14 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Vertical Videos, iOS Apps for Kids, & Android Sensors
• What Does The Future Of Crowdfunding Look Like?
• A Drone Hovers Over Your Property: What Would You Do? [We Ask You]
• How To Use An Excel Pivot Table For Data Analysis
• Did Your Dropbox Account Really Get Hacked?
• Share Your Photos, Not Your Phone With Microsoft Xim
• 3 Easy Ways To Install Windows 10 Technical Preview
• Light Memory Experiment Affects Mice Brains Like An MIB Neuralyzer
• 5 Ways To Enhance Your Netflix Account In Chrome
• Fed Up Of Inefficient Meetings? Send These 8 Rules To Your Boss
• Want New Windows Features? Share Your Ideas With Microsoft & Vote
• Save 96% On 8 Mac Apps, OS X & Web Development Courses For $29.99; Limited Time Offer
• How Anyone Can Find Your Personal Details Via Twitter With Tinfoleak
• How Traditional TV Is Dying, Dropbox Was Not Hacked, And More… [Tech News Digest]

Cool Websites & Tools – Vertical Videos, iOS Apps for Kids, & Android Sensors Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:31 PM PDT Vertical Video YouTube Bookmarklet – how many times have you watched a smartphone video online and realized that it is in portrait mode rather than the preferred landscape mode? This bookmarklet takes away the black bars on either side of the video and makes it look more viewable and easy to look at. KeepTrack – organizing and tracking different areas of your life couldn’t be easier with KeepTrack. Turn your Android device into a personal assistant that can help you stay on time, meet your goals, and track what is important to you. KeepTrack lets you track any details you... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Vertical Videos, iOS Apps for Kids, & Android Sensors

What Does The Future Of Crowdfunding Look Like? Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:30 PM PDT A lot of money has been raised thanks to the power of Crowdfunding. Products that might have never seen a public release without it have come to be. Devices like the Oculus Rift are now in our hands because potential buyers spoke with their wallets and backed the projects. You could definitely say that it has changed the course of the business world as we know it. But where will crowdfunding go next? How will it change in the future? Check out the infographic below for an interesting look at where it might go from here. Via Business Profiles Click To Enlarge Read the full article: What Does The Future Of Crowdfunding Look Like?

A Drone Hovers Over Your Property: What Would You Do? [We Ask You] Posted: 15 Oct 2014 06:30 PM PDT Drones, as in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), come in all manner of different shapes and sizes. While the larger ones capable of raining death and destruction down from above are reserved for military operations, smaller ones designed for less harmful activities can be bought for a few hundred dollars. This raises the very real prospect of someone flying a drone around your neighborhood. Perhaps innocently, or perhaps for more nefarious reasons. But what would you do if that drone hovered over your property? This question forms the basis for this week’s We Ask You all about drones and people’s reactions... Read the full article: A Drone Hovers Over Your Property: What Would You Do? [We Ask You]

How To Use An Excel Pivot Table For Data Analysis Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT The pivot table is one of the single most powerful tools in the Excel 2013 repertoire. It is frequently used for large data analysis. You can use the pivot table as an interactive data summarisation tool to automatically condense large datasets into a separate, concise table. You can use it to create an informative summary of a large dataset or make regional comparisons between brand sales. Pivot tables do not have to be intimidating – far from it – and we are here to help you unlock one of the real hidden power tools of Excel. To demonstrate the power of pivot tables, we will be... Read the full article: How To Use An Excel Pivot Table For Data Analysis

Did Your Dropbox Account Really Get Hacked? Posted: 15 Oct 2014 10:30 AM PDT News reports are circulating on the web and offline that Dropbox has been breached, with millions of passwords in the hands of hackers. But is this the full story? The Claim: Dropbox Has Been Hacked On Sunday we began hearing the first rumours that Dropbox had been hacked. The implications of a password leak for users of the popular cloud storage service are considerable, from the loss of vital projects to personal data being stolen. According to the hackers, 6,937,081 Dropbox accounts have been compromised, with a sample of 400 posted to Pastebin, demanding money in the Bitcoin crypto currency... Read the full article: Did Your Dropbox Account Really Get Hacked?

Share Your Photos, Not Your Phone With Microsoft Xim Posted: 15 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT How do you like to show off your holiday photos? You could upload them to a photo sharing site like Flickr or Imgur and send your friends a link. Or you could gather your friends and have them huddle around your cell phone, as you swipe from picture to picture. If you’re old-school – like me – you might even share them via Bluetooth. But there’s a better way, courtesy of Microsoft Xim. This app – available for Android and Windows Phone, with iOS not far off on the horizon – allows you to share photos and slideshows with your... Read the full article: Share Your Photos, Not Your Phone With Microsoft Xim

3 Easy Ways To Install Windows 10 Technical Preview Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT Windows 10 has been announced, and you can try the Technical Preview on your PC now. As you’re trying it, you can help Microsoft polish the preview version by joining their Windows Insider program. However, installing Windows 10 comes with some risks, which is why you should really install it either in a virtual environment or on a second device. Want To Try Windows 10? Here’s How You Get Started Windows 10 is set for release in 2015. Until then, there is a lot of work for Microsoft to do, and with your help they hope to bring us the greatest... Read the full article: 3 Easy Ways To Install Windows 10 Technical Preview

