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- 5 Sites To Download Cool Fonts For Free
- Keep Your Home Safe This Holiday Season
- 12 Apps To Help Forgetful People Remember Things
- Books Suck: Why I Love My Kindle More Than Dead Trees
- Test Your Programming Skills With These Online Competitions
- Make Your Online Fashion Shopping Easier With picVpic
- Mac OS X Yosemite, From The Perspective Of A Linux User
- The Hendo: The World’s First Real Hoverboard
- Save 53% – Get A Limited Edition Code Black Aerial Drone For $69, HD for $89
- Why You Should Upgrade To Internet Explorer 11 Now
- Working With Slow-Motion Video: Tips For The Editing Time Lord
- Your Facebook Year In Review, OK Google, Buy Me A Chromebook [Tech News Digest]
| 5 Sites To Download Cool Fonts For Free Posted: 22 Dec 2014 08:30 PM PST  Being the holidays, many of you may decide to skip buying expensive greeting cards and make your own “custom” designed cards. Or maybe place settings for the table, a poster with a festive greeting, a voucher as a gift for someone…what do these things have in common? They all require fonts in order to type and arrange the text on the page. The Internet is awash with font sites, some excellent, some OK, and a lot mediocre. We here at MakeUseOf have covered countless font sites over the years, but here are 5 which we haven’t covered yet, which I... Read the full article: 5 Sites To Download Cool Fonts For Free     |
| Keep Your Home Safe This Holiday Season Posted: 22 Dec 2014 06:30 PM PST  If you’ve ever seen the movie “Home Alone” you know that crime around the holidays is a serious problem. You could simply place a collection of traps around your home and hope that the criminals are dumb enough to repeatedly walk over them. Or, you could take some precautions and make sure you’re secure this holiday season. Check out this handy infographic that offers 10 tips you can use to make sure your home is safe during the holiday season! Via IronSecurity Click To Enlarge Read the full article: Keep Your Home Safe This Holiday Season  |
| 12 Apps To Help Forgetful People Remember Things Posted: 22 Dec 2014 10:00 AM PST  “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” This saying is great in theory but for forgetful types, organization can prove tricky. I’m the kind of person who’s constantly forgetting where I last set down my phone, regularly second-guessing where I parked my car, and who occasionally swaps out the milk for the cereal in the fridge. When it comes to managing my daily to-do lists, if I don’t have my blogging ideas and rough drafts saved in highly organized and labeled folders, I’m likely to forget about them completely. So from one forgetful person to another, here are... Read the full article: 12 Apps To Help Forgetful People Remember Things  |
| Books Suck: Why I Love My Kindle More Than Dead Trees Posted: 22 Dec 2014 09:00 AM PST  I love to read. I’m never happier than when I’m nose deep in a good novel. I could say that I love books but that would be wrong. I love stories, the written word, a well woven tale or a carefully crafted thesis. But books? I can’t bloody stand books. The best Christmas gift I ever got was a Kindle Keyboard — it changed my life. I went from reading 30 or 40 books a year to more than 60. The reason: reading an eBook is a million times better than reading a printed book. The Settled Debate As someone... Read the full article: Books Suck: Why I Love My Kindle More Than Dead Trees  |
| Test Your Programming Skills With These Online Competitions Posted: 22 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST  Are you in a programming rut? Worried that your coding skills have hit a plateau? On the verge of burning out? Sometimes the answer is to walk away, take a break, and suck down some fresh air. Then again, sometimes the answer is a heavy dose of challenges that stretch your abilities to their limits. In Apprenticeship Patterns — a free programming book that describes the journey from newbie to master programmer — there’s a quiet bit of wisdom that speaks truth: Failure is often the best way to learn anything. Only by attempting to do bold things, failing, learning... Read the full article: Test Your Programming Skills With These Online Competitions  |
| Make Your Online Fashion Shopping Easier With picVpic Posted: 22 Dec 2014 07:30 AM PST  Like my colleague Matt, I hate shopping for clothes. If there is a Hell on Earth, it’s a clothes store changing room having size after size of clothes being passed through the curtain, and being told by the Other Half to try them on. It brings out the worst in me and I become insufferable. Just ask my wife (aka The Other Half / The Better Half). The day online clothes shopping was invented was the time she celebrated with a wild street party. But how do you know if clothes presented online would suit you, or more importantly, fit... Read the full article: Make Your Online Fashion Shopping Easier With picVpic  |
