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- Cool Websites & Tools – Share Music On Twitter, Cut YouTube Videos, & Empty Seats On Planes
- The Evolution Of Typewriters
- 20 Addictive Mobile Games You Must Play [We Ask You Results]
- 7 Expensive Mistakes You Could Easily Make On Facebook [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- Manjaro Linux: Arch For People Who Don’t Have Time
- How To Choose The Right Dashcam For Your Car
- 6 Common Pinterest Mistakes You Might Be Making
- 4 Underrated Games Released In 2013 That You Need To Play
- How To Become Super-Productive By Outsourcing Your Day-To-Day Tasks
- Don’t Let Facebook Shut Down Your Page: Avoid These 4 Loopholes
- How To Get Commercial Software For Free, Legally (T-Shirts, Too!)
- Never Lose A File Again With Paragon Backup And Recovery Home 14
- Power Up Your Instagram Experience With These IFTTT Recipes
- Apple Releases iOS 7.1 With CarPlay, UI Improvements, Bug Fixes
- How Your Email Messages Can Make People Love You Or Hate You
| Cool Websites & Tools – Share Music On Twitter, Cut YouTube Videos, & Empty Seats On Planes Posted: 11 Mar 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Tweet My Music – is an Android app which lets you share the music you’re listening to on Twitter. Just add a music player from your device (Android based players (like Apollo), Google Play Music and Rdio), log into Twitter, press start, & launch the player. StepUp – lets you cut YouTube videos into bite-sized steps so that you can jump between each step quickly, loop the part that matters to you, and share your most important moments. Sometimes the best part of a video comes about halfway through, but people will often drop out after the first thirty seconds.... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Share Music On Twitter, Cut YouTube Videos, & Empty Seats On Planes |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Ah, typewriters — who doesn’t love the sweet sound of the old-school word processor. Do you miss it? Well, if have a fondness for antiques, typewriters, or hand-illustration, you’ll appreciate Pop Chart Labs’ A Visual Compendium of Typewriters. It features over sixty of the greatest typewriters known to man, spanning more than a hundred years. Each print is signed by the artist and is illustrated on 100 lb. archival recycled stock paper. A Visual Compendium of Typewriters is currently available for pre-order and will begin shipping on Thursday, March 13. Read the full article: The Evolution Of Typewriters |
| 20 Addictive Mobile Games You Must Play [We Ask You Results] Posted: 11 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Mobile gaming is big business, and only likely to grow in importance as more people are lured into buying a smartphone. There are a lot of bad games stinking up the app stores, but for every 10 also-rans there is a shining gem. These are the insanely addictive titles that have an innate ability to keep you playing long after you know you should have given up and uninstalled them. But you don’t. Because addicted. Addicted To Addictive Addictions We asked you, What Is The Most Addictive Mobile Game In Existence? Although the number of responses wasn’t very high, those... Read the full article: 20 Addictive Mobile Games You Must Play [We Ask You Results] |
| 7 Expensive Mistakes You Could Easily Make On Facebook [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 11 Mar 2014 04:30 PM PDT  When using Facebook, most users think they’re dealing with real people, real companies and honest application developers. Why? After all, it’s still the Internet. But that’s not the only way people screw up and cause themselves costly errors and legal battles. Here are some easy ways anyone could get caught on the wrong side of the law or out of pocket just from a quick visit to Facebook. Real Names Does NOT Mean Friendly People Facebook’s real name policy means that most of the people you see are actually using their real name. It lulls people into a false sense... Read the full article: 7 Expensive Mistakes You Could Easily Make On Facebook [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| Manjaro Linux: Arch For People Who Don’t Have Time Posted: 11 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT  There are plenty of things that make Arch Linux highly appealing to users: it’s always up-to-date, it’s a rolling release, and there’s tons of software available for it in its repositories. But what isn’t so appealing is the learning curve and pure difficulty of setting up an Arch system. If you want the best aspects of Arch, without the bad parts, you need Manjaro Linux. About Manjaro Linux Manjaro Linux is an Arch-based distribution, meaning that it runs on the same backbone and the same repositories as Arch itself. It also implements the rolling release upgrade model, meaning that you... Read the full article: Manjaro Linux: Arch For People Who Don’t Have Time |
| How To Choose The Right Dashcam For Your Car Posted: 11 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Dash-mounted cameras have become a popular way to provide extra security for a vehicle or record road-trips, track days, and other automotive adventures. This is still relatively new technology, so many people are unfamiliar with them. What features do they offer? How are they different from a regular camera? Why not just use a smartphone? You’ll find the answers here. Why A Dashcam? As you browse dashcams you may wonder why one would be desirable. One of our authors, Christian Cawley, wrote an extensive piece on how to turn your smartphone into a dashcam. Why buy a separate camera when... Read the full article: How To Choose The Right Dashcam For Your Car |
| 6 Common Pinterest Mistakes You Might Be Making Posted: 11 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT  A tool is only useful when you’re using it correctly. Are you using Pinterest to its maximum potential? Or are you losing out on followers and exposure by making these common mistakes? If you are, don’t worry, because they’re easy to fix. Keep reading to find out how. Mistake #1: Being Self-Centered There are two main reasons why people use Pinterest: 1) to find interesting content that they like, and 2) to post content hoping that others will like it. In both cases, the focus tends to be on self. “I like this” and “I hope they like what I... Read the full article: 6 Common Pinterest Mistakes You Might Be Making |
