15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Weekly Work Reports, Windows Screen Capture, & Blood Alcohol Calculator
• Caption Contest: You’ve Cracked It
• Relive History With 80,000+ British Pathé Historical Newsreels [Stuff to Watch]
• No Blog, No Problem — 3 Handy Apps To Help You Quickly Publish A Post
• How To Rock The Coffee Shop Cubicle
• Unleash Your Inner Artist with Three Free Digital Painting Programs for Windows
• Livescribe 3 Smartpen Review and Giveaway
• 7 IFTTT Recipes You Should Set Up For Easy Collaboration With Others
• Joss Whedon’s New Film Bypasses The Cinema & Appears On Vimeo Instead
• Scapple Lets You Organize Your Thoughts However You Like
• 6 Places To Buy Cheap Video Game T-Shirts
• 12 Useful Tweaks To Make Ubuntu Feel Like Home
• Explore Pinterest In Just A Few Taps As Guided Search Comes To The Mobile Apps
• 11 Shape-Shifting Video Games For Hardcore Transformers Fans
• SUPERAntiSpyware Is A Vital Tool In The Fight Against Malware

Cool Websites & Tools – Weekly Work Reports, Windows Screen Capture, & Blood Alcohol Calculator Posted: 28 Apr 2014 09:31 PM PDT Weekdone – What did your team get done this week? What are their plans for the next? Weekdone is a quick team dashboard with weekly e-mail reports for every manager or team leader. Used by Fortune 500 teams to small startups for greater team insight. Acompli – empowers professionals to do more with email, calendaring, file sharing and contacts in one fast, easy-to-use app. Supports Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Google Apps & Gmail. Mobile email just got a promotion. Work the way you want, whether that's inbox zero or inbox 5,000. TinyTake – is a free screen capture software for... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Weekly Work Reports, Windows Screen Capture, & Blood Alcohol Calculator

Caption Contest: You’ve Cracked It Posted: 28 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT Jen’s weighing the pros and cons of slotting a quarter in to make the technician work faster. Got a caption for this cartoon? Share it with us in the comments section and you’ll win a geeky MakeUseOf t-shirt, delivered anywhere in the world! Make sure to head over to Cans-O-Mania, it’s still accepting submissions. As for Convenience Station, the winning caption goes to John: “Finally! I was hoping I wasn't going to run into another oasis.” Congratulations! Read the full article: Caption Contest: You’ve Cracked It

Relive History With 80,000+ British Pathé Historical Newsreels [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 28 Apr 2014 06:30 PM PDT Pathé News, known these days as British Pathé, has been responsible for recording some of the most important events in history – from global warfare to World Cup finals, and now much of the footage is available to watch on YouTube. With over 80,000 films to peruse, you would need years to get through them all – and there’s not a lot of order to the collection either. Regardless, if you’re looking for footage of well-documented cultural movements, news events and days that shook the world then British Pathé on YouTube is a great place to start. Queen Victoria’s Funeral... Read the full article: Relive History With 80,000+ British Pathé Historical Newsreels [Stuff to Watch]

No Blog, No Problem — 3 Handy Apps To Help You Quickly Publish A Post Posted: 28 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT If a blog feels like too much work, feel free to cut it out of the equation. You can publish posts without one. Writer or not, you might wish to put your thoughts in writing when the mood strikes you. If you want to start a blog we have plenty of information to help you with that, including this definitive guide to WordPress and Joel’s article on easy-to-use blogging tools. But what if having to set up and maintain a blog to send out the occasional post does not appeal to you? Maybe you just want to contribute a few... Read the full article: No Blog, No Problem — 3 Handy Apps To Help You Quickly Publish A Post

How To Rock The Coffee Shop Cubicle Posted: 28 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT It’s been happening for a while: meetings have moved from conference rooms to coffee shops, business calls can be taken in the middle of a café, important paperwork is taken care of at the food court. The structure for so many businesses has shifted to an online interface, and the physical, real-world aspect of the office is slowly starting to fade. Thanks to the Internet, we work where we want to, when we want to, and how we want to. But unfortunately, with this freedom comes quite a few social risks. When humans share breathing space, they can’t help but... Read the full article: How To Rock The Coffee Shop Cubicle

Unleash Your Inner Artist with Three Free Digital Painting Programs for Windows Posted: 28 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT Painting is fun, but it’s also messy,  expensive, and alarmingly analog. Digital art offers a solution to these problems, but many of the programs commonly used are either impenetrable snarls of feature creep (Photoshop) or so expensive that nobody but graphic designers can afford them (also Photoshop). Why Photoshop Doesn’t Cut It Don’t get me wrong!  Photoshop is useful, once you know how to use it.  The truth is, though, that Photoshop is a one sized fits all tool, and for pure painting, the one size doesn’t fit very well at all. Sometimes, what you want is a simple tool that... Read the full article: Unleash Your Inner Artist with Three Free Digital Painting Programs for Windows

Livescribe 3 Smartpen Review and Giveaway Posted: 28 Apr 2014 11:30 AM PDT Who doesn’t want a Livescribe smartpen? Whether you’re a student, a journalist, attend meetings a lot, or just need to easily record writing and audio, you can make good use of a smartpen. Livescribe is the most famous maker of smartpens, and its former models — the Livescribe Echo and Livescribe Sky — are still a brilliant way to pair audio and notes and transfer them onto your computer. The newest iteration of these smartpens — the $150 Livescribe 3 — looks like a shiny new model, and promises to “turn your words into action”. Just like with any new... Read the full article: Livescribe 3 Smartpen Review and Giveaway

