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• Cool Websites & Tools – Malware Protection, Amazon Screenwriting Tool, & Night Home Delivery
• Caption Contest: Never Trust An Elf
• Everything Is A Remix: A Four-Part Look At Copying & Derivative Works [Stuff to Watch]
• Holiday Shopping List: For Those Who Work From Home
• 3 Unique Ways To Remotely Control Your Windows Desktop
• Year in Review: 5 Most Notable New iOS Apps of 2013
• Goodbye, Skype: 4 Alternative VOIP Services You Can Record Calls With
• What Can $20 Buy at These 3 MMORPG Cash Shops?
• Keep An Eye On Your HDD & SSD Health With Hard Disk Sentinel
• 5 Things We Learned About Online Security in 2013
• Call PopOut Tested: How To Avoid Incoming Call Distractions on Android
• Speed Up Firefox: Use QuickJava To Block Flash, Silverlight And More
• Teach Yourself Anything: 3 Ways To Create Your Own Learning Playlists
• Google Glass Review and Giveaway
• 6 Life Lessons You Can Learn From Gaming

Cool Websites & Tools – Malware Protection, Amazon Screenwriting Tool, & Night Home Delivery Posted: 23 Dec 2013 08:31 PM PST HerdProtect – s a second line of defense malware scanning platform powered by 68 anti-malware engines in the cloud. Since no single anti-malware program is perfect 100% of the time, HerdProtect utilizes a ‘herd’ of multiple engines to guarantee the widest coverage and the earliest possible detection. Amaon Studio – is a free, easy-to-use screenwriting tool that helps you build build stories for movies & TV. Layout notecards on a virtual corkboard to sequence ideas & develop a narrative. Add notes, images,and tags to your notecards to help improve and organize your story. Tydling – is a revolutionary new kind... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Malware Protection, Amazon Screenwriting Tool, & Night Home Delivery

Caption Contest: Never Trust An Elf Posted: 23 Dec 2013 06:30 PM PST I told you, Santa. It doesn’t matter which direction you go — you’ll only be heading South! Give us your best caption! Churn out a witty caption, enter it in the comments section and you’ll be in the running to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Never Trust An Elf

Everything Is A Remix: A Four-Part Look At Copying & Derivative Works [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 23 Dec 2013 05:30 PM PST Take a good look at your favourite album, movie or even the expensive smartphone in your pocket – there’s a good chance they were copied, sampled and assembled from someone else’s original idea. Whether it’s a drum sample, a cinematic technique or the refinement of a technology, according to New York filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, everything is a remix. When you start to think about it, he’s got a point (and that’s before you’ve even watched the videos below). Most “progress” is tied to the advancement of an idea, concept or even technology. With so many people contributing the greater good, how... Read the full article: Everything Is A Remix: A Four-Part Look At Copying & Derivative Works [Stuff to Watch]

Holiday Shopping List: For Those Who Work From Home Posted: 23 Dec 2013 02:00 PM PST The number of people who work from home globally is on the rise. Everyone including the likes of Richard Branson is telecommuting. You probably know someone in your family or a friend who works from home. The holiday gift-giving season is here and once more, you have to start drawing shopping lists. Your gift to someone who works from home should show you care and understand the unique challenges they face. To help you out, we offer a few suggestions that are sure to excite any home worker. Plantronics Audio 478 Stereo USB Headset ($24.99) Working at home has many... Read the full article: Holiday Shopping List: For Those Who Work From Home

3 Unique Ways To Remotely Control Your Windows Desktop Posted: 23 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST You can’t always be sitting in front of your computer, but you can control it remotely through 3 different methods of which you might not be aware. Let’s talk about ways to control your Windows desktop remotely that are slightly…esoteric. The methods introduced here are different than the usual mainstream tools, such as LogMeIn, or remote desktop clients, or even client/server applications like VNC. Those are all well and good, but today, let’s look at something more unique! Chrome Remote Desktop Chrome Remote Desktop (CRD) is another Google offering that is streamlined and simple in its usage. Simply install the CRD extension... Read the full article: 3 Unique Ways To Remotely Control Your Windows Desktop

Year in Review: 5 Most Notable New iOS Apps of 2013 Posted: 23 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST Before the New Year ushers in a new wave of startups and App Store submissions, it’s always nice to recognise the brightest sparks that caught our collective eyes in 2013. The apps on this list are those which I feel have had the most impact and influence, leaving lasting impressions on the software world and the iOS userbase. As ever, there’s plenty of chance to chime in and add your own personal favourites in the comments at the end of the article – and I’d love to know what your favourites are. IFTTT (Free, iPhone) Before the iPhone app, many... Read the full article: Year in Review: 5 Most Notable New iOS Apps of 2013

Goodbye, Skype: 4 Alternative VOIP Services You Can Record Calls With Posted: 23 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST New changes to Skype and the support of third party apps have left many users frustrated, particularly where call recording is concerned. With suggestions that the service isn't as secure as once thought, could now be the time to start looking for an alternative VoIP call recording service? Quit Skype? Are You Mad?! Had you told me 12 months ago that Microsoft was going to disable the Skype desktop API, thus rendering many third-party call recorders useless, I'd have suspected you (or they) were mad. Although a temporary delay has been announced, the writing is clearly on the wall. Like... Read the full article: Goodbye, Skype: 4 Alternative VOIP Services You Can Record Calls With

