Monday, January 27, 2014

5 New Articles on MakeUseOf

You’re Being Watched Online
13 Free Contemporary Classical Music Albums To Download [Sound Sunday]
Adobe Photoshop Express Gets A Powerful Makeover For Android KitKat
Keep It Simple, Stupid: 7 No-Fuss Online Tools For The Lazy Blogger
Have You Upgraded To Windows 8.1? [MakeUseOf Poll]

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST

Yes, everything you do online is being tracked. Your searches, the videos you watch, transactions, social events, even crime. Scandalous crimes. With a little help, especially with our guides, you’re still able to remain anonymous on the Internet. But understanding how you’re being tracked is an important lesson, as are the little things you can do to maintain your privacy. via Tech Genie

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13 Free Contemporary Classical Music Albums To Download [Sound Sunday]

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST

Sound Sunday features free music downloads from independent artists. In this edition, the spotlight is on contemporary classical music. It’s all you’d expect, yet filled with surprises. Give it a spin! Soft As Air Genre: ambient, instrumental, piano, classical Ben Woods began writing music intended for release in 2008 whilst studying at the University of Plymouth in the Southwest, UK. (…) His style shifts between an ambient and piano sound achieved with processed MIDI instruments. Source: Last.fm You Know This Guy Genre: ambient, electronic, instrumental, classical You have heard the music of Dexter Britain before. One of his albums was...

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Adobe Photoshop Express Gets A Powerful Makeover For Android KitKat

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST

Adobe has released a new version of the free Photoshop Express for Android. The updated app has been designed from scratch with enhanced performance in tune with the new KitKat version of the operating system. Adobe’s new and faster image rendering engine powers the app in Android's latest version. The face of the app also gets a more user-friendly refresh. Users might notice the more powerful image rendering engine under the hood. Accessing and processing images saved on the SD card is now faster than before. The added power also makes handling larger file sizes easier. On the design front...

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Keep It Simple, Stupid: 7 No-Fuss Online Tools For The Lazy Blogger

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST

Blogging can be a pain in the butt when it comes to management. Hosting your own blog has its perks — flexibility and customization — but it could prove troublesome if you don’t have much technical knowledge. Plus, self-hosting a blog requires renting server space. What if you don’t want to deal with any of that? For a while, if you wanted to blog for free you were stuck between WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, and a few other alternatives that weren’t so good. Nowadays, you have an ocean of free blogging platforms that will serve you well depending on what you...

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Have You Upgraded To Windows 8.1? [MakeUseOf Poll]

Posted: 26 Jan 2014 04:35 AM PST

Last week we wanted to know how much free space you’ve managed to get on your Dropbox account. Through referrals, games, and various promotions, it seems that most of you did a pretty good job at going over the minimum 2 GB allotted by Dropbox. But if you thought 50 GB was a huge amount of free space to have, you’re in for a surprise. A total of 1,032 readers voted in this poll. These were the results: 1% of you have a paid Dropbox account, while 2% don’t use Dropbox at all. That means 98% of the readers who...

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