15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Cross-Browser Screenshot Tool, Android Task Automation, & Expenses Tracking
• 2 AutoHotkey Scripts To Make You A Better Path Of Exile Player
• Stay Connected With Google+ & Google Hangouts On Your iOS Device
• iOS Apps on Sale for November 22: Marvin, Crazy Taxi & Total War
• 4 Video Game Console Launch Games That Were Actually Good
• Interact With Hobbits, Dwarves & Dragons On Google Chrome
• Find Your Keys! 6 Gadgets That Help Locate Your Missing Keys
• Caption Contest: PlayStation Riot
• 5 Rules To Finding Cheap Airline Flight Tickets
• Turn Your Photos Into A Glossy Photo Book With A Single Click On Flickr Photo Books [Updates]
• The 8 Best SIM Cards for the Nexus 5: Get The Cheapest Prepaid Plan For You
• How To Make Windows 8 Boot Even Faster!
• Finally Joined Pinterest? These 5 Boards Will Get You Started
• Mail.Ru Launches My.Com In US With myMail, myChat and myGames
• 5 Reasons Not To Buy A Smartphone

Cool Websites & Tools – Cross-Browser Screenshot Tool, Android Task Automation, & Expenses Tracking Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:30 PM PST CottonTracks – is an automated and curated record of the best content you experience on your web browser. It replaces your history and bookmarks while maintaining a stunning summary of your insights and influences. Navigate as usual and it takes care of organizing your favorite content seamlessly. Its algorithms create collections of interesting articles, videos, images and maps based on how deeply you investigate a particular subject. qSnap – is a cross-browser snapshot tool. Capture single or multiple webpages. With a simple click, “snap” a shot of a webpage. Continue to click if you have multiple webpages to capture. qSnap... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Cross-Browser Screenshot Tool, Android Task Automation, & Expenses Tracking

2 AutoHotkey Scripts To Make You A Better Path Of Exile Player Posted: 22 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST Path of Exile fans, aren’t you sick and tired of suffering from catastrophic deaths in the game’s Hardcore league setup? Is there anything worse than devoting hours upon hours into a character on your favorite ARPG only to lose it to a perfect storm of circumstances? I feel your pain. It doesn’t have to happen anymore. Chris Wilson, the lead developer at Grinding Gear Games (the company behind this awesome Diablo III alternative), has made it clear that the use of third-party applications is completely allowed as long as you’re not automating anything to run in an unattended environment. This... Read the full article: 2 AutoHotkey Scripts To Make You A Better Path Of Exile Player

Stay Connected With Google+ & Google Hangouts On Your iOS Device Posted: 22 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST If you’re an active Google+ member and iOS user, you may find the Google+ app (Free) easier to navigate on the iPhone or iPad than using the mobile website. This mobile app keeps you connected to your Google+ stream and contacts wherever you go, and includes all the features available in the desktop version. We have written about several updates to Google+ for iOS, including its new photo features, and changes to the user interface. But now we’ve added the Google+ app to our Best of iPhone Apps page, and this article provides an overview of the app for those who... Read the full article: Stay Connected With Google+ & Google Hangouts On Your iOS Device

iOS Apps on Sale for November 22: Marvin, Crazy Taxi & Total War Posted: 22 Nov 2013 01:15 PM PST Looking for some cheap or free apps, but a little overwhelmed? Once again we’ve rounded up some of our favourite apps on sale to help separate the good from the bad. This week we’ve had more joy finding quality games than useful apps, so read on to find out. In addition to two past Dreamcast releases from Sega themselves and Namco, there’s a mobile version of Total War, a premium eBook reader and one of our favourite iOS email clients on offer this week. Let’s get started. Apps Marvin ($5.49, now free) Currently free for a short time while Marvin... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for November 22: Marvin, Crazy Taxi & Total War

4 Video Game Console Launch Games That Were Actually Good Posted: 22 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST In the long history of video games, there has almost always been one truth that early adopters have been forced to swallow: launch games are usually terrible. Sure, they might show off the graphical power of the console, but they do little to push the gameplay forward, and most games look vastly superior just a year out from the launch of a console. Players who run out launch day to get the latest piece of gaming hardware generally accept this fact, as part of the enjoyment is just being among the first to experience the future. All of that said, there... Read the full article: 4 Video Game Console Launch Games That Were Actually Good

Interact With Hobbits, Dwarves & Dragons On Google Chrome Posted: 22 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST Google Chrome has a lot going for it. It’s a fast browser with lots of cool plugins, it has many security features, and it updates automatically in the background. But now we can add one more advantage to using Chrome over the other browsers – you can visit J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth and interact with Hobbits, dwarves & dragons. Beat that, Firefox. Yes, just in time for the second instalment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, Google Chrome has put together a really amazing interactive experiment. By going here, you can be taken to a map of... Read the full article: Interact With Hobbits, Dwarves & Dragons On Google Chrome

Find Your Keys! 6 Gadgets That Help Locate Your Missing Keys Posted: 22 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST Can’t find your keys? Forgot to take them with you? If only your keys could call out to you and fix this everyday mess. Well, if you have a smartphone, all you need is one of these cool gadgets to be reminded of your keys and find them if they’re missing. Object-finders are a hot new market. These are little devices that you either stick onto your keys or loop through your keyring — or anything else you lose often, like the remote control. Using Bluetooth technology, the gadget wirelessly communicates with your smartphone to either emit a beep or... Read the full article: Find Your Keys! 6 Gadgets That Help Locate Your Missing Keys

