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- Cool Websites & Tools – Packing Lists, Desktop RSS Reader, & Gmail Tracking
- Top 5 Online Subscriptions You Can Give As Gifts
- 5 Tips For Building An Audience For Your Live Streaming Channel
- 10 Tips To Help You Look Good During Your Next Video Conference
- How To Hide Your Facebook Friends List
- Blog On The Go With iOS & Android App Dayre
- Everything You Need to Know About Buying Next-Gen Consoles
- Make The Minutes Work: How To Take Effective Notes During A Meeting
- 4 Of The Most Unbelievable Video Game Speedruns Ever
- What Everybody Ought to Know About Dealing With Email Spam
- Prepare For Doomsday With These 5 Post-Apocalyptic Video Games
- 2 Ways To Encrypt Your Files From Your Browser
- Pocket 5 For Android: A Polished Way To Save Content To Read Later
- Missed Black Friday? Here Are 8 Cyber Monday Tech Deals
- Improve Your Grammar & Spelling With These Free Office & Browser Extensions
| Cool Websites & Tools – Packing Lists, Desktop RSS Reader, & Gmail Tracking Posted: 02 Dec 2013 08:31 PM PST  Stow 2 – A great packing list makes preparing for your next trip easy, but making those lists has always been a pesky, time consuming chore. Stow makes packing lists simple by allowing you to quickly create and customize a list from a template. Many of the critically acclaimed features of Stow are now free! Upgrade to Stow Premier with an in-app purchase, and take this functionality even further. Unchecky – Have you ever felt, while installing software, that the installer tries to push additional unwanted programs at all cost? Ever missed a checkbox, and spent hours afterwards removing adware?... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Packing Lists, Desktop RSS Reader, & Gmail Tracking |
| Top 5 Online Subscriptions You Can Give As Gifts Posted: 02 Dec 2013 08:00 PM PST  Nothing beats the feeling of sitting down with a gift box and tearing off the wrapping paper to reveal the surprises within; but not all great gifts come wrapped in boxes. With the ever increasing digitization of society, online subscriptions have become a valid form of gift-giving and they’re often more fulfilling than a physical gift of same worth! Subscriptions are wonderful because they come with the promise of prolonged value. Yes, subscriptions do eventually expire, but they grant the recipient time to fully enjoy and explore a particular service that they might’ve never considered using before. Plus, subscription services... Read the full article: Top 5 Online Subscriptions You Can Give As Gifts |
| 5 Tips For Building An Audience For Your Live Streaming Channel Posted: 02 Dec 2013 07:00 PM PST  A little over a year ago, I decided to start live-streaming video gaming content on Twitch (which we already taught you how to set up), and in doing so, discovered a new hobby. I don’t have too many close friends who pay as much attention to the latest releases as I do, so streaming has provided me with an exciting outlet to engage with people who are as passionate about games as I am. I didn’t know anyone who streamed, though, so I had to teach myself to be a good host as I went. Like most people, I didn't... Read the full article: 5 Tips For Building An Audience For Your Live Streaming Channel |
| 10 Tips To Help You Look Good During Your Next Video Conference Posted: 02 Dec 2013 06:30 PM PST  Video conferencing is a great way to catch up with loved ones, but that’s not all it’s used for. If you’re applying for a job several states (or even countries) away, you might be asked to attend several rounds of interviews via video conferencing. During that time, you’d definitely want to look your best. Here are 10 tips from Mixergy on how to impress your fellow attendees or interviewer and enhance the overall video conferencing experience. Do you have some tips of your own? Share them with us in the comments. Read the full article: 10 Tips To Help You Look Good During Your Next Video Conference |
| How To Hide Your Facebook Friends List Posted: 02 Dec 2013 02:00 PM PST  Facebook is public. Too public. You want to have an account, you want to keep in touch with our friends, but sometimes it goes too far. Do all your friends really have to know about all your other friends? How about some privacy? Well, true to form, Facebook doesn’t provide too much of it. When it comes to friends, many people wish they could hide certain friends from certain other friends, or hide the fact that they have a mutual friend with someone. This can’t be done. What can be done, is hiding all your friends from all your friends,... Read the full article: How To Hide Your Facebook Friends List |
| Blog On The Go With iOS & Android App Dayre Posted: 02 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST  Between Tumblr, Medium, WordPress and Blogger, you would think that the market for blogging platforms is already crowded enough. While there might be a lot of competition out there, a relative newcomer to the game is Dayre. The blogging platform sets itself apart by being accessible, as far as posting is concerned, as a mobile app only. Available as an iOS or Android app, Dayre takes the idea of blogging and puts it in the palm of your hand. Literally. While you can view blogs in a browser, Dayre makes it possible to share content solely through your phone. While on... Read the full article: Blog On The Go With iOS & Android App Dayre |
| Everything You Need to Know About Buying Next-Gen Consoles Posted: 02 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST  Both of the major contenders in the Console War are finally here, Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4, but there is a lot to know about each of these consoles before making a purchase. Sure, the Wii U, which we reviewed and quite liked, has been out for a year, and there are some arguments to be made for why gamers should give it a try, but it really can’t stand up to the might of these two next-gen consoles. Now try to keep an open mind here; just because you loved your PS3 or Xbox 360 doesn’t mean... Read the full article: Everything You Need to Know About Buying Next-Gen Consoles |
