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- Cool Websites & Tools – Generate Paper, Test PC Sound, & Airplane Mode
- Caption Contest: Fried
- Set List: Stand Up Without A Net Is Raw, Improvised Comedy [Stuff to Watch]
- Of Toasters And Smartphones: Apps And The Economy
- The Best Speed-Reading Extensions For Chrome
- 5 Woodworking YouTube Channels You Should Subscribe To Today
- Remapping: The Secret Software Solution To Increase Keyboard Productivity
- Could These 3 Social Networks Succeed Facebook?
- 5 Up And Coming Gaming YouTube Channels To Add To Your Subscriptions
- Setting Up Wireless Networking on Your Raspberry Pi
- Legal Anime Exists: 4 Websites Where You Can Watch Anime For Free (Or Cheap)
- Start Speed Reading in Five Minutes with These 3 Free Android Apps
- 4K Video Downloader Makes It Easy To Get Videos From YouTube
- 4 Ways Homeschoolers Use Technology To Teach and Educate Their Children
- Apple Admits Failure, Android TV, Windows In The Car, Amazon Dash [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Generate Paper, Test PC Sound, & Airplane Mode Posted: 07 Apr 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Gridzzly – everybody needs paper for something, especially students. Gridzzly helps you get paper by enabling you to choose what pattern you want, choose the size of the lines or the squares, then click the “press” button. Soundcheck – is a Windows-based application that allows users to test their PC sound card, speakers and microphone. Verify that your sound card can record and playback sounds at various audio sample rates. Check the capability of your speakers to reproduce the highest and lowest frequencies. xTab – limit the maximum number of open tabs. This extension allows you to limit your tabs... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Generate Paper, Test PC Sound, & Airplane Mode |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Can you think of a good caption for this cartoon? Is it funny? Well then, submit it in the comments section and you just might win yourself a free MakeUseOf t-shirt and join the ranks of others who have won! The best caption from “You May Now Text The Bride” goes to Luna H. with her caption, “I now pronounce you husband and wi-fi.” Congratulations, Luna! Read the full article: Caption Contest: Fried |
| Set List: Stand Up Without A Net Is Raw, Improvised Comedy [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 07 Apr 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Think of your favourite stand-up comedian, then take away their carefully rehearsed routine and pre-prepared jokes. Would they still be funny? That’s exactly what Set List is all about. Each comedian is given a set list of topics they must implement into their routine, but they don’t find out what they are until they’re on-stage. Some quick-thinking is required to turn an awkward moment into rapturous laughter, but the best comedy acts do it so well. This is stand-up comedy told by adults to other adults, on the Internet. Expect the usual strong language and adult themes, though no more than... Read the full article: Set List: Stand Up Without A Net Is Raw, Improvised Comedy [Stuff to Watch] |
| Of Toasters And Smartphones: Apps And The Economy Posted: 07 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Your relationship with your toaster is pretty simple – at least, I hope it is. You bought your toaster, and now you can toast things with it. Sure: there are various bakers out there vying to sell you bread, and you need to pay your electricity bill to keep things working. But the company that makes your toaster isn’t hoping to take home a percentage of these sales – and it isn’t showing ads based on your past toasting history. You bought your toaster; you use your toaster. That’s it. Your Smartphone and The Economy Compare this to your relationship... Read the full article: Of Toasters And Smartphones: Apps And The Economy |
| The Best Speed-Reading Extensions For Chrome Posted: 07 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT  The Galaxy S5 just got Spritz, a speed-reading app that is shaking up the way we read on our tablets. And now many of us want that speed-reading tool elsewhere too. What are the best speed-reading apps for Chrome? Let’s take a look. Spreed – Speed Read The Web (Chrome) Spreed is the clear favourite of the Chrome store. To use it, click Alt-V and then highlight the passage you’d like to speed read, and Spreed will even guess which text you’d like in advance. Or right-click and choose “Spreed selected text” from the context menu for the same results.... Read the full article: The Best Speed-Reading Extensions For Chrome |
| 5 Woodworking YouTube Channels You Should Subscribe To Today Posted: 07 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Woodworking is a highly visual craft. There’s just something photogenic about lumber getting cut to size, dry-fit, glued or tacked together, and finally sanded down and finished into a beautiful piece of furniture. Even if you’re not a woodworker yourself, watching high-quality woodworking videos is a great way to learn about how stuff gets made, and who knows, you might even realize you want to make something yourself. Over a year ago, I wrote up a round-up of three woodworking resources which included talented YouTube woodworkers Matthias Wandel, Steve Ramsey, and Marc Spagnuolo, AKA The Wood Whisperer. All three still... Read the full article: 5 Woodworking YouTube Channels You Should Subscribe To Today |
| Remapping: The Secret Software Solution To Increase Keyboard Productivity Posted: 07 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Are you constantly hitting the Caps Lock key by mistake? Or need a keystroke or Mouse Action in a game that for whatever reason you are not able to execute. There are solutions. It would be safe to say that the majority of us as computer users assume that the purpose of a key on the keyboard is to type the letter or symbol which it has and that is all, end of story. In fact it is possible to remap all the keys on the keyboard in Windows. Enter remapping software. Essentially, applications which allow you to change what... Read the full article: Remapping: The Secret Software Solution To Increase Keyboard Productivity |
