15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Search Your Browsing History, CAPTCHA Tweets & Diabetes Manager
• A Simplified Blogger’s Guide To SEO
• PhD TV: Scientific Explanations For The YouTube Generation [Stuff to Watch]
• Google Music Timeline Is A Visual History Of The Popularity Of Genres & Artists
• A Lesson For Gamers: What Is RNG?
• How To Spot A Dangerous Email Attachment
• Save Up Your Points To Redeem These Awesome New T-Shirts!
• 5 Affordable Android Phones That Don’t Suck
• iOS Feedly App Gets Speed Reading, Night Theme & New iPad Design
• Windows 8 Gaming Hits Second Gear With Halo: Spartan Assault
• Get Deeper Search Insights For Your Site With Webmaster Tools Search Queries
• It’s Not Just For Angry Birds: Preparing Your Tablet for Productivity
• Google Alerts Gets A Refresh With New Cleaner Design & Social Sharing Buttons
• Smartglass with the Xbox One – Is it actually useful now?
• Write Mobile Apps For Any Platform With Intel XDK

Cool Websites & Tools – Search Your Browsing History, CAPTCHA Tweets & Diabetes Manager Posted: 20 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST Deeper History – searches the contents of pages you’ve been to and finds anything in your history instantaneously. To respect your privacy, Deeper History does not search your pre-existing history so when you first install it, it will not return results. As you surf with it running, it builds it’s own secure database and will begin return results when you search on it. Donna, Manage Your Day – is a personal assistant for everyone. Donna tells you when to leave for an appointment, dials into conference calls for you, and lets others know when to expect you — all without... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Search Your Browsing History, CAPTCHA Tweets & Diabetes Manager

A Simplified Blogger’s Guide To SEO Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST We understand that not everyone who blogs can easily wrap their head around SEO. In fact, we tried to help you out by suggestion a few SEO guides to begin with. We even went as far as to inform you of the deadliest SEO mistakes. However, this infograph by DigitalHawkins is probably the simplest way to explain SEO to the utmost beginner. Bear in mind that it isn’t the whole story. Best to fully understand SEO before implementing any. via Infographicals Read the full article: A Simplified Blogger’s Guide To SEO

PhD TV: Scientific Explanations For The YouTube Generation [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 20 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST We’re always on the lookout for great learning materials at MakeUseOf, whether it’s a full online course offered by Coursera or YouTube channels like ASAPScience and podcasts like Stuff You Should Know – there’s no age limits or exclusivity. But so many of us go about our daily lives without understanding the things taking place around us because we’re not scientists, and we have day jobs. PhD TV is a YouTube channel aimed at delivering short, sharp bursts of scientific wisdom, complete with webcomic Piled Higher and Deeper‘s signature comic style. How Coffee Affects Your Brain Coffee is the most popular stimulant... Read the full article: PhD TV: Scientific Explanations For The YouTube Generation [Stuff to Watch]

Google Music Timeline Is A Visual History Of The Popularity Of Genres & Artists Posted: 20 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST If you’re an audiophile, you are going to love this. With its various services, Google is amassing a vast amount of data right now. And sometimes, it puts this data to cool uses, like the newly launched Music Timeline, a project by Google Research. In their words, this is “a visualization to show which music has stood the test of time, and how genres and artists have risen and fallen in popularity.” The Music Timeline is an interactive chart with the X axis measuring popularity and the Y axis denoting the time. Google uses data from the Play Music app,... Read the full article: Google Music Timeline Is A Visual History Of The Popularity Of Genres & Artists

A Lesson For Gamers: What Is RNG? Posted: 20 Jan 2014 02:00 PM PST This fantastic world of video games that we’ve created has managed to birth some of my favorite acronyms ever. There’s the SNES, MMORPGs, ROMs, and plenty more. In this article, I want to explore an acronym that is becoming more and more commonly mentioned during routine conversations in our gaming culture. I’m talking about RNG. Let’s look at an introduction by Wikipedia: A random number generator (RNG) is a computational or physical device designed to generate a sequence of numbers or symbols that lack any pattern, i.e. appear random. Have you ever been to a casino and played a slot... Read the full article: A Lesson For Gamers: What Is RNG?

How To Spot A Dangerous Email Attachment Posted: 20 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST Emails can be dangerous. Reading the contents of an email should be safe if you have the latest security patches, but  email attachments can be harmful. Any type of file can be attached to an email, including .exe program files. Many email servers will perform virus scanning and remove potentially dangerous attachments, but you can’t rely on this. Look for the common warning signs so you can avoid viruses, worms, and Trojans. So-called “spear-phishing campaigns” that go after high-value corporate and government targets have used email attachments to take advantage of previously unknown security vulnerabilities. Email attachments can be dangerous... Read the full article: How To Spot A Dangerous Email Attachment

Save Up Your Points To Redeem These Awesome New T-Shirts! Posted: 20 Jan 2014 11:30 AM PST For a while now, we’ve been offering our geeky t-shirts through MakeUseOf Rewards, but you could also win them by chiming in on our weekly polls, We Ask You column, and Caption Contests. By far, the most popular design has been Geek Element, which is great! We love geeks. But the time has come to add several new designs to our lineup, and these designs are a little bolder, and slightly different to the ones you’re probably used to. We hope you’ll still enjoy them. Got Rpi? This one is for the Raspberry Pi users out there, who also happen... Read the full article: Save Up Your Points To Redeem These Awesome New T-Shirts!

