15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Fingerpainting With Emojis, 3D Sketches, & Font Ninja
• 7 Body-Focused Tips To Boost Productivity
• Free & Legal Music For Your Creative Commercial Projects [Sound Sunday]
• Your Mac Can Read Any Text To You, Here’s How
• Kindle Unlimited — Is It Really Worth It?
• What’s That Song? Shazam Finally Hits The Mac App Store
• Which Windows Subjects Should We Cover More? [MakeUseOf Poll]
• Cool Websites & Tools – Best Remote Working Locations, Export GCal To Excel, & Search To Donate
• The Next Smartwatch To Beat: Windows for Wearables
• Kooky Cosplayers: The Best & Worst Cosplay Videos On YouTube [Weird & Wonderful Web]
• Snooze And Group Android Notifications With Echo Lockscreen Replacement
• Type Less! PhraseExpander 4 Will Make You More Productive & Save Your Wrists
• Cool Websites & Tools – Hotel Wifi, Listen To 60 Million Songs, & Find Good Movers
• The True Size Of The Seven Kingdoms From Game Of Thrones
• Scanner Pro, Calendars 5, PDF Expert 5 & More All Reduced [iOS Sales]

Cool Websites & Tools – Fingerpainting With Emojis, 3D Sketches, & Font Ninja Posted: 03 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT Emoji Paint – Finger paint with emoji! Share your original emoji artwork with friends on social media, or discover and collect your favorite paintings in the app. Features include finger painting with emojis, sharing to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, SMS, email, and more. “Shake to Undo” now lets you undo multiple steps when fingerpainting. Jink – Share your location in just a couple of taps. Location sharing ends automatically when you meet up. Use Jink the next time you meet a friend for dinner, coffee, drinks, etc. Find your friends when you get out of class. Commute home (and avoid... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Fingerpainting With Emojis, 3D Sketches, & Font Ninja

7 Body-Focused Tips To Boost Productivity Posted: 03 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT You can’t just rely on apps to stay productive. You have to take good care of your body and mind as well. Here are 7 health hacks to boost your productivity. See if they work. via Internet Marketing Hustle Read the full article: 7 Body-Focused Tips To Boost Productivity

Free & Legal Music For Your Creative Commercial Projects [Sound Sunday] Posted: 03 Aug 2014 06:30 PM PDT A few chords is all it takes to get your audience hooked. Here’s some music you can use for your YouTube videos, podcasts or anything else you’ve got cooking. The music in this edition of Sound Sunday is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. This means you can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format (Share) and remix, transform, and build upon the material (Adapt) for any purpose, even commercially, under the condition that you give appropriate credit (Attribution) and distribute your contributions under the same license as the original (ShareAlike). Swing Jazz Genre: jazz, swing,... Read the full article: Free & Legal Music For Your Creative Commercial Projects [Sound Sunday]

Your Mac Can Read Any Text To You, Here’s How Posted: 03 Aug 2014 12:00 PM PDT Make your Mac read to you. Whether you want to hear an article while you do something else or want another voice to read your writing back to you for proofreading purposes, OS X comes with everything you need. James pointed out how you can download the Siri voice for Mac and make her say anything you want, but what he didn't point out is how easy it is to use this and other voices to listen to articles or proofread your work. With a simple keyboard shortcut you can tell your Mac to read any highlighted text, and in... Read the full article: Your Mac Can Read Any Text To You, Here's How

Kindle Unlimited — Is It Really Worth It? Posted: 03 Aug 2014 10:00 AM PDT Amazon’s rumored “Netflix for books” service is finally here: Kindle Unlimited. In theory, it sounds fantastic. Pay a monthly fee and read all the books your heart desires — but is it all that it is hyped up to be? Price On the pricing front, things are pretty simple. $9.99 a month gets you access to all the books you could want downloaded straight to your Kindle eReader (see our reviews of the Paperwhite and HDX) or Kindle app (see our reviews of the Android, iOS, and PC apps). As soon as your membership ends, your books disappear from your eReader... Read the full article: Kindle Unlimited — Is It Really Worth It?

What’s That Song? Shazam Finally Hits The Mac App Store Posted: 03 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT Music identification app Shazam has finally made its way to the Mac, allowing you to easily identify the music playing around you without reaching your your phone. The app – which is available for free on the Mac App Store – works in the background and does not need any user input to start its identification process. In a blog post announcing the launch, the company explained: “Flip the switch, and sit back in awe as it finds songs you should know about, creating a playlist as it goes. You can now effortlessly find it, share it, and buy it. Now that's magic.” While there’s... Read the full article: What’s That Song? Shazam Finally Hits The Mac App Store

Which Windows Subjects Should We Cover More? [MakeUseOf Poll] Posted: 03 Aug 2014 05:30 AM PDT Our Windows section is full of articles concerning the Microsoft operating system, all the way from Windows XP to Windows 8.1. The problem is Windows is a huge subject matter, with a multitude of different aspects we could cover. So, we thought we’d ask you, the people that matter, which aspects of Windows you’d like to see more of on MakeUseOf. Windows Phone Will Ultimately Triumph To answer this week's question please scroll down the page until you see the poll staring back at you. But first, we need to look at the results from last week, when we asked,... Read the full article: Which Windows Subjects Should We Cover More? [MakeUseOf Poll]

