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- Cool Websites & Tools – Surprise Amazon Packages, Curated Twitter Digests, & Modifying Fonts
- Make Low-Cost Phone Calls Worldwide With ‘Viber Out’ on Viber 4.1
- How Safe Are Your Email Attachments?
- Recommend A MakeUseOf Article From 2013! [We Ask You]
- Secure Your Microsoft Accounts With Recovery Codes and Recent Activity
- Find The Perfect Holiday Gift For Anyone On These Pinterest Boards
- Pick Up & Play: 5 Essential Quick Blast iOS Games
- Everything You Must Know About The Run Dialog & Most Useful Commands
- 5 Ways Social Media Is Ruining Romance
- Stay Productive: My Top 10 Mac OS X Applications for 2013
- Origami Live Wallpaper Brightens Up Your Day
- 10 Festive Wallpapers To Prepare Your Desktop For The Holidays
- Save, Tag and Share Articles Faster with Pocket 5.1 for Android
- Technophilia 92 Live From MakeUseOf
- What Do We Care About? The 7 Most Memorable Twitter Hashtags of 2013
| Cool Websites & Tools – Surprise Amazon Packages, Curated Twitter Digests, & Modifying Fonts Posted: 11 Dec 2013 08:31 PM PST  Rrandomize – The premise of Rrandomize is simple. The mystery of an unknown package can be more fun than choosing something to buy. Until now, there hasn’t been a easy way for non-programmers to order random things. Rrandomize solves this problem. Amazon pays them a referral fee each time they process an order. This way they can keep the site running without charging customers any extra. TweetQureet – Twitter is a great way to have conversations with friends, and also find interesting stories and links. However, the more people you follow, the harder it becomes to keep track of everything.... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Surprise Amazon Packages, Curated Twitter Digests, & Modifying Fonts |
| Make Low-Cost Phone Calls Worldwide With ‘Viber Out’ on Viber 4.1 Posted: 11 Dec 2013 07:30 PM PST  Viber is a fantastic VOIP calling service that lets you make free calls and send free messages to other Viber users. It’s good enough to make it to our best apps lists on Android and iOS. And it’s just got even better with Viber 4.1 as it has launched Viber Out, a new feature that allows users to make low-cost calls anywhere in the world, to mobile or landline phones. Viber Out currently works on Android, iPhone and desktop. It will be coming to Windows Phone in the future. You will need to buy “credits” to make a Viber Out... Read the full article: Make Low-Cost Phone Calls Worldwide With ‘Viber Out’ on Viber 4.1 |
| How Safe Are Your Email Attachments? Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:30 PM PST  If you send an attachment via email, it will be copied an average of six times. Seven out of ten times, the file will need to be updated, resulting in the creation of even more copies. What are the risks involved when sending files, contracts and other sensitive documents via email, especially for business purposes? It could fall into the hands of your competitors, or used by employees to leverage for a new job. To help you understand exactly how insecure emailing is, docTracker published this insightful infograph with 22 shocking stats you probably weren’t aware of. Click to enlarge.... Read the full article: How Safe Are Your Email Attachments? |
| Recommend A MakeUseOf Article From 2013! [We Ask You] Posted: 11 Dec 2013 05:30 PM PST  The end of the year is nigh, with 2013 soon to make way for 2014. Like most people, you probably enjoyed some highs and endured some lows over the past 12 months, but you lived through them all, racking up experiences both good and bad. One thing we hope played a small part in your enjoyment of 2013 is MakeUseOf, the ever-present repository of geeky goodness you’re reading right now. We know our place, and we know we’re not the most important thing in your life, but we try to educate and entertain each and every day of the year.... Read the full article: Recommend A MakeUseOf Article From 2013! [We Ask You] |
| Secure Your Microsoft Accounts With Recovery Codes and Recent Activity Posted: 11 Dec 2013 04:30 PM PST  Time and again, we hear of important services–some as big as Adobe and Buffer–getting hacked and losing high-security information like accounts and passwords. It’s best to lock down your accounts as tightly as possible beforehand and Microsoft is taking a step in that direction with its new security features for online accounts. Back in April, Microsoft added two-step authentication to its online accounts. It’s one of the 5 ways to deter hackers, so you should enable that if you haven’t already. Following this up, Microsoft is now providing information about recent activity, recovery codes and security notifications. Recovery Code One... Read the full article: Secure Your Microsoft Accounts With Recovery Codes and Recent Activity |
| Find The Perfect Holiday Gift For Anyone On These Pinterest Boards Posted: 11 Dec 2013 03:00 PM PST  There’s no better place to find gift ideas than Pinterest. Personally, I’m a big fan of digital gifts — especially online subscription gifts — but there’s no denying the fact that 15 minutes on Pinterest can load you up with enough gift ideas to last you a decade… as long as you know where to look. For those who aren’t acquainted with Pinterest yet, you may want to check out our complete guide to Pinterest. However, Pinterest is so easy to use that you can benefit from this post even if you’ve never used the site before. You don’t even need to... Read the full article: Find The Perfect Holiday Gift For Anyone On These Pinterest Boards |
| Pick Up & Play: 5 Essential Quick Blast iOS Games Posted: 11 Dec 2013 02:00 PM PST  Games can be wonderfully immersive experiences that teleport you to another world. They let you be the crime-fighting vigilante hero, the champion race car driver, or the legendary general cleverly fighting off a seemingly invincible enemy. And that's great – if you've got the time. Life has plenty of short waits, but today's sprawling games don't always fit into the moments spent twiddling your thumbs in a doctor's office. This means a quick, challenging experience is not just an adrenaline rush, but a necessity. Here are five iOS apps that can scratch your gaming itch in five minutes or less.... Read the full article: Pick Up & Play: 5 Essential Quick Blast iOS Games |
