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- Cool Websites & Tools – Your Childrens Health, Speech Recognition, & All-You-Can-Read eBooks
- The Evolution of the Blogger
- Android Apps on Sale for 14 March 2014: The Music-Making Edition
- Fantastical 2.0.5 Update Gets WhatsApp & 1Password Support, New Sounds
- Wireless SD Cards Explained: The Features You’ll Need
- 6 Tech Tips To Help You Prepare For An Appearance On Radio Or TV
- Filter Your VPN Tunnels With Tunnelbear’s Intellibear
- Ditch iTunes & Use VLC For iPhone & iPad Media
- Use a Crowdsourced Satellite Platform To Look For The Missing Malaysia Air Plane
- Does Your Mac Really Need Tools Like MacKeeper?
- 10 Secrets of Windows Phone 8 To Super Power Your Smartphone Experience
- Get A Handpicked Playlist Of The Week’s Best Music With Noon Pacific
- Following Facebook Pages Gets Better With A New Streamlined Look
- Chromebooks Aren’t Perfect – Working Around the Negatives
- How To See And Respond To Facebook IMs in Messages for Mac
| Cool Websites & Tools – Your Childrens Health, Speech Recognition, & All-You-Can-Read eBooks Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Subtext – supports teachers in their Common Core instruction and helps students move closer to college and career readiness by encouraging them to analyze what they read, articulate what they think, and make connections between texts and the outside world. Teachers can embed instruction right in the pages of nearly any digital text. Arthur Family Health – Dealing with your child’s health can be challenging and sometimes scary. Arthur and his friends are here to help with games, videos, and resources designed to help keep your family safe and strong. Categories include asthma, peanut allergy, nutrition, resilience, and fitness. Dictation.io... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Your Childrens Health, Speech Recognition, & All-You-Can-Read eBooks |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2014 07:30 PM PDT  How did the sacred act of keeping a personal diary somehow transform into very, very public shared opinions and experiences? Today, we blog and we tweet; openly criticising others, expressing our feelings and logging our food intake. Who brought about this unholy form of self-documentation? This, ladies and gentlemen, is the evolution of the blogger; brought to you by the same people behind The Evolution of the Geek. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: The Evolution of the Blogger |
| Android Apps on Sale for 14 March 2014: The Music-Making Edition Posted: 13 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Each week we scour current Google Play promotions and cherry-pick the best of the best. This week we have no less than three music-making apps, but also a famous tower offense title that you simply have to buy. Because app sales are temporary affairs, by the time you read this, these may no longer be on sale. Worry not: Simply check back next week for some more Android deals! Apps ReLoop Loop DAW ($3.99, now $0.99) The first of three music-making tools we’ve got today, ReLoop is a digital audio workstation that comes with three real-time effects, lets you slice... Read the full article: Android Apps on Sale for 14 March 2014: The Music-Making Edition |
| Fantastical 2.0.5 Update Gets WhatsApp & 1Password Support, New Sounds Posted: 13 Mar 2014 05:30 PM PDT  If you use an iOS device, then Fantastical is the best calendar app you can find for it. Developed by Flexibits, it’s sleek, good-looking and feature-packed. And it just got even better in a new update. Fantastical 2.0.5 brings the ability to send text messages via WhatsApp, which we reckon is the perfect iPhone messenger app. It also adds the ability to open links in 1Password and Mercury Web Browser. And finally, you now get all-new notification sounds for events and reminders. The new Fantastical fixes one bug that many users would know about. Earlier, if you geo-tagged a reminder... Read the full article: Fantastical 2.0.5 Update Gets WhatsApp & 1Password Support, New Sounds |
| Wireless SD Cards Explained: The Features You’ll Need Posted: 13 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT  What do you get if you combine WiFi technology with SD card storage? You get a wireless SD card, obviously. But what benefit does that actually offer, and if you’re in the market for one then what should you be looking out for? What is a Wireless SD Card? If the name doesn’t give it away, a wireless SD card is an SD card with WiFi networking technology built-in. The storage capacity of SD capacity has gradually increased while the memory chips themselves have shrunk – leaving room in the plastic housing for additional chips – like a WiFi chip.... Read the full article: Wireless SD Cards Explained: The Features You’ll Need |
| 6 Tech Tips To Help You Prepare For An Appearance On Radio Or TV Posted: 13 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Imagine yourself facing a TV camera, someone sitting in the chair opposite you, asking you questions. Sounds hard to imagine? You may be surprised. Landing a radio or TV appearance isn’t so far-fetched. All it takes is the right person recognizing something you’ve said or written somewhere, and contacting you for an interview. This is exactly what happened to me a few months ago when some folks from the History Channel contacted me about an article I’d written over at my own blog, Top Secret Writers. A few months before that, I was contacted by folks over at Vision TV,... Read the full article: 6 Tech Tips To Help You Prepare For An Appearance On Radio Or TV |
| Filter Your VPN Tunnels With Tunnelbear’s Intellibear Posted: 13 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT  In the past I have made no secret that my favourite VPN by far is Tunnelbear. It works perfectly, it’s easy to use, and it’s cheap. Now they have a brand new feature which makes me love the app even more. It’s called Intellibear, and in a nutshell, it enables you to tunnel some websites, but not others. We here at MakeUseOf have made no secret of our love for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). With the NSA spying scandals and a general fear of being snooped upon while browsing, VPN apps are more relevant than ever. They unblock sites in countries that block... Read the full article: Filter Your VPN Tunnels With Tunnelbear’s Intellibear |
