Sunday, July 7, 2013

4 New Articles on MakeUseOf

Cool Websites and Tools [July 6th 2013]
4 Windows System Parts You Should Be Extra Careful With
Pomodoro Web App Tomato.es Is Time Management Made Simple
Tired of VLC? Try MPlayer – A Unique, Modular Alternative for Linux

Cool Websites and Tools [July 6th 2013]

Posted: 06 Jul 2013 09:35 PM PDT

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool website round-ups delivered to your daily email, subscribe here. Meet.fm – is a web-based tool that lets you easily set up a meeting online [...]

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4 Windows System Parts You Should Be Extra Careful With

Posted: 06 Jul 2013 07:30 PM PDT

I believe it was 1998 when my family invested in our first PC. Late by many's standards, but I was only a nine-year-old kid at the time. Since then, if I had to take a stab in the dark. I'd say I've been through about eight different PCs. One of the biggest learning experiences is finding out what parts of your computer are sensitive to tweaking. It's good to be cautious, but not too cautious. If you consider yourself a novice to the Windows platform, here are four areas that I recommend you stay far away from.

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Pomodoro Web App Tomato.es Is Time Management Made Simple

Posted: 06 Jul 2013 01:31 PM PDT

Can't focus? Get to work, now. Tomato.es is a free Pomodoro timer you can use directly in your browser – and it's possibly the best such app I've ever used. The Pomodoro technique is simple: work for 25 minutes, non-stop, then take a five minute break. Repeat three times, then take a 15 minute break. Continue repeating until all of your daily tasks are complete – or it's time to sleep.

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Tired of VLC? Try MPlayer – A Unique, Modular Alternative for Linux

Posted: 06 Jul 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Ask just about any Linux user, and they'll more than likely recommend VLC Player as the best choice for playing any media format you can think of. But it only offers one implementation -- a complete media playing package that uses its own technologies as well as its own GUI. In the spirit of Linux, you may wish to use something that's a bit more modular. This way, you can use a single media decoder and then customize everything else about it.

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