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- Cool Websites & Tools – Event Tracker, Minimalist Web Clipping, & Restrict Tabs
- 5 Rules Every Freelance Designer Should Live By
- Buzzworthy: 5 Clickbait Headlines Guaranteed To Annoy [We Ask You Results]
- Get Facebook Chat Heads In Chrome Just Like On Your Phone [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- Fight Crime: 4 Games Where You Get To Be The Police
- 10 Sure Signs You’ve Fallen For Click Bait
- 6 Tips To Help You Go Paperless On Android
- Net Neutrality, As Explained By YouTube’s Geniuses
- How To Sync Google Calendar With Every Other Platform
- 4 Decluttering Tips For Newsletters If You Don’t Want To Trash Them
- Get The Most Out Of Windows Phone 8.1 With These Tips
- Chatting On Android: The 4 Best IRC Client Apps
- PureVPN: A Simple, Easy-to-Use VPN [Giveaway]
- How To Optimize Linux For SSDs
- Samsung Chromebook 2 Review and Giveaway
| Cool Websites & Tools – Event Tracker, Minimalist Web Clipping, & Restrict Tabs Posted: 24 Jun 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Event Ticker – helps you keep track of all of your important events and special occasions. With Event Ticker you can create an event with a custom background or choose one of their beautiful backgrounds. You can keep up to date on your event with reminders and keep track of tasks to complete before your big event with a to-do list. Plus much more. Height Converter – The world is divided into two groups – those who use the metric system and those who use the imperial system. Calculating between the two groups can be annoying and time consuming, so... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Event Tracker, Minimalist Web Clipping, & Restrict Tabs |
| 5 Rules Every Freelance Designer Should Live By Posted: 24 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT  The world of freelancing is a tough one. Finding a job is hard. Even after you’ve found it, clients pick on you, hustle you, low-ball your fees, and yet, they expect fantastic results. If you’re a freelancer designer, learn these rules and stick to them. via Visual.ly Read the full article: 5 Rules Every Freelance Designer Should Live By |
| Buzzworthy: 5 Clickbait Headlines Guaranteed To Annoy [We Ask You Results] Posted: 24 Jun 2014 06:30 PM PDT  You may consider the headline of this article to be clickbait. But it isn’t, honestly. While it IS designed to pique your interest, it also gives an accurate picture of the content of the article. And all without employing any of the tricks of the trade that are taking over the Internet. Tricks such as the five listed below… Vague Ambiguous Hyperbole! OK, so that last sentence was clickbait. We apologize. But it was included to show how subtle the differences are between a clever headline designed to grab your attention and a deceptive headline designed to trick readers into... Read the full article: Buzzworthy: 5 Clickbait Headlines Guaranteed To Annoy [We Ask You Results] |
| Get Facebook Chat Heads In Chrome Just Like On Your Phone [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 24 Jun 2014 03:30 PM PDT  Facebook and messaging are entwined so well, that some people actually see chat as one of the best reasons to have a Facebook account. It gives you access to all your old friends, new friends, and family all in one spot. On the website, Facebook chat is ubiquitous. You’re online automatically unless you specify that you don’t want to be, and chatting just starts spontaneously whenever someone notices you are there. It’s possible to hide your online status from certain people, but with the friends you want to chat to, you’re able to fall in and out of conversation really... Read the full article: Get Facebook Chat Heads In Chrome Just Like On Your Phone [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| Fight Crime: 4 Games Where You Get To Be The Police Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT  In most video games where the police are involved, they are actually AI controlled, with the player taking on the role of the bad guy. Games like Grand Theft Auto really popularized this type of gameplay, but there are some games out there where you actually get to be the police, bringing the bad guys to justice. With all the crimes we commit in our video games, it’s a nice change of pace to be the one actually ridding the streets of the criminals instead of the other way around. The games we are going to take a look at today... Read the full article: Fight Crime: 4 Games Where You Get To Be The Police |
| 10 Sure Signs You’ve Fallen For Click Bait Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT  With the recent release of The Onion’s new satirical publication, Clickhole, the social webs have finally taken a good look in the mirror. Is Internet society mindlessly clicking and sharing interest-piquing articles for the sake of clicking and sharing them? You betcha it is. Rather than letting you fall victim to the horrors of articles that are just content for the purpose of selling ad space, MakeUseOf wants you to know when you’re being conned into reading something that just… isn’t that great. Or is pure fluff. Or is just simply words to fill space. (Like this article!) Below are our ten signs... Read the full article: 10 Sure Signs You’ve Fallen For Click Bait |
| 6 Tips To Help You Go Paperless On Android Posted: 24 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT  Smartphones are digital Swiss Army knives. Your Android phone can help you go paperless, replacing all those pieces of paper with a single device in your pocket and some cloud storage. The future is here — it’s possible to have that long-awaited paperless office today. Scan Receipts And Other Documents There are many different ways to scan receipts and other documents and add them to your phone and cloud storage, but Google Drive and Evernote are some of the most popular applications you may already be using. Use the Scan feature inside Google Drive to scan a physical document — open the menu,... Read the full article: 6 Tips To Help You Go Paperless On Android |
