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- Cool Websites & Tools – Reach Your Goals, Self-Destructing Links, & Convert Your Files
- Caption Contest: PC Lock
- iOS Apps on Sale for 12 Apr: Photoshop Touch Is Half Price
- Dropbox Announces Photo Carousel & Project Harmony Office Collaboration
- Heartbleed – What Can You Do To Stay Safe?
- Do Visionary Web Research Studies Using Deep Web Data & Excel Web Queries
- Chill, Bro: 5 Tips For Calming Down On The Internet
- How To Securely Erase Your SSD Without Destroying It
- Humble Bundle PC and Android 9 Gets Even Better With 3 More Games
- Make TV More Social With These XMBC Add-Ons
- 6 Of The Best Backup Battery Packs To Extend Your Phone’s Uptime
- Diving Into LinkedIn? 5 Tips To Get You Started
| Cool Websites & Tools – Reach Your Goals, Self-Destructing Links, & Convert Your Files Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:31 PM PDT  Habit List – includes everything you need to reach your goals, wrapped in a beautiful and intuitive interface. It motivates you, helps you stay focused, and keeps you on track. It's for all the little things that make a big difference. See how high you can go, then try to beat your personal best. No need to wade through all your habits to figure out what to do. Habit List only shows what's due today. ILoveFile – when you are dealing with files of any description, it is sometimes necessary or desired to convert them into another file format. But... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Reach Your Goals, Self-Destructing Links, & Convert Your Files     |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2014 07:30 PM PDT  Steve’s tendency to take everything he hears literally is really starting to ruin productivity in the office. Caption this cartoon and win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt! More exciting designs coming soon. Congratulations to the winner of our previous contest “Fried“, Miklos Szabo. His witty caption had me chuckling and definitely deserving of a MakeUseOf t-shirt: Mission accomplished, the last Win XP support guy has been eliminated. Read the full article: Caption Contest: PC Lock  |
| iOS Apps on Sale for 12 Apr: Photoshop Touch Is Half Price Posted: 11 Apr 2014 06:30 PM PDT  Another week, another round of sales and another thousand or so app offers to trawl through – most of them in a script you don’t recognise. Relax, we’ve done the hard work! This week, Adobe is offering their number one mobile image editor at half price, plus one of the App Store’s most successful and addictive matching games, Omicron, goes free. Apps Adobe Photoshop Touch / for iPhone ($9.99/$4.99, now $4.99 and $1.99) Adobe’s industry-leading set of tools for photographers, image retouchers and digital artists can currently be snapped up for half price, including both the original (iPad) and the... Read the full article: iOS Apps on Sale for 12 Apr: Photoshop Touch Is Half Price  |
| Dropbox Announces Photo Carousel & Project Harmony Office Collaboration Posted: 11 Apr 2014 05:30 PM PDT  A Dropbox folder could soon be your personal shoebox for holding all your digital photos. Dropbox has made that “shoebox” better with the newly launched Carousel. Carousel is made to be the single gallery for all your photos and videos. Carousel is a free standalone app available on the App Store for iOS and the Play Store for Android. But Carousel isn’t only a simple storage solution. Photos and videos uploaded to Dropbox independently share space with the new ones backed up from your mobile phone. Carousel automatically backs up your smartphone photos when you take them, thus freeing up phone space. Unlike simple... Read the full article: Dropbox Announces Photo Carousel & Project Harmony Office Collaboration  |
| Heartbleed – What Can You Do To Stay Safe? Posted: 11 Apr 2014 02:00 PM PDT  The Heartbleed SSL vulnerability is making headlines around the world – and misreporting in the press and online is causing confusion. How can you stay safe and ensue your personal details aren’t leaked? What Is Heartbleed? Well, It’s Not A Virus You’ve probably heard Heartbleed described as a virus. This isn’t the case: in fact, it is a weakness, a vulnerability in servers running OpenSSL. This is the open source implementation of SSL and TLS, the protocols used for secure connections – those that begin https:// rather than the usual http://. This vulnerability – more commonly referred to as a... Read the full article: Heartbleed – What Can You Do To Stay Safe?  |
| Do Visionary Web Research Studies Using Deep Web Data & Excel Web Queries Posted: 11 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT  What would you say if I told you that you have the tools at your disposal to do ground-breaking, Earth-shattering research? Well, you do, and I’ll show you how. Governments, academic institutions and non-profit research organizations publish tables full of data to the public domain. Without anyone using this information, its true value will never be known. Unfortunately, few people have the insight, the skills or the tools to take the data and make interesting correlations between seemingly unconnected information. Background A lot of the research that I do for my own blog involves digging through what’s known as the invisible... Read the full article: Do Visionary Web Research Studies Using Deep Web Data & Excel Web Queries  |
