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- Cool Websites & Tools – Learn a Language, Interactive Sheet Music, & Script Writing Software
- What’s Your Acronym IQ?
- What Tech Topics Are You Passionate About? [We Ask You]
- Firefox 28 Brings Better HTML5, Web Notifications For OS X & Pulls Metro Support
- Achieve Android Automation Zen With NFC Tags
- ScreenFlow: The Best Application for Recording Screencasts On Your Mac
- MakeUseOf Plays: Watch Dave & James Play Titanfall on Xbox One
- Smash Hit Is The Most Addictive Android And iOS Game Of The Year So Far
- Windows XP Lasted Longer Than World Wars I & II Combined
- Be Choosy With Your Photo Sharing (And Friends) On The Facebook iOS App
- Is It Illegal To Root Your Android or Jailbreak Your iPhone?
- 4 Cheap Ways To Obtain A Legal Copy Of Windows 7
- Technophilia Episode 105 Live
- New Phishing Scam Uses Scarily Accurate Google Login Page
- Want to Teach? 4 Ways To Share Your Knowledge & Experience Online
| Cool Websites & Tools – Learn a Language, Interactive Sheet Music, & Script Writing Software Posted: 19 Mar 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Duolingo – Duolingo is changing the way people learn languages. Before, it used to be a tedious process of learning grammar and verbs. Now Duolingo is making learning a language fun. Earn points as you advance levels, and challenge your friends. Soundslice – makes sheet music and guitar tablature interactive, to help you learn music more efficiently. Music is best learned by listening to it, not by reading it. With that philosophy in mind, Soundslice made a hybrid audio player / notation viewer that syncs notation with real audio. Hitlist – Build a list of places you’d like to see... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Learn a Language, Interactive Sheet Music, & Script Writing Software |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Time is precious. Why type out “No problem” when all you need is two letters: NP? Are you caught up with today’s shorthand style of writing? Take this acronym IQ quiz by WPromote: see how far you can go before you have to look up the definition on Google. And don’t forget to tell us in the comments. Give up? Here’re the answers. Click to enlarge. Read the full article: What’s Your Acronym IQ? |
| What Tech Topics Are You Passionate About? [We Ask You] Posted: 19 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Technology is a vast and varied field. A quick glance at the list of topics we cover at MakeUseOf demonstrates this fact perfectly, and there are plenty of other technology topics we barely touch on, if at all. You can help us plug these holes in our coverage of all things related to technology, and all by simply answering the following question… No Love For Luddites We want to know, What Tech Topics Are You Passionate About? The direction in which this question is taken is completely up to you. We just ask that you tell us which topics you... Read the full article: What Tech Topics Are You Passionate About? [We Ask You] |
| Firefox 28 Brings Better HTML5, Web Notifications For OS X & Pulls Metro Support Posted: 19 Mar 2014 05:30 PM PDT  Mozilla has launched the latest version of its popular Firefox browser across desktop platforms as well as Android. There’s good news for those who care about HTML5 support, Mac users get a neat little feature, and Windows 8 users are in for some disappointment. Let’s dive in. HTML5 is set to change the way you browse the internet and Mozilla is making sure its users aren’t left behind. The new Firefox 28 comes with VP9 Decoding and Opus Support in WebM—two standards that are used in HTML5 multimedia for video and audio respectively. What this means for you is that... Read the full article: Firefox 28 Brings Better HTML5, Web Notifications For OS X & Pulls Metro Support |
| Achieve Android Automation Zen With NFC Tags Posted: 19 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Want to live in a world where you can use your Android phone to unlock your front door, boot your PC or launch Google Maps when you place it in your car? You can do all this and more with NFC tags, small programmable devices that can make your life better. Don’t believe me? NFC = Near-Field Communication Near-field communication is a means of sharing data between two NFC-enabled devices. Unlike wireless networking, infra-red and Bluetooth, however, it requires contact to be made between the devices in question. Matt’s article What Is NFC & Should You Buy a Phone That... Read the full article: Achieve Android Automation Zen With NFC Tags |
| ScreenFlow: The Best Application for Recording Screencasts On Your Mac Posted: 19 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Though QuickTime Player can also do screen recordings, it doesn’t hold a candle to ScreenFlow. ScreenFlow records everything on your desktop, and then allows you to edit in only what you want to show in your final production. You can make professional-looking desktop videos, with smooth transitions, captions, callouts and annotations, chroma key backdrop, and audio and video filters. Let’s see how the magic works, and why ScreenFlow is on our list of Best of Mac Applications. Record Screencasts ScreenFlow can be set up to record your entire desktop screen, and you can configure the recording to include a secondary camera... Read the full article: ScreenFlow: The Best Application for Recording Screencasts On Your Mac |
| MakeUseOf Plays: Watch Dave & James Play Titanfall on Xbox One Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:30 PM PDT  Titanfall is officially here. We played the beta, and now it’s time to play the real thing. And we’re doing it live for you guys to enjoy! This time, we will have two streams, one from Dave’s perspective, one from James’. You can choose one (probably Dave’s because he’s much better at the game), or if you’re feeling really crazy, you can watch both at the same time! In addition to just playing the game, we will be providing analysis of the things we enjoy and the things we don’t. You can also expect plenty of nonsense as we insult... Read the full article: MakeUseOf Plays: Watch Dave & James Play Titanfall on Xbox One |
