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- Cool Websites & Tools – Unofficial Android YouTube Player, QR Code Generator, & Remember Anything
- Caption Contest: It’s Funny Because It’s Probably True
- Music Makes The World Go Around [We Ask You Results]
- Have You Seen This Squid? BTW Facebook Is Shutting Down [Weekly Facebook Tips]
- How You Know You Spent Too Long Playing Arcade Games In The 1980s…
- Taking Screenshots On Your Chromebook: All You Need To Know
- MakeUseOf Hits Classic Game Convention MAGFest 12 With Video
- This Is How And Why The Amish Live Off The Grid
- 4 Best Tools For Creating Screenshots Compared
- 5 Tips for Taking Panoramic Photos With Your Smartphone
- BeatsMusic Launches Curated Mood-Based Streaming Music
- 10 Inspiring Twitter Accounts To Help With Your New-Year Resolutions
- How To Take Awesome Winter Photos On Your Smartphone
- Unlock The Secrets Of The Human Body With Meducation
| Cool Websites & Tools – Unofficial Android YouTube Player, QR Code Generator, & Remember Anything Posted: 14 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST  uListen – With uListen you can finally start “listening” to YouTube videos on your Android device. uListen is an unofficial YouTube player that lets you stream audio out of YouTube videos allowing you to save precious bandwidth and reach faster buffering times. Features include searching YouTube videos and public playlists, streaming and playing tracks in the background, and more. QR Code Image Generator – create a QR Code of the selected text or current URL. Customize an image with different colors and sizes. Plus there is a new shortcut with CTRL-SHIFT-Q to quickly see the QR Code for the current... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Unofficial Android YouTube Player, QR Code Generator, & Remember Anything     |
| Caption Contest: It’s Funny Because It’s Probably True Posted: 14 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST  Give us your best captions, and you’ll be in the running to win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! Geeks, for the win! And the winning caption from “Netflix Worship” is “They give a whole new meaning to “American Idol.”” by Darcy! Congratulations! Read the full article: Caption Contest: It’s Funny Because It’s Probably True  |
| Music Makes The World Go Around [We Ask You Results] Posted: 14 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST  A love of music is one of those things inbuilt into all humans. Our tastes vary wildly, but being pleased by a combination of pitch and rhythm is almost universal. This means there will always be a market for music, with artists (and Miley Cyrus) creating melodies for our listening pleasure. The way we obtain music has changed massively over the years. Vinyl has given way to first cassettes and then CDs, physical formats have been superseded by digital formats, and programmed radio has given way to you’re-in-charge streaming services. And then there is music piracy. With all this going... Read the full article: Music Makes The World Go Around [We Ask You Results]  |
| Have You Seen This Squid? BTW Facebook Is Shutting Down [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 14 Jan 2014 03:30 PM PST  Have you ever been caught by a Facebook hoax? Did you fall for one of the many privacy-related hoaxes, such as the Facebook Graphic App hoax? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Although less serious than most Facebook scams and other serious schemes of con artists, the following hoaxes can make you look like a bit of a fool. So, take a read and make a note: don’t pass these on to your friends! Facebook Is Shutting Down? But of course: Mark Zuckerberg hates money and wants no more. This is a story that spreads rapidly every year, so for some... Read the full article: Have You Seen This Squid? BTW Facebook Is Shutting Down [Weekly Facebook Tips]  |
| How You Know You Spent Too Long Playing Arcade Games In The 1980s… Posted: 14 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST  With video games having been with us for over 50 years now, there are plenty of older people who have long memories associated with this most geeky of hobbies. You don’t have to be decrepit to have fond remembrances of piling coins into arcade machines throughout the 1980s. But it helps. The problem with arcade games — as with any kind of video games, old or new — was their addictive qualities that suck you in and refuse to let go until you (and your dwindling pool of money) are exhausted. Which invariably means you spent too long playing these... Read the full article: How You Know You Spent Too Long Playing Arcade Games In The 1980s…  |
| Taking Screenshots On Your Chromebook: All You Need To Know Posted: 14 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST  If you’ve just got a new Chromebook, such as the HP Chromebook 11 or Samsung Chromebook Series 3, you may be wondering how to take screenshots. So, here’s a quick guide for you. We’ll show you how to take a screenshot, then find it and use it. We’ll also show you a couple of great apps for taking great screenshots and editing with annotations in the browser. If you’re new to Chromebooks (or still not sure whether to get a Chromebook or not), it might also be a good idea to read up on everything you need to know when... Read the full article: Taking Screenshots On Your Chromebook: All You Need To Know  |
| MakeUseOf Hits Classic Game Convention MAGFest 12 With Video Posted: 14 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST  Anyone who in even remotely into classic video games has heard of MAGFest (Music and Gaming Festival), which takes place each year in Maryland, USA. But there’s more to the convention than just the retro stuff. In fact, there is something there for any kind of geek, even those who could not care less about video games. There’s cosplay, gaming tournaments, one-of-kind art pieces for sale, concerts, DJs spinning 24/7, and so so much more. This year, I decided to make the drive from Connecticut to MAGFest, a drive that took about 5 hours each way, and I must say, it... Read the full article: MakeUseOf Hits Classic Game Convention MAGFest 12 With Video  |
