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Explore Caves, Oceans & African Plains With These 4 Zooniverse Projects
Contributing towards scientific research doesn't always require you pay a monthly fee to your favourite projects. Exploring the ocean floor doesn't always require a wetsuit, and spotting exotic animals on the plains of Africa doesn't necessarily involve being on Safari. The Zooniverse project brings together a set of websites which require your time – not money – in order to succeed.
Enhance Google Services with These 5 Add-Ons
Most of us use at least one Google service each day – usually much more than just one. Search, Gmail, Reader, Calendar, Drive, Play, YouTube…. this is just a partial list of the services we use every day. And for good reason, too. Google’s services are not popular just because they have the name “Google” next to them – they’re actually very good, and constantly provide their competitors with inspiration and ideas.
How To Filter & Download Multiple Files From A Webpage [Chrome]
After years of being a loyal Firefox user, I've finally made the switch to the same side of the river as many of my MakeUseOf colleagues and jumped to Google Chrome. Albeit late by most of your standards, I'm catching on quickly. The single thing that was keeping me with Firefox was their extensive library of add-ons. Being able to mass download within the browser is a big deal to me because I'm a bit of a hoarder.
Are You Sure It's Bricked? How You Can Fix Your Broken Smartphone
Back in the day, a bricked device would be very tough to recover, but over the years some resilience has been built into smartphones and tablets. These days a few clever button presses, useful additional software, a USB cable and a few prayers (the prayers are optional, of course) will sort out many bricking issues. But as it turns out, you don’t even need to go as far as that!
Broke Your CD? Visit Adobe’s FTP Site Full Of Their Software
Have a license for an old Adobe product, but can't find your disk? Not an issue. So long as you've got your serial number you've got a legal way to download and run the software you paid for, thanks to a not-so-secret FTP server containing every version of pretty much every program Adobe's ever offered.
5 Unusual Music Apps for Android
During the holidays last year, my kids all wanted music players. I actually dislike the whole concept of a music player like an MP3 or an iPod; after all isn't that the whole point of having a smartphone? If smartphones now come loaded with all sorts of amazing gadgetry and awesome features, like the ability to trace your location or locate cool restaurants around you, then why on Earth wouldn't it be your first choice to listen to music?
The History Of Microsoft Technology [INFOGRAPHIC]
We all like to bash Microsoft and Windows, but the truth is that they have been around for so long and given us so much software and technology, that we couldn't possibly imagine a computing world without them. Their software is installed by default onto every new PC (whether we like it or not) and who do you know that doesn't know Word or Powerpoint? Or how many young people don't know what an XBox is?