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• Cool Websites & Tools – Pay What You Want For Food, Random Chatrooms, & Morse Code Chatting
• Spotify Launches Free Mobile Service For All Tablets And Smartphones
• Caption Contest: Amazon Drone Service
• iOS Apps on Sale for 13 December: Instapaper, Splashtop 2 & The Room
• Google Launches Redesigned Keep for Web, Android Device Manager for Android
• 3 iOS Personality Test Apps To Help Break The Ice
• 5 Accessories New PlayStation 4 Owners Should Pick Up
• Want To Mount Your Smartphone On Your Bike? It’s This Easy
• Skype on Linux: Is It Functional, Or Falling Behind?
• Prepare Your Social Accounts For The Holidays With These Festive Covers
• Gmail 4.7 for Android Adds Vacation Responder and Finally Downloads and Attaches Any File
• 4 Affordable 3D Printers You Can Buy For Your Home
• How To Make A Shared Christmas Shopping List Using Google Shortlists Or Pinterest
• Camera FV-5 Review and Screenshot Tour: A Shutterbug’s Android Dream
• US-Based Doctor on Demand Launches Medical Consultation Service at $40/15 Minutes

Cool Websites & Tools – Pay What You Want For Food, Random Chatrooms, & Morse Code Chatting Posted: 13 Dec 2013 08:31 PM PST Citizen.tv – is a YouTube-style website where you can upload and view videos. What makes this one different is that you can first of all sponsor a video if it needs financial backing to be made (so there is an element of Kickstarter in there). You can also win cash prizes if you reach the top of your chosen category, with the top prize being $100,000. PDF Convert – is as the name suggests, a site that offers a PDF conversion service. Completely free of charge, all you need to do is send an email to one of the addresses... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Pay What You Want For Food, Random Chatrooms, & Morse Code Chatting

Spotify Launches Free Mobile Service For All Tablets And Smartphones Posted: 13 Dec 2013 07:30 PM PST Spotify just announced that anyone using iOS or Android tablets and smartphones can use their music streaming app for free. Earlier, only desktop and laptop users had access to an ad-supported but free version of Spotify. Tablet users can now also avail the same listening pleasure as desktop users…but again with ads. Even then, the freemium option for tablet users is a great deal because previously you had to pay $9.99 to use Spotify on platforms other than the desktop. Music buffs using smartphones get a distinctly different offering – the Spotify “Shuffle”. Spotify Shuffle is like radio based streaming services... Read the full article: Spotify Launches Free Mobile Service For All Tablets And Smartphones

Caption Contest: Amazon Drone Service Posted: 13 Dec 2013 06:30 PM PST Joe probably regrets shipping his new crystal glassware set through Amazon’s drone service. Caption this cartoon with your wittiest taglines, and you’ll be in the running to win a coveted MakeUseOf t-shirt! All you have to do is enter your caption in the comments section below. Submit as many as you can think of! There are no restrictions. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Amazon Drone Service

iOS Apps on Sale for 13 December: Instapaper, Splashtop 2 & The Room Posted: 13 Dec 2013 05:30 PM PST Christmas is just around the corner, and while you’re busy buying gifts for everyone else you might also want to grab a bargain for yourself. That’s where your weekly dose of Apps on Sale comes in, to deliver you from boredom and ensure there’s something new on your phone or tablet for free each week. This week we’ve got a bit of a shortage of games, but some killer standard apps including App of the Week Instapaper, a mobile vocoder and an “escape the room” classic that’ll have you scratching your head. On to the deals! Apps Instapaper ($3.99, now... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for 13 December: Instapaper, Splashtop 2 & The Room

Google Launches Redesigned Keep for Web, Android Device Manager for Android Posted: 13 Dec 2013 04:30 PM PST Google’s been on a roll with updates to its apps recently. The note-taking app Keep, launched in March, has been redesigned for the Web and introduces some new functions. And Android Device Manager, the service to track down stolen or lost phones, now has an app for other Androids. Google Keep Gets Redesigned Google Keep syncs notes and to-do lists on Android as well as the web. Now, the web version has got an update in its look and functionality. Here’s what’s new: Sleek new design: your favorite things from the Android app are now on the web Rearrange items... Read the full article: Google Launches Redesigned Keep for Web, Android Device Manager for Android

3 iOS Personality Test Apps To Help Break The Ice Posted: 13 Dec 2013 02:00 PM PST To those who struggle to get to know someone new, it can seem like those who do it easily have some kind of superpower. With no more than a word of introduction from a mutual acquaintance, they nimbly take charge of the conversation, and have others chatting openly like they’ve been friends for years. If your attempts to get to know someone usually result in averted glances and uncomfortable silences, it can help to have something between you and that other person to take the pressure off. A personality test could be just the tool you need to liven things... Read the full article: 3 iOS Personality Test Apps To Help Break The Ice

5 Accessories New PlayStation 4 Owners Should Pick Up Posted: 13 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST So you just got home with your shiny new PlayStation 4, you’re playing some of the launch games, and you realize something is missing. You have your one DualShock 4, and it’s doing the job for you well enough, but you realize, you want some accessories to complement the experience of owning the console a little more. Fear not new next-gen console owner, because there are some pretty solid accessories available for console right now, and some of definitely worth owning. This list of must-have accessories has everything you need to maximize your PS4 enjoyment. PlayStation Camera Unlike the Xbox... Read the full article: 5 Accessories New PlayStation 4 Owners Should Pick Up

