Get Paid For Your Opinions By Completing Online Surveys For Paid Viewpoint
Any experienced and savvy Internet user will tell you that money can be made online from home. Whether it's working and writing for a site like MUO, maintaining an ad-supported blog site, or giving your opinions on Paid Viewpoint. PV, a market research survey site, has created a unique process for getting views from their members, making sure they get paid for their time and effort.
Stop Tapping & Start Talking: Voice Control Your iPhone
You may not know that your iPhone has a few built-in voice command features that can save you the trouble of typing keystrokes. This feature indicates that we can expect even more and similar voice command technology in future releases of the iPhone. Let's explore this potentially powerful feature further here in this article.
Boost Your Professional Appearance By Using These Point Of Sale Apps [iPad]
Say you're a photographer, graphic designer, contractor, entrepreneur, or anyone with an iPad who uses invoices to collect payments on goods and services. First you use your awesome tablet device to show off your amazing portfolio of work, and then when your client agrees to hire you, you switch to your well prepared invoice app to help you make your final point of sale in a very professional manner.
Growl 1.3 Now On Sale In The Mac App Store [News]
Growl 1.3, a classic formerly free third-party notification application, is now on sale in the Mac App store for $1.99. With Growl on your Mac you can always know what's going on with other applications on your system. It can tell you, for example, when you get new Twitter mentions or direct messages and when content is added to your Dropbox.
How To Use Your Smartphone As Your Personal Wallet
The recent launch of Google Wallet is another indication of how practical and useful smartphone technology has become in just a few short years. Many people carry their phones with them everywhere they go. Based on my experience of the last few months, I can say it is possible to replace your physical wallet with your smartphone.
Two New Magazine Style Apps For The iPad
The iPad in many ways works best as a digital magazine in which you flip through “pages” of multimedia content. It is magazine style apps like Groovebug and News.me that make the iPad worth having. Though these apps have different purposes, they both share an user interface which invites users to browse and interact with their content.
Google Launches Google Wallet. Not For Everybody! [News]
Google officially launched its mobile payment system Google Wallet yesterday, and it could very well change how we pay for merchandise and services. For now, the Google Wallet is only set up for Sprint Nexus S 4G phone users, but no doubt it will spread to other smartphone devices very soon.
Get 100+ Cool Infographics On Your iPhone (or iPad)
Information graphics—popularly called, infographics—are the coolest and most eye-catching ways to present research studies and other statistical data. But if you are an avid infographics reader like I am, you may have found it difficult to view presentations on your computer screen. So I knew,eventually a smart developer would produce an app specifically designed for downloading and viewing them on a mobile device.
7 Online Resources To Help You Become A Vegetarian
According to a 2008 study conducted on behalf of the magazine Vegetarian Times, roughly 3.2% (7.3 million people) of US adults follow a vegetarian-based diet. I am considering going vegetarian, so I researched some resources about how to make the transition. For you veteran vegetarians out there, please add to this list some of your favorite online resources, in the comments section.
Stop Typing: Better Learn To Dictate Text with Dragon Dictate for Mobile Devices [iOS]
Nuance's iPhone apps, Dragon and Dragon Search have been available for free download for over a year now. Since then, the company has added a few other similar voice to text apps to its line of desktop and mobile applications. It's even rumored that Nuance has partnered with Apple to infuse voice commands within the next iPhone.
EyeEm - Another Fun & Useful iPhone Camera App
If you're an avid iPhone camera user, you no doubt have heard of or use the popular Instagram app which seems to have a cult following. With over 150 million downloads of that app, it's not surprising to see similar iPhone camera apps come onto the market. Thus a new camera app called EyeEm may very well attract its own users and followers.
Create Step-By-Step Instructional Documents With Screenshots & Annotations Using Clarify [Mac]
There will never be a shortage of screen capturing applications, but Blue Mango has produced an app that stands out amongst the rest. Similar to its flagship professional application ScreenSteps, it has released the beta version of an application called Clarify, for when you want to produce step-by-step instructional documents.
Send Voice Messages to Your SmartPhone Contacts With TalkBox [iOS & Android]
Most of us who use smartphones eventually start to like using text messaging. Once you get the hang of it and realize that you can reduce a potential thirty-minute chitchat to a mere sentence or two, then you begin to appreciate text messaging as an alternative to phone calling. But there are times when you want to send a message but not write it. That's where TalkBox comes in. It allows you to send voice messages using your iPhone or Android.
Supercharge iTunes With Some More Of Doug's AppleScripts [Mac]
If you're a heavy iTunes users with a significant size music collection, you definitely should know about Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes. Doug Adams has been writing scripts for iTunes ever since Apple's inception of its popular jukebox. As far as I can tell, iTunes seems to be the most scriptable of all the default Mac applications.
Evernote Acquires Skitch & Makes It A Free Download [News]
Last Thursday, Evernote announced its acquisition of the Mac image annotation application, Skitch, as well as the company that produced it. Skitch is a screen capture and desktop photo application that includes over a dozen annotation tools (including highlighter, shapes, arrows, text, paint bucket) for marking up image files.
The 7 Leading YouTube Channels For All Things Apple
Hardly a month goes by that Apple doesn't release or update a new product or piece of software. Trying to keep up with all the best iOS apps and Apple-related accessories can be a little daunting for even the most devoted Apple fan. In addition to the hundreds of articles and several PDF guides published here on MakeUseOf, there are also several popular YouTube channels.
Schedule Daily Tasks With Tasks Till Dawn [Mac]
Let's say you just want to schedule a few little daily or weekly tasks on your Mac and you don't feel like hauling out Automator or figuring out a script in AppleScript. Well, a small utility called Task Till Dawn might well do the trick. You can use Task Till Dawn to set up and run daily tasks for automatically opening files or scheduling iTunes to download the newest Podcast at a specified time.
Make Skim Your Ultimate Reading & Study Tool For PDF Files [Mac]
Though Apple's PDF reader and image correction application, Preview, is a highly used default program on the Mac, a third-party alternative reader, Skim, pushes Preview to the side when it comes to advanced study and annotation tools and features. A slew of additional annotation tools and document management features have been added.
iPad Version Of Skype Video App Released [News]
The Internet telephone company, Skype, has released the long awaited iPad version of its iOS app in the iTunes App Store on Monday. Although Skype users could always use the iPhone version of the app on the iPad, this iPad version brings Skype connections full screen, and for iPad 2 users it provides video calls over the Internet.
Reconfigure Your Mac Keyboard for More Geek Power [Mac]
If you're the type of Mac user who likes to customize every feature or program on your computer, you might want to check out the system preferences application, KeyRemap4MacBook. It essentially enables you to re-map any key on your keyboard for different types of purposes.