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- Cool Websites & Tools – Paper On The iPad, Dock Screenshots, & Trusted Driver Network
- Caption Contest: Water Cooling
- iOS Apps on Sale for 22 Mar: Osmos & Republique Are Hard To Refuse
- Firefox Beta 29 Features Customizable Auralis Redesign, Encrypted Sync
- How To Take A Windows Phone 8 Screenshot And Sync It To Your PC
- 5 Ways To Delete A File In Use In Windows
- 4 Ways To Easily Create Amazing Photo & Movie Slideshows With Music
- Google Updates For Android: Voice Activated Camera & Personalized Keyboard Suggestions Arrive
- Four Of The Best Text Editors For Your Chromebook
- Don’t Be Messy: Keep Your Pinterest Boards Organized With These Tips
- Fabulous Phablets: The 5 Best Big-Screen Smartphones You Can Buy
- Yahoo Games Launches New Design & Network For Developers
- Perform Siri-Like Voice Commands on Your Mac With Sinus
- My WordPress Blog Could’ve Been Hacked – Detectify Saved Me
- 9 Useful In-Built Mac OS X Utilities You’ve Probably Never Used
| Cool Websites & Tools – Paper On The iPad, Dock Screenshots, & Trusted Driver Network Posted: 21 Mar 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Paper – is where ideas begin. It's the easiest and most beautiful way to create on iPad. Capture your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and share them across the web. Try it free—buy additional tools from the in-App Store. Buzzsumo – claims that they can “improve your online experience”. Discover what people are sharing the most in your niche. Find interesting content to curate, and filter through different types of content. Sort by SEO metrics such as Page Authority, or Pagerank. SnipDock – is a Windows utility to snip a part of the screen and snap it... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Paper On The iPad, Dock Screenshots, & Trusted Driver Network |
| Caption Contest: Water Cooling Posted: 21 Mar 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Tired of dealing with overheating issues, Josh decided to take water-cooling to the next level. Got a caption for this cartoon? Then share it with us! Every submitted caption will is an entry to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Water Cooling |
| iOS Apps on Sale for 22 Mar: Osmos & Republique Are Hard To Refuse Posted: 21 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Every now and again a game will be released that shifts many preconceptions about what a mobile game should be. This week we’re lucky enough to have two of them on sale, among a smattering of other cheap, cheerful and interesting apps. As ever, these deals won’t last forever. If you’re in the US you’ll have significantly longer left to enjoy them than your New Zealand counterparts – so don’t delay. If it’s on sale and you like the look of it, strike while the price is right. Apps Analytiks ($0.99, now free) If you’re a Google Analytics user who... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for 22 Mar: Osmos & Republique Are Hard To Refuse |
| Firefox Beta 29 Features Customizable Auralis Redesign, Encrypted Sync Posted: 21 Mar 2014 05:30 PM PDT  Mozilla just released Firefox 28, the latest stable version of its browser, and as it usually happens, they’ve also come out with the new beta version. Firefox 29 Beta has a whole new, simplistic design and comes with an easier and more secure sync service. The new look brings the Auralis design style, which Mozilla claims is simpler and easier to use. The most noticeable difference is in the tabs, which now use rounded corners instead of rectangular ones, and tabs that are not in use are “visually de-emphasized” by making them look like a part of the toolbar. The... Read the full article: Firefox Beta 29 Features Customizable Auralis Redesign, Encrypted Sync |
| How To Take A Windows Phone 8 Screenshot And Sync It To Your PC Posted: 21 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Want to take a screen grab from your Windows Phone? It’s pretty simple and straightforward, but getting the captured image off your phone and onto your computer can be a little tricky. Screenshots and Windows Phone When Windows Phone 7 was released in 2010, it was sent into the world without the ability to take screenshots natively. It seems hard to believe. Although there was a way around this limitation for early devices (requiring users to sideload a homebrew app that captured the screenshots with a timer), the vulnerability that enabled this was closed with an early update to Windows... Read the full article: How To Take A Windows Phone 8 Screenshot And Sync It To Your PC |
| 5 Ways To Delete A File In Use In Windows Posted: 21 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Windows Explorer thinks the file you’re trying to delete is still open, but it’s not? This commonly happens with video files that were played back in Windows Media Player but it can happen with any other file, too. The file is either running in the background or it wasn’t closed properly. You can even run into this issue with files you haven’t opened in years! Fortunately, this can be resolved in a few different ways. Did You Close The Program? Let’s start with the obvious. Did you just open the file and not close it? If the file is closed,... Read the full article: 5 Ways To Delete A File In Use In Windows |
| 4 Ways To Easily Create Amazing Photo & Movie Slideshows With Music Posted: 21 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Get creative. You spend all that time taking little videos and photos of everything you do, just to leave them electronically rotting on your hard drive. What a waste! Or worse still, you subject the family to agonisingly boring slideshows. Stop that, stop it now — get creative! Here's how. Stupeflix Stupeflix remains my firm favourite when dealing with lots of still photos: it's an online video creation tool that creates a themed slideshow in time to music, automagically. There are 13 themes to choose from, and a few more on the Pro plans that are designed for corporate videos.... Read the full article: 4 Ways To Easily Create Amazing Photo & Movie Slideshows With Music |
