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• Cool Websites & Tools – International Shoe Sizes, Healthy Social Network, & AES Encryption
• The 3 Best YouTube Applications For Mac OS X
• 5 Creative Flowchart Examples to Streamline Your Work and Life
• Are You Happy With Your New PS4 Or Xbox One? [We Ask You]
• 5 Things To Avoid When Taking Selfies
• Preview International Airports And Train Stations Before You Travel On Google Street View
• Making Beautiful Designs The Easy Way With Canva [Signup & Free Credit]
• The Five Types Of Social Media Complainers
• How NOOBS For Raspberry Pi Can Help First Time Users
• Twitter Introduces Perfect Forward Secrecy To Secure Your Tweets
• Where To Study: Navigating The Free Online Education World
• Was Your Android Phone Lost or Stolen? This Is What You Can Do
• You Can Have It All: Enlightenment Is A Light Linux Desktop Environment That Looks Good
• Angry Birds Updates With 30 New Levels, ‘Shock Fuse’ Bomb Bird & Pig Potions
• Technophilia 90 Live From MakeUseOf

Cool Websites & Tools – International Shoe Sizes, Healthy Social Network, & AES Encryption Posted: 27 Nov 2013 03:30 PM PST Convert My Shoe Size – shows your shoe size in any international scale. Are you shopping abroad for footwear? Or shopping online? Or having a friend pick up shoes for you from abroad? Figuring out your shoe size in another country can be tricky, but not anymore. ‘Convert my Shoe Size’ helps you to figure out your size in many country scales. AES Encryption – Use this webtool to encrypt and decrypt text using the AES encryption algorithm. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an encryption algorithm for securing sensitive but unclassified material. You can chose 128, 192 or 256-bit... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – International Shoe Sizes, Healthy Social Network, & AES Encryption

The 3 Best YouTube Applications For Mac OS X Posted: 27 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST YouTube is easily one of the most visited websites in the world. Recently, integration with Google Plus has frustrated many of its users. People don’t like nagging, or the new feel of the comments section. Regardless of this specific problem, it begs the question, might there be a better way to enjoy YouTube on your Mac? We’ve scoured the web for the best desktop YouTube clients that Mac OS X has to offer. Whether you’re looking for a different interface, or don’t like to keep your browser open at all times, it’s worth taking a closer look at these applications.... Read the full article: The 3 Best YouTube Applications For Mac OS X

5 Creative Flowchart Examples to Streamline Your Work and Life Posted: 27 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST When you think of a good time, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably not a flowchart? Well, give me five minutes and I’ll change that. Anyone who knows me well knows that I love flowcharts. I love using them for the usual things like laying the logical flow of a program or the operation of some complex computer system. However, there’s so much more that flowcharts can do for you. They help you to take concepts that seem very abstract and disorganized, and sort them out into very clearly defined paths of logic that take you from... Read the full article: 5 Creative Flowchart Examples to Streamline Your Work and Life

Are You Happy With Your New PS4 Or Xbox One? [We Ask You] Posted: 27 Nov 2013 01:30 PM PST The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One have both been released into the wild, with the Sony and Microsoft consoles, respectively, launching within one week of each other. Both enjoyed successful launches, racking up 1 million units sold apiece, though Sony’s 1 million was just in North America, while Microsoft’s was spread across 13 countries. That’s at least 2 million people who have spent the maximum amount of money possible on these next-gen consoles by buying immediately. Most pre-ordered the hardware, making a commitment to buy on day one month ahead of release – despite all signs pointing to this being... Read the full article: Are You Happy With Your New PS4 Or Xbox One? [We Ask You]

5 Things To Avoid When Taking Selfies Posted: 27 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST Oxford Dictionaries has named ‘Selfie‘ the Word Of The Year for 2013. The august organization awarded selfie the honor ahead of “twerk” and “Bitcoin,” amongst others, not because of its newness — it’s been in use since at least 2002 — but because of its rise in popularity in recent times. This rise to being a legitimate phenomenon is thanks to smartphones, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and photo-sharing apps such as Instagram and Snapchat, the combination of which has made selfies commonplace. But this medium shouldn’t be taken lightly, and there are many things you need... Read the full article: 5 Things To Avoid When Taking Selfies

Preview International Airports And Train Stations Before You Travel On Google Street View Posted: 27 Nov 2013 12:30 PM PST Google Street View already gives us enough reasons to travel. Now, a new Google Maps feature adds a touch of practicality to those virtual dreams. Google Maps will let you preview global transit locations, including 16 international airports, and over 50 train and subway stations. Even a cable car station in Hong Kong is thrown in for good measure. An interactive map shows you the spots that have been selected so far. Google Maps definitely will be adding more. This is Tokyo International Airport… It's not just visual chutzpah on the part of Google either, as mapping transit locations makes... Read the full article: Preview International Airports And Train Stations Before You Travel On Google Street View

Making Beautiful Designs The Easy Way With Canva [Signup & Free Credit] Posted: 27 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST Are you crap at design? Don't worry. There's no shame in it. Making things look good is insanely hard. It seems that artistic talent is one of those gifts that comes to the very few. For those who are not instinctively good at design, you can always go to university and spend four years studying it. But what about the rest of us? Design at its fundamental core isn’t actually all that difficult. Despite being ‘arty’, there’s some science behind making things look good. There are rules to follow that influence design decisions. Rules about typography. Rules about visual hierarchies.... Read the full article: Making Beautiful Designs The Easy Way With Canva [Signup & Free Credit]