| Chill, Bro: 5 Tips For Calming Down On The Internet Posted: 11 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT  The Internet: where nearly everyone is just one fedora tip away from dishing out their own spin on trash-talk. We’ve all seen the Navy Seal copypasta (warning: NSFW), and we’ve all been on the receiving end of a rather hateful private message. Neither one feels good, and what also doesn’t feel good is that sudden rage we get when becoming a verbal offender. It’s like a descending slope on a graph — you start out with a rambunctious attitude and then end with slightly-drained comments towards your online foe. Is there an accomplishment? Perhaps, if you consider your initial goal. But the failure at... Read the full article: Chill, Bro: 5 Tips For Calming Down On The Internet  |
| How To Securely Erase Your SSD Without Destroying It Posted: 11 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT  Solid state drives are frequently referred to as the best upgrade you can make to your PC. Trading off disk space for speed is an increasingly popular option, but just like USB sticks and SD memory cards, SSDs can only be written to a limited number of times. This presents some interesting problems, particularly when it comes to erasing data (and doing so securely). Tools like Darik’s Boot and Nuke are not only ineffective, their write-intensive nature can vastly reduce performance and shorten SSD drive life. Don’t get it wrong, securely erase your SSD the right way (if you even need... Read the full article: How To Securely Erase Your SSD Without Destroying It  |
| Humble Bundle PC and Android 9 Gets Even Better With 3 More Games Posted: 11 Apr 2014 10:30 AM PDT  One of the single best deals in the world of video games is the Humble Bundle. It consistently delivers games in both a large quantity and of high quality for a price so low it’s hard to believe. The latest bundle, called Humble Bundle PC and Android 9, already featured six fantastic games for less than $4, but now the Humble crew has made it even better, adding three more games to the mix, all without increasing the required minimum price. The three new games are The Shivah, Savant – Ascent, and Syder Arcade. Like all of the other games in... Read the full article: Humble Bundle PC and Android 9 Gets Even Better With 3 More Games  |
| Make TV More Social With These XMBC Add-Ons Posted: 11 Apr 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Who says watching TV is anti-social? Add-ons can bring Facebook photos, live Tweets and more to your XBMC setup. XBMC is a free media-center program that makes browsing your video collection from your couch simple, but it’s also compatible with a wide variety of add-ons. Here’s where to find them. Like the idea of XBMC, but aren’t sure where to get started? Our beginner’s guide to XBMC is as good a place to begin as any. Browse Facebook Photos and Videos Looking at photos can be a social experience, if you do so with friends or family. Social networks have,... Read the full article: Make TV More Social With These XMBC Add-Ons  |
| 6 Of The Best Backup Battery Packs To Extend Your Phone’s Uptime Posted: 11 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT  A battery pack is one of the best ways to charge your phone in an emergency, but knowing which pack to buy isn’t that easy. If you need help, these portable power banks might be just what you need. A Few Numbers Before We Start Not everyone needs a high capacity battery pack, unless you want something that will charge both a phone and a tablet. Just for reference, the Samsung Galaxy S5 uses a 2,800 mAh battery while the iPhone 5s uses a 1,600 mAh battery. The iPad Mini with Retina Display packs a 6,500 mAh battery while the... Read the full article: 6 Of The Best Backup Battery Packs To Extend Your Phone’s Uptime  |
| Diving Into LinkedIn? 5 Tips To Get You Started Posted: 11 Apr 2014 08:00 AM PDT  When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it was a pretty simple idea: a social network for the professional sphere. But since then, the site and the way people use it have increased in complexity, and it can be a bit overwhelming trying to get into it for the first time. These 5 tips will get you from total newcomer to all-star networker in no time. 1. Create a Great Profile Your LinkedIn profile is your professional face online, so make it a good one! If someone comes to your profile, you want them to be impressed. You don't want sloppy writing,... Read the full article: Diving Into LinkedIn? 5 Tips To Get You Started  |
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