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• Cool Websites & Tools – Download Icons, First Tweets, & Block Websites
• Google Launches Photowall For Chromecast To Share Images On TV
• 20 Tech Topics To Get Passionate About [We Ask You Results]
• Quora Announces Verified Profiles For Select Users
• Crazy Fake Facebook Page Scams You Don’t Want To Fall For [Weekly Facebook Tips]
• 5 Highly Tactical Shooters That Are Worth Your Time
• 5 Tools To Migrate Your Data From Windows XP
• 7 Most Useful Video Game Cheats Ever
• Git Init: 10 Tips That Help You Start Your Own Open Source Project
• Major League Gaming App Comes To Xbox 360 With Live eSports Viewing
• Catch up on PC Maintenance & Clear Your System With Glary Utilities Pro
• Sony Project Morpheus, Valve’s Free To Play, Assassin’s Creed Unity [Video Game Hub]
• 3 Simple Ways To Cut Down Your Online Expenses
• Linker: The Tiny Chrome Extension That Makes Sharing By Email Way Too Easy!
• Microsoft Offers $100 Discount On Select PCs To Windows XP Users Willing To Upgrade

Cool Websites & Tools – Download Icons, First Tweets, & Block Websites Posted: 25 Mar 2014 09:31 PM PDT Nasty Icons – is a collection of 45 icons, which you can use freely for commercial use on things like T-shirts, website pages, that sort of thing. All you have to do in return is pay with a tweet. Also on the page are over 300 other vector icons, which you can also download for free. You can also create icon fonts. OurScreen – Imagine you could decide what films played in your favourite cinema? Ourscreen puts film fans in control of their local cinema. With this innovative new platform we are all be able to create film screenings for... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Download Icons, First Tweets, & Block Websites

Google Launches Photowall For Chromecast To Share Images On TV Posted: 25 Mar 2014 08:30 PM PDT The $35 Google Chromecast is fantastic if you want to transfer stuff from phone to TV, and it just got a whole lot better. A bunch of Googlers have developed a new app called Photowall which lets many phones transfer images at the same time to a Chromecast-equipped TV, for collaborative photo viewing. We had said that the recently released Google Chromecast SDK will lead to big things and this is the first one from Google’s own stable. Photowall will require a Chromecast connected to your TV and a smartphone, with all of those devices simultaneously connected to the same... Read the full article: Google Launches Photowall For Chromecast To Share Images On TV

20 Tech Topics To Get Passionate About [We Ask You Results] Posted: 25 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PDT We here at MakeUseOf have technology oozing from our pores. We eat, sleep, and breathe tech to the point that our lives are somewhat consumed by this vast subject and all its various intersecting strands. We’re only here to entertain and inform you, the MakeUseOf readership, without whom this website would be absolutely pointless. So we asked you to tell us what instills passion in your hearts – the answer to which follows this overlong lede. 20 Shades Of Geek We asked you, What Tech Topics Are You Passionate About? The response was tepid, with only a handful of comments... Read the full article: 20 Tech Topics To Get Passionate About [We Ask You Results]

Quora Announces Verified Profiles For Select Users Posted: 25 Mar 2014 05:30 PM PDT Question and answer site Quora has just launched a feature which will allow high profile individuals to have a blue “verified” checkmark next to their name so that all users can be sure that they are who they say they are. The first person to get the coveted blue checkmark is none other than United States President Barack Obama, who will be using this opportunity to talk about the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. Verified profiles are meant to give the average user peace of mind that the verified individual is who they claim to be. Twitter has... Read the full article: Quora Announces Verified Profiles For Select Users

Crazy Fake Facebook Page Scams You Don’t Want To Fall For [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 25 Mar 2014 04:30 PM PDT Most people think they can spot a Facebook scam when they see one, but the truth is that these scams are getting pretty good at blending in. If you are tired, trusting or not paying close attention when you see the scam, there is a good chance you could fall for it too. Verify Your Facebook Account So We Can Steal It, Thanks There’s a new scam doing the rounds this week in the form of a message from “Mark Zukcemberng”, claiming that your page was in violation of the terms of service. It then links to a Facebook app... Read the full article: Crazy Fake Facebook Page Scams You Don’t Want To Fall For [Weekly Facebook Tips]

5 Highly Tactical Shooters That Are Worth Your Time Posted: 25 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT The shooter is a genre that seems simple on its face. You have a gun. You shoot things. And the player with quicker, more accurate aiming usually wins any duel. That's certainly true of some shooters, such as Call Of Duty and Halo, but there are others which place an emphasis on teamwork and make a skilled solo player almost worthless. Here are five shooters perfect for a squad of friends that want to test their mind as well as their trigger-finger. ARMA 3 The ARMA series frankly isn't the best line of large-scale tactical shooters to hit the market,... Read the full article: 5 Highly Tactical Shooters That Are Worth Your Time

5 Tools To Migrate Your Data From Windows XP Posted: 25 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT With the April 8, 2014 end-of-support date looming, it’s long past time to upgrade from Windows XP. If you have a Windows XP system filled with your personal data and settings, upgrading can be daunting. These tools will help you easily migrate your data from Windows XP to a modern version of Windows, Mac OS X, or even Linux. PCmover Express Microsoft is now providing a free copy of LapLink’s PCmover Express to all Windows XP users. This tool will only work if you’re transferring data from a Windows XP PC to a Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 PC. It... Read the full article: 5 Tools To Migrate Your Data From Windows XP

