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- Cool Websites & Tools – Swap Text From Clipboard, Music Timeline, & Interactive City Maps
- Caption Contest: Email Mania
- iOS Apps on Sale for 25 January: Carmageddon & KORG’s Massive Sale
- Video Game Hub Episode 2 – Nintendo Woes, Shady Dealings, Titans are Falling
- For Visual Thinkers: 2 Different Ways To Look At Your Evernote Notes
- Battle Supremacy Brings Tank Warfare To iOS, But Is It Any Good?
- The Only Chrome Extension You Need For Gmail: mxHero Toolbox
- Now They’re Serious: Pinterest Adds Support For Animated GIFs
- SkyDrive For Windows 8: The Cloud Storage And Modern File Explorer App
- Can You Really See Who Viewed Your Facebook Profile?
- 2 Ways to Play Civilization On Android
- Google Search Uses Dropdown To Reveal More Information On Relevant Websites
- 5 Reasons No One Is Using Facebook Hashtags
- Task-Oriented Email App Mail Pilot Arrives On Mac OS X
- Evolve Client: Voice Chat, VPN, and Livestreaming All In One
| Cool Websites & Tools – Swap Text From Clipboard, Music Timeline, & Interactive City Maps Posted: 24 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST  Cut, Copy, Paste, Swap – if you are someone who uses a computer all day, cut, copy and paste are three most important commands. But you may find yourself needing to swap two pieces of text. This introduces a new command – swap. Swap pastes whatever was previously on the clipboard into the area you’ve selected — i.e. ‘swapping’ your selected text with the text currently in the clipboard. Glean – there are incredible educational lessons all over the web but they're hard to find. Glean helps find the best ones for students. Hundreds of amazing teachers post educational videos... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Swap Text From Clipboard, Music Timeline, & Interactive City Maps |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST  This is why I hate Mondays. Got a caption for us? Put on your thinking caps and churn them out! The wittiest or funniest caption wins a free geeky t-shirt from us! Our previous contest “Family Phubbing” is not over yet. So hop over to that post and submit your entries! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Email Mania |
| iOS Apps on Sale for 25 January: Carmageddon & KORG’s Massive Sale Posted: 24 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST  Another week, another flurry of App Store offers. It’s time to turn our attention to musical apps this week, and more specifically KORG’s bumper sale in celebration of releasing yet another noisy piece of software. All those, plus some vehicular manslaughter in the form of Carmageddon and a devilishly fun stealth ‘em up. Time to save some money! Apps KORG Gadget ($29.99, launch price $19.99) The whole reason KORG are having a sale in the first place, the KORG Gadget is a new app that features 15 (count ‘em!) synthesizers within the one app. That makes it not just a... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for 25 January: Carmageddon & KORG’s Massive Sale |
| Video Game Hub Episode 2 – Nintendo Woes, Shady Dealings, Titans are Falling Posted: 24 Jan 2014 02:30 PM PST  Welcome to MakeUseOf’s Video Game Hub episode 2, the weekly news show where we count top the top five news stories from the busy world of video games. A new episode airs each and every Friday. We keep up with the latest video games news, so you don’t have to. This week, we finally talk about Nintendo’s rumored next console, leaked footage of Titanfall’s not-so-secret alpha, the best-selling games of 2013, some shady dealing on YouTube with Microsoft and EA, and we discuss Nintendo and its financial woes. We break down each of the stories so you can have your... Read the full article: Video Game Hub Episode 2 – Nintendo Woes, Shady Dealings, Titans are Falling |
| For Visual Thinkers: 2 Different Ways To Look At Your Evernote Notes Posted: 24 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST  Evernote is the closest (or at least, the most popular) digital relative of the old moleskin notebook. There’s just one slight hitch – Evernote organizes all the notes and notebooks in a flat, linear structure. Usually, it isn't a problem at all if you are anything other than a visual thinker. Visual thinkers lean more towards free-flowing methods like sketchnoting and mindmaping. Visual thinking helps to break down the complexity of information and gives you another angle to look at it from. When it comes to working with information, a more visual approach also helps to re-organize the structure of... Read the full article: For Visual Thinkers: 2 Different Ways To Look At Your Evernote Notes |
| Battle Supremacy Brings Tank Warfare To iOS, But Is It Any Good? Posted: 24 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST  There’s no denying the popularity of the free-to-play gung-ho battle sim World of Tanks, but the franchise has yet to make it onto iOS. That’ll soon be changing with the arrival of World of Tanks Blitz, and so for now we’ll have to make do with Battle Supremacy ($4.99) instead. Developed by the same studio that brought us the Sky Gamblers flight simulators, Battle Supremacy is an all-round World War II fighting game with an emphasis on tank warfare. Players are also invited to fly planes, drive trucks and sail ships, which all sounds very fun indeed – but is... Read the full article: Battle Supremacy Brings Tank Warfare To iOS, But Is It Any Good? |
| The Only Chrome Extension You Need For Gmail: mxHero Toolbox Posted: 24 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST  Gmail is our favourite email service here at MakeUseOf, but admittedly, it has a few shortcomings. For one, the inability to schedule emails to send them later is quite frustrating. Plus, it would be nice to be able to know when someone has checked your message, and maybe even get reminded to follow-up with those who haven’t. I’d never have guessed that someone would come up with an extension that solves all of these problems for free. And mxHero Toolbox not only does that, but also adds the ability to send self-destructing messages right from your Gmail! How To Send... Read the full article: The Only Chrome Extension You Need For Gmail: mxHero Toolbox |
