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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

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Cool Websites & Tools – Chat Anonymously, Map Of Life, & Help With Your Laundry

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 09:31 PM PDT

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Rumr – is the new way to chat anonymously in real-time with your friends on iOS and Android. Chat privately and anonymously in real-time with your friends. Rumr allows you to have conversations your identity prevents. It’s like having a conversation with the lights off. Inside each chat you can see the list of members so you always know who is in it. You can find friends on Rumr through your address book or by adding a username. Scrawlar – is a web word processor and whiteboard for schools. Write, edit, collaborate, save, and share work on any tablet, phone,...

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If Pop Culture Characters Changed Careers, This Is How Their Business Cards Would Look

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT

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What would Sauron do for a living if he was cast out of Mordor? Custom jewellery. What else could Mister Miyagi do to earn some cash besides teaching karate? Wax cars. If House Stark lived until this day, what would they sell? Radiators! On their own, they might sound like lame jokes but coupled with these business cards designed by Benedetto Papi and Edoardo Santamato, the concept’s pretty awesome! What do you think?

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Your Favorite Online April Fools’ Day Pranks [We Ask You Results]

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 06:30 PM PDT

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You were caught out by an April Fools’ Day prank, weren’t you? It’s OK, you can admit it, we’re all friends here. And while you were proving you’re dumber than you look, the rest of us were compiling a list of our favorite online April Fools’ Day pranks from the last few years. Read on to catch up. The Fool Fighters We asked you, What Is The Best Online April Fools' Day Prank Ever? The number of responses was extremely disappointing, with only a handful of you deigning to bless us with your input. It’s easy to see why though,...

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Securing Your Chromebook With Two Easy Tweaks

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT

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One of the most touted benefits of a Chromebook is its security. But are there any steps that owners can take that will improve and enhance the current level of protection? Google claims that their Chromebook devices are virtually virus free. The machine has been designed using the principle of ‘defence in depth’ – meaning the Chromebook has multiple layers of protection and if one layer is bypassed, others are still in effect. The existing layers are already very extensive and cover a lot of potential threats. Automatic updates, sandboxed browsing, verified boot and vitally important localised data encryption all...

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Browse & Search All Parts Of The iTunes Store Quickly With Fnd.io

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT

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The bane of being an Apple user, whether on Mac or iOS, is that there is no good way to browse or search iTunes online. But Fnd.io wants to change all that. The Google Play Store has a fantastic online interface, and there are some alternative ways to browse it too. But that’s not the case with iTunes. And it’s a pity because there is so much to find on iTunes, from apps and games for both Mac and iOS, to books, movies, music and podcasts. Instead, all we get is the pathetic iTunes Preview, which can’t be searched or...

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10 Ways To Celebrate National Poetry Month

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT

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April is National Poetry Month in the US, but online, just about anyone can participate in the festivities of the month. Whether it’s through reading the poetry of others, sharing your own poetry, or spreading the joy to others around you, there’s no shortage of great ideas from the likes of the New York Times, NPR, Poets.org and more. Before we get started with the list, you might want to know a little bit more about National Poetry Month. Started in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, National Poetry month aims to raise awareness about poetry. The goals of...

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How to Edit and Clean Up Android’s Share Menu: No Root Required

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT

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If you’re like most Android users, your Share menu is cluttered with options you never use. Every time you want to share something, you have to scroll and hunt for the app you’re after. It doesn’t have to be that way. This is a simple tweak: It’s free, it doesn’t require you to root your device or play with any system files, and it is completely reversible. Doesn’t get much better than that. Before and After Here’s what we’re going for: To the left, you see my phone’s default Share menu. Yes, it’s nice and bright, but it’s not usable....

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How To Get Commercial Software For Free, Legally (T-Shirts, Too!)

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 10:30 AM PDT

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Here’s one of our best-kept secrets: You can get commercial software, t-shirts, and more, just by doing what you already do. It’s simple, and many MakeUseOf readers have been doing this for months. It works like this: Share MakeUseOf articles with your friends, get points, and use those points to redeem awesome rewards. Let’s start with the interesting part first. Redeeming Awesome Rewards We are currently offering no less than 38 different items for points, so I can’t list them all here. Instead, here are just two we’ve added during March: You Need a Budget: This is a $60 budgeting...

