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About Justin Pot

Justin Pot is a technology journalist based in Portland, Oregon. He loves technology, people and nature – and tries to enjoy all three whenever possible. You can chat with Justin on Twitter, right now.

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5 Easy Ways to Make Awesome Videos and Images Quickly

Cool Web Apps and Sites brings you five simple tools that let you quickly create awesome videos and images to share with friends, loved ones, and even mortal enemies.

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4 Ways To Make A Mario Game on Your Computer

As long as there's been an Internet, there have been fan-made Mario games.

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5 Sites That Make Decisions for You

If you want to remove a few decisions from your day, Cool Websites and Apps is here to help with a few sites designed to make your decisions for you.

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5 Sites That Make Online Comments Awesome

Sometimes online comments can make the web better -- like when they prompt great conversations, point out great tools, or make something hilarious even better.

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Tesla Broke Consumer Reports, Polite Phone Usage… [Tech News Digest]

Tesla cheated, phone users are a contradiction, Facebook is insanely popular, Instagram discovers rectangles, and John Oliver teaches geography.

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How To Use Facebook Messenger on Linux

Facebook chat on Linux took a hit when Facebook shut down XMPP in April 2015, leaving Pidgin users with Facebook integration unable to chat. Here's how to change that, with a new Pidgin plugin.

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5 Mind-Blowing Maps That Let You Watch The Web Happen

The Internet is happening; let's watch.

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Random Net Stuff: 5 Ways to Randomly Find New Things Online

The web is a vast network of seemingly unconnected things. You could spend all day exploring it. These five sites bring back the feeling of serendipity we had almost lost.

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El Capitan Means The End Of Mac Themes & Deep System Tweaks

If you like customizing your Mac, Yosemite might be the last version of OS X that works for you. And that's too bad.

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Someone Finally Made Google Hangouts Better On Desktop

It took someone outside Google hacking away at CSS to finally offer a decent Hangouts experience on desktops and laptops – and you can give it a shot right now if you're a Chrome user.

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5 Tools to Finally Learn All Those Keyboard Shortcuts

Learn keyboard shortcuts. It sounds like a pain, but seriously, every new shortcut you learn will quickly become something you can't live without.

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Kiwi is Basically Gmail for Mac

Gmail offers native apps on Android and iOS, both of which blend with their operating systems. Why shouldn't the far more powerful desktop operating systems get the same treatment?

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5 Easy Ways to Start Your Own Free Chat Room

Why not connect with people you don't know? Get that old-school Internet feeling back with a few chat apps that might be up to the task.

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5 Ways to Build Your Own Reddit Alternative

Tired of your online communities being hosted by seemingly incompetent management teams, or being overrun by trolls? Avoid the problem altogether: build your own alternative to Reddit, and host it on your own server.

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Translate Text With Your Phone, Firefox's Fury... [Tech News Digest]

Also, a German court is forcing Facebook to allow pseudonyms, how the right to be forgotten might go global, and a parrot who knows what's awesome (spoiler: it's everything).

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5 Fascinating Sites for Seeing and Exploring the Universe

If you love gazing at the stars, and beautiful pictures of galaxies, the Internet has a lot to offer. Let's learn more about the universe.

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5 Apps to Read Today's News Headlines, Quickly

Whether you want to know what's going on in the world of technology or quickly swipe through headlines from around the web, the right site or app makes it easier.

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5 Sites to Easily Start Your Blog Using Evernote, Trello or WordPress

Blogger and WordPress are arguably the easiest two platforms for starting your own blog. But we wanted to know if there was anything easier out there. We weren't disappointed with the options we found.

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5 Free Music Radio Online Sites You Should Check Out

If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer volume of music out there, finding a few great places that compile and play music for you is really useful.

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How to Donate to Charity by Browsing the Web, Playing Games, & More

It sounds too good to be true, but it's perfectly possible to raise money for charities doing things you already love. Or even with your bad habits. Take a look.

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