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- Cool Websites & Tools – Your Personal Chef, Your Personal Shopper, & Take Exams Anywhere
- Caption Contest: No Way, Macgyver
- Sony Recalls Thousands of Vaio Fit 11A Laptops For Overheating Batteries
- Windows 8.1 Update Is Here! What It Is & How To Get It Now
- Quick Look Plugins Make File Browsing On OS X Even Better
- A Mouse “Hack” That All League Of Legends Players Should Know About
- Your Startup Should Have A Blog. Here’s Why
- 100+ Reasons PopClip Can Help You Become a Mac Power User
- Danger Confirmed: Heartbleed Really Does Open Up Crypto Keys to Hackers
- Stressful Day? These Alternative Free Apps Will Help!
- Four Awesome Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom
- Superb Star Wars-Themed Apps & Games For Windows Phone 8
- Open The Box: Cloud Company Gives Back To Community With Open Source
- No Pixel Wasted: How a Classic Utility Helps You Make Use Of Your Screen
- 7 Reasons You Should Upgrade To GNOME 3.12 On Linux
| Cool Websites & Tools – Your Personal Chef, Your Personal Shopper, & Take Exams Anywhere Posted: 14 Apr 2014 09:31 PM PDT  GIF Scrubber – is like a movie player for animated GIFS. Play it fast, slow, backwards, or use the scrubber to go back and forth. Preview image while extracting is optional, mouse over to control the GIF, download all individual frames at once, and more. Cameo – allows you to easily create beautiful short films on your own or with friends. Cameo is the first app to bring professional-grade video effects and styles to users of any skill level. Free professional-grade effects and fonts. Save HD videos to your phone so you can upload to YouTube, Vimeo, or Instagram. Kitchensurfing... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Your Personal Chef, Your Personal Shopper, & Take Exams Anywhere |
| Caption Contest: No Way, Macgyver Posted: 14 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Now Henry, I don’t care how you do it — I want you to take this PC apart and upgrade the processor using only this paper clip and toothbrush. Can you think of a witty caption for this image? Then share it with us and win an awesome MakeUseOf t-shirt of your choice! We’re still accepting submissions for the “PC Lock” contest, so head over there and put your thinking cap on. Read the full article: Caption Contest: No Way, Macgyver |
| Sony Recalls Thousands of Vaio Fit 11A Laptops For Overheating Batteries Posted: 14 Apr 2014 05:30 PM PDT  It’s one thing to have a hot laptop propped uncomfortably in your lap, but it’s quite another for that laptop to literally burn people. That is precisely why Sony announced on Friday that it would be recalling roughly 26,000 Vaio Fit 11A laptops. The move comes after several reports the company received in March and April of the new hybrid laptop battery overheating and causing partial burns to the PC itself. The three incidents occurred in Japan, Hong Kong, and in China. All units were immediately pulled from store shelves. The batteries in question were made by Panasonic. A spokesperson... Read the full article: Sony Recalls Thousands of Vaio Fit 11A Laptops For Overheating Batteries |
| Windows 8.1 Update Is Here! What It Is & How To Get It Now Posted: 14 Apr 2014 03:00 PM PDT  Curious about the latest Windows 8.1 Update or not sure what this is about? KB2919355 is a cumulative set of important updates and new features, delivered via Windows Update. If you want to keep your system up to date and secure, you should apply this update. And you may appreciate some of its novelties. Microsoft is rolling out the Windows 8.1 Update via automatic updates over the next weeks. If you want to be ahead of the curve, you can manually install KB2919355 right now. Or maybe you were one of the first people to receive it automatically and it’s... Read the full article: Windows 8.1 Update Is Here! What It Is & How To Get It Now |
| Quick Look Plugins Make File Browsing On OS X Even Better Posted: 14 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Bolster your Mac’s Quick Look function with better file support. If there’s a format you wish you could preview, there’s probably a plugin for the job. It’s one of those Mac features you come to depend on, once you notice it. In Finder you can highlight any file, and then press space to preview it. It’s a great way to get an overview of an image, document or even a media file. It’s called Quick Look, and it’s wonderful – if it supports the file you’re looking at. If you’re finding yourself looking at icons instead of file contents, here... Read the full article: Quick Look Plugins Make File Browsing On OS X Even Better |
| A Mouse “Hack” That All League Of Legends Players Should Know About Posted: 14 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Are you a League of Legends player who feels kind of stuck at your current skill level? Do you find discomfort in constantly having to alternate between modifier keys to do what you want to do in game? I felt this same way, especially as a player who mainly plays ranged Champions (although there are so many others worth playing). If you’re a Marksman main, the following tip will be especially useful for you. In this article, I’d like to introduce players to how they can change their mouse settings so that the left-click button performs an “Attack Move” command.... Read the full article: A Mouse “Hack” That All League Of Legends Players Should Know About |
| Your Startup Should Have A Blog. Here’s Why Posted: 14 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT  As a vehicle for empowerment, the Internet has no equal. Perhaps one area the Internet has fundamentally revolutionized is entrepreneurship. It’s never been easier to quit your soul-crushing 9 to 5 and launch your own startup. Indeed, all you need is a great idea, some technical aptitude, and you can launch your very own small business. Traditionally, businesses cobbled together a multitude of skill sets, stretching from engineering prowess, all the way to business aptitude and marketing acumen. And yet, a significant proportion of tech startups are launched by people who know a lot about software development, but don't really... Read the full article: Your Startup Should Have A Blog. Here’s Why |
