15 New Articles on MakeUseOf

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• Cool Websites & Tools – Track Your Goals, Make Sense Of Numbers, & Look Up Words
• GoodReader Gets Long-Awaited iOS 7 Update, Including New Audio Player
• The Most Important Developments In Human History
• How Do You Obtain Music? [We Ask You]
• Kindle For iOS Introduces Flashcards, In-Book Search, & Notebook Filters
• 8 Of The Biggest Changes From Facebook in 2013 [Weekly Facebook Tips]
• 8 Easy Ways To Get Started With A Photography Habit Today
• How Smartphones Are Ruining Your Life
• Practice Mindfulness With Help From Your iPhone & These Apps
• How To Turn Random Snapshots Into A Uniform-Looking Photo Series
• Cuter, Harder, Better: Cut The Rope 2 Is A Puzzler For Kids & Adults
• Technophilia 95 Live From MakeUseOf
• How To Modify Your SNES To Play Japanese Super Famicom Games
• Parting With Your iPhone? Here’s How to Reset It Back To Factory State
• How to Install Android on Your Windows 8 Tablet

Cool Websites & Tools – Track Your Goals, Make Sense Of Numbers, & Look Up Words Posted: 08 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST Whyd – is a site where you can compile lists of your favourite music. Upon signing up, either by Facebook or by email, you are asked to pick your preferred music genres, so it can suggest which other members to subscribe to. You will get a bookmarklet to add tracks from places like YouTube. You can then listen to your tracks and to the tracks from your subscribed members. Goal Tracker – Do you want to achieve goals in your life? Change habits? Accomplish resolutions? Goal Tracker will help you by keeping track of your progress. It is inspired by... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Track Your Goals, Make Sense Of Numbers, & Look Up Words

GoodReader Gets Long-Awaited iOS 7 Update, Including New Audio Player Posted: 08 Jan 2014 07:30 PM PST A long-awaited iOS 7 update of the popular PDF reader, GoodReader, was recently released with a revamped user interface, faster PDF rendering, a new auto player, several improvements for managing documents, and support for iWork 2013 files. GoodReader is available for both the iPad ($4.99) and the iPhone ($4.99). Though the app icon for GoodReader is the same, the UI now sports a clean and more modern makeover. The right, bottom, and pop-up menus are thinner, allowing for more space to read and annotate documents. Tapping with three fingers anywhere on a document shows and hide menus. The new search feature now allows... Read the full article: GoodReader Gets Long-Awaited iOS 7 Update, Including New Audio Player

The Most Important Developments In Human History Posted: 08 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST Today, over 5,000 different languages are spoken on Earth. But can you, just for a second, imagine a world without a properly defined language? Would you consider developments during the digital revolution (computers, the Internet) more or less important than ancient discoveries — say, fire, for instance? Click to enlarge. via Norwich University Online Read the full article: The Most Important Developments In Human History

How Do You Obtain Music? [We Ask You] Posted: 08 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST Music is a universal language that binds all humans together in a very real way. While the specific styles and genres of music listened to by different cultures vary wildly, they all share common ground. In other words, music is a very powerful force. It’s been true for a long time: the music industry is in a state of flux. The Internet having upset the apple cart that had been trundling merrily on for several decades. Now, each of us has multiple options open to us for getting our music fix. This multitude of options forms the basis for this... Read the full article: How Do You Obtain Music? [We Ask You]

Kindle For iOS Introduces Flashcards, In-Book Search, & Notebook Filters Posted: 08 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST The Kindle app on iOS has just had an update to version 4.1, which brings with it several new features. For students, there are flashcards and in-book search; for readers, there are notebook filters, how much of the book is left, and more. Amazon has also made the app more stable and improved performance. Using X-Ray, students can now convert important terms from textbooks and notes into flashcards, improving their recall of the subject. The X-Ray feature itself has got an update too, allowing readers to sort characters and terms by relevance, alphabetically, or in order of appearance in the... Read the full article: Kindle For iOS Introduces Flashcards, In-Book Search, & Notebook Filters

8 Of The Biggest Changes From Facebook in 2013 [Weekly Facebook Tips] Posted: 08 Jan 2014 03:30 PM PST While the world stops to admire the big events and changes of 2013, the Facebook landscape is worth a look as well. Surprisingly, quite a lot has changed. If you haven’t been paying attention, or you want to make sure you know how to use all the new tools (or set your privacy settings properly to align with them), read on. Facebook Rolled Out Graph Search Graph Search is probably the biggest thing to hit Facebook in the past year or so. It was unveiled before 2013 started, but only rolled out properly to most people in the new year.... Read the full article: 8 Of The Biggest Changes From Facebook in 2013 [Weekly Facebook Tips]

8 Easy Ways To Get Started With A Photography Habit Today Posted: 08 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST You don’t have to wait for the turn of a new year to start a new habit. Each day can be a new beginning. A hobby like photography also needs the discipline of a habit, and you can give it an extra motivational push with the help of the Web. You shouldn’t let your camera collect dust – think differently and inspiring photography ideas will come to you. If all fails, the Web and the number of popular photography blogs offer a constant stream of ideas. So, are you stuck in a rut? Is your camera cocooned snugly in its... Read the full article: 8 Easy Ways To Get Started With A Photography Habit Today

