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- Survival Tips You Must Know In Case Of Disasters
- What Is Your Favorite Games Console Of All Time? [We Ask You]
- What Is The Best Free BitTorrent Client For Android?
- Beginner’s Guide To Setting Up SSH On Linux And Testing Your Setup
- What Is A Smart Home?
- 4 Fun Things To Do Instead Of Harassing People On The Internet [Opinion]
- A Quick Guide To Using A Mac For Windows Users
- Four Hardware Upgrades That Will Boost Your Laptop’s Battery Life
- Why You’re Playing Civilization V Wrong: Time For Multiplayer!
- Back To School: What Is The Best Android Tablet For A Student?
- Apple Reinvents The Watch, Unveils iPhone 6, Offers Free U2 Album, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Survival Tips You Must Know In Case Of Disasters Posted: 10 Sep 2014 07:30 PM PDT  We’ve touched on disasters and how to survive them. In fact, we’ve even showed you what to have in a basic (for short emergencies) complete survival kit. The first is from the Boy Scouts of America — this graphic depicts forty basic knots and how to tie them. For $4.99, you can actually get a kit to practise with. The second is a checklist of things you will need in case of emergencies. These are essentials that you should have packed in your survival kit, or grabbing while you’re getting ready to leave. Lastly, when you’re out in the open,... Read the full article: Survival Tips You Must Know In Case Of Disasters |
| What Is Your Favorite Games Console Of All Time? [We Ask You] Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Believe it or not, video games consoles have been with us since the 1970s. This means anyone aged under 40 probably won’t even remember a time when they didn’t exist. Mind. Blown. Having now reached the dizzying eighth generation of video games hardware — with the PS4, Xbox One, and Wii U — it’s high time we took a look back at what has gone before. Gaming Greats & Console Classics The best way of doing this is surely to ask you, the MakeUseOf readership, to tell us all about the video games console you remember most fondly, and why... Read the full article: What Is Your Favorite Games Console Of All Time? [We Ask You] |
| What Is The Best Free BitTorrent Client For Android? Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Modern smartphones are fully-fledged computers and can do a number of things, including using modern torrent client software. Today, we’ll be looking at three of the most popular basic torrent clients for Android and ranking them based on their features, interface, and the intrusiveness of their advertisements. Peer-to-peer file transfers are fantastic, and in one form or another, underlie a large amount of software that we use on a day to day basis (including giants like Steam). Bittorrent is a great example of this technology — and, while it’s mostly used for piracy, the software has a lot of legitimate applications... Read the full article: What Is The Best Free BitTorrent Client For Android? |
| Beginner’s Guide To Setting Up SSH On Linux And Testing Your Setup Posted: 10 Sep 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Once you start getting more comfortable with using Linux, you’ll want to start making use of some great utilities that can make you vastly more productive. Arguably one of the most important utilities to learn is SSH. With it, you can control a different machine as if you were sitting directly at it. This can allow you to set up headless machines such as with a Raspberry Pi. How do you set it up, on both the client and server sides? We’ll take you through a basic installation so that you can connect between the two. What’s SSH? Simply put,... Read the full article: Beginner’s Guide To Setting Up SSH On Linux And Testing Your Setup |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2014 09:00 AM PDT  We recently launched a Smart Home category at MakeUseOf, and we’ve posted some really great tips on how you can start to make your home smarter. And coverage of smart home items is popping up all over the Internet. But what is a smart home? MakeUseOf takes a look. A Smart Home Is About Connectivity When we went from “dumb” cell phones to smartphones, we made a major leap in connectivity. From just being able to call and text, smartphone allowed us to connect to the Internet, send e-mail and instant messages, download files, and all number of other things that require... Read the full article: What Is A Smart Home? |
