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Are Chat Rooms Dead? 3 Web Apps for Chat Room Renaissance
If you’re still interested in the wonderful world of chat rooms (or perhaps you just have a hankering to return to the days of IRC), then you might like these web apps that bring chat back to your desktop. These apps are targeted primarily at those of you who set up websites, but they may be interesting to those of you who don’t, as well.
How Should You Deal With Twitter Spammers?
Twitter spammers are annoying entities that are an unfortunate part of the service, and it doesn’t look like that they will be going away anytime soon. Until Twitter finds a way to automatically get rid of them, it will take some participation from its user base to keep the site clean and free from fake accounts, phishing scams, and nasty viruses.
5 Ways To Get Customer Service To Notice You On Social Networks
Your favorite company has dropped the ball, and that $80 subscription you paid for didn’t exactly match its description. Worst of all, its website’s “Contact Us” link is a complete and total lie. All it leads to is a page full of canned answers that can be chosen from a list. Yeah. We’ve all been there. Sometimes, you have to do things another way.
How To Say Sorry - 8 Online Gift Services To Keep You Out of the Dog House
Contrary to popular belief, I am not a perfect man. I've screwed up. I've caused long-term plans to fail. I've been in the dog house once or twice. In such situations, I have found that a small gift is a perfect solution to a potentially big problem. In the past, I have used coffee, beef jerky, and guava juice to make amends, but as of late, I have discovered that the online world offers equally sentimental gift selections to choose from. Brace yourself people.
Top 6 Visual Search Engines for Finding the Image You Want
One of the biggest tasks we have at MakeUseOf is finding images for our articles. You see, we don't have a separate staff of five hundred photojournalists who travel all over the world for us and take photographs to complement our articles. There isn't a VR studio at the MakeUseOf online office where photogs can set up lengthy holo-sessions with professional models. No, dear readers. We have to find these images for ourselves.
Hulu Plus vs. iTunes vs. Netflix vs. Amazon Instant Video: Which Is Best?
Hulu. iTunes. Netflix. Amazon Instant Video. The lifeblood of online cinema and television. The new wave of home media. The providers of endless entertainment in which pants are not necessarily required. They are the contenders of all that is streaming video. But alas, which service is the best? Which service can raise its virtual fist high in the air and proudly exclaim, "I am the one!" to be heard across all the land?
The 5 Best Free Reddit Apps for iOS
Reddit is one of the most interesting websites on the Internet, and with such a mixed bag of users, it offers a massive variety of content. However, because each user is quite unique, their Reddit viewing preferences may all be a little different. While the browser-based version hasn't changed in years, iOS offers quite a few choices for viewing the website's content. Personal preference might be the decider here, but remember that all of these apps are of the highest quality.
4 Facebook Alternatives For Couples & Families
I loathe Facebook. Actually, I loathe what Facebook has become. No longer is it a useful tool for connecting with others. Instead, it's polluted with obnoxious macro images and tacky quotes followed by comments that typically say "so true". Admittedly, I keep certain individuals on my Facebook friend list for the same exact reason that I stop and say hello to acquaintances at the grocery store - to be polite.
Can You Electronically Sign Documents & Should You?
Perhaps you've heard your tech-savvy friends throw around both the terms electronic signature and digital signature. Maybe you've even heard them used interchangeably. However, you should know that they are not the same. In fact, they couldn't be more different. Such a signature can be added using a digital image, a tablet-like device, or a specialized app like HelloSign or Signnow.
Who Is Cyberstalking You?
In this generation of technology, "stalking" is a bit of a complicated term. It's so complicated that we had to add onto it, coming up with an entirely new one: cyberstalking. We've talked a bit about how people can cyberstalk you, and we've even covered a few of the methods to use professional social networking to identify who is Googling you. However, do you really know who's cyberstalking you?
8 Tips for Using Your Smartphone at a Music Festival
I have a friend who goes to multiple music festivals every summer, and he actually opts to leave his phone at home. He believes that it's a different world once you're inside the gates - that you should leave everything about "real life" on the outside. I commend him for that. Sometimes it's just nice to escape. However, it's obvious that there are quite a few benefits to bringing your mobile device into the festival.
How Facebook Is Turning You Into Someone Your Friends Ignore
Every company has its secret sauce, and Facebook is no different. The social network utilizes a special sharing algorithm called "EdgeRank" which decides what your friends see whenever you interact with the pages of companies and brands. How does the algorithm work? The magic is a bit vague, but you've probably seen the evidence of its existence.
Save Your Friends: How To Use Social Media To Raise Awareness Of Scams & Frauds
Scams. Frauds. Social media. All three of these tend to go together, but only one stands well in a positive manner on its own. It's just too bad that the other two affect it so often. It's a fact that there are bad people in the world, and they thrive on selfish acts which help them but hurt others. It could be stopped if more people were aware of them, but in this fast-paced society influenced by social media, people ignorantly cry wolf time and time again.
Viber: Call & Text Other Users For Free [iPhone]
Free calling and texting for your iPhone. Yep. It's real. With Viber, that's exactly what you get since it works through whatever WiFi connection you happen to be using. This gives you one more reason to mooch off the neighbors! Despite a few reasonable hoops to jump through, the app is quite functional. It says it offers free calling and free texting, and it does. Nothing can beat that. As far as I can tell, Viber is a wonderful app with a variety of practical uses.
Whatever Happened To…? Following Up On Major Websites From The Dotcom Boom
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.