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Dave Parrack-Deputy Editor for Creative, Entertainment, Gaming, and Social | Oversees Coverage of News and Current Events

Dave Parrack

Deputy Editor for Creative, Entertainment, Gaming, and Social | Oversees Coverage of News and Current Events

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About Dave Parrack

Dave Parrack is a Deputy Editor at MUO and also oversees the site's coverage of current events. He has been writing about technology since 2007, and with MakeUseOf since 2011.

He has previously written for various sites, including Blorge, WebTVWire, and New Atlas.

Dave uses ChromeOS and Android, but isn't a Google fanboy. He thinks AI will change the world sooner than people think, for good or for bad. He has a particular interest in new and emerging technology.

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What Do You Think of the Microsoft Surface? [You Told Us]

Microsoft took its time getting into the tablet market, primarily because it had to work on building an operating system that would offer a positive experience on the touchscreen form factor, which Windows 7 most certainly doesn't. With Windows 8 just around the corner, so is Surface, the new Microsoft-branded tablet.

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Teach Yourself Amazing Magic Secrets With These Sites

When I was a young child I loved watching magic being performed on television. It didn't matter what kind of tricks they were, or who was doing them, just that something mysterious, unexplainable, and, well, magic, was on display. I loved it then for one simple reason: I believed magic was real, and that magicians had special powers. Then I grew up and realized they didn't. In fact, I discovered that magic was made up of illusions, of sleight of hands, of misdirection.

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10 Science YouTube Channels You Can't Miss

The word science essentially means knowledge, and it is this quest for learning and understanding that has driven mankind to the height of its power. The Web offers ample opportunity to disperse that knowledge to greater numbers of people, and YouTube has many great science channels. Listed below are 10 of the best that we feel you should not miss.

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Know Your Enemy: 5 Types Of Online Gamer You're Guaranteed To Encounter

Assuming you play online then you're guaranteed to have met certain types of online gamer. It's unavoidable. There are a wide range of them out there, but they can all be pared down to just five main types (and their opposites). You can try and ignore them, but they're there regardless, plying their trade as an annoying n00b, an incessant talker, a quiet quitter, a tiresome cheat, or an unwilling team player.

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Find Instagram Photos By Location With Worldcam

Do you remember the thrill you experienced the first time you heard about Google Street View? The fact that you could zoom in on a map right down to street level and travel around a town or city just about blew my mind when it made its debut in 2007. Now, it's standard, and I rarely even bother using it. Sorry, Google, but all that effort has been wasted.

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Exercise Your Mind With 'Games For The Brain'

It is very important to keep your brain occupied and working hard. Not constantly, of course, as we all need time off from thinking, from calculating, from forming ideas. But exercising it on a regular basis can help keep your mind focused and sharp. Which is especially crucial as we get older and hopefully wiser. There are several ways to achieve this.

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Do You Believe Everything You Read on the Web? [You Told Us]

Having established a long time ago how great the Web is as a learning tool - packed full of information that is now all available right at your fingertips - it's time to remind ourselves that there is a dark side to this dissemination of facts and figures. Because, as it turns out, not all facts and figures are created equal.

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10 Of The Best Apple Tumblrs You Must Bookmark

You may have noticed that there is a huge appetite for Apple news, views, and rumors on the Web. No other company comes close to having as many headlines written about it or as many articles penned about it and its products as Apple does. While not everyone is a fan of Tim Cook and his merry band of Cupertino geniuses, even those who don't own a single Apple product cannot help themselves getting drawn in.

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Play Free Online Video Games With ‘Core Online’ From Square Enix [MUO Gaming]

Gaming can be an expensive hobby, whatever your system of choice may be. The games are cheaper on PC, but keeping your rig up to speed in order to play the latest titles can burn through cash quickly. With consoles you have to buy the system, and then pay $60 a pop for each new game. If only there was a way of playing games for free.

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10 Great Ways To Improve Your Facebook Page's Popularity

Facebook pages come in all manner of different shapes and sizes. Many are pretty lame, gaining very few likes and with hardly anyone talking about them. Obviously the subject of the page is the most important aspect - if it already has a sizable community then it will likely be doing well - but there are ways anyone can improve the popularity of their Facebook page, regardless of who or what their page is about.

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10 Wii Games All New Wii U Owners Should Play [MUO Gaming]

Nintendo took the wraps off its next console, the Wii U, all the way back at E3 2011. But it wasn't until September 2012 that it decided to reveal the full and official launch details. The Wii U will be released in the U.S. on Nov. 18, in Europe on Nov. 30, and in Japan on Dec. 8. It will cost between $300 and $350 depending on which of the two editions you choose. There will be 22 Wii U games available at launch, with an additional 11 promised before the end of the year.

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7 Funny iPhone 5 Videos Apple Fanboys Will Hate

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past month you'll know that Apple recently unveiled the iPhone 5. It did so in its usual inimitable style, wowing the press with showmanship and hype. Unfortunately the product itself didn't live up to that hype or warrant the showy reveal. It is essentially just an iPhone 4S with a slightly bigger screen. Still, that fact didn't stop millions of Apple fanboys buying up the latest iDevice.

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Reblorg - Original & Creative Tumblr Content You Can Reblog & Promote

Tumblr has become more than just a blogging, or micro-blogging, platform. It's become the source of original content, with people creating graphics, GIFs, short videos, poems, haikus, and anything else you could care to mention, before posting them to the Web using Tumblr. It is also the perfect platform for reblogging other people's content, with a dedicated option to do just that. The only problem is finding content worth reblogging.

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Learn All About The Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories On The Web

Man first landed on the moon, that celestial body that is our constant orbiting companion, on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong recently passed away, which prompted an article all about him and the Apollo missions to conquer near-space. While researching that article I was astounded by the amount of conspiracy theories which still exist around the Apollo 11 moon landing.

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10 Opinionated Political Commentators To Follow On Twitter During 2012 U.S. Presidential Election

It's hard to believe that it's been almost four years since Barack Obama entered the White House. The next U.S. election, to be held this November, will see President Obama going up against his opponent, Mitt Romney, as well as opponents from the Libertarian and Green parties. But in order to vote, it is best to be informed of the issues. Here are 10 political commentators, from both Left & Right, whom you should read on Twitter.

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Atari Arcade - Play Retro Video Games In HTML5 [MUO Gaming]

Anyone who plays video games today owes a huge debt of gratitude to Atari and the founders and engineers who worked for the company during its formative years. Atari was responsible for many of the earliest arcade games and some of the earliest games consoles, and throughout the 1970s and 1980s helped shape the industry that now competes with Hollywood in terms of budgets and earnings.

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7 Great Sites & Tools to Help You Win at Twitter

Twitter is built on a very basic and logical concept. You set up an account, and then send messages (or tweets) up to 140-characters long for all to read. Those following you will see these tweets appear in chronological order along with the tweets of everybody else they follow. And you can follow others to see tweets in the same chronological order. However, that simple underpinning belies a more complex and convoluted set of rules and etiquette.

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