| 4 Fun Things To Do Instead Of Harassing People On The Internet [Opinion] Posted: 10 Sep 2014 08:30 AM PDT  Did someone on the Internet say something you disagree with? Before you discredit your argument by harassing another human being, consider doing something fun instead. Sure, using ad hominem attacks to support an ambiguous cause may seem like a good use of your time, but there are plenty of other things you could be doing. Here are just a few! Play Those Games You Bought On Steam Over The Summer Do you have any idea how much money you’ve wasted on Steam games, only to never play them? We’ve pointed out tools that can show you all the money you’ve... Read the full article: 4 Fun Things To Do Instead Of Harassing People On The Internet [Opinion] |
| A Quick Guide To Using A Mac For Windows Users Posted: 10 Sep 2014 08:00 AM PDT  There are times in life when you find yourself having to use something other than your first choice out of necessity. This is true for computer operating systems too. Most Windows users will probably come into contact with Mac OS X at some point in their lives, and most of them will never have used it before. Luckily we’ve put together a quick start guide for any Windows users daunted by the sight of an Apple operating system. Basic Differences Mac OS X doesn’t have a Start menu (or screen), but instead uses a dock that by default runs along the bottom edge of the screen. Applications are found on the... Read the full article: A Quick Guide To Using A Mac For Windows Users |
| Four Hardware Upgrades That Will Boost Your Laptop’s Battery Life Posted: 10 Sep 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Want better laptop battery life? Hardware upgrades are much better than software tweaks for improving power efficiency. Unfortunately, not all mobile computers offer easy component upgrades. Most full-sized laptops are upgradeable though, and the process takes surprisingly little time or effort. Ultrabooks, on the other hand, require a bit more elbow grease to upgrade. Four components are relatively easy to upgrade: Hard drive WiFi card Bluetooth module Battery upgrade I also illustrate where these parts lie on an HP Pavilion 17. The upgrade process normally involves just a few screws and a single removable panel, for a full-sized laptop. Smaller notebooks, such as Ultrabooks (what’s... Read the full article: Four Hardware Upgrades That Will Boost Your Laptop’s Battery Life |
| Why You’re Playing Civilization V Wrong: Time For Multiplayer! Posted: 10 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT  Multiplayer has been a part of the Civilization 4X game series since the release of CivNet, the 1995 remake of the original Civilization. It enables the player to tackle genuine, human opponents rather than AI, and can make for a far more interesting gaming experience. Basically, if you’ve never played Civilization against one or more real people, then you haven’t enjoyed the game to its full capacity. Multiplayer is a refreshing way to get to know the game all over again, one that is easy to set up – although you may need to block a few hours of time... Read the full article: Why You’re Playing Civilization V Wrong: Time For Multiplayer! |
| Back To School: What Is The Best Android Tablet For A Student? Posted: 10 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Price and performance don’t often go together, but as a student, you need the best you can get for what you can afford. Here’s the good news: the tablet market has grown and improved since last year, and you have more options than ever before. It’s debatable whether laptops or tablets are better in terms of productivity, but for most courses, either one will do just fine as long as you avoid the cheap knockoffs. If tablets are your chosen path, start the school year right with one of these best-bang-for-the-buck purchases. Samsung Galaxy Tab S ($400, 8.4″ or $500,... Read the full article: Back To School: What Is The Best Android Tablet For A Student? |
| Apple Reinvents The Watch, Unveils iPhone 6, Offers Free U2 Album, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 10 Sep 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, other technology news not related to Apple. Honest. Including the Internet Slowdown, Microsoft buying Minecraft, remembering the Sega Dreamcast, and playing Dark Souls with a plastic guitar. Apple Reinvents The ‘Watch’ After years of rumors, Apple has finally taken the wraps off its first smartwatch. The rather dully named Apple Watch features a square face, a choice of straps in fluoroelastomer, leather, and stainless steel, a digital crown which acts as the main UI, and inductive charging. Dashing hopes this would be a standalone smartwatch, the Apple Watch needs to be paired with an iPhone 5 or later. As... Read the full article: Apple Reinvents The Watch, Unveils iPhone 6, Offers Free U2 Album, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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