15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Clutter-Free YouTube, Music Search, & Baby Monitor for Android
• Can You Identify These Superheroes By Their Underwear?
• What Website Or App Do You Wish You’d Created? [We Ask You]
• How To Tweak Your Facebook Advert Audience Perfectly [Weekly Facebook Tips]
• How To Investigate Why Your Website Lost So Much Search Traffic
• On A Good Note: 4 Types Of Emails You Could Write To Start Your Day
• Groopic Lets You Take Group Photos Without Asking For Favors
• What Is JSON? A Layman’s Overview
• 5 Useful Things You Can Do With Your Phone Even When It’s Miles Away
• You Have A @Facebook.com Address; Now It Forwards To Email
• Team Spirit Trumps Technology: How To Master Remote Collaboration For Online Teams
• 7 Common Computer Mistakes You Can Avoid
• Technophilia Episode 101 Live
• ToDoist Launches Integrated Outlook, Gmail and Postbox Plugins
• Want To Enhance Your YouTube Videos With Clickable Links? Here’s How!

Cool Websites & Tools – Clutter-Free YouTube, Music Search, & Baby Monitor for Android Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:31 PM PST VII – was created in 2001 by seven of the world's leading photojournalists and by 2005 VII was listed in third position in American Photo's “100 Most Important People in Photography”. The group's collective archive of over 60,000 images is an iconic summary of the late 20th Century. Surprise.ly – is an online service where you can watch a YouTube video, without any of the usual clutter normally seen on a YouTube video page. By inputting the URL, the video is played against a black background. Clicking on the screen starts & stops the video. SoundYouNeed – was developed to... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Clutter-Free YouTube, Music Search, & Baby Monitor for Android

Can You Identify These Superheroes By Their Underwear? Posted: 26 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST It’s a good thing most superheroes wear their underwear on the outside. Because you’ll never know when you’ll be asked to identify them by their undies. The first person to correctly identify every superhero and villain in the subsequent two posters wins a geeky MakeUseOf t-shirt! And joy of joys, you can hang these posters up on your very own wall! They’re available for purchase from Design Different. $19.99 will get you either the hero or villain poster, $29.99 will buy you both. Read the full article: Can You Identify These Superheroes By Their Underwear?

What Website Or App Do You Wish You’d Created? [We Ask You] Posted: 26 Feb 2014 05:30 PM PST There are more websites than any of us can ever hope to visit in our lifetimes. And, thanks to the march of the smartphone, there are also more apps than any of us can ever hope to download and install. Every single one of these websites and apps was created by people like you and I. And we suck for not getting there first. $19 Billion, You Say?! We want to know, What Website Or App Do You Wish You’d Created? This question was, rather obviously, prompted by Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp for $19 billion. It was such a big... Read the full article: What Website Or App Do You Wish You’d Created? [We Ask You]

How To Tweak Your Facebook Advert Audience Perfectly [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 26 Feb 2014 03:30 PM PST Facebook has done it again: They’ve tweaked the way Facebook advertisers can target the users they really want to view their adverts. Provided those users are actually giving Facebook accurate information, of course. The thing is, these days almost anyone can and may well be an advertiser. So, what’s new that you can do? It all comes down to greater customization, and it will be rolled out to everyone within a few weeks. Old vs. New Targeting It is already common knowledge that Facebook advertisers can target people in certain age groups, locations, and the like. This means that a... Read the full article: How To Tweak Your Facebook Advert Audience Perfectly [Weekly Facebook Tips]

How To Investigate Why Your Website Lost So Much Search Traffic Posted: 26 Feb 2014 02:00 PM PST What would you say if I told you that your current salary is going to be cut in half. What if I didn’t even bother telling you why? Well, that’s exactly what happens when website owners get hit with one Google search algorithm update or another. You’ll be rolling along with wonderful, organic search traffic for months, and then suddenly, in a single day, your incoming traffic from Google drops by nearly fifty percent. That income you’ve been getting used to – the advertising revenue that’s been helping you put food on the table and pay the bills? That gets... Read the full article: How To Investigate Why Your Website Lost So Much Search Traffic

On A Good Note: 4 Types Of Emails You Could Write To Start Your Day Posted: 26 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST Reading inspirational quotes, visualizing a successful day, and repeating a set of affirmations are some of the ways people choose to guarantee an optimistic start to their day. Have you considered that sending out an email can work equally well? While social networking websites draw you in with their lively banter, email conversations have a charm of their own. They make you feel like you belong, like you’re “in on something that the world does not know or understand”. Unfortunately, email discussions can get out of hand with just a negative word or two slipped in, whether out of anger,... Read the full article: On A Good Note: 4 Types Of Emails You Could Write To Start Your Day

Groopic Lets You Take Group Photos Without Asking For Favors Posted: 26 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST “Excuse me sir, can you please take our photo?” “NO!!!!” Alright, so maybe you’ve never heard that as an answer to that question, but you may have feared it. It doesn’t always feel right asking total strangers in the street to take your photo with a friend — not to mention the very real possibility they might sprint off with your precious device. If you’re a dSLR or point-and-shoot person, I can’t help you. If, however, you’re using your smartphone as your camera, you’re never going to have to ask for these favors again. Introducing: Groopic Imagine this: you’re having... Read the full article: Groopic Lets You Take Group Photos Without Asking For Favors

