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- Cool Websites & Tools – Online Subscriptions, Chromecast Backgrounds, & Record Audio Online
- Break These World Records During Your Lunch Hour!
- What Is The Oldest Piece Of Computer Software You Still Use? [We Ask You]
- 4 Brilliant Facebook Tricks You’ll Love Messing With [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- How Technology May Be Influencing Human Evolution
- How Heat Affects Your Computer, And Should You Be Worried?
- Interview With James. C. Burns Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops
- Go On A Reading Buffet: 4 Top eBook Subscription Services Compared
- The Best AirPlay Speakers You Can Buy Right Now
- Creating Bibliographies & Footnote Citations Is Easier With Bookends for Mac
- typWrittr: A Customisable Distraction-Free Writing Environment In Your Browser
- The New KDE Plasma 5 Desktop Is Gorgeous — Here’s How To Try It
- How Nanotechnology is Changing the Future of Medicine
- Apple Supersizes iPhone & iPad, Instagram Hyperlapse Turns Heads, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Online Subscriptions, Chromecast Backgrounds, & Record Audio Online Posted: 27 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Snap Clap – Boost up your popularity easily within a moment. Thanks to Snap Clap, now you have a bigger chance than ever to find your true love. Fed up with missing on pictures because you have to click the shutter button? With Snap Clap your mobile phone will become your personal photographer. ?Just place your device wherever you want, join your friends and clap hands. SpreadCloud – is an Excel add-in that connects your spreadsheets with APIs. Data keys are used by the SpreadCloud data partners to provide you with access to their data. Use the Request Builder to... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Online Subscriptions, Chromecast Backgrounds, & Record Audio Online |
| Break These World Records During Your Lunch Hour! Posted: 27 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Got an hour for lunch? Great — find the nearest pizza place that sells 12-inchers and break the current world record for chowing it down, which is currently held by Peter Czerwinski at 41.31 seconds. Or maybe try typing the alphabet in less than 3.43 seconds? For a bit more fun, try taping a person to a wall in less than the current record of 41.66 seconds. Who said geeks don’t have fun? via Chair Office Read the full article: Break These World Records During Your Lunch Hour! |
| What Is The Oldest Piece Of Computer Software You Still Use? [We Ask You] Posted: 27 Aug 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Newer isn’t always better. Just look at Windows 8, which most people agree is a step backwards from the thoroughly enjoyable-to-use Windows 7. The mess Microsoft made with its latest operating system led many of us to stick with what we know, despite the older operating system losing its shiny luster. Is the same true of old software too? We’re confident that plenty of you reading this are using old software that is well past its prime. And yet something draws you to carry on using it. We want to hear your story of using old software for this week’s... Read the full article: What Is The Oldest Piece Of Computer Software You Still Use? [We Ask You] |
| 4 Brilliant Facebook Tricks You’ll Love Messing With [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 27 Aug 2014 03:30 PM PDT  If you’re on Facebook a lot you’ll have noticed that there are a few annoying things you just can’t do easily. Here’s a bunch of useful tips you can try out to get around these Facebook nuisances. Hidden Facebook tricks like this are also really fun to use, so you might find yourself playing with them a lot! GIFs On Facebook If you’re a fan of animated GIFs and want to entertain your friends with a few, head over to giphy.com to get hold of GIFs that will work. When you find one you like, just click on the Facebook... Read the full article: 4 Brilliant Facebook Tricks You’ll Love Messing With [Weekly Facebook Tips] |
| How Technology May Be Influencing Human Evolution Posted: 27 Aug 2014 12:00 PM PDT  There’s not a single aspect of the human experience that hasn’t been touched by technology. Everything from industry, to medicine, to how we work has been fundamentally reshaped by the technologies which emerged in the second half of the 20th century. Technology can also change the human in terms of his or her characteristics and abilities. Want to be smarter? You can take a Nootropic. Want to perceive the world with more detail and more information? Put on Google Glasses. Want to get stronger or more physically agile? There are medicines or robotic exoskeletons. Technology has moved away from merely... Read the full article: How Technology May Be Influencing Human Evolution |
| How Heat Affects Your Computer, And Should You Be Worried? Posted: 27 Aug 2014 11:00 AM PDT  From time to time, we all get concerned about our computer’s temperature. But should we be worried? How exactly is your PC affected by heat? And what does it do to cool itself down? Whenever you hear that little fan overdoing itself, mild panic might set in. Heat does affect your computer – but is it as bad as it sounds? Which Components Generate Heat? Thermal radiation is just the by-product of electromagnetic movement within millions of circuits, and the internal resistance it encounters – or to put it another way, electricity powering your computer is the simple reason why... Read the full article: How Heat Affects Your Computer, And Should You Be Worried? |
| Interview With James. C. Burns Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops Posted: 27 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Even if you’re sick of Call of Duty, it’s hard to deny its impact in the gaming world. Since it’s one of the most popular video game franchises, Call of Duty has naturally featured some high-profile voice actors, including Ice Cube, Kiefer Sutherland, and Gary Oldman. In the Black Ops games, one of the most prolific characters is surely Master Sergeant Frank Woods, a key protagonist whose fate is determined by the player’s choice in Black Ops II. MakeUseOf had the unique opportunity to sit down with James C. Burns, who plays Woods in both Call of Duty: Black Ops... Read the full article: Interview With James. C. Burns Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops |
