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- Do You Want To Improve Your Life? Let These 5 Sites Help
- All The Basics Of Virtual Currencies
- The Best Portable Apps
- How To Be A Profitable Online Graphic Designer
- 9 Best Christmas Apps For Android
- Customize Almost Anything On Your Mac With EasySIMBL
- What To Get For the Wii U Owner In Your Life
- Here’s How Digital SLR Sensor Crop Affects Your Lenses
- How To Embed A YouTube Video & Other Media In Your PowerPoint Presentation
- Learn To Create Professional-Caliber Videos For Just $39 (96% Off!)
- Master Photography By Studying It: 10 Great Online Photo Courses
- 6 Cross-Platform & Free File Sync Tools
- Zuckerberg Dislikes Facebook Dislikes, Ed Sheeran Praises Spotify [Tech News Digest]
| Do You Want To Improve Your Life? Let These 5 Sites Help Posted: 12 Dec 2014 08:30 PM PST  The New Year is approaching, and that means New Year resolutions, which will all be broken by January 2nd. Seriously though, we want you to follow through on your resolutions, become new and improved, and lead a happier and more productive life. To that end, we have found 5 sites which will help you and inspire you to improve your life, make smart goals, and make a new you. Don’t say we are never good to you. The Happiness Project Everyone wants to be happy. Whether that means finding that special someone, becoming a parent, or living the life of a rock star... Read the full article: Do You Want To Improve Your Life? Let These 5 Sites Help     |
| All The Basics Of Virtual Currencies Posted: 12 Dec 2014 06:30 PM PST  Have you heard about Bitcoin? How about Dogecoin? Litecoin, even? In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s a new world of virtual currencies out there. These cryptocurrencies promise a private way to pay for things. Of course, like anything new, they can be complicated. We’ve no shortage of articles on the matter here at MakeUseOf for those looking to dig in a little deeper, but if you just want a basic understanding, the infographic below will break it all down for you. Check it out, and next time your friends are talking Bitcoin, you’ll know what’s happening! Via Virtual... Read the full article: All The Basics Of Virtual Currencies  |
| Posted: 12 Dec 2014 09:30 AM PST  A portable app is a “lite” version of a software, which can be run without being installed on the host computer, and which doesn’t modify the computer’s configuration information. In other words, you can run it, and use it, and no-one will ever know you were there. Apart from being more flexible and secure when working on public computers, another good use for portable apps is to keep your number of installed apps to an absolute minimum. Installed programs take up space and can cause a computer to run slower, so the less you have installed the better. My personal policy... Read the full article: The Best Portable Apps  |
| How To Be A Profitable Online Graphic Designer Posted: 12 Dec 2014 09:00 AM PST  Graphic design is a notoriously difficult business to succeed in, but more designers than ever before are taking up freelance work. These days you’ll need an edge to maintain profitability in your business. By 2020, 50% of the American population are expected to be freelancers. As this freelance industry burgeons, so too do the number of graphic designers within it making this notoriously difficult online career path even more of a hurdle-laden route than you might anticipate. Fortunately if you’re a graphic designer struggling to turn a profit, there are myriad options available to you. We’ve detailed just a few of these ideas below, and... Read the full article: How To Be A Profitable Online Graphic Designer  |
| 9 Best Christmas Apps For Android Posted: 12 Dec 2014 08:30 AM PST  Christmas is coming! Too many sprouts, too much mulled wine, too many minced pies, too many home-made decorations… too many Christmas apps? No chance — it’s impossible to navigate the modern Christmas without a bit of assistance. How long should you cook the Turkey for? Where can you get the best-priced gifts? What is Santa up to on his trip around the world? Read on as we take you on an app-inspired journey through Christmas! NORAD Tracks Santa Have you been naughty or nice? Don’t worry, Santa Claus is coming to town anyway. The question is: when? The NORAD Tracks Santa... Read the full article: 9 Best Christmas Apps For Android  |
| Customize Almost Anything On Your Mac With EasySIMBL Posted: 12 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST  EasySIMBL just might be the best free Mac app you've never heard of. It lets you run user-submitted extensions to your favourite applications, not to mention OS X itself. From hiding the menubar when certain applications are open to embedding Instagram images within the official Twitter app, you can do things with EasySIMBL you probably didn’t know were possible. If you love tweaking your Mac, you need to know about this. Plugins for EasySIMBL typically come in the form of .bundle files, which you can drag to the program's window in order to install. They inject code directly into the RAM, letting you run authorized... Read the full article: Customize Almost Anything On Your Mac With EasySIMBL  |
