15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Encyclopedia Of Life, Chat Anonymously, & URL Favicon Stacks
• Caption Contest: Satellite Fetish
• iOS Apps on Sale for 29 Mar: Papa Sangre II & Carmageddon Are Free!
• iPad Browsers Compared: Which Is Best?
• Does The Fall Of Mt. Gox Mark The Beginning Of The End For Bitcoin? [MUO Debates]
• Find The Best Animal Healthcare Advice Online
• Two Hardware Hacks to Improve your Chromebook: SD Cards and USB Modems
• Rank With Your Images: 4 Ways To Make Your Images SEO Friendly
• Turbo Dismount Is Just A Destructive Good Time
• 7 Tricks To Help You Find The Right Images For Your Blog Posts
• TheTable Is A Slick New App That Finds Excellent Places To Eat
• Avast Launches GrimeFighter To Clean Up & Safeguard Your Windows PC
• Facebook Favorite For Chrome Is A Private Way To Save Posts For Later
• JotterPad X, Reviewed: A Slick Android Text Editor With Markdown
• Nest Protect Review and Giveaway

Cool Websites & Tools – Encyclopedia Of Life, Chat Anonymously, & URL Favicon Stacks Posted: 28 Mar 2014 09:31 PM PDT EOL – is the Encyclopedia of Life, with information and pictures of all species known to science. Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth is scattered around the world. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment's notice. Rumr – is an iOS and Android app, and is the new way to chat anonymously in real-time with your friends. Rumr allows you to have conversations that your identity prevents. It’s like having a conversation with the lights off. It gives you the freedom to... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Encyclopedia Of Life, Chat Anonymously, & URL Favicon Stacks

Caption Contest: Satellite Fetish Posted: 28 Mar 2014 07:30 PM PDT Bill wasn’t impressed by Joe’s choice of curtains. Can you think of a caption for this cartoon? Submit them in the comments for a chance to be the proud owner of a geeky MakeUseOf t-shirt! Our “Water Cooling” contest is still accepting submissions. So if you’re feeling creative, submit a caption over there as well. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Satellite Fetish

iOS Apps on Sale for 29 Mar: Papa Sangre II & Carmageddon Are Free! Posted: 28 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PDT Finding the best deals on apps in an endless sea of promotions can be just as hard as writing an interesting introduction to the same column each week. Fortunately, the deals are generally a lot more enticing than my intros. This week we’ve got a healthy mix of familiar oldies and appealing newcomers, with the must-have musician’s tool Loopy HD enjoying 50% off and two of the App Store’s best time-wasters going completely free. Apps Loopy HD ($7.99, now $3.99) Loopy is arguably one the apps that defines the iOS platform, having being initially released way back in October 2011.... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for 29 Mar: Papa Sangre II & Carmageddon Are Free!

iPad Browsers Compared: Which Is Best? Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT Safari is the iPad’s default web browser, but that certainly doesn’t mean it’s automatically the best tool for the job. When it comes to adjusting font size, conducting research or viewing Flash videos it doesn’t hold a candle to some of the alternatives on offer. The iPad, be it the full-size or mini, is a great device for browsing the web, and we have reviewed most of the leading third-party browsers available. Today we’re looking at the best browser for a variety of different purposes: extensive reading, research and privacy, to name but a few. Shared Features Unless otherwise noted, all... Read the full article: iPad Browsers Compared: Which Is Best?

Does The Fall Of Mt. Gox Mark The Beginning Of The End For Bitcoin? [MUO Debates] Posted: 28 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT Does 2014 mark the beginning of the end for Bitcoin? Is this the end of the road for electronic currency? Why the melodrama? Well, Mt. Gox, the Bitcoin exchange, was allegedly hit with a series the of thefts totaling an astonishing 745,000 Bitcoins. It was probably just a matter of time, as hackers had been working diligently at breaking into Mt. Gox servers for years and grabbing the loot. Other exchanges claimed that the issues were isolated only to Mt. Gox servers, but that didn’t prevent investors around the world feeling a bit on edge about the security of this... Read the full article: Does The Fall Of Mt. Gox Mark The Beginning Of The End For Bitcoin? [MUO Debates]

Find The Best Animal Healthcare Advice Online Posted: 28 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT Do you own a pet? Well, MakeUseOf has a number of articles with advice on how to access human medical advice online. A few examples include articles on HealthTap and Doctors on Demand. However, a recent article on how to find reliable medical advice online got a reader asking for information on where to find the same kind of reliable health advice for animals. This article will, hopefully, fill the void. Animal healthcare advice is broadly categorized into two; medical advice for pets and advice for farm animals. There are dozens of online pet healthcare websites but the following are... Read the full article: Find The Best Animal Healthcare Advice Online

Two Hardware Hacks to Improve your Chromebook: SD Cards and USB Modems Posted: 28 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT What’s the best way to super-charge your Chromebook’s functionality? Try out these two hardware hacks to make your device do more. We’ve already noted that Chromebooks make excellent travel companions – they are portable, lightweight, and Chromebooks have excellent offline capabilities. Yet if you are stuck on a train or travelling away from home for a long period, you might need more memory or to urgently need to get online. What should you do? Luckily, we have the answers… USB Modem With Chromebooks’ wide range of offline apps they still function extremely well without a data connection. However, if you don’t have... Read the full article: Two Hardware Hacks to Improve your Chromebook: SD Cards and USB Modems