7 Most Useful Video Game Cheats Ever Posted: 25 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT Cheats are often associated with multiplayer gaming these days, but it wasn’t always that way. At one time, single player games were shipped with hidden cheat codes that could be used to unlock an array of nifty powers and shortcuts. Remember those days? Back then, cheats were awesome. They didn’t incite fury and animosity amongst gamers. Instead, they were there to help you get through the toughest games when you just weren’t good enough, allowing you to experience content that you would have otherwise given up on. Here are some of the most useful cheats to have graced video game... Read the full article: 7 Most Useful Video Game Cheats Ever

Git Init: 10 Tips That Help You Start Your Own Open Source Project Posted: 25 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT Are you going to program the next big thing? Do you already have a little code to get started, but need a lot more help from others? Do you like getting the benefits of the open source community as well as giving back to it? Then you need to start your own open source project, and it’s not quite as easy as you might think. Choose a License Before you get things rolling, there are a few things you need to do before you can let others start writing code for your project. The first item of business is to... Read the full article: Git Init: 10 Tips That Help You Start Your Own Open Source Project

Major League Gaming App Comes To Xbox 360 With Live eSports Viewing Posted: 25 Mar 2014 10:30 AM PDT Major League Gaming (MLG) is one of the originators and leaders in field of eSports and it has just launched an application for Xbox 360 that allows gamers to kick back on their couch and watch some of the best competitive gamers in the world do their thing on a big screen TV. This is a move that makes sense, as why wouldn’t MLG want to put the broadcasts on the very console where most of the games are actually being played? With the exception of Dota 2, League of Legends and Starcraft 2, many of the most watched eSports are... Read the full article: Major League Gaming App Comes To Xbox 360 With Live eSports Viewing

Catch up on PC Maintenance & Clear Your System With Glary Utilities Pro Posted: 25 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT PC maintenance is one of those tedious chores that most people postpone until their machine is just barely limping along. You know who you are. Yes, you, with the five hundred desktop icons and ten minute boot time. Glary Utilities is designed for you. We’ve reviewed Glary before, but the latest version brings a lot of changes, including improved Windows 8 support and an entirely new look and layout. Read on as we test the new version on an aging and largely neglected Windows 8 desktop computer, which was chosen because it needed help the most. What Is Glary? Glary, in a nutshell, is... Read the full article: Catch up on PC Maintenance & Clear Your System With Glary Utilities Pro

Sony Project Morpheus, Valve’s Free To Play, Assassin’s Creed Unity [Video Game Hub] Posted: 25 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PDT Welcome to MakeUseOf’s Video Game Hub, the weekly news show where we count down the top three news stories from the busy world of video games. Every single Tuesday we break down the biggest news stores of the week, and of course, we give a good dose of opinion about what these stories mean for the video game world as a whole. This week, Sony is going heavy into the world of virtual reality, two new Assassin’s Creed games are coming this year, and Valve’s Free To Play documentary is a huge success. Make sure to subscribe to MakeUseOf’s YouTube channel so... Read the full article: Sony Project Morpheus, Valve’s Free To Play, Assassin’s Creed Unity [Video Game Hub]

3 Simple Ways To Cut Down Your Online Expenses Posted: 25 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT Your digital life is draining your financial resources in multiple ways. Fortunately, you can put a stop to it today. A gadget or luxury item marketed as the next best thing; an accessory that seems impossible to do without; a service that you have to sign up for — all of those buys add up to burn a big hole in your pocket. The inexpensive purchases are even more dangerous. You don’t bother tracking them because it feels like you’re paying for them with loose change. These accumulate over time and cost you a substantial portion of your income. You... Read the full article: 3 Simple Ways To Cut Down Your Online Expenses

Linker: The Tiny Chrome Extension That Makes Sharing By Email Way Too Easy! Posted: 25 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT In this day and age, it’s fairly common to receive links to interesting sites via email. Yes, people share their links on Facebook and Twitter when they want all of their friends to see them. But, when you just want to quickly send something to your partner or to yourself for safekeeping, what do you use? I bet for a number of you, that answer is email. So, if email is the go-to sharing method of choice, why do most people do it the slow way? People seriously go to the effort of opening a tab for Gmail, then starting... Read the full article: Linker: The Tiny Chrome Extension That Makes Sharing By Email Way Too Easy!

Microsoft Offers $100 Discount On Select PCs To Windows XP Users Willing To Upgrade Posted: 25 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT The death of Microsoft XP is a few weeks away. The Redmond based company has offered customers $100 in store credit if they upgrade from Windows XP to the newer Windows 8.1 computer. Customers can make the purchase from Microsoft’s online store and its retail outlets in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The offer is valid till 15th June or till stocks last and is limited to one device per person. The discounted deal comes packaged with 90 days of free technical support. Qualifying customers will also get a free Laplink data transfer service. The software helps to... Read the full article: Microsoft Offers $100 Discount On Select PCs To Windows XP Users Willing To Upgrade

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