7 IFTTT Recipes You Should Set Up For Easy Collaboration With Others Posted: 28 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT If cleanliness is next to Godliness, then automation will get you into heaven. Why? Because when your life is automated, it’s simpler, it’s cleaner, and it’s happier. There are few services quite as powerful when it comes to automating productivity as IFTTT. IFTTT  helps you save money, transform your email and SMS into a sports scoreboard, or optimize Google Calendar automation. This is just the tip of the iceberg with IFTTT. Just when you think you’ve covered it all, new recipe ideas come along.  When you are collaborating with a group of people, IFTTT offers even more opportunities to automate... Read the full article: 7 IFTTT Recipes You Should Set Up For Easy Collaboration With Others

Joss Whedon’s New Film Bypasses The Cinema & Appears On Vimeo Instead Posted: 28 Apr 2014 10:30 AM PDT He’s a cult icon who’s well known for Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Firefly, The Avengers, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. But now writer and director Joss Whedon has taken the decision to bypass the cinema completely with his new film and show it on Vimeo instead, as a $5 rental. The film is called “In Your Eyes” and has been described as a “paranormal love story“. It has subtitles in Japanese, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese. With a score of 7.1 out of 10 on the Internet Movie Database, it is described as follows : In the frozen East Coast winter, Rebecca... Read the full article: Joss Whedon’s New Film Bypasses The Cinema & Appears On Vimeo Instead

Scapple Lets You Organize Your Thoughts However You Like Posted: 28 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT Need a better tool for brainstorming, or just organizing thoughts? Check out Scapple. This Mac and Windows note-taking software lets you write down ideas, move them around and connect one concept to another – and it couldn’t be easier to use. Scapple, in their own documentation, seems to intentionally avoid using the terms “mind mapping”, instead calling the product a note-taking app. The distinction is a wise one – the majority of earth-dwelling humans have no idea what “mind mapping” is, but almost everyone takes notes. Still, if you’re familiar with mind-mapping software, you might think you know what Scapple... Read the full article: Scapple Lets You Organize Your Thoughts However You Like

6 Places To Buy Cheap Video Game T-Shirts Posted: 28 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT You know what is a great way to show off what your hobby? A T-shirt. You can slap something right on your chest and tell the whole world, “I like this thing enough to wear it on my body.” It’s the same reason fans of various sports teams wear a jersey to represent. For gamers, representing your favorite game on a shirt is a way of letting everyone that you’re a fan. But who wants to spend big bucks on a t-shirt? In the words of Macklemore, “that’s $50 for a t-shirt.” Don’t worry though, we’ve got you covered with a... Read the full article: 6 Places To Buy Cheap Video Game T-Shirts

12 Useful Tweaks To Make Ubuntu Feel Like Home Posted: 28 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT Ubuntu is a pretty good Linux distribution to start out with, but there are some tweaks you might want to perform to get it to work and behave the way you want it to. This is especially true if you’re new to Ubuntu or Linux. If you’ve jumped over from Windows XP, you’ve made a good choice. Here we’ll show you some great tweaks that can go a long way to achieving desktop zen. Install Proprietary Drivers The first thing you should do is install proprietary drivers, if available. These drivers are provided by the manufacturer and generally allow your... Read the full article: 12 Useful Tweaks To Make Ubuntu Feel Like Home

Explore Pinterest In Just A Few Taps As Guided Search Comes To The Mobile Apps Posted: 28 Apr 2014 07:30 AM PDT Pinterest is a “search engine” in its own right, and two new updates to Pinterest on mobile should now help with the visual exploration. Pinterest is rolling out Guided Search for trawling through more than 750 million boards with 30 billion Pins. The second announced feature — Custom Categories then should come into the picture to help you in a more organized way. Guided Categories is being rolled out first on the iPhone, iPad or Android apps and then to the Web. Custom Categories will follow soon. Guided Search is being described as a new way to find content on... Read the full article: Explore Pinterest In Just A Few Taps As Guided Search Comes To The Mobile Apps

11 Shape-Shifting Video Games For Hardcore Transformers Fans Posted: 28 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT Transformers: Age of Extinction is set to release this summer, marking the fourth release in the reloaded tale of Autobots and Decepticons. Whether you just like a big sci-fi blockbuster full of Michael Bay’s signature explosive action, or your Transformer fever gives you chills every time you hear the opening chords of “The Touch“, there are lots of ways you can enjoy the adventures of form changing robots long after the movie’s credits roll. Check out your options for official Transformers games, and other shape-shifting franchises that might scratch your itch! Official Transformers Games The Cybertron Series Right now, the... Read the full article: 11 Shape-Shifting Video Games For Hardcore Transformers Fans

SUPERAntiSpyware Is A Vital Tool In The Fight Against Malware Posted: 28 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT When it comes to detecting and removing malware, you might have used or at least heard of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. We’ve covered it before, but perhaps you want to try a different solution for your on-demand scanning needs. Even if you swear by Malwarebytes, it’s not a bad idea to scan with multiple one time-scanners once in a while. If you’ve been looking for a new tool to add to your security arsenal, perhaps SUPERAntiSpyware is right for you. Setting Up The name SUPERAntiSpyware (SAS) sounds a bit shady, almost like a fake antivirus program, but rest assured that it’s a... Read the full article: SUPERAntiSpyware Is A Vital Tool In The Fight Against Malware

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