What Can $20 Buy at These 3 MMORPG Cash Shops? Posted: 23 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST When World of Warcraft launched in 2004, its unprecedented success with a subscription-based revenue model whipped dozens of other game publishers into a frenzy. Many massive online games launched into production based on the assumption that demand was healthy enough to sustain a legion of titles, each charging $15 per month for access to its carefully crafted fantastic world. Nearly ten years later, the market has proven that Blizzard Entertainment’s flagship game was an outlier. Now, more and more players expect full access to online games at no cost just to pique their interest, and a number of former subscription... Read the full article: What Can $20 Buy at These 3 MMORPG Cash Shops?

Keep An Eye On Your HDD & SSD Health With Hard Disk Sentinel Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST Have you ever had a hard drive fail? It's not fun. If there's one thing that is guaranteed to ruin your day, it'll be powering on your laptop to see that your files have gone to an untimely digital demise. Sadly, there's no panacea for preventing a hard drive failure. Neither new drives nor Solid State Drives are exempt from failure. But what if you could be informed about the health of your hard or solid state drive, allowing you to act when it's close to death? Meet Hard Disk Sentinel. In the worlds of the developers, it is a... Read the full article: Keep An Eye On Your HDD & SSD Health With Hard Disk Sentinel

5 Things We Learned About Online Security in 2013 Posted: 23 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST The days of newscasters fretting the entire Internet might be shut down by a simple (but effective) computer worm are over, but that doesn’t mean that online security is no longer a worry. Threats have become more complex and, worse, are now coming from places that most would never expect – like the government. Here are 5 hard lessons we learned about online security in 2013. The Government Is Watching You… The biggest computer security talking point of 2013 was, of course, the revelation that portions of the United States government (primarily the National Security Agency) have been spying on... Read the full article: 5 Things We Learned About Online Security in 2013

Call PopOut Tested: How To Avoid Incoming Call Distractions on Android Posted: 23 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST Imagine you are playing Temple Run and are just about to beat the high score. Just as you are close to hitting your target, a call comes in and ruins your amazing run. To make matters worse, when you finally hang up, your game screen freezes and when you relaunch the application, you realize your progress has disappeared, forcing you to begin all over again. For avid gamers, this can be really irritating. It isn’t like you can just play a game on airplane mode either, because you may miss an important call. Closing down applications when a call is... Read the full article: Call PopOut Tested: How To Avoid Incoming Call Distractions on Android

Speed Up Firefox: Use QuickJava To Block Flash, Silverlight And More Posted: 23 Dec 2013 06:00 AM PST Is your browsing too slow? Block the stuff that’s bogging you down. QuickJava is a simple Firefox extension that gives you the ability to temporarily turn off browser plugins. Things like Flash, Silverlight and Java are great at extending what the web can do, but they can also make it unbearable. Flash ads use processing power, burn up battery reserves and play sounds – all without asking you for permission. The performance hit from browser plugins like Flash is significant – which is the reason mobile device manufacturers refuse to include them. QuickJava is one of our favorite Firefox addons,... Read the full article: Speed Up Firefox: Use QuickJava To Block Flash, Silverlight And More

Teach Yourself Anything: 3 Ways To Create Your Own Learning Playlists Posted: 23 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST The Internet is a fire hose. Whether it's a casual browse or a conscious one, getting "drenched" is almost given. Fortunately, the same fire hose of information can quench your thirst for learning a new skill. Learning playlists are nothing but an organized way to collect the right resources in the form of articles, videos, links, images etc. in a semblance of order. Think of it as tying together all the information you find into a thread that helps you grasp it from the beginning to the end. Learning playlists are just as useful for flipped teaching as they are... Read the full article: Teach Yourself Anything: 3 Ways To Create Your Own Learning Playlists

Google Glass Review and Giveaway Posted: 23 Dec 2013 04:20 AM PST Wearable technology has become a new hot topic, which has so far produced just one consumer-ready device: the smartwatch. However, smartwatches aren’t the only wearable technology being developed right now — there are also glasses with built-in heads up displays. Sounds familiar? You may be thinking of the Google Glass, and we were lucky enough to get a pair to review. At the end of this review, you’ll even be able to enter for a chance to win our review unit! We bought this Google Glass with our own money — it wasn’t sponsored by Google, and we didn’t get... Read the full article: Google Glass Review and Giveaway

6 Life Lessons You Can Learn From Gaming Posted: 23 Dec 2013 04:00 AM PST Video games have a stigma and gamers are often seen as lazy, unproductive, basement-dwelling losers. Is that a fair assessment? I don't think so. As a gamer myself who has gone through many gaming phases – from casual to hardcore – I can say that there are plenty of life lessons to be learned from games, and these lessons can make you a better person in the end. I'm not the first one to glean wisdom from video games nor do I think I'll be the last. However, most of those lists out there on the Web are often facetious... Read the full article: 6 Life Lessons You Can Learn From Gaming

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