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- Cool Websites & Tools – Things To Do While Travelling, Reddit Comments In YouTube, & Math In The Real World
- Caption Contest: Coffee Infusion
- 3 Ways You Can Remove Unwanted Blog Pages From Google
- iCloud Keychain: Why You Want It & How To Use It
- 6+ Cool Work Desks Every Freelancer Should Own
- iOS App AirWeb Brings Proper Web Browsing to Apple TV
- 3 Steps To Learning The Basics Of Photography With A Virtual DSLR
- Turn Your Steam Trading Cards Into What You Really Want
- How To Boost Your Website’s Performance With W3 Total Cache And A CDN
- Accidentally Deleted Your WhatsApp Chat History? Here’s How To Get It Back
- Vagrant: A Quick, Effortless Way to Create Virtual Machines for Local Web Development
- The Best MakeUseOf Articles From 2013
| Posted: 03 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST  TripGems – when you travel to a country, it is always good to have a plan of where you would like to go, and what you would like to do. It would make it much more easier however if you got some help. TripGems is a site which gives you user-contributed suggestions on places to see, things to do, and landmarks to visit, while you are visiting a place. You can also suggest your own and leave reviews. Reddit Comments for YouTube – the comments section on YouTube has a really bad reputation, and despite Google trying to improve it... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Things To Do While Travelling, Reddit Comments In YouTube, & Math In The Real World |
| Caption Contest: Coffee Infusion Posted: 03 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST  I’ve thought about it — this way, I can work for 14 days straight. Give us your best captions! Go ahead and mock the image, submit your wittiest one-liners! The winning caption will go on to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt to become a cool geek. For our previous contest, “Will It Fit?” we decided to select two winners. Congratulations, Merlin (Hmm… I wonder if compressing it with 7zip would help.) and Frank (Screw it Santa. Let’s just make it a drive-in theater and get on to the next house.)! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Coffee Infusion |
| 3 Ways You Can Remove Unwanted Blog Pages From Google Posted: 03 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST  Are you a believer in the idea that once something is published on the Internet, it’s published forever? Well, today we’re going to dispel that myth. The truth is that in many cases it’s quite possible to eradicate information from the Internet. Sure, there’s a record of web pages that have been deleted if you search the Wayback Machine, right? Yup, absolutely. On the Wayback Machine there are records of web pages going back many years — pages that you won’t find with a Google search because the web page no longer exists. Someone deleted it, or the website got... Read the full article: 3 Ways You Can Remove Unwanted Blog Pages From Google |
| iCloud Keychain: Why You Want It & How To Use It Posted: 03 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST  iCloud Keychain is a secure password manager for both OS X Mavericks for Mac and iOS 7 for iPhone and iPad. Use it to quickly and easily log into websites, Wi-Fi networks, Internet accounts, and more. It’s particularly useful with Safari on an iPhone or iPad, where it gives you an integrated, syncing password filler. Here’s how it works, why you want it and how to set it up. How it Works When you set up iCloud Keychain, you’ll have to enter your Apple ID and its associated password. You’ll also have to create an iCloud Security Code, which you’ll need... Read the full article: iCloud Keychain: Why You Want It & How To Use It |
| 6+ Cool Work Desks Every Freelancer Should Own Posted: 03 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST  Imagine that money was no object. Imagine that you, as a freelancer or just a person who works from home, could have the desk of your dreams. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Yes, that desk from IKEA works great, we all own one, but some desks out there are cool beyond imagination. The first step is to get to know them. The second step is to set your sights on one. And who knows? If you work towards it, one of these awesome desks could be yours one day. I, for one, will keep dreaming. StudioDesk by Bluelounge Working towards a... Read the full article: 6+ Cool Work Desks Every Freelancer Should Own |
| iOS App AirWeb Brings Proper Web Browsing to Apple TV Posted: 03 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST  The Apple TV plays a range of media, including Amazon Instant TV, YouTube, Netflix, HBO, ESPN, iTunes movies and TV shows, but Apple forgot to add a simple Internet web browser to the mix. Thanks to new iPhone and iPad app AirWeb ($1.99), you can now browse the web full screen as you do on your computer. AirWeb will probably be most useful to teachers, anyone who delivers presentations, and individuals who want full screen display of the Internet on a TV monitor. While you can use AirPlay to mirror what is on your device or view an iPhoto slideshow, AirWeb provides a fully-optimized... Read the full article: iOS App AirWeb Brings Proper Web Browsing to Apple TV |
