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- Cool Websites & Tools – Capture Color Combinations, Control Your TV, & Create Your Own Music
- The Rise Of The Hacktivist: Hacking Doesn’t Have To Be Bad
- How To Be Happy In Five Minutes A Day
- MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 134 – #Knitgate
- Taking Part in Stoptober? Five Places To Go For Help
- 4 Superb Pinterest Extensions For Chrome, With An Extremely Pinnable Start Page Bonus
- Save Money On Your Smartphone Bill: Cut The Mobile Internet
- How to Build a Cloud Lamp with Sound Reactive Lightning
- 10 Helpful Spreadsheet Templates To Help Manage Your Finances
- PC Sales Higher Than Expected, Coding For All Students, And More… [Tech News Digest]
| Cool Websites & Tools – Capture Color Combinations, Control Your TV, & Create Your Own Music Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Adobe Color CC – is a fun and simple way to capture inspiring color combinations wherever you see them. Simply point the camera at something colorful and Adobe Color CC will instantly extract a series of colors. You can share your themes with friends through Facebook, Twitter or email. You can also share the image that inspired the theme. SureMote – Control your TV and all other appliances with SureMote – a free universal remote control app. SureMote uses the built-in Infrared (IR) Blaster in Samsung Galaxy, LG G3, and HTC One smartphones. In addition, SureMote controls LG Smart TV... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Capture Color Combinations, Control Your TV, & Create Your Own Music |
| The Rise Of The Hacktivist: Hacking Doesn’t Have To Be Bad Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:30 PM PDT  When you see a hacker in media, he or she is most likely shown doing something unethical, but that’s not always the case in the real world. In fact, we’re seeing the rise of people who use the powers of hacking for good. Sure, some people still hack for personal gain, but others are using hacking to help others. The infographic below provides you with a lot more information on the kinds of people who fall under the category of hacker, and how some hackers are actually improving the world. It just might change the way you think of hackers altogether.... Read the full article: The Rise Of The Hacktivist: Hacking Doesn’t Have To Be Bad |
| How To Be Happy In Five Minutes A Day Posted: 09 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Psychological research has started to shed light on how to make yourself happier. New products and apps are launching that use these findings, and one of these promises to make you happier in just five minutes a day. The Five Minute Journal is the journal for people who don't keep journals. Built on positive psychology principles, it is structured to make it quick and easy for you to get all the benefits of keeping a journal. If one of our other articles on journaling hasn't taken your fancy so far, perhaps this one on the Five Minute Journal will. A... Read the full article: How To Be Happy In Five Minutes A Day |
| MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 134 – #Knitgate Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT  Guess what? It’s time for a new episode of the Technophilia Podcast, and you should be watching! James isn’t here this week, which means Dave and Justin are holding down the fort. We’d love to hear your feedback on the show in the comments section! If you want to make sure you never miss an episode, subscribe to MakeUseOf’s YouTube channel, and subscribe to the video feed for the Technophilia Podcast. If you prefer audio podcasts, head on over MakeUseOf.tv, subscribe to Technophilia on iTunes, or just add the RSS feed to your favorite podcast client to listen however you want. Also, we broadcast the show live every... Read the full article: MakeUseOf’s Technophilia Podcast Episode 134 – #Knitgate |
| Taking Part in Stoptober? Five Places To Go For Help Posted: 09 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT  Stopping smoking is an incredibly hard thing to do – but it’s worth it. And throughout this month, as part of Stoptober, you can get support from thousands in the same boat. The NHS launched this idea a few years ago, but it’s by no means exclusive to the UK. Wherever you are, if you can quit smoking for 28 days, you’re more likely to give it up for good. No one’s saying it’s not tough. So what should you do when you’re struggling to stay smoke-free? Family and Friends Will Support You To Quit Your first port of call... Read the full article: Taking Part in Stoptober? Five Places To Go For Help |
| 4 Superb Pinterest Extensions For Chrome, With An Extremely Pinnable Start Page Bonus Posted: 09 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT  The web is full of Pinnable content. Every day you probably see dozens of blog posts with images you should Pin, but you forget to do it because the site hasn’t installed the right plugin. Why rely on them? Within your own browser, you can have all the best Pinterest tools right at your fingertips. You can have hovering “Pin It” buttons, right-click menu items and more. You can even get inspiration photos delivered to you every time you open a new tab. It doesn’t get easier than this. Install these extensions and you’ll always have new content to pin.... Read the full article: 4 Superb Pinterest Extensions For Chrome, With An Extremely Pinnable Start Page Bonus |
| Save Money On Your Smartphone Bill: Cut The Mobile Internet Posted: 09 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Once a month, your mobile bill lands. How much are you paying for calls and mobile Internet? Is your iPhone really worth that type of outlay? Do you use your Android tablet enough to justify paying over $50 a month? Mobile networks have had it too easy from consumers over the past few years, but as Wi-Fi coverage increases, there is a decreasing need to bother with mobile Internet and ridiculously ornate call packages. That money is better off in your pocket, not the bank accounts of cell phone carrier shareholders. Smartphone Bills: Healthy vs. Obscene As I write this... Read the full article: Save Money On Your Smartphone Bill: Cut The Mobile Internet |
| How to Build a Cloud Lamp with Sound Reactive Lightning Posted: 09 Oct 2014 06:00 AM PDT  A few months back, a $3000 thunder and lightning mood lamp went viral in the maker community. It was a stunningly beautiful light, but the price tag left it out of the reach of anyone with their sanity intact. What we’ll make today isn’t exactly the same – we’re making something more practical, instead of an art piece, but it’s going to be a whole lot cooler and more customizable. I’ve chosen to omit speakers on the assumption that you probably already have a good pair of speakers in your room which you’d rather use, and frankly putting a speaker in a... Read the full article: How to Build a Cloud Lamp with Sound Reactive Lightning |
| 10 Helpful Spreadsheet Templates To Help Manage Your Finances Posted: 09 Oct 2014 05:00 AM PDT  I’ve always thought that one of the reasons why staying afloat is so challenging is because money is such an abstract concept. It’s just numbers on a page, or pieces of paper in a wallet. But what if that wasn’t the case? What if you could easily and accurately visualize your financial health? Wouldn’t it be great if you knew where your money was, at all times? Thankfully, Vertex42 (which we’ve covered in the past) has a range of spreadsheets that make this possible, and more. Don’t believe me? Here are ten of the best financial spreadsheets they have to... Read the full article: 10 Helpful Spreadsheet Templates To Help Manage Your Finances |
| PC Sales Higher Than Expected, Coding For All Students, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 09 Oct 2014 04:30 AM PDT  Also, Apple announces another press event, Google Street View travels the desert, Belkin routers work once again, get Dragon Age: Origins for free, and a machine gun that fires paper planes. PC Sales Not As Bad As Expected While the PC market continues to contract, the latest sales figures suggest the decline is slowing down. Both IDC and Gartner have reported their figures for the third quarter of 2014, and both are reporting very slight dips in the numbers of PCs being sold this year compared to 12 months ago. IDC reports a 1.7 percent dip, while Gartner reports a... Read the full article: PC Sales Higher Than Expected, Coding For All Students, And More… [Tech News Digest] |
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