About Ryan Dube
Ryan has a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering. He's worked 13 years in automation engineering, 5 years in IT, and now is an Apps Engineer. A former Managing Editor of MakeUseOf, he's spoken at national conferences on Data Visualization and has been featured on national TV and radio.
13 Widgets That Make an Awesome Real-Time Data Display
If you are a busy person that doesn't really have a whole lot of time to check the news every day, but you like to keep up to date with the latest major events like major storms, the stock market or major changes throughout the world, a graphical display is much more efficient. I'm going to share 15 of the best widgets that I found throughout the Internet.
How To Stream Live Video From Your Smartphone
Whenever I mention to people that I am obsessed with streaming video apps, I almost always get the same response - why would you want to stream real-time video from your phone? What about your privacy? Well, when you have journalism in your blood, the ability to transmit as much information from your location, no matter where you are, is invaluable. It's for that reason that I've always wanted to find the perfect app to stream live video.
How To Use FreeMind To Design Or Manage A Website
When you think of tools that you can use to create web pages, you probably think of things like Kompozer or Firebug. However, what if I told you that one tool that can really boost your creative juices when it comes to formulating a web design layout is a mind map?
Collaborate On Projects With Small Teams Using Wedoist Project Tracking
WeDoist allows small teams to manage up to three projects for free. It helps you collaborate with your group on coming up with tasks associated with a project, and assigning those tasks to members of the team. It's one of the fastest and easiest ways to manage small groups .
How To Get Kids To Use Facebook Responsibly
Over the last few weeks, news hit the Internet that Facebook is looking at ways to allow kids under 13 to use Facebook under parental supervision. For quite some time now, Facebook has required all registered users to be over 13 years old. Because of this limitation, there are now many children on Facebook that have lied about their age during the signup process - with their parents blessing.
ASUS Transformer Prime Review and Giveaway
When it comes to getting a tablet, I've taken a long time to explore all of the possibilities. In the end, I opted to stick with the operating system that I fell in love with years ago - and went with the ASUS Transformer Prime TF201. What follows is an honest, unbiased review of the ASUS Transformer Prime which we bought with our own money. We're also giving away a brand new 32GB model with a keyboard dock valued at $650! to one very lucky MakeUseOf reader.
Make Web Design More Efficient With Mudcu.be Free Online Tools
If you've ever tried your hand at web design and you aren't really an artistic type of person, then you know that the actual non-programming "design" part of the equation can get a little challenging. One particular site that provides a whole list of really useful web design tools that anyone can use is Mudcu.be.
Conduct Easy Performance Reviews at Your Small Business With Rypple
Employee reviews - everyone hates to do them, managers and employees alike. The process is usually very awkward, with either your peers or your superiors coming up with all sorts of critical comments about your work style. Then, you have to sit through a meeting with your boss, and hope that he doesn't slam you too hard with some kind of critique from hell. Or you might be one of those perfect employees that never does anything wrong.
Read eBooks From Anywhere You Want With Kindle Cloud Reader
The Cloud Reader lets you access your entire Kindle library and read any of those books, or any new books you may want to download, from the convenience of any computer or device in the world, and all you need is an Internet connection. No install required.
4 Types of Blog Comments That Make You Look Like a Troll
One of the most fascinating things about writing professionally on the Internet for nearly a decade now is the progression of "commenting" that has evolved alongside the blogosphere. I was first introduced to the whole concept of online "conversations" during my early days on Internet forums.
Monitor Teenage Computer Use & Detect Inappropriate Content With Care4Teen [Windows]
As my girls grow into young teens, as a father I do tend to worry quite a bit. I worry about them when they go out to a friend's house, I worry about them when they travel, and yes, I worry about them on the Internet. It isn't so much a matter of whether they are going to do anything wrong intentionally, it's a matter of what other people out there could potentially try to do.
Play Guitar Better No Matter How You Read Music With TuxGuitar
TuxGuitar is an opensource multitrack tablature editor. With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music (and learn at the same time) by using features such as tablature editing, score editing, and triplet support. It can open GuitarPro, PowerTab and TablEdit files, and export to standart file-formats such as MIDI, Lilyond and MusicXML.
Use Data Crow to Organize & Manage All Your Stuff [Windows]
Here at MUO, we've always offered you tools to organize your things. For example, Justin introduced you to Qigga for organizing academic papers, and Jessica offered up some tools for organizing PDF files. But what if I told you that there's a tool out there that will help you to organize just about everything? OK, maybe not your gigantic recipe collection but at least the sorts of things that regular people tend to accumulate.
How Hollywood Glamorizes Hacking - And Why This Is Deeply Wrong [Opinion]
What if you could hack into your school's computer system and "tweek" your attendance record? That was accomplished in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, again featuring Matthew Broderick. What if you could hack into ATM machines? Prime Risk, 1985. Did the movies during that generation glamorize hacking and encourage an entire generation of hackers?
9 Fun Shooting Games Not Blocked by Most School Firewalls [MUO Gaming]
Let's face it, shooting games are really fun. Kids love them! I wouldn't say that kids like them so much necessarily because of the violence. I think it's more about the whole "tag-you're-it" mentality. From when kids are very small, they start playing tag. Once kids get into playing online games, "tag-you're-it" turns into "bang-you're-dead". Morbid, I know, but still...follow along with my logic here.
How To Unbrick Your Trashed WRT54G Linksys Router
Have you ever bricked your router? Were you able to fix it, or did you give up and throw your router away? Follow this tutorial that shows you how you can bring back your router from the dead with the help of a few handy third party apps.
How SkyDrive And OneNote Web App Can Help Your Online Research
I was really excited to learn was that SkyDrive provides you with a free OneNote web app that you can use to do just about everything you do with your desktop OneNote application. When it comes to creating a digital "file cabinet" where you can store away every form of information you discover during your research, this is it.
9 Most Searched For Celebrity Twitter Feeds Online
Everyone knows that Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber still maintain the lead by far when it comes to what public personalities people search for the most when it comes to Twitter feeds, but the personalities that I've listed here are a bit unpredictable. At least, I never really would have expected most of these people to land on such a list.
Wake Yourself Up Like Never Before Using Onlive Clock
If there is one thing that I constantly struggle with in my life, it's waking up. I've tried everything from putting my alarm clock across the room, to using alarm clocks with some of the most annoying, loud alarms you can imagine. Truth is, I just kill the annoying alarm and jump back to bed. Putting it across the room just makes my half-asleep self walk further to do it.
Simulate Your Network Devices And Configuration Using NetEmul
When it's time to lay out a network, whether it's on a large scale at a corporation or on a small scale at your house, wouldn't it be nice to lay out all of your network devices, their IP settings, and then simulate whether or not your network will work as expected? That's exactly what you can do with the open source network simulator called NetEmul.