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Pong was the first ever videogame that reached the mass market. For the first time in history, the concept of a "video game" was brought into the family home, thanks to the Atari 2600 - so it's only right that we pay a little homage to this historical gem. Now, you can re-live that (admittedly somewhat boring gameplay) using an Arduino and some common components.
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Most of the time, when geeky designers and minimalism come together, we can almost certainly expect brilliant things. Graphic designer Adam Thompson from Carbondale, IL, published three series of eye-catching minimalist movie posters.
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My personal desktop setup has changed considerably in the past few months since purchasing the Acer Iconia W7 series tablet, which I use as my primary PC. Gone is the tower of my old self build AMD-powered game station, replaced by far more compact dimensions, a new monitor and an external HDD. This is the main hub of my professional life: a Windows 8 tablet. Yes, you read that right. Let me demonstrate how you can be productive with Windows 8. It is possible, and with the right apps you can get great results.
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When Apple released the MacBook Pro with Retina display this time last year, they raised the bar for laptop display technology, as they previously did for the smartphone and tablet industries. The only issue they created was a software one: suddenly apps designed for non-Retina screens looked bad. If you've got a Retina-equipped MacBook, or are considering one, you should know why old software looks bad and what little you can do to help the situation.
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Macs leave all sorts of files on your drives that could potentially annoy Windows and Linux users. Some of these files – like the contents of the Trash – can take up a lot of space. Others – like DS_Store and Spotlight's various markers – are just plain annoying. Whether it's deleted files or the random crap like "DS_Store" OS X loves to leave behind, CleanMyDrive automates the removal of junk. Put simply: it's a free, automated way to remove crap files.
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Windows 8 is all about shortcuts. People with touch-enabled PCs use touch gestures, users without touch devices must learn the mouse shortcuts, power users use keyboard shortcuts on the desktop and novel command-line shortcuts, and you can even use special swipe gestures on your laptop's touchpad. Here we collected all the shortcuts you need to master Windows 8. If you've upgraded to Windows 8 or bought a new PC that came with Windows 8, you'll find that a lot has changed.
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RSS users rejoice: Feedly is go for Project Normandy. The fastest growing alternative to Google Reader is making it official, migrating its users from the soon-dead Google backend to its own cloud. The transition makes Feedly, which was a Google Reader front-end, into a full blown alternative to Google's soon-dead RSS reading service.
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Your living room is chaos - admit it. You're forgiven for wondering which remote controls which device. What with the TV, amplifier, TiVO, BluRay player, maybe even the lighting - switching activities becomes a long and delicately manoeuvred dance called the "remote shuffle". No longer. The Logitech Harmony Ultimate universal remote is here to bring, well - harmony - to your living room. The Logitech Harmony Ultimate can control up to 15 devices, which should be more than enough for even the most avid AV enthusiast's living room. We'll be giving this review unit away, so read on and join the contest.
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Anyone into gaming in a big way will be aware of what the next-generation of consoles has in store for us. OK, perhaps not PC gamers, who see themselves as superior and don't need to worry about such piffling matters as generations of hardware, but the rest of us. Nintendo launched the Wii U in 2012, and now, thanks to E3 2013, we know everything we need to know about the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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There's certainly no shortage of iPhone photography apps - if anything, there might be a tad too many to choose from. If there's one app you definitely need to add to your iPhoneography arsenal, it's VSCO Cam. The free app is the second iteration to hit the app store courtesy of Visual Supply Company and this time it's free so you can try out the app and get a feel for it, before deciding if you want to shell over more money for additional filters.
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Following its recent major update, Soluto has announced on Tuesday that its services are no longer limited to regular computers. From now on, Soluto users will be able to remotely support and manage their clients', colleagues', friends' and family's iOS devices, including iPhones and iPads.
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When Facebook iOS integration came onto the scene, Apple and Facebook joined forces in an effort to enhance your life - not to burden it. Cook and Zuckerberg didn't get together in some secret layer on a private island in the Pacific to concoct some evil plan that would ruin millions of peoples' lives by adding Facebook to the iPhone. I'm not one to view the world through rose-colored glasses, but let me at least show you some of the benefits and their nuisances of having Facebook on your iPhone.
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We here at MakeUseOf specialize in directing our readers to websites they can make use of, hence the name. But that means we’re all missing out on a vast number of peculiarly pointless websites that offer nothing other than strange and simple diversions that will last no longer than 5 minutes. If that.
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Whether you're limited to Modern UI or just contemplating its general usefulness, you need really good apps to help you take advantage of it. The Windows 8 Store has been growing by leaps and bounds, and it's now possible to find a great selection of Modern apps. From news apps to email apps, there's almost nothing that isn't available for the Modern UI. But how do these apps compare to their desktop predecessors? Are they really worth the trouble? Turns out they are.
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