15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Yahoo User Logins, Bitcoin Regulation, Project Spark, Windows XP Pop-Ups [Tech News Digest]
• Cool Websites & Tools – Find Your Car, Free Disney Movie, & Instagram Downloader
• 7 Insane Employee Perks At Tech Companies
• You Wish You Owned Google [We Ask You Results]
• Real Life Interactions Can Start With Facebook: Here’s How [Weekly Facebook Tips]
• More Than Just Widgets – A Look At 3 Useful Floating Android Apps
• Slack Makes Group Communication Faster and Easier
• Stay Secure: 3 Instagram Hoaxes Too Many People Fell For
• Discover The Sound Of Nature On YouTube
• Polaris Office 5 Brings Spellcheck, Better Microsoft Office Support & iOS 7 Style
• How To Make Your Own Custom Wallpaper For Android
• 3 Browsers With Cool Touch Features For Windows 8
• What Is The Best Contacts & Dialer App For Android?
• It’s The End Of Days For Windows XP – Microsoft Will Send Pop-up Reminders
• How To Learn A Language Using The Kindle Paperwhite

Yahoo User Logins, Bitcoin Regulation, Project Spark, Windows XP Pop-Ups [Tech News Digest] Posted: 05 Mar 2014 03:30 AM PST Today in Tech News Digest, Yahoo rejects third-party logins, Japan plans Bitcoin regulation, Project Spark comes to Xbox One, Twitter talks “impressions,” Steve Ballmer talks retirement, Microsoft nags Windows XP diehards to move on, and Arduboy brings Tetris to the business card. Yahoo Forcing User Logins I was greatly confused when Yahoo started allowing G and FB logins. Unclear though, if they can sustain their own ID effort. People moved on — Romit Mehta (@TheRomit) March 5, 2014 Those of you accessing Yahoo services will soon have to log in with a Yahoo username, as opposed to signing in with... Read the full article: Yahoo User Logins, Bitcoin Regulation, Project Spark, Windows XP Pop-Ups [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Find Your Car, Free Disney Movie, & Instagram Downloader Posted: 04 Mar 2014 08:31 PM PST Auto Finder – Never forget where you parked again. Auto Finder automatically marks your location whenever it detects you’ve parked. No more wandering around the parking lot looking for your car. Even better, you don’t have to remember to mark your location yourself. Auto Finder uses your Android device’s hardware sensors. Disney Movies Anywhere – is a site for buying and watching Disney movies. What makes this really convenient is that you can connect your free Disney account with iTunes so they can be synced. For a limited time, you get a free movie for joining up. Camiocam – learns... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Find Your Car, Free Disney Movie, & Instagram Downloader

7 Insane Employee Perks At Tech Companies Posted: 04 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PST We’ve talked about interning in Google and Facebook, and how great it can be. But what about other tech companies? Did you know that AirBnB giveaways their employees $2000 a year just to travel anywhere they want to? By WhoIsHostingThis via Infographicals Read the full article: 7 Insane Employee Perks At Tech Companies

You Wish You Owned Google [We Ask You Results] Posted: 04 Mar 2014 05:30 PM PST When Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion it set us wondering how things may have been different if certain websites or apps had been either created by other people or bought before they matured. We hoped this would be worthy of a serious and invigorating discussion amongst the MakeUseOf readership. We were wrong. Google, And Not Much Else We asked you, What Website Or App Do You Wish You'd Created? The response to this question was extremely disappointing. Not only was the number of replies low, but the quality was also lacking. Just a few of you nailed it, answering... Read the full article: You Wish You Owned Google [We Ask You Results]

Real Life Interactions Can Start With Facebook: Here’s How [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 04 Mar 2014 03:30 PM PST It’s easy to write off Facebook as a way to waste your life online rather than having actual real life friendships. Facebook wants to change this attitude. Recently, Facebook has released a bunch of adverts to real-life audiences to show how Facebook actually augments and facilitates real life activities, rather than supplanting them. I wholeheartedly agree that Facebook is generally the means to an end, rather than the whole interaction. This is something much of the older generations don’t seem to understand: social networks are another way to communicate, just like the telephone and letters in your postbox are. Yes,... Read the full article: Real Life Interactions Can Start With Facebook: Here’s How [Weekly Facebook Tips]

More Than Just Widgets – A Look At 3 Useful Floating Android Apps Posted: 04 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PST If you thought having multiple windows open on your Android device requires you to be using some special device, think again. A floating app may be all you need. The multi-window feature that is available on devices like Samsung Galaxy Note series is much in demand, and unsurprisingly so. After all, who likes to be interrupted by an incoming message or alert while watching an awesome YouTube video? Floating apps are just what they sound like – sticky or persistent apps that float on the screen on top of the app you’re currently using. They allow you to multitask, give... Read the full article: More Than Just Widgets – A Look At 3 Useful Floating Android Apps

Slack Makes Group Communication Faster and Easier Posted: 04 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PST Group emails can really kill productivity, especially when messages become conversational or “off-topic” chatter. In this case, it’s high time to put mail clients to rest, and use collaboration services like the newly launched, Slack. No number of smart mailboxes or labels can help with the gluttony of email that fills our collective inboxes. Slack, like other collaboration services that came before it, takes the concepts of chatrooms, file sharing, and instant messaging and makes it easier for companies, groups, and teams to collaborate with one another. Slack has no distracting content to deal with. The focus is on messages and... Read the full article: Slack Makes Group Communication Faster and Easier

