15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Send Encrypted Files, Thesis Hilarity, & Online Storage Management
• Breaking Down Google’s Average Position Rankings
• Android Apps on Sale for 23 January 2014: VNC Viewer Is Free!
• How To Get Published On MakeUseOf
• Flow Free: Bridges Is 930 Levels of Brain-Twisting Fun For Free
• How To Use Your Downloaded Gmail Data
• 8 of The Weirdest Simulation Games You Can Play Now
• Add Any Information To Your Mac Desktop With Nerdtool
• 30% Off The iPad Mini and Dell Takes 25% Off The Top [Tech Deals]
• Take Stunning Photospheres With Bubbli For iPhone
• 5 Strange Video Game Copy Protection Measures Used In History
• Google Launches “Video Quality Report” To Benchmark ISPs With YouTube HD Streaming
• QuizUp: The Quiz App to End All Quiz Apps
• Kii: A Rich and Powerful Alternative Android Keyboard Bursting With Options
• Ergotron WorkFit-S Dual with Worksurface+ Review and Giveaway

Cool Websites & Tools – Send Encrypted Files, Thesis Hilarity, & Online Storage Management Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST Viddme – Share videos instantly and anonymously with no signup needed. Upload a video, get a link back, and share it anywhere. You can now record long videos, with an even simpler video upload process. Just record and select a video then hit upload, and you’re done. Viddme also offers free iOS and Android apps. WireOver – is a desktop application for sending and receiving files. It’s easy to use, can transmit files of any size very fast, and uses end-to-end encryption. WireOver’s end-to-end encryption ensures that only your recipient can access the files you send, making it much more... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Send Encrypted Files, Thesis Hilarity, & Online Storage Management

Breaking Down Google’s Average Position Rankings Posted: 23 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST Why do identical searches result in varied search results? Why do searches for the same terms but performed in different locations, on different devices and by different users return websites? For a long time, Google has kept their Average Position ranking system a secret. Now, learn more about how your website’s average position is ranked with this helpful infograph by Anchor Wave. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: Breaking Down Google’s Average Position Rankings

Android Apps on Sale for 23 January 2014: VNC Viewer Is Free! Posted: 23 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST Each week we scour current Google Play promotions and cherry-pick the best of the best. This week we’re heavy on utilities, from a VNC viewer to a collage maker – but there are also a couple of games in the running. Because app sales are temporary affairs, by the time you read this, these may no longer be on sale. Worry not: Simply check back next week for some more Android deals! Apps VNC Viewer ($9.99, now FREE) VNC Viewer is this roundup’s big surprise, and the biggest reason to share it right now: It suddenly went free, down from... Read the full article: Android Apps on Sale for 23 January 2014: VNC Viewer Is Free!

How To Get Published On MakeUseOf Posted: 23 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST Have you ever wanted to reach thousands of people with your words? If you love technology, enjoy explaining it to others, and can express yourself well, you should give writing for MakeUseOf a try. We are now accepting applications. The Infographic below explains everything you need to know, so please read it thoroughly. We are happy to answer additional questions in the comments. Click here for a full-sized Infographic. You can submit your application and sample article here. MakeUseOf is looking forward to hearing from you! Read the full article: How To Get Published On MakeUseOf

Flow Free: Bridges Is 930 Levels of Brain-Twisting Fun For Free Posted: 23 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST I have always maintained that the games you will end up going back to again and again are the simplest ones. Think about it: If you were put in front of a giant arcade machine with Pac-Man, you could easily while away an hour or two, thoroughly entertained. That’s one of the reasons we loved the original Flow Free so much. So I was curious to know how developer Big Duck Games would follow it up with new gameplay while retaining the same simplicity. Meet Flow Free: Bridges. Bridging The Solution The basics of the original Flow Free are intact.... Read the full article: Flow Free: Bridges Is 930 Levels of Brain-Twisting Fun For Free

How To Use Your Downloaded Gmail Data Posted: 23 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST Google Takeout finally allows you to easily download a copy of your Gmail data. But Google gives you an MBOX file — and what can you do with that? It turns out you can do a lot with an MBOX file. It’s ideal for keeping an offline backup or moving all your emails to a new email service or Gmail account. Previously, getting an offline copy of your Gmail required downloading your entire Gmail archive over IMAP in Thunderbird. Now it just takes a few clicks on the Google Takeout website and you’re good to go. Import Your Gmail MBOX... Read the full article: How To Use Your Downloaded Gmail Data

8 of The Weirdest Simulation Games You Can Play Now Posted: 23 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST People are weird; like really, really weird. Some of those weirdos go on to be game developers, and that beautiful marriage of madness and digital potential creates the most random simulation games you'll ever find. Here's just a few of them, all of which you could play right now if you really had the desire to. Walk It Out (Wii) The Wii was truly a revolutionary device: you could get all the excitement of playing a sport while lazily mimicking the basic gestures. Legions of WiiSport fans began a journey of lifestyle change to lose weight and get fit –... Read the full article: 8 of The Weirdest Simulation Games You Can Play Now

