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- Cool Websites & Tools – Web-Based Invoicing, 1980′s Television, & Accompany Images With Your Voice
- Measure Search Trends With The More Precise Topic Reports From Google
- Caption Contest: Not-So-Smartwatch
- iOS Apps on Sale for December 6: Bejeweled, Carcassonne & Carl
- Google Search For Android Can Now Help You Find Information With Your Installed Apps
- Instapaper Updates Chrome Extension With Highlighting, Inline Buttons
- Creative Commons 4.0 Licenses Are More Global, User-Friendly
- Holiday Shopping List: The Best Educational Gifts For A Lifelong Learner
- 11 Christmas Decorations You Can Easily Make From Recycled Materials
- Save Or Share Everyday Moments With Lifelog Bokeh For iPhone & Web
- Buy A Select Android Phone & Get 50GB Of Google Drive Cloud Storage Free For One Year
- 5 Ways You Can Make And Mine Bitcoin Currency
- Holiday Shopping List: For The Geeks Who Never Grew Up
- What is an MVNO and How Does it Save Money on Your Cellular Bill? [MakeUseOf Explains]
- Medium 1.0 Redesigns The Reading And Writing Experience
| Cool Websites & Tools – Web-Based Invoicing, 1980′s Television, & Accompany Images With Your Voice Posted: 06 Dec 2013 08:31 PM PST  Belt.io – is a central place for storing and sharing simple stuff like text or links. It gives you the convenience of quickly accessing your data from anywhere. It is sort of like a clipboard, but more universal with more control. With a single click you can send links and text from your browser right to your device and vice versa. Anything you put in one device will instantly be available in all the others. FusionInvoice – is built for freelancers and small businesses who need a simple, yet powerful self-hosted web based invoicing system. Manage your client details and... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Web-Based Invoicing, 1980′s Television, & Accompany Images With Your Voice |
| Measure Search Trends With The More Precise Topic Reports From Google Posted: 06 Dec 2013 07:30 PM PST  Building on the support tools around Google Search, the company has improved Google Trends with new topic reports. The new topic reports aim to be more precise by taking into account the differences between similar search terms. Google's own example demonstrates how analogous search terms can skew results on Google Trends. Looking up "rice" on Google Trends could mean either measuring search interest in Rice University or the rice you eat. Searching for a popular term like “Gwyneth Paltrow” also does not factor in the misspellings people might be using to search for the actress. The improved topic reports seek... Read the full article: Measure Search Trends With The More Precise Topic Reports From Google |
| Caption Contest: Not-So-Smartwatch Posted: 06 Dec 2013 06:30 PM PST  “The manufacturer did mention that it tracks my workouts too. I just didn’t realise that simply wearing it around was the workout!” Caption this cartoon and you’ll be in the running to win a brand new MakeUseOf t-shirt! Join the ranks of those how have won and get your name proudly emblazoned on MakeUseOf! Congratulations to Hand-E-Food who submitted the winning caption for our previous contest, “DIY Laser Security System“: And that's just setting 1! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Not-So-Smartwatch |
| iOS Apps on Sale for December 6: Bejeweled, Carcassonne & Carl Posted: 06 Dec 2013 05:30 PM PST  Did you net yourself a bargain during last week’s Black Friday promotions? Too bad if not, but we’ve got promotions every week in our Apps on Sale columns. Despite all the sales last week, there’s always something interesting going for cheap on the App Store. This week we’ve got a couple of old school arcade games, a classic iOS talking toy and quite possibly the platform’s best board game on sale for the first ever time. Let’s take a look at this week’s Apps on Sale. Apps Loopmash for iPhone / iPad ($1.99/$5.99, now free) Loopmash is a great way... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for December 6: Bejeweled, Carcassonne & Carl |
| Google Search For Android Can Now Help You Find Information With Your Installed Apps Posted: 06 Dec 2013 04:30 PM PST  We use apps to search for information while on the move. It could be the Wikipedia app for tapping into encyclopedic information, IMDb for movies trivia, or recipes from Allthecooks. Google Search for Android now makes it easier by turning itself into the interface for all kinds of search results you used to perform with apps. The Google Search app uses an Open in App button to prompt you to open the right app for more detailed information. The feature is not unlike a search accelerator that saves you time with searches. When you search for a key term, Google... Read the full article: Google Search For Android Can Now Help You Find Information With Your Installed Apps |
| Instapaper Updates Chrome Extension With Highlighting, Inline Buttons Posted: 06 Dec 2013 02:30 PM PST  Instapaper makes it easy to create and manage bookmarked articles that are synced across various devices, waiting for you to read those later. And if you are a Google Chrome user, then there's good news as the Instapaper extension has got a major update with a bunch of new features. With the Chrome extension installed, you can not only bookmark a page but also highlight a key paragraph from it, for easy reference when you revisit the article. "Simply highlight a key chunk of text, right-click it and choose ‘Save to Instapaper’ from the right-click menu, and your selection will... Read the full article: Instapaper Updates Chrome Extension With Highlighting, Inline Buttons |
| Creative Commons 4.0 Licenses Are More Global, User-Friendly Posted: 06 Dec 2013 01:30 PM PST  Copyright law can be confusing. While infographics like this can help us to grasp it better, Creative Commons has been on a crusade to make it much easier for the average user to understand. And with the release of v4.0, licenses are becoming more internationally robust and user-friendly. "The 4.0 licenses—more than two years in the making—are the most global, legally robust licenses produced by CC to date. We have incorporated dozens of improvements that make sharing and reusing CC-licensed materials easier and more dependable than ever before," Diane Peters of Creative Commons said in a blog post. Working with... Read the full article: Creative Commons 4.0 Licenses Are More Global, User-Friendly |
