Sunday, July 13, 2014

5 New Articles on MakeUseOf

Cool Websites & Tools – Google Keywords, New Startups, & FLAC Converter
How To Make Money With Photos And Videos
Crappy Crowdfunding: 10 Dumb Kickstarters We Did Not Support [Weird & Wonderful Web]
Connect Your Windows Phone With Nokia Device Hub
How To Make Lubuntu Look Like Windows XP

Cool Websites & Tools – Google Keywords, New Startups, & FLAC Converter

Posted: 12 Jul 2014 09:31 PM PDT

Keyword Tool – helps you find the keywords that people are typing into the Google search box. It generates up to 750 suggestions for every keyword, and it claims to work 99.99% of the time. Keyword Tool will help you discover thousands of the new longtail keywords related to the topic that you specify. MyMeetingTime – helps you convert times between time zones and plan your meetings online. So you can find the best time to have a call, video conference, webinar or conference call. You can also be more productive and spend less time on scheduling meetings online. Just...

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How To Make Money With Photos And Videos

Posted: 12 Jul 2014 07:30 PM PDT

There are over 200 ways to make money online, and recording videos or photos is one of the ways. Did you know that $5 billion was paid out in advertising in the last year? The most watched YouTube video of all time, Psy’s “Gangnam Style” generated over $8 million in ad revenue. Another clip everyone probably knows — “Charlie bit my finger — again!” — was viewed over 729 million times and made its uploader over $150,000. Click to enlarge. via Wondershare

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Crappy Crowdfunding: 10 Dumb Kickstarters We Did Not Support [Weird & Wonderful Web]

Posted: 12 Jul 2014 06:30 PM PDT

Crowdfunding has grown massively in popularity over the last few years. It’s now at the stage where everyone who has an idea, no matter how inane or insane that idea may be, thinks they’ll be able to persuade enough strangers on the Internet to fund their dreams. Alongside the deluded hopefuls are the chancers, who want free money for effectively nothing in return. Between them these two groups of crowdfunding campaigners are ruining what is essentially a good idea that matches creative people with potential customers. What follows are 10 of the absolute worst Kickstarter campaigns we could find. Luckily,...

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Connect Your Windows Phone With Nokia Device Hub

Posted: 12 Jul 2014 02:00 PM PDT

Connectivity to or from a Windows Phone device isn’t quite what it should be. Despite WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC all being supported, it’s pretty difficult to access other hardware on your home or local network. Fortunately, mass Windows Phone 8 handset manufacturer Nokia has come up with a solution: Nokia Device Hub. Currently in beta, this is a useful app that should enable you to connect and access other devices reasonably easily. Once a connection is made, the app also recommends other apps for Windows Phone that should work with your devices. Types Of Hardware You Can Connect As well...

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How To Make Lubuntu Look Like Windows XP

Posted: 12 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Windows XP is insecure. If you have a Windows XP user in your life, you may want to try migrating them to Linux so they can use a free, secure operating system still getting security updates. Lubuntu is a lightweight version of Ubuntu for those old computers. A Windows XP theme for Lubuntu may be the ideal way to ease a Windows XP user into Linux. If they primarily use a browser like Firefox or Google Chrome on Windows XP, they may not even notice much of a difference! Firefox comes with Lubuntu, and Chrome can easily be installed on it....

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