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- Cool Websites & Tools – Online Sales Competitions, Import Your Contacts, & Music Marketing Campaigns
- 10 Word-Processing Document Terms Everyone Needs To Know
- Live Speedruns Let You Experience Your Favourite Games In Record Time [Stuff to Watch]
- How To Make Windows 7 Look Like Windows XP
- Bored of the World Cup? Four Fun Ways to Waste 90 Minutes!
- Create Amazing Screencasts With Bandicam
- The Best Roguelikes To Play When You’re On A Coffee Break
- How To Use Reddit Productively. Yes, You Read That Correctly.
- Learn To Make Your Own Visual Novels With Ren’Py, Or Play One Of These
- Create Good Images For Your Blog Posts With These 4 Failproof Steps
- Light Your Home the Smart Way With Philips Hue
- The 3 Best Simple Android Launchers For Your Parents Or Grandparents
- The 7 Easiest PlayStation Platinum Trophies You Can Earn
- Streaming Is Killing iTunes, YouTube Is Shaming ISPs, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Online Sales Competitions, Import Your Contacts, & Music Marketing Campaigns Posted: 07 Jul 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Sparta Sales – Drive energy, motivation and results with online sales competitions. Sparta helps you create and manage sales competitions in one beautiful solution built with sales people in mind. With Sparta, you can create competitions that drive the behaviors that are most valuable to your business, in minutes. Whether it’s deals, meetings, phone calls…with Sparta, you can compete on it. Contacts Importer – Quickly import your contacts into your Android phone. Never lose your contacts again. Contacts Importer is a quick and easy cross-platform solution to help you back up and import your contacts between Android, iPhone, iPad, Symbian... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Online Sales Competitions, Import Your Contacts, & Music Marketing Campaigns |
| 10 Word-Processing Document Terms Everyone Needs To Know Posted: 07 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Have you ever used Microsoft Word, Pages, Bean, Jarte, or just about any other word processor? Then you should know these terms. What’s kerning? What’s a bleed? What’s the difference between a margin and a gutter? How many points are there in an inch? You’d better know this. via The Visual Communication Guy Read the full article: 10 Word-Processing Document Terms Everyone Needs To Know |
| Live Speedruns Let You Experience Your Favourite Games In Record Time [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 07 Jul 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Speedrunning is the act of completing a video game in the fastest possible time, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that the practice has gained quite a following online. In addition to an ever-growing collections of speedrun videos each year an event called Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) attempts to raise money for charity by hosting live speedruns. These are without a doubt some of the nerdiest assemblies of video game enthusiasts, bringing both die-hard franchise fans together with those who simply possess lightning-fast reactions. If you have fond memories playing games in your youth, prepare to see them in a whole different light. Today... Read the full article: Live Speedruns Let You Experience Your Favourite Games In Record Time [Stuff to Watch] |
| How To Make Windows 7 Look Like Windows XP Posted: 07 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT  I recently suggested that users looking to jump ship from Windows XP should consider a Mac instead. While I still think it’s a good idea, plenty of readers called me crazy; not everyone wants to learn to fly by jumping off a cliff. Those who want something more familiar can always turn to Windows 7 instead, and you can make it look almost identical to Windows XP with a few quick modifications. Step 1: Download The Luna Theme The default look that most Windows XP users are familiar with is the Luna theme. This includes the blue taskbar and the desktop... Read the full article: How To Make Windows 7 Look Like Windows XP |
| Bored of the World Cup? Four Fun Ways to Waste 90 Minutes! Posted: 07 Jul 2014 01:00 PM PDT  If your other half is obsessed with the so-called “beautiful game,” there are ways to avoid staring hollow-eyed at the TV for an hour and a half. This World Cup has dragged on a bit, hasn’t it? Football’s not for everyone, and if you’re stuck with someone who watches every single match, this quadrennial tournament can feel like – well, like four years! But you don’t have to mope around for days on end. There are other great ways to tide away 90 minutes. Explore the World and the Skies Above Apparently, São Paulo is a real place. Who knew?!... Read the full article: Bored of the World Cup? Four Fun Ways to Waste 90 Minutes! |
| Create Amazing Screencasts With Bandicam Posted: 07 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT  A screencast is a video recording of what you see on your screen. It’s an awesome way to illustrate the use of software or games. Among many other screencasting tools, Bandicamp distinguishes itself from the rest through simplicity and speed. Bandicam comes in two versions. The first is free, and overlays all videos with a watermark and limits the recording time. A premium license costs about $39. You can get it for free with the MakeUseOf Rewards program, but is it worth your hard-earned points? Let’s find out. Meet Bandicam Bandicam is a Windows exclusive utility that can take screenshots... Read the full article: Create Amazing Screencasts With Bandicam |
