeth.” It sounds a bit silly at first, I admit, but recently I learned that my dental hygiene habits weren’t as proper as I thought they were. And even if you know how to be hygienic, are you actually being hygienic? There are a lot of benefits to proper dental hygiene and a lot of drawbacks when you don’t take good care of your teeth and gums, yet even though we know this, we tend to slack on our duties. We skip brushing.... Read the full article: Clean Teeth and Gums: Maintain Hygiene With These 5 Free Dental Apps

How To Upgrade To Windows 8.1 & How To Downgrade Back To Windows 8 Posted: 11 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST Windows 8.1 is here and brings many new and improved features. The update is free for current Windows 8 users, it’s available from the Windows Store, and the installation process, if not quick, at least is easy. If you would like to boot to the desktop, take advantage of the improved SkyDrive integration, or run multiple apps next to each other with the new dynamic Snap feature, you should consider upgrading. Just in case you don’t like Windows 8.1 or run into issues, note that the only way to roll back to Windows 8 after upgrading to Windows 8.1, is... Read the full article: How To Upgrade To Windows 8.1 & How To Downgrade Back To Windows 8

3 Places That Should Be Used In The Next Assassin’s Creed Game Posted: 11 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST Assassin's Creed is one of the most successful game franchises of the last decade, and also one of the most creative. Though the combat obviously is an important part of the game, the series focuses just as much on stealth and puzzle-solving, and is also one of the few to re-invent itself with a dramatically different location in most installations. With that said, however, some might argue Assassin's Creed is finally becoming stale. Though the settings are more diverse than the norm, the franchise generally focuses on events that take place over the last millennia, and the settings safely target... Read the full article: 3 Places That Should Be Used In The Next Assassin's Creed Game

Help Out Twitter With Their Android Experiment Alpha Program Posted: 11 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST Twitter has introduced an "Alpha" testing phase for the development of its Twitter app for the Android platform. This will allow interested testers to get in early to provide feedback and collaborate with the Twitter app developers. The Alpha Program is a precursor to the beta phase which was launched in August as the Android Experiment Program. The app testers were organized on a Google Group. The alpha tester program will be selectively open to a limited set of people. Users who already are a part of the Android Experiment Program could get the first call. The number of actual... Read the full article: Help Out Twitter With Their Android Experiment Alpha Program

8 Movies Featuring Technology All Geeks Should Watch Posted: 11 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST Technology crops up in one form or another in most modern movies, because, quite simply, it’s an essential part of our everyday lives. However, most movies don’t have technology at their core; choosing not to build the whole plot around current gadgets or future innovations. Which, for those of us who live and breathe technology, is a bit of a shame. Thankfully, there are some movies out there that treat technology with the respect it deserves, though not all are particularly enamored with modern society’s over-reliance on it. Still, even these movies can be entertaining for geeks who will soak... Read the full article: 8 Movies Featuring Technology All Geeks Should Watch

Camera Plus Takes Your iPhoneography A Step Further [Giveaway] Posted: 11 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST The App Store is saturated with camera apps, so why would you need another one? Despite the many, many photo and filter apps out there, Camera Plus (currently discounted at $0.99) still manages to bring a few fresh features to the table. A long-standing App Store favourite, the app now looks slicker than ever after an update to version 3.0 which melds beautifully with iOS 7′s svelte aesthetic. In the same way a photographer can never have too many cameras, a smartphone photographer can never have too many apps – right? Let’s find out. We’re also giving away 10 copies... Read the full article: Camera Plus Takes Your iPhoneography A Step Further [Giveaway]

RunKeeper Update For iOS 7 Tracks Data In Background For iPhone 5s, Adds AirDrop Posted: 11 Nov 2013 06:30 AM PST RunKeeper, the app to track workouts, has had a new update on iOS that makes it easier to share workouts with friends, and is among the first apps to make use of the new M7 processor's ability to access the phone's sensors in the background. The M7 processor, used in the new iPhone 5s, iPad Air and iPad Mini, processes and stores data from the the device's sensors—accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS and compass—even when an app isn't running. When you start an app, it can access that stored information. "If you've ever been walking around a lot and wished you had... Read the full article: RunKeeper Update For iOS 7 Tracks Data In Background For iPhone 5s, Adds AirDrop

Simple RSS App Sputnik Stays Out Of Your Way So You Can Read Posted: 11 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST Still looking for an RSS reader? Try something simple. Sputnik (free, donationware) is a Windows and Mac RSS reader that focuses on your feeds and little else. Set it up and start reading. Kannon put together a complete manual for Feedly, because we feel it’s the best Google Reader alternative out there right now – it’s feature filled, fast and syncs to all major platforms. But after Google Reader’s shutdown some RSS users are (understandably) afraid to ever trust a web-based service again. It’s why we’ve been pointing out desktop alternatives, and even self-hosted, web-based RSS readers like TinyTinyRSS. This lets... Read the full article: Simple RSS App Sputnik Stays Out Of Your Way So You Can Read

Voices In Your Head: 7 Biggest Video Game Voice-Over Stars Posted: 11 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST In the world of video games, there has been a lot of buzz around the new PS3 title Beyond: Two Souls because it stars Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe. But this isn’t the first time a famous actor has lent his vocal chords to a pixelated character. In no particular order, here's a rundown of some of tinseltown's finest playing a role in video games. A few are easy to recognize, but a few others will make you go, "Whoa, that was him?" Psst, you can learn to become a voice-over artist with your PC too. Mark Hamill Film Fame: Luke... Read the full article: Voices In Your Head: 7 Biggest Video Game Voice-Over Stars

Xbox One Leaks, iPhone 6 Rumors, YouTube Haters [Tech News Digest] Posted: 11 Nov 2013 04:30 AM PST Today in Tech News Digest, an Xbox One escapes into the wild two weeks early, Intel acquires education startup Kno, Digg Video has arrived to waste your time, Prefundia leaves beta, Wikimedia launches Beta Features, new larger, curvier iPhones could be next for Apple, and Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, launches a sweary attack on the new Google+ commenting system. Xbox One Spotted In The Wild The Xbox One is due to be released on Nov. 22 in most territories. And yet due to a monumental mess-up by someone at U.S. retailer Target, several lucky customers got their hands on... Read the full article: Xbox One Leaks, iPhone 6 Rumors, YouTube Haters [Tech News Digest]

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