| Holiday Shopping List: The Best Educational Gifts For A Lifelong Learner Posted: 06 Dec 2013 12:00 PM PST  As a young student, you probably would have grabbed the “gift” of a homework-free day. But as one grows up, it’s impossible to argue with the best gift all – the gift of learning. With that great gift, comes a responsibility for our own self-development. We must continue to learn. The holidays are just the right time to encourage someone who is doing just that. Do you know someone who is studious, loves learning new things, takes time out to learn a new skill, or is huge on personal development? That person is the easiest to shop for. A little... Read the full article: Holiday Shopping List: The Best Educational Gifts For A Lifelong Learner |
| 11 Christmas Decorations You Can Easily Make From Recycled Materials Posted: 06 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST  The holidays. It’s time for family, time for friends, time for good food, and time for shopping. If once this time of the year inspired people to relax at home around the fire, today it puts people into a frenzy of consuming, consuming and… yep, consuming more. It’s not your fault, it’s just the way it goes in our culture. So yes, you may have to buy some gifts for your family, friends, and colleagues, but do you really have to buy new Christmas decorations every year? Of course, you can buy them once and then reuse the same ones... Read the full article: 11 Christmas Decorations You Can Easily Make From Recycled Materials |
| Save Or Share Everyday Moments With Lifelog Bokeh For iPhone & Web Posted: 06 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST  Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram feeds are filled with photos of your friends’ daily activities and adventures, but a new lifelogging service called Bokeh offers a slightly different and more personal or private approach. Bokeh is a free iPhone app (with an Android version in the works) and online journaling service which allows users to snap photos, add text, and upload content to their online calendar. Clean minimalist design (closely resembling the diary and journaling app Day One) sets it apart from the rest of the pack – but is it any good? Lifelogging With Bokeh For those who don’t know, lifelogging is about... Read the full article: Save Or Share Everyday Moments With Lifelog Bokeh For iPhone & Web |
| Buy A Select Android Phone & Get 50GB Of Google Drive Cloud Storage Free For One Year Posted: 06 Dec 2013 09:30 AM PST  Christmas is coming, and Google is in the mood to be festive and generous – if you buy one of their Android phones, that is. According to this Amazon.com page, if you buy an Android phone from the selection on offer, you will receive 50GB of free Google Drive cloud storage for one year. But you have to buy before December 31st, 2013. Ho! Ho! Ho! The phones on offer are all good ones – the Nexus, the Samsung Galaxy, the HTC 1, and according to the terms and conditions, the free 50GB of storage will be applied on top... Read the full article: Buy A Select Android Phone & Get 50GB Of Google Drive Cloud Storage Free For One Year |
| 5 Ways You Can Make And Mine Bitcoin Currency Posted: 06 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST  Have you heard of Bitcoins — the digital currency that has recently experienced a dramatic increase in value? Now estimated at over $1,200 per Bitcoin, the revolutionary and controversial method of payment has been making headlines around the world. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to start performing transactions using Bitcoins, but before you can even do that you’ll have to find a way to collect Bitcoins! Here are 5 different ways you can start earning yourself some Bitcoins. Investing Investing is the easiest way of accessing Bitcoins. This works in the same way as exchanges for... Read the full article: 5 Ways You Can Make And Mine Bitcoin Currency |
| Holiday Shopping List: For The Geeks Who Never Grew Up Posted: 06 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST  Some geeks are able to transition easily from childhood to adult life – they can make their bed, get a “real” job and do sensible things like sort out a good pension plan. Then there’s geeks who will instantly regress to re-enacting Star Wars scenes when you hand them a laser pointer, and whose partners would be truly shocked if they found out exactly how much money is spent on toys every month. Like me; I fear the day my wife reads our credit card statement. So it’s with pleasure I present you with this list of super gifts for... Read the full article: Holiday Shopping List: For The Geeks Who Never Grew Up |
| What is an MVNO and How Does it Save Money on Your Cellular Bill? [MakeUseOf Explains] Posted: 06 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST  What cellular consumers don’t know can hurt them. In the United States and Canada, we’re taught that smartphone service costs an arm and a leg – and we need to sign contracts because cell phones are so pricey. That’s a bald-faced lie. Contracts actually increase the price of service by hundreds, or thousands, each year. A simple way to stop getting scammed is by buying an unlocked phone, like the Nexus 5 (check out our Nexus 5 review), and using prepaid cellular companies known as “MVNOs”. MVNOs – alternative carriers to the big cellular companies – save customers money by... Read the full article: What is an MVNO and How Does it Save Money on Your Cellular Bill? [MakeUseOf Explains] |
| Medium 1.0 Redesigns The Reading And Writing Experience Posted: 06 Dec 2013 06:30 AM PST  Launched last year by Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, Medium has been making waves as a writing platform. Now, it has got its first major update, pushing it to version 1. "With 1.0, we've redesigned the reading and writing experience to make your stories look better and have more impact. We've also changed how collections work to enable curation and improve discoverability," Williams says. The team has made refinements to the typography, spacing, and responsiveness of the design, so that posts look better on all devices, PC and mobile. The big new addition is cover images, which lets... Read the full article: Medium 1.0 Redesigns The Reading And Writing Experience |
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