| Mac OS X Yosemite, From The Perspective Of A Linux User Posted: 22 Dec 2014 07:00 AM PST  It’s been a while since Mac OS X 10.10 “Yosemite” has been released into the wild, so we have a pretty good idea of how it performs. Mac OS X is also sometimes used as the poster child for a clean and elegant interface (most of the time, anyways). As a Linux writer, it’s my duty to make comparisons not only amongst Linux distros, but also against the competition. With Yosemite out and a new wave of distro releases out, it’s time to make the comparison between Yosemite and and these new releases. Which performs better? Which looks better? What can... Read the full article: Mac OS X Yosemite, From The Perspective Of A Linux User  |
| The Hendo: The World’s First Real Hoverboard Posted: 22 Dec 2014 06:00 AM PST  Marty McFly-style hoverboards have been a dream of science fiction geeks for quite some time, and the innovative duo behind Hendo Hover might be the first to make that dream a reality. About two months ago, husband and wife design team Greg and Jill Henderson launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the Hendo Hoverboard, a levitating skateboard they hoped to make available by October 2015. The campaign was a huge success, doubling its original goal of $250,000, and it’s been named one of TIME Magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 2014. What Is The Hendo Hoverboard? The Hendo Hoverboard is exactly what it... Read the full article: The Hendo: The World’s First Real Hoverboard  |
| Save 53% – Get A Limited Edition Code Black Aerial Drone For $69, HD for $89 Posted: 22 Dec 2014 05:30 AM PST  Drones are everywhere. Well, not really, but as word gets out about this awesome deal from StackSocial, they will be. We’re talking about a flying drone with a camera for $69. That’s a savings of 53% off the full price of $149. The HD version is currently available for pre-order as well. If you’ve ever wanted to get in on the fun of flying a drone around and recording stuff, now is your chance! Don’t wait, though, because this deal is only available for a limited time! Head over to StackSocial and purchase a Limited Edition Code Black Aerial Drone with a... Read the full article: Save 53% – Get A Limited Edition Code Black Aerial Drone For $69, HD for $89  |
| Why You Should Upgrade To Internet Explorer 11 Now Posted: 22 Dec 2014 05:00 AM PST  Poor Internet Explorer. Years of neglect from Microsoft and poor adherence to web standards have led to Windows’ native browser being a much-maligned presence on your computer. But is it really that bad? In truth, Microsoft attempted to reverse the rot with Internet Explorer 7, following the disaster that was IE6. Restoring Internet Explorer to a browser that people actually wanted to use was always going to be a hard road, but it’s just possible that with Internet Explorer 11 this stage has been reached. Internet Explorer 11 Is Fast Full of surprises, perhaps the biggest shock is the speed... Read the full article: Why You Should Upgrade To Internet Explorer 11 Now  |
| Working With Slow-Motion Video: Tips For The Editing Time Lord Posted: 22 Dec 2014 04:00 AM PST  So you’ve shot some video at a high frame rate… what exactly should you do with it now? There are so many elements in slow motion video that need to be considered in post-production. Luckily for you, we’ve considered most of them to bring you our guide to post-processing your slo-mo masterpiece. Project Rate Versus File Frame Rate An important checklist item when shooting in slow-motion – before you even edit - is to see if you’re working with the actual frame rate you’re shooting in or something called a project frame rate. Basically, your camera is either going to export the video you are shooting in the actual frame rate (say,... Read the full article: Working With Slow-Motion Video: Tips For The Editing Time Lord  |
| Your Facebook Year In Review, OK Google, Buy Me A Chromebook [Tech News Digest] Posted: 22 Dec 2014 03:30 AM PST  Also, Sony wants to release The Interview online, Google+ improves your videos, Reddit Notes $5 million giveaway, and LG trolls pets using televisions. Your Facebook Year In Review For 2014 I'm already fed up of the Facebook auto-generated "it's been an awesome year" slideshow of office nights out and ugly children. — Dave Jones (@WelshGasDoc) December 21, 2014 Facebook is offering all its users a review of the past year. Unlike last year’s much-parodied video-based effort, 2014 is summed up for each individual by way of a montage of best moments, with photos, videos, and status updates organized by month.... Read the full article: Your Facebook Year In Review, OK Google, Buy Me A Chromebook [Tech News Digest]  |
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