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Now that the Oculus Rift is in the hands of developers and enthusiasts (read my extensive review of the Oculus Rift), work on the consumer version is well underway. New games are being developed, existing games are being ported, and every day more people get to experience just how incredible the world of immersive VR can be when done right. So we have the visual element of virtual reality gaming basically sorted, but what about controllers?
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Desktop computer, media center, an integral part of a budget space program - is there no end to the versatility of the Raspberry Pi? Seemingly not – because it also does games.
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If you use Evernote on your iPad or iPhone, you may have found it difficult to get copies of articles, snippets of text, or photos from you device into your Evernote account without having to copy content from one application and paste it into another. Thanks to a handful of third-party developers, there are several apps which enable you to export content directly to your Evernote account without having to open the app. Read on to find out how to better make use of Evernote on iOS.
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Find out when journalists are copying paragraphs from press releases, or using Wikipedia in place of research. Churnalism is a website – and a browser extension – that allows you to find out when reporters were lazy about a particular story. Churnalism compares the news you're reading with a database of press releases.
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TLDR is now an accepted part of Internet slang. Too Long Didn't Read is symptomatic of our attention spans…or rather lack of it. But there's a subtle shift that's happening beneath the layers of the web. Old-style journalism and storytelling is making a comeback. The revival of long-form reading could be because of the success of tablets like the iPad and Kindle among others which has made reading on the couch and between flights fashionable again.
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3D printing is still on the cusp of mainstream. Amazon's bold initiative to open a 3D printer and supplies section on its portal is just the push the fledgling industry needs. So, if you are shopping around for 3D printers and accessories, pay the online store a visit. Presently, Amazon is stocking products like printers, printer filaments, accessories, books, and CAD software.
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We have several pages dedicated to showcasing the absolute best apps and games. Among them are the Best iPhone Games page, Best Android Games page, and so on. From your comments, it's safe to say that these pages are pretty useful. However, one listing we are sorely lacking is the Best Windows Games page. And for that, we turn to you. Let us know your favourite games and win a free MakeUseOf t-shirt.
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Yelp has updated its Nearby feature to include recommendations based on your past check-ins, reviews, and your Yelp friends. It even takes such things as time of day and weather into account, trying to come up with the most suitable best places in your immediate surroundings.
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Are you big fans of Tumblr? Here at MakeUseOf, we certainly are. The blogging platform brings together the idea of blogging together with social networking and has become home to some of the most creative, entertaining, humorous and thoughtful posts we’ve ever come across. With an easy-to-use backend that lends itself to both creating new content and sharing content that you like, it is home to some of the most viral content on the Web.
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Smartphones are rapidly condemning a multitude of single-purpose devices to a slow descent into pointlessness. Over 50 percent of U.S. consumers now own a smartphone, and their popularity is booming in other parts of the world as well. This heady combination means it's very likely that some products will be withdrawn from the market due to a lack of demand.
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Hot on the heels of Yahoo acquiring Tumblr, the blogging service has made a major change to its custom domain settings, and should blog owners choose not to take action, it could cause their blog to go offline. Of course, blog owners who are just using Tumblr’s standard URLs will not have a problem from this [...]
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You probably already know about eBay, but believe it or not, the core site has a secondary site: the eBay Classifieds. The site is quite a bit like Craigslist in functionality and purpose, but it has a much cleaner, fresher design. However, in order for your item to sell, you need to know how to sell it. Fortunately, MakeUseOf has pulled its resources together to develop a fantastic article about writing great ads for the eBay Classifieds.
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Search engines only help if you know what it is you're looking for. But what if you don't? Social networking sites are a good source of interesting content. And then there are social media sites, which are curated either by editors or a community of voters. What follows are six social media sites full of interesting stories and intriguing articles.
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As a tech blogger I should have some basic graphic skills, but the truth is I don't. One of the most common tasks I have to do is removing image backgrounds. If you're selling stuff online, creating presentations, or even making collages, you might also want to use the object in the photo without its background. To me, removing a complex background from a photo always seemed like an impossible task. But is it really? To find out I dived into the task head-on.
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