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Train Your Brain & Stay Sharp With gbrainy [Linux]

In today's highly competitive world, people are constantly looking for ways to make their minds sharper in order to gain an advantage. Others may also want to keep their minds in good shape as they age. Whatever your reason may be, finding programs which can fulfill that role may sometimes be a little difficult. Linux users have nothing to worry about, however.

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Printing The Human Body [INFOGRAPHIC]

We are heading into an era of huge technological advances and achievements, especially in the field of medicine. Problems and conditions that may have literally been the death of you a hundred years ago may now be cured, simply by taking advantage of the latest medical technological breakthroughs. And 3D printing may have a huge part in that.

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Your Smartphone Will Help You Kick The Habit: Quit Smoking With These Apps

There is nothing easy about quitting smoking. Just like any addiction, it can take over your mind and make it next to impossible to move on with your life and kick the habit. Whether you are an Android iOS or Blackberry user, there are applications out there that can help you get on with your life without the smoking habit hanging around bothering you.

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Where To Find Non-Marketplace Apps For Your Windows Phone

The standard method of installing a Windows Phone app is currently threefold - the Marketplace via your phone or browser, or via the Zune desktop client. But what if the type of app you’re looking for doesn’t exist? The answer, then, is to look for homebrew apps, software developed by Windows Phone enthusiasts.

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The Five Best Places To Find Free Creative Commons Photos

Looking to add some images to your blog post? Obviously, I sympathize. All of the writers at MakeUseOf are on the prowl for ways to add some visual flair to our articles, but we also have to make sure we respect the rights of photographers while doing so. That’s why we like Creative Commons content.

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6 Online Recipes Measurement and Conversion Calculators for Great Cooking

As an amateur “chef” who is just about warming up the frying pan, I really need to get the right amount into the recipes for lip-smacks and compliments. The difference could be a pinch of salt. Well, we can always fall back on kitchen tools that help us get it just right. Here I am in search of online kitchen converters.

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Take A Break From the Internet - You’ll Thank Yourself Later [Opinion]

Oh, the Internet. One of the most world-changing inventions of the past century, perhaps even in all of human history. Never before has everything been so available in so little effort for so low a cost. But as a result, the Internet can become an addictive force--a timesink that makes you look up at one moment and wonder where your life has gone.

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The Battle Of The iPhone Podcatchers

While we have many ways to consume blog content on any device, consuming podcasts is still woefully difficult. Thankfully, there are some apps that help to make things easier, so let's take a look at 4 "podcatcher apps" for the iPhone.

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Game Over Isn't An Option: These Games Never End

Earlier this month a tale emerged of a Reddit user who had been playing the same Civilization II game for a total of 10 years. While many massively multiplayer games could take a lifetime to complete and open world games like GTA offer endless fun, here is a list of games that - by their very nature - offer an endless mode that still requires user intervention.

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5 Of The Funniest & Best Written Epic Rap Battles Of History [Best Of YouTube]

Every once in a while, somebody on YouTube manages to come up with an amazing idea that just seems so simple in hindsight. It’s even better when the people behind that idea are talented and know how to have fun. Meet Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD, the two rappers who created Epic Rap Battles of History.

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How to Stream YouTube Videos Using Your Favorite Desktop Video Player

If you'd rather watch YouTube videos on a desktop video player, you can just use this hassle-free app for Windows.

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2 Ways To Force DirectX Applications To Launch As Windowed Instead Of Fullscreen [Windows]

If you want to casually play a game in a windowed mode where you can watch other things and talk to friends through email or IMs, you should be able to. Certain games (most often, ones made years ago) won't allow us to do that. I'll try to fix that problem for you and open you up to two different ways

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Learn A Language And Translate For Practice With Duolingo (Now Open To All!)

The internet has given us some fantastic tools for language learning, and Duolingo is the latest site to give it a go. It's just come out of closed beta and is now available for everyone to use, after being the talk of language learning communities online for months. Duolingo is currently teaching German, Spanish and French for free to anyone who wants to learn.

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How To Become A Voice-Over Artist With Your PC

Thanks to the Internet, voice artistry is one of those roles that have taken on a whole new shape, with many thousands of voices now available for use in games, on websites, as voice-overs in corporate videos and much more. You can start your voice-over career on a very low budget, too!

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