5 Affordable Android Phones That Don’t Suck Posted: 20 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST Until 2 years ago, it didn’t make much sense to buy budget Android phones because of the sub-par experience they offered. But things have changed. A lot of the flagship phones from that time are now available for low prices, but can still hold their own and perform well. And new handsets from some manufacturers are offering a bang for your buck. So we went shopping and found some great deals. We specifically looked for unlocked devices since those save you money in the long run. So here are some Android smartphones for which “cheap” refers only to the price... Read the full article: 5 Affordable Android Phones That Don’t Suck

iOS Feedly App Gets Speed Reading, Night Theme & New iPad Design Posted: 20 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST When Google Reader was retired, Feedly became the replacement for many users. Now Feedly has pushed out an update for its iOS app, which includes great new features such as speed reading, a night theme, and a whole new design for the iPad. These features have already been on the Android app for a couple of weeks. The speed reading feature involves the user tapping the edge of the screen to quickly go through news stories, and you can organize them as cards to make them easier to read. If you have a lot of feeds, being able to quickly... Read the full article: iOS Feedly App Gets Speed Reading, Night Theme & New iPad Design

Windows 8 Gaming Hits Second Gear With Halo: Spartan Assault Posted: 20 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST One of the greatest video game franchises, Halo, has been shy of Windows PC since Halo 2 was released in 2004. Halo: Spartan Assault for Windows 8 changes all of that – but is it worth the price? Background Halo is usually only found on Microsoft consoles. Such is its importance to the modern gaming scene that we counted it one of the reasons to buy the Xbox One. Halo: Spartan Assault, however, offers a rare – and welcome – opportunity to enjoy the Halo world on a Windows 8 PC or tablet. Set between the events of Halo 3... Read the full article: Windows 8 Gaming Hits Second Gear With Halo: Spartan Assault

Get Deeper Search Insights For Your Site With Webmaster Tools Search Queries Posted: 20 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST Aristotle once said, “All men by nature desire knowledge“, but is there such a thing as too much knowledge? As you’ll see shortly, when it comes to search query data and your SEO numbers, there’s no such thing as too much  information. At the end of 2013, Google decided to quietly add a few small features to the Search Queries tool in Google Webmasters that could potentially change how you focus your resources on topic research. While most people at this point in time realize that content generation on the web is three parts creativity and user-focus, there is still... Read the full article: Get Deeper Search Insights For Your Site With Webmaster Tools Search Queries

It’s Not Just For Angry Birds: Preparing Your Tablet for Productivity Posted: 20 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST You knew your tablet would be fun, but you also thought it be productive. If it feels like you were wrong about the second point, and wish you weren’t, it’s time to put some thought into tablet productivity. Tablets can be fantastic consuming information and playing games – and sometimes seem to be designed specifically for that. But there’s no reason you can’t also use your tablet to get some work done. Tablet productivity is a subject that fascinates us. MakeUseOf staffer Christian Cawley used nothing but a tablet for one week, just to see if he could do it.... Read the full article: It’s Not Just For Angry Birds: Preparing Your Tablet for Productivity

Google Alerts Gets A Refresh With New Cleaner Design & Social Sharing Buttons Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST Google’s new card-styled design concept has now come to Google Alerts. The understated alerts email service gets the same card-style layout that is now part of Google search results and Google Now on Google's mobile apps. Searchengineland.com reports that the new alerts tells you the frequency of the updates, larger and more prominent headlines, and three newly introduced social sharing buttons for Google+, Facebook and Twitter. Also, on view is a useful "Flag as irrelevant" link that could help to fine-tune the alert search results with user feedback. It can be said that the new design concept has arrived late... Read the full article: Google Alerts Gets A Refresh With New Cleaner Design & Social Sharing Buttons

Smartglass with the Xbox One – Is it actually useful now? Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST 2013 was the year of the “second screen." With mass market penetration, millions of consumers began complementing their TV viewing with a tablet or phone. SmartGlass was Microsoft’s attempt to integrate this phenomenon into the gaming and Xbox experience – interactive meta displays when watching movies or TV; mini-maps for games or extra controls. But mostly it was just garbage. Have Microsoft upped their game this time or is it more of the same? Getting Started SmartGlass for the Xbox One is curiously a completely new app; you can't connect using the old app – it remains only for use... Read the full article: Smartglass with the Xbox One – Is it actually useful now?

Write Mobile Apps For Any Platform With Intel XDK Posted: 20 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST Intel isn’t really a company you often associate with mobile app development. Whilst you almost certainly have an Intel chip chugging along in the computer you use to read this, their ventures into the mobile world weren’t as successful as they might have hoped, with few manufacturers deciding to use the Intel Atom chip in their Android devices. Seemingly, this hasn’t deterred them. They just threw their hat back into the mobile ring again with the Intel XDK IDE. This free development environment allows you to write applications using HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 and then test them against multiple devices.... Read the full article: Write Mobile Apps For Any Platform With Intel XDK

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