| Smash Hit Is The Most Addictive Android And iOS Game Of The Year So Far Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Once in a while, a game gets everything right: the graphics, the gameplay, the background score and, perhaps most important for a mobile game, “replayability”. Smash Hit, from the makers of the popular Sprinkle, is one such. And the fact that it’s free only means that you can grab it right away without a second thought. What’s It All About? Smash Hit is a first person shooter, except there are no guns or baddies in this game. It’s as refined as Dead Trigger 2 and perhaps even more addictive. In this game, you keep automatically moving forward through a world... Read the full article: Smash Hit Is The Most Addictive Android And iOS Game Of The Year So Far |
| Windows XP Lasted Longer Than World Wars I & II Combined Posted: 19 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Think Microsoft is letting Windows XP die too soon? You’re not alone. Recently, we asked what seemed, to us, to be a no-brainer: do you agree that Windows XP needs to die?. We expected most of you to say “yes”, but your responses surprised us. A lot of readers are still using XP, and deeply wish Microsoft would extend support. Some of you also think Microsoft stopping support is a cash grab. But what if I told you that Windows XP is the longest supported operating system in Microsoft’s history? And that there’s not really an operating system you could have... Read the full article: Windows XP Lasted Longer Than World Wars I & II Combined |
| Be Choosy With Your Photo Sharing (And Friends) On The Facebook iOS App Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:30 AM PDT  The headline sums it up. The updated Facebook iOS now allows you to choose specific friends for sharing your photo albums. Facebook for iOS 8.0 gives you an easy and quick Share with only these friends feature. The easier one-click sharing feature is a timesaver because earlier you had to make and use the smart lists for selective sharing. Now, simply pick the friend (or friends) by clicking on the roundlet next to their name. The private sharing option is a welcome arrival as Facebook contends with Snapchat’s ephemeral micro-sharing. Photo sharing on the Facebook app doesn’t go poof like... Read the full article: Be Choosy With Your Photo Sharing (And Friends) On The Facebook iOS App |
| Is It Illegal To Root Your Android or Jailbreak Your iPhone? Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Whether you’re rooting an Android phones or jailbreaking an iPhone, you’re removing the restrictions the manufacturer or cellular carrier placed on the device you own. Unfortunately, rooting, jailbreaking, and even unlocking cell phones is likely illegal in some countries. Today we will take a look at the laws in the USA, Canada, and the European Union to figure out whether this is actually illegal or not. Disclaimer: We’re not lawyers and this is not legal advice. We’re just geeks trying to understand what the law is and what we can legally do with the devices we own. Legal Rooting Note that some... Read the full article: Is It Illegal To Root Your Android or Jailbreak Your iPhone? |
| 4 Cheap Ways To Obtain A Legal Copy Of Windows 7 Posted: 19 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT  It seems like Microsoft is hitting the nail with Windows only every other version. So it’s understandable that, if you’re upgrading from Windows XP or looking for a new computer, you want to go for Windows 7 rather than Windows 8. Thing is, Microsoft doesn’t directly sell Windows 7 anymore. Here’s what you can do so you’re running a legal copy of Windows 7. Is Your Hardware Compatible With Windows 7? Before you make the final decision to upgrade, it’s important to ensure that your hardware will be compatible with the new operating system. To check, all you have to... Read the full article: 4 Cheap Ways To Obtain A Legal Copy Of Windows 7 |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:59 AM PDT  This week we have special guest Chris Hoffman from MakeUseOf. We first had him on all the way back when we were still podcasting teenagers in episode 13, and he’s here to talk about his Windows 8 predictions, as well as the latest tech news with us. Tech News Mozilla Kills Metro-mode Firefox out of lack of interest Biggest news this week: Google removes underline from links The Veronica Mars movie is granted to Kickstarter promoters…with DRM. Movietime will not cause a piracy apolcalypse. More and more people are ditching PowerPoint. Good. How an imaginary town became real, then stopped... Read the full article: Technophilia Episode 105 Live |
| New Phishing Scam Uses Scarily Accurate Google Login Page Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:30 AM PDT  You get a link to a Google Doc. You click it, then sign in to your Google account. Seems safe enough, right? Wrong, apparently. A sophisticated phishing setup is teaching the world yet another lesson about online security. What is phishing, and how do scammers use it? Basically, phishing means getting users to voluntarily type their username and password, often by using a false login page. Such pages are usually easy to spot for net-savvy users, but this recent example of phishing is noteworthy for how realistic the login page looked. It could have fooled just about anyone, and had... Read the full article: New Phishing Scam Uses Scarily Accurate Google Login Page |
| Want to Teach? 4 Ways To Share Your Knowledge & Experience Online Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. Right?…Right? How terribly droll. No, teaching isn't the preserve of the inept. Teaching is an important process in learning. One of my first technology jobs had this baked into its training process, where new hires had to “see one, do one and teach one”. Teaching allows you to consolidate information you've learned, and to absorb new concepts faster and better. And it is no longer the preserve of academics and schoolteachers. Anyone can become a teacher. Here's how. Start A Blog So, I'm a software developer by trade. I do front-end and... Read the full article: Want to Teach? 4 Ways To Share Your Knowledge & Experience Online |
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