How Smartphones Are Ruining Your Life Posted: 08 Jan 2014 12:00 PM PST Smartphones are here to stay. These miniature computers we all carry around in our pockets all day, every day are now outselling feature phones, meaning new smartphone owners are being created all the time. This is good news for Apple, Google, Samsung, HTC, and all the other companies making money from smartphones. But it may not be so good for the human race as a whole, or individual smartphone owners. Yes, I’m talking about you, the person currently reading this article while sat on a bus. Having already detailed several reasons why you shouldn’t buy a smartphone in the first... Read the full article: How Smartphones Are Ruining Your Life

Practice Mindfulness With Help From Your iPhone & These Apps Posted: 08 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST Mindfulness is scientifically proven to be good for the soul, and that means we should be doing more of it. Your iPhone can help. Derived from ancient buddhist practices, mindfulness has been found to be an effective tool for combatting stress, anxiety and depression among other mental maladies. The practice is surprisingly well-suited to our hectic lifestyles, particularly when paired with an iPhone or iPad and a spare five minute break. We’ve already tackled mindfulness apps for Android, so now it’s time to see what iOS can offer. What Is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is the practice of focusing your attention on... Read the full article: Practice Mindfulness With Help From Your iPhone & These Apps

How To Turn Random Snapshots Into A Uniform-Looking Photo Series Posted: 08 Jan 2014 10:00 AM PST A few tricks can save you hours of editing in Photoshop. Let’s say you have a random collection of photos. You or whoever the photographer was didn’t have the foresight to take them with the same camera or lens, but now you wish you could combine them and make them look like they were created during a single photo shoot. Rather than tediously editing each photo, you could run all of them through the same preset filter to create that desired uniform look. Let me explain… Pick Your Photo Collection Maybe you have a collection of family photos, taken by... Read the full article: How To Turn Random Snapshots Into A Uniform-Looking Photo Series

Cuter, Harder, Better: Cut The Rope 2 Is A Puzzler For Kids & Adults Posted: 08 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST The original Cut The Rope was a super-hit, racing to the top of the charts on all app stores. It perfectly melded cute and fun graphics with gameplay that was accessible, yet challenging at the same time. Developer Zepto Labs teased the sequel with Twitter hashtags like #OmNomIsMissing. Om Nom, for the uninitiated, is the lead character of a Cut The Rope — a cute green monster who is always hunting for candy. And in his zeal to protect all his candy, he was trapped by spiders and is now lost in the jungle. Cut The Rope 2 ($0.99) is... Read the full article: Cuter, Harder, Better: Cut The Rope 2 Is A Puzzler For Kids & Adults

Technophilia 95 Live From MakeUseOf Posted: 08 Jan 2014 08:01 AM PST We're reunited and it feels…okay. This week: backdoors guests are best! Infrequent guests knock your front door, which you'd otherwise never open. Good friends know to use the backdoor, and by this standard the NSA is apparently a very, very good friend to everyone. McAfee anti-virus is changing its name to stop being associated with John McAfee, the drug-crazed alleged killer who founded the company. They should also consider changing the software. Like, completely. Or just get rid of it. Forever. Also this week: the Cat In The Hat becomes public domain this year! Just kidding, nothing will ever become... Read the full article: Technophilia 95 Live From MakeUseOf

How To Modify Your SNES To Play Japanese Super Famicom Games Posted: 08 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST The library of games available for the Super Nintendo is absolutely massive. It has games spanning almost every genre from space shooters to sprawling RPGs. If you’re a fan of retro gaming, the console is a gold mine. But what if you want more? What if the library available on the western SNES isn’t enough for you? Well, there’s always the Super Famicom (SFC), its Japanese cousin. But you can’t play those games on a SNES. Or can you? We are going to show you how to play imported Japanese games on your US NTSC Super Nintendo. The process is... Read the full article: How To Modify Your SNES To Play Japanese Super Famicom Games

Parting With Your iPhone? Here’s How to Reset It Back To Factory State Posted: 08 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST Resetting the iPhone to factory state is a straightforward process, but an important one for anyone who is selling or giving away their old iPhone. Before you tap that factory reset button, there are a few things to consider to ensure all of your data is safe. Even if you think the media and data (apps, songs, contacts, documents, photos, calendar events and so on) on your iPhone don’t constitute a privacy risk, make sure to back up your content before erasing it so it can be restored on a new iPhone or other iOS device. iCloud Backup There are... Read the full article: Parting With Your iPhone? Here’s How to Reset It Back To Factory State

How to Install Android on Your Windows 8 Tablet Posted: 08 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST Windows 8 tablets are becoming more widely used, but the operating system – at least in its Modern mode – is light on the ground with particular apps. One way around this is to install Android on your tablet. Although installing Android on a desktop PC is reasonably straightforward (perhaps installing Android x86 on its own partition or using BlueStacks, YouWave or the Official Android Emulator), you might find that there are a couple of problems installing Google’s popular operating system on a Windows tablet: namely, that the tablet doesn’t have a CD/DVD drive. What this means is that things... Read the full article: How to Install Android on Your Windows 8 Tablet

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