Save Time & Money! The 4 Best Sites For Automatically Building a PC
WARNING! Building a PC can cause the following symptoms - despair, rage, violence against inanimate objects, poverty, feelings of regret and worthlessness, depression and suicidal thoughts. Fortunately, websites exist that take the pain out of custom building a computer. This article details how four such websites can save you a great deal of time, money and sanity building a PC.
Sick Of Rebates Not Paying? Use The Web To Get Your Money With 6 Easy Rules
Using rebates can frustrate even the most patient of buyers. While a deal-hunting customer may not encounter any difficulty at the register, collecting the rebate can cause staggering complications. Rather than risk such difficulty, following six simple rules will help you get your money. This article outlines six rules, along with a framework structured around several web technologies and strategies to receive your rebates in full.
Spring Cleaning 2013 Part Two: Kill Your E-Clutter With Four Simple Methods
Discarded desktop computers account for a large percentage of illegally disposed of e-waste. This situation occurred because as the mobile age displaced that of the PC. Rather than pitching your things away illegally, those looking to get rid of their stockpiled electronics this spring should consider four free options: recycling, donating, repurposing, or selling.
Reader Is Dead: What Technology Could Google Kill Next & How Can You Protect Yourself?
First they came for Buzz and no one cared. Then they came for Notebook. Now they've come for Reader. What technology will Google take away from you next? This article explains several Google technologies that might be next on the chopping block and what you can do to avoid getting Scroogled. While Justin covered the replacements for Google Reader, this article gives a roundup of alternatives to popular Google software that could possibly change for the worse in the near future.
Want A Handbrake Killer? SUPER Converts All Videos For Free [Windows]
SUPER for Windows performs video conversion (encoding), file joining, and video recording on a huge number of file types. To date, no free (or paid) video software in its class matches the versatility and broad file-type compatibility of SUPER. The short end is that it will convert, merge and record, almost any video or audio file type around.
Spring Cleaning 2013: Clean Out Your Junk This Spring AND Make Money
Do you live in a veritable bat-cave surrounded by a squalor of potential riches? Do you often trip over disused electronics and the hollowed husks of PCs? Consider preventing your foot injuries by selling your carpet mines through websites like eBay and Craigslist. It's surprisingly easy: Getting started takes only five steps, although in fairness, it can take several hours selling a large number of goods.
The Seven Deadly Android Permissions: How to Avoid the Sin of Slothful Preparedness
Everyone with an Android device should know that your private information isn’t treated as private. For example, making an app purchase may expose personal contact information, including one’s name, physical address and email address, to developers. This article explains how seven potentially deadly app permissions might hurt you and how best to avoid such calamitous installations.
Sick Of Your GPS App’s Data Connection Flaking Out? Try 3 Updated Offline Maps [Android]
Not long ago, Chris covered three of the best offline GPS apps available on Android. Since then, many other GPS apps released or received major updates. Do these newcomers compare favorably with those reviewed by Chris? To answer this question, I evaluate the apps based on four criteria - first, how effective is the app at helping users navigate offline? Second, what are its top features? Third, how data efficient is the app? Fourth, is the paid version worth purchasing?
Zombie Android Phone Devouring All Your Data? Shoot It In the Head With 11 Free Tips & Tricks
For anyone with a limited data cellular plan, data consumption can become incredibly expensive, very quickly. Overage fees generally cost hundreds of dollars a month - and your phone secretly uses data without your knowledge, without proper configuration. Matt provided a great starting point for paring down data consumption. This article expands on the ideas laid down by Matt.
Augmented Reality Apps: Useful, Or Just Hype? MakeUseOf Tests
In 2011, analysts predicted the rise of Augmented Reality mobile apps. The nascent technology would revolutionize the way we interact with our mobile devices. Flash forward two years and dozens of AR apps populate all mobiles stores, but does that mean the technology finally evolved into software worth using? This article examines four such apps. Like most AR apps, these examples have relatively steep system requirements.