Cool Websites & Tools – Best Remote Working Locations, Export GCal To Excel, & Search To Donate Posted: 02 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT Clarisketch – Mailing, calling and screen-capping are a time-consuming and often ineffective means of communicating complex processes and procedures. With Clarisketch, you can save time and improve the quality of your message using a combination of photographs and annotated commentary. Sketch something, record a comment and share it with friends. Bolt – is a free replacement for Android’s default phone app. Install Bolt to talk for free with other Bolt users, automatically discover who you talk to most, and streamline your calling experience. Bolt is a single app you can use to call any contact who has a phone number.... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Best Remote Working Locations, Export GCal To Excel, & Search To Donate

The Next Smartwatch To Beat: Windows for Wearables Posted: 02 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT Forget the Pebble Steel or the Sony Smartwatch 2 or the LG G Watch. Or any of these five smartwatch concepts. This is the one to beat. Imagine if Windows were to enter the wearables market. And their smartwatches integrated with Windows PCs, Windows Phones as well as Xbox gaming consoles. Life would be awesome. Designed by Nadir Aslam, the concept retained the distinct Windows look, with a few added features. What do you think of it? Read the full article: The Next Smartwatch To Beat: Windows for Wearables

Kooky Cosplayers: The Best & Worst Cosplay Videos On YouTube [Weird & Wonderful Web] Posted: 02 Aug 2014 06:30 PM PDT Cosplay, literally meaning costume play, has grown from being a nerdy niche consigned to the fringes of society to being a mainstream cultural phenomenon. While conventions are still the most likely place to encounter serious cosplayers, geeks of all flavors are now at least aware of the art of cosplay. A quick search of YouTube perfectly demonstrates this change in mindset, as countless videos showing the best costumes and worst costumes now show up. There are also how-to videos for specific characters, songs all about cosplay, and even parodies. And you know something has achieved mainstream acceptance when the parodies... Read the full article: Kooky Cosplayers: The Best & Worst Cosplay Videos On YouTube [Weird & Wonderful Web]

Snooze And Group Android Notifications With Echo Lockscreen Replacement Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:00 PM PDT Notifications come with a sense of urgency, like they’re screaming, “This thing needs your attention now!” Sometimes, this alert is helpful, but if you’d like to address it at a later time. Echo is a new lockscreen app that lets you snooze notifications and bounce them back later. There is another cool aspect to this app. Instead of a barrage of notifications staring you in the face, Echo puts them into groups or categories, as assigned by you. This way, when you are working, you can ignore those social network updates but see only alerts about emails or calendar notifications.... Read the full article: Snooze And Group Android Notifications With Echo Lockscreen Replacement

Type Less! PhraseExpander 4 Will Make You More Productive & Save Your Wrists Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:00 PM PDT If you spend a lot of time working at a computer, you might notice that you spend a lot of time typing the same phrases over and over again. Annoying, isn’t it? Thankfully, tools exist that allow you to write reports and finish documents in record time by converting sentences and phrases into short, succinct abbreviations. One of these is called PhraseExpander 4, by NagarSoft. It promises to make data entry easy, fast and accurate for doctors and customer care specialists. This package unashamedly targets these sectors, and is unambiguously an enterprise package. But, as consumers, is it worth your time? I think so.... Read the full article: Type Less! PhraseExpander 4 Will Make You More Productive & Save Your Wrists

Cool Websites & Tools – Hotel Wifi, Listen To 60 Million Songs, & Find Good Movers Posted: 01 Aug 2014 09:31 PM PDT Hotel Wifi Test – is a leading company for collecting, analyzing and distributing data about WiFi quality in hotels around the world. The promise of free WiFi is a big draw in today's age of constant connectivity. When you stay at a hotel, simply connect to in-house WiFi and run a speed test at www.hotelwifitest.com. Then, you can share the results via a number of social media sites with one click. Tesla Command for Android Wear – meets the ultimate in driving innovation with Tesla Command. Take control of your Tesla Model S driving experience with Android Wear. Simply sign... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Hotel Wifi, Listen To 60 Million Songs, & Find Good Movers

The True Size Of The Seven Kingdoms From Game Of Thrones Posted: 01 Aug 2014 07:30 PM PDT The most pirated TV show on earth also has a huge following. It also has it’s own language, which you can totally learn to speak. Plus, it was reported that more and more people are naming their daughters ‘Khaleesi’. Even Dave Koz is a fan. But how much do you know about Westeros? How tall is the Eerie? How high is the wall? Now’s the time to find out? Click to enlarge. via TheDailyDot Read the full article: The True Size Of The Seven Kingdoms From Game Of Thrones

Scanner Pro, Calendars 5, PDF Expert 5 & More All Reduced [iOS Sales] Posted: 01 Aug 2014 07:00 PM PDT It’s the weekend and that means it’s time to take a look at the best sales on the App Store right now. If you’ve never tried browsing the full list of App Store sale items, you’d be surprised how bad the noise-to-signal ratio really is. This week’s big savings come from Readdle, who are celebrating seven years of creating great apps. You’ll find their array of PDF and organisation apps on offer, as well as an open-world sci-fi adventure and one of the best platformers of the last four years. Apps Scanner Pro ($6.99, now $2.99) Readdle are having a sale, and Scanner Pro... Read the full article: Scanner Pro, Calendars 5, PDF Expert 5 & More All Reduced [iOS Sales]

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