15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Create Online Manuals, Discover Content In A Popup, & Photograph Filters
• 3 White Noise Apps To Help You Sleep, Concentrate & Relax
• Vimeo On Demand Lets You Rent & Purchase Films Worldwide [Stuff to Watch]
• Is Your Carrier Slowing Down Your Unlimited Data Connection? How To Avoid Data Throttling
• Make Smarter Travel Decisions As Bing Displays TripAdvisor Reviews In Search
• 4 Best Windows 8 Kids TV Apps For Entertaining Little Kids
• Caption Contest: Gadget Graveyard
• Tweetings, Reviewed: One Of The Best, Most Customizable Twitter Clients for Android Today
• Narrato Journal App Expands Services to Include Facebook Integration and Web Publishing
• Navigate From A To B Fast With HERE Drive+ For Windows Phone 8
• #RandomDoesntCutIt: How To Choose The Right Hashtag For Your Tweet
• 5 Gaming Achievements That Are Close To Impossible
• Google Translate Android App Makes Translated Conversations Simpler
• IObit Advanced SystemCare 7: An Excellent All-In-One Utility
• Google Shopping Gets Overhauled With 360-Degree Pics, Previews, Shortlists

Cool Websites & Tools – Create Online Manuals, Discover Content In A Popup, & Photograph Filters Posted: 25 Nov 2013 03:30 PM PST Mega – is a site for uploading, downloading, and storing files. Your data is encrypted and decrypted during transfer of the files, to ensure your privacy. Your data is accessible anytime from whatever device you are using. Only you control the keys to your files. Share folders with your contacts and see their updates in real time. Online collaboration is private and secure. Stunwall – ever since Instagram started, it has become fashionable to apply filters to photographs. This is also what Stunwall offers. Take a picture with your webcam, upload a photo from your computer, or provide the URL... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Create Online Manuals, Discover Content In A Popup, & Photograph Filters

3 White Noise Apps To Help You Sleep, Concentrate & Relax Posted: 25 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Trtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtr. Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock. Some noises can drive you crazy. If you’re trying to sleep or work and an incessant background noise won’t let up, you can find yourself turning on fans, the television or music just to drown the annoyance. The truth is, you don’t have to freeze yourself with fans in winter or distract yourself even further with TV. If you’re trying to work on your computer, there are many websites that can help you stay focused. There are even websites that can help you get to sleep. But your computer isn’t always there,... Read the full article: 3 White Noise Apps To Help You Sleep, Concentrate & Relax

Vimeo On Demand Lets You Rent & Purchase Films Worldwide [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 25 Nov 2013 01:30 PM PST Looking for something to watch tonight? Vimeo now provides premium on-demand video for sale and rent, offering a large catalogue of interesting content and providing content providers with another outlet for their wares. Unlike Netflix and similar services, much of Vimeo’s content is available worldwide for one single price. And being Vimeo the service attracts some very talented filmmakers, and the catalogue is stuffed full of documentary films and exploratory pieces. Not only can you support filmmakers but also smaller streaming services like Vimeo itself. Let’s take a look at what there is to offer. How It Works Vimeo allows... Read the full article: Vimeo On Demand Lets You Rent & Purchase Films Worldwide [Stuff to Watch]

Is Your Carrier Slowing Down Your Unlimited Data Connection? How To Avoid Data Throttling Posted: 25 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST Almost every major mobile carrier in the world implements data throttling for clients with unlimited data plans. Data throttling is the technique used by data carriers to limit bandwidth. To the end user, this means agonizingly slow connection speeds. If you are on an unlimited plan that’s throttled once you exceed certain limits or you have a data cap, as most people do, this article offers practical advice on how to avoid throttling. Why Do Carriers Throttle Bandwidth, Am I Affected & Is It Legal? A broadband speed test will usually alert you to the possibility that you are being... Read the full article: Is Your Carrier Slowing Down Your Unlimited Data Connection? How To Avoid Data Throttling

Make Smarter Travel Decisions As Bing Displays TripAdvisor Reviews In Search Posted: 25 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST TripAdvisor made two updates in one day, and both involve Microsoft. TripAdvisor released a new touch-friendly Windows 8.1 app that’s available for free on the Windows Store. The app brings the travel site’s 125 million reviews and opinions, high-resolution photos right on your desktop. The most significant thing about the partnership is that TripAdvisor is now also integrated with Bing Smart Search. Any travel-related search on Bing will now display content from TripAdvisor, helping you make intelligent travel decisions. Bing Search will show you TripAdvisor reviews, photos, hotel ratings, and hotel price comparison information from the same tool that’s on... Read the full article: Make Smarter Travel Decisions As Bing Displays TripAdvisor Reviews In Search

4 Best Windows 8 Kids TV Apps For Entertaining Little Kids Posted: 25 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST Got a bored kid that needs some entertaining? Got a Windows tablet? You’re in luck. Parents worldwide all know that perfection in childcare is not always possible, and that occasionally you just want to hand over something to keep them quiet for a short spell. Like for instance, when you’re in a restaurant trying to keep your cool, when it’s too early in the morning and you really need a coffee or when you just want to disappear and be alone for 5 minutes. We’ve previously covered some great Windows 8 apps with games for your kids. Now it’s time... Read the full article: 4 Best Windows 8 Kids TV Apps For Entertaining Little Kids

