15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Social Media Verification, Corporate Dropbox, & Say I Love You
• Caption Contest: Exercise Freak
• The Best Valentine’s Day Gifts For Various Geeks
• You Didn’t Know You Could Do These 5 Awesome Smartphone Camera Tricks
• Can’t Wait For The Walking Dead? These Zombie Games Will Hold You Over
• Create, Organize & Share Outlines Using Cloud Outliner For iOS & Mac
• Find Cover Stories Better Organized By Source, Social Network, &Topic On Flipboard
• These 7 Websites Will Make You A Better Hearthstone Player
• Stay Up-to-date On Your CryptoCurrency With These Android Apps
• Personal Loans Online — How Peer-to-Peer Lending Is Changing the Game
• Tab Killer: A Chrome Extension To Declutter Your Browsing Experience
• Ad-Aware Pro Security 11: Solidify Your PC Security & Stop Threats [Rewards]
• 5 Games That Remind Us That Video Games Are Art
• Where Can You Find Reliable Medical Advice Online?
• Windows XP Lives, iPhone Catches Fire, Selfie Secures Sitcom [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Social Media Verification, Corporate Dropbox, & Say I Love You Posted: 03 Feb 2014 08:31 PM PST TunesToTube – lets you upload an MP3 to YouTube. You upload an MP3 and an image to the TunesToTube server – it will combine them and create an HD video. Once the video is created, the YouTube API is used to upload it to your YouTube channel – this all takes around 10 seconds. This site is ideal for producers or musicians looking to promote their new music, or recording studios who need to upload samples. Verification Handbook – is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid responders, which provides step-by-step guidelines for using user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Social Media Verification, Corporate Dropbox, & Say I Love You

Caption Contest: Exercise Freak Posted: 03 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST Linda’s colleagues could never understand why she always out of breath during their video conferences. Can you think of a caption for this cartoon? This is your chance to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt — take a look at some of our previous winners. We’ve selected two winning captions from our previous contest “Bitcoin Convention“. The first is “The Minecraft convention is on the second floor.” by Todd E. The second winning caption is “I don’t care if you are miners, admission is still full price.” by Patrick B. Congratulations! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Exercise Freak

The Best Valentine’s Day Gifts For Various Geeks Posted: 03 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST When it comes to the cerebral type, it really is the thought that counts. Nothing says, “I love you!” to a geek quite like avoiding clichés such as dying roses and mass-market chocolates.  To help you put some thought into your physical representation of the abstract concept of love, we bring you our picks for the best valentine’s day gifts for your geek. The Design Geek Simple in its design, epic in its effect, the Alessi To Mug will warm the cockles of your design geek’s heart every time they sip a caramel macchiato. Lovingly, they will recall that you... Read the full article: The Best Valentine’s Day Gifts For Various Geeks

You Didn’t Know You Could Do These 5 Awesome Smartphone Camera Tricks Posted: 03 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST Your smartphone camera is one the ultimate lifehack tools. We’ve already taken a look at four ways you can be making better use of your smartphone camera to turn your smartphone into a makeshift scanner, a memory aid, and more, and today we’re at it again. With the help of a few cool apps, your camera can also turn your phone into a film scanner, a font or color identifier, the ultimate search tool and more. If you’re on the lookout for some more traditional apps that enhance your smartphone photographic experience, be sure to check out our list of must-have iPhoneography apps. 1. Film... Read the full article: You Didn’t Know You Could Do These 5 Awesome Smartphone Camera Tricks

Can’t Wait For The Walking Dead? These Zombie Games Will Hold You Over Posted: 03 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST Rick Grimes and the rest of The Walking Dead gang return to your TV screens on February 9, but if you can’t wait that long for your dose of zombie mayhem, you could fire up The Walking Dead game by Telltale Games and start chopping and shooting some of the undead. But those games are actually pretty short and perhaps not the best zombie games around. If you love the undead, you need to check out some of the classics in gaming as well as some new titles that really bring out the terror of a zombie apocalypse. Hey, why... Read the full article: Can’t Wait For The Walking Dead? These Zombie Games Will Hold You Over

Create, Organize & Share Outlines Using Cloud Outliner For iOS & Mac Posted: 03 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST Outlines are useful for completing writing projects, taking class notes, brainstorming ideas and creating agendas for important meetings. Fellow author Saikat has taken a look at five PC and online tools for creating outlines in the past, but for OS X and iOS users I’d like to recommend Cloud Outliner. Available for Mac ($9.99) and iPad ($4.99) with free versions for each, Cloud Outliner makes creating outlines quick and easy, rather than a chore or expensive investment. Let’s check out what the app has to offer. Why Cloud Outliner? Though it’s quite easy to create an outline in any old word processor, Cloud Outliner... Read the full article: Create, Organize & Share Outlines Using Cloud Outliner For iOS & Mac

Find Cover Stories Better Organized By Source, Social Network, &Topic On Flipboard Posted: 03 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST Flipboard is introducing a more intelligent way of going through the cover stories. In the latest update to the curation app, cover stories will be organized by source, social network and topic. Groupings should help you focus more on the related content that you want to read, and ignore the ones you don’t want to. A specific group around your interest could be the jumping off point to dive deeper into the topic. The Flipboard app will also learn over time how you use it, and it will bring to the surface content you are most interested in more frequently.... Read the full article: Find Cover Stories Better Organized By Source, Social Network, &Topic On Flipboard

