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- Cool Websites & Tools – What You Can Spend Today, LinkedIn Volunteers, & OSX Controls For Media Players
- Should You Shred, Scan, Or Store Your Paperwork?
- What Do You Do When The Internet Goes Down? [We Ask You]
- Sky.FM Radio Comes To The Windows Phone
- Improve Your Reading Speed With iPhone App Outread
- eCampus: Easily Rent or Buy Affordable Textbooks, And Sell Them Back
- Make Room For A Relaxed Weekend — 5 Simple Tips To Beat Deadlines
- How To Stop Your Windows Computer From Randomly Waking Up
- 5 Tools To Help You Make The Most Of Your Rewards Accounts
- Coursera Launches Specialized Vocational Programs For Continuing Learners
- 6 Unusual Devices You Will Find Android Installed On
- Which Operating System Should You Choose For Your Next PC
- Technophilia 97 Live From MakeUseOf
- Make Memes On The Go With Imgur’s New MemeGen App
- 4 Ways To Manage Your Kids’ Internet Use With Your Router
| Posted: 22 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST  Timehop – helps you celebrate the best moments of the past with your friends. What were you doing a year ago today? Two years? Three years? Timehop brings together your old photos and posts from your iPhone, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Foursquare and replays your past a day at a time. You’ll quickly fall in love with checking your daily Timehop. Level Money – is the radically simple, digital equivalent of opening up your wallet to see what you can spend today, this week, or this month. All you need to do is link to your bank account(s) – including... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – What You Can Spend Today, LinkedIn Volunteers, & OSX Controls For Media Players |
| Should You Shred, Scan, Or Store Your Paperwork? Posted: 22 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST  Do you have a mountain of paperwork waiting to be filed or thrown away? How do you decide which documents should be shredded scanned or stored? Will you get into trouble for destroying your warranties or rental contracts? Should you scan your wills and insurance policies or keep physical copies? This insightful infograph by Women & Co. will help you decide. Read the full article: Should You Shred, Scan, Or Store Your Paperwork? |
| What Do You Do When The Internet Goes Down? [We Ask You] Posted: 22 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST  The Internet is a key ingredient in the lives of many people. This series of tubes is so pervasive that the MakeUseOf readership would rather give up alcohol, caffeine, and assorted body parts before they gave up access to the Web. That’s commitment for you. The problem is, however much a person loves the Internet, a solid connection can never be guaranteed. The Internet does, on occasion, go down, at which time everyone affected by the outage screams at whoever is in earshot in frustration and longing. And then… The Internet Is Down! What Now? We want to know, What... Read the full article: What Do You Do When The Internet Goes Down? [We Ask You] |
| Sky.FM Radio Comes To The Windows Phone Posted: 22 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST  Sky.FM is perhaps one of the best music apps out there at the moment, and in a move sure to delight music fans, the app has made the leap from iOS and Android, onto the Windows Phone platform. MakeUseOf has previously raved about Sky.fm as a portable streaming music fix, and that experience has now been brought to Windows Phone users. Instead of a streaming music service where you can choose what to listen to, Sky.FM acts as a radio station where you listen to whatever happens to be on at that moment. Whether you are a free user or... Read the full article: Sky.FM Radio Comes To The Windows Phone |
| Improve Your Reading Speed With iPhone App Outread Posted: 22 Jan 2014 02:00 PM PST  Outread ($2.99) is a unique app for iPhone that’s designed to train your eyes to read content faster and not subvocalize each word you see. The new app takes a different approach to similar apps like ReadQuick ($9.99), which I reviewed last year. A great deal of the articles published on MakeUseOf and elsewhere on the Internet are not written for speed reading per se, but narrative articles and fictional pieces don’t always need to be read word for word. Let’s take a look at how Outread works. How It Works For now, Outread is optimized only for the iPhone, though it can also be... Read the full article: Improve Your Reading Speed With iPhone App Outread |
| eCampus: Easily Rent or Buy Affordable Textbooks, And Sell Them Back Posted: 22 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST  Another outrageously-priced textbook? You’ve got to be kidding! How much of this are you going to take? You know there’s a better option than getting ripped off by your university bookstore, right? There are several reputable websites for saving students money on textbooks, eCampus being one of the very best. Did you know you can rent textbooks, instead of purchasing them? Or perhaps you have a pile of textbooks you no longer need, eCampus will buy them from you. Whether you want to buy, rent or sell your textbooks, eCampus is one way to beat college on a budget. Setting... Read the full article: eCampus: Easily Rent or Buy Affordable Textbooks, And Sell Them Back |
| Make Room For A Relaxed Weekend — 5 Simple Tips To Beat Deadlines Posted: 22 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST  Nothing can be more stressful than the threat of a deadline looming large. But, it does not have to be so. With just a few adjustments you can get your work done ahead of time. An ever-increasing number of people have jobs related to digital media, so much so that we have seen several new job titles in that arena. Global connectivity through the Web means that many jobs don’t resemble the old 9-to-5 routines. The weekday-weekend barriers have also been blurred to such an extent that working on weekends no longer raises any eyebrows. When this is the scenario,... Read the full article: Make Room For A Relaxed Weekend — 5 Simple Tips To Beat Deadlines |
