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- Cool Websites & Tools – Chrome Full Screen, Expert Video Lessons, & Drug Interactions
- The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions
- 12 Productivity Habits To Finally Hack Your Life In The New Year
- This Is How Microsoft Has Been Trying To Change The Game In 2013
- 4 Reasons You Should Re-Open Your Facebook Account Today
- 6 Amazing Alfred Workflows To Make You More Productive
- Meditation Made Easy: Tools & Resources To Aid Your Well-Being
- How To Keep Writing Daily Journal Or Diary Entries For A Year
- 7 Photography Projects That Could Change The Way You Look At Selfies
- Wikipedia Introduces A Draft Feature For New Articles
- 2 Instagram Clients That Beat It At Its Own Game
- Spotify App Supper. Feeds Your Senses With Food & Music
- Is More Of The Same A Bad Thing? Not For Infinity Blade III
- Best Modern PDF Reader: Windows 8 Default Or Adobe Reader Touch?
| Cool Websites & Tools – Chrome Full Screen, Expert Video Lessons, & Drug Interactions Posted: 01 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST  Full Screen Anything – makes anything fill up your Chrome browser window at the click of a button. This enables full screen images, full screen video, and full screen games. Simply click the Fullscreen Anything button (or press Ctrl+Space) to make anything that’s currently on your screen fill the browser window. Searchlet/a> – Instantly search Google, Wikipedia, the news, and dictionary by highlighting any text on any page without opening a new tab. Just click the Searchlet button, highlight the text on the page that you are interested in, and information about that text will appear on the page. Grokker... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Chrome Full Screen, Expert Video Lessons, & Drug Interactions |
| The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions Posted: 01 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST  You probably don’t realise it but certain activities automatically grab your attention. Say, for example, you’re reading an email, and you receive a new Facebook message — your focus immediately shifts to Facebook. Now let’s say, while you’re replying to the Facebook message, one of your Twitter updates gets retweeted — now you’re looking at that instead. Wait, a new text message. Hold on, someone’s calling you on your phone. While that’s happening, your iPad makes a loud noise. How do you know which to ignore? Can you even squeeze any actual work in? This is where David McCandless’ Hierarchy... Read the full article: The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions |
| 12 Productivity Habits To Finally Hack Your Life In The New Year Posted: 01 Jan 2014 02:00 PM PST  The time has come where we all make promises to ourselves that we’ll be better, harder, faster, and stronger by the end of the next 365 days. Twelve months is a long time, though, and it can be easy to lose steam over such a long period. What can you do about it? Our approach: break the year down into months and dedicate each month to a particular change. This method lets you internalize one change at a time before moving onto the next one. Frontloading all of your resolutions together is just a recipe for being overwhelmed. A common... Read the full article: 12 Productivity Habits To Finally Hack Your Life In The New Year |
| This Is How Microsoft Has Been Trying To Change The Game In 2013 Posted: 01 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST  Microsoft has been behind. As Apple released the iPad and the tablet market grew, Microsoft seemed to sit around and twiddle their thumbs for a few years. The great sleeping giant has now been fully awakened and Microsoft is frantically trying not just to catch up, but to get ahead of everyone else. The PC market continues to decline, with 2013 seeing the steepest decline of the PC market ever. Even Apple took a hit on their own PCs, as the iPad and other tablets cannibalized their sales. This is the world Microsoft awoke to find itself in. Windows 8.1... Read the full article: This Is How Microsoft Has Been Trying To Change The Game In 2013 |
| 4 Reasons You Should Re-Open Your Facebook Account Today Posted: 01 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST  “That’s it! I’m deleting my Facebook today.” I’m sure you’ve seen a friend say this in a status moments before deactivating their account, or maybe you’ve done this yourself. But have you ever thought about why people are inclined to deactivate their Facebook account? You’ll probably agree that the top three reasons would be too much drama, too much spam, and privacy concerns. However, Facebook has various tools which you can use to control all three of these complaints. Here’s how to do it. Deleting vs. Deactivating Before I start, note that I referred to people deactivating their account rather... Read the full article: 4 Reasons You Should Re-Open Your Facebook Account Today |
| 6 Amazing Alfred Workflows To Make You More Productive Posted: 01 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST  Alfred is one of the most powerful and versatile application launchers on Mac OS X. It was rightly included in Bakari Chavanu’s 2013 productivity roundup, and it sits pride of place on our Best Mac Software page. Now that users and developers are able to extend Alfred’s capabilities by adding their own workflows, calling it an ‘application launcher’ seems a bit limiting. Here are six workflows to inspire a better approach to your most common OS X operations. Download and Install Workflows Alfred workflows are packaged as *.workflow files. With Alfred on your computer, double-click a workflow file to add... Read the full article: 6 Amazing Alfred Workflows To Make You More Productive |
