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- Apple Droid, Edit Look Back, Bing Winter Olympics, Sochi Problems [Tech News Digest]
- Cool Websites & Tools – Secure Gmail Attachments, Vocabulary Notebook, & Create eBooks
- Caption Contest: Hail Mary
- Evernote For Mac Updates To Let You Search With Everyday Language
- 4 TED Talks To Revolutionize Your Social Relationships
- How To Post Stack Overflow Questions From Android? Using The Official Client
- Firefox 27 Is Here With New Social API And More Goodies
- Sync Your Mac & iOS Clipboard With Command-C & Scribe
- Smartphone and Tablet Bonanza Plus Storage Drives [Tech Deals]
- How to Make Your Own Uniquely Gorgeous Android Home Screen
- 4 Classic Sports Games That Are Still Fun Today
- Get Instant Winter Olympics Schedules And Medals Tally On Bing Search
- How To Enter The BIOS On Your Computer
- Synata Offers A Better Way To Search Through All Your Online Stuff
- Add 40+ New Layout Features To WordPress with Shortcodes Ultimate
| Apple Droid, Edit Look Back, Bing Winter Olympics, Sochi Problems [Tech News Digest] Posted: 07 Feb 2014 03:30 AM PST  Today in Tech News Digest, Steve Wozniak talks of an Apple/Android mashup, Sony gives up on PCs, Amazon acquires a games developer, Facebook adds an ‘Edit’ option to ‘Look Back’, Bing wins gold for its Winter Olympics features, and Twitter tracks the multitude of problems occurring in Sochi. Woz Suggests Apple Builds A Droid Go home Woz, you’re drunk. http://t.co/pbzpldWnl7 — Rafael Jiménez (@rafael_j) February 6, 2014 Woz has suggested that a smartphone built by Apple but powered by Android isn’t beyond the realms of possibility. Steve Wozniak, who founded Apple with Steve Jobs a long, long time ago, pondered... Read the full article: Apple Droid, Edit Look Back, Bing Winter Olympics, Sochi Problems [Tech News Digest] |
| Cool Websites & Tools – Secure Gmail Attachments, Vocabulary Notebook, & Create eBooks Posted: 06 Feb 2014 08:31 PM PST  DocTrackr – Secure Gmail attachments, track access & remotely destroy documents. Easily control who can read, copy or print email attachments. By installing docTrackr you’ll add security to PDF documents and regain control of your Gmail attachments. Set permissions to control who can read, edit, copy or print. Bop.fm – creates a home for every song on the internet. It aggregates all your favorite music sources (Spotify, Deezer, Rdio, YouTube, SoundCloud, and more) into one awesome music service. That means that anyone can play any song, using any service, and share with any friend, even if your friend uses a... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Secure Gmail Attachments, Vocabulary Notebook, & Create eBooks |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST  Got a caption for this carton? Share them with us in the comments section and you’ll be in the running to win a free MakeUseOf geeky t-shirt! There are 16 designs to choose from! Howard Blair took home the gold in our previous contest “Exercise Freak” with his caption, “Microsoft Tech Support? I have a Windows 8-powered treadmill. How do I shut it down again?” You know, because Windows 8 is riddled with shut down issues. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Hail Mary |
| Evernote For Mac Updates To Let You Search With Everyday Language Posted: 06 Feb 2014 04:30 PM PST  If you use the Evernote software program on a Mac computer, then the latest update allows for searches to be made using “everyday language”. In other words, type your search terms in the same way as you would speak, and the Evernote search engine will understand you. For example, if you are looking for an audio note you made last week, you can type “audio notes from last week” to find what you need. Or if you are looking for a vegetarian recipe that you filed away, type “recipes tagged as vegetarian”: As Evernote explains : With Descriptive Search, you... Read the full article: Evernote For Mac Updates To Let You Search With Everyday Language |
| 4 TED Talks To Revolutionize Your Social Relationships Posted: 06 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST  The best TED Talks are the ones that can plant seeds in your heart, which later grow into fruitful, life-altering changes. Here at MakeUseOf, we love TED Talks. We’ve done roundups before on talks related to creativity and inspiration, motivation and mental blocks, and brain psychology. Well, we have a few more for you to enjoy. These videos will provide insight into social psychology. Who are you? Why are you the way you are? What can we do to improve human interaction? Obviously these are deep topics but these talks are dense and good food for thought. Your Body Language... Read the full article: 4 TED Talks To Revolutionize Your Social Relationships |
| How To Post Stack Overflow Questions From Android? Using The Official Client Posted: 06 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST  Today I’d like to share one of the best ways to ask and answer questions when you’re not at your PC: The Stack Exchange app. Stack Exchange is a network of Q&A sites, the best-known of which is Stack Overflow – an excellent Q&A site which we mentioned as one of 10 websites that can help the beginner programmer with sample code snippets. It’s easy to explain what’s so good about the Stack Exchange app: It lets you ask questions. Yup, up until recently there was simply no good way to do this from a smartphone. There were apps for... Read the full article: How To Post Stack Overflow Questions From Android? Using The Official Client |
| Firefox 27 Is Here With New Social API And More Goodies Posted: 06 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST  The fine folks over at Mozilla remain hard at work improving their Firefox browser, and the team has just launched Firefox 27, which brings an improved social API, support for Google's SPDY 3.1 protocol, and Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.1 and 1.2. An update has also rolled out for the Android version of the popular web browser, though the changes are a little smaller over there. The biggest change is the improvement to the social API, a feature that gives social networks a place to provide notifications. First, Firefox has added support for bookmarking service Delicious, and an Indian music service called Saavn.... Read the full article: Firefox 27 Is Here With New Social API And More Goodies |