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Go Beyond A Boring Calendar With Mynd & UpTo For iPhone

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT

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In the age of smart phones, the best calendar apps go beyond scheduled dates and alarms. Mynd and UpTo are two free alternative date-keeping solutions for iPhone that put the stock app to shame. Mynd and UpTo both schedule events the in the same way as the iOS Calendar. They both also provide alarms, and sync with your other calendars – but these two gems include unique features that go well beyond Calendar. You could even use the both of them for different purposes – let’s take a look. Mynd: The Visual Calendar Mynd‘s biggest selling point is arguably its visually oriented...

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Uncharted Creator Goes Star Wars, Fire TV Gaming, Mario Kart 8 Info [Video Game Hub]

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 09:30 AM PDT

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Welcome to MakeUseOf’s Video Game Hub, the weekly news show where we count down the top three news stories from the busy world of video games. Every single Tuesday we break down the biggest news stores of the week, and of course, we give a good dose of opinion about what these stories mean for the video game world as a whole. This week, Uncharted creator Amy Hennig moves to Visceral Games to make a Star Wars game, Amazon launches Fire TV with games as key part of the experience, and we have a slew of new Mario Kart 8...

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Tired Of Paying For Filter Packs? PhotoMania Offers All Its Filters For Free

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT

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How hard is it to turn your smartphone photos into beautiful drawings and sketches? Sounds complicated? Take your tiny portable computer (aka your smartphone) out of your pocket, and you can instantly perform photo-editing feats you could only dream of in the past. Editing photos is just not that hard anymore, unless you’re looking for professional results. The mobile editors of today are very sophisticated; While apps like Pho.to Lab (our review) lets you apply insane and tacky filters, others, such as Handy Photo (our review) are truly powerful editors that let you easily apply almost any changes to your...

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Forget The End Of Life Woes: Windows 8 Has An XP Mode

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT

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Windows XP mode is restricted to Professional versions of Windows 7. Microsoft doesn’t officially support it on Windows 8, but there’s a way to get Windows XP Mode running on Microsoft’s latest operating system anyway. You won’t need a Windows XP disc or license key — just a computer running Windows 8. Download Windows XP Mode First, you’ll need to download the Windows XP Mode installer file from Microsoft. To download the file, you’ll have to validate your version of Windows. Microsoft won’t let you download this file if you’re using a pirated or improperly licensed version of Windows 8. Choose...

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Bop.fm Enhances Cross-Platform Music Sharing With Imported Playlists

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 07:30 AM PDT

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Bop.fm is a music aggregator that stitches together music from different services like  such as Deezer, Spotify, Beats, Rdio, Soundcloud and YouTube. Thanks to Bop.fm, you can hurdle over regional restrictions while sharing songs across the services. Now with the new Playlist Grabber feature you can aggregate not only songs as before, but also entire playlists while sharing them with the same ease. It’s being called the "Switzerland of digital music”. Bop.fm aggregates music from the music services and acts as an automatic  bridge when one friend wants to share a song with someone who uses a different service. Bop.fm...

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Text Better With These Alternative SMS Apps For Android

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 07:00 AM PDT

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One of the great advantages of having an Android phone is being able to customize to your heart’s content, and that includes everything from getting a new launcher to replacing your SMS app. If your stock SMS app doesn’t do everything you want it to, or you just want to try something new, you should give one of these a try. GO SMS Pro From the makers of popular apps like GO Launcher and GO Locker, GO SMS Pro is one of the biggest players in the game, and as such it is chock full of features. As you can...

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You Need No Development Skills To Create Professional Windows Phone Apps

Posted: 08 Apr 2014 06:00 AM PDT

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App development on Windows Phone has been restricted to those with knowledge of programming – until now. With Windows Phone App Studio you can create your own apps – but what, exactly, can you do with them? The Old Way Of Making Windows Phone Apps Since 2010, Windows Phone apps have been developed with Microsoft’s application framework Silverlight using various development studio apps. Design of apps required an underlying appreciation of the design language (initially labelled “Metro”, but now more commonly referred to as Modern) and tailoring to the available APIs. As Windows Phone 7 begat Windows Phone 7.5 and...

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