| 3 Steps To Learning The Basics Of Photography With A Virtual DSLR Posted: 03 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST  When you are eyeing the latest DSLR camera on the shop window, a virtual camera application isn't going to draw your attention. But if that dream camera is still some dollars away, the Outside of Auto from Canon could be the thing to give you a gentler introduction to the basics of photography. The best way to learn photography is by taking thousands of pictures, but learning a bit of theory does bolster the practice. Rather than learning from books, tutorials, or YouTube videos, this web application from Canon Canada is the most fun yet. Canon Outside of Auto is... Read the full article: 3 Steps To Learning The Basics Of Photography With A Virtual DSLR |
| Turn Your Steam Trading Cards Into What You Really Want Posted: 03 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST  Back in June, Steam’s Trading Card system went live to the general public. You may have accumulated some cards in your inventory just by playing your favorite games, or buying new ones during Steam’s various seasonal sales. The system links select games with a collection of digital cards (usually 5 to 15 of them) which, if assembled as a set, can be exchanged for a badge, Steam experience points, profile backgrounds, and chat emotes. Even if you have no interest whatsoever in customizing your profile or bragging about your Steam level, you can offset your gaming expenses by selling your... Read the full article: Turn Your Steam Trading Cards Into What You Really Want |
| How To Boost Your Website’s Performance With W3 Total Cache And A CDN Posted: 03 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST  If I pause for three entire minutes before responding to any question you ask me, how long do you think it’ll take before you get sick of our conversation? That’s exactly how you should look at the speed of your website. This article will help you boost your site speed and avoid forcing your visitors to wait. There are many reasons why speed matters so much. One is obviously user experience. You’ve probably experienced it yourself – doing some Google query, visiting a site that promises an answer, and then sitting there waiting for over several excruciating minutes for the... Read the full article: How To Boost Your Website’s Performance With W3 Total Cache And A CDN |
| Accidentally Deleted Your WhatsApp Chat History? Here’s How To Get It Back Posted: 03 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST  Touchscreen devices are great, but can also be frustrating. A simple tap on the wrong option, for example, and your WhatsApp chat history is gone. You meant to hit Add a conversation shortcut, but instead you tapped Delete chat. Then you clicked “Yes” without thinking! Your chats are gone now. leaving you without a record. How do you get them back? Recovering Recent Chats It’s surprisingly simple to recover anything less than seven days old: just uninstall the app, then reinstall it. WhatsApp automatically creates a backup of your data everyday at 4 am system time, and this data is stored on... Read the full article: Accidentally Deleted Your WhatsApp Chat History? Here’s How To Get It Back |
| Vagrant: A Quick, Effortless Way to Create Virtual Machines for Local Web Development Posted: 03 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST  If you’ve ever worked on a Web development project, you know just getting started can be tough. Even if you’re just making a simple WordPress widget, you’re going to need a WordPress instance to work with. That often means working on one somewhere in the cloud, or maybe setting up a local Web server. And if you’re collaborating with anyone, they’ll have to create exactly the same setup, too. That’s annoying, but it gets worse: If you happen to be working on more than one project at the same time, and both projects use slightly different stacks (different Web servers,... Read the full article: Vagrant: A Quick, Effortless Way to Create Virtual Machines for Local Web Development |
| The Best MakeUseOf Articles From 2013 Posted: 03 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST  2013 has drawn to a close, and it’s about that time when we like to take a look back over the year and see just what resonated most with you, our dear readers. Here are the stories that got you talking and sharing the most. Top Giveaways The biggest winner this year was the Google Glass review and giveaway. The fact that it’s $1500 and only available to a limited number of people no doubt contributed to this, but what did Danny think of it? Is Google Glass cool? Absolutely! Is it functional? Sort of — not quite, but it... Read the full article: The Best MakeUseOf Articles From 2013 |
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