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4 Websites to Help You When You Want to Plan a Film or Video
Do you like to dabble in creative filmmaking? Perhaps you are just wanting to test the waters of making YouTube videos. Either way, I’m sure you know one of the toughest parts of making a video is figuring out a decent plot or topic. In an effort to jumpstart many film hobbyists, there are often tools you can find online to get you going. All that said, I’ve found a few websites that will help you on your path to filmmaking.
Play James Bond Text Adventure To See If You Could Work For MI6
If you're of a certain age you'll be aware of text adventures. These simple games were both fun and frustrating in equal measure, requiring the player to use stock commands to guide the character through the situations encountered, and telling a story in the process. The fun was derived from these games being a kind of interactive fiction, while the frustration emerged when simple commands were misunderstood or ignored.
Catch Notes: A Full-Featured App for Portable Note-Taking [Android]
Portable notes have saved my life on more than one occasion. Not in the literal sense - thank God! - but in this day and age, when information is being thrown around at such high speeds, it’s hard to keep track of everything without forgetting bits here and there. Once I decided to start taking notes, it all became easier. But one question still burns: where should I jot my notes?
Makeover Time! Turn Your Android Into an iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone & Others
Sometimes I feel as though the world is divided. Some people like iOS, some people like Android. Some prefer Windows Phone, and some use Blackberry. For some reason, the mobile OS we choose sort of became what defines us. If you think about it, I’m sure you have some sort of opinion of iOS users that’s pretty different than what you think of Android users. And if you have a favorite OS, you simply can’t understand why anyone would choose otherwise.
3 First-Person Shooters That Actually Have Great Stories [MUO Gaming]
First-person shooters (or FPS) have long been a genre that is based around competition. Ever since the invention of multiplayer gaming, it only made sense to have shooters as a key genre. I once wrote an article about the best multiplayer shooters here on MakeUseOf, and while I stand by my choices, I think some shooters get lost in the shuffle. Not all first person shooters are about connecting to the Internet and shooting people with your friends.
Rid Your PC Of Outdated Bookmarks, Duplicate Files, Broken Shortcuts & Empty Folders [Windows]
Collecting is part of human nature. Over the course of a life, we collect a lot of things. For a few decades, this has been including digital data. With every backup you make, you are not only duplicating files and folders, but you are also manifesting small errors - empty folders, duplicate files, outdated bookmarks, and broken shortcuts that don't lead anywhere anymore. Whenever you restore your data from a backup or copy them to a new computer, you carry over those imperfections.
Secure & Really Simple Note Taking With Simple Notepad [Android 2.2+]
The search for productivity in the easiest (or the laziest) way possible always makes us take a second look at any note taking app in the market. From my own personal experience I can tell you that I have rarely stuck to one. Maybe Evernote and OneNote for the computer; but when it comes to free Android apps, I have always had the Zen to experiment.