| Meditation Made Easy: Tools & Resources To Aid Your Well-Being Posted: 01 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST  Are you often stressed out, anxious, or nervous? In small doses, those feelings are normal. But to the detriment of our health, stress has become somewhat of a steady-state. You have ruled out pills and your doctors don’t think you need therapy? If you have come to the conclusion that meditation is a method to calm your mind and achieve well-being worth trying, then I can help you with resources and tools. What is Meditation? Meditation is an umbrella term for a broad variety of techniques that have been practiced as part of numerous religious traditions and beliefs since ancient... Read the full article: Meditation Made Easy: Tools & Resources To Aid Your Well-Being |
| How To Keep Writing Daily Journal Or Diary Entries For A Year Posted: 01 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST  The start of a new year is a great time to begin keeping a journal or diary, but the challenge lies in keeping up your new daily journal writing habit. Sometimes you may struggle to figure out what to write about, or you might think that your writing is boring and not worth your time. But as someone who has kept up the journal writing habit off and on for several years, I can assure you that journal writing can be just as useful as taking family photos, or posting your thoughts and experiences on Facebook and Twitter. Today I... Read the full article: How To Keep Writing Daily Journal Or Diary Entries For A Year |
| 7 Photography Projects That Could Change The Way You Look At Selfies Posted: 01 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST  The “selfie” really came into its own in 2013 with word mavens finally giving it a place in the dictionary. The year probably saw the best of such self-expression which my friend Dave duly recorded in his curation of the best, worst, & funniest selfies of 2013. The Kim Kardashians of the world can get away with non-artsy but “arse-y” selfies, but the rest of the world has to put some thought into self-portrait shots and make sure there's something more than a mirror involved for the sake of creativity. Yes, there is a right way to take self-shots; but... Read the full article: 7 Photography Projects That Could Change The Way You Look At Selfies |
| Wikipedia Introduces A Draft Feature For New Articles Posted: 01 Jan 2014 07:30 AM PST  Wikipedia seems to be determined to raise their accuracy standards, because they are now introducing the ability to write a page in “draft” mode. Similar to WordPress (which MakeUseOf and millions of other sites are published on), you can work on an article and save it in draft mode, not publishing it until it is truly ready for prime-time. For those of you who have published on Wikipedia in the past (especially those of you who have started new pages), you know getting it right is absolutely essential. Accuracy is extremely important, and the Wikipedia editors are always monitoring new... Read the full article: Wikipedia Introduces A Draft Feature For New Articles |
| 2 Instagram Clients That Beat It At Its Own Game Posted: 01 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST  Is there anything better than Instagram? Considering Instagram’s immense popularity in its field, probably not. But let’s face it, Instagram is not the best photo app out there. It has the community, but its interface is severely lacking in basic features. For example, why in the world can’t you swipe left and right to browse your own or someone else’s photos? Why can’t you follow hashtags and locations just like you can follow users? And why in the world can’t you stop videos from auto-playing? It turns out there are other Instagram apps out there, and they’re good. If you’re... Read the full article: 2 Instagram Clients That Beat It At Its Own Game This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Spotify App Supper. Feeds Your Senses With Food & Music Posted: 01 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST  The last place you would expect to find interesting recipes to try out in your kitchen is on the music streaming platform Spotify. Last October, however, Spotify introduced Supper., an app developed by Artisan Council that combines feeding the senses and feeding the tummy all in one place. And yes the full-stop in Supper. is intentional. Supper. combines two of people’s greatest passions by intertwining the two experiences of eating and listening to music. Introducing the app, Spotify explains how it works: "Supper." specializes in serving mouthwatering recipes that are paired with hand crafted playlists, with each recipe featuring 2 playlists; one playlist... Read the full article: Spotify App Supper. Feeds Your Senses With Food & Music |
| Is More Of The Same A Bad Thing? Not For Infinity Blade III Posted: 01 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST  I tend to avoid getting too excited over a game’s visual appeal, but when it comes to Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade series, it’s hard not to be blown away by the visual splendor. Sometimes it makes you forget that you are playing a mobile game at all, which is no small task. Infinity Blade III has hit the App Store, but how does it stack up compared with the fantastic experience brought about by the prequels? Keep reading and find out! Gameplay In Infinity Blade III, much of the core gameplay from the previous two remains in tact. It still... Read the full article: Is More Of The Same A Bad Thing? Not For Infinity Blade III |
| Best Modern PDF Reader: Windows 8 Default Or Adobe Reader Touch? Posted: 01 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST  The default PDF reader that comes pre-loaded with Windows 8/8.1 isn’t bad, but it has some stiff competition coming from Adobe with their Windows 8 version of Adobe Reader. Both of these apps have their advantages and disadvantages, but which should you use on your Windows 8 device? Reader By default, opening up a PDF in Windows 8/8.1 opens up the aptly-named Reader app. It’s a pretty basic PDF reader, but I’ve actually grown to like it; it’s perfect for sketching notes in the corner. As seen below, page numbers will appear in the upper left as you scroll onto... Read the full article: Best Modern PDF Reader: Windows 8 Default Or Adobe Reader Touch? |
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