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Sanity Gives You Complete Control Over Your Phone Calls [Android]
Imagine having complete control over your phone calls - you decide whose calls actually ring, who gets announced to you first, which calls to record and whether to automatically answer the call. Well, this isn't a fantasy if you have a Droid. All you need to do is install Sanity. Sanity is a clever little Android application which can control just about anything you can think of to do.
Use Wolfram Alpha To Dig Up Cool Statistics About Your Facebook Account [Weekly Facebook Tips]
If you've heard of Wolfram Alpha before, you'll know that it's a wealth of knowledge that's occasionally compared to the likes of the Star Trek computer. There are all sorts of weird and wonderful uses for Wolfram Alpha, including powerful search terms, other searching tips, widgets, a variety of cool uses and other truly powerful uses. However, even if you know all about these Wolfram Alpha tools, you may still not yet know about their Facebook analytics tool.
Automatically Sync SD Card Directories To DropBox With DropSpace [Android]
If you're anything like me, the new year is a time for refreshing and changing things. Something I like to do for my phone is to check if there's now a better way of doing things, so I don't get stuck using old clunky tools when something better has cropped up. As a result, I've just removed a huge amount of apps and replaced them with things that work much better. One big aspect of this overhaul is the backup system, which can be quite streamlined thanks to some great apps.
Read Text Messages Automatically With SMS Popup [Android]
There are a number of great reasons why you might want to read the contents of an SMS automatically. If you use the regular message notifications, all you see when a text message arrives, is an icon in the message bar, whereas tools like SMS Popup can let you view the contents of the message straight away, without even touching your phone. Useful, right? Quite.
8 Great Chrome Extensions For Facebook You Could Get To Like [Weekly Facebook Tips]
Today's extensions will cover notification pop-ups, photo zoom tools, hiding updates you don't want to see, easy ways to clip and post to Facebook, and a neat way to clean up your Facebook so you only see elements you care about. Once you're done setting up these extensions, Facebook will be forever changed for you.
IFTTT Automation For Your Facebook Page [Weekly Facebook Tips]
Facebook Page administrators realise that it takes time and effort to create a vibrant, useful page for fans to enjoy. While some administrators are paid for their efforts, many more are merely volunteering their time for a cause they believe in - their band, a local club or a cause. For these page admins especially, it's incredibly useful to be able to automate as many of their tasks as possible. Now, when it comes to automating social media tasks, the best place to turn is IFTTT.
5.5 Great Firefox Extensions to Make Facebook Awesome [Weekly Facebook Tips]
Facebook users are continually finding themselves frustrated by settings that cannot be changed within Facebook, or simply finding that Facebook is too integrated (or not integrated enough) into the rest of their lives. The good news is that some of this can be controlled with a few decent browser extensions for Firefox. If you love tweaking your browser so that your favourite websites behave just so, then you'll love this post.
Vox Is The Sleek, Light-Weight Music Player You've Been Waiting For [Mac]
Are you frustrated at how huge and bloated most music-playing software is? The iTunes players of the world are really quite hefty, which is quite unnecessary if all you want to do is play a few tunes. Well, if you're looking for something small, yet sophisticated for your Mac, you should definitely check out Vox. It's lightweight, good-looking and has just the right amount of features for a regular music-lover to enjoy. Plus, it's free.
Use gTasks To Synchronize Your Tasks With Google [Android]
These days, there are a million and one great ways to manage a to-do list online and via mobile apps. That said, there's often still a few people who are not yet using one of the better ones, so it's worth letting you all know which they are just in case! If you're a big user of Google services like Gmail and Google docs, then you might have tried using Google Tasks.
8 Great Evernote Widgets & Add-ons [Android]
Have you been collecting awesome notes and information in Evernote for a while, but not really experimented with the many Android apps and widgets you can use yet? Well, if this sounds like you then you'll love today's line-up of apps. We know there's a good number of Evernote fans and Android fans lurking on MakeUseOf, so we thought we'd make a list of apps and widgets.
