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- Cool Websites & Tools – Twitter Username Extractor, Evernote Mindmap, & Easy Recordings On iPhone
- Caption Contest: Bitcoin Convention
- There’s Life Yet in Blackberry: What To Expect From The 10.2.1 Update
- 10 Things To Do When The Internet Goes Down [We Ask You Results]
- 2 Spanking New Ways To Make Your Blog Look Great On Facebook [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- Not Just For Developers: 7 HTML Tags Any Writer Should Know
- 8 Tips To Come Up With Winning Ideas When You Are Brainstorming Alone
- 3 Ways To Find Out How Long It Will Take To Beat A Video Game
- Better Than Bitcoin? 3 Crypto-Currencies That Aren’t Just Copycats
- A Little Restraint Can Save You From Disappointing Games
- The Best Reddit Reader For Windows 8: ReddHub
- Tower Defense? Boring! Tower Offense Is Where It’s At
- Talon Is A Feature-Packed Yet Fast Twitter App For Android
- New Kindle For iOS Features Make It A Serious eReader For Studying
- RAVPower RP-WD01 Wireless File Hub and Power Bank Review and Giveaway
| Cool Websites & Tools – Twitter Username Extractor, Evernote Mindmap, & Easy Recordings On iPhone Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST  PureContact – swipe or double tap to quickly text, whatsapp, vibrate, call or email with your friends. Add your favourite contacts easily to PureContact and use gestures to quickly contact a friend. Widget, themes and a customizable contact grid are available on PureContact+. Interviewy – makes it easy to record the important stuff, keep it safe and quickly transcribe it later. TypeTag markers let you pinpoint the most important parts of your recording as they happen, so you can find them in a jiffy later on. Make as many TypeTags as you like, and make them as long as you... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Twitter Username Extractor, Evernote Mindmap, & Easy Recordings On iPhone |
| Caption Contest: Bitcoin Convention Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST  Pioneers in Bitcoin mining, Bill and Fred believe that dressing the part increases return on investment. Give us your funniest captions! Share them in the comments section below and you’ll be in the running to win a MakeUseOf t-shirt. Submit as many as you want, each comment counts as one entry into the contest. Good luck! The winning caption for “Email Mania” is awarded to Leo O. and his submission, “Looks like your spam blocker license has ended!” Read the full article: Caption Contest: Bitcoin Convention |
| There’s Life Yet in Blackberry: What To Expect From The 10.2.1 Update Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:00 PM PST  The latest Blackberry update (10.2.1) is trickling out to handsets throughout the world, and it contains hundreds of updates, refinements and enhancements, as well as the ability to directly install Android apps. Strap in. Get comfortable. It's a biggun. Blackberry 10 is an often underestimated competitor in the Smartphone race. We've previously talked about what's awesome about the latest refresh to the Blackberry platform, and we've even talked about how you can run Android apps on Waterloo's latest Blackberry phones. But now we're going to talk about the latest refresh of their new, QNX based operating system. Aesthetics I've been quite fond... Read the full article: There’s Life Yet in Blackberry: What To Expect From The 10.2.1 Update |
| 10 Things To Do When The Internet Goes Down [We Ask You Results] Posted: 28 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST  The Internet is an important – some would say dominant – part of modern life. It provides opportunities for work and play, education and entertainment, and everything else you care to mention. It’s this unending well of variety that has people more addicted to the Internet than they are more traditionally addicting substances, such as alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine. The impact the Internet has had on our lives, and its continued presence in almost everything we do, makes it all the more frustrating when it suddenly and inexplicably disappears. When the Internet goes down, life goes on, as we discovered... Read the full article: 10 Things To Do When The Internet Goes Down [We Ask You Results] |
| 2 Spanking New Ways To Make Your Blog Look Great On Facebook [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 28 Jan 2014 03:30 PM PST  If you run a website and a Facebook Page, you probably put a lot of thought into your article content, headlines, images and other things that will get your content shared on social media. But there is always more you can do — especially when the guidelines change every day. Facebook recently changed their specifications for meta-data, meaning there are new things you can do to make your content look good and be more shareable on Facebook. The two most recent changes are for featured images and author following. Here’s what you need to know. Author Following Facebook now shows lots of... Read the full article: 2 Spanking New Ways To Make Your Blog Look Great On Facebook [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| Not Just For Developers: 7 HTML Tags Any Writer Should Know Posted: 28 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST  Would you sketch a drawing without having an eraser handy? Would you paint a room, without first taping the edges of the walls? Well then, don’t even think about blogging without an understanding of the following 7 HTML tags, which any online writer really should know. There are a lot of situations when you may need to tweak the formatting of a blog entry or online article. If you’re a freelance author, having the ability to deliver a well formatted article utilizing nothing but a text editor and HTML code is an excellent skill to have. To be marketable and... Read the full article: Not Just For Developers: 7 HTML Tags Any Writer Should Know |
| 8 Tips To Come Up With Winning Ideas When You Are Brainstorming Alone Posted: 28 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST  Brainstorming conjures up images of teams trying to hash out wild ideas around complex problems. Two heads think better than one, but brainstorming is as much about individual problem solving as it is about the group. The energies required for solo brainstorming are probably more, but the methods to build up the "storm" of ideas aren't that different. One of our readers had asked – How do writers at MakeUseOf find ideas for content? It’s a daily ritual. Brainstorming alone is half the fun; but it is a necessity for us creative types who work alone in our pajamas. Call it... Read the full article: 8 Tips To Come Up With Winning Ideas When You Are Brainstorming Alone |
