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Cool Websites & Apps July 31st 2013 - Coverbud Facebook Photos & Driving Test Exam Papers

Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including customizing your Facebook timeline with a high resolution cover picture, reviewing past driving exam papers to give you the edge in your own test, a place to try out programming languages with minimal setup and much more. Read on below!

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4 Ways Online Reviews Are Being Manipulated By Manufacturers

Manufacturers and companies actually manipulate reviews in a variety of ways right here on the Internet. It's all about good press, of course. However, some ways are sketchier than others as you'll soon be able to tell. Some methods companies use are rather direct while others are a little more hands-off than others. Either way, you should know that it's very important to investigate reviews while you are simultaneously investigating potential purchases.

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Get Two Android Apps That Display Crucial Phone Information for Free

Sometimes I need to check information on my phone that the notifications bar doesn't show – such as GPS signal strength and CPU temperature. For example, when traveling, knowing whether your mobile is on the verge of an overheated shutdown or if your GPS signal might soon conk out, helps a lot. I spent a lot of time puttering around with different ways of visualizing this data and discovered two apps that stand out: Power Line and Cool Tool.

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4 Examples Of Video Games With Romance Done The Right Way

In most forms of entertainment, romance is a key part of the story. Even horror movies tend to have some sort of hidden or not so hidden romance tucked away in the story. Video games tend to escape this in many cases, as the storytelling in video games has not evolved as well as some of the other mediums. After all, it's a pretty new way for people to tell stories, so it has not has much time to mature. That being said, there are some examples of video games with romance.

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Free App Swipes Simplifies Your Daily Schedule With Gestures & Tags

I don't know about you, but when it comes to remembering a thousand and one personal notes and work tasks, I'm a mess without some sort of organisational aid. Swipes is another personal organiser that promises to extend a helping hand when it comes to managing your ridiculous schedule. Utilising a series of gestures and a simple, time-saving approach; Swipes offers up an enticing alternative to Apple's in-built Reminders app in more ways than one.

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Automate Your Computer Maintenance With Ashampoo WinOptimizer 10 [Giveaway]

Technology has come a long way over the past few decades with the advent of increasingly complex bits of software, hardware, and networking. Despite this progress, technology still hasn't managed to solve one of the most fundamental forces in life: entropy. No matter how hard you try to fight it, time breaks down all things and the result is clutter - computers are no exception. The best we can do in light of entropy is to repair the chaos ourselves and that's where WinOptimizer 10 steps in.

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How to Record Only Your Important Phone Calls on Android

Phone call recordings can come in handy in a number of ways - for example, saving a phone call interview so you can go back and transcribe it at a later time. Phone call recordings can also be used in legal settlements as evidence. You never know when the recording of a phone call will come in handy, so getting into the habit of recording them can prove useful down the line. Keep reading to learn how to record specific phone calls on your Android device.

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Google Algorithm Fail: 3 Examples Of Really Bad Google Results

At this point, there have been over 25 Panda updates, with the latest reportedly occurring on July 18th. Some great websites we all know and love have suffered traffic loss, but at the same time, so have numerous content mills we've all grown to dislike. Are Google search results as high quality as they should be after so many algo tweaks? In this article, I'm going to take a close look at the results of three common search queries and see just how quality the results really are.

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5 Password Management Tools Compared: Find the One That's Perfect for You

Choosing some sort of password management strategy to deal with the huge amount of passwords we need is crucial. If you're like most people, you probably store your passwords in your brain. To remember them all, you end up choosing weak, easy-to-remember passwords and reusing them for multiple accounts. But there are better ways -- a good password management tool will allow you to use secure passwords without devoting lots of time to memorization. Read on to learn about a variety of powerful solutions to manage strong passwords.

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5 Things Beyond Graphics To Get Excited Over With The PS4 & Xbox One

A new generation of consoles obviously brings better visuals with it, but graphics aren't everything. While previous console generations relied rather heavily on improvements to how the games looked, this one is set to value a wide variety of other features above pure aesthetic appeal.

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5 Options to Consider For Your Next Media Center

I've spent the last 5 years of my life searching for it and countless thousands of dollars in the process. I'm talking of course about the holy grail - the ultimate media center. Truth be told, I still haven't found it. There is no one solution that suits all my needs, that can do everything and do it with panaché - but some of these 5 hardware options certainly come close.

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9 Retro Typographic Posters To Remind You of The Good Old Days

When he was young, designer and illustrator Jay Roeder always found himself with a pencil or pen in his hand drawing his favourite Nintendo characters. Out of Jay's hundreds of drawings, I found several that most geeks will enjoy. Jay Roeder's drawings will soon be on sale on his website.

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How to Enjoy Flash Video on Windows Phone

During my recent holiday I had some spare time and tried to find something interesting to watch on my Windows Phone. Now, I could have used the YouTube or BBC iPlayer or many other apps, but instead I decided to have a browser-only mobile experience. Unfortunately, Windows Phone doesn’t support Adobe Flash. Although the Internet Explorer mobile app has HTML5 support, if you want to enjoy media streamed using Flash you’re stuck. The alternative is to use HTML5 or apps from the Windows Phone Store.

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