A Handy Keyboard Shortcuts List for the Upcoming Microsoft Windows 8
Not having to reach for your mouse to do the most routine task is one huge benefit I enjoy every day. That's because I've memorized my list of Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts, and I use applications like Fingertips. Though there have been so many changes to the perspective of personal computing since Windows 7 was dropped, Windows 8 did a good job in recognizing that these are important.
3 Sites To Study The Roots Of Your Favorite Artists & Songs
Life without music is a life that would be much less enjoyable for most of us. Even before smartphones and iPods, we were finding ways to listen to our favorite songs everywhere we go through classics like the Walkman. Some people just can't be pulled off of their headphones or earbuds. As we grow older, our musical tastes begin to transform and branch out a little more. At 22, I'm going through that phase.
3 Online Tools To Defend Yourself Against Cheaters At Word Games
Don't you just hate it when you're in the middle of a great Words With Friends game and someone manages to luck out with a word like "atropine"? Maybe it's only frustrating when the rest of their words up until that point were elementary level. Either way, cheating sucks. The only thing that sucks more than cheating is wanting to cheat and not knowing how to. Sometimes you've got to fight fire with fire.
Let EyeLeo Prevent Eye Strain While Using Your PC
You never get your eyes back. They're sort of like your teeth. Once they go bad, there's really no natural recovery. You can eat carrots all day long, but if you're staring directly at your monitor for hours each day it won't really matter. EyeLeo strives to make sure that we keep our eyes healthy
10 Single-Serving Sites That Are Useful, Funny, Or Weird
A single-serving website is a website that serves a single purpose. This same website usually contains just a single page. They are very narrowly-targeted and typically come attached to a vanity domain name. They serve no real purpose other than to entertain us and see where they go. Some single-serving websites have become huge due to their very simple, unique nature.
Make Your Plaintext Emoticons Snazzy Using Emojicons
Whether our IM client or SMS interface converts them to graphical smilies or not, every single one of us has typed out an emoticon before. There's so much more possibility when it comes to textually expressing those feelings. It's time for you to learn how to show some real, unique emotion online!
4 Portable Application Sites & Suites You May Not Know About
At MakeUseOf, we have provided you with countless articles on perfecting your USB flash drive with portable applications. If you've yet to see our Best Portable Apps page, you need to give it a look. Portable software can really change the way you work and enjoy your personal Internet experience. I don't go anywhere without 16GB of portable goodness on me. It's as essential as my keys or wallet.
6 Websites That Will Bring You Back To The '90s
Oh, man. I may have a biased opinion, being born in '89, but were the '90s not incredible? Nostalgia just drives me nuts and the '90s felt like the peak of music, movies, gaming, and the blossoming of the Internet. Maybe that's just reminiscing and wishing I was still a kid, but I know some of you agree with me, right? Vanilla Ice, Nickolodeon, Super Nintendo, pop music, less-corporate Internet; how could you not love that?
Review: What's New In Minecraft 1.2 [MUO Gaming]
With snapshots being released on an every-other-day basis, Minecraft 1.2 is right around the corner. Looking at the list of updates cited on the official Minecraft wiki, it seems like this update is quite sizable in comparison to 1.1. March's eventual update should leave many happy and few disappointed, with mob AI updates, new creatures, varying new item drops, and more.
Is Minecraft Really That Great? [Opinion]
Minecraft is quite possibly the most viral and addictive indie game that we've ever come to see. Who knew that a concept as elementary as playing with toy blocks could become such a sensation? I play it, you or your friends probably play it, and more than 20 million people worldwide have legally purchased an account. Are we overrating this game though? Is Minecraft getting a little too much credit?
5 Best Subreddits To Learn Cool Stuff
Reddit is more than just a time sink where you can look at pretty girls, read about nerdy stuff, and procrastinate as you build a memory of random trivia. Reddit can be used to learn things, believe it or not. Here, we are going to point you to the subreddits where you can go to acquire brain power. Let's get smarter.
Emulating & Playing Classic SNES Games On The PC With ZSNES
In my opinion, the Super Nintendo was the greatest gaming console that ever existed. Boasting titles like Chrono Trigger, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, EarthBound, Final Fantasy III, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Super Punch-Out, F-Zero, Star Fox, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, and more, is it really hard to see why?
Bring Sticky Notes To Your Deskop With Hott Notes [Windows]
Through the use of sticky notes, I feel like I've been able to just about double my daily productivity. Being able to have physical reminders that nagged for certain tasks to be completed was a real help when I used pen-and-paper notes. The days of pen and paper are over though, and I'm at my computer a lot more often than I am at a work desk. Eventually, I found that pinning notes to my desktop was just as effective a strategy.
UniBall: Free 2D Space Soccer & Hockey Game [Windows]
UniBall (formerly X-Pong) has been around since the 1990's and remains one of the longest running and unchanged, completely free online MMOs on the Internet. The game was partially created by a current PopCap developer and was loosely modeled after ARC. If you've ever played HaxBall, it's very similar but much more dynamic and competitive. It's a little bit more similar to SubSpace Continuum's Hockey Zone.
3 Sites To Find Awesome Gaming Speed Runs
If you're familiar with the "let's play" video format that gamers use as a visual way to hold your hand through a game, then understand that a speed run is one of those videos after too much soda and candy. The objective of a speed run is to blaze through a game as quickly as possible in a time trial.
3 Tools To Help Create & Edit Minecraft Skins
Minecraft made the jump to 1.1 recently and still (unofficially) holds on to the title of the most successful and addictive, single-player indie and MMO game that we've seen in a long, long time. I'm addicted to it right now and if you aren't then it's only because you haven't played it or you haven't played the right server. There's one out there for you.
3 Funny RPG Video Remakes Of Today's Most-Watched TV Series
I am a huge sucker for RPGs and video games in general. One thing I've never been too big on, though, are television series. I'm the only one. Dexter, Band of Brothers, The Wire, Firefly, etc.; there are lots of them and you're all watching. But I just can't keep up. What I can buy some time to definitely do is watch a short RPG remake of an episode or summary of the series. Now you've got all of my nerd attention.
Get Desktop RSS Update Notifications With Feed Notifier [Windows]
I work online, and when the Internet is your workplace then you know things move fast. You've got to keep up with trends and you've got to be on the ball or you might miss out on opportunities, excitement, or (in my case) money. Feed Notifier does a fantastic job of delivering RSS notifications more effectively than any software I've used. It doesn't matter if you're an entrepreneur or just someone who likes to keep up to date with the news.
How to Automatically Join IRC Servers and Channels With HydraIRC
Last week, I made my attempt at welcoming newbies to the wonderful world of Internet Relay Chats. This week, we're going to step things up to the next level for those of you who have decided that HydraIRC belongs in your taskbar. If you're anything like me, you feel it's necessary to be in 50 different channels at once. It's time for you to learn how to save yourself a lot of time at every startup.
Chat on IRC Like It's 1995 With HydraIRC [Windows]
You may be taking your Skype instant messaging and video calls or your iPhone FaceTime for granted, but way back before the standalone IM client was even an idea, there was one major solution: IRC (Internet Relay Chat). There are a lot of multi-IM clients that support the IRC protocol, but nothing really beats the efficiency and oldschool feel of a standalone chat client.