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How To Check For Service Disruptions Of Your Popular Online Accounts
Service disruptions can be due to various reasons - from local problems in your computer or the national Internet node to some glitch on the servers along the way. There are ways of course to figure out if a website is really down or it is some other error. But apart from these third-party services (I would also add Twitter to the list), there are the official status pages of online services too.
Manage & Collaborate On Email Intense Projects Inside Gmail With Streak [Chrome]
Streak is a powerful Gmail project management add-on for Chrome. It comes with templates for many different types of projects, for example customer support or event planning. In Streak, projects are called pipelines. You can add boxes to your pipelines, fill the boxes with information, e.g. incoming and outgoing email, comments, people responsible etc., and track the progress of each box.
3D Design for Daily Life: How to Plan a Home DIY Project With Sketchup
Doing a home improvement project on your own isn't always a simple matter. Sometimes it seems simple enough when you get started, but before you know it, you realize that if you had just taken proper measurements and planned out your renovation in a little more detail ahead of time, it would have saved a whole lot of headache. Since I happen to have a DIY project that I'm planning out this year, I needed a program that would help me plan out the entire project.
How To Use a Digital Camera With Linux
The days when working with digital cameras and other common consumer hardware on Linux was a chore that involved fiddling with terminal commands are over. Using a digital camera with modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu is an extremely simple process. In fact, the built-in software on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions is better than Windows for this, as it allows you to easily do basic photo-editing and upload your photos to web services.
Good Griefing: The Funniest Gaming Trolls On YouTube
We have covered trolls extensively here on MakeUseOf, with a three-part toolkit designed to help you deal with these online ne'er-do-wells the best starting place. However, trolls don't limit their presence merely to forums, comments sections, and social networks; a particular breed can be found playing video games online. This breed are known as griefers, and they get their kicks from setting out to intentionally wind other players up.
60 Years Of Barcodes - Amazing Uses For Lines & Squares [Geek History]
The humble barcode - named for its ability to encode information in a series of machine readable bars (or lines) - began its life in 1948. Nowadays all manner and style of barcodes exist, so let’s take a quick look down memory lane and see how the barcode has evolved over the years, and how they work.
Can't Stand The Slowness? The Top 10 Reasons for Poor PC Performance
Has your computer loaded this webpage yet? If it has, you’ll be halfway toward working out just why it seems to be running so slowly. There are many reasons for desktop and laptops to chug along at their own, slow pace, defying the system specs and performing more like a relic from the 1990s. Where you’re browsing the web, word processing or gaming, poor performance will cause problems.
Do Less Tapping By Using Launch Center Pro [iPhone]
I use my iPhone several times a day for various purposes, so any way I can find to do less tapping and execute actions in a few less steps is important to my day-to-day workflow and productivity. Apple doesn't allow third-party developers much room for automation and shortcut actions on its iOS devices, but Application Cubby's Launch Center Pro helps you build app launch actions that can save you some tapping and frustration.
Feel Alerts Instead Of Hearing Them: Set a Custom Vibration For iPhone Alerts
From experience, not an awful lot of people seem to realise it but the iPhone has support for custom vibrations. It might not be the most groundbreaking of features, but if you’re hard of hearing or just a sucker for silent mode then custom vibrations are a nice feature to have access to. In addition to the selection of inbuilt vibration patterns to choose from, there is also the option of creating your own from scratch.
Offline Pages Pro Lets You View Websites Without Internet [iOS, Free For Limited Time]
Sometimes, you need to go places where you don't have data available on your iPhone. Whether its due to a bad cell signal or lack of a Wi-Fi connection in the area, facing a situation where there is no data is often unavoidable. For me, the worst part of this is being bored. I feel like there is nothing to do on my phone without data. Sure, I can play a game, but sometimes, that just does not cut it. Usually, I prefer to read something interesting on the Internet to kill time.