| Ditch iTunes & Use VLC For iPhone & iPad Media Posted: 13 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT  VLC for iOS does rather a lot that Apple would probably rather it didn’t. This includes opening media files directly from Safari, reading all sorts of weird and wonderful file formats and loading up on media without the need to pair your phone with an iTunes library. Best of all, VLC is available in the App Store, which means the app finally has Apple’s blessing after a rocky start. Just in case you don’t already have it installed, here’s what you’ve been missing out on. Hello Media VLC for iOS has a few standout features that users coming from Android... Read the full article: Ditch iTunes & Use VLC For iPhone & iPad Media |
| Use a Crowdsourced Satellite Platform To Look For The Missing Malaysia Air Plane Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:30 AM PDT  Ever since Malaysia Air MH370 went missing, presumed crashed, with over 200 passengers and crew on board, everyone has been looking for the wreckage, in an effort to find out what happened. The trouble though is that the search area involved is vast, and combing the area will take a lot of time and a lot of manpower. Enter the power of crowdsourcing to help. Satellite company DigitalGlobe is putting its Tomnod crowdsourcing platform to work, in an effort to help find the aircraft wreckage. And you can help, simply by going to the website and looking at satellite pictures... Read the full article: Use a Crowdsourced Satellite Platform To Look For The Missing Malaysia Air Plane |
| Does Your Mac Really Need Tools Like MacKeeper? Posted: 13 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT  System cleaning tools and utility suites aren’t just for Windows PCs. A variety of companies make Mac system utilities, with MacKeeper being the most infamous and controversial. There’s now even a version of CCleaner for Mac. But what do these tools do, exactly? And should you use them? What MacKeeper Actually Does MacKeeper does a huge amount of things. When you install it, it will likely complain that your system is “dirty” “dangerous” and “deteriorated”. The state of your overall system will likely be “critical” — at least, that’s what it said for my MacBook, which is only a few months old... Read the full article: Does Your Mac Really Need Tools Like MacKeeper? |
| 10 Secrets of Windows Phone 8 To Super Power Your Smartphone Experience Posted: 13 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Your Windows Phone is awesome. Forget the naysayers and anti-Microsoft doom-mongers – it might not be as popular and fashionable as Android and iOS, but Windows Phone 8 is an awesome platform. These ten secret features prove why. 1. Typing Is Fast & Easy As with any smartphone, typing on a Windows Phone 8 device is crucial for replying to emails and messages. With the benefit of Microsoft Office Mobile pre-installed, you’ll probably find yourself typing in Word, Excel and OneNote as well. Typing on the Windows Phone 8 software keyboard is a feature-packed experience; it involves more than simple... Read the full article: 10 Secrets of Windows Phone 8 To Super Power Your Smartphone Experience |
| Get A Handpicked Playlist Of The Week’s Best Music With Noon Pacific Posted: 13 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Noon Pacific takes the best part of radio and isolates it into a brilliant web app. Every week, it will put 10 of the hottest new tracks into a playlist for you to listen to. There’s nothing more to it and it’s absolutely free. I love the idea of a radio show — someone with good taste in music playing cool new tracks that I can listen to for free. But I also hate listening to radio — it demands that I tune in at a certain time, I can’t stand the ads and the RJs are annoying. Enter Noon... Read the full article: Get A Handpicked Playlist Of The Week’s Best Music With Noon Pacific |
| Following Facebook Pages Gets Better With A New Streamlined Look Posted: 13 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT  A new design for Facebook Pages swiftly follows the revamp of the News Feed a few days ago. In keeping with the consistency site-wide, Facebook says it is a more streamlined look. The design keeps both the reader and the Page admin in mind. Page visitors get easier access to all the content when they land on the Pages they follow. Page admins get a tool that should help them with engagement with the content they publish. As it rolls out worldwide, we look into the changes here. The new Pages presents a three-column layout. The Page timeline on the... Read the full article: Following Facebook Pages Gets Better With A New Streamlined Look |
| Chromebooks Aren’t Perfect – Working Around the Negatives Posted: 13 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Although we’ve recently published articles discussing Chromebook’s inherent positives, it would be short-sighted to pretend that the devices are perfect and without flaws. We at MakeUseOf find Google’s Chromebooks extremely useful – the Chromebook is great for travel, you can work offline with a Chromebook, and it’s possible to dual-boot Linux on your Chromebook. They also provide a simple level of computing to those who don’t want the complexity of traditional Apple or Microsoft machines. However, here’s a look at three ways Chromebooks can be improved and some workarounds for the meantime… 1. Printing Whilst Google’s belief in cloud computing... Read the full article: Chromebooks Aren’t Perfect – Working Around the Negatives |
| How To See And Respond To Facebook IMs in Messages for Mac Posted: 13 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Love Facebook chat, but don’t want to leave Facebook open for fear of entire days disappearing? Here’s how to integrate Facebook’s chat service with Mac’s Messenger (and other IM programs). IM, on its own, is perfect for quick questions. Facebook, on the other hand, is a visual quicksand, designed to pull your eyes in until you can’t help but scroll – and then you’re just stuck. If you want to be available on Facebook chat, but don’t want to be pulled into the timeline vortex, using a desktop chat client with Facebook is a good idea. Messenger.app, which replaced iChat... Read the full article: How To See And Respond To Facebook IMs in Messages for Mac |
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