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• Cool Websites & Tools – In-Browser Testing, Digital Photo Forensics, & Drop Messages
• Geometry Clock Is A Geek’s Dream Waiting To Happen
• Apple Could & Should Cut Its Prices [We Ask You Results]
• 7 Ways To Improve Battery Life on Windows 8 Tablets & Laptops
• 5 New Windows Phone 8.1 Features To Be Excited About!
• 5 Great Lightning Cables To Charge Your iPhone Or iPad
• Could You Develop A Game A Week? This Guy Does Just That
• Liven Up Google Hangouts With Emoji, Status Indicators, & Better Search
• Enjoy Better Control Over Mac Windows With Optimal Layout
• EA Games Going Offline, New Unreal Tournament, Diablo 3 Next Gen [Video Game Hub]
• Off The Beaten Path: 4 Lesser-Known Gaming Subreddits
• XBMC Users: Turn Your Browser Into A Remote Control With Chorus
• Twitter to Roll Out Mute Feature to All Users Over the Coming Weeks
• 6 Space-Faring Alternatives To Eve Online
• 3 Paper Notebooks Worth Shelling Out For

Cool Websites & Tools – In-Browser Testing, Digital Photo Forensics, & Drop Messages Posted: 13 May 2014 09:31 PM PDT Overlook.io – Overlook.io puts structure around your in-browser testing and QA processes. If you’ve ever opened your site or web app in a browser to make sure a screen looked good, a flow worked well, or your user stories were satisfied, you will benefit from Overlook.io. It works equally well for solo developers as it does for organized teams, QA testers, or Product Managers. Flayvr – Meet your new camera roll, built just for you by Flayvr. Your photos and videos are precious memories, meant to be enjoyed, relived, and shared with friends, beautifully and easily – not lost in... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – In-Browser Testing, Digital Photo Forensics, & Drop Messages

Geometry Clock Is A Geek’s Dream Waiting To Happen Posted: 13 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT We’ve touched on various clocks that geeks like us might love and even some uber geeky watches that display time in the weird way possible. This, however, is the Geometry Clock – it takes the conventional way of telling time and skews it into various geometric shapes. What do you think, and would you buy it? Read the full article: Geometry Clock Is A Geek’s Dream Waiting To Happen

Apple Could & Should Cut Its Prices [We Ask You Results] Posted: 13 May 2014 06:30 PM PDT Apple famously sells its hardware at a premium. It could afford to sell its products for much less money, with teardowns consistently revealing there is little justification for the prices in terms of the cost of manufacturing Macs and iDevices. But the company chooses not to do so. The reasons for this are many and varied, and differ depending on who is expressing their opinion. The fact is Apple could cut its prices, but whether it should do or not was the subject of last week’s We Ask You discussion. The Apple Tax = A Taxing Question We asked you,... Read the full article: Apple Could & Should Cut Its Prices [We Ask You Results]

7 Ways To Improve Battery Life on Windows 8 Tablets & Laptops Posted: 13 May 2014 02:00 PM PDT Windows 8.1 offers many of the same battery-saving features found in previous versions of Windows, but they’re often in different places. These options will help you make your tablet or laptop’s battery last as long as possible. Disable Bluetooth Your Windows 8.1 tablet or laptop probably comes with Bluetooth support that’s enabled by default. If you don’t use wireless Bluetooth devices, leaving the Bluetooth radio running will just drain battery power. To disable Bluetooth if you’re not using it, swipe in from the right or press Windows Key + C to access the charms, select Settings, and select Change PC settings.... Read the full article: 7 Ways To Improve Battery Life on Windows 8 Tablets & Laptops

5 New Windows Phone 8.1 Features To Be Excited About! Posted: 13 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT Excitement for the forthcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update is growing, but with so many new features and improvements it can be difficult to focus on a specific reason to upgrade – or even switch. We’ve picked five of the most important changes to Microsoft’s mobile OS that should be of interest to most users, regardless of which platform they currently use. Windows Phone Now Has A Notification Area! In older Windows Phone releases, toast popups at the top of the screen would inform you of social media updates and notifications from installed apps. Should you be quick enough to spot... Read the full article: 5 New Windows Phone 8.1 Features To Be Excited About!

5 Great Lightning Cables To Charge Your iPhone Or iPad Posted: 13 May 2014 12:00 PM PDT One of the most common problems faced by iPhone and iPad owners is a frayed and unusable Lightning connector. Surely there must be tougher, more ruggedized aftermarket options available? Apple makes fantastic mobile products, yet for some reason insists on packing in a flimsy Lightning-to-USB cable that deteriorates too quickly and leaves you with no way to charge your phone or connect it to a computer. You can try the pen-spring trick we learnt from some awesome Instagram life hacks, but even that only slightly elongates the period before your cable frays. The obvious solution is to go back to the Apple store... Read the full article: 5 Great Lightning Cables To Charge Your iPhone Or iPad

Could You Develop A Game A Week? This Guy Does Just That Posted: 13 May 2014 11:00 AM PDT If I asked you to quit your day job, and make me a video game every week for a year, could you do it? Could you? I couldn’t, personally. Video game development is a uniquely difficult task, consisting of various different interconnected stages, each of whom require an incredible level of skill and finesse. It’s also true that traditional video games development is a profoundly difficult task, requiring huge levels of knowledge of graphics libraries, physics, mathematics and proficiency in a tricky low-level programming language such as C++. Then you have to face your most challenging hurdle. Creating a game... Read the full article: Could You Develop A Game A Week? This Guy Does Just That

