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Monday, February 24, 2014

6 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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Cool Websites & Tools – Disposable Timelines, Discover Your Ancestors, & Cheap Hotel Prices

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 08:31 PM PST

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Secretly Meet – is a site for secret, secure and disposable timelines that everyone can use with customers, friends or partners, without leaving any tracks about the exchanged information. Secretly Meet creates temporary websites that exist up to when your browser is open and online. Place My Past – Every place has a story. Find out if it’s part of yours. Sign in using Facebook, Windows Live, Google or Yahoo and it’ll import and plot your family tree on their map. Explore places and events using the map tools. Discover new facts and photos about the world in which your...

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What If Star Wars Was An 80s High School Movie?

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST

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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Vader and his troopers have taken over the local high school. It was the eighties. The Empire, led by Principal Palpatine, began its infiltration into the education system, manipulating standardised testing and recruiting troopers. Hope, or what’s left of it, was fading quickly… Luke and Leia Professor Kenobi and Coach Yoda Han Solo and Chewbacca Nerd droids Vader, Boba Fett and Troopers Lando and Greedo Principal Palpatine, Jabba the Janitor, Professor Tarkin Leia hands R2 her message Professor Kenobi saves Luke At the cantina Han shot first via Denis Medri...

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Free Electronic Dance Music: Stream, Download & Party [Sound Sunday]

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 05:30 PM PST

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After the party is before the party and a playlist is never completed. Add some fresh tunes to your electronic dance collection with free downloads from independent artists. That’s what Sound Sunday is for. Dance Singles Genre: electronic, ambient, pop Genre: electronic, dance, house, edm Genre: electronic, dance, dubstep, house, synthpop Classic Dance Mix Genre: electronic, dance, contrabass, clarinet, dubstep, house, jazz Moon Hooch’s selftitled debut album is one to remember. Cave music they call it; like house, but different. Unfortunately not a free download, but a great free stream. Mythical Dance Genre: ambient, electronic, experimental, dance Can you decode...

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5 Browser-Based Fighting Games That Are Actually Good

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST

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The simplistic player-vs-player style of Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat is easy to get addicted to. Your character is on one side, the opponent (or AI bot) is on the other, and you duke it out to see who comes out on top. And while multiplayer games don’t focus so much on this style any more, it’s not entirely out of fashion yet. In fact, some of the best fighting games are actually available for free as Flash games in your browser. Simon didn’t include any in his roundup of the best Flash games, but don’t worry, I got you...

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YouTube Adjusts Its Interface, Adopts A Mobile Look And Better Playlists

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST

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Following enhancements to its music capabilities last week, YouTube has begun rolling out a redesigned user interface for its Web version that gives it a more mobile-friendly look and puts a heavier emphasis on playlists. The new look draws heavily from Google’s card-centric design philosophy seen across many of its apps. The homepage is now centered over a grey background with two tabs lining the top: What to Watch and My Subscriptions. The centered look should make YouTube display better on screens of any size, and is more akin to what users expect from YouTube’s mobile apps. The sidebar along...

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Do You Prefer Paying For Apps Or Viewing Ads? [MakeUseOf Poll]

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 04:30 AM PST

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Last week we went back to one of our traditional yearly polls, and asked you to choose which is the best desktop browser as of right now. With Firefox and Chrome being the big winners of previous years, 2014 definitely came as a surprise. 10,197 readers voted in this poll (thank you!), and these are the final results: 3% voted for Safari as the best browser, 19.5% think the title should go to Firefox, 21% voted for Opera, 23% think Chrome is the best desktop browser, and a very surprising 29.5% voted for Internet Explorer as the best browser currently...

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