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Monday, January 13, 2014

7 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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Cool Websites & Tools – Analyze Online Form Usage, Make Your Android Phone Smarter, & Instagram Metrics

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST

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Formisimo – is described on its site as “an advanced analytics and reactions engine”. It lets you analyse how visitors use your online forms, then optimise and react to them in real-time. You can save more customers by reacting to those that are about to leave the form. You can monitor how the changes you make to your form impact the conversion rate. Agent – is a collection of five Android apps in one that make your phone smarter. These apps run in the background to automatically save your battery, silence your phone during meetings, remember where you’ve parked your...

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IObit Uninstaller 3.1 Now Available With Powerful New Options

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 07:30 PM PST

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The new iObit uninstaller has just been released, so Windows users can now uninstall multiple programs without prompts and see a “shred” button in Windows Explorer. To maintain a speedy computer, it always pays to watch how many programs you have installed. If you are not using something, then you can uninstall it and you will end up with some extra space, as well as a slightly faster system. Normally the default Windows uninstaller is sufficient to get rid of something, but it has its limitations. For example, you can only uninstall one thing at a time (which is a...

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10 Job Titles That Didn’t Exist 5 Years Ago

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST

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Just over five years ago, the world didn’t know what an iOS developer was. Social media intern? You mean one can get a job browsing social media? That term probably wasn’t even uttered until late 2008. What about a Cloud services specialist? Does that have something to do with weather? Over the last five years, the booming tech industry introduced many new popular job titles, creating tens of thousands of jobs in the process. Do you hold any one of these ten job titles? Speak out in the comments and tell us how you landed the job! via LinkedIn

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Auditory Self Test: Do You Experience ASMR? [Sound Sunday]

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST

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Sounds can trigger many reactions. Music can help you relax, influence your mood, and some sounds evoke much deeper physical reactions. This week’s Sound Sunday will let you find out whether you are sensitive to ASMR – a pleasant, physical reaction some people have to certain sounds. But even if you’re not sensitive, you can simply enjoy some relaxing music. What Is ASMR? Autonomous sensory meridian response, or short ASMR, “is a neologism for a perceptual phenomenon characterized as a distinct, pleasurable tingling sensation in the head, scalp, back, or peripheral regions of the body in response to visual, auditory,...

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CloudApp 2 Brings ‘Instant Drops’ And Redesigns Menu For Easier & Faster Access

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST

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One of the easiest and most stylish ways to share files from a Mac is with CloudApp. It’s a simple little app that sits in OS X’s menu bar, and all you have to do is drag-and-drop files to it to get shareable links. We’ve reviewed it and loved it. Now, CloudApp 2.0 has come with refinements to make it faster and more accessible than before. The one big feature being introduced is ‘Instant Drops’. With this, when you upload a file to CloudApp, you immediately get a link for it, which is automatically copied to your clipboard—you no longer...

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What’s a Custom Recovery? Exploring CWM, TWRP, and Friends

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST

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If you’ve ever thought about tinkering with your Android device, you’ve probably read that you need to flash a custom recovery onto it before you can do anything serious. But, that begs a few questions — what’s a recovery? What’s a custom recovery? What are my options for custom recoveries? We’re going to take a complete look at recoveries so that you can be well-informed when you start messing with your Android device. What’s a Recovery? An Android device consists of several pieces of software, which include the bootloader, radio, recovery, and system. The bootloader is the first piece of...

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POLL: What’s Your Favorite From CES This Year?

Posted: 12 Jan 2014 04:30 AM PST

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Last week we asked you if you’ve joined the biggest trend of the 2010s and got yourself a tablet. Not only did you answer our poll, you took to the comments to tell us all about the tablets you own. That’s awesome! Out of 837 votes in total, these are our tablet results: 3% used to own a tablet but don’t anymore, 6% don’t own one but plan to get one soon, 13% don’t own one, never did, and don’t plan to get one, and 77% of this poll’s voters currently own a tablet. How’s that for a trend? Comment...

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