13 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Smart Android Homescreen, Email Task List, & Tweet From The Context Menu
• 12 Outstanding Traits Every Great Boss Should Have
• iOS Apps on Sale for 21 Jun: EA’s Massive Sale & Board Games Galore
• Intimidated By Cooking? 6 Simple Tips To Conquer Your Kitchen Fears
• Giovanni Idili of OpenWorm: Brains, Worms, and Artificial Intelligence
• Joe Siegrist of LastPass: The Truth About Your Password Security
• Browse Your Games In Style – Even ROMs – With LaunchBox
• Recipe For Worthwhile Reviews On Amazon, Yelp, & Everywhere Else
• 4 Ways To Take The Stress Out Of Productivity
• 5 Chrome Extensions For People Who Can’t Get Enough Dota 2
• 8 Great Places To Find Articles Worth Reading On The Web
• 4 Of The Best Game Developer AMAs on Reddit
• Deterring Smartphone Thefts With Kill Switches, Windows XP Needs To Die, And More… [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Smart Android Homescreen, Email Task List, & Tweet From The Context Menu Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:31 PM PDT Terrain Home – is a smart homescreen for Android that makes your phone simpler and more streamlined by putting everything you care about in one place. Find contacts faster, launch apps faster, and view content faster. Please note however that this is a US-only beta version for now. Planleaf – enables you to manage tasks completely over email with anyone, anywhere. There’s nothing to download or install, and you don’t even need to sign up. Compose an email with anyone you want to assign or share tasks with. Add tasks@planleaf.com to the cc field. Then start each task with a... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Smart Android Homescreen, Email Task List, & Tweet From The Context Menu

12 Outstanding Traits Every Great Boss Should Have Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT At MakeUseOf, we’re not only about technology. We write about other stuff as well, like why meetings are such a waste of time, and debate geekery (is that even a word?). We also share tips on how to be successful at finding jobs, and attaining Inbox Zero. One area which all of us probably have in common, is working in an office, dealing with superiors and office politics. If you’re a boss, there are 12 essential personality traits you should have (or try to attain) in order to be successful. Creating harmony in the workplace is not a plus, it’s... Read the full article: 12 Outstanding Traits Every Great Boss Should Have

iOS Apps on Sale for 21 Jun: EA’s Massive Sale & Board Games Galore Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:00 PM PDT The World Cup is well underway, and regardless of whether your team is still in the running you can always take a break from the football with some cracking app deals. This week EA is having a massive sale on most older titles, which means lots of board games and big franchises. Games Workshop are also having a sale, so if you’re a big fantasy or sci-fi fan you can save a buck there too. Apps Inky Mail ($0.99, now free) It seems like every email app out there wants to help streamline your workflow, and for good reason. Inky is another mail client for iOS... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for 21 Jun: EA’s Massive Sale & Board Games Galore

Intimidated By Cooking? 6 Simple Tips To Conquer Your Kitchen Fears Posted: 20 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT Eating out is awesome, but it doesn't compare to the experience of cooking a meal from scratch. No, really it doesn't. From the sound of garlic slowly softening in a pan of ultra-hot olive oil, to laying out your food so that it is optimally photogenic. Each stage of the culinary experience is wonderfully, and deserves to be cherished. And yet, it's far too common for people to hold a severe phobia of the kitchen. Making a meal from scratch is so intimidating to these people, they instead get their food from takeaways and from plastic trays which have been... Read the full article: Intimidated By Cooking? 6 Simple Tips To Conquer Your Kitchen Fears

Giovanni Idili of OpenWorm: Brains, Worms, and Artificial Intelligence Posted: 20 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT Imagine that you're a figment of your computer's imagination.  Your brain is a detailed computer simulation — an artificial intelligence that connects to simulated eyes and simulated muscles and simulated nerve endings, which interact with a simulated world.  You think and feel exactly as you do now, but instead of being implemented in grey meat, your mind runs on silicon. Simulating an entire human brain like this is a ways off, but an open-source project is about to take a vital first step, by simulating the neurology and physiology of one of the simplest animals known to science.  The OpenWorm... Read the full article: Giovanni Idili of OpenWorm: Brains, Worms, and Artificial Intelligence

Joe Siegrist of LastPass: The Truth About Your Password Security Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT After NSA surveillance, the Heartbleed threat, and hacking attempts against financial institutions, are you feeling like the digital world is falling down around you? Joe Siegrist, the CEO of LastPass, is here to settle the score on what all of these threats really mean for your password security. Here at MakeUseOf, we often alert readers to the latest security threats both on the Internet and within their own computer systems. This included full coverage of the Heartbleed virus, the Windows technical support scam, and many other computer viruses and threats. So what can you do to stay safe? The common... Read the full article: Joe Siegrist of LastPass: The Truth About Your Password Security