| 3 Ways To Find Out How Long It Will Take To Beat A Video Game Posted: 28 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST  Thinking of getting a game, but want to know how long it will take to play first? A couple of sites have statistics from other players, so you can look this up. It’s easy to know how long a movie will take to watch: just look at the back of the box. Video games aren’t so simple: how long a game will last depends a lot on the player. Hardcore gamers will breeze through a game that beginners struggle with; completionists will explore every corner of a game while casual players rush toward the story’s conclusion. Still, there’s only so... Read the full article: 3 Ways To Find Out How Long It Will Take To Beat A Video Game |
| Better Than Bitcoin? 3 Crypto-Currencies That Aren’t Just Copycats Posted: 28 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST  Bitcoin was here first, but the open-source code meant copying it was easy. Litecoins are now established as being the silver to Bitcoins gold, but there are literally hundreds of other copycat “alt coins”. Not all crypto-currencies are equal though: here are 3 that I believe will have a future. While you’re at it – read my guide on getting started with Litecoin mining, while you still can. If you don’t understand the concept of Bitcoin yet – and I wouldn’t fault you for that – then this video is the best explanation I’ve found yet: We have a free... Read the full article: Better Than Bitcoin? 3 Crypto-Currencies That Aren’t Just Copycats |
| A Little Restraint Can Save You From Disappointing Games Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST  Preordering a game can be exciting, but it comes with some drawbacks. Holding off for a little can save you a great deal of money, time, and frustration. If you keep an eye on gaming news, you may have noticed a recent story about last year’s highly divisive Simcity release. Maxis has, in the face of continuing player pressure, added an offline mode to the formerly online only game. It’s a move that has many parading out tweets and quotes from the developer about how such a mode was simply “not possible”. The reality, it seems, is that it was... Read the full article: A Little Restraint Can Save You From Disappointing Games |
| The Best Reddit Reader For Windows 8: ReddHub Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST  If you’re on a Windows 8 device, there are better ways to surf Reddit than just through your Internet browser. ReddHub offers a wonderful free Reddit experience with a quality modern user interface. Getting started is as easy as downloading the app from the Windows Store and signing into your Reddit account upon first opening it. If you’re unfamiliar with Reddit, you may want to check out our awesome guide to Reddit and learn about how cool Reddit is. Viewing Posts ReddHub takes a nice two-paned approach to the interface, allowing you to scroll through articles/photos on the left while... Read the full article: The Best Reddit Reader For Windows 8: ReddHub |
| Tower Defense? Boring! Tower Offense Is Where It’s At Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST  The tower defense genre is one of the biggest success stories of gaming's last decade. Numerous indie developers made a name for themselves with variations on the theme. Some, like Plants vs. Zombies and Kingdom Rush, still appear on best-seller lists of iOS and Android years after their debut. With that said, the genre isn't as vibrant today as it was two or three years ago. Gamers want something different, and some are turning to tower offense instead. These games let players take an offensive role and often combine action packed gameplay with puzzle-solving and strategy. Though still a young... Read the full article: Tower Defense? Boring! Tower Offense Is Where It's At |
| Talon Is A Feature-Packed Yet Fast Twitter App For Android Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST  I recently reviewed and loved Carbon for Android, but shortly after that, it was struck by Twitter’s API limit issue. And so when a friend asked for a good-looking Twitter client for Android, I set about looking through other options. There’s no shortage of these on Android and I even checked out some of the lesser-known Twitter apps on the Play Store. But I believe I’ve found a balance between looks and functionality with Talon. What’s It Like? Fire up Talon and you’ll see your timeline in a clean grey-and-black theme (you can change this to light and dark themes),... Read the full article: Talon Is A Feature-Packed Yet Fast Twitter App For Android |
| New Kindle For iOS Features Make It A Serious eReader For Studying Posted: 28 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST  The latest update adds features to the iOS version of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader that makes it more useful than Apple’s own iBooks for reading eBooks and PDFs. If you want to read books on your iPad, the Kindle app has you covered. You can download the first few chapters of Kindle books for free and purchase, read and sync your collection, annotations, and last page read with your iOS, Kindle Fire, Mac, Android, and Windows Phone 8 devices. If you want to build an impressive ebook library and use the app for study purposes, the latest additions to the Kindle app take the... Read the full article: New Kindle For iOS Features Make It A Serious eReader For Studying |
| RAVPower RP-WD01 Wireless File Hub and Power Bank Review and Giveaway Posted: 28 Jan 2014 04:32 AM PST  RAVPower designs unique, high-quality, low-cost backup power devices. To my knowledge, they created the very first backup battery-flashlight hybrid. Now they’ve done something else entirely – their newest device integrates a miniature WiFi file server into a backup battery: The RAVPower RP-WD01. The WD01 retails for $44.99 on Amazon. A variety of backup batteries inhabit marketplaces, but to my knowledge, no other company manufactures a storage-drive battery-bank hybrid. However, I did see a power bank/projector, but no other company manufactures a WiFi storage drive combined with a backup battery. Even compared to the weird gizmos I’ve seen on eBay, the... Read the full article: RAVPower RP-WD01 Wireless File Hub and Power Bank Review and Giveaway |
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