Liven Up Google Hangouts With Emoji, Status Indicators, & Better Search Posted: 13 May 2014 10:30 AM PDT Google just announced a slew of “visible” improvements to Google Hangouts in Gmail. Little touches like a green availability indicator, a large set of emoji, message snippets, and a better friend search come together in what Google calls “the new Hangouts”. The first thing you should see when you click to try the new Hangouts in Gmail are tiny green bubbles next to the names of your contacts. They show which of your friends are online and available for a chat. A message snippet below the name is a cue to the last conversation you probably had one to one... Read the full article: Liven Up Google Hangouts With Emoji, Status Indicators, & Better Search

Enjoy Better Control Over Mac Windows With Optimal Layout Posted: 13 May 2014 10:00 AM PDT When working at your Mac all day, the desktop can easily become crowded with open windows, browser pages, and other applications. If you want a better way to manage and control what’s on your Mac desktop, Optimal Layout ($14.00, free trial) is a powerful window management solution. The app is similar to other window management applications for the Mac, like Moom (reviewed here) and BetterSnapTool (reviewed here), but it does offer a few unique features and nuances that make it stand out from the crowd. How It Works Activated by an assigned hotkey, Optimal Layout presents a workspace consisting of active and hidden windows currently... Read the full article: Enjoy Better Control Over Mac Windows With Optimal Layout

EA Games Going Offline, New Unreal Tournament, Diablo 3 Next Gen [Video Game Hub] Posted: 13 May 2014 09:30 AM PDT It’s time again for a new episode of MakeUseOf’s Video Game Hub where we break down the biggest news from the world of video games! Check it out, and share it with your fellow gaming friends. This week, we learn about the next Unreal Tournament game, we find out that Diablo 3 Ultimate Evil Edition is coming to PS4, Xbox One, PS3, and Xbox 360 in August, and EA is taking down online servers for dozens of older games. Make sure to subscribe to MakeUseOf’s YouTube channel so you can see each new episode of Video Game Hub as soon it releases, as well all... Read the full article: EA Games Going Offline, New Unreal Tournament, Diablo 3 Next Gen [Video Game Hub]

Off The Beaten Path: 4 Lesser-Known Gaming Subreddits Posted: 13 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT If you’re a gamer and you don’t frequent Reddit, you’re missing out. It’s one of the world’s biggest web communities (actually, it’s a collection of many different subcommunities) and it’s populated with gamers aplenty. The largest gaming subreddit – aptly called /r/Gaming – is over 5 million members large, but there are many other subreddits also worth exploring. Reddit can be great for activities like trading unwanted games and collecting video games but it doesn’t stop there. If you’ve never used the site before, you should check out our introductory guide to Reddit. Otherwise, hop right in with these awesome... Read the full article: Off The Beaten Path: 4 Lesser-Known Gaming Subreddits

XBMC Users: Turn Your Browser Into A Remote Control With Chorus Posted: 13 May 2014 08:00 AM PDT Explore and queue up your XBMC music, TV and movie collection from your browser – in style. Chorus is a stunning and functional alternative to the drab XBMC web UI (user interface), and it even lets you play music from your media center on your browser. We showed you how to control your XBMC media center using Chrome, pointing out a variety of Chrome extensions for the job. We also explored the built-in web UI option, which basically runs a web server inside XBMC so you can browse your collection and tell your media center what to play – from... Read the full article: XBMC Users: Turn Your Browser Into A Remote Control With Chorus

Twitter to Roll Out Mute Feature to All Users Over the Coming Weeks Posted: 13 May 2014 07:30 AM PDT Twitter just announced that it has introduced a feature for users to mute the tweets and retweets of individuals they follow, similar to how it’s done in the third-party app, Tweetbot. The mute feature will be included on Twitter.com, and the iOS and Android Twitter apps. This mute feature will be welcomed by many users who don’t want to stop following particular users, but who may want to pause their tweets from showing up on in their timeline for a while. The feature will be rolled out to all Twitter users over the next several weeks. Specific instructions for how... Read the full article: Twitter to Roll Out Mute Feature to All Users Over the Coming Weeks

6 Space-Faring Alternatives To Eve Online Posted: 13 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT Eve Online is one of the oldest MMOs running, yet it remains one of the most unique. The title's massive world, meaningful player-on-player combat and wide variety of ships provide an experience that no other game can match. The truth is there's no comparison for Eve Online. Nothing is the same. There are a few games that manage the same flavor, however, and can satisfy Eve players burnt out by the MMO's grindy gameplay and vicious fighting. Here are the six best alternatives. Star Conflict Star Gem's free-to-play space shooter is an under-rated title that's unfortunately flown under the radar of most gamers.... Read the full article: 6 Space-Faring Alternatives To Eve Online

3 Paper Notebooks Worth Shelling Out For Posted: 13 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT Being a technology website, we do a lot of writing about high-tech ways to keep track of things and manage your life. But sometimes a plain old notebook is the best thing you can use to jot notes, make lists, and think creatively. These three are expensive, but absolutely worth the price. What qualifies as “expensive”? The notebooks in this list cost roughly $15–$20 each. You can certainly spend more than that (think Smythson’s $310 lambskin-covered, gilt-edged books), but most people have a tendency to grab the cheapest notebook that will do the job. Whether you’re getting a notebook for... Read the full article: 3 Paper Notebooks Worth Shelling Out For

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