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Monday, January 6, 2014

6 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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Chromebook Conquers, Digital Dwindles, Pandora Alarms, Snapchat Sorry? [Tech News Digest]

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 03:30 AM PST

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Today in Tech News Digest, Chromebooks are revealed to have sold well in 2013, digital music sales are shown to have declined in 2013, the Vine app lands on the Web, Snapchat fails to apologize for the recent hack, a tweet becomes a newspaper advert, Pandora launches an alarm clock, Wikipedia adds a draft function, and a Tumblr tracking the source code used in film and TV gains attention. Chromebook Succeeds In 2013 The Chromebook may not be to everybody’s taste, but enough people bought one of these affordable Google netbooks in 2013 to justify its existence. According to NPD...

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Cool Websites & Tools – Remove Geotag Data, Android Task Switcher, & Video Game Emulation

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST

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deGeo – provides effortless locational privacy when sharing photos.Did you know that GPS location data is stored within each photo? This invisible, uneditable geotag data is embedded into every picture and contains the exact coordinates of where the photo was taken. deGeo is a photo sharing privacy utility that removes the geotags from your photos. Loopr – Do you want to speed up your multitasking? Being able to customize your device with a new look? Then this Android app might be the right one for you. Loopr is a task switcher, pretty much like the recent apps menu on your...

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A Million Lines Of Code: Is It A Lot?

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST

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Well, is it? What can you do with a million lines of code? How many lines of code are there in a your iOS Facebook app? How many lines of code did it take to program Windows 3.1? Click to enlarge. via David McCandless

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The Free Lounge & Chillout Playlist [Sound Sunday]

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST

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Educate your ear and build your music collection for free with Sound Sunday! This week’s formidable lounge & chillout collection contains 11 albums, all of which are free downloads from Bandcamp. Great background music for parties and other chilled activities. Finest Instrumental Chillout & Lounge Jazz Genres: instrumental, lounge, chillout, jazz, jazzy hip hop London based music label Cult Classic Records is a steady source of amazing talent from around the world. Featured on Sound Sunday countless times, they contribute no less than three amazing artists to this edition; and that’s just because I forced to contain myself. The debut...

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5 Ways To Keep The Christmas Kindness Going On The Digital Front

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST

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Christmas is over. By now, it has been over for a while. Of course, this means we can all go right back to hating each other, cursing people we don’t like, and generally just being, well, ugly. Right? Maybe not. Christmas, as we all know, is often surrounded by the ideas of good will towards men and peace unto others. From the end of November to December 25th, most of us are all about being nice! (When we aren’t consumed by Christmas consumerism, of course.) However, why should this end once December 26th rolls around? Below are five ways to...

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Do You Own A Tablet? [MakeUseOf Poll]

Posted: 05 Jan 2014 04:30 AM PST

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When I set out to write last week’s poll — which mobile OS is truly the best (regardless of what you’re actually using) — I expected it to be a battle between two giants and two underdogs. You’d think that iOS and Android would beat Windows Phone and Blackberry out of the water. Turns out you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the news. If you still think iOS is the most popular mobile OS out there, prepare to be surprised. No less than 3,870 of you voted in this poll, and we appreciate your enthusiastic participation. It makes the...

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