| The Best Roguelikes To Play When You’re On A Coffee Break Posted: 07 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Roguelikes are rising in popularity and for good reason. They’re tons of fun, offer lots of replayability, and trend more towards “thinking” gameplay than “twitch” gameplay. That being said, some roguelikes can take a while to beat. What if your time is limited? Introducing the coffeebreak roguelike! Never heard of roguelikes? Want to know what makes them so intriguing? Check out our introduction to roguelikes. Otherwise, keep reading and try playing these variants that are pretty quick start to finish. You may be surprised by how fun they are. Desktop Dungeons Desktop Dungeons is the one true “coffeebreak” roguelike. Each... Read the full article: The Best Roguelikes To Play When You’re On A Coffee Break |
| How To Use Reddit Productively. Yes, You Read That Correctly. Posted: 07 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Reddit's just a huge timesink, right? Wrong. It's an endless supply of relevant information, if you know where to look. Submitting and voting on content, constantly, Reddit's massive hivemind organizes a staggering amount of info. Combine this with the way Reddit is organized – the site is made up of thousands of communities discussing particular topics – and you can use the site to learn about almost anything. This can be useful for your job, personal life and hobbies – if you look in the right places. I'm not saying you shouldn't ever just browse Reddit for fun – if... Read the full article: How To Use Reddit Productively. Yes, You Read That Correctly. |
| Learn To Make Your Own Visual Novels With Ren’Py, Or Play One Of These Posted: 07 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Have you ever wanted to write a story with branching paths that you could share with your friends? Or do you want to build a game for a full retail release, complete with character stats, challenges, and persistent decisions? If you answered yes to either of those questions, you owe it to yourself to check out Ren’Py. It’s a free, open source Python based visual novel engine that that’s flexible, well supported, and can empower you to make games both big and small. Learn what a visual novel is, and then see if you’d like to make one yourself, or... Read the full article: Learn To Make Your Own Visual Novels With Ren’Py, Or Play One Of These |
| Create Good Images For Your Blog Posts With These 4 Failproof Steps Posted: 07 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT  With a simple tried and tested method, you can come up with decent images for your blog posts, bad image editing skills notwithstanding. Let’s face it. Not everyone is interested (or good) in areas like photography, design, and image editing. But many of us still need to work with images on a regular basis, because they form the core of the visual nature of the Web. If finding and editing images sounds like a dreadful chore to you, here are four steps that you can follow to make the process less painful, and still end up with good images to use in... Read the full article: Create Good Images For Your Blog Posts With These 4 Failproof Steps |
| Light Your Home the Smart Way With Philips Hue Posted: 07 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Philips have created a system of intelligent, Internet-connected bulbs that can transform the way you light your home. If you can afford the initial expenditure, you won’t find a better-supported and more user-friendly smart lighting system on the market. Hue, as it is known, attempts to transform your home by putting 16 million colours at your disposal and the ability to control, automate and expand your existing smarthome setup with some fancy LEDs and smartphone apps. Here’s how Hue can help you. The Philips Hue System Philips Hue allows you to connect up to 50 bulbs at a time to a single system,... Read the full article: Light Your Home the Smart Way With Philips Hue |
| The 3 Best Simple Android Launchers For Your Parents Or Grandparents Posted: 07 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT  One of your parents or grandparents has just gotten a new Android phone — and it’s just so confusing. The best way you can help them is to download an extremely simple launcher to their device. These three launchers are simple and easy to use, with big pictures and text so that your older relatives don’t even have to put on their glasses. We’ve taken a look at a bunch of great launchers in the past — even some gesture-based launchers — but these launchers take us in a new direction. Instead of trying to be innovative and customizable, they strive to take... Read the full article: The 3 Best Simple Android Launchers For Your Parents Or Grandparents |
| The 7 Easiest PlayStation Platinum Trophies You Can Earn Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Are you tired of hearing about super hard video games? It can be a lot of fun to push yourself to the limit while playing video games, but sometimes a simple and easy game is all you want. One common way to put extra difficulty in games these days is to add tough Achievements/Trophies – any player can get through the game, but only the best will be able to clean up every Achievement. Self-proclaimed “Trophy Hunters” strive to earn as many as possible. If you’re also looking for some nice and easy games, this guide is for you –... Read the full article: The 7 Easiest PlayStation Platinum Trophies You Can Earn |
| Streaming Is Killing iTunes, YouTube Is Shaming ISPs, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, Russia wants Internet user data kept within its borders, the TSA insists mobile phones are kept charged, Uber is ruled legal in London, see which books no one finishes reading, and drones flying through fireworks is spectacular. Streaming Music Vs. Buying Music Music is increasingly being consumed by streaming rather than buying. This is according to the Nielsen report into music consumption in the U.S. for the first half of 2014. Streaming is up a whopping 42 percent over the previous year, with digital sales falling by 11.6 percent for albums and 13 percent for single tracks. In total,... Read the full article: Streaming Is Killing iTunes, YouTube Is Shaming ISPs, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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