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- Cool Websites & Tools – Yahoo Phone Launcher, Wolfram Cloud, & Turn Articles Into NYT
- 11 Commandments of Web Design
- What Is The Most Pointless App You Have Ever Installed? [We Ask You]
- Keep Your Facebook Chats Secure With Encryption
- Go Way Beyond Apple’s Spotlight With LaunchBar 6 for Mac
- 5 Things You Will Need For A Successful Travel Blog
- Managing Alerts On Windows Phone 8.1
- 5 Easy Tools To Listen To Online Radio Stations On Windows
- MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 119
- These 4 Super-Addictive PSN Games Will Destroy Your Social Life
- AirPlay vs Bluetooth Speakers: Which Do You Actually Need?
- Does Your Mac Take Too Long To Shut Down? Try These Fixes
- Learn To Code: 8 Bundled Courses, Pay What You Want
- Time Is Money: 4 Ways To Cure Financial Procrastination & Save Today
- WiFi SD Cards: Comparison Review and Giveaway
| Cool Websites & Tools – Yahoo Phone Launcher, Wolfram Cloud, & Turn Articles Into NYT Posted: 25 Jun 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Yahoo Aviate Launcher – Simplify your phone. Yahoo Aviate Launcher is not your typical launcher. Unlike GO, Nova, Apex and other similar launchers, Aviate automatically simplifies and intelligently organizes your phone, only showing you the apps and information you need as you need them, throughout your day. Wake up, and Aviate automatically shows you how long you’ve slept, the weather and news for the day. When at work, Aviate gives you easy access to all the apps you need to get your job done. Timesify – hides embarrassing articles — the ones you’re reading all the time (Gawker, TMZ, Upworthy,... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Yahoo Phone Launcher, Wolfram Cloud, & Turn Articles Into NYT |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2014 07:30 PM PDT  We’ve featured the 10 commandments of typography, 10 commandments of colour theory, 7 commandments of computer usage. So what else could we possible feature? Oh sure, Web design. From BaseKit comes the 11 commandments of Web design every designer should adhere to. And if you’re a freelance designer, here are 5 rules you should always follow. Read the full article: 11 Commandments of Web Design |
| What Is The Most Pointless App You Have Ever Installed? [We Ask You] Posted: 25 Jun 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Smartphone apps can be all kinds of wonderful. Useful, entertaining, educational, fun, or all of the above. Unfortunately, not all smartphone apps are created equal. For every essential app that makes it onto our Best Of pages there’s at least one utterly pointless app. But which app is the most pointless of all? Is That It? Seriously? We want to know, What Is The Most Pointless App You Have Ever Installed? A smartphone or tablet is a prerequisite to answering this question, but seeing as, contrary to my advice, most people seem to have given into temptation and bought one... Read the full article: What Is The Most Pointless App You Have Ever Installed? [We Ask You] |
| Keep Your Facebook Chats Secure With Encryption Posted: 25 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT  Facebook wants to take your personal messages and use them as a way to target you with more advertising. Let’s try to stop them. As you can imagine, the privacy implications of this will send some tin-foil hats spinning, and though Facebook will tell you that the messages won’t be read by people, isn’t the concept enough to make you think twice about using Facebook for instant messaging? That probably goes for you too, WhatsApp and Instagram users. Chatvertising In 2011 Facebook broke new ground in the advertising world when it started testing an advertising method that worked in real-time, scanning... Read the full article: Keep Your Facebook Chats Secure With Encryption |
| Go Way Beyond Apple’s Spotlight With LaunchBar 6 for Mac Posted: 25 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT  Spotlight and Alfred not cutting it? LaunchBar puts applications, web searches and a whole load of functions at your fingertips while you type. Recently, Objective Development released version 6 of LaunchBar ($29.00), which includes a redesigned user interface, built-in actions, live web searches and the ability to create and share custom extensions in a variety of scripting languages, such as AppleScript, JavaScript, Python, among other enhancements. LaunchBar is available as a 30-day trial download, which is probably how much time you’ll need to learn and practice using it. Application Overview For those new to LaunchBar, a useful getting started window appears... Read the full article: Go Way Beyond Apple’s Spotlight With LaunchBar 6 for Mac |
| 5 Things You Will Need For A Successful Travel Blog Posted: 25 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT  For many, it's not just enough to travel. They have to share their travel experiences in a way that sends their friends green with envy. Each bite of luscious, unfamiliar food, and each crooked, cobbled street is intimately documented. Sometimes, it's not just enough to plaster Facebook with your travel photos. You need to start a travel blog. In the past, we've discussed how this can be a highly lucrative vehicle for catapulting you around the world. But how do you create a travel blog that’s successful? As someone who is launching my own travel blog, this is something I've... Read the full article: 5 Things You Will Need For A Successful Travel Blog |
| Managing Alerts On Windows Phone 8.1 Posted: 25 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Custom audio alerts in Windows Phone have evolved! Since the release of the 8.1 Developer Preview, it is now possible to configure custom alerts for apps as well as contacts. Customizing Windows Phone 8.1 With Audio Alerts Windows Phone isn’t the most customizable mobile platform. Thankfully the 8.1 update will bring a collection of new options, among them the ability to add stunning Start screen tile backgrounds. Another new customization that you can play around with is audio alerts for apps. This means that when a notification is generated and displayed on your phone, you have control over the sound... Read the full article: Managing Alerts On Windows Phone 8.1 |
