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AR Games: Is This The Future of Gaming?

The buzz behind aumented reality seems to have died down somewhat but with Google's Project Glass looming in the distance, the technology is bound to see a resurgence in popularity. How this will relate to gaming remains to be seen, but there are already a large variety of AR games to choose from regardless of your mobile OS. I've spent some serious time over the past week putting some of the most popular implementations through their paces on my iPhone in the hope to find out if AR really is the future or not.

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What Is HTML5, And How Does It Change The Way I Browse? [MakeUseOf Explains]

Over the past few years, you may have heard the term HTML5 every once in a while. Whether you know anything about web development or not, the concept can be somewhat nebulous and confusing. Obviously, it’s the next step in the line of HTML, but what exactly does it do? Why is there so much excitement around it? And why does it matter for you?

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5 People Who Might Google You & What They Might Find

It was only 15 years ago that the best you could do to find a person online was look for him on ICQ and hope you find his name. If you managed to do that, you were actually nowhere nearer to knowing anything about this person, except for the fact he owns an ICQ account. If you were very brave, you might have requested to add that person to your contacts, just to see what happens.

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Use This Gmail Trick To Receive POP Emails On IMAP-Only Devices

Why isn't POP extinct yet? Good question! Unfortunately, some mail providers (most notably ISPs) still aren't supporting IMAP. You're stuck with POP. This causes a huge problem, because a lot of today's application developers don't care about it, thus don't bother to support it. In this post, I'd like to show you how to work around this issue.

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Become Better At Finding Stuff With Search Engines: Boolean Search Logic Explained

It only takes Google's thousands of servers half a second to query approximately 50 billion indexed pages, it takes you significantly longer to scan only the first page of search results. On top of that, you are likely to digress and open irrelevant sites. Why don't you do your constantly distracted and easily overwhelmed brain a huge favor and learn how to properly construct a search?

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Race Against Rising Lava & Collect Diamonds: Call Of Carlos for Windows Phone

It’s unusual for me to find a platform game that I would call fun (see my review of ilomilo for more on this), even more unusual that I should return to it again and again. But that is exactly what has been happening with Call of Carlos, a free Windows Phone game that features a jumping diamond miner, his versatile pickaxe and some fast-rising molten lava! Surely it can’t be the promise of virtual riches as Carlos collects the diamonds, so what is the attraction?

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A Perfect Operating System? Getting Windows Style Features in OS X

Bring the best features of Windows to OS X. You did not read that incorrectly. Many Mac users won't admit it, but there are some pretty nice features in Windows – particularly Windows 7 and later. Maximizing apps in a way that isn't seemingly random, resizing your windows by dragging them to a particular side or easily hiding notification icons are just a few things Microsoft's brought to the desktop that Apple hasn't got around to (yet?)

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Best 4 Ways To Manage Your Facebook Calendar

In this article, I’m going to show you four ways that you can make use of your Facebook Calendar. This will include how to export Facebook Calendar events to Output, how to export them to Google Calendar, how to strip spam-events that you really don’t care about, and how to even set up notifications for upcoming events from your Facebook Calendar.

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5 Funny Or Die Web Series Worth Watching

Funny Or Die is a comedy website focused on videos, which means you can add it to the list of worthy YouTube alternatives. The name of the site comes from the very simple idea that something should either be funny or die. If a piece of content isn’t funny then let it pass away, quietly, without a funeral. And you, the viewer, gets to choose its fate.

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Minecraft Home Security Tips – Build A Perimeter That No One Could Break Through

The world of Minecraft can be harsh. One moment you’re happily cooking a few pieces of bacon in your oven, then next; BAM! Where’d that creep come from? Now you’re back at the respawn point – you’d better know how to get back home from there! Building a door is a good way to keep this from happening, but that only works if you stay underground or in a very tightly constructed fort.

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Oculus Rift Development Kit Review and Giveaway

The Oculus Rift has finally arrived, and is making heads turn (literally) all over the gaming community. No longer are we confined to to peering through a flat window into the gaming worlds we love so much; with the Rift, we can teleport right into it. While it may not be the holy grail of virtual reality yet, it's off to a bloody incredible start. Read on to find out what the Oculus Rift is exactly, and to win yourself a free Development Kit.

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At What Age Should Kids Be Exposed to Technology? [We Ask You]

Seeing kids using cutting-edge technology is certainly a relatively recent development. But I guess it isn't a surprising one. After all, the technology exists, parents own it and (over)use it, and so kids are likely to want to follow suit prematurely. Should this be something we embrace? Or should kids be encouraged to leave technology alone until they're old enough to fully embrace it?

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