The Five Types Of Social Media Complainers Posted: 27 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST Managing a social media account is not easy. Take it from us: we manage a Facebook account with over 240,000 fans, a Twitter account with close to 70,000 followers, and a Google Plus account with over 50,000 circlers. We get bombarded with some of the most absurd requests, questions and comments known to man. Yet, it’s our job to address them professionally. As a company, running a customer support portal through social media might sound like a good idea. But there are several obstacles, and one of them is the social media complainer. Here are five different types of complainers... Read the full article: The Five Types Of Social Media Complainers

How NOOBS For Raspberry Pi Can Help First Time Users Posted: 27 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST Despite its success, there is something about the Raspberry Pi that might just put people off: until now, setting it up has not been particularly user friendly. NOOBS aims to change that! Intended for youngsters to get to grips with computing in countries where IT skills are a rarity, the Raspberry Pi has proved to be a surprisingly popular device – especially considering the relatively low specification. Setting up a Raspberry Pi isn’t difficult – however it is unnecessarily involved, requiring SD card writing software. Wouldn’t it be much easier if the tools for installing the Pi could be simply... Read the full article: How NOOBS For Raspberry Pi Can Help First Time Users

Twitter Introduces Perfect Forward Secrecy To Secure Your Tweets Posted: 27 Nov 2013 10:30 AM PST If you’re tired of hearing stories about the NSA peeking into your favorite social networks or your email communications, you may welcome the fact that Twitter has officially introduced a new form of security to maintain the privacy of its users. The security is called “perfect forward security” and it promises to pave the way for the next generation of security in digital accounts across the web. Prior to “perfect forward security”, most web users depended on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to maintain privacy in transmitting information and  messages over the internet. In this scenario, when you connect to a... Read the full article: Twitter Introduces Perfect Forward Secrecy To Secure Your Tweets

Where To Study: Navigating The Free Online Education World Posted: 27 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST If you are interested in free education online, you’ve probably heard the big names: Coursera, Khan Academy, MIT, etc. But now that these learning avenues are commonplace, it also is bit of a nightmare to choose between them and decide which learning systems to use. Top Universities Offering Free Education Online Many universities offer access to their lectures publicly now, as it is a great way to showcase their courses and their generosity. MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, and Berkeley all offer a lot of great content online. However, due to many great partnerships with MOOC (Massively Open... Read the full article: Where To Study: Navigating The Free Online Education World

Was Your Android Phone Lost or Stolen? This Is What You Can Do Posted: 27 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST Remotely locating an Android phone isn’t quite as simple as finding a stolen iPhone. Android doesn’t prompt you to set up a find-my-phone feature when you set up your phone, as Apple does. But there are many good options for remotely locating your stolen phone, even if you never set anything up before you lost your phone. Even Google now provides their own lost-phone-finder. Bear in mind that you can only remotely locate your Android phone if it’s powered on and has a Wi-Fi or cellular data connection. If it’s powered off because the battery died or it was placed into airplane mode,... Read the full article: Was Your Android Phone Lost or Stolen? This Is What You Can Do

You Can Have It All: Enlightenment Is A Light Linux Desktop Environment That Looks Good Posted: 27 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST Ever since the development team behind GNOME went ahead with their plans for GNOME 3, people have been scrambling to find the new favorite desktop environment. Although there are plenty of choices available (such as other GNOME-based ones, KDE, Xfce, and LXDE), you might still be looking for something else that is easy to use, relatively lightweight, powerful, and good looking. If none of those previously mentioned desktop environments tickle your fancy, then you may be interested in a unique desktop environment named Enlightenment. About Enlightenment Enlightenment, or simply “E”, is a desktop environment that has actually been around since... Read the full article: You Can Have It All: Enlightenment Is A Light Linux Desktop Environment That Looks Good

Angry Birds Updates With 30 New Levels, ‘Shock Fuse’ Bomb Bird & Pig Potions Posted: 27 Nov 2013 08:30 AM PST There are plenty of reasons why Angry Birds is so damn addictive. And just when you think you've kicked that habit, developer Rovio goes ahead and releases a major update, which brings 30 new levels, a new power for the Bomb Bird and potions for pigs. The 30 new levels of the Angry Birds 3.4.0 update are all set in a piggy laboratory with wacky scientists and crazy potions, Rovio says. This brings the total number of levels in Angry Birds to 495—pretty awesome for a game that's free on Android and costs just a dollar on the App Store. The... Read the full article: Angry Birds Updates With 30 New Levels, 'Shock Fuse' Bomb Bird & Pig Potions

Technophilia 90 Live From MakeUseOf Posted: 27 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST This week: a judge rants about his cases on Facebook, resulting in a reversed decision against a sex offender. What will Facebook ruin next? Political campaigns can't accept BitCoin donations, yet another setback for anarchists seeking to participate in the political process. And The Beastie Boys don't want their songs in ads but a toy company claims parodies are fair use. Does that mean I can use any song for any purpose provided I change the lyrics? Awesome, because I'm putting together an ad myself: I'm just a hot dog nobody loves me (he tastes amazing, don't believe his modesty,... Read the full article: Technophilia 90 Live From MakeUseOf

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