| What To Get For the Wii U Owner In Your Life Posted: 12 Dec 2014 07:30 AM PST  Are you trying to seek out the perfect gift for that special someone who owns a Wii U? Knowing what to give someone can be tricky, but we’re on hand to run down the top Wii U presents. Let the hunt for that gift be over; look no further than our handy guide below, conveniently separated out into price. However, bear in mind that the listed prices are just the MSRP – you might be able to find them even cheaper! Under $10 Wii Wheel for Mario Kart 8 ($9.99) Mario Kart 8 is one of the best games available for... Read the full article: What To Get For the Wii U Owner In Your Life  |
| Here’s How Digital SLR Sensor Crop Affects Your Lenses Posted: 12 Dec 2014 07:00 AM PST  If you’ve worked with digital SLRs in any capacity, you’ve probably heard the question, “Hey, is that a full frame camera?” If it isn’t, you’ll usually hear, “Oh. Well. You should consider getting one.” The reality is that full frame sensors aren’t necessarily always superior, despite their price tags and comparisons to the 35mm cameras of yore. In fact, most of us own cameras with smaller cropped sensors, which artificially increase focal lengths on full frame lenses. What Is A Full Frame Sensor? Full frame sensors are essentially the evolution of 35mm film – the format is based entirely on the traditional frame on a 35mm roll. A full frame... Read the full article: Here’s How Digital SLR Sensor Crop Affects Your Lenses  |
| How To Embed A YouTube Video & Other Media In Your PowerPoint Presentation Posted: 12 Dec 2014 06:00 AM PST  Typical presentations are dull affairs with text and corporate backgrounds providing little of interest. Microsoft knows this. They even released their own PowerPoint alternative called Sway. Nevertheless, they have been improving the media embed options of PowerPoint over the past few releases. With PowerPoint 2013/Office 365 the ability to embed online media has given the software a particular lease of life, enabling you to embed YouTube videos into PowerPoint slides. Why Embed Media In Your PowerPoint Presentation? In the 21st century, presentations need embedded media. It would be nice to say that time has passed on Death by PowerPoint, but this isn’t strictly... Read the full article: How To Embed A YouTube Video & Other Media In Your PowerPoint Presentation  |
| Learn To Create Professional-Caliber Videos For Just $39 (96% Off!) Posted: 12 Dec 2014 05:30 AM PST  Editing video is no easy task. Not only do you have to learn the finer points of how to make your videos look good, but you also have to understand how to use complicated video editing software. Don’t worry though, because we’ve found an awesome way for you to learn to be a professional video editor without spending big bucks. Today, we’re looking at The Videographer Bundle. This deal, which would normally sell for $1,088 is on sale for just $39. That’s an insane deal, coming at 96% off the full price. You really won’t find a better deal anywhere... Read the full article: Learn To Create Professional-Caliber Videos For Just $39 (96% Off!)  |
| Master Photography By Studying It: 10 Great Online Photo Courses Posted: 12 Dec 2014 05:00 AM PST  Photography is a deceptive art. At first glance it looks simple and straightforward: all you have to do is point your lens and click the shutter, right? But there’s a lot of theory and knowledge behind every beautiful shot — so much so that it can be overwhelming for the beginner. Fortunately, there are plenty of resources on the Internet to help ease that learning curve, with Udemy establishing itself as a prime resource for quality photography courses. Many are freely available, a few that require paid access – here are some of the best ones to get you started. Karl Taylor’s Photography Course (Free)... Read the full article: Master Photography By Studying It: 10 Great Online Photo Courses  |
| 6 Cross-Platform & Free File Sync Tools Posted: 12 Dec 2014 04:00 AM PST  If you crave the comfort of accessing your files anywhere, without having to carry around any hardware, file sync tools become a must. The tool that’s right for you depends on what sort of files you’ll be syncing — someone who’s looking to wirelessly stream their music from the Cloud will be looking for a very different service to someone who just wants to access a few spreadsheets at a moment’s notice. Thankfully, you can choose from a range of file sync tools and one will meet your needs. Here are a few examples that cater to some common usage cases and all are cross-platform and free.... Read the full article: 6 Cross-Platform & Free File Sync Tools  |
| Zuckerberg Dislikes Facebook Dislikes, Ed Sheeran Praises Spotify [Tech News Digest] Posted: 12 Dec 2014 03:30 AM PST  Also, Lenovo recalls cables, the Xbox One beats the PS4, Spotify listens to your friends, and Star Wars fan reacting to the new trailer get parodied. Facebook Dislikes Dislikes Like everyone else on the social network, you have probably wondered why Facebook has a Like button but no Dislike button. It’s a mystery. Surely a Dislike button is the Yang to the Yin of the Like button, and therefore absolutely essential if we’re to maintain balance within the force. Not so, at least according to Mark Zuckerberg, who, rather ironically, dislikes the very idea of a Dislike button. Zuckerberg was... Read the full article: Zuckerberg Dislikes Facebook Dislikes, Ed Sheeran Praises Spotify [Tech News Digest]  |
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