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• Cool Websites & Tools – Expert Tech Reviews, Send Money Cheaply, & Amazon Coupons
• Caption Contest: Saber Duel
• Danny MacAskill’s Bike Stunts Are Crazy [Stuff to Watch]
• Mozilla Adds Choices With Click-To-Play For All Plugins After March 31st
• Getting Retro with Super Hexagon: A Mind-Bending Rhythm Game for Android
• 5 Security Software Myths That Can Prove Dangerous
• Make Your Phone Turn On Automatically Just When You Need It
• Connect Your Xbox 360 To The Internet Using Your Windows Computer
• Google Says Bon Appétit: See Restaurant Menus In The Search Results
• 5 Ways Your Windows Phone Experience Is Enhanced By Bing
• Pixable Is The Universal Photo Inbox You Never Knew You Needed
• Last Gen Consoles Aren’t Done: These 7 Games are Still Coming
• IMO Drops Third-Party Messaging Networks: Save Your History Now
• Not Just for Coders: 9 Ways To Use GitHub For Creative Work
• Where Are All Of The Video Games Featuring Female Protagonists?

Cool Websites & Tools – Expert Tech Reviews, Send Money Cheaply, & Amazon Coupons Posted: 03 Mar 2014 08:31 PM PST PepFeed – Instant access to the best expert reviews, product videos and brand pages while shopping for electronics on Amazon stores. PepFeed gives you instant access to insightful expert reviews, engaging product videos and informative brand pages, so that you get to shop with confidence. Transferwise – Sending money abroad is deceptively expensive, thanks to the hidden fees we've all been forced to pay. Now TransferWise lets expats, foreign students and businesses transfer money wherever it’s needed, at the lowest possible cost. No hidden fees, no headache. Mapillary – Take photos with the Mapillary app while walking, biking, or driving.... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Expert Tech Reviews, Send Money Cheaply, & Amazon Coupons

Caption Contest: Saber Duel Posted: 03 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PST “Jeez, guys. If you’re going to cosplay, do it right.” Give us your funniest captions! Submit them in the comments section for your chance to win a free MakeUseOf geeky t-shirt. You know you want one. And the winning caption from “Vulcan Nerve Pinch” is “I told you not to use Internet Explorer!” submitted by Bill S. If only that happened in real life. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Saber Duel

Danny MacAskill’s Bike Stunts Are Crazy [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 03 Mar 2014 05:30 PM PST Once you learn to ride a bike you never forget. Once you learn to bunny hop off backwards from heights of several metres, you’re set for life. Enter Danny MacAskill, Scottish trail cyclist and YouTube sensation. Danny hit it big in 2009 when he put a compilation of stunts online, which soon led to films being commissioned, commercial offers from advertisers and sponsorship from caffeine peddlers Red Bull. “April 2009″ “April 2009″ is the video that shot Danny to fame and gained him widespread media attention. The video itself is shot in 4:3 and has more in common with a... Read the full article: Danny MacAskill’s Bike Stunts Are Crazy [Stuff to Watch]

Mozilla Adds Choices With Click-To-Play For All Plugins After March 31st Posted: 03 Mar 2014 04:30 PM PST Mozilla is carrying forward its intent to enable 'Click to Play' by default for all plugins. Last year in January, Mozilla said choosing plugins to play manually would improve browser performance and stability. Plugins cause memory and security issues; poorly designed ones often crash browsers. Users can minimize these faults if they have the option to load only the plugins they want. Mozilla has requested site authors and developers phase out use of plugins in favor of new browser technologies. Native performance is becoming more powerful each day and plugins are less essential. We strongly encourage site authors to phase... Read the full article: Mozilla Adds Choices With Click-To-Play For All Plugins After March 31st

Getting Retro with Super Hexagon: A Mind-Bending Rhythm Game for Android Posted: 03 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PST Super Hexagon, available for Anrdoid as well iOS, is a mind-bending mobile rhythm game with an addictive potential that puts much of its competition, including a legion of Flappy Birds clones, thoroughly to shame. Super Hexagon Super Hexagon is the latest offering from Terry Cavanagh, the mind behind VVVVVV, a frustrating but compelling platformer. The game has an appealing, minimalist geometric style, and a profoundly addictive gameplay loop (not to mention a killer soundtrack). The concept is simple enough: you play a tiny triangular ship, moving in circles through an infinite randomized maze collapsing towards the titular hexagon in the center of the screen.... Read the full article: Getting Retro with Super Hexagon: A Mind-Bending Rhythm Game for Android

5 Security Software Myths That Can Prove Dangerous Posted: 03 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PST While the media doesn’t pay as much attention to malware as it did a decade ago when the threat was new, tens of millions of PCs remain infected worldwide. Some are damaged by their infection and become unstable, others allow criminals to steal private information, and still others force the target to join a botnet. You’d think such threats would make people take malware more seriously, but many myths persist. Here are five common misconceptions that can lull you into a false sense of security. A Virus Can’t Infect Your PC If You Don’t Download Anything Most people think of... Read the full article: 5 Security Software Myths That Can Prove Dangerous

Make Your Phone Turn On Automatically Just When You Need It Posted: 03 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PST Your phone is resting on the table; you pick it up, and it flicks on. You didn’t press anything — it just knows. Or maybe it’s in your pocket or your purse — you pull it out, and the screen turns on. It feels magical, and it works well, thanks to a free little app called Gravity Screen. The screen knows when to turn off, too. The Magic of Sensors Your phone is a tightly packaged bundle of sensors. It has a proximity sensor so it knows to turn the screen off when you’re in a call; it has a... Read the full article: Make Your Phone Turn On Automatically Just When You Need It