These 7 Websites Will Make You A Better Hearthstone Player Posted: 03 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST To master the game of Hearthstone is to know it. Like any CCG, knowing every possibility that could be dropped on the board in front of you is essential in establishing yourself as a quality player. The best way to improve at Hearthstone is through trial and error by playing the game consistently, but it helps to read and study up. You need to know what cards are popular, who is playing them, and what you can do to play effectively against these strategies. To know these things, you have to go to the Hearthstone community. Here are the seven... Read the full article: These 7 Websites Will Make You A Better Hearthstone Player

Stay Up-to-date On Your CryptoCurrency With These Android Apps Posted: 03 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST Cryptocurrencies are extremely volatile – markets can rocket to the moon and crash overnight. While Bitcoin seems to have settled around the $900 point for the time being, other virtual coins still vary wildly. Even if you’re not at a computer all day, keeping track of those changes and day trading can both be fun, and a way to increase your profits after a good day’s mining. Thankfully, there’s an app for that; quite a few, in fact. Here are my favourites. Still not started on the crypto-craze? I showed you how to start mining Litecoins (which also works for... Read the full article: Stay Up-to-date On Your CryptoCurrency With These Android Apps

Personal Loans Online — How Peer-to-Peer Lending Is Changing the Game Posted: 03 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST I’ve never met Imelda. The mother of three lives in Garcia-Hernandez, Philippines and owns a transportation business with her husband. Together, they own a ‘motorella’; an interesting hybrid between a taxi and a rickshaw which her husband uses to ferry locals around. She was looking for a loan of 7000 Philippine Pesos (about $175 US dollars) to buy tires, motor oil, and gasoline. Her motivations for seeking this loan should be familiar to any parent: She hopes to make a good profit out of her business so she can support her children’s needs. Her profit will be for school fees... Read the full article: Personal Loans Online — How Peer-to-Peer Lending Is Changing the Game

Tab Killer: A Chrome Extension To Declutter Your Browsing Experience Posted: 03 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST Admit it, you’re guilty of having far too many tabs open at once. We’ve all done it. It’s okay. I’m not accusing you of anything. But really, you should get your tabs under control.  That’s what Tab Killer is for. This Chrome extension makes it easy for you to sort all of those soon-to-be-watched YouTube videos and soon-to-be-read Wikipedia articles into a convenient drop down menu accessible through keyboard shortcuts. It will cut your RAM usage, since Chrome doesn’t have to be working to keep so many tabs open, and it’ll be a bit easier on your eyes to not... Read the full article: Tab Killer: A Chrome Extension To Declutter Your Browsing Experience

Ad-Aware Pro Security 11: Solidify Your PC Security & Stop Threats [Rewards] Posted: 03 Feb 2014 05:30 AM PST Do you ever wish you had anti-malware superpowers on your side when threats are popping up left, right and center? Although proper browsing habits and common sense malware-prevention steps can go a far way, you shouldn’t necessarily rely on your own ability to prevent your computer from coming into contact with the wrong file or website — we’ve all made that mistake and clicked on a malicious link or downloaded a sketchy file from an email. That’s where Ad-Aware Pro Security 11 comes in. Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware Pro security suite is your sidekick in the fight against Internet villains, collectively known as malware. It... Read the full article: Ad-Aware Pro Security 11: Solidify Your PC Security & Stop Threats [Rewards]

5 Games That Remind Us That Video Games Are Art Posted: 03 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST Back in 2012, the Museum of Modern Art acquired 14 video games that were exemplary interactive design. This move by MoMA was a huge step towards shifting public opinion on video games, specifically when it comes to the notion of video games as art. Indeed, there are many video games that changed the world, and the realm of art has not been left untouched. Art is one of the few things in life that could arguably be considered 100% subjective. One man’s art flop is another man’s masterpiece. It’s strange to think of video games as art, especially since they... Read the full article: 5 Games That Remind Us That Video Games Are Art

Where Can You Find Reliable Medical Advice Online? Posted: 03 Feb 2014 04:00 AM PST We all know the routine, you feel a bit under the weather and you quickly fire up Google, type in your symptoms and hit search. You quickly scan the search results, open a couple of webpages and within minutes you come up with several illness possibilities, some highly unlikely. Online self-diagnosis is extremely unreliable. Any doctor you speak to will strongly advise against self-diagnosis via Google, Yahoo Answers and similar sites. The safer approach is to make your way to your local clinic and get yourself examined by a licensed medical practitioner. But, most people will avoid making a trip... Read the full article: Where Can You Find Reliable Medical Advice Online?

Windows XP Lives, iPhone Catches Fire, Selfie Secures Sitcom [Tech News Digest] Posted: 03 Feb 2014 03:30 AM PST Today in Tech News Digest, Windows XP refuses to die, Yahoo explores new search options, an iPhone catches fire and burns a teenage girl, indie developers fight back against King’s ‘Candy’ trademark, and ABC orders a TV pilot based solely on selfies. Windows XP Refuses To Die Bill Gates just broke into Microsoft offices and released Windows XP Service Pack 4 and extended support to 2016. #SeattleRiot — Chris Bannon (@b4nn0n) February 3, 2014 Despite pleas from Microsoft for people to move onwards and upwards, Windows XP refuses to die. The latest figures from Net Applications (as reported by CNET)... Read the full article: Windows XP Lives, iPhone Catches Fire, Selfie Secures Sitcom [Tech News Digest]

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