What Is JSON? A Layman’s Overview Posted: 26 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST Are you caught up with the latest web technologies? Knowledge of HTML is pretty much essential if you want to go beyond simple web activities like browsing and posting on forums.  Then there are more advanced topics, like CSS (learn more here), AJAX (learn more here), and JSON. Whether you plan to be a web developer or not, it’s a good idea to at least know what is JSON, why it’s important, and why it’s used all around the web today. What Is JSON? JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It’s an open standard format that allows data to be... Read the full article: What Is JSON? A Layman’s Overview

5 Useful Things You Can Do With Your Phone Even When It’s Miles Away Posted: 26 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST You can play with it all you want, just don’t touch it. Your phone that is. An Android phone is such a powerful tool. You can use an Android tethered for access to the Internet or as a standalone wireless hotspot. You can use it to solve everyday problems, or to impress your friends. But did you know that your Android phone can be useful even when you don’t have it on you? It’s true, even if you forget it at home, you can still use it as a central location to store and access all of your contact information,... Read the full article: 5 Useful Things You Can Do With Your Phone Even When It’s Miles Away

You Have A @Facebook.com Address; Now It Forwards To Email Posted: 26 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST Did you know you had a Facebook email address? Neither did most users – but have one you did, and any emails sent to you using it showed up in your Facebook messages. That’s changing. Your Facebook email address still exists, but any emails sent to it will soon be forwarded to your primary email address (as set in Facebook’s settings). We showed you how any Google Plus user can email you; this change leads to a similar situation. Anyone can quickly find out your Facebook email address, if they know where to look. Where should they look? At your Facebook... Read the full article: You Have A @Facebook.com Address; Now It Forwards To Email

Team Spirit Trumps Technology: How To Master Remote Collaboration For Online Teams Posted: 26 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST Being part of an efficient team can be one of the most rewarding career experiences of your life. Working with a team means you have a wealth of knowledge, experience, and skills to draw from. Great collaboration depends on many factors, including leadership, trust, team spirit, compromise, and a unifying goal. Unfortunately, collaborating doesn’t get easier if you have to work together remotely and only share the Internet as a common connection. Technology can help navigate the chaos, but it’s only the icing that possibly makes a flexible and effective team perfect. Let’s see what you can do to make... Read the full article: Team Spirit Trumps Technology: How To Master Remote Collaboration For Online Teams

7 Common Computer Mistakes You Can Avoid Posted: 26 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST Nobody is perfect. Despite all the advice available online, many of us make silly mistakes. Don’t want to be caught acting like a computer noob? Consult this list of usual slip-ups to avoid. Using Pre-Installed Free Stuff Don’t get me wrong. Not all pre-installed applications are bad. But for some you may have no use and others may even turn out to be sub-standard and slow down your computer. Checking your PC for each item you didn’t ask for will probably take you a while. But, this is the only way to make sure you get rid of everything you don’t... Read the full article: 7 Common Computer Mistakes You Can Avoid

Technophilia Episode 101 Live Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:59 AM PST Justin is sad the Olympics are over, but our guest this probably isn't. Jehu Castro Sierra of Columbia is the creator of Stealthy, a browser extension used by thousands to watch the watch the Olympics on the website of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. We'll find out how the service works, and how dealing with that much traffic. Also this week: BitCoin took some major damage. Tech News MTGox shuts down, BitCoin prices plummet (only on MT Gox, its about $600 elsewhere) Sandisk releases massive 128gb SD drive. Make it really easy for the government to track you with a simple... Read the full article: Technophilia Episode 101 Live

ToDoist Launches Integrated Outlook, Gmail and Postbox Plugins Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:30 AM PST The team at ToDoist just announced a new plugin for Postbox, and a full rewrite of the ToDoist Outlook plugin. This brings ToDoist email integration support to four of the largest email platforms, including Gmail and Thunderbird. ToDoist email integration support brings one of the more popular productivity managers directly to the user’s email through ToDoist’s plugin offerings, which makes it faster and more convenient to add and manage tasks directly from an email client. Since people tend to spend so much time every day on their email client, the ToDoist team hopes to capture some of that massive market —... Read the full article: ToDoist Launches Integrated Outlook, Gmail and Postbox Plugins

Want To Enhance Your YouTube Videos With Clickable Links? Here’s How! Posted: 26 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST Have you ever tried to add a clickable link to your YouTube videos, only to find that you can’t? There are in fact three ways to do this, methods that have remained hidden – until now! YouTube Now Lets You Create Clickable Links! YouTube is great (our free YouTube guide explains this assertion in greater detail). You can upload videos, share them with the world…you can even monetize them with Google advertising. In the past two years, YouTube has also (at last!) added the ability to include clickable links in your videos, an invaluable help to explain something you might... Read the full article: Want To Enhance Your YouTube Videos With Clickable Links? Here’s How!

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