Connect Your Xbox 360 To The Internet Using Your Windows Computer Posted: 03 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PST For those of you still stuck with an old Xbox 360 that doesn’t support WiFi, connecting your 360 to your computer can be a quick and easy way to get connected to Xbox Live. Wireless adapters run upwards of $60, and establishing a connection to an Ethernet port isn’t always possible. Thankfully, Windows (8, 7, Vista, and XP) has a built-in feature called Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) that allows you to share your computer’s Internet connection with your 360. Using nothing but a spare Ethernet cable, you can get Xbox Live up and running within minutes. Plus, if your University... Read the full article: Connect Your Xbox 360 To The Internet Using Your Windows Computer

Google Says Bon Appétit: See Restaurant Menus In The Search Results Posted: 03 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PST It’s only for Google users in the U.S. for the moment, but this is one Google Search feature that everyone could do with. Type in a restaurant’s name and Google Search will display the menu from the place. The restaurant menus are displayed as a OneBox-style answer when you type (or speak) – “Show me the menu for“. The immediate benefit is that you don’t have to wade through restaurant websites or recommendation tools to arrive at the perfect destination for the perfect evening meal. You can cover the entire menu with the “At a Glance” main section. But the... Read the full article: Google Says Bon Appétit: See Restaurant Menus In The Search Results

5 Ways Your Windows Phone Experience Is Enhanced By Bing Posted: 03 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PST It might not be the most popular search engine around, but Bing plays a massive role in Windows Phone, providing search tools for web pages, music, shopping and finding items of local interest. Bing is so tightly integrated that you can almost forget that it's even in Windows Phone! Don’t Be So Hard On Bing You’ve been ignoring Bing in favour of Google, haven’t you? Well, you’re not alone. While Bing has made some inroads in its attempt to tackle the search dominance of Google, it hasn’t exactly set the world alight. However on Windows Phone 8 it is an... Read the full article: 5 Ways Your Windows Phone Experience Is Enhanced By Bing

Pixable Is The Universal Photo Inbox You Never Knew You Needed Posted: 03 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PST Once in a while, you come across a product that fills a void you never knew existed. Think of the iPhone. Think of Twitter. Comparing Pixable to the likes of these is, admittedly, a bit of hyperbole. But among all the photo aggregators I have used, not one has come close to what Pixable achieves. It has the potential to revolutionize how you use images. Pixable used to be a different service. In its earlier avatar, Pixable was about personalized printable calendars. In its second coming, it has taken on the role of an app that manages all your photos.... Read the full article: Pixable Is The Universal Photo Inbox You Never Knew You Needed

Last Gen Consoles Aren’t Done: These 7 Games are Still Coming Posted: 03 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PST The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 launched late last year, offering grand promises of next generation gaming experiences. But for now, a lot of those promises are just that; promises. New consoles are still at their full prices, and games once expected to release alongside the systems are being rescheduled to come out in the “launch window”. Not familiar with this vaguely defined window? It’s a term consumers are beginning to discover can mean as long as six to nine months after hardware reaches the shelves. If you’ve been reluctant to upgrade, you’re in luck. Developers and publishers don’t intend... Read the full article: Last Gen Consoles Aren’t Done: These 7 Games are Still Coming

IMO Drops Third-Party Messaging Networks: Save Your History Now Posted: 03 Mar 2014 06:30 AM PST The makers behind the popular multiprotocol messaging app imo, have just announced that they will be ending support for all third-party messaging networks by March 3,  2014. Users have until March 7th to retrieve their data, which imo.im has made easy to access. Users should follow these steps: Visit o.imo.im Click the gear in the top right Select Preferences Select the Export chat history option This news arrives in the wake of imo’s massive overhaul in the hopes of competing directly with Skype and Google Hangouts by offering voice and video chatting. Instead of being one app for all your different messaging services, imo is now... Read the full article: IMO Drops Third-Party Messaging Networks: Save Your History Now

Not Just for Coders: 9 Ways To Use GitHub For Creative Work Posted: 03 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PST GitHub is known for the great features it can offer programmers, but it’s not only for them. There are plenty of other creative uses for GitHub. Here are nine different examples on what else GitHub can be used for. What’s GitHub? GitHub is an online repository service that anyone can sign up for. It uses a technology called “Git” which keeps track of revisions and who made them. It also is a great way to share, clone (forking), and modify/enhance what you fork. James wrote an entire article dissecting what Git is and can do. For open source projects, GitHub is entirely free... Read the full article: Not Just for Coders: 9 Ways To Use GitHub For Creative Work

Where Are All Of The Video Games Featuring Female Protagonists? Posted: 03 Mar 2014 05:00 AM PST Pick any random game that features a female on the box and she’ll likely be suffering from two maladies: Big Boob Syndrome and Clothing Deficiency. The gaming industry is notoriously associated with misogyny and, to be frank, it can be hard to find examples to the contrary. But is it all doom and gloom? I don’t think so. The perception is that most gamers outside of casual markets are male, and it’s easier for males to identify with male leads. Because of this, female leads tend to take the back seat. But that doesn’t justify the oversexualization of females in... Read the full article: Where Are All Of The Video Games Featuring Female Protagonists?

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