| Go On A Reading Buffet: 4 Top eBook Subscription Services Compared Posted: 27 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Internet-based subscription services look to be the future. For video, you’ve got Netflix, the king. For music, you’ve got big man Spotify. If there was an Internet subscription for literature, that would complete the trifecta, wouldn’t it? Well, look no further because ebook subscription sites are finally here. For not much money at all, you can unlock an entire world of literature just waiting to be read at your convenience. Indeed, in the long run, ebook subscriptions tend to be far cheaper than buying them at retail prices. Should you subscribe? If so, which site is best? Are eBook Subscriptions... Read the full article: Go On A Reading Buffet: 4 Top eBook Subscription Services Compared |
| The Best AirPlay Speakers You Can Buy Right Now Posted: 27 Aug 2014 08:30 AM PDT  For those in the Apple ecosystem, AirPlay can be a fantastic way to stream music. It lets you take your devices — be it a smartphone, tablet, or computer — and play your music on an Airplay-compatible speaker with just a couple of taps or clicks. It’s easy, it’s convenient, and it actually delivers pretty impressive sound quality, specifically for speakers without wires. It definitely beats Bluetooth for wireless sound quality, so if you want the best sound, with a larger range, AirPlay is the way to go! So where do you start? Which AirPlay speaker is the best for... Read the full article: The Best AirPlay Speakers You Can Buy Right Now |
| Creating Bibliographies & Footnote Citations Is Easier With Bookends for Mac Posted: 27 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT  While it’s quite easy to footnote your sources and create a bibliography for your academic papers and manuscripts in Apple Pages or Microsoft Word, Sonny Software’s Bookends for Mac practically performs the research and citation formatting tasks for you. Bookends is for college level students, writers, and professional researchers who need to keep track of and cite dozens or even hundreds of books and documents in their manuscripts. Bookends is a powerful tool in any writing workflow and can both help you conduct research and manage reference metadata at the same time. Bookends is available for free trial download, and though its $59.99 license price tag... Read the full article: Creating Bibliographies & Footnote Citations Is Easier With Bookends for Mac This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| typWrittr: A Customisable Distraction-Free Writing Environment In Your Browser Posted: 27 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT  There are text editors and then there are writing environments. Text editors are designed to edit text documents, whereas writing environments should be inviting and distraction-free – just like the free web app typWrittr. It runs in your browser, it’s highly customisable and has a uniquely minimalist appeal that forces you to concentrate on one thing: your writing. Minimalist Approach typWrittr is a browser-based writing environment that places an emphasis on the written word, rather than the act of editing a text document. For that reason it’s ideal for writers, bloggers, poets, lyricists or anyone who struggles to focus on their writing within the... Read the full article: typWrittr: A Customisable Distraction-Free Writing Environment In Your Browser |
| The New KDE Plasma 5 Desktop Is Gorgeous — Here’s How To Try It Posted: 27 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT  For the last couple of years, the only desktop environment that has made any massive changes was Gnome due to its highly controversial switch from the classic Gnome desktop to the Gnome Shell design. However, now KDE has finally made some major changes when creating KDE 5 and has become the latest desktop environment to offer a brand new experience. Have no fear, however. The change between KDE 4 and KDE 5 isn’t as severe as it was from KDE 3 to KDE 4. Instead, this new major version is all about an aesthetic refresh and a rebase of the... Read the full article: The New KDE Plasma 5 Desktop Is Gorgeous — Here’s How To Try It |
| How Nanotechnology is Changing the Future of Medicine Posted: 27 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT  We’ve been hearing about nanotechnology for a long time in both science fiction and in the media, but not much has come of it so far. However, a new wave of nanotech-based therapies are on the horizon, and are ready to change the world of medicine. Nanotechnology, a technological concept first proposed by Richard Feynman in his 1959 lecture, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, was popularized by Erik Drexler in 1986 via his book “The Engines of Creation.” The book outlined the possibility of self-replicating, molecular-scale machines capable of doing… pretty much anything. The premise has inspired many... Read the full article: How Nanotechnology is Changing the Future of Medicine |
| Apple Supersizes iPhone & iPad, Instagram Hyperlapse Turns Heads, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 27 Aug 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, HP didn’t start the fire, Uber goes on lunch break, the Sounds of Street View are melodious, the sounds of typewriters typing are annoying, and why you should never take selfies in front of people. Apple Is Supersizing Its Product Line Apple is finally ready to supersize its products, at least if the latest rumors are to be believed. The Cupertino company has so far resisted following the trend for larger displays, with the iPhone 5s sporting an understated 4-inch screen. But everything looks set to change with the next round of hardware upgrades. It looks highly likely the... Read the full article: Apple Supersizes iPhone & iPad, Instagram Hyperlapse Turns Heads, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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