| Google Updates For Android: Voice Activated Camera & Personalized Keyboard Suggestions Arrive Posted: 21 Mar 2014 10:30 AM PDT  Google announced two back-to-back updates for Android that address two of the common tasks you do with your mobile. Google Search app for Android now helps you launch your smartphone camera with a voice command. Try the two new "Ok Google" commands – say "take a photo" or "take a video“. The voice command launches the camera in the preferred mode. You can also tap the microphone icon and say the magic words instead of triggering the search app with the default “Ok Google” command. It’s just another way of launching the camera quickly, and could save you a few... Read the full article: Google Updates For Android: Voice Activated Camera & Personalized Keyboard Suggestions Arrive |
| Four Of The Best Text Editors For Your Chromebook Posted: 21 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Do you miss having a simple text editor on your Chromebook’s OS? Although Google scrapped its native app, there are still alternatives available. As of today the only native text app for a Chromebook is Google Docs. While it works brilliantly as a replacement for Microsoft Word or OpenOffice, it is not so effective when you want to make a quick list or do some basic text editing. The inability to save files locally can be a hindrance when you’re away from a Wi-Fi signal and the permanent syncing to Google Drive can be frustrating if you're only making simple... Read the full article: Four Of The Best Text Editors For Your Chromebook |
| Don’t Be Messy: Keep Your Pinterest Boards Organized With These Tips Posted: 21 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Pin, pin, pin. That’s what Pinterest is all about. There are a lot of ways to use Pinterest, but accumulating thousands of pins may turn into a nightmare if you don’t keep them organized. Fortunately, you won’t need fancy Pinterest tools for that. All you need are Pinterest boards. It only takes a bit of effort to organize your pins, and the results are worth it. You’ll find pins easier. There will be less clutter, which means more peace of mind as you browse Pinterest. Plus, proper organization will make it easier for others to find and browse your pins,... Read the full article: Don’t Be Messy: Keep Your Pinterest Boards Organized With These Tips |
| Fabulous Phablets: The 5 Best Big-Screen Smartphones You Can Buy Posted: 21 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Big-screen phones are awesome. These aren’t smartphones you can use easily with one hand, but if you’re comfortable being a two-handed user, then they give you more real estate and a fantastic large screen to get more stuff done. Mobile phone screens are rapidly getting bigger and bigger. Just three years ago, the flagship handsets had a screen size of 4.3 inches, and it’s now increased to 5-5.2 inches. And somewhere along the line, a whole bunch of “phablets” (phone-tablet hybrids) popped up. If you’re going to buy a big-screen phone now, and by that, we mean something that’s larger... Read the full article: Fabulous Phablets: The 5 Best Big-Screen Smartphones You Can Buy |
| Yahoo Games Launches New Design & Network For Developers Posted: 21 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT  Yahoo has been on the road to revival, relaunching and redesigning core properties like Mail, Maps, Answers, My Yahoo and Flickr. Its now turned its attention to a place that has been the refuge for casual online gamers: Yahoo Games. Yahoo Games was one of the 10 best Yahoo services, included fantastic titles like the best Boggle game Wordracer and let players compete in classics like Chess. Well, it’s all reviving with the new avatar, which works perfectly on web, iOS and Android. In a blog post, the company writes: The new Yahoo Games Network bring the classics that we... Read the full article: Yahoo Games Launches New Design & Network For Developers |
| Perform Siri-Like Voice Commands on Your Mac With Sinus Posted: 21 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Apple hasn’t yet brought Siri to the Mac so we’ll have to make do with Sinus, a free app that attempts to mimic the usefulness of Apple’s assistant. Like Siri, Sinus will display phone numbers from your Contacts, report weather updates and calendar appointments, initiate Google searches, launch applications and much more. Sinus is in the beta stage of the development, and the developer wants your feedback. While Mac OS X includes built-in speech commands, Sinus makes the process a little easier more Siri-like. Sinus is not as accurate and functional as what can be done with Siri, nor can it... Read the full article: Perform Siri-Like Voice Commands on Your Mac With Sinus |
| My WordPress Blog Could’ve Been Hacked – Detectify Saved Me Posted: 21 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PDT  If I told you that there’s one place you can go to get peace of mind that your website is secure, would you believe me? Well you should, because there is. It’s called Detectify. I’m the kind of website owner that has always sort of been in denial. It can’t happen to me. Why would anyone ever want to hack my site? Well, all those delusions came crashing down around my head in 2011 when the main PHP file of my home page was replaced with a web page announcing that the site had been successfully hacked. Not only was... Read the full article: My WordPress Blog Could've Been Hacked – Detectify Saved Me |
| 9 Useful In-Built Mac OS X Utilities You’ve Probably Never Used Posted: 21 Mar 2014 05:00 AM PDT  While you’re not forced to become familiar with them, there are a handful of useful utilities included with Mac OS X found in the Applications folder, under Utilities. Seeing as they come installed on your Mac by default, why not use them? Here are 9 of the most useful in-built tools that can help you get even more out of your Mac. Activity Monitor It’s important to keep up with your computer’s performance on a regular basis, and it’s even more important to look at its performance whenever it happens to be acting unusually slow or hot. You can do this... Read the full article: 9 Useful In-Built Mac OS X Utilities You’ve Probably Never Used |
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