| 5 Easy Tools To Listen To Online Radio Stations On Windows Posted: 25 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Listening to music makes everything more fun. Instead of wasting your time with managing playlists or putting up with poor local stations, consider listening to the radio online. You can choose from countless fantastic Internet radio stations, many of them dedicated to specific genres, and you might even discover a few that are free of commercials. First, you need a player to access the stations. In the realm of desktop tools, you can choose from two avenues; either outfit your existing media player with radio streams or find a dedicated app that meets all your radio needs. Dedicated Internet Radio... Read the full article: 5 Easy Tools To Listen To Online Radio Stations On Windows |
| MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 119 Posted: 25 Jun 2014 09:45 AM PDT  Aereo Supreme Court Ruling. Social media bullshit now makes up "at least half" of frontline policing work in the UK. Can we PLEASE kill twitter already? Yes, we can, here's the even stupider replacement: Yo Lock up your passwords: half of all SSH HeartBleed vulnerable servers still not patched. Miyamoto "uneasy" about VR. The end is nigh: college scholarships for League of Legends players. Cruise turns all cars into self-driving cars HitchBOT Read the full article: MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 119 |
| These 4 Super-Addictive PSN Games Will Destroy Your Social Life Posted: 25 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Just because a game is cheap, doesn’t mean that it can’t feature gameplay that keeps you hooked for hours on end. A game with a budget price tag and many hours of gameplay that you actually want to play is a rare find, and it’s one that offers incredible value. That’s just what we are going to talk about today, as these PSN games feature reasonable price tags and gameplay that is so addicting, you will want to come back over and over again for just a little more. Minecraft If you want to talk about games in which you... Read the full article: These 4 Super-Addictive PSN Games Will Destroy Your Social Life |
| AirPlay vs Bluetooth Speakers: Which Do You Actually Need? Posted: 25 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT  If you’re an audiophile with a Mac or an iPhone, you’ve probably considered getting some wireless speakers and have been faced with the question: AirPlay or Bluetooth? Plenty of Apple devices support both, but what’s the difference? And which is better? What’s the Difference Between AirPlay and Bluetooth? AirPlay and Bluetooth are both wireless technologies that allow you to stream music from your device to another one. In this case, we’re talking about streaming music from your Mac, iPad, or iPhone to a set of wireless speakers. AirPlay also allows you to stream movies to your Apple TV, and Bluetooth can be used... Read the full article: AirPlay vs Bluetooth Speakers: Which Do You Actually Need? |
| Does Your Mac Take Too Long To Shut Down? Try These Fixes Posted: 25 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Mac OS X is generally well-behaved when it comes time to turn off your computer. Apple wants responsiveness, so most Macs will shut down in seconds, particularly if solid state storage is equipped. In rare instances the proper OS X kill processes go wrong, greatly increasing shutdown times. Here are a few potential fixes. Turn Off “Reopen Windows When Logging Back In” By default a Mac will save your currently active session into memory when it shuts down, which lets you resume exactly where you left off when you turned your computer off. Transferring the information to memory can take... Read the full article: Does Your Mac Take Too Long To Shut Down? Try These Fixes |
| Learn To Code: 8 Bundled Courses, Pay What You Want Posted: 25 Jun 2014 06:30 AM PDT  Code holds the digital world together — without it, there would be no apps to install. Can you even imagine a world without Facebook or Instagram? If you’d like to know how to work with code it’s not too late to start. This bundle of 8 Udemy courses is all you need. Pay anything above $1 to get the first two courses, or beat the average price to receive all eight. Then 10 percent of your purchase will be shared with the charity of your choice. Learn To Code If you’re familiar with WordPress, you can probably get by on... Read the full article: Learn To Code: 8 Bundled Courses, Pay What You Want |
| Time Is Money: 4 Ways To Cure Financial Procrastination & Save Today Posted: 25 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Wake up! The longer you wait around to get your present and future money in order, the more money you’re going to lose. Yes, that’s right. Financial management is time-critical. You could be losing out on hundreds or even thousands of dollars just by delaying. We live in an era of procrastination and our finances are not immune to it. It’s made worse by the fact that smart money management doesn’t produce immediate results. We only reap the rewards many months or years down the road, so it doesn’t feel too urgent. Don’t let that fool you, though. The best... Read the full article: Time Is Money: 4 Ways To Cure Financial Procrastination & Save Today |
| WiFi SD Cards: Comparison Review and Giveaway Posted: 25 Jun 2014 05:30 AM PDT  SD cards are mostly just plastic – put a tiny WiFi chip inside and suddenly they take on a whole new life, allowing for wireless data transfer. But not all WiFi SD cards are made equal. Today, we’re putting three different brands to the test to see which is worth buying. At the end of the review, you’ll get the chance to win the best. We’ve gathered two popular brands, as well as a generic Chinese import, to see how they compare. Each card is Class 10 SDHC, with 16GB capacity. Transcend ($50) Note: Since purchasing these cards for review,... Read the full article: WiFi SD Cards: Comparison Review and Giveaway |
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