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- Cool Websites & Tools – Quality Book Recommendations, Live Messaging, & Choose A New Mobile Phone
- Caption Contest: Oh, I’m Just Hanging
- Free MP3 Download: 10 Instrumental Soundtrack Albums [Sound Sunday]
- No Smartphone, No Problem: 7 Great Mobile Games To Play In Your Browser
- Stay Better Protected On Twitter & Give Your Tweets More Space With These Updates
- New Alfred Powerpack Update Includes External Trigger Workflows and Context Sensitive Hotkeys
- How Big Is Your Main Computer Monitor? [MakeUseOf Poll]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Quality Book Recommendations, Live Messaging, & Choose A New Mobile Phone Posted: 11 May 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Slowy – is a tool which simulates custom connection's conditions and limits the network traffic to a specified destination port or interface. It is created for web developers, like me, who need to test a website with a real-world connection, even on a local server. Slowy is an OSX MenuBar app, so it is lightweight and is placed only on the system topbar. BookVibe – If you are addicted to books, you will know how difficult it is to get quality book recommendations. BookVibe aims to solve this problem. Get quality book recommendations from your friends on Twitter. Books you’ll... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Quality Book Recommendations, Live Messaging, & Choose A New Mobile Phone |
| Caption Contest: Oh, I’m Just Hanging Posted: 11 May 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Get your thinking caps out of your closet and dust it off! It’s time for another Caption Contest. Geeks love superheroes, and rightly so — technology and superheroes make for an interesting combination. Anyways, if you can think of a hilarious caption for this cartoon, you’ll win any of these geeky MakeUseOf t-shirts for free! And yes, we’ll send it to you wherever you are in the world. Read the full article: Caption Contest: Oh, I’m Just Hanging |
| Free MP3 Download: 10 Instrumental Soundtrack Albums [Sound Sunday] Posted: 11 May 2014 06:30 PM PDT  A Soundtrack is music that supports a story told in pictures or words. In our music-crazy culture, soundtracks are found in movies, TV shows, commercials, video games, and sometimes book readings. Some people even have a soundtrack for their life. Whether you’re a regular visitor or just happened to stumble across Sound Sunday today, I hope you’ll find something you like and return to pick up more free music in the future. Soundtracks That Rock Genre: alternative, cinematic, rock, post-rock Reanimation by Lights & Motion Not strictly a soundtrack, the 2013 debut album of Lights & Motion is an experiment. Driven by a vision... Read the full article: Free MP3 Download: 10 Instrumental Soundtrack Albums [Sound Sunday] |
| No Smartphone, No Problem: 7 Great Mobile Games To Play In Your Browser Posted: 11 May 2014 01:00 PM PDT  There are some great iPhone games and fantastic Android games out there, but what if you don’t have an smartphone? Don’t worry, you don’t need to be left out. There are a lot of fantastic mobile games that you can play in your browser too! Angry Birds Let’s start with the biggie, the most downloaded game in the history of smartphones. Angry Birds was launched for the web as an experiment by the Google Chrome team to show off their browser’s HTML5 engine, but it works on almost any browser with HTML5 — so that means every modern browser. Just head... Read the full article: No Smartphone, No Problem: 7 Great Mobile Games To Play In Your Browser |
| Stay Better Protected On Twitter & Give Your Tweets More Space With These Updates Posted: 11 May 2014 10:30 AM PDT  Twitter beefed up its security and brought in a slight layout change that gives more eye-space to what matters – your tweets. Let’s talk about them one at a time. Your Twitter account gets some extra security padding with a system that identifies any suspicious log in attempts. Working in the background, it will check location, device being used and login history and if there is anything unusual, it will flag it as suspicious behavior. You will be asked to verify your account with some secret information. An email alert is sent out so that you can take appropriate action... Read the full article: Stay Better Protected On Twitter & Give Your Tweets More Space With These Updates |
| New Alfred Powerpack Update Includes External Trigger Workflows and Context Sensitive Hotkeys Posted: 11 May 2014 07:30 AM PDT  Developers of the productivity application, Alfred, released on Thursday a significant update (version 2.3) for its Powerpack features, including context sensitive workflow hotkeys, external triggering of workflows using AppleScript, and a workflow action for opening a static file with a specified application. Alfred and pro level Powerpack features are popular for users who like to launch applications, URLs, and execute custom and developer-generated workflows using either assigned hotkeys or keywords. The latest update allows users and developers to create a workflow and assign a hotkey that only works in one or more assigned applications. This contextual hotkey feature means that the same... Read the full article: New Alfred Powerpack Update Includes External Trigger Workflows and Context Sensitive Hotkeys |
| How Big Is Your Main Computer Monitor? [MakeUseOf Poll] Posted: 11 May 2014 05:30 AM PDT  Last week we wanted to know who among you is using WhatsApp. WhatsApp is extremely popular in some parts of the world, while almost non-existent in others. Despite that fact, one poll answer managed to get over 60% of your votes. Which one was it? Out of 741 votes in total, 6% don’t use WhatsApp but their family or friends do, 10% used to use WhatsApp but stopped, 21% simply don’t use it, and 63% of the voters say they use WhatsApp. Quite impressive! Comment Of The Week Many of you told us what you like or don’t like about... Read the full article: How Big Is Your Main Computer Monitor? [MakeUseOf Poll] |
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