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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 Sites for Anyone Interested in Learning to Make Games

If you've always dreamed of creating a game, these tools are a great place to get started. Apply yourself and you just might end up making something great.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Changing Stories Across Mediums

Mediums have different strengths and weaknesses, and adapting a text from one to another sometimes calls for substantial changes. No one understood this better than legendary science fiction author Douglas Adams.

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5 Free Websites That Quickly Teach You New Skills

What will you teach yourself? If you want to learn something, you can. Take advantage of that with these five cool resources.

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The Day the Music Died: A Grooveshark Retrospective

Grooveshark is dead. But how did this infamous streaming piracy service stay alive so long? And what does its closure mean for users? Let's take an in-depth look.

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5 Apps for Getting More out of Wikipedia

Tools for getting more out of Wikipedia, from alternative interfaces to games that force you to explore articles and think creatively.

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Are App Stores Really Safe? How Smartphone Malware Is Filtered Out

Unless you've rooted or jailbroken, you probably don't have malware on your phone. Smartphone viruses are real, but app stores do a good job of filtering them out. How do they do this?

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You're Probably Richer Than You Know: These 5 Sites Show You How

Today Cool Websites and Apps hopes to provide some context, pointing out sites that can show you how rich you actually are.

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5 Sites to Encrypt and Share Photos, IMs, Emails, and More

Privacy isn't dead: you just need to be smart about it. The right tools go a long way.

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5 GIF Search Engines & Tools You Haven't Heard Of Yet

GIFs are the language of the web, but some people are better at speaking it than others. Speak it fluently yourself with these perfect reaction GIFs tools.

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3 Emotions Caused by the Internet That There Are No Words For

There are plenty of Internet experiences we all have every day, that lack names. Let's name them, together.

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5 Insanely Useful Collaboration Tools Your Team Needs to Know About

Many people are stuck using the email-and-collect-revisions method of collaboration. Today Cool Websites and Apps looks at five tools that fix that for you.

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5 Sites with Printable Graph Paper, Puzzles, Maps, & More

Print is not dead. Try as we may to live paperless lives, we all need paper from time to time. Here are five websites you and your printer need to know about.

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Unfriend, Unfollow, Unlike: The Zen of The Clutter-Free Timeline

Your attention is the most valuable thing on the web. It might not feel like it when you're bored, mindlessly scrolling through your news feed, but it's true.

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Feel Like Somebody's Watching You? 5 Tools to Detect & Block Tracking

People are tracking which websites you visit, whether you open their email and more – but you can stop them. Here's how.

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5 Lesser-Known Free Sites for Watching TV Shows

Who doesn't like free entertainment? Today's Cool Websites and Apps digs up a few more online videos sites most people haven't heard of. Give them a view.

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5 Quick Tools for Visualizing Time Zones

Time zones are confusing because they are abstract. These tools that help you visualize them, making things more concrete.

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Adblock Everywhere: The Raspberry Pi-Hole Way

Turn a cheap Raspberry Pi into a network-wide ad blocker. If you're tired of AdBlock Plus slowing your browser down, this DNS-based option is a great alternative that works on any device.

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Get Ready for Apple Watch with These 5 Sites

Excited about the Apple Watch? Here are the best sites where you can find out more about it.

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Schedule & Browse Time Machine Backups With These Powerful Tools

From custom backup times to finding out where those 2 GB of new files are, the right apps can give you power and knowledge Apple's own tools just don't provide.

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