| Net Neutrality, As Explained By YouTube’s Geniuses Posted: 24 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Are you still not sure what Net Neutrality actually is? Don't feel dumb: it's a nuanced concept, and the media's done a bad job at explaining it. We've attempted to outline what net neutrality is, and why you should care, and the issue got a lot of press in the last couple of weeks. But try as we might to explain the issue with words, sometimes a video works best for grasping complex subjects. Visuals help, and so does a little bit of humour. With this in mind, I've tracked down videos from some of the smartest people on the... Read the full article: Net Neutrality, As Explained By YouTube's Geniuses |
| How To Sync Google Calendar With Every Other Platform Posted: 24 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Google Calendar is arguably the easiest, most intuitive and most versatile way to organize your day. The only problem users commonly encounter is syncing it with their devices. While this is dead simple when using Android, and easy enough to view in a browser on a PC, syncing with other platforms is not always so obvious. Here’s how to do it. A Quick History Of Sync Syncing your Google account has become more difficult over the last year due to Google’s decision to stop supporting Google Sync for standard accounts. This service let users sync Google accounts with devices over the Microsoft Exchange... Read the full article: How To Sync Google Calendar With Every Other Platform |
| 4 Decluttering Tips For Newsletters If You Don’t Want To Trash Them Posted: 24 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT  How many e-mail subscriptions do you have? 50? 100? 200? If you’re like me, you have absolutely no idea, but you know that it’s a lot. In the interest of decluttering your inbox, it’s time to take action. But unsubscribing isn’t always the answer—some newsletters are definitely worth reading! (If you need some geeky fashion advice, for example.) So what can you do to declutter an inbox full of newsletters? Get a Daily Digest Imagine that, instead of receiving dozens of e-mails every morning, you could receive just a single e-mail instead. We’ve shown you how Unroll.me can help you... Read the full article: 4 Decluttering Tips For Newsletters If You Don’t Want To Trash Them |
| Get The Most Out Of Windows Phone 8.1 With These Tips Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT  Starting this month, Windows Phone 8.1 is being rolled out to existing Windows Phone 8 devices, delivering a set of improvements to the mobile operating system. We’ve already looked at how to upgrade to the Developer Preview to enjoy the new features now rather than waiting. One big attraction of the upgrade, for example, is Cortana, the digital assistant. Even if you have upgraded early, you may find many other great additions that you’re not aware of, yet. The following list features 8 of our favourite new Windows Phone 8.1 tips and tricks. Pin More Stuff Microsoft has made it possible for you to... Read the full article: Get The Most Out Of Windows Phone 8.1 With These Tips |
| Chatting On Android: The 4 Best IRC Client Apps Posted: 24 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Like email, chatrooms just won’t die. Popularized by the advent of Internet Relay Chat (IRC), hundreds of thousands of users continue to chat with each other using these specialized networks. With mobile phones, chatting has never been easier. These apps will keep you connected even when you’re on the go. Before you read on, just remember to have a stable Internet connection and be aware of bandwidth usage. If you’re interested in using IRC with a computer instead, check out these Windows 7 IRC clients for a good starting point. HoloIRC (Free) As the name suggests, HoloIRC is a client... Read the full article: Chatting On Android: The 4 Best IRC Client Apps |
| PureVPN: A Simple, Easy-to-Use VPN [Giveaway] Posted: 24 Jun 2014 06:30 AM PDT  If you’re concerned about your privacy and security on the internet, there are few things that will put your mind at ease like a virtual private network (VPN). By routing your traffic through another server and encrypting it along the way, a VPN allows you to browse anonymously and safely. We’ve reviewed a number of VPN services in the past, including these 5 great free VPN options — but if you need premium performance, you’ll want to pay for a premium service. That’s where PureVPN comes in. We have ten 1-year accounts to give away! Why Use a VPN? People... Read the full article: PureVPN: A Simple, Easy-to-Use VPN [Giveaway] |
| How To Optimize Linux For SSDs Posted: 24 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Get the most out of your SSD in Linux – here’s what you need to know. Linux is pretty great out-of-the-box, there are still some items that require a little bit of manual optimization to get them going as smoothly as possible. Controlling power consumption is the most common one, but optimizing your system for SSDs is another important one. And it’s important to do so, because well-maintained SSDs are a joy to have. To get the best performance and least wear-and-tear on your solid state drive, try these optimizations for your Linux system. Update Your Distribution While I don't... Read the full article: How To Optimize Linux For SSDs |
| Samsung Chromebook 2 Review and Giveaway Posted: 24 Jun 2014 05:30 AM PDT  Chromebooks have become a tech craze as of late, as they are lightweight, capable machines that have a long battery life. Best of all, they’re very cheap for a laptop. The only real downside to using a Chromebook is the restriction of only using the Chrome web browser, but nowadays, it’s not really an issue. The first successful Chromebook was the Samsung Chromebook (read our review of the series 3 Chromebook), which provided good performance and amazing battery life thanks to the ARM-based processor, as well as great build quality at an affordable price. It’s been out for a while, and... Read the full article: Samsung Chromebook 2 Review and Giveaway |
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