Add Any Information To Your Mac Desktop With Nerdtool Posted: 23 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST Add whatever information you want to your Mac’s desktop, and make it look great. Free app Nerdtool is a piece of software you can use to turn that empty space behind your windows into something functional and beautiful. We showed you how Geektool lets you show system information in style. Nerdtool is a similar piece of software, but arguably easier to use. It also allows you to directly embed any website on your desktop, something Geektool never did. If you’ve used Geektool before, you’ll find Nerdtool comfortable. It’s similar, but gives users a lot more room to edit commands: If you’re... Read the full article: Add Any Information To Your Mac Desktop With Nerdtool

30% Off The iPad Mini and Dell Takes 25% Off The Top [Tech Deals] Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:30 AM PST We’ve got a number of excellent deals this week. First and foremost, both Dell and Radioshack are offering pretty great deals. In particular, you can take advantage of two deals that let you walk away with an iPad Mini for around $204.99. For Everyone Two amazing deals fram Radioshack and Dell. Radioshack’s $5-25 Trade-in Extravaganza Price: Up to $25 in gift cards Retailer: Radioshack Radioshack is currently offering up to $25 in gift cards for trading in old electronics. The old electronics are valued at $5 per item. It’s been suggested that bringing in cheap products purchased at the dollar... Read the full article: 30% Off The iPad Mini and Dell Takes 25% Off The Top [Tech Deals]

Take Stunning Photospheres With Bubbli For iPhone Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST When you go on a trip, how do you share your experiences with friends? Let me guess: photos and videos. You can take pretty darn good photos with your smartphone these days, but sometimes, photos and videos just aren’t enough. This is where photospheres come in. Photospheres are not panoramas, they’re a whole bubble of photographs stitched together, showing your entire surrounding in 360 degrees. Google introduced photospheres to Android starting from Android 4.2, but iOS users need to find third-party apps for their photospheres. Bubbli is one such app and it’s so easy to use that you’ll be creating... Read the full article: Take Stunning Photospheres With Bubbli For iPhone

5 Strange Video Game Copy Protection Measures Used In History Posted: 23 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST Digital Rights Management, or DRM for short, has been a hot-button topic over the past few years. The proliferation of online connectivity has made it easier for publishers to justify various measures that force players to login to play or periodically check a game's validity with a remote server. Yet DRM isn't a recent invention. There are games twenty years old that try to throw off hackers, pirates and thieves through various means, some of which are devious or downright evil. Pirating a game is easy – except when the games retaliate! Nintendo's Logo – As A Key Although not... Read the full article: 5 Strange Video Game Copy Protection Measures Used In History

Google Launches “Video Quality Report” To Benchmark ISPs With YouTube HD Streaming Posted: 23 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST There are speed tests to compare bandwidths from ISP services, and then there's the newly launched “Video Quality Report” from Google which subscribers and ISP providers can use to benchmark video streaming performance. It is only available in Canada for now, but expect it to be rolled out to the world gradually. The Google-powered yardstick uses YouTube HD playback to measure not only the speed of video delivery but also its quality. Google has servers around the world, and it usually picks the shortest route to deliver the YouTube video to a screen. The ISPs own network capacity is one... Read the full article: Google Launches “Video Quality Report” To Benchmark ISPs With YouTube HD Streaming

QuizUp: The Quiz App to End All Quiz Apps Posted: 23 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST We’ve reviewed our share of trivia games here at MakeUseOf, whether it’s movie quizzes, NASA quizzes, pixel quizzes or logo quizzes. We’ve even created a quiz or two for our readers, but we have finally found the one quiz app to end all quiz apps. QuizUp is a trivia game which pits you against competitors from all over the world, in an endless series of trivia questions. Currently it’s available only for the iPhone, but there’s an Android version of the game in the works. How Does QuizUp Work? The first thing you have to do is sign up for a free... Read the full article: QuizUp: The Quiz App to End All Quiz Apps

Kii: A Rich and Powerful Alternative Android Keyboard Bursting With Options Posted: 23 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST Mobile keyboards are like neighborhood coffee places: You sometimes need to try each and every one, just to be sure you found the perfect one. Kii is a keyboard that supports almost any feature you could imagine, including swiping, multiple layouts (including one dedicated to emoji), and more. But it’s definitely an acquired taste, sort of like that hippie place down the street that sells green coffee. Settings, Settings, And Some More Settings We usually cover settings near the end of any review, but when it comes to Kii, they make sense as a starting point. There are just so... Read the full article: Kii: A Rich and Powerful Alternative Android Keyboard Bursting With Options

Ergotron WorkFit-S Dual with Worksurface+ Review and Giveaway Posted: 23 Jan 2014 04:31 AM PST Your chair is killing you, or so recent studies would have you believe. Sure, you could just prop up your monitor on a box and work while standing, but eventually, you may want to sit back down again. This prompted a raft of sit-stand systems, that let you easily switch between sitting and standing. Today we’re going to be looking at Ergotron’s WorkFit-S Dual with Worksurface+, a $499 sit-stand workstation that latches onto any existing tabletop. As per our usual standard, this is not a sponsored review: We bought the WorkFit-S and paid for it in full, and I’ve been... Read the full article: Ergotron WorkFit-S Dual with Worksurface+ Review and Giveaway

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