Caption Contest: Gadget Graveyard Posted: 25 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST They’ve served their purpose. Now may they rest in peace. Got an awesome caption in mind? Share it with us and if it’s good enough, you’ll win a coveted MakeUseOf t-shirt! Now, it’s time to congratulate Dave R for his caption from last week’s contest “PlayStation Riot“: Told you not to say, “There’s only one left.” Read the full article: Caption Contest: Gadget Graveyard

Tweetings, Reviewed: One Of The Best, Most Customizable Twitter Clients for Android Today Posted: 25 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST Twitter is loud. It is noisy, messy, fast, and random. But it can also be wonderfully human, inspiring, informative, and rewarding. It all depends on how you use it. Who you follow makes a big difference, but also your interface to the service – the client you use. Twitter is what’s known as a “mobile-first” service, built from the ground up for use on the go. So having a good Twitter client on your smartphone can make a world of difference – and today, I’d like to show you one such client. Meet Tweetings, a $3.19 Twitter client which is... Read the full article: Tweetings, Reviewed: One Of The Best, Most Customizable Twitter Clients for Android Today

Narrato Journal App Expands Services to Include Facebook Integration and Web Publishing Posted: 25 Nov 2013 10:30 AM PST The iOS journaling app, Narrato (Free), recently received a 2.1 update that, in addition to bug fixes, includes Facebook and App.net integration through it’s Lifestream, and the ability for users to publish selected journals to the web. Narrato, reviewed here, allows users to add multiple journals, and to connect with, via Settings, social networking services including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, App.net, and the activity tracker, Moves. These feeds allow users to add selected content to their journals alongside their personal entries. The other significant new feature is ability to publish journal content to the web. Tapping on the Edit button... Read the full article: Narrato Journal App Expands Services to Include Facebook Integration and Web Publishing

Navigate From A To B Fast With HERE Drive+ For Windows Phone 8 Posted: 25 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST Setting off on a car journey without a satnav? Why not use your Windows Phone handset instead? HERE Drive+ is a superb navigation aid available for Nokia handsets running Windows Phone 8. Find Your Way With HERE Drive+ When you're heading out in the car on your way to a new destination, it's common these days to either plan ahead with an online maps system or rely on your smartphone or satnav unit at the last minute (having said that, I know a lot of people, me included, do both). The killer app for mobile maps and navigation would seem... Read the full article: Navigate From A To B Fast With HERE Drive+ For Windows Phone 8

#RandomDoesntCutIt: How To Choose The Right Hashtag For Your Tweet Posted: 25 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST Want to increase your Twitter audience size in one step? It's simple enough: choose the right hashtags! Hashtags have become something of an integral element in today’s social media but so many people misuse, abuse them, or simply don’t know how to choose the right one. By using them wrong, you end up hurting yourself more than by not using them at all. Don’t get me wrong. Hashtags are not a bad thing in and of themselves. The problem is that most people don’t understand the purpose behind hashtags so they just end up tacking on random words and phrases... Read the full article: #RandomDoesntCutIt: How To Choose The Right Hashtag For Your Tweet

5 Gaming Achievements That Are Close To Impossible Posted: 25 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST That’s right, this is a challenge from me to you. I’ll bet all my marbles that no one reading this article has (fairly) earned any of the achievements you’re about to read into. If I’m wrong, let me have it in the comments section below. You deserve your props. Achievements have taken over the world of gaming. That sense of accomplishment that we feel after unlocking that little badge on our profile has actually managed to convince us that those few hundred hours of gaming were actually worth it! I won’t be complaining, because I’m a huge fan of video... Read the full article: 5 Gaming Achievements That Are Close To Impossible

Google Translate Android App Makes Translated Conversations Simpler Posted: 25 Nov 2013 07:30 AM PST The latest update to the Google Translate app on Android makes translation simpler and faster. The Google Translate app could be the "universal translator" you were looking for to break all linguistic barriers while travel hopping. It already supports more than 70 languages. It now gets a sleek new look and gesture support. More importantly, you can now have a translated back and forth conversation by catching the foreign language with a press on the microphone icon. Gesture support helps you switch between the translations with a turn of the screen. Product Manager Mathew Gabba says now you can have... Read the full article: Google Translate Android App Makes Translated Conversations Simpler

IObit Advanced SystemCare 7: An Excellent All-In-One Utility Posted: 25 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST Keeping your computer up to date and free of errors can be a real pain in the butt. In fact, if you don't devote a few hours to the purpose every month, it may well be impossible. That's where an all-in-one system utility comes in handy. One of the top choices has always been IObit Advanced SystemCare 7, a free program with paid versions that can manage many aspects of your PC. This latest edition is the most comprehensive yet – but can it really handle all computer maintenance needs? Installation And Setup The file you download for Advanced SystemCare... Read the full article: IObit Advanced SystemCare 7: An Excellent All-In-One Utility

Google Shopping Gets Overhauled With 360-Degree Pics, Previews, Shortlists Posted: 25 Nov 2013 06:30 AM PST With the number of services Google offers, it's easy to forget about a few. Google Shopping doesn't see much love, but it's just had a big update in time for the holiday season, introducing 360-degree photos, previews, 'visually similar' search, and shortlists to help you keep a track of products and make it a social experience—just days after Amazon tied up with Facebook to become more social. Shortlists are essentially lists you make when you are looking for a certain type of product, whether for yourself or as a gift. You can add a bunch of products to your shortlist,... Read the full article: Google Shopping Gets Overhauled With 360-Degree Pics, Previews, Shortlists

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