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- Cool Websites & Tools – Your iOS Photos In a Journal, QR-Code Based Messages, & Better Writing Via Google
- VLC Player Updates For iOS 7 With Streaming Support From Dropbox & Google Drive
- Caption Contest: Family Phubbing
- Online Reviews Are Useful, With Common Sense Applied [We Ask You Results]
- Twitter Expands Targeted Ads With Tailored Audiences – Opt Out Required
- Facebook’s Trending Topics – Should You Stop Using Hashtags Now? [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- Collaborate Artistically With Creatives From All Over The World With HitRecord
- 5 Non-Annoying Ways to Check Your Smartphone in the Movie Theater
- Fight Bandits and Monsters in the Old West with Six-Guns On Windows Phone
- Smart Defrag 3 Introduces Defragmentation Support For Windows 8 Apps
- 3 Projects To Use Computer Downtime While Re-Installing Windows
- 5 Great Railway Games For Locomotive Enthusiasts
- Save Money On Textbooks This Semester By Renting With BookRenter
- Post-Holiday Cleanup: 5 Recycling Tips You Can Takeaway From The Web
- Doing Data Science in the Cloud With ScraperWiki
| Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST  Heyday – transforms the photos and videos on your iPhone into a beautiful journal, presenting you with a delightful way to rediscover your most important memories. And since life happens when you least expect it, Heyday automatically chronicles the places you go and the things you see so you’ll never forget a meaningful place or moment again. Wi-Fi-Matic – is an Android app that activates and deactivates Wi-Fi of your device automatically depending on your location, helping you to save battery and consumption of data through your operator network. It detects automatically the location of known Wi-Fi networks, turns on... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Your iOS Photos In a Journal, QR-Code Based Messages, & Better Writing Via Google |
| VLC Player Updates For iOS 7 With Streaming Support From Dropbox & Google Drive Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:30 PM PST  With the coming of iOS 7, VLC Player also comes out with a fresh new interface. The design makeover aside, VLC Player version 2.2.0 also comes with very useful streaming support for Dropbox and Google Drive. The free and Open Source media player is now integrated with the two cloud services – you can now stream your video files without first completely downloading them to your device. Thanks to better bandwidth around the world, your media viewing could get better. It's also a space saver as you won't need to store large media files locally. The update also brings many... Read the full article: VLC Player Updates For iOS 7 With Streaming Support From Dropbox & Google Drive |
| Caption Contest: Family Phubbing Posted: 21 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST  Dad often seeks attention the traditional way when his phone runs out of battery. Got a caption in mind? Share it with us in the comment section and you’ll be in the running to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! There are new designs now up for grabs! Don’t forget that you’re not just limited to one caption. Send it as many as you can think of to increase your chances of winning! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Family Phubbing |
| Online Reviews Are Useful, With Common Sense Applied [We Ask You Results] Posted: 21 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST  A huge number of websites now offer reviews, written by both professionals and ordinary folk, on everything you can imagine. You yourself may even have contributed a review of something you love, hate, or are indifferent towards at some point. But what does the MakeUseOf readership think about online reviews? This was the subject of last week’s We Ask You discussion, the results of which are presented below for your reading pleasure. Opinions About Opinions We asked, Do You Value Online Reviews? We had a great response to the question, with dozens of you considering us worthy of a little... Read the full article: Online Reviews Are Useful, With Common Sense Applied [We Ask You Results] |
| Twitter Expands Targeted Ads With Tailored Audiences – Opt Out Required Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST  Back in December of last year, Twitter announced a new program called tailored audiences that was aimed at allowing advertisers to better make use of the massive audience available on Twitter. Now, it is expanding the program to allow advertisers to target users based on email addresses and user IDs. Twitter is tackling this new program in two ways, the first of which it is calling “CRM.” This allows marketers to use email addresses already stored in their CRM software to target ads at their existing customers. For example, a company may choose to promote a special offer only to... Read the full article: Twitter Expands Targeted Ads With Tailored Audiences – Opt Out Required |
| Facebook’s Trending Topics – Should You Stop Using Hashtags Now? [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 21 Jan 2014 03:30 PM PST  Facebook recently announced a new “Trending Topics” feature, to make it easy to see what the world was talking about on Facebook. But what happened to hashtags? Aren’t those supposed to be on Facebook too? What should we use now? Hashtags Aren’t Working? Or Are They? Facebook’s hashtags are still less than a year old, but independent research has shown that hashtags just aren’t working. Edgerank Checker shows that posts with hashtags actually receive slightly less attention than posts with hashtags. Which is surprising since most people would presume that Facebook users would click on the interesting hashtag to see... Read the full article: Facebook’s Trending Topics – Should You Stop Using Hashtags Now? [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| Collaborate Artistically With Creatives From All Over The World With HitRecord Posted: 21 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST  Actor Joseph Gordon Levitt is better known for his roles in 3rd Rock from the Sun, 500 Days of Summer, and 50/50, but the popular actor has another accolade to his name — and it’s one that you can get involved in. HitRecord, founded by Levitt and his brother, is an online collaborative production company, and it allows users to upload and share content, effectively allowing them to collaborate artistically, or crowdsource content for video, audio, and more. Out of the site, a TV show has also been born – HitRecord on TV — which will be aired on Pivot TV,... Read the full article: Collaborate Artistically With Creatives From All Over The World With HitRecord |