| 100+ Reasons PopClip Can Help You Become a Mac Power User Posted: 14 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT  If you want to reduce the number of clicks you make on your Mac, a very useful application called PopClip should probably live in your menu bar. PopClip ($4.99) made our list of recommended productivity applications last year, and has continued to help us be productive. Since we first reviewed PopClip as a giveaway application two years ago, over a hundred actions (technically called extensions) have been developed for the utility. You might be surprised by what you can get done when simply selecting text on your Mac. What Does PopClip Do? PopClip is simple to use: when you select a piece of... Read the full article: 100+ Reasons PopClip Can Help You Become a Mac Power User |
| Danger Confirmed: Heartbleed Really Does Open Up Crypto Keys to Hackers Posted: 14 Apr 2014 10:30 AM PDT  News from Cloudflare on Friday indicates that the debate is over regarding whether the new OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability could be utilized to obtain private encryption keys from vulnerable servers and websites. Cloudflare confirmed that third-party, independent testing revealed this is in fact true. Private encryption keys are at risk. MakeUseOf previously reported the OpenSSL bug last week, and indicated at that time that whether or not encryption keys were vulnerable was still in question, because Adam Langley, a Google security expert, could not confirm that as being the case. Cloudflare originally issued a “Heartbleed Challenge” on Friday, setting up a... Read the full article: Danger Confirmed: Heartbleed Really Does Open Up Crypto Keys to Hackers |
| Stressful Day? These Alternative Free Apps Will Help! Posted: 14 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Russia has entered the Ukraine! The world is in and out of recession! Tickets for Kate Bush’s tour have completely sold out! Oh, it’s a stressful world we live in. But you no longer have to take up yoga (or boxing) to relieve some stress – turn to your smartphone instead. When I was younger I loved Stressed Eric, a BBC 2 animated show about an overworked and stressed-out single parent. Back then, we were several years away from “there's an app for that” – and the show surely wouldn’t have been as entertaining ten years later. If you feel your... Read the full article: Stressful Day? These Alternative Free Apps Will Help! |
| Four Awesome Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom Posted: 14 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT  We know Chromebooks are fantastic for users who want simplicity, that Chromebooks make excellent travel companions, and that they are perfect for those who do a lot of their computing in the cloud – but what role can Chromebooks play in the education sector? In January 2014 we learnt that Chromebooks now account for twenty percent of all United States school purchases of mobile computers. It’s an incredible turnaround when you consider that in 2012 Chromebooks represented less than one percent of the market – and their rapid explosion has undoubtedly worried long-time market leaders Apple and Microsoft. The reasons for... Read the full article: Four Awesome Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom |
| Superb Star Wars-Themed Apps & Games For Windows Phone 8 Posted: 14 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT  It’s the biggest film series of all time, it has spawned comics, board games, video games, spin-off cartoons and a new trilogy is entering production soon. Better still, Star Wars has a strong presence on Windows Phone! Star Wars Apps & Games for Windows Phone 8 Whaa?! No, it’s true. Whether you’re a fan of Star Wars or not, there is no getting away from its ubiquity in the digital age, and this has recently meant a raft of new titles hitting Windows Phone 8. Everything From Angry Birds: Star Wars to Tiny Death Star (a Tiny Tower clone) is... Read the full article: Superb Star Wars-Themed Apps & Games For Windows Phone 8 |
| Open The Box: Cloud Company Gives Back To Community With Open Source Posted: 14 Apr 2014 07:30 AM PDT  Box has made its identity as a cloud company with generous file management features. The company showed another generous side by contributing to the Open Source movement with its own repository. Box Open Source is a way for the cloud company to give back to the community and even tapping the work of open source developers for its own projects. Presently, the repository hosted on GitHub showcases 20 projects. Open source projects cover the range of Python and PHP codes, database tools, SDKs for Windows, iOS, Android, and Java, and JQuery plugins. Benjamin VanEvery, Principal Technical Operations Developer said: We... Read the full article: Open The Box: Cloud Company Gives Back To Community With Open Source |
| No Pixel Wasted: How a Classic Utility Helps You Make Use Of Your Screen Posted: 14 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT  If there’s one thing that’s cooler than a new app that works, it’s an old app that works. Sprinkled throughout the Internet you will find some quiet utilities that have been going strong for years now, doing just one or two things exceptionally well. Today, I’m here to give one of these gems some much-deserved love: Winsplit Revolution is a tiny, free, and powerful utility that lets you tile your windows. If the concept of tiling your windows sounds foreign, take a look at your screen right now. How many windows do you have on the screen? Probably one or... Read the full article: No Pixel Wasted: How a Classic Utility Helps You Make Use Of Your Screen |
| 7 Reasons You Should Upgrade To GNOME 3.12 On Linux Posted: 14 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Labeled by some as “unintuitive” and “a usability nightmare,” GNOME Shell used to be crap. Not anymore. GNOME released version 3.12 of its popular desktop environment recently, and it refines the Gnome Shell concept yet again. It managed to pass the “usable” threshold a few releases ago and hasn’t stopped improving since. It might take a while before this new version is packaged into your favorite distribution’s next release, but here’s a preview of what changes you can expect. Applications, Sorted Searching through the Launchpad-like list of installed applications wasn’t the best experience. Although you could choose from categories, you couldn’t... Read the full article: 7 Reasons You Should Upgrade To GNOME 3.12 On Linux |
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