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It’s so embarrassing. Here I am, a contributor at MakeUseOf with a background in data security, and I’m about to tell you how my Skype account got hacked. Not years ago before I became aware of the various threats and the signs that an intrusion had occurred, but recently. Just last Christmas. The worst thing about this is that I’d noticed that there was something not quite right about the way the account was behaving.
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Though none of us look forward to attending meetings, there are fortunately a number of useful online and mobile applications, such as AgreeDo, that make the task of planning meetings easier. All successful meetings start with a well thought-out agenda which includes a clearly defined goal and purpose for each agenda item. A well developed agenda can help you and your team members stay focused, and perhaps reduce the amount of time you meet.
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The letter g. Squirrels eating things they usually wouldn't. Pictures of animals without necks. The law of subreddits states that if something exists, a community can and will eventually form around it on Reddit. I've outlined below just a few of the strangest subreddits I was able to find, and I think each of them proves this law in its own way.
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Buying a really good telescope remains a distant possibility. Magnification is a lesser problem; an always polluted sky is the greater one. But thanks to the handshake of the modern web with cutting edge imaging technologies, we have the next best thing – “telescopes in the browser”. Virtual or online telescopes don’t need complicated set-ups. All you need is a browser.
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Google has launched a new program called Help for hacked sites, which is designed to help website owners clean up the mess that occurs following an attack. Just because your website you own is not as big as Twitter or Tumblr does not mean it's 100% safe, so this can be useful to anyone who owns a website.
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Even though I am an iPhone user and have been since the first generation iPhone was announced by the late Steve Jobs back in 2007, I've tried to keep an open mind about viable alternatives. I'll be honest: I've been tempted to use an Android device. Several times. So when the opportunity to review the Nexus 4 presented itself, I leaped at the chance. We'll be giving this review unit away, so stick around if you want it!
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icrosoft announced this week that it's expanding its Office 365 University free trial to 3 free months, with 3 further months offered to students who share the offer on Facebook. In addition, students can get 20GB of additional SkyDrive storage. The free trial is available to enrolled full- and part-time university and college students, and faculty and staff in accredited institutions.
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Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool websites round-ups delivered to your email daily email subscribe here....
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Twitter search has its limits. For one, you can only search back so far, with Twitter making public search results available only for a limited period of time. That said, there are a few tips and tricks you can use to make sure that you find the most important search results, and you can even bend the Twitter rules, searching a little further back than the social network's own search engine allows.
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Another day, another viral video phenomenon takes the world by storm. Just as people were recovering from Gangnam Style, Harlem Shake took its place, with people posting videos of themselves performing the insanely stupid dance at a faster rate than any sane person could cope with. It's easy to see why videos are so popular online. Uploading a video to YouTube and its alternatives is very easy indeed.
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Many of you remember the Dotcom Boom that happened in the late nineties. All it took to make your stock go up was a ".com" or an "e-" attached to your company's name. Of course, all good things come to an end, and the bubble burst in the year 2000. With that said, there were several popular sites around this era that just seemed to vanish. What happened to them? We have 5 of the top websites that came into existence because of the boom.
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The best video games are often those with simple ideas at their core. Tetris is a perfect example - it's simply piling odd-shaped blocks together in order to form a solid wall, and yet it's highly addictive, even if you're only playing the unofficial online clones of Tetris. Then there is Angry Birds, which is addictive for many reasons. Even Call Of Duty is simple in the sense that you shoot the bad guys, and that sells like the proverbial hotcakes.
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It’s been a couple of years since the last time I was sending out résumés, but for all intents and purposes, it might as well be an eternity. Back when I was writing up my résumé, I had a simple MS Word file or PDF detailing everything I’ve done, can do, and want to do. [...]
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Mobile phones have been around for a long time, starting with the massive phones that were bigger than your head, to the flip phones, to the slider phones, to what we have now: smartphones. Yet even through all of that time, mobile phones still utilize ringtone technology to notify you of calls. Of course, nowadays ringtones are higher quality and, better yet, you can create your own! Creating a ringtone is actually a very easy task on Android.
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How many feed readers have you tried so far in order to tame the Niagara of feeds? I admit I have done my share. After so many years, the tried and tested Google Reader and the classy Flipboard have won the game for me. But that isn’t to say I don’t try out the next cool one I find. RSS remains the best way to consume content for me.
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