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Using IFTTT To Automate All Your Facebook Photos & Video [Facebook Tip Or Hack Of The Week]

Not everyone uses Facebook to store their photos and video, but alternative photo and video storage still doesn't seem to have the best social integration just yet. Most of the alternatives are designed for more public sharing and aren't always great at alerting your friends when there's something new to look at. There's also no denying that there are plenty of bored friends our there who love to see photo and video updates from you via Facebook.

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How To Install & Use The Amazon Appstore To Get Awesome Free Apps! [Android]

How many apps do you currently use on a daily basis? The phenomenon of mobile apps has truly changed the way we operate when it comes to customization of our devices. Years ago, you would buy a phone based on the features it came with - there was no way to add programs and tools that weren’t there to begin with. Nowadays, we sometimes take apps for granted.

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The Top 7 Places To Learn The Art Of HDR Photography

Welcome to the art and craft of HDR. High Dynamic Range Imaging is an image-processing technique that allows you to represent a wider and deeper range of colors. The clarity and detail in the photos that comes from the HDR treatment is eye-popping. The good thing is that you can do your own quite easily and enchant the world. These ten websites tell you just how.

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I Abandoned PC Gaming, But Now I'm Back & Here's Why

Years ago, I was fully into gaming on my PC. I owned a PlayStation 2 and barely ever hit the power button to turn the thing on. I just did not see the value in console gaming and I was a PC gaming loyalist to the end. So I thought. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 launched with graphics that rivaled mid to upper range PCs and I figured it could not hurt to dabble in console gaming for a little while.

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Troubleshooting Guide: How To (Re-)Enable The Facebook Timeline

When Facebook introduced Timeline last year, the first reactions were mixed. Many people who tried it, quickly wanted to get rid of it again. The trouble was that once you had converted, there was no way back. Until some clever coders offered tools that would allow you to view Facebook without the Timeline. Now the tide is turning and many people come to us for advice on how to get their Timeline back.

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Power Supplies Explained: How To Pick The Perfect PSU For Your Computer

Most geeks interested in buying new hardware or building a new system think first of the processor, graphics card and perhaps the hard drive. These components have the most impact on performance, so they are given first thought. Somewhere down the list, sitting near the enclosure and optical drive, is the power supply. This is unfortunate, because power supplies are important.

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Do You Use uTorrent? Then Be The Master Of Your Preferences

uTorrent is by far the most widely used BitTorrent client, and for very good reason. uTorrent is very small, very fast, and portable. It is packed with every feature you'd need to be a total download manager and this long list of features is complemented by a very configurable list of options and preferences. In this post, I want to help everyone make sure that they've got their uTorrent client tweaked to their liking.

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Turn Gmail Into A Productivity Beast With These Chrome Extensions [Beta Invites]

Gmail is a fantastic email client. In fact, I will go as far to say that it’s the best. With that said, can it really get any better? With these Chrome extensions, it can. And not just "better", but also fantastically improved. Through my experience of using Gmail, I have stumbled upon lots of extensions for it – many of which I try and then uninstall. There have been some, however, that have really impressed me.

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5 Free Well Designed & Useful Mac Store Apps [OSX]

Every so often, I open the Mac App Store in my Dock to see which new free apps I can try, and I'm rarely disappointed. Since you can't download trial versions of apps in the Store, developers often provide free versions of their apps alongside the Pro versions that offer a few more enhanced features. The apps I selected for this article have only thing in common - their style and design.

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How To Make Text Easier To Read In Windows

Most of us spend hours reading on the computer every day, but our computers probably aren’t optimized for reading. The text on our monitors may not be sharp enough or may be too small, especially if we have high-resolution monitors. Websites usually aren’t optimized for reading long-form articles either – they’re cluttered with too many navigation elements, flashing advertisements, and often use text that’s too small.

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Prelinger Archives: Thousands Of Old Films To Watch, Remix & Use In Your Own Projects [Stuff to Watch]

In 1982, writer and filmmaker Rick Prelinger starting assembling a collection of films that would later become known as the Prelinger Archives. The films are all considered of cultural importance to the United States, depicting everyday life, social and environmental change and history through the medium of moving images. Of the many tens of thousands of films, around 65% are in the public domain.

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How To Share Screens Using Applications That Are Already On Your Mac [OSX]

Working together on a project for work or school, looking at a computer screen over someone's shoulder can grow tiring very quickly. The same goes for trying to help someone with their computer. If we're only talking about a minute or two, you can take a breath and get it over with, but for longer timespans it might pay off to look into alternatives.

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4 Websites for Socially Awkward People to Improve Their Skills

Sometimes there are individuals who simply just don't do well with social situations that most people face everyday. Do you have trouble going through drive-thru restaurants? Have you ever had problems talking to people while at a party? Then it's likely you know exactly the type of issues that I am talking about. Honestly, I completely get it. But I have gotten a lot better with it.

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10 Programming Languages You Probably Never Heard Of

There are some very strange and bizarre programming languages which have turned logic on its head and have still managed to stay true to the science of communication with a computer. You are going to hear about ten programming languages you probably never heard of.

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4 Drop-Dead Gorgeous GNOME Themes

As an avid Linux user I know quite well how customizable my desktop really is. Whether it comes to the desktop shell, or the window borders, or the menu colors, or even the icon theme, all of it can usually be changed pretty easily. I've also gone over plenty of Gnome Shell themes, such as Faience or Alternative. But when it comes to overall themes, usually known as Gnome or GTK themes, there aren't nearly as many that are covered. So, we're about to fix that.

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Livescribe Echo Smartpen Review And Giveaway

If you’ve ever been in school, you know the agony of having to take notes. Whether you were using the good old pen and paper, a laptop, or even a tablet, taking notes during class can be quite an annoyance. To the rescue comes Livescribe, with its Smartpen line. It can record everything you write via an infrared camera, record anything you hear using a built-in microphone, and then combine the two into a pencast. Or so they promise. Here at MakeUseOf, we don’t believe everything we hear, and decided to see for ourselves. That’s why we bought the Livescribe 4GB Echo Smartpen, and gave it a serious spin.

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Edge Design Alfa for iPhone 4/4S Review and Giveaway

I'm a sucker for iPhone cases. Most of the cases I've owned leaned more towards functionality rather than aesthetics. In other words, they weren't pretty. When Edge Design came long with their Alfa and Aktiv cases, I couldn't resist dumping my old mantra and using a case purely as a case.

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