| Could These 3 Social Networks Succeed Facebook? Posted: 07 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Entropy. It’s why all the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again. It gives us time and makes your hair gray. Everything ends. And that includes Facebook. Despite what MakeUseOf readers think, it’s been predicted that Facebook will shed 80% of its users by 2017 – but which social network will succeed it? Here are some likely candidates. Tumblr Tumblr is already immensely popular; maybe not Facebook-popular, but it certainly caters for countless fandoms. If you’re a fan of Marvel, Sherlock, Disney, or even Grumpy Cat, Tumblr is the place to be, especially... Read the full article: Could These 3 Social Networks Succeed Facebook? |
| 5 Up And Coming Gaming YouTube Channels To Add To Your Subscriptions Posted: 07 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT  YouTube has some of the best gaming content on the Internet. But not all good content is made by the top channels — there are plenty of up and coming YouTubers that provide content just as good, but they’re simply not as well know. Finding good but lesser-known channels is hard enough, so we did it for you. Here are five of them that you should take a good look at. Strictoaster and Zhatt Strictoaster and Zhatt are two YouTubers that tend to work together on videos, and they make awesome, high-quality content. They’re primarily known for their videos on... Read the full article: 5 Up And Coming Gaming YouTube Channels To Add To Your Subscriptions |
| Setting Up Wireless Networking on Your Raspberry Pi Posted: 07 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Virtually every Raspberry Pi project will require a network connection, and considerable flexibility can be gained by ignoring the Ethernet port in favour of a wireless USB dongle. Knowing which one to use and how to set it up could be make or break for your project. Ethernet Or Wireless? When you first acquire your Raspberry Pi, the best option is to use an Ethernet connection to ensure the operating system is correctly configured and up-to-date. You can then move onto a wireless USB connection once you’re happy. The benefit of Ethernet over wireless LAN on the Raspberry Pi –... Read the full article: Setting Up Wireless Networking on Your Raspberry Pi |
| Legal Anime Exists: 4 Websites Where You Can Watch Anime For Free (Or Cheap) Posted: 07 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Looking to watch more anime, but not sure where to find it online? Look no further. These four websites make anime more accessible to the general public than ever before — and they’re completely legal! Three out of the four are even free. Anime, Japanese animated TV shows and movies, has exploded in popularity in recent years, and more and more people outside of Japan are discovering this awesome fusion of storytelling, art, music, and animation. A few years back, we reviewed some of the best anime sites on the Web, but times have changed and you can now find... Read the full article: Legal Anime Exists: 4 Websites Where You Can Watch Anime For Free (Or Cheap) |
| Start Speed Reading in Five Minutes with These 3 Free Android Apps Posted: 07 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT  By now, many of you have seen the promo for Spritz making the rounds on various tech blogs. Spritz makes a bold claim: it suggests that it can have anyone reading at 600 words per minute in less than an hour (the average reading speed is 220). The reason Spritz has been receiving widespread coverage is that it immediately goes on to prove this claim, via a polished demo widget. Within minutes of starting, I was comfortably reading at the maximum rate, which felt a little bit like witchcraft. Spritz is unreleased as yet, but the demo certainly looks promising.... Read the full article: Start Speed Reading in Five Minutes with These 3 Free Android Apps |
| 4K Video Downloader Makes It Easy To Get Videos From YouTube Posted: 07 Apr 2014 05:30 AM PDT  4K video is all the rage and YouTube is a great place to watch them. Streaming 4K video can be too bandwidth-intensive, so a better option is to save and play them with 4K Video Downloader. Right now, it might be best to avoid 4K TVs. But if you have one or bought a high-resolution monitor, then you need 4K content. YouTube has several high-quality 4K videos like this mesmerizing video of the night sky. Unfortunately, online YouTube downloaders don’t have the capacity to let you download and convert videos in 4K. In that case, 4K Video Downloader is a... Read the full article: 4K Video Downloader Makes It Easy To Get Videos From YouTube |
| 4 Ways Homeschoolers Use Technology To Teach and Educate Their Children Posted: 07 Apr 2014 05:00 AM PDT  You’ll be hard pressed to find a parent who doesn’t want the best for their child. It’s a biological trait that is baked into each parent, like a microchip in a cellphone. A huge part of that involves making sure they have the very best education. Nothing is quite the guarantor of future success as quality schooling is. For the most part, the public school system has provided that, and has done an excellent job of bringing young people into the adult world with the intellectual faculties required to thrive. But what happens when your child’s schooling goes wrong? What... Read the full article: 4 Ways Homeschoolers Use Technology To Teach and Educate Their Children |
| Apple Admits Failure, Android TV, Windows In The Car, Amazon Dash [Tech News Digest] Posted: 07 Apr 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Today in Tech News Digest, Apple admits failure, Google works on Android TV, Microsoft wants Windows in your car, Amazon unveils Dash, Microsoft fixes Xbox One flaw, IFTTT comes to the iPad, and every SNES start screen ever is compiled into one epic video. Apple Admits It’s Failing To Deliver Apple’s solution to a bad selling ridiculous priced iPhone 5c? Reduce memory + add an even more ridiculous price for it and #FAIL again. — Stefan Esser (@i0n1c) March 18, 2014 Apple has privately admitted it’s failing to deliver what consumers want. Not publicly, of course, but in a highly... Read the full article: Apple Admits Failure, Android TV, Windows In The Car, Amazon Dash [Tech News Digest] |
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