15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Amazon Special Offers, Easy Conference Calls, & Current Social Media Trends
• How To Create Your Own Yahoo Pipes That Can Save You Money
• SmartGoals for Android Helps You Set Realistic Goals, Measure and Attain Them
• What’s The Most Embarrassing Email or Text You’ve Ever Sent? [We Ask You]
• How To Install Multiple OSes On A Single SD Card For Raspberry Pi
• Google Chrome Beta Shows Noisy Tabs on Desktop, Gets New Switcher on Android
• The Easy, Free Way To Send Growl Messages To Your Mac’s Notification Center
• Are Gamers The New Professional Athletes?
• 12 Twitter Accounts To Follow If You Like Free Apps
• Gmail Makes It Easier To Preview And Save Attachments From The Inbox To Google Drive
• Beat The Thieves – Keep Your Tech Secure At Home
• 6 Online Fashion Communities For Stylish Men And Women
• Bing Introduces Music Video Search With Discoverability & Album Order
• Technophilia SE Live From MakeUseOf – Special Numenera Edition
• 7 Windows 8.1 Upgrade Issues & How To Fix Them

Cool Websites & Tools – Amazon Special Offers, Easy Conference Calls, & Current Social Media Trends Posted: 13 Nov 2013 03:45 PM PST The Amazon 1Button App for Firefox – Get special offers and features right at your fingertips with The Amazon 1Button App. View price comparisons while shopping online, search Amazon and the Web at the same time, get a head-start on deals, and more. Flubaroo – is a site that claims to make grading easy, for tests, exams, and assignments. Flubaroo can help teachers grade online assignments, get reporting and analysis on student performance, email students their scores, and much more. Speek – makes conference calls easy. Choose a personalized free Speek link (i.e., speek.com/YourName) for your conference calls. Share your... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Amazon Special Offers, Easy Conference Calls, & Current Social Media Trends

How To Create Your Own Yahoo Pipes That Can Save You Money Posted: 13 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST The Internet connects us to impossibly large amounts of information – but sorting through tremendous volumes of data can take a lot of time. There exist two innovations that make that process simple: Yahoo Pipes and RSS. Whether you seek employment or hot sales, these tools can get you the information you crave with very little effort. It works like this: RSS feeds contain timely updates from your favorite websites. Yahoo Pipes can filter information from RSS feeds, restricting what reaches you. For example, if you need job notifications pertaining to specific fields, such as nursing, you can subscribe to... Read the full article: How To Create Your Own Yahoo Pipes That Can Save You Money

SmartGoals for Android Helps You Set Realistic Goals, Measure and Attain Them Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST We all have hopes and dreams. Making them come true, though, is the tricky part. Yes, willpower has a part in it, but so do organization skills and persistence over a long time. Almost any worthwhile goal requires us to slog through the tough times, to persist when things aren’t going well (or are simply dead boring), until we reach the promised land. While your smartphone can’t make your dreams come true, it may be able to help: Smart Goals is a $2 app that lets you set goals and then methodically track your progress towards achieving them. It is... Read the full article: SmartGoals for Android Helps You Set Realistic Goals, Measure and Attain Them

What’s The Most Embarrassing Email or Text You’ve Ever Sent? [We Ask You] Posted: 13 Nov 2013 01:30 PM PST Most people reading this email, text, or email and text, multiple times each day. Whether it’s a quick text to your significant other explaining why you’ll be late home from work, or a lengthy email to a colleague complaining about their lack of cubicle etiquette, words are being flung from one phone, tablet, or computer to another at an alarming rate of knots. It’s estimated that over 140 billion emails are sent each and every day, and literally trillions of text messages are sent every year. Then there are the countless other ways to contact people, including messaging apps such... Read the full article: What’s The Most Embarrassing Email or Text You’ve Ever Sent? [We Ask You]

How To Install Multiple OSes On A Single SD Card For Raspberry Pi Posted: 13 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST Running multiple projects on your Raspberry Pi usually requires a different operating system or configuration for each, best achieved with multiple SD cards. But is there a way to "dual-boot" the OS? The Raspberry Pi is a very flexible little PC, but this flexibility can have its downsides. Being able to dual- or multi-boot different operating systems (many OSes are available for the Raspberry Pi) can prove extremely useful, particularly with projects that have similar hardware requirements, such as a media centre and a retro gaming centre. Fortunately, the need to do this among Pi owners has resulted in an... Read the full article: How To Install Multiple OSes On A Single SD Card For Raspberry Pi

Google Chrome Beta Shows Noisy Tabs on Desktop, Gets New Switcher on Android Posted: 13 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST Google's been hard at work on the Chrome browser, adding features like smart malware blocking and factory reset. The new Chrome Beta on desktop and on Android comes with even more abilities, including telling you which tab that sound is coming from and switching tabs more easily. Chrome Beta on desktops The new Chrome Beta release for desktops includes a smart ability to find out which tab is being used for that sound coming out of your speakers or to get your image from your webcam. Often, you will have many tabs open and not know which one is making... Read the full article: Google Chrome Beta Shows Noisy Tabs on Desktop, Gets New Switcher on Android