Kick Your Crappy Android Apps To The Curb With 4 Free & Simple Apps
Has the performance and battery life on your mobile dropped off? A gang of dysfunctional and buggy apps probably cause such decline. Getting rid of the errant apps remains the single best performance enhancing tip. Unfortunately, most users lack the slightest idea of which miscreant apps to kill. This article details 4 apps that specialize in finding and murdering crappy apps.
4 Of The Fastest Tablet-Optimized Browsers You've Never Heard Of [Android]
Android tablet browsers, generally speaking, are not that great. Most of the big four browsers suffer from poorly sized buttons and sluggish performance. The tablet-optimized alternatives mentioned in this article, which you may not know about, provide improved performance and usability over the so-called "mainstream" browsers, Dolphin, Opera, Chrome and Firefox. In this article I analyze four dedicated tablet browsers.
How To Save Hundreds On Your Mobile Phone Bill In 3 Easy Steps
Cutting your mobile phone bill in half takes only three simple steps - first, find a carrier that offers discounted plans, such as an MVNO. Second, get an unlocked phone. Third, and optionally, you can optimize the phone's functionality to cost less. Some start-up costs apply, but the overall savings will greatly outweigh the expenses.
Hitchhike Your Way Around The Internet With Three Free Apps [Android]
Everyone who has heard, seen or read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy remembers the eponymous Guide, a source of vast and questionable knowledge, which bailed out or confused the travelers, time and again. You don't have to travel to Ursa Minor Beta in order to score an analog, either. If you own an Android device, preferably a tablet, getting your book ready only requires three apps and approximately 2.5 to 7 GB of free space on your device or SD card.
Want The Hottest Phone Not On The Market? 5 Tips To Get The Nexus 4 Before It Sells Out Again
Are you waiting for a Nexus 4? You might wait a great deal longer if you don’t get one immediately after the Play Store restocks in mid-February. Fortunately, we don’t have just one method - this article presents six absolutely rock-solid strategies of becoming one of the first in line when the Nexus 4 arrives.
5 Free Influenza Fighting Apps for Facebook, Android, and Twitter
Influenza, arguably, grew to epidemic proportions in the United States and Europe this year, according to Google Flu Trends. Search traffic for illness symptoms reached the most intense since the dawn of the information age. Fortunately, we now have the ability to defend against infection using resources derived from the Internet - in particular, social media. Facebook, Twitter and Google can tell us who among our friends might have a cold or flu.
Low-End Android Phone? Try the Ultra-Light Fast & Secure Naked Browser
Strangely enough, one of the fastest browsers available for Android remains virtually unheard of, despite its stalwart security, swift browsing speed and feature rich interface. In comparison, all of the other major browsers match-up poorly to the completely free Naked Browser. Naked offers a sterling array of features, such as blazing fast speed, tabbed browsing, excellent security, minimal app permissions and a tiny installed size.
10 Efficient and Minimal Android Apps That You May Not Have Heard About
Software bloat in the Android software ecosystem causes more problems than any other issue. Poorly written apps, particularly ad-supported apps, constantly draw on your handset’s wireless components, waking the kernel and overall diminishing performance and battery life. Uninstalling bad apps and replacing them with better apps provides the best solution.
Wake Up To Your Favorite Song Or Radio Show, Get Better Battery Life & More With Atooma [Android]
It will grow on you over time and, no, it’s not a tumor. It’s Atooma, an Android automation application currently in open beta. Unlike all other automation apps, Atooma simplifies the automation process, by providing you with configurable symbols rather than complicated scripts. In short, you can get started almost immediately, with very little effort. Atooma possesses the ability to do almost anything with your phone.
How To Get Your PC's Fans Running Cool & Quiet With 3 Simple Cheap & Fast Tips
Have you ever got tired of cleaning out your PC’s dust bunnies? Or have a rattling fan that just ruins your concentration? Believe it or not, fixing both problems can cost just dollars and the results provide coolness, silence and easier maintenance. Getting started requires only one of the following - machine lubricant, a PC dust filter or pantyhose, although you can use all three if desired.