A Few Things You Might Not Know About Timeline [Weekly Facebook Tips]
Facebook is becoming such a huge, complicated website that it's really easy for knowledge about certain things you can do with the site to pass you by completely. Only recently, I realised that photos on your timeline can be repositioned. Until then, I'd thought you were just stuck with the automatic positioning. It seems that these tools can be sitting right under your nose and yet you won't necessarily notice it.
Amazing Ways To Experience Railway Journeys Online
There are so many great reasons why you might want to take in a railway journey from the comfort of your own home. Whatever the reason for wanting to view railway journeys online, the trick is being able to find the best ones. So, in order to make your life a little easier, we've compiled this list of great virtual railway journeys you can take right now. Happy travels!
How To Use Facebook Places Location Tagging Safely [Weekly Facebook Tips]
If you're on Facebook a bit, you've probably noticed people adding a location to their posts and photos, tagging their friends in locations and generally making it clear that they're out and about having a great time. Maybe you have had a go at this yourself or perhaps you've never managed to get around to it. What is clear about Facebook location tagging though, is that it's easy and it's good fun. Here's how you can get started with Facebook Places.
7 Reasons To Get A Raspberry Pi
I'm sure you've heard of the Raspberry Pi by now. If not, you're in for a treat. It's a tiny little computer that's dirt cheap and incredibly customisable. Here at MakeUseOf, along with most geeky places online, we've fallen in love with the Raspberry Pi. Many of us have one or more and have come up with some fantastic ways to use them for play or for work.
Give Clothes Twice The Life: Buy Or Sell Fashion Items At Twice
Are you feeling the pinch of the recession, yet not willing to sacrifice your style too much? Well, there's a brand new site waiting to inspire you with the best quality second-hand clothes around. Twice is the hottest new thing in clothing sales and well worth checking out! The prices will astound you, but the quality will be no less than top-notch. And if you're looking to sell your clothes, Twice is also the place to go.
StumbleUpon For Firefox - It's Still Awesome
Where do you get your fix of fun, interesting sites to look at? These days, it's probably Reddit, Twitter or Facebook. But do you remember the time when the best site to find new interesting content was StumbleUpon? You might be pleased to know that it never really went away. People have continued to Stumble cool content all this time, so with a few tweaks it's now actually better than ever.
How To Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account [Weekly Facebook Tips]
For whatever reason you may have, one day you might find yourself wanting to delete a Facebook account. Perhaps you had a few accounts and want to delete the extra ones. Maybe you want to start fresh and add as friends only the people who mean a lot to you these days. Or maybe your slightly-changed surname wasn't enough to stop the people who you're hiding from from finding you. Despite your reasoning for wanting to do so, deleting a Facebook account can actually be a little tricky.
Everything You Need To Know About YouTube RSS Feeds
If you're a lover of RSS feeds, you'll know that they can be extremely versatile. Being able to import new content from your favourite websites into your RSS reader is a tool so handy it's not easily forgotten. Likewise, being able to grab the latest audio and video podcasts from your favourite content creators is extremely useful. YouTube is also a site filled with video content which can be extracted via RSS.
How To Remove Spam Apps & Ensure App Privacy [Weekly Facebook Tips]
Apps on Facebook can be great, but they can also be a right pain in the neck. On one hand, there's useful apps like Spotify or Last.fm which make it easy to share your music taste with your friends. Mostly these are welcomed and vaguely interesting for the friends to view. On the other hand, there's annoying games and spammy viral apps that post things on your timeline. There are several ways to clean up the apps you're using.
How To Pimp Your GPS With Free Sat Nav Voices
I'm sure many of you have a Sat Nav (Satellite Navigation) tool, such as a TomTom or Garmin device. You probably realise that you can change the voices, but maybe you haven't been bothered to do so yet because you thought it would be too much effort. Well, it's not difficult and won't take you long at all. Changing your Sat Nav voice is easy and can be done for free.