Browse Your Games In Style – Even ROMs – With LaunchBox Posted: 20 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT Launch all of your games – be they PC titles or emulated classics – from one beautiful interface. LaunchBox makes it easy to browse – or show off! – your game collection. You’re a gamer, and your PC offers quite the collection – but it’s scattered. Some of your games live in Steam, others you installed manually. Maybe you’ve set up DOSBox so you can get your old DOS games to run, and you’ve probably got a couple of retro emulators for playing home consoles. It’s awesome to have so many games, but it’s easy to forget where everything is;... Read the full article: Browse Your Games In Style – Even ROMs – With LaunchBox

Recipe For Worthwhile Reviews On Amazon, Yelp, & Everywhere Else Posted: 20 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT Have you ever shopped online on Amazon, looked for a good restaurant on a site like Yelp, wanted to know if a movie was any good, or searched for a good recipe for dinner? If you have done any of those things, or even read the MakeUseOf site before, you know how important reviews are. If you want to write your own reviews of products or services you’ve tried out, this guide will help you craft a review that is truly helpful to the reader. The format is inspired by recipes in the culinary sense to emphasize that there are... Read the full article: Recipe For Worthwhile Reviews On Amazon, Yelp, & Everywhere Else

4 Ways To Take The Stress Out Of Productivity Posted: 20 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT With a few well-targeted changes, you can boost your productivity by leaps and bounds. The way we talk about productivity, one would imagine that we’re trying to transform ourselves into super efficient robots. But we’re not. We’re trying to be improved versions of ourselves, to work smarter, so that we may have more time for other satisfying pursuits in life. Having certain ground rules in place makes that mission simpler by giving you the know-how to make the right choices, which will pay off handsomely in the long run. That’s where the following methods come in handy. They give you a positive... Read the full article: 4 Ways To Take The Stress Out Of Productivity

5 Chrome Extensions For People Who Can’t Get Enough Dota 2 Posted: 20 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT Do you love competitive Dota? Of course you do, or else you wouldn’t be reading an article about Chrome extensions that let you spend even more of your time keeping up with the ever-changing world of Valve’s mega-popular MOBA. About those extensions: you are seriously going to want to install every single one of them, because they will connect you to the game every time you open your web browser. You could be keeping up with Dota while reading this article about keeping up with Dota. How very meta. Dota 2 Stream Browser The world of Twitch streaming is growing... Read the full article: 5 Chrome Extensions For People Who Can’t Get Enough Dota 2

8 Great Places To Find Articles Worth Reading On The Web Posted: 20 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT The Internet is arguably the best news morgue on the planet right now. And apart from that great collection of old articles, thousands of new ones are added every day. There are so many articles on the Web now that the need of the hour is finding the good ones. Thankfully, that job is made easier by several resources that are able to intelligently gather those posts that are worth your time, whether it’s using smart digital algorithms or smart human brains. The Old Favourites There are a bunch of websites which have been curating the best articles on the... Read the full article: 8 Great Places To Find Articles Worth Reading On The Web

4 Of The Best Game Developer AMAs on Reddit Posted: 20 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT Like it or not, Reddit revolutionized social media with the “Ask Me Anything” form of online interview, better known as the AMA. There have been thousands of AMAs on Reddit that cover many topics – and we’ve even compiled our own list of the best AMAs of all time – but if you’re interested in game development, there are a few that you won’t want to miss. To be clear, these AMAs won’t teach you how to create games. For that, you should take a moment and look over these free game development tools and game development websites for beginners.... Read the full article: 4 Of The Best Game Developer AMAs on Reddit

Deterring Smartphone Thefts With Kill Switches, Windows XP Needs To Die, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 20 Jun 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, BlackBerry posts surprise profit, Valve launches annual Steam Summer Sale, a U.S. college offers athletic scholarships to professional gamers, eBay Valet sells your unwanted stuff for you, and Conan O’Brien shows off at E3 2014. iPhone Kill Switches Deter Thieves In response to the increase of iPhone thefts I installed a free deterrent app. It’s called “Drop Phone Shatter Screen”. — Jack Mackenroth (@jackmackenroth) January 15, 2014 There is now strong evidence that having kill switches on smartphones lowers the rate of crime by deterring thieves. Apple introduced a kill switch to iPhone with the release of iOS 7,... Read the full article: Deterring Smartphone Thefts With Kill Switches, Windows XP Needs To Die, And More… [Tech News Digest]

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