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Photos are fun – the rise of successful snap-and-filter apps and services such as Instagram and its "fake Polaroid junkies" are proof of this – but sometimes it’s possible that we don’t fully realise the potential of the images we snap, particularly on digital cameras and smartphones. I stumbled across Morfo back in 2010, shortly after the release of Windows Phone 7.
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Life can be depressing at times. I don't care who you are or how good your life is, there is always the chance that something or someone can knock you off your happy pedestal and bring you down for a while. That's why we all need to laugh. Uproariously. On a daily basis. After all, laughter is the best medicine. With the possible exception of antibiotics. With this in mind we all need to seek out sources of laughter each and every day.
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It's now April, which means the one day of the year which celebrates jokers, pranksters, and trolls is over for another 12 months. I am of course referring to April Fools' Day, an invented holiday that falls on April 1 each year. Some people love it, others hate it; there is very little middle ground. In the real world most people don't bother playing tricks on people for April Fools', a fact we should all be grateful for.
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April Fools' Day is, depending on your individual point of view, either a pathetic waste of everyone's time and energy that you try to avoid as much as possible or 24 hours of fun that marks a welcome break from the doom and gloom which dominates the rest of the year. The Web was once virtually free of April Fools' Day pranks, but now it's awash with them each time the calendar clicks over to the fourth month.
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We've all done it - turned a seemingly benign situation into a faux-haunting, listening out for any small noise that might suggest we're not alone. This feeling of manufactured anxiety is where the free short horror game One Late Night differentiates from the rest of the genre. It takes an average situation and plays on your ability to create your own scares.
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It’s that time of year again! Joy and happiness everywhere. But perhaps with everything going on, you’re just not feeling yourself. Does that sound like you? Well, no matter the time of year, we all can be susceptible to having that saddening and depressed feeling at times and it’s never something that can just be quickly fixed. There are, however, some things that without a doubt help to put us in a better mood.
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I'm thankful that not everybody in the world likes the same things. It's a fortunate fact of life that each of us as individuals has different interests and hobbies, and also gravitates towards certain genres, whether it be in movies, television shows, games, or music. However, there are certain things that possess an indefinable quality that means they transcend the vagaries of personal taste. Gangnam Style by PSY is one example.
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As a child I remember staring at so-called “magic images”, cross-eyed, slowly moving the paper away from my face until I could see the hidden picture beneath. This was entertaining at the time, but these days there more impressive and easier ways to enjoy illusions and one source for such brain-teasing material is YouTube user brusspup.
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Recently, we gave away their classic three-in-a-row game Fishdom, which involves solving puzzles as you build up your own aquarium. Today, we’ve got a similar formula in the form of Gardenscapes. What’s more, we’re giving the Windows version of this hidden item puzzler away, so for your chance to win one of 25 copies worth $19.95 each, check out the full review.
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The Internet is a beautiful thing. It's the only place where you can share embarrassing stories about yourself with people that you don't know. You can even share embarrassing videos of your friends with people that you don't know. However, what makes it really great is the ability to share the satisfaction of a good old-fashioned prank.
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Sometimes it is fun to sit back and create something new. If you have artistic ability, your options for creating are vast. For those of us who do not have any ability, our options are extremely limited. I have stumbled across this fantastic iPhone app called Pixel’d which allows users to create some beautiful pictures even if their artistic abilities are lacking. We can’t all be the next Michelangelo, but with the help of technology, we can certainly try.
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They say that the most innovative ideas arise when someone takes two generally unrelated ideas and combines them into a cohesive and useful result. Is that really what innovation comes down to? Maybe, maybe not--I’m not exactly qualified to make that judgment. However, every once in a while we’ll see an idea come along that proves the statement to be true, and Seaquence is one of those ideas.
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The Parrot AR Drone 2.0 is the most expensive remote control toy money can buy; it’s a smartphone controlled quadrocopter with a 720p HD camera, and it’s ridiculously fun, but quite temperamental. What follows is a review of the Parrot AR Drone 2.0 untainted. We purchased the review unit ourselves and will be giving it away to the MakeUseOf community. Read on to find out more about this $300 toy and how to be in the running to win it!
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A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test used online to make sure content is submitted by a human being. The acronym stands for 'Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart' and is also based on the word 'capture'. CAPTCHArt is the visualization of the humorous associations arising from randomly created two word CAPTCHAs, also known as reCAPTCHAs.
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When it comes to photography and video apps for the iPhone and other iOS devices, developers keep coming up with amazing fun programs for all ages. Point in case, a popular five-star app called Video Star, which mixes karaoke and music videos for some crazy fun productions.
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