Rank With Your Images: 4 Ways To Make Your Images SEO Friendly Posted: 28 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT Search engine optimization, typically called SEO, can make or break your site. SEO is the process of increasing your website’s visibility to search engines. It’s a popular topic but there’s one SEO-related issue that tends to be overlooked: image optimization. How much traffic are you losing due to poor image SEO? Yes, it’s true. Image searches can drive a lot of traffic to your website if you know what you’re doing. The trick is to understand how search engines work and format your images accordingly. Here are a few fundamental tips that will get you started. Image SEO Tip #1:... Read the full article: Rank With Your Images: 4 Ways To Make Your Images SEO Friendly

Turbo Dismount Is Just A Destructive Good Time Posted: 28 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT Sometimes, we play a video game looking for a well-rounded challenge, a deep story, a fancy art style, and all the other staples of a triple-A games. On other occasions, though, we just want some really dumb fun. Throw away a fancy story, and any kind of progression, and that’s what you get with Turbo Dismount. This simple game from Secret Exit, the guys behind Stair Dismount and Zenbound, sees you placing Mr. Dismount inside a car and driving towards obstacles while trying to cause as much destruction as you possibly can to the poor guy. Don’t worry though, Mr.... Read the full article: Turbo Dismount Is Just A Destructive Good Time

7 Tricks To Help You Find The Right Images For Your Blog Posts Posted: 28 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT It can be tough to come up with feature images to go with blog posts if your forte is not in art or design, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth your time. Today I’m going to show you: Why you should always illustrate your posts, What makes a good feature image, and 7 easy, do-it-yourself ways to come up with images to go with your blog posts. Why Your Blog Post Needs A Feature Image One of the biggest things you can do to improve your blog’s traffic is to give each article a great feature image. According to... Read the full article: 7 Tricks To Help You Find The Right Images For Your Blog Posts

TheTable Is A Slick New App That Finds Excellent Places To Eat Posted: 28 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT When we’re home, we may not allow ourselves such luxuries, but a trip abroad is just the right time to try something more fancy. Restaurant-finding apps are a dime a dozen, with well-reviewed Yelp, old standby UrbanSpoon and TripAdvisor being the best known of the lot. And while these apps do a great job with the smaller places, they might disappoint when you’re looking for that really good place. So what do you do when you want some fine dining? Introducing: TheTable (Android, iOS) TheTable is a recently launched mobile app for Android and iOS. Its sole purpose is to... Read the full article: TheTable Is A Slick New App That Finds Excellent Places To Eat

Avast Launches GrimeFighter To Clean Up & Safeguard Your Windows PC Posted: 28 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT Free anti-virus maker Avast is renowned to keep you protected from every type of malware. The company is looking beyond protection now with the launch of Avast Grimefighter, a new tool to clean up and safeguard your Windows PC. Avast claims that what sets Grimefighter apart from the rest is how easy it is to use. The software apparently requires no technical know-how and even a novice user can operate it using its simple instructions. The calling card of Grimefighter is its ability to put your PC in a state of “sedation” which lets it look through registry items and... Read the full article: Avast Launches GrimeFighter To Clean Up & Safeguard Your Windows PC

Facebook Favorite For Chrome Is A Private Way To Save Posts For Later Posted: 28 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT Facebook itself only has “Like” and “Share” buttons, both of which publicly tell people what you think. But what if you want to save a post for later without broadcasting or endorsing it? Meet Facebook Favorite for Chrome. Solving A Facebook Problem One of the biggest problems I face on Facebook is that there is no easy mechanism to save a post privately. Sometimes, I come across articles and posts that I don’t like but I want to store them for later reference—there’s no way to do that on Facebook directly. What you Like on Facebook can tell a lot... Read the full article: Facebook Favorite For Chrome Is A Private Way To Save Posts For Later

JotterPad X, Reviewed: A Slick Android Text Editor With Markdown Posted: 28 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PDT Your phone is always in your pocket, making it the ideal notepad… With the right app, that is. JotterPad X works hard to be that app, with a distraction-free editing mode, Markdown and Fountain support, and a number of themes. This is a busy niche for Android: We’ve previously looked at Draft, which is my current favorite in the category. There is also LightPaper (which is available for Mac, too) — another lovely and minimal editor. So is JotterPad X better? In some respects, it is. The themes certainly add something new, and the app has lots of animations and... Read the full article: JotterPad X, Reviewed: A Slick Android Text Editor With Markdown

Nest Protect Review and Giveaway Posted: 28 Mar 2014 05:30 AM PDT Nest Protect is the most feature-packed smoke and carbon monoxide alarm available today, but it comes at a premium price. Is it worth it? How good can a smoke alarm be? I’ve been finding out. Nest Labs – co-founded by former Apple engineers – made a name for themselves in 2011 with the Learning Thermostat, an intelligent heating control device that learnt about the habits of its users to conserve and optimize energy usage. The Protect, $130, is the second product to be released – a WiFi-enabled smoke and carbon monoxide alarm that aims to take the frustration out of... Read the full article: Nest Protect Review and Giveaway

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