| Everything You Must Know About The Run Dialog & Most Useful Commands Posted: 11 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST  The Run dialog is a much neglected Windows feature that provides super quick access to programs, folders, documents, and other resources, provided you know the respective launch command. It has little to do with the Windows command prompt, except that it is used to launch it. The Run dialog is typically used to access Control Panel items in a single step. Since most users rarely have a desire to dabble with system applications or don’t know the appropriate Run commands to launch items they are using, this powerful shortcut usually gets ignored. This article highlights the benefits of the Run... Read the full article: Everything You Must Know About The Run Dialog & Most Useful Commands |
| 5 Ways Social Media Is Ruining Romance Posted: 11 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST  Social media has changed relationships as we know it. If you’re dating someone, it’s public, and unfortunately, some portions of your relationship are, too. In the past, relationships were treated a bit like a slow cooking dinner. They developed and grew over time. But with social media, many relationship features are expedited ever so slightly. Since all of your significant other’s info is out in the open, this may prove to be a problem. In fact, it can completely ruin romance. It’s Hard Bringing Anyone Home To Mom Anymore Used to, you planned for it: the day he comes to... Read the full article: 5 Ways Social Media Is Ruining Romance |
| Stay Productive: My Top 10 Mac OS X Applications for 2013 Posted: 11 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST  Each year I look forward to rounding-up my top list of applications used throughout the year, and today I’ll start by listing my OS X picks. Highlighting my favorites also acknowledges the hard work of developers in creating awesome and constantly updated applications that address the needs and wishes of users. There are several applications from my 2011 and 2012 favorites lists that should be re-listed for 2013, but I’ve decided to not to highlight applications from previous years, and instead focus on old and new Mac applications that have been especially useful in my workflow in 2013. Keyboard Maestro ($36) The... Read the full article: Stay Productive: My Top 10 Mac OS X Applications for 2013 |
| Origami Live Wallpaper Brightens Up Your Day Posted: 11 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST  For many people, a smartphone is more than a simple utility device. It’s personal, like carrying a piece of home around in your inside pocket. People identify with and express themselves through their smartphone, making it a piece of apparel as much as a communications device. But even if you are not one of those people, and only view your phone in light of functionality, you’ll spend a fair amount of time ogling that home screen. You might as well make it a pleasant sight to behold. Live Wallpaper: Always In Motion A live wallpaper, for those of you not... Read the full article: Origami Live Wallpaper Brightens Up Your Day |
| 10 Festive Wallpapers To Prepare Your Desktop For The Holidays Posted: 11 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST  Did you notice that Christmas is coming? If you venture out of the house once in a while, you’ve probably noticed the decorations slowly going up. But what about your home? With Christmas being almost 3 weeks away, chances are you haven’t started decorating, yet. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get into the holiday spirit right now. Unlike decorating your house, decorating your computer only takes seconds, and is a great way to put yourself in the right mood for the holidays. As expected, there are tons of sources for Christmas wallpapers out there, but if you’re too busy... Read the full article: 10 Festive Wallpapers To Prepare Your Desktop For The Holidays |
| Save, Tag and Share Articles Faster with Pocket 5.1 for Android Posted: 11 Dec 2013 08:30 AM PST  Last month, Pocket–the app formerly known as Read It Later–announced a major update and rolled out version 5, which brought highlights, a redesigned interface, quick reads, trending reads and much more. Not resting on its laurels, the service has updated its Android app to 5.1, which makes it easier to save articles with the right tags and share them with friends. As Erez’s Pocket 5 for Android review says, sharing is a natural extension of the reading experience. With Pocket 5.1, the service is introducing what it calls “Quick Save Actions.” So the next time you save any page to... Read the full article: Save, Tag and Share Articles Faster with Pocket 5.1 for Android |
| Technophilia 92 Live From MakeUseOf Posted: 11 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST  This week we talk with Lou Hong from BitTorrent Inc, the company behind BitTorrent Sync and uTorrent. We'll ask about direct file syncing and managing your reputation when your name is shorthand for piracy in the broader culture. Also: the army leaked chat logs between Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning. Don't they respect the right to secrecy? And we'll let you know the easy-to-remember nuclear launch codes from past decades, just in case you're travelling through time this weekend. This week’s episode is brought to you by BitDefender Antivirus for Mac. Think Macs don’t catch viruses? Think again! Although Macs... Read the full article: Technophilia 92 Live From MakeUseOf |
| What Do We Care About? The 7 Most Memorable Twitter Hashtags of 2013 Posted: 11 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST  Twitter’s trending topics may often be filled with silly things, spam and a lot more that isn’t worth looking back on once the year is over. But once in a while, a hilarious, endearing, or significant hashtag comes along that generates thousands of tweets to make it a special Twitter moment worth remembering. As 2013 is coming to an end, we’ve decided to take a look back at the most memorable hashtags that came to pass this year. From natural disasters to the death of a great man, from the end of an immensely popular TV show to a 5-year-old... Read the full article: What Do We Care About? The 7 Most Memorable Twitter Hashtags of 2013 |
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