| Make The Minutes Work: How To Take Effective Notes During A Meeting Posted: 02 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST  It's a skill which few people have perfected; the perfect meeting minutes. It's a familiar story in an imperfect world. You're working on a project of critical importance at work. This is an inter-departmental affair, with all the painful inter-departmental politics that comes with that. As the deadline looms with the project no closer to completion, you schedule a meeting with your colleagues. After setting an agenda for the meeting and two hours of tedious discussion, you end up with an agreed schedule and plan of action. And then the agreed schedule isn’t met, and the agreed plan of action... Read the full article: Make The Minutes Work: How To Take Effective Notes During A Meeting |
| 4 Of The Most Unbelievable Video Game Speedruns Ever Posted: 02 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST  Are you ready to see four of the most jaw-dropping video game completions in gaming history? I’ve done an article in the past here at MUO regarding speedrunning, and since this article the speedrunning community has only grown larger and more successful. More games are being run, and more players are running! Every week, new world records are being set and broken. Streamers over at Twitch provide speedrunning entertainment around the clock (with some games you’d never expect, too). That being said, some runs are so extraordinary that they become passed down as legends and talked about by an entire... Read the full article: 4 Of The Most Unbelievable Video Game Speedruns Ever |
| What Everybody Ought to Know About Dealing With Email Spam Posted: 02 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST  Here’s one more reason for everyone to hate Mondays. They’re supposedly the busiest days for email spam, that frustrating stream of unsolicited emails about weight loss, Viagra, million-dollar lotteries, and what not. It might be next to impossible to stop spam completely, but it’s certainly possible to reduce its flow to a trickle. We have already covered ways to tackle Facebook spam , Twitter spam, and spam from friends. In this post, we’ll tell you how to control email spam. Unfortunately, the option to stop unwanted emails from piling up in your inbox is not available as a one-click solution.... Read the full article: What Everybody Ought to Know About Dealing With Email Spam |
| Prepare For Doomsday With These 5 Post-Apocalyptic Video Games Posted: 02 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST  The apocalypse is hardly an uncommon cliché among video games. Numerous titles include a world that has recently suffered some great catastrophe, or a world on the brink of one, because raising the stakes helps the player feel involved. Merely playing on our emotions doesn't make a game "post-apocalyptic," however. To truly fit in this category a game must feature both a ruined world and gameplay that forces players to confront the consequences of it. There are far fewer games that meet this requirement, but a few do stand out. Atom Zombie Smasher This unique indie game from one-man studio... Read the full article: Prepare For Doomsday With These 5 Post-Apocalyptic Video Games |
| 2 Ways To Encrypt Your Files From Your Browser Posted: 02 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST  Do you want to send a file across the Internet to a friend or coworker, but don’t want the NSA to snoop on that file? You’ll want to encrypt that file, but in the quickest and easiest way possible. Thanks to various web technologies, you can now do this without even having to deal with a heavier desktop-based encryption program. File Lock File Lock is a fantastic file encryption service that runs entirely on HTML5 technologies — you don’t even need to install a plugin for your browser! All you have to do is visit their website, choose the file... Read the full article: 2 Ways To Encrypt Your Files From Your Browser |
| Pocket 5 For Android: A Polished Way To Save Content To Read Later Posted: 02 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST  The Web is full of cats. Seriously, they’re everywhere. So are other silly memes, and banner ads, and a myriad other things conspiring to steal your attention and chop it up into bits. But there’s also lots of great stuff to read online – insightful opinion pieces, in-depth exposés, or just articles that will make you look at the world in new ways. If you care about your information diet, you’re going to want to make time to read them in a distraction-free way. Pocket for Android is one excellent way to do this, especially given the recent release of... Read the full article: Pocket 5 For Android: A Polished Way To Save Content To Read Later |
| Missed Black Friday? Here Are 8 Cyber Monday Tech Deals Posted: 02 Dec 2013 05:30 AM PST  Thanksgiving has come and gone, bringing with it Black Friday; a 24 hour celebration of consumerism and a great opportunity for you to get your hands on some cheap electronics. Sadly, that has too has passed. If you’ve missed out that, don’t fret. Black Friday’s cousin, Cyber Monday, is here offering some incredible discounts on technology. Here are some deals you can sink your teeth into today. HP 7 with WiFi – $89.00 (was $129.00) If you’re in the market for a tablet computer with a bit of oomph, you could do worse than having a look at the new... Read the full article: Missed Black Friday? Here Are 8 Cyber Monday Tech Deals |
| Improve Your Grammar & Spelling With These Free Office & Browser Extensions Posted: 02 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST  Many people don’t put too much thought into how they write; they tend to shrug it off and assume it doesn’t matter so long as they are understood. Nothing could be further from the truth. Good grammar is not only vital for concise communication, but it is also indicative of attention to detail, critical thinking and intellectual aptitude. This article examines some advanced grammar checker extensions for your word processor and browser. Spell Checker Flaws The built-in office tools are great at performing non-contextual spell checks, but fall short when it comes to higher level editing. A document may seem error... Read the full article: Improve Your Grammar & Spelling With These Free Office & Browser Extensions |
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