Stay Secure: 3 Instagram Hoaxes Too Many People Fell For Posted: 04 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PST How many hoaxes have you unknowingly believed? The problem, of course, is that we often don’t know that we’ve fallen for one until much later. After all, if we knew a hoax was a hoax, we wouldn’t have fallen for it in the first place. Instagram is one of many sites where hoaxes can go viral, and if you use Instagram, you may have been a victim. Plenty of people destroyed their iPhones thanks to one of the most rampant hoaxes in 2013. There are sites out there that help with debunking rumors and checking facts, but those sites are... Read the full article: Stay Secure: 3 Instagram Hoaxes Too Many People Fell For

Discover The Sound Of Nature On YouTube Posted: 04 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PST Nature is the best medicine. Natural sounds can decrease anxiety, stress, and pain. If you’re listening to music on YouTube while working or doing chores, you can make nature sounds a part of your day. Add short nature sound videos to your favorite playlist to remind you of taking breaks or use longer videos while you exercise, meditate, or just want to relax and fall asleep. Pick your favorite nature sounds from the channels below. K-MUSICLIFE The Japanese netlabel K-MusicLife combines nature sounds with chillout music. They call this creation Japanese Chillout. Their collection comprises 15 topical playlists and over 30... Read the full article: Discover The Sound Of Nature On YouTube

Polaris Office 5 Brings Spellcheck, Better Microsoft Office Support & iOS 7 Style Posted: 04 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PST If you want to be productive on your iPhone or iPad, you need a good office suite. Polaris Office 5 promises to be just that, with plenty of powerful document editing features, Microsoft Office compatibility, and a faster document loading speed. And it’s not too bad on the eyes either. Could this be the first office productivity suite to make it to our list of the best iPhone apps? Polaris Office 5 touts its compatibility with MS Office documents more than anything else, which is understandable given that’s the software most people work on. The app can insert and edit... Read the full article: Polaris Office 5 Brings Spellcheck, Better Microsoft Office Support & iOS 7 Style

How To Make Your Own Custom Wallpaper For Android Posted: 04 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PST Your wallpaper is the face of your phone, so it better be good. You can use your browser or an app like Wallbase to find wallpapers, but you can also make them yourself — and it’s easier than you think, thanks to FreshCoat, a fun and free wallpaper creator for Android. Pick a Color, Any Color The simplest wallpaper you can make with FreshCoat is just a solid color, similar to what you can make using the much older Colors app. But FreshCoat lets you do more: For one thing, you can select one of a number of textures, as... Read the full article: How To Make Your Own Custom Wallpaper For Android

3 Browsers With Cool Touch Features For Windows 8 Posted: 04 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PST When you’re using your Windows 8.1 device as a tablet — or just touching your laptop’s screen — the last thing you want is a desktop browser that hasn’t been properly designed for touch screens. Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome all have different interfaces specifically for Windows 8. There are even other browsers to choose from in the Windows Store. Note that you can only access the “Windows 8-style” version of a browser if it’s your default browser. In other words, if you want to use the touch version of Firefox, Firefox has to be your default browser. You won’t... Read the full article: 3 Browsers With Cool Touch Features For Windows 8

What Is The Best Contacts & Dialer App For Android? Posted: 04 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PST Most people in your Contacts list are more than just a number to you. You’re friends with them on Facebook. You follow them on Twitter. You have a LinkedIn connection. And your interactions with them are hence diverse, whether it’s calling them, sending a text message, chatting on Whatsapp, checking where they are on Foursquare, finding their latest tweet and so on. Contacts+ streamlines your interactions with your phone by combining the dialer, address book and text messaging into one seamless app. On top of that, it supercharges each contact by bringing in their non-Google social networks, like Facebook, WhatsApp,... Read the full article: What Is The Best Contacts & Dialer App For Android?

It’s The End Of Days For Windows XP – Microsoft Will Send Pop-up Reminders Posted: 04 Mar 2014 06:30 AM PST It’s the end of the line for Windows XP. Microsoft is planning to use pop-up warnings to remind users to upgrade and it could start as soon as next week. Windows XP will end its 12-year successful run on April 8th and Microsoft wants the considerable number of users to shift over to more modern versions of its operating system. The pop-up notifications will be enabled from March 8th following the monthly patch cycle of Windows Update. Pop-ups will continue to be displayed on the 8th of every month unless users tick the “don't show this message again” option. Running... Read the full article: It’s The End Of Days For Windows XP – Microsoft Will Send Pop-up Reminders

How To Learn A Language Using The Kindle Paperwhite Posted: 04 Mar 2014 06:00 AM PST If you’re trying to learn a new language, you know the frustrations of reading a book or article in that language and constantly having to look things up in your dictionary. Thankfully, using a Kindle Paperwhite makes that process much, much easier. With the built-in dictionary and Vocabulary Builder on your Paperwhite, reading in another language is as convenient as it will ever be. The Paperwhite has gotten a slight refresh since we last reviewed it, making it an even more capable device than it already was, and with the Kindle Matchbook program, which gives you a free or discounted copy... Read the full article: How To Learn A Language Using The Kindle Paperwhite

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