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Don't Pay Up - How To Beat Ransomware!
Just imagine if someone showed up on your doorstep and said, "Hey, there's mice in your house that you didn't know about. Give us $100 and we'll get rid of them." This is the Ransomware Scam in its original form. There actually used to be people that would go around, let pests into your house and then knock on your door and point them out to you. "Good thing we saw them while driving by!" This scam must be making someone some good money because it's still going on.
Got Drums? Funkbox Emulates 14 Vintage Drum Machines [iOS]
Yesterday I reviewed AudioBus, a system for iOS that allows users to connect compatible music apps together. AudioBus offers a taste of the future when it comes to tactile music creation, but in order to use it you'll need some compatible apps - apps like Funkbox. Funkbox provides faithful emulation of a series of classic drum machines, many of which have been used countless times.
Make Animated GIFs & Cinemagraphs [Android]
The GIF image format is one of the staples of the Internet, allowing for animations to be shared with other people who aren’t standing in the same room as you. It’s one of the oldest image formats to have become mainstream, but it’s still used regularly even today and creative people are pioneering new uses for GIFs, such as the cinemagraph. A cinemagraph is a GIF that is mostly a still image with one small section being animated.
Cut The Crap, Facebook: Give Me What I Want to Read
Every since its launch, we've seen Facebook change. And change. Again, and again, and again. While many changes are actually for the best, there's one thing these updates never fails to add to our news feed: more clutter. There's also something our ever-growing list of friends never fails to bring to our news feed: even more clutter. Are you ready to change that?
Simeranya - A Complete Solution To Downloading Music & Video Off The Web [Windows]
There are a handful of ways to do it, but we're always looking for a more efficient and easier way to download content that we stream from websites online. You and every one of your friends probably already know a viable method of saving a local copy of your favorite music from YouTube. It's one of those tips that everyone on the internet passes around. It's almost to the equivalent of knowing how to dazzle up your old MySpace profile.
What I MakeUseOf - Jonathan Smiley, ZURB Partner & Design Lead
Tools are awesome – if you read MakeUseOf, you probably agree. But the latest isn’t always the greatest. Rather, the greatest is whatever helps you get the job done, saves time, and just plain works. One good way to find those excellent tools is to see what an actual person uses in their daily life to get stuff done. Read on to see what Jonathan Smiley, a partner and a design lead at ZURB uses to get things done.