Want To Mount Your Smartphone On Your Bike? It’s This Easy Posted: 13 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST When was the last time you left home without your phone? We’re in the age where we take our phones everywhere, and that includes while we’re biking. Whether you are out on the paved road, winding up backcountry switchback trails or simply commuting to work and around town, being able to easily access and use your phone while riding is a nice advantage. Why? Well, there are several reasons: Accessibility — Being able to quickly answer your phone when it rings is handy. This happens to me quite often if I have reception while out mountain biking. Having a phone... Read the full article: Want To Mount Your Smartphone On Your Bike? It’s This Easy

Skype on Linux: Is It Functional, Or Falling Behind? Posted: 13 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST Skype, the popular chat service known for its high video quality, has had a Linux port of its client around for several years. However, like a handful of other Linux ports, it isn’t quite the same client as you might find on Windows or Mac OS X. Is the Linux port of Skype still a functional application, or is it in need of some tender loving care by its developers? Let’s take a look. First Impressions When you first download Skype for Linux, you’ll notice that the version is 4.2 (which means it’s finally out of its “beta” phase), which... Read the full article: Skype on Linux: Is It Functional, Or Falling Behind?

Prepare Your Social Accounts For The Holidays With These Festive Covers Posted: 13 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST Your computer gets festive wallpapers for the holidays, aren’t you social accounts jealous? Knowing how people like visuals, social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ have added huge covers for us to play with. These covers are perfect for a theme, and are a great way to bring some holiday cheer to your accounts. Before We Start: Google+ Tip For some reason, Google feels it necessary to change the size of our Google+ profile covers every 6 months or so. By the time we got used to the extremely wide and short images, they changed to huge ones, and... Read the full article: Prepare Your Social Accounts For The Holidays With These Festive Covers

Gmail 4.7 for Android Adds Vacation Responder and Finally Downloads and Attaches Any File Posted: 13 Dec 2013 09:30 AM PST It’s hard to believe that Gmail on Android does not let you download or upload Zip files, or several other file formats. Well, that’s finally changing with the new Gmail 4.7 update, which brings support for any file, a vacation responder, KitKat cloud printing support and better performance on low-memory devices. Until now, when you received a Zip file or any archived file as an attachment, Gmail wouldn’t let you download it. The problem was so bad that we came up with alternative attachments for blocked files. But that’s all behind us now as Gmail 4.7 lets you save any... Read the full article: Gmail 4.7 for Android Adds Vacation Responder and Finally Downloads and Attaches Any File

4 Affordable 3D Printers You Can Buy For Your Home Posted: 13 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST Few things have the ability to change the landscape of technology quite like 3D printers do. Not since Henry Ford invented assembly line manufacturing has there been such a seismic change in the way we create the things which we use, with astonishing implications. The way 3D printers work is amazingly simple. You pass in a design created in a CAD/CAM product, and the 3D printer interprets your design to produce a product. Then, layers and layers of a hot, pliable polymer is stacked until you’re left with something that resembles the relayed blueprints. The uses for 3D printers are... Read the full article: 4 Affordable 3D Printers You Can Buy For Your Home

How To Make A Shared Christmas Shopping List Using Google Shortlists Or Pinterest Posted: 13 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST You’ve no doubt been in this position before: a group of people are trying to decide what gift to buy the extended family for the holiday season. My family is in the same boat. While trying to collaborate on Christmas gift ideas, I thought, “We both have computers and smartphones, so how can we make this easier?” This got me thinking about the best way to share a visual list of potential gifts between a couple of people (or more) privately. Here are two great solutions I’m sure you’ll enjoy too. Google Shopping Shortlist Google Shopping is yet another great... Read the full article: How To Make A Shared Christmas Shopping List Using Google Shortlists Or Pinterest

Camera FV-5 Review and Screenshot Tour: A Shutterbug’s Android Dream Posted: 13 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST There are two things limiting smartphone photography: The actual camera you have on your device, and the app you’re using to take photos. If your device just has a mediocre camera, there’s not much an app would be able to do about it (although we have done an extensive test that shows camera apps do make a difference even when your camera isn’t amazing). Then again, if you do have a very good camera on your device, the app you choose takes on a much bigger importance. Pick the right camera app, and you end up with what’s effectively a... Read the full article: Camera FV-5 Review and Screenshot Tour: A Shutterbug’s Android Dream

US-Based Doctor on Demand Launches Medical Consultation Service at $40/15 Minutes Posted: 13 Dec 2013 06:30 AM PST A new medical service launched this week called Doctor on Demand connects consumers with a US-licensed physician, via a computer, smartphone or tablet. Service calls are $40 for each 15 minutes of consultation. Doctor on Demand says the service is useful for non-emergency, common cases like mild infections, allergies, fever, rolled ankles, bladder infections, nausea, skin infection, nasal congestion, and lab interpretation. The service is not suggested for life-threatening medical problems, like difficulty in breathing, chest pain, convulsions or seizures, or serious head, neck and back injuries. Using a computer, the service’s iOS or Android app, or Kindle device, customers get a... Read the full article: US-Based Doctor on Demand Launches Medical Consultation Service at $40/15 Minutes

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