| Sync Your Mac & iOS Clipboard With Command-C & Scribe Posted: 06 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST  Transferring the contents of your Mac’s clipboard to your iPhone or iPad usually involves sending yourself an email or message, but that’s cumbersome and inefficient. These days, there are better ways. Bakari has extensively reviewed powerful Mac clipboards that offer such functionality, but I wanted something simpler and easier. Two new apps caught my eye: Command-C ($3.99) works via Wi-Fi and is a two-way system, where you can access Mac data on your iOS and vice versa; Scribe ($2.99) is Bluetooth-only and has only one route, Mac to iOS. Let’s check them out. Command-C ($3.99) As noted, Command-C needs a... Read the full article: Sync Your Mac & iOS Clipboard With Command-C & Scribe |
| Smartphone and Tablet Bonanza Plus Storage Drives [Tech Deals] Posted: 06 Feb 2014 08:30 AM PST  Retailers continue to liquidate older electronics from last year. The sales will continue throughout February. This week, we’ve got a treasure trove of unlocked smartphones and tablets, a Lenovo Yoga Ultrabook convertible and a large number of storage drives at amazing prices. Tablet and Smartphone Users Lots of older smartphones are getting cleared out by retailers this month and next. We’ve got several Android smartphones, a Windows Phone and the ultra-exotic FirefoxOS – all unlocked. MetroPCS LG Optimus L9 Smartphone Price: $19.99 Retailer: Fry’s – Buy it Now Use this rebate For those of you wanting a dirt-cheap unlockable phone,... Read the full article: Smartphone and Tablet Bonanza Plus Storage Drives [Tech Deals] |
| How to Make Your Own Uniquely Gorgeous Android Home Screen Posted: 06 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST  A beautiful and well-planned home screen on your Android tablet or smartphone is not just cool to look at, but is also functionally efficient. This is why it’s a good idea to spend some time creating one for yourself. Last week, I decided to get myself a gorgeous home screen to replace the default one I had stuck with for so long. Here’s a detailed look at the whole process. If you follow it step by step, you can get the same eye-catching home screen for your device and learn to experiment with more design recipes. Step 1: Hunt For... Read the full article: How to Make Your Own Uniquely Gorgeous Android Home Screen |
| 4 Classic Sports Games That Are Still Fun Today Posted: 06 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST  Remember when a few pixels could represent your sports heroes, and your imagination did the rest? Re-live that. Here are some 8- and 16-bit sports classics still worth playing today. American Football: Tecmo Bowl (1989, NES) Madden games come out every year, but there’s only one Tecmo Bowl. This game strips down a famously complex sport to only four offensive plays. The defensive strategy: guessing which of those four your opponent picked. Then it’s time to mash buttons. Sure, Tecmo Bowl can quickly become a wildly unrealistic game of keep-away. But simplifying football down to the basic rules has another... Read the full article: 4 Classic Sports Games That Are Still Fun Today |
| Get Instant Winter Olympics Schedules And Medals Tally On Bing Search Posted: 06 Feb 2014 06:30 AM PST  Bing joins the Winter Olympics with a top of the page display of search results from the quadrennial sporting event that’s on in Sochi, Russia. Users searching for Winter Olympics events and news will get to see Olympic-related schedules and content at the top of their search results. Bing will also display a running tally of the medals won by participating countries. The “Winter Olympic Medal Tally” will help sports buffs track the countries, teams, and athletes who make it count on the podium with medals. To find Olympic event schedules, search with specific sport to see the scheduled events... Read the full article: Get Instant Winter Olympics Schedules And Medals Tally On Bing Search |
| How To Enter The BIOS On Your Computer Posted: 06 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST  Inside the BIOS you can change basic computer settings, like the boot order, system time and date, or which hardware components are enabled; that’s why the BIOS is also referred to as ‘Setup’. Entering the BIOS just takes a simple key stroke at the right moment while the system is booting. To save you the guesswork, we have compiled the different ways you can enter the BIOS. As mentioned above, entering the BIOS is pretty simple. Unless your computer came with UEFI, e.g. on a new Windows 8 laptop, you just need to boot your computer, wait for the right... Read the full article: How To Enter The BIOS On Your Computer |
| Synata Offers A Better Way To Search Through All Your Online Stuff Posted: 06 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST  What’s the most common thing you do online? Chatting? Emailing? Writing? Sharing? Not quite. One of the most common actions done online by anyone is searching. We search Google, we search Gmail, we search our computer and cloud storage for files, we search our phone for contacts…it’s all just an endless search. Synata (beta) is a free (for individual use) Web app and Chrome extension that wants to make this endless search easier. Keep on reading, I’ll show you how. What Is Synata? Similar to CloudMagic (our review), FindIt (our review) and other apps, Synata aims to alleviate the pain... Read the full article: Synata Offers A Better Way To Search Through All Your Online Stuff |
| Add 40+ New Layout Features To WordPress with Shortcodes Ultimate Posted: 06 Feb 2014 04:00 AM PST  Add pull-quotes, spoiler warnings, column layouts and much more to WordPress. Shortcodes Ultimate makes it easy. WordPress-powered blogs can be enhanced by all manner of plugins, many of which introduce new features. Installing and updating additional features can be time-consuming, however – which is where a plugin like Shortcodes Ultimate comes in. What Are Shortcodes & What Makes Them Ultimate? Shortcodes are small snippets of text that you can introduce into a blog post, page or PHP file to add new features. These features will be coded into a separate file that you don’t need to access – all you... Read the full article: Add 40+ New Layout Features To WordPress with Shortcodes Ultimate |
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