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Rise Of the SWF: Flash Animations That Will Make You Feel Old [Stuff to Watch]
Do you remember when a company called Macromedia introduced their rich web plugin, Flash? Back then, Flash was an exciting new prospect. It introduced the ability to animate, using frame-by-frame and using motion-tweening, add sound, buttons and interactions all from a relatively approachable interface. The early Internet, or "Web 1.0" if I dare use that term, exploded with nonsensical, bizarre and downright impressive animations.
Did You Know Twitter Deletes Your Old Tweets? Here's How to Back Them Up
The importance of backup can never be overstated. No matter what it is, if it’s important to you, back it up. You never know when something might fail, and you’ll find yourself wishing you’ve taken the time to back up your stuff. Your Twitter presence is no different. In the several years Twitter’s been around, many of us have collected thousands of tweets, followers, DMs and lists. While not all of these can be backed up, why not save what you can?
7 Great Ways to Find Free Images Online
For more day to day mundane uses, we need free images for decorate a blog post, seek inspiration, set a wallpaper, make a collage, or just finish the school homework. This post thus takes a ‘back-to-basics’ approach and attempts to go over the same image searching ground as before, but in a more comprehensive manner. I hope to again show that searching for the right free image is easy enough, provided you know where to look.
Edit System Menu Items With Alacarte [Linux]
When you think about it, our Linux desktop environments are pretty smart. Whereas Windows just creates a new folder for a newly installed program in the Start Menu, the Linux desktop environment automatically organize all installed applications into different categories. While this system can work very well, there are some packages that place shortcuts into categories which you deem to be incorrect. You may need to go into the menus and add/edit/remove items, but it can all be achieved using an application called Alacarte.
Samsung ES6500 40-inch 3D 1080p Smart TV Review and Giveaway
Over the past decade or so, there's been a mad rush to purchase the biggest, flattest, and prettiest television you can get in order to show it off to all your friends and neighbors. And for a while, size was the most important factor. That's not true anymore. Nowadays, we have to worry about something called a Smart TV. And so we're reviewing Samsung's ES6500 40-inch 3DSmart TV, a brand new product that launched in March of 2012. We're giving it away to an extremely lucky MakeUseOf reader. Yes, that's right -- we're giving away a high-definition smart television valued at $900! Keep reading to find out more.
What You Need To Know About Syncing Spotify With An iPod
For iPod owners, iTunes has long been the most obvious choice of music management and synchronisation software. Despite its bulkiness on Windows computers, iTunes is a highly capable piece of software, and suffices for a large majority of people. With the advent of cloud music, it might be time to reconsider. It feels strange — awkward, almost — to use iTunes solely for syncing with an iPod.