5 Awesome Facebook Pages That Entertain, Educate, And Inspire
Does Facebook depress or annoy you? If you're too curious about the world to quit your social network, why not Like some pages that will entertain, educate, and inspire you?
13 Free Chillwave Music Albums & EPs [Sound Sunday]
Chillwave is characterized by the use of synthesizers, drum machines, and heavy effects processing. With roots in ambient, new wave, and synth pop, it has a musical breadth, that is thoroughly reflected in this selection.
This Is Pop! 10 Free MP3 Albums For Your Listening Pleasure [Sound Sunday]
Pop, a mainstream music genre, mixes well with almost any other type of music, as this edition of Sound Sunday will serve to prove. Tune in for novel sounds, soft on your ears.
9 Free Soul & Jazz Beats Albums [Sound Sunday]
This edition of Sound Sunday will appeal to soul, jazz, and ambient / electronic fans alike. These genres mix exceptionally well and you wouldn't notice the cross-over to hip hop unless I mentioned it.
7 Reasons To Return A Lost Phone
If you happen to find an expensive smartphone on the street, youll probably wonder what to do with it. In short: return it!
How To Turn Amateur Photos Into Stunning Wallpapers
Don't you just love to take photos of picturesque scenery when you travel? I do.
10 Free Ambient Electronic Music Albums To Download [Sound Sunday]
Tune into the music to relax your brainwaves. This edition of Sound Sunday features soothing ambient electronic sounds with many underlying genres, from drum & bass and dubstep, to rock, classical, and experimental soundscapes.
10 Free Electronic Dubstep Albums To Download [Sound Sunday]
Sound Sunday caters to all tastes. Apparently, our audience most appreciates electronic music, which is reflected in high numbers of shares. Hence we continue to explore this genre with another fabulous dubstep edition. There also is an underlying theme in this edition: Do what you love! In case you didn't know this secret recipe already, I recommend listening to the Intro track of SniteVille's In The Mist Of Darkness. Like other genres better? Make sure you let us know by sharing or commenting next time I cover it!
5 Laptop Maintenance Tips To Extend Its Life Expectancy
Laptops are replaced every few years. We crave fancier hardware, novel features, and maybe our old device has become unresponsive and suffered some damage over time. Consequently, most laptops get thrown out prematurely. Unless you are looking for a silly excuse to buy a new and shiny device, you will love to hear that there are many ways to make your laptop last longer.
9 Free Music Albums: The Electronic Dance Edition [Sound Sunday]
Following a series of down-to-earth genre editions, this installment of Sound Sunday is prepared to lift you up. In this article you will find a collection of energetic albums to get you moving. Throw a party and get all your friends to dance with you. Sound Sunday is a weekly MakeUseOf column promoting free music downloads from independent artists from around the world. Enjoyed the music in this edition? Or caving something else? I take suggestions and listen to feedback. Post your comments and expect a response!
3 Creative Upcycling Ideas For Your Old Hard Drive
Care to get the most out of your old hard drive? Even if the drive is dead, there may be one more creative use left in it before submitting its remains for recycling. It is called upcycling! When you've re-used your old hardware in every conceivable way, it's usually time for it to leave its current form of existence and break it apart to create something new.
10 Free Music Albums: Flavors Of Pop & Rock [Sound Sunday]
Sound Sunday is back this week with a fine selection of free pop and rock albums. Whether you are craving indie dream pop or alternative roots rock, there is an album for every taste. All albums are available as free or name your price downloads from Bandcamp. Please leave a donation with artists you like or at least share their work. Feel free to contact me (tina at makeuseof dot com) with suggestions and genre requests for upcoming editions of Sound Sunday.
Manage Firefox Tabs Like A Pro With Tab Mix Plus
Be honest! How many browser tabs do you have open right now? More than a decade ago, Firefox -- then known as Firebird -- introduced browser tabs to the masses. Tabbed browsing quickly became a standard, and today it's hard to imagine a browser that doesn't support tabs. TabMix gives you even more control.
How To Troubleshoot & Repair A Broken Laptop
Laptops tend to have a rather short lifetime. They are outdated within weeks of being released, they are notoriously hard to upgrade or repair, and by nature they are subject to gradual decay or fatal accidents. Some laptop issues, however, are often easier to repair than you would expect.
5 Good Reasons To Save Your Old Hard Drive From The Trash
Most of us have our data spread across several devices, storage media, or services. Storage capacities continue to expand at affordable prices, digital devices diversify, and as a result we are increasingly moving data to the Cloud. Do you even have a use for your old hard drive anymore? Don't trash it just yet. First, hear what I have to tell you about old hard drives.
Stop For A Grammar Check: 4 Areas Where You Can Improve Your Spelling & Grammar
Being a freelance writer or journalist isn't easy, particularly if you write in a language that isn't your mother tongue. Yet, many foreign speakers are tempted to write in English because it promises a greater audience and thus better opportunities to earn a living. The drawback is that we are constantly struggling with the details of the little devils in the language.
A Quick Tour of the Leap Motion Touchless Input Device
The Leap Motion Controller is a novel user interface device for Windows and Mac. It lets you control your computer through finger gestures painted into the air above the small device. In this article I will take you through the initial setup, introduce you to the Leap Motion's app store, and generally explore how intuitive and useful this gadget really is.
How To Copy Data From A Laptop
Laptops have a particularly short lifetime. While it is possible to upgrade laptop hardware, one day the time will come when that is just not possible or worth it any more. This is when you will want to copy your data from your old laptop to a new device. How you can do this essentially depends on how much data there is to back up and whether or not the old laptop is still booting.
Share Your Screen With Anyone Using Screenleap For Gmail Or Chrome
Have you ever wanted to demonstrate something you do on your computer and wished you could easily share your screen? The Screenleap Chrome browser extension lets you launch a screenshare for part or all of your desktop from within Gmail. Your friend only needs the viewer URL to instantly view your screen from any browser on any device.