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- Cool Websites & Tools – Chrome Data Compression, Moving Selfies, & Mobile NES Emulator
- 40 Years of Cellphone
- The Internet Explains…What Is Bitcoin? [Weird & Wonderful Web]
- Point & Click Adventuring Lives On With These Classic-Style Free Games
- So You Got A New TV: How To Set It Up For The Best Home Viewing
- Cool Websites & Tools – Browsing Stats, Music Twitter, & Financial Courses
- Caption Contest: Vulcan Nerve Pinch
- iOS Apps on Sale for 1 March: Tolkien, Arcades & Mystery Adventure
- Kids Can Learn Programming Basics With “Make Your Own Flappy Bird” In 20 Minutes
- Video Game Hub Episode 7 – Top 5 Gaming Stories Of The Week
- Write & Code Faster With Breevy
- 6 Upcoming Wearable Devices Compared: What’s Hot and What’s Not
- Be Lazy: 3 Tips To Reduce The Risk Of RSI By Resting Your Hands
- Google+ For Android Gets Photo Editing Across Devices & New Image Filters
- 4 SEO Tips To Help Your Website Survive Past 2014
| Cool Websites & Tools – Chrome Data Compression, Moving Selfies, & Mobile NES Emulator Posted: 01 Mar 2014 08:31 PM PST  Data Compression Proxy – is an experimental extension for Google Chrome bringing Chrome Data Compression Proxy from mobile to desktop PCs. The extension sends all HTTP (but not HTTPS) traffic through Chrome Data Compression Proxy server, which uses SPDY protocol to speed up web browsing. Enabled state is indicated by a green icon. Super.cc – is the easiest way to get things on your calendar. Simply add your event title in the subject line and the details in the body of your email. There is nothing to download – it works with any email app. All you have to do... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Chrome Data Compression, Moving Selfies, & Mobile NES Emulator |
| Posted: 01 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PST  A side-by-side comparison of today’s smartphone with the granddaddy of cellphones, say the Motorola DynaTAC, will reveal or remind you that mobile phone technology has come a long way. If you’re one to follow mobile phone revolution, then you’ll certainly enjoy this video by Fueled. Honestly, I’m not old enough to appreciate the earlier models; my love for cellphones began in my teenage years (around the late nineties) with Nokia phones, obviously. So tell me, how many mobile phones have you owned, ever? Read the full article: 40 Years of Cellphone |
| The Internet Explains…What Is Bitcoin? [Weird & Wonderful Web] Posted: 01 Mar 2014 05:30 PM PST  Bitcoin is a strange beast. It’s newsworthy enough for the mainstream public to be aware of it but confusing enough that those same people only have a vague sense of what it is and how it works. But worry not, as we’re from the Internet and we’re here to help. A Brief Introduction The ignorance surrounding Bitcoin isn’t surprising, as cryptocurrencies are very different from the forms of payment most of us are used to on a daily basis. From their creation through mining to the way they’re sent and stored, the whole business of Bitcoin leaves most people with... Read the full article: The Internet Explains…What Is Bitcoin? [Weird & Wonderful Web] |
| Point & Click Adventuring Lives On With These Classic-Style Free Games Posted: 01 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PST  Point-and-click games are a dying breed but they aren’t completely dead. You might recognize cult classic hits like the Myst and Monkey Island series, both of which have won hearts all around the globe. It’s definitely a niche genre – games like Telltale’s critically acclaimed The Walking Dead are the exception – but it’s still alive and kicking. Most adventure games are found on the web, but there are some notable mobile adventure games too. If you’re willing to spend money, you can get some great adventure games under $5 from GOG. Wii users can even play classic adventure games with ScummVM. But if... Read the full article: Point & Click Adventuring Lives On With These Classic-Style Free Games |
| So You Got A New TV: How To Set It Up For The Best Home Viewing Posted: 01 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PST  Congratulations on your new TV! But wait, why does it not look as good at home as it did in the showroom? Unfortunately, showroom tricks can deceive you. But don’t worry, I’m going to help you set up your TV so that it looks perfect. What is calibration? With flat panel televisions, calibration is quite important. Without getting too technical, calibration is the act of optimizing your TV’s output so that you get the best images. At its extreme, this is an objective exercise done with professional tools, but for this article, we’re going to stick to home solutions only.... Read the full article: So You Got A New TV: How To Set It Up For The Best Home Viewing |
| Cool Websites & Tools – Browsing Stats, Music Twitter, & Financial Courses Posted: 28 Feb 2014 08:31 PM PST TimeStats – tracks website stats and helps you to collects stats of the sites you visit. It's quick to access and easy to use. You can delete the statistics of any date you want. You can also uncheck or remove a site from the statistics. It shows the statistics of websites visited by day or night. Music Updated – helps you stay up to date with the music you like. It’s like a Twitter newsfeed, but dedicated to music news and upcoming albums based on the artists you decide to follow. Simply login and follow artists, then keep checking back... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Browsing Stats, Music Twitter, & Financial Courses |
| Caption Contest: Vulcan Nerve Pinch Posted: 28 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST  Can you think of a humorous caption for this cartoon? Then go ahead and submit it in the comments section! Every caption you submit counts as an entry to win an awesome geeky MakeUseOf t-shirt for free! Now, join me in congratulating Mike D. for his submission, “Philips-head?! What do you mean, Philips?! Do you know how long it took me to get ANY screwdriver this size?!” in our previous caption contest “Trapped“. I also couldn’t resist awarding a t-shirt to Chirag M. for his entry, “Guess we just have to talk by the fan, no water cooler out here.”... Read the full article: Caption Contest: Vulcan Nerve Pinch |