| This Is How And Why The Amish Live Off The Grid Posted: 14 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST  How would a lack of electricity affect your life? There is a group of traditionalist people, who reject many of modern society’s technology, including electricity from the public grid: the Amish. That, however, does not prevent them from enjoying some of the comforts of technology. Why Do Amish People Reject Electricity? Interestingly, Amish don’t reject electricity per se; the subject is more complicated than that. The power source itself is not the issue. Running household items with electricity, like an iron or a lamp, is perfectly agreeable with Amish beliefs. Technology that adds value to the community, is a welcome... Read the full article: This Is How And Why The Amish Live Off The Grid  |
| 4 Best Tools For Creating Screenshots Compared Posted: 14 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST  CTRL + SHIFT + 4. Those are the only 3 keys you’ll ever need to press when you want to take a screenshot – and I’m not talking about a primitive screenshot either. You can select which region of the screen to capture or you can capture entire windows with a single keystroke. Taking screenshots doesn’t have to be a hassle if you use one of these tools. For those of you who don’t think you need this kind of tool, I’d implore you to reconsider. Easy-access screenshots are one of those things that seem like it wouldn’t be useful,... Read the full article: 4 Best Tools For Creating Screenshots Compared  |
| 5 Tips for Taking Panoramic Photos With Your Smartphone Posted: 14 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST  Panoramic images of stunning landscapes almost always look marvellous, but they can be extremely difficult to create. Using a smartphone, however, there are various techniques and tricks – not to mention apps – which you can employ to get the best results. Lighting and Shape In standard photos, you should be able to position yourself to take advantage of the best light source and let your camera do the rest. With panoramic photography, the light changes with each composite snap, especially if you’re indoors. The shape of the scene will also play an important factor in this, as well as... Read the full article: 5 Tips for Taking Panoramic Photos With Your Smartphone  |
| BeatsMusic Launches Curated Mood-Based Streaming Music Posted: 14 Jan 2014 06:30 AM PST  The BeatsMusic music streaming app is about to break into the market, launching on January 21st. BeatsMusic is a curated mood and genre-based player, so it’s hoping to provide you with higher quality music for your dollars. If you are in the market for a music app for your smartphone, then you are spoilt for choice. As well as the big names – Apple, Google, Spotify, and Pandora – you also have smaller apps such as Sky.FM, a great music streaming iOS app. BeatsMusic describes itself as “the new music service that combines the power of human curation with technology... Read the full article: BeatsMusic Launches Curated Mood-Based Streaming Music  |
| 10 Inspiring Twitter Accounts To Help With Your New-Year Resolutions Posted: 14 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST  Ah! The all-famous new-year resolutions. I’m sure you’ve been thinking about them lately. For many of us, the new year is a time not only to reflect on the past year, but to plan for the upcoming one. But it’s also notorious for over-ambitious goals. Goals that don’t have much of a plan or know-how to be completed. You want to accomplish them, but where do you start? The Internet is full of people who are ‘experts’ in these various goals that you have, from wanting to start a business or being healthy and fit, to budgeting your money better.... Read the full article: 10 Inspiring Twitter Accounts To Help With Your New-Year Resolutions  |
| How To Take Awesome Winter Photos On Your Smartphone Posted: 14 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST  Steve McCurry, the renowned photographer famous for snapping the ‘Afghan girl’ portrait, has a lesser known photo that has stayed with me. It’s a scene from New York, where Central Park is completely covered with snow. I don’t quite know why it appeals to me so much, but have a look for yourself. Photos taken in winter are fascinating because they give the person behind the lens a white canvas. A blanket of snow makes for some of the best-looking photos you will ever see, but it’s pretty easy to have things go wrong as well. So I dug around... Read the full article: How To Take Awesome Winter Photos On Your Smartphone  |
| Unlock The Secrets Of The Human Body With Meducation Posted: 14 Jan 2014 04:00 AM PST  For many of us, the closest we’ll ever get to the medical field is watching daytime re-runs of Dr House berating his long-suffering underlings and insisting ‘It's not Lupus’ until he’s blue in the face. We’ll never share the intimate knowledge of the human body that doctors seem to have, nor will we have the same opportunity to keep abreast of changes in the medical field like they do. Well, until now that is. Meet Meducation. Part social network, part virtual learning environment; this Birmingham based startup allows medical professionals and those interested in the medical field to talk, share... Read the full article: Unlock The Secrets Of The Human Body With Meducation  |
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