Caption Contest: PlayStation Riot Posted: 22 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST What’s the big fuss about the PlayStation 4? It’s not like there are new games to support it. What’s on your mind? Send us your most hilarious captions and you’ll join the ranks of those who have won the much coveted MakeUseOf t-shirts! As for the previous Caption Contest “I’ve Arrived“, please join me in congratulating Steve Heinrich with his winning caption, “While the rest of the world had uninstalled it and moved on, Dan was still determined to use Apple Maps for every trip.” Read the full article: Caption Contest: PlayStation Riot

5 Rules To Finding Cheap Airline Flight Tickets Posted: 22 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST Sick and tired of paying a fortune for air travel? The easiest solution would be to skip the plane and take a road trip instead, but many of us don’t have the time or energy to do that. Plus, with gas prices on the rise, the road trip might end up costing more than air fare. And that's assuming you aren’t traveling across an ocean in the first place. Fortunately, there are a few tips and tricks you can make use of in order to maximize your savings when purchasing airline tickets — in fact, you might even be able... Read the full article: 5 Rules To Finding Cheap Airline Flight Tickets

Turn Your Photos Into A Glossy Photo Book With A Single Click On Flickr Photo Books [Updates] Posted: 22 Nov 2013 10:30 AM PST Flickr Photo Books is a new service from Flickr that gives you an easy way to turn your best photos into a glossy photo book. A Flickr Photo Book can be generated in minutes with a single click on the photos you want to assimilate into the book. Each 11-by-8.5-inch hardcover bound book with photos on premium heavy stock photo Lustre paper costs $34.95 for 20 pages. Each extra page will cost an extra of $0.50 per page, and one can go up to 240 pages. The only downer is that the service provides shipping for the U.S. alone. Flickr... Read the full article: Turn Your Photos Into A Glossy Photo Book With A Single Click On Flickr Photo Books [Updates]

The 8 Best SIM Cards for the Nexus 5: Get The Cheapest Prepaid Plan For You Posted: 22 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST An unlocked Nexus 5 can save hundreds – even thousands – each year on your cell phone bill. Just purchase a prepaid micro-SIM and make sure your APN settings are correctly configured. But how do you know which plan best fits your needs? Lots of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (what’s an MVNO?) offer a great selection of plans, each with infrastructure limitations and SIM card sizes. This articles analyzes the available plans, by network, relative to the technical requirements of the Nexus 5. In the US, there are four primary carriers: Sprint, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. It appears that Verizon... Read the full article: The 8 Best SIM Cards for the Nexus 5: Get The Cheapest Prepaid Plan For You

How To Make Windows 8 Boot Even Faster! Posted: 22 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST Windows 8 may have plenty of issues, but a slow boot time ain’t one. Windows 8 boots fast! Yet, there is room for improvement. We show you how to measure and optimize your Windows boot time. The time it takes the system to start up is largely defined by internal processes. In Windows 8, a Faster Startup feature allows for record boot times. Over time, third-party applications can contribute to a significant decline. The occasional cleanup can restore initial boot times. Let’s see what your options are. Find Your Boot Time You can get a semi-accurate estimation of how long it... Read the full article: How To Make Windows 8 Boot Even Faster!

Finally Joined Pinterest? These 5 Boards Will Get You Started Posted: 22 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST Imagine you had a cork board for each subject you’re interested in and pinned pictures on those. Of course, you’ve only got so much wall space in your house and covering them with cork boards and photos would make you look like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory, so Pinterest helps you do this virtually, online. Did you finally jump on the Pinterest band wagon? Me too. One day, I just seemed to cave in and join. I’m not sure what tipped me over the edge. It might have been the fact that the company I work for started an account... Read the full article: Finally Joined Pinterest? These 5 Boards Will Get You Started

Mail.Ru Launches My.Com In US With myMail, myChat and myGames Posted: 22 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST Russian internet giant Mail.Ru has launched its services in the US under the My.com brand, with a suite of mobile-based app offerings—myMail for email, myChat for instant messaging and myGames for mobile gaming. In the near future, it will also launch the myCamera app. myMail is an email client for Android and iOS that combines multiple email accounts. Users can customize and enable real-time push notifications even if email providers don’t support them. myMail also uses a custom "traffic congestion technology" for faster and more secure emails. You can find out more information and download at mymail.my.com. myChat is a... Read the full article: Mail.Ru Launches My.Com In US With myMail, myChat and myGames

5 Reasons Not To Buy A Smartphone Posted: 22 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST Smartphones are slowly but surely taking over the world. So much so that in 2013, smartphones outsold feature phones globally for the first time, with a reported 55 percent of all new phones sold in Q3 of the smart rather than dumb variety. However, despite their entry into the mainstream, smartphones aren’t yet anywhere near being essential tools for life. Those who own one may think they couldn’t live without their iPhone, Android, or Windows Phone handset, but in reality they could, if they were called upon to do so. The danger with this ubiquitousness is that you may feel... Read the full article: 5 Reasons Not To Buy A Smartphone

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