| iOS Apps on Sale for 1 March: Tolkien, Arcades & Mystery Adventure Posted: 28 Feb 2014 05:30 PM PST  Another week, another boatload of app sales flood the App Store – but how to separate the wheat from the chaffe? Luckily, you won’t have to worry about that as we’ve already gone and done it for you. This week we’ve got a sale on retro timewasters, an interactive maps for Tolkien fans and a Mars-themed miner with plenty of depth to keep you busy till next week. Apps Animate It ($2.99, now free) Aardman Animation, legendary creators of Wallace and Gromit and other claymation masterpieces, have their very own app, Animate It. Using stop-motion techniques, onion skinning and a... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for 1 March: Tolkien, Arcades & Mystery Adventure |
| Kids Can Learn Programming Basics With “Make Your Own Flappy Bird” In 20 Minutes Posted: 28 Feb 2014 04:30 PM PST  Kids have a new incentive to learn programming. Thanks to Code.org, they can design their own Flappy Bird game in 20 minutes. The "Make Your Own Flappy Bird" tutorial is designed for kids as young as six-year olds. It’s a great idea to leverage a popular game and tap into its global craze for teaching kids about the basics of programming. Children don’t even have to dive into intricate blocks of code and worry about functions, return values, loops and conditionals. It’s 20 minutes of fun. The Flappy Bird tutorial page gives you a fair idea how the learning progresses.... Read the full article: Kids Can Learn Programming Basics With “Make Your Own Flappy Bird” In 20 Minutes |
| Video Game Hub Episode 7 – Top 5 Gaming Stories Of The Week Posted: 28 Feb 2014 02:30 PM PST  Welcome to MakeUseOf’s Video Game Hub episode 7, the weekly news show where we count down 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! This week, we have Xbox One sort of price dropping, Twitch coming to the Xbox One, PS Plus freebies for March, a game that will be 1080p on PS4 and Xbox One, and a movie from Sony about the console war between Nintendo and Sega.... Read the full article: Video Game Hub Episode 7 – Top 5 Gaming Stories Of The Week |
| Write & Code Faster With Breevy Posted: 28 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST  Repetitive typing steals your time! Moreover, extensive typing can cause pain and injury. Take Richard Stallman for example. He's a programming rockstar. Back in the 80s and 90s before Github was a thing and when the idea of software freedom was at its most abstract, he created the GNU utilities. These later became an inseparable part of the Linux project, which can now be found in computers, cellphones and fridges. Richard hasn't done much programming, recently. Guess why. He has repetitive strain injury (RSI). This debilitating condition makes typing painful, and is exacerbated by typing, something writers and programmers alike do... Read the full article: Write & Code Faster With Breevy |
| 6 Upcoming Wearable Devices Compared: What’s Hot and What’s Not Posted: 28 Feb 2014 11:00 AM PST  Could wearable technology lead to a merging of flesh with silicon? Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts a “technological singularity” in which artificial intelligence surpasses the capabilities of old-school organic brains. Then as perhaps an upgrade, our silicon begins merging with our bodies. Wearables, in a primitive sense, could represent a baby step toward the singularity. But as I stood outside the gates of CES 2014, holding a limp, shoddily fashioned smartwatch, I felt skeptical. Could smartwatch technology improve my, or anyone’s, life? Two styles of watch dominated the floor show: Notifications watches (like the Pebble, which we reviewed) and health and fitness-oriented... Read the full article: 6 Upcoming Wearable Devices Compared: What’s Hot and What’s Not |
| Be Lazy: 3 Tips To Reduce The Risk Of RSI By Resting Your Hands Posted: 28 Feb 2014 10:00 AM PST  Typing and mouse clicks are two of the potential causes of Repetitive Strain Injury or RSI, a major health risk in computer users. With the arrival of touchscreen devices, tapping has also been added to the mix. Even if you can’t remove these three actions from the equation completely, with a few simple tricks, you can reduce their negative effects on your hands. If a sizeable portion of your workload involves a computer or a mobile device, it is difficult to give it up entirely or even scale down the time spent with it. But you must find a way... Read the full article: Be Lazy: 3 Tips To Reduce The Risk Of RSI By Resting Your Hands |
| Google+ For Android Gets Photo Editing Across Devices & New Image Filters Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:30 AM PST  Is it time for renewed attention to the combination of Google+ and Android for socially interacting with photography? The latest slew of changes to the Google+ for Android app brings non-destructive photo editing across devices and new filters and tools. Plus, there’s more on offer beyond the usual round of bug fixes that should help you to take Google+ a bit more seriously for photos. There are four noteworthy new features for photography buffs. Non-destructive photo editing across devices: Have multiple Android devices? Take a photo in one, and edit in another without losing any of the edit flows in... Read the full article: Google+ For Android Gets Photo Editing Across Devices & New Image Filters |
| 4 SEO Tips To Help Your Website Survive Past 2014 Posted: 28 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST  Imagine you’re downhill skiing at high speed, and suddenly God picks up a tree and places it in front of you. Yeah, SEO is kind of like that. The possibility of a face-plant is a strong possibility in the field of SEO. It’s a tight-wire act. If you jump on the bandwagon too quickly, you risk getting grouped in with blackhat SEO types. If you are too conservative, you run the risk of losing search traffic to your competition. The problem is that too many webmasters and SEO experts listen to each other more than they listen to Matt Cutts... Read the full article: 4 SEO Tips To Help Your Website Survive Past 2014 |
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