15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Skiing iPhone App, Firefox Word Count, & Most Creative Business People
• Six Social Platforms Stunningly Illustrated
• iOS Apps on Sale for February 8: Fitness, Warhammer & Hack RUN
• Video Game Hub Episode 4 – Xbox One Update, Call of Duty Changes, Sonic Boom
• 3 Amazing Role Playing Games for Android Phones and Tablets
• GIF-Addicted? Here’s How To Pause, And Create, GIFs in Firefox
• WikiExplorer: A Fun and Simple Way to Enjoy Wikipedia on Android
• Take A Break: 10 Inspirational Ads To Watch On YouTube When You Are Down
• 3 Free Ways To Play DVDs and Blu-Ray in Windows 8.1
• Planning A LAN Party? These Classic Games Will Get It Going
• 4 Ways to Teach Yourself Terminal Commands in Linux
• 4 Mini Bluetooth Keyboards For iPad mini Typists
• Enjoy the Best Comics On Windows 8 With ComiXology’s App
• Dropcam Pro WiFi Monitoring System Review and Giveaway
• How To Stay Updated On The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics

Cool Websites & Tools – Skiing iPhone App, Firefox Word Count, & Most Creative Business People Posted: 07 Feb 2014 08:31 PM PST EasyDownloader – with this app, you can download pictures and videos directly from Instagram (photos and videos), Facebook (videos), Vine (videos), and Tublr (photos). The main features are download mode, full screen mode (Instagram), quick access to Instagram (Notification bar Android 4.1+), quick access to downloads (Notification bar Android 4.1+), & one folder for a user. Skiing Tools – is a simple app to quickly find out your optimum ski length. Also included is a simple calculation tool to help you find out about the right setting for your ski binding. Last but not least is a little reminder on... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Skiing iPhone App, Firefox Word Count, & Most Creative Business People

Six Social Platforms Stunningly Illustrated Posted: 07 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST This is how social platforms should look like, according to artist and digital illustrator Ivan Belikov from Chelyabinsk, Russia. Personally, I find the intepretation slightly confusing, but they’re stunning works of art nonetheless. Now, where can we get them in print? View his complete portfolio on Behance. Read the full article: Six Social Platforms Stunningly Illustrated

iOS Apps on Sale for February 8: Fitness, Warhammer & Hack RUN Posted: 07 Feb 2014 05:30 PM PST Did you know that once you’ve “bought” a paid iOS app that’s currently free, it’s yours to keep forever? App sales are a great way to populate your device, and your bargains even show up in your App Store’s “Purchased” section afterwards. This week’s offers include some seriously motivating fitness apps, the first Warhammer iOS release and the iPad release of a highly popular boardgame. Let’s begin. Apps Plane Finder HD ($6.99, now $0.99) Here’s a cool app: Plane Finder HD provides live information about airplanes in the sky right now, using both an AR camera overlay and a map... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for February 8: Fitness, Warhammer & Hack RUN

Video Game Hub Episode 4 – Xbox One Update, Call of Duty Changes, Sonic Boom Posted: 07 Feb 2014 02:35 PM PST Welcome to MakeUseOf’s Video Game Hub episode 4, the weekly news show where we count top the top five news stories from the busy world of video games. A new episode airs each and every Friday. Who has time to keep up with all that constantly changing video game news? Oh that’s right, we do! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9lXmNokndY This week, we have two huge updates coming to Xbox One consoles, a smaller update on the PS4, Titanfall’s PC specs, a major shakeup to the Call of Duty formula, and a Sonic the Hedgehog game that literally no one in the world asked... Read the full article: Video Game Hub Episode 4 – Xbox One Update, Call of Duty Changes, Sonic Boom

3 Amazing Role Playing Games for Android Phones and Tablets Posted: 07 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST Tired of crappy mobile RPGs that feel like bargain mobile games that someone coded in an hour from their basement? There’s no reason for you to keep suffering through them when there are plenty of high-quality RPGs on the Google Play Store – some so beautiful and polished that you might confuse them for AAA titles. Last year, we covered three Android RPGs that rock and more recently we explored a few roguelikes for Android. Since then, the RPG landscape of Android has seen games come and go and you’d be missing out if you don’t give these ones a... Read the full article: 3 Amazing Role Playing Games for Android Phones and Tablets

GIF-Addicted? Here’s How To Pause, And Create, GIFs in Firefox Posted: 07 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST Tired of animated GIF images that take forever to load? Check out these Firefox addons, which make the wait bearable.  Or, if you’ve spotted a video that could be the next viral GIF on the Web, read on for an addon that lets you convert HTML5 videos to GIFs. We’ve got alternatives for Google Chrome, too. GIF Delayer A GIF that hasn't finished downloading often starts from the beginning and keeps playing in loop. GIF Delayer helps you avoid these headache-inducing short loops by hiding the image until it has been downloaded completely. Once you install the addon, there will... Read the full article: GIF-Addicted? Here’s How To Pause, And Create, GIFs in Firefox

WikiExplorer: A Fun and Simple Way to Enjoy Wikipedia on Android Posted: 07 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST Wikipedia is a great way to learn something new every day, and its mobile website is exceptional. If you haven’t tried it yet, go ahead and do so now: It almost feels like an app. But if almost doesn’t cut it for you, you’re going to be interested in WikiExplorer. This is a slick and modern Wikipedia client that feels thoroughly at home on recent-model Android devices. It’s ad-supported, but you can pay to get rid of them. Reading an Article While you can’t pinch-to-zoom, WikiExplorer offers a selection of font sizes, ranging from tiny to huge: Above you can... Read the full article: WikiExplorer: A Fun and Simple Way to Enjoy Wikipedia on Android