| How To Stop Your Windows Computer From Randomly Waking Up Posted: 22 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST  Waking up in the middle of the night is annoying, and it’s a problem that doesn’t just affect humans. Computers can have restless nights, too, tossing and turning as they turn on for no apparent reason, then go back to sleep after a set period of time. Besides wasting power, this constant on-off cycle can be a real annoyance (if you sleep near the PC) and can cause problems for both hardware and software. Fortunately, conquering your computer's sleepless nights is probably easier than you think. Finding The Problem With The Command Line Before you start changing settings, it’s a... Read the full article: How To Stop Your Windows Computer From Randomly Waking Up |
| 5 Tools To Help You Make The Most Of Your Rewards Accounts Posted: 22 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST  Many companies offer rewards programs — not just airlines, but also gas stations, rental car companies, pharmacies, grocery stores, and coffee shops, just to name a few. In recent years, more and more companies have been jumping on the rewards bandwagon as a way to retain customers, generate loyalty, and gather information on your spending habits. It's easy to sign up for all of these programs, but it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Do you know how many Delta miles you have? What about Hertz points? Are you at the Gold level at Starbucks yet? If... Read the full article: 5 Tools To Help You Make The Most Of Your Rewards Accounts |
| Coursera Launches Specialized Vocational Programs For Continuing Learners Posted: 22 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST  Coursera has brought out “Specializations“. Diverging from the single-course track, Specializations are more focused multi-course series built around popular topics like Data Science, Cybersecurity, Android Development, and Foundations of Teaching. These specialized programs will be acknowledged by participating institutes with a Specialization Certificate on successful completion. The Specializations will mirror real-world requirements by enforcing a unique capstone project or exam before students are awarded a Specialization Certificate. Coursera is launching ten courses in the first salvo. Mobile Cloud Computing with Android (from Vanderbilt and the University of Maryland) and Reasoning, Data Analysis and Writing (from Duke University) are the two... Read the full article: Coursera Launches Specialized Vocational Programs For Continuing Learners |
| 6 Unusual Devices You Will Find Android Installed On Posted: 22 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST  Android. It’s been around for more than five years, and there’s nothing more natural than seeing it on a smartphone or a tablet. But would you expect to see it in your fridge? Not so much. And yet, if you really look (as we just did), you’ll find Android installed on all sorts of weird devices. Prepare to be perplexed. Android-Powered Oven You heard right. The Dacor Discovery IQ is an oven running Android, and it’s not even that new (although it was updated this last CES). According to Dacor’s website, the oven is powered by a Samsung 1 GHz... Read the full article: 6 Unusual Devices You Will Find Android Installed On |
| Which Operating System Should You Choose For Your Next PC Posted: 22 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST  Buying a new PC? You have more operating system choices than ever. Windows is still popular, but Macs are now surprisingly affordable compared to higher-end Windows PCs. Google also offers Chromebooks that are simple and cheap, and Linux laptops are an option, too. You could even use an Android tablet or iPad with a keyboard as a laptop replacement. But which should you choose when it’s time to buy a new computer? We’ll give you an overview of all your choices, along with their advantages and disadvantages. Here’s a spoiler: There’s no one best option for everyone. Windows You probably... Read the full article: Which Operating System Should You Choose For Your Next PC |
| Technophilia 97 Live From MakeUseOf Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:59 AM PST  This week: 95 per cent of machines full of money are run by Windows XP – which no longer gets any updates. What could possibly go wrong? Nest, recently purchased by Google, said it wouldn't share consumer data with Google. Now they're talking about what it would look like, should they share consumer data with Google. And HP has a cool new feature on a few of their laptops: Windows 7! The future of the PC is finally here. Tech News HBO CEO Richard Plepler: go ahead and share HBO GO passwords. "We're in the business of creating addicts." 95... Read the full article: Technophilia 97 Live From MakeUseOf |
| Make Memes On The Go With Imgur’s New MemeGen App Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:30 AM PST  Last Summer Imgur, the most-used image hosting service on Reddit, launched a meme generator for the web, making it easy for users to create and host images in one place. Now, it is bringing that service to iOS with the launch of its dedicated MemeGen app. Users can now waste time making memes whether at home or on the go. The app is very simple, allowing users to simply choose their meme from the massive list, and add the text that overlays on top of said image. There is also a search feature that allows you to search for specific... Read the full article: Make Memes On The Go With Imgur’s New MemeGen App |
| 4 Ways To Manage Your Kids’ Internet Use With Your Router Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST  You’re in the middle of watching a late-night movie on Netflix with your spouse, when suddenly your Internet comes to a screeching halt, and the movie pauses and starts buffering for the next 20 minutes. It’s enough to make you stick a needle in your eye. What causes this craziness? Why is the Internet connection suddenly crawling along? Well, if you have kids with mobile devices, laptops or computers in their bedroom, then you’re probably facing a bit of a bandwidth crisis. The odds are pretty good that your kids are probably streaming YouTube videos or music, leaving very little... Read the full article: 4 Ways To Manage Your Kids’ Internet Use With Your Router |
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