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Learn To Type Really Fast With The Intelligent Touch Typing Tutor TIPP10 [Cross Platform]
Learning to type fast is almost a survival skill in the Darwinian digital jungle. It’s directly related to saving time you put into a work and improving your productivity. You just need to be methodical with your practice. Handholding you through your typing lessons is this free cross-platform software.
Reddit Photo Clock for iPad: The Greatest Productivity Killer Ever
Reddit Photo Clock is a typical photo-frame clock app for the most part; but it pulls images from Reddit for your delectation, and that makes it 9000 times more awesome than any other photo clock app out there. Read on to find out exactly why you want this app, now.
The Top 5 Alternatives To Diablo 3 [Gaming]
Diablo 3 is out. The game hasn’t pleased everyone. Some gamers feel it doesn’t live up to the legacy of the Diablo franchise while others are just mad about the DRM. If you’re in the not-so-happy camp, for whatever reason, here are five alternatives you should check out.
Better iPhone Audio & Video: Adapters, Microphones And Accessories For Superior Sound [iPhone]
Last week I rounded up a few of the best apps for capturing video and the accessories you might want to consider if you want to get the most out of your iPhone’s video capabilities. Today we’re turning our attention to audio, the achilles heel of any videographer.
6 Cool DuckDuckGo Features You Won't Find on Google
In a world ruled by Google, at least where search is concerned, it’s sometimes hard to imagine a worthy alternative. DuckDuckGo is one website that is trying to offer such an alternative. If you’ve been using it the same as you would use Google, not taking advantage of its cool features, this article is for you.
2 Sites To Find The Best "Socially-Selected" Desktop Wallpaper
It's pretty difficult to find a quality wallpaper site anymore. There's a ton of them, but many are packed full of plain, boring, "stock" wallpapers that you don't want sitting on your desktop. There are many more that are filled with adware, risky pop-ups and pop-unders, and more. That's not the kind of stuff I'm into.
Master MS Office Keyboard Shortcuts Effortlessly With Free KeyRocket For Windows
Word or Excel have numerous built-in shortcuts, and once you know them, they really are much faster to use than futzing around with the mouse and menus. The only question is: How do you get to know all of these shortcuts? Enter KeyRocket, a free application that teaches you keyboard shortcuts for Office interactively, as you work.
8 Of The Best Mobile Apps For Your Dropbox [Android / iOS]
We've really only just reached the point were lots of apps are being written with integration to cloud storage in mind. Because of this, you may not have realised that quite a few very useful apps have popped up with integrated Dropbox syncing. We'll be covering some of the best of these today.
Why Microsoft Sucks - Again (Opinion)
In 2011 I wrote an op-ed piece (for a different website…!) about how I felt that Microsoft had moved away from being the many-tentacled corporate beast with no interest in providing a solid, working operating system and every interest in raping dollars out of customers. I argued that after the failure of Windows Vista, Microsoft had emerged as a company in touch with its user base, listening and almost caring.
Play Guitar Better No Matter How You Read Music With TuxGuitar
TuxGuitar is an opensource multitrack tablature editor. With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music (and learn at the same time) by using features such as tablature editing, score editing, and triplet support. It can open GuitarPro, PowerTab and TablEdit files, and export to standart file-formats such as MIDI, Lilyond and MusicXML.
Have Hours Of Fun With Logic Puzzles Playing The Fantastic Contraption 1 & 2
Fantastic Contraption and Fantastic Contraption 2 are games that require some lateral thinking and a little creativity. These aren't simple, straightforward, shoot-what-you-see-on-screen affairs. But that's a good thing, especially for those who like to give their gray matter an occasional workout.
The Top 4 Internet Jobs With Online Companies You Can Do Exclusively On The Web
Working online is the dream of many geeks. You can set your own hours, or you can work as much or as little as you’d like, you don’t have to commute and you don’t have to deal with pesky co-workers. Sounds too good to be true, right? To a degree. There’s no online job that lets you shrug off all the above annoyances, but you can make a living by working for companies online.
Wacom Intuos5 touch Small Pen Tablet Review and Giveaway
Pen tablets are an awesome invention. I don’t mean those tiny pads you use to sign electronic documents at the bank (although those are nice too). I mean the serious, professional models that artists use to create mind-blowing paintings and conjure Photoshop magic. We will be giving away a brand-new Wacom Intuos5 touch Small tablet to a lucky winner, so if you’d like to have a chance at winning it, just join the giveaway after the review.
Sexting & The College Student [INFOGRAPHIC]
MakeUseOf has previously published several infographics on texting, such as when texting celebrated its 19th birthday, when we showed teens and their texting habits, and how SMS messaging is changing the world. But one texting-related subject that I haven't approached yet (mainly because I didn't want my boss to fire me for turning MakeUseOf into Hustler magazine) is "sexting".
Are You A Terrible Speller? With These Apps You Don't Have To Be [iOS]
Are you terrible when it comes to spelling? It’s okay, plenty of people out there cannot spell to save their lives. Of course, computers did not help matters since everyone has a professional-grade spell checker at hand whenever they are unsure how to spell a word. Still, there is something to be said for knowing how to spell properly on your own. At some point, you may have to write words with pen and paper.
Design & Export Beautiful Diagrams From Your Browser With Creately
Dependence on the cloud is growing and many desktop applications are getting left behind in favour of collaborative, access-anywhere solutions. The ability to quickly share, tweak and work together from thousands of miles away clearly has its benefits, regardless of application. Diagramming software is no different, and one browser-based solution is Creately.