The Easy, Free Way To Send Growl Messages To Your Mac’s Notification Center Posted: 13 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST Remember Growl? It’s weird to say this about an app so famous many assumed it was part of OS X, but Growl notifications are slowly fading from the corners of most Mac computers. Why? Well, the 2011 switch from being a freely available open source app to a paid, Mac App Store exclusive turned off some users – especially when that update briefly broke compatibility with older apps. Then, in fall 2012, Apple released Mountain Lion with its own notifications system. Developers have been switching to Apple’s system ever since, giving users less need for Growl over time (an early... Read the full article: The Easy, Free Way To Send Growl Messages To Your Mac’s Notification Center

Are Gamers The New Professional Athletes? Posted: 13 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST In the US, perhaps. Just a few months ago, the US government officially recognized foreign gamers as professional athletes, granting them visas into the country. Gaming tournaments are so widely followed that a single venue couldn’t accommodate the latest League of Legends championship series. Instead, it had to be held in three separate locations including LA’s Staple Center. So, is anyone up for changing career paths? Click to enlarge. Via Direct Ticket Read the full article: Are Gamers The New Professional Athletes?

12 Twitter Accounts To Follow If You Like Free Apps Posted: 13 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST Technology can be expensive, which is why we have the MakeUseOf giveaways. Apps are not as expensive, but while the $1 you spend on an app today might not seem much, it quickly adds up to a handsome sum if you buy apps and games often. So what’s there not to like about free apps? Now, there are ways to find virtually any mobile app for free legally. But the best way is to always know when an app is going on sale, whether as a discount or free for a limited period. And if you're on Twitter, there are... Read the full article: 12 Twitter Accounts To Follow If You Like Free Apps

Gmail Makes It Easier To Preview And Save Attachments From The Inbox To Google Drive Posted: 13 Nov 2013 10:30 AM PST Gmail has now made it easier to handle attachments from the inbox itself. Gmail is integrated with Google Drive and now you can easily save all or individual attachments to the cloud with a click. Saving all your attachments to the cloud helps to clear up the clutter of your inbox (by deleting the emails and keeping the attachments). You can also access all your attachments from the central location that Google Drive intends to be. The update is being gradually rolled out. The latest update also allows you to skip the download to your local drive before you re-upload... Read the full article: Gmail Makes It Easier To Preview And Save Attachments From The Inbox To Google Drive

Beat The Thieves – Keep Your Tech Secure At Home Posted: 13 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST Get in, get out, get paid. That’s what thieves, crooks and dastardly evil-doers live by. That’s why electronics are also sure-fire bait for bad guys. If one were to get in your front door, grab stuff as they went, and bolted out your back door, what do you think they would get? A laptop on the dining table, an Xbox and flat screen in the living room, a tablet in the kitchen, and one or two cellphones by the back door. Does that sound about right? Those sticky-fingered filchers filled their sacks with pawnable portables and identity-theft data. You are... Read the full article: Beat The Thieves – Keep Your Tech Secure At Home

6 Online Fashion Communities For Stylish Men And Women Posted: 13 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST Fashion doesn't have to be all about the flashy runway. There's a difference between fashion and style, though the two terms tend to get mixed up in everyday conversation. It comes down to personal expression — how do you present yourself to others? It's not so much about showing off as it is about framing your personality, and why wouldn't you want to present yourself in a fitting way? I confess that I despised anything related to fashion for the first 24 years of my life, but my attitude changed when I looked a bit deeper into it. Now, I... Read the full article: 6 Online Fashion Communities For Stylish Men And Women

Bing Introduces Music Video Search With Discoverability & Album Order Posted: 13 Nov 2013 08:30 AM PST Microsoft's search engine Bing is always playing second fiddle but it has some cool features absent in Google. And the new Music Video Search—activated through the regular video search in Bing—seems like yet another such tool that outclasses its rivals. "Whether you're looking for videos of songs and artists you are already familiar with (like Led Zeppelin and Justin Timberlake) or you're looking to discover the next-up-and-coming artist or revisiting the classics, we've got you covered," Microsoft wrote in a blog post. Searching for any artist or song results in the most popular video being showcased in the top-left. The... Read the full article: Bing Introduces Music Video Search With Discoverability & Album Order

Technophilia SE Live From MakeUseOf – Special Numenera Edition Posted: 13 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST This week: it's  time for some table-top gaming. Technophilia goes low-tech across four time zones as contributor Rob Wiesehan takes Justin, Dave and James into the world of Numenera – a future version of earth with a medieval society and a smattering futuristic technology left over from civilizations come and gone. The show this week is brought to you by BitDefender Antivirus for Mac. Think Macs don’t catch viruses? Think again! Although Macs are traditionally believed to be less prone to cyber-criminal attacks, recent developments have shown that malware writers are concentrating more and more on finding vulnerabilities in MacOS and popular... Read the full article: Technophilia SE Live From MakeUseOf – Special Numenera Edition

7 Windows 8.1 Upgrade Issues & How To Fix Them Posted: 13 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST Microsoft recently released Windows 8.1, an upgrade to Windows 8 which arrived with mixed reviews. Most people see Windows 8.1 as a type of Service Pack. The updates introduced by Windows 8.1, however, are much more pervasive and consequently seem to be causing more trouble than Service Packs in previous Windows versions. Windows 8.1 can cause several issues during the process of upgrading and even more afterwards. If you’re faced with one of them, read on to see if there’s a potential fix. Alternatively, if you’re considering an upgrade, make sure to prep your computer for Windows 8.1 beforehand. Hardware Support... Read the full article: 7 Windows 8.1 Upgrade Issues & How To Fix Them

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