| 4 Underrated Games Released In 2013 That You Need To Play Posted: 11 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT  I must admit, 2013 was a big year for gaming. More importantly, games that would never have received much recognition were highly regarded in the gaming world. The rise of the indie gaming scene is what really led to this major shift in the types of games that are heaped with praise, with games like Gone Home, Brothers, and plenty of others receiving almost unanimous love from both players and critics alike. However, even though plenty of games were reviewed well, and even sold very well, there were still others that just didn’t get the attention they deserved. This happens... Read the full article: 4 Underrated Games Released In 2013 That You Need To Play |
| How To Become Super-Productive By Outsourcing Your Day-To-Day Tasks Posted: 11 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT  We all know that one person who appears to glide through life getting more done in a day than most of us could possibly manage in a week. But by learning what you can outsource, plus a few ‘best practice’ tips for delegating your day-to-day chores, you too can become super-productive. This article will explain how to choose tasks to outsource online, show you a few examples, and give you some tips on how to become an efficient and proficient online outsourcer. What is Outsourcing? In a word, delegation. Since the launch (and subsequent success) of books and blogs such... Read the full article: How To Become Super-Productive By Outsourcing Your Day-To-Day Tasks |
| Don’t Let Facebook Shut Down Your Page: Avoid These 4 Loopholes Posted: 11 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT  If you own a business, Facebook wants to make your life miserable. The ability to reach millions of potential customers for free has caused businesses large and small to flock to Facebook. Initially, the social media giant welcomed businesses with open arms. But as time went by, Facebook has realized that the marketing exposure it offers is worth something. It has also developed a long list of rules on how businesses can use the website. Your Customers Are Not Getting The Message Remember when you first put your company on Facebook and went nuts getting customers to “like” your new... Read the full article: Don’t Let Facebook Shut Down Your Page: Avoid These 4 Loopholes |
| How To Get Commercial Software For Free, Legally (T-Shirts, Too!) Posted: 11 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PDT  Here’s one of our best-kept secrets: You can get commercial software, t-shirts, and more, just by doing what you already do. It’s simple, and many MakeUseOf readers have been doing this for months. It works like this: Share MakeUseOf articles with your friends, get points, and use those points to redeem awesome rewards. Let’s start with the interesting part first. Redeeming Awesome Rewards We are currently offering no less than 38 different items for points, so I can’t list them all here. Instead, here are just some of my favorites. This geeky t-shirt can be yours for 2,000 points –... Read the full article: How To Get Commercial Software For Free, Legally (T-Shirts, Too!) |
| Never Lose A File Again With Paragon Backup And Recovery Home 14 Posted: 11 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Backup? What backup? We all know why we need to back up. If you use your computer as much as I do, then you're constantly creating, modifying and collating new files; your hard drive swelling by the minute. Ensuring that your backups are current and comprehensive is an arduous job, often complicated by the fact that most people have small hard drives on their machines. Thankfully, some products aim to ease this task. One of them is Backup and Recovery Home 14, by German software titan Paragon. The tool runs on Windows 2000 through Windows 8.1 and offers an comprehensive approach,... Read the full article: Never Lose A File Again With Paragon Backup And Recovery Home 14 |
| Power Up Your Instagram Experience With These IFTTT Recipes Posted: 11 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT  For automation on the Web, there’s nothing like IFTTT (If This Then That). If you’re not familiar with it, you’re missing out. IFTTT lets you automate almost any service you use, saving you time you didn’t even know you were spending. Among the numerous things you can automate with IFTTT are your Facebook photos and videos, your Facebook Page, your eBook reading, and even your iPhone. So why not Instagram? Instagram is a great way to share your photos and enjoy others’, but with IFTTT, it can become much more than that. All it takes are a few clicks. Backup... Read the full article: Power Up Your Instagram Experience With These IFTTT Recipes |
| Apple Releases iOS 7.1 With CarPlay, UI Improvements, Bug Fixes Posted: 11 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT  After about six months since it launched, iOS 7 has had an update that fixes a few issues and introduces some new features. The new iOS 7.1 update is available for iPhone 4 onwards, iPod Touch 5th generation onwards, iPad 2 onwards and all iPad Mini models. Head to Settings -> General -> Software Update to get it. The big new feature in iOS 7.1 is CarPlay, a new standard to use your iPhone in your car. Activated using voice commands via Siri, this will let you talk on the phone, listen to music, dictate and read out text messages,... Read the full article: Apple Releases iOS 7.1 With CarPlay, UI Improvements, Bug Fixes |
| How Your Email Messages Can Make People Love You Or Hate You Posted: 11 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT  I know you think you know how to write a good email, but I’d like to take a moment to tell you the correct way to write an email. How did that sentence make you feel? Kinda like I was talking to you like you’re a three year old, right? That’s how easily an email can offend people. If you want to come across in a positive way — as a team player, a competent leader or a trusted friend — the words you choose and the way you string them together has a tremendous impact. This matters even more... Read the full article: How Your Email Messages Can Make People Love You Or Hate You |
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