Take A Break: 10 Inspirational Ads To Watch On YouTube When You Are Down Posted: 07 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST “Annoying” is the word most commonly associated with ads. But as you might have discovered through the decades of telly-watching, advertisements aren’t the problem. Bad advertisements are. Not surprisingly, advertising by its very nature is designed less to inform. The best ads evoke. Nostalgia, hope, dreams…or as we shall discover here – inspiration. The idea behind this post came from Microsoft’s ad  as it prepares to hit the Superbowl even as it hits the headlines for being empowering. By the time you read this post, you might have seen the ad play out on screens. It may or may not... Read the full article: Take A Break: 10 Inspirational Ads To Watch On YouTube When You Are Down

3 Free Ways To Play DVDs and Blu-Ray in Windows 8.1 Posted: 07 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST Windows 8.1 still can’t play DVD and Blu-ray movies out of the box. To get DVD playback from Microsoft, you’d have to buy the Windows 8 Pro Pack for $100 and the Media Center Pack for $10 — and that only gets you DVD playback, not even Blu-ray support! Luckily, there are great free programs you can use to play DVDs without paying Microsoft another $110. Microsoft removed DVD and Blu-ray support because many new ultrabooks and tablets don’t have DVD drives, so they don’t want to pay DVD and Blu-ray license fees for every Windows license they ship. Microsoft also... Read the full article: 3 Free Ways To Play DVDs and Blu-Ray in Windows 8.1

Planning A LAN Party? These Classic Games Will Get It Going Posted: 07 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST In a time gone by, multiplayer gaming basically meant gathering some friends round your house. For the console gamers it was huddled round a split screen, but those able to lug around huge PCs had a glorious few years of LAN parties – where everyone hooks into the same local network. Though largely eclipsed by online technologies like Xbox Live, a retro LAN gaming party is still a tremendous amount of fun, and still useful where internet connections aren’t ideal. We’ve written before about how to host the perfect LAN party, but today I’ll be concentrating on some fantastic retro... Read the full article: Planning A LAN Party? These Classic Games Will Get It Going

4 Ways to Teach Yourself Terminal Commands in Linux Posted: 07 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST If you want to become a true Linux master, having some knowledge of terminal commands is a good idea. Here are four different methods you can use to start teaching yourself. Tip of the Day A great way to gradually learn more about terminal commands is to have a “Tip of the Day” style message appear each time you open up the terminal. These messages can tell you about useful commands, as well as advanced tricks for certain commands you may already know. You can easily set this up by going into your .bashrc file (located at /home/<user>/.bashrc) and add... Read the full article: 4 Ways to Teach Yourself Terminal Commands in Linux

4 Mini Bluetooth Keyboards For iPad mini Typists Posted: 07 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST The new iPad mini with Retina Display is a fantastic tablet but unlike the Microsoft Surface, Apple’s smart cover does not have a built-in keyboard to make it easier for those who type a lot. There are some great tricks for better typing on touchscreens, but it still doesn’t match up to a proper keyboard. A keyboard is what you need to prep your tablet for productivity, so we went looking for a few Bluetooth keyboard cases for your new iPad mini. Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover ($59.99) The Ultrathin Keyboard is, in my opinion, the best keyboard cover you can get... Read the full article: 4 Mini Bluetooth Keyboards For iPad mini Typists

Enjoy the Best Comics On Windows 8 With ComiXology’s App Posted: 07 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST Are you running out of space for your comic books? Forgot to renew your subscription? Worry not – you can buy and read comic books anywhere with ComiXology’s Comics app for Windows 8. ComiXology’s Comics app is also available on iOS, Android and Kindle Fire. Do You Like Comic Books? Sequential art – probably best recognised in the form used in comic books and graphic novels – has become increasingly popular in the past 15 years, following a major slump in the 1980s/early 1990s. So it makes sense that you should be able to read comics on your computer or tablet. I first played around... Read the full article: Enjoy the Best Comics On Windows 8 With ComiXology’s App

Dropcam Pro WiFi Monitoring System Review and Giveaway Posted: 07 Feb 2014 04:32 AM PST When you think of security cameras, you may often think of bulky, expensive devices that are difficult to install and configure. But, this is no longer the case. Today, you can get a very sleek, compact, and lightweight camera for a decent price that is easy to set up and use. If you’ve been curious about getting your own security camera (the easy way), give the $200 Dropcam Pro a serious consideration. We certainly did. We bought this unit for our review. And now, as lucky MakeUseOf readers, you will have the chance to win it! About the Dropcam Pro... Read the full article: Dropcam Pro WiFi Monitoring System Review and Giveaway

How To Stay Updated On The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Posted: 07 Feb 2014 04:00 AM PST The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics are almost here! If you’ve got a job or other responsibilities, you might not be able to catch a lot of the live broadcasts of your favorite events. That’s where the Internet comes in. Using the following apps and news feeds, you’ll be able to keep up with the action as it happens. Apps BBC Sport for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire The front page of BBC Sport’s Winter Olympics section is packed with the latest news stories, from athlete interviews to official statements from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). You can also access Games... Read the full article: How To Stay Updated On The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics

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