| 5 Non-Annoying Ways to Check Your Smartphone in the Movie Theater Posted: 21 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST  What are the three most annoying behaviors in the world? People who interrupt. People who don’t allow you to merge into traffic. People who use their smartphone in the movie theater. I can’t help with the first two, but I’m going to help you avoid being an annoyance at the theater. These days, movie theaters are actually encouraging people to use their cellphones during the “pre-show” part of the movie experience. These usually involve trivia questions that people can text in their answers, or vote on some advertisement. It’s a great marketing gimmick, but when the lights dim and the... Read the full article: 5 Non-Annoying Ways to Check Your Smartphone in the Movie Theater |
| Fight Bandits and Monsters in the Old West with Six-Guns On Windows Phone Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST  Howdy, pardner. We need your help. Something is stirring in the hills of Arizona, and we need you to go there and stop it. Six-Guns might look like just another cowboy game, but believe us, it’s something altogether stranger… Background Six-Guns takes you back to the old west, a lawless age where the lone hero must tackle the usual bad guys… and something a little more unnatural. Equipped with just a horse and a gun, will you rise to the challenge? You are Buck Crosshaw, an outlaw who faked his own death and set out to Arizona, only to encounter... Read the full article: Fight Bandits and Monsters in the Old West with Six-Guns On Windows Phone |
| Smart Defrag 3 Introduces Defragmentation Support For Windows 8 Apps Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST  Smart Defrag 3 just introduced the feature to defrag Windows 8/8.1 Metro Apps. The Windows defragmentation freeware is a popular choice for many and the latest release matches it with the requirements of the current Windows operating system. IObit calls it "the first Disk Defragmenter that fully supports Windows 8/8.1 Metro Apps". The new defrag engine is clothed in a dual skinnable (Classic and White) Windows 8 themed UI – some small alterations to the layout, and it now sports a flatter modern design. The Windows 8 Metro Apps defragging option isn't the only change to the updated version. A new... Read the full article: Smart Defrag 3 Introduces Defragmentation Support For Windows 8 Apps |
| 3 Projects To Use Computer Downtime While Re-Installing Windows Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST  It’s creeping up on you like the dark and suddenly you notice it has happened again: It’s time to re-install Windows! When the lack of speed becomes unbearable, you can try to speed up Windows with a RAM upgrade or by removing the malware you might have picked up. The most thorough way to bring your computer back to speed, however, is to re-install the operating system; or restore, refresh, or reset Windows 8. Or maybe it’s not a speed issue at all, but you regret upgrading to Windows 8.1 and just found out that the only way to downgrade... Read the full article: 3 Projects To Use Computer Downtime While Re-Installing Windows |
| 5 Great Railway Games For Locomotive Enthusiasts Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST  Conductor is one of several jobs that children often fantasize of when growing up. There's a certain allure to the idea of commanding hundreds of thousands of tons of metal and cargo on a long-distance haul over railways most people never see. Of course, now that we're grown up, we realize that conducting a train is a job like any other, and that qualifying for it requires a very specific set of skills that most of us don't have the time or inclination to develop. Fortunately, there are games that can help you indulge your love of the rails from... Read the full article: 5 Great Railway Games For Locomotive Enthusiasts |
| Save Money On Textbooks This Semester By Renting With BookRenter Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST  The spring semester is upon us, and that means it’s book renting season again. This semester, don’t get ripped off by the inflated prices at your university bookstore. Instead, try renting your books from BookRenter. There are some tried-and-true tips for saving money on textbook rentals, but renting online is one of the first things you should learn to do as a freshman. Thankfully, BookRenter‘s website is simple, easy to use, and they have a wide selection of textbooks with fast shipping. From now until February 28, get 5% off 3 or more book rentals through this promotional link. Plus,... Read the full article: Save Money On Textbooks This Semester By Renting With BookRenter |
| Post-Holiday Cleanup: 5 Recycling Tips You Can Takeaway From The Web Posted: 21 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST  We’re a few weeks past Christmas and a lot of us may still be reeling from all of the clutter that accumulated over the holidays. You might be swimming in a sea of gifts that you don’t really want or plan to keep. (First world problems!) How can you clean up the post-holiday mess without being wasteful? Start the New Year with a clean environmental conscience. Here are some easy ways to repurpose your holiday mess in ways that will benefit someone else without extra cost to you. Sort Your Possessions The first thing you want to do is go... Read the full article: Post-Holiday Cleanup: 5 Recycling Tips You Can Takeaway From The Web |
| Doing Data Science in the Cloud With ScraperWiki Posted: 21 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST  If you've got the mental chops, a flair for programming and storytelling, and an eye for design, you can do worse than getting into data science. It's the new big thing in technology; highly trendy and highly paid, with data scientists being sought by some of the largest companies in the world. ScraperWiki is a company that has long been associated with the data science field. For the past few years, this Liverpool based startup has offered a platform for coders to write tools that get data, clean it and analyze it in the cloud. With a recent refresh and... Read the full article: Doing Data Science in the Cloud With ScraperWiki |
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