Light Memory Experiment Affects Mice Brains Like An MIB Neuralyzer Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:30 AM PDT Remember when Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones used the neuralyzer to erase people’s memories with blue light in Men in Black? Well, we can’t do that yet, but some scientists have done something remarkably similar. On October 9th, UC Davis announced that researchers there have “erased specific memories” within mice using light. The secret to the technology lies in a fascinating field called optogenetics, and it’s already started to change how we think about the brain. What Is Optogenetics? Optogenetics is a very recent field by scientific standards, having only been around since 2002. If you’re familiar with scientific naming conventions, you’ve probably... Read the full article: Light Memory Experiment Affects Mice Brains Like An MIB Neuralyzer

5 Ways To Enhance Your Netflix Account In Chrome Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT If you are fortunate enough to have Netflix in your country (or a VPN to make them think you are in another country), then you will appreciate how great the media streaming service is – Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Orange is the New Black…and then there’s all the movies on offer. Godzilla!! But despite an amazing service that shows Godzilla movies, the Netflix interface could use a little improvement. That’s why after writing the Netflix manual for MakeUseOf, I headed out in search of Chrome extensions to make my Netflix account look prettier. And no, it doesn’t involve a bit... Read the full article: 5 Ways To Enhance Your Netflix Account In Chrome

Fed Up Of Inefficient Meetings? Send These 8 Rules To Your Boss Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT The vast majority of us know how much of a drain meetings can be on both our time and productivity. But if a meeting is well organised (and well run), there’s no reason it can’t enhance the productivity, sense of purpose, and morale, for every single attendee. There’s plenty of content out there about why we hate meetings. Facebook rants written in a moment of complete frustration due to missed opportunities thanks entirely to a badly organised, seemingly pointless meeting that dragged far beyond its allocated time. Here are some rules to follow for better meetings and to make sure... Read the full article: Fed Up Of Inefficient Meetings? Send These 8 Rules To Your Boss

Want New Windows Features? Share Your Ideas With Microsoft & Vote Posted: 15 Oct 2014 06:00 AM PDT Microsoft wants to know what you would like Windows to look like! Propose and review Windows features to shape the next version of Windows. If the Windows 8 debacle taught Microsoft one thing, it’s that the customer can make or break a product. While the average consumer might not always know what exactly they want, they can be very clear about what they don’t want. Hence, pushing out novel features without giving the public a chance to review them remains a risk. For the continued development of the Windows operating system, Microsoft is tapping into the ingenuity of its crowd, allowing them... Read the full article: Want New Windows Features? Share Your Ideas With Microsoft & Vote

Save 96% On 8 Mac Apps, OS X & Web Development Courses For $29.99; Limited Time Offer Posted: 15 Oct 2014 05:30 AM PDT You like to save money, right? Of course you do, saving money is fantastic. You end up owning something awesome, and you spend far less money than you would have otherwise. It’s the very definition of a win-win. Well, if you use a Mac and want to get some awesome software at a staggering 96% discount, you need to check out Mac To The Future Bundle from StackSocial. It comes with eight high-end Mac apps along with access to 25 OS X and web development courses. It would normally sell for $961, but thanks to the bundle, you can snag it all... Read the full article: Save 96% On 8 Mac Apps, OS X & Web Development Courses For $29.99; Limited Time Offer

How Anyone Can Find Your Personal Details Via Twitter With Tinfoleak Posted: 15 Oct 2014 05:00 AM PDT Your Twitter posts can tell me where you live. If you still think the buzz around Internet privacy is a joke, maybe this will jog your senses. We’ve already established that you can’t be anonymous on the Internet, yet some continue to believe otherwise. Yes, you’re still vulnerable even if you’re careful about what you share, especially if you’re on Twitter. There’s a free script called Tinfoleak which can pull an alarming amount of information about any Twitter user based simply on their profile and their tweets. Let me show you how it works. Setting Up Tinfoleak Tinfoleak is nothing... Read the full article: How Anyone Can Find Your Personal Details Via Twitter With Tinfoleak

How Traditional TV Is Dying, Dropbox Was Not Hacked, And More… [Tech News Digest] Posted: 15 Oct 2014 04:30 AM PDT Also, the end of Double Irish, how to remove those annoying Facebook Stickers, the end of Bono’s megalomania, and how to write a song using autocomplete. Millenials Don’t Watch TV On TVs Millennials, that is Generation Y, or people born between 1982 and 2002, are changing the way they watch television. Gone are the days when families sat around the square box lurking in the corner of their front room; younger people now watch TV on a range of different devices without paying for cable. We know this thanks to the latest figures from comScore, which detail the changes to... Read the full article: How Traditional TV Is Dying, Dropbox Was Not Hacked, And More… [Tech News Digest]

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