| Now They’re Serious: Pinterest Adds Support For Animated GIFs Posted: 24 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST  Pinterest has just announced that they will be rolling out animated GIF support to all users. Should Tumblr be worried? You’ll be able to view GIFs on the Pinterest website simply by clicking on the play/pause button in the lower left corner of the image. Pinterest says that they will be rolling out support to mobile users soon. Tens of millions of GIFs already exist on Pinterest, and these will be retroactively animated, meaning that any GIF, old or now, now has the possibility to be animated. With so many image-based social network-esque services out there, it’s hard to tell... Read the full article: Now They’re Serious: Pinterest Adds Support For Animated GIFs |
| SkyDrive For Windows 8: The Cloud Storage And Modern File Explorer App Posted: 24 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST  With Windows 8, Microsoft included SkyDrive integration with every PC, and with Windows 8.1, they have pushed that integration even further. Now, the SkyDrive for Windows 8 app is a must-use for any Windows 8 user. Every person with a Microsoft account is given 7GB of storage for free, which is notably better than many alternative cloud storage services like Dropbox. Filling up that space is whatever you choose to put in your SkyDrive folder, as well as your PC’s personalization settings, and the app even works as a modern file explorer. Cloud Storage There used to be a desktop... Read the full article: SkyDrive For Windows 8: The Cloud Storage And Modern File Explorer App |
| Can You Really See Who Viewed Your Facebook Profile? Posted: 24 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST  Who is viewing my Facebook profile? Rather than “how to end world hunger?”, this is probably the most frequently asked question of the last decade. After all, you go through the trouble of setting up what you feel is the best representation of yourself, why wouldn’t you want to know who’s seen it? Google any variety of the question above, and you’ll find loads of results. Many tutorials, a variety of apps, and a bucketful of promises. Should you believe them? Is there really some kind of way out there to know who viewed your Facebook profile? Get Ready For... Read the full article: Can You Really See Who Viewed Your Facebook Profile? |
| 2 Ways to Play Civilization On Android Posted: 24 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST  There is a curious lack of Sid Meier titles available for Android. So just how does a Civilization junkie get his fix courtesy of the little green robot? Why Civilization? In 1991 I accidentally bought the original Civilization for my Amiga. I say “accidentally” because I’d intended to buy Sim City after playing it on my uncles’ PC several months earlier, but somehow found myself reading the box and walking, somnambulist-like, to the counter and paying, as if remotely hypnotised by Sid Meier himself. Ever since I’ve been addicted to the game (couldn’t get to grips with Civ 3, however)... Read the full article: 2 Ways to Play Civilization On Android |
| Google Search Uses Dropdown To Reveal More Information On Relevant Websites Posted: 24 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST  The Knowledge Graph was a significant addition to the search results page. Google now integrates a bit more from it under each individual search result. A little dropdown menu just below the search results tells you more about the websites you see in the search results page. By including information on notable websites, Google gives searchers an opportunity to learn more about a website without needing to click through and searching for the information on their own. At a glance, it will help users source the relevant search information from an authoritative website. As you can see in the screenshot... Read the full article: Google Search Uses Dropdown To Reveal More Information On Relevant Websites |
| 5 Reasons No One Is Using Facebook Hashtags Posted: 24 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST  Why in the world did Facebook ever think it needed hashtags? When hashtags were first introduced to Facebook, they were all over the place. But, lately, it is getting harder to find them on anyone’s news feed. If you are confused about Facebook hashtags, or wondering why they’re simply not working, here are a few pieces of information you may want to know. Hashtags Are Not Native To Facebook Hashtags have been kicking around the engineering community since the 1970s. Twitter was launched in late 2006. In 2007, a programmer named Chris Messina recommended that hashtags be used on Twitter. Twitter users... Read the full article: 5 Reasons No One Is Using Facebook Hashtags |
| Task-Oriented Email App Mail Pilot Arrives On Mac OS X Posted: 24 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST  Popular iOS mail app Mail Pilot, which we reviewed last year, is now available for OS X in the Mac App Store ($19.99). Like the mobile version of the app, Mail Pilot for Mac is very useful for managing important email like a to-do list. Mail Pilot’s task-oriented approach allows users to attach reminders or set aside selected messages for later review. These management features make it distinctive from Apple’s own Mail and other desktop mail clients. Managing Mail & Reminders The basic interface consists of three columns: mail accounts and folders on the left, a list of messages in the... Read the full article: Task-Oriented Email App Mail Pilot Arrives On Mac OS X |
| Evolve Client: Voice Chat, VPN, and Livestreaming All In One Posted: 24 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST  Calling all PC gamers! Are you sick and tired of having to juggle a handful of different programs that accompany your gaming sessions? You know what I'm talking about: voice chat programs like Mumble, screencasters like Fraps, live streaming tools like OBS, and gaming VPNs like Tunngle. What if there was one program that handled ALL of the above? It’s called Evolve and every PC gamer needs to check it out. Yes, it’s free. Many thanks go out to one of our readers, Hekutoru, who brought Evolve to my attention several months ago. In that time, Evolve really has developed... Read the full article: Evolve Client: Voice Chat, VPN, and Livestreaming All In One |
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