Set an Expiration Date for your Tweets

You can set an expiration date for your tweets using hashtags and the message will be deleted from your Twitter timeline after the set time has passed.

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ImageEmbed Offers High-Quality Photos for your Blog Posts (mostly free for small blogs)

Image Embed helps you find photographs for your website and also offers an option for you to sell your Instagram, Flickr, Picasa and Facebook photos online.

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Google Tests a New Tablet Search Interface

Remember the card-style redesign for Google mobile search? Google tests a similar interface for tablets:

There's more white space, top search results stand out even more, while Knowledge Graph cards and results from specialized Google search engines look like distinct sections of the page.



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ArtistX: The Linux Distribution Tailored For Any Artist, Whether Graphical or Musical

There are custom Linux distributions that are made for everyone imaginable. Students, scientists, and even various artists can enjoy special Linux distributions made just for them. The joy of the flexibility Linux provides is that any person with the right skills can take an existing distribution and change whatever they want about it to release their own one. While there are a few distributions which make some major technical changes from the distribution they’re based off of, a majority of them are simple remixes — distributions that are technically identical to the one they’re based on, but they just include...

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Sick Of Yahoo? Move Your Tumblr Blog Into WordPress

Are you sick of Yahoo’s meddling with Tumblr blogs? Time to relocate to WordPress. Here’s how! Recently, Yahoo bought the up-and-coming blog platform, Tumblr. If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ll have noticed that this came with more than a few changes, such as the domain settings for blogs using a personal domain. Most notably, Tumblr seem to be trying to take a stand against pornography and blogs of a sexual nature, but also including LGBT support blogs in the process. Tumblr have removed the erotica category, filtered these tags to make sure these posts aren’t found easily,...

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The $199 Phone

It's hard to believe that a high-end smartphone can cost only $199 without contracts and carrier subsidies. Nexus 4 was released last year and its specs don't look that great when you compare it with phones like HTC One or Samsung Galaxy S4, but Nexus 4 runs the latest Android version, it has a smooth interface and many developers use it to test their apps.



From $299 to $199, Nexus 4 managed to become the first high-end smartphone that costs less than $200 off contract. Google's previous Nexus phones used to cost about $529, but Nexus 4 changed all that. Google subsidized the phone in an effort to make the phone more affordable.

Google Earth Tour Builder

Google has a new experimental service that lets you build Google Earth tours from your browser. It's called Tour Builder and it requires the Google Earth Plugin (you also get the plugin when you install Google Earth).



"Tour Builder is a new way to show people the places you've visited and the experiences you had along the way using Google Earth. It lets you pick the locations right on the map, add in photos, text, and video, and then share your creation. We originally created Tour Builder to give veterans a way to record all the places that military service has taken them, and preserve their stories and memories as a legacy for their families. But we also thought it could be a useful tool for anyone with a story to tell, so we made it available to everyone," explains Google.

Before creating a tour, you can check the gallery:

Tour Builder lets you add images and videos, import KML files, enable or disable some layers, add historical imagery. By default, tours are private, but you can share them with other people.

{ Thanks, Florian K. }

New Google Sign-in Page for Mobile Devices

Google's mobile sign-in page has a new interface that uses the same slogan from the desktop: "One password. All of Google." It's a more crowded page that includes a silhouette icon, a list of icons for Google services like Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and a small "Create an account" link at the bottom of the page instead of the red "sign up" button.

Here's the old interface:

For some reason, the new sign-in page lacks the "stay signed in" checkbox.

6 Great Tech Tips To Beat College On A Budget

There are some easy ways to get free textbooks, study more efficiently, and cut the time it takes to write a paper in half. I’m entering my final year of university in a few weeks. For the past three years I’ve seen my peers use sloppy research methods, spend hours worrying over their unpreparedness for an exam, and shell out major cash for textbooks. College is supposed to be fun, not four years of stress. Despite growing criticisms of the “value” of a degree, this generation has the best chance to make the most out of a course. Technology has...

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Knowledge Graph Reminders

If you search Google for music artists, actors, books, TV shows and you're logged in, you'll see a new "Remind me" button in the Knowledge Graph card. Click the button and "Google Now will remind you about new releases/movies/episodes on your phone or tablet".

Until now, you could add time-based and location-based reminders to Google Now. These new reminders are special and can only be added from Google search. You can manage them from the Google Search app on your mobile device: just go to Settings, My Stuff and select Reminders.

This feature was added last week, when the Google Search app for Android was updated.

10 Windows 8 Start Screen Hacks

Windows is moving towards a more locked-down direction with Windows 8 and its Start screen and “Modern” app environment. There’s no denying this — you can’t even set a custom Start screen background without installing a third-party utility. Luckily, Windows hasn’t completely shed its legacy of customizability, yet. There are many different hacks you can perform with the Start screen, although most of them should have been included with Windows 8 itself. Microsoft has always had urges to restrict users from customizing Windows, even in the past. That’s why, although a desktop-theme engine was introduced in Windows XP, you still...

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How To Make Videos Your Friends Will Want To Share

What if you created the next viral video? Most of time, videos go viral without ever intending to do so. I mean, check this out: a baby talks into a camera and it gets over 500 million views. Who would have ever guessed something like that would garner so much attention? This seems to be true for most of the popular viral videos. Now, let’s say you want to create videos that spread like wildfire and are seen by millions. Where do you start? Before we begin, you should instill one thing into your mind: virality is never guaranteed. I’m...

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A Tool To Hide The Start Button On Windows 8.1 Taskbar

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The Start button on the Windows 8.1 taskbar lets you quickly switch to the Start screen when you perform a left-click on it, and reveals the power user menu when you right-click on it. It’s no secret that most Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users use the Windows logo key on the keyboard or Windows […]

Where Should Microsoft Go From Here? [We Ask You]

I’ll let you guys into a little secret, as long as you promise not to tell… some of the writers at MakeUseOf hate Microsoft with a passion. There, I said it. I know it’s unfathomable and unpalatable, but it’s true. I won’t name names, but please remember to check out the Technophilia podcast every Wednesday. It’s very easy to hate Microsoft, a lumbering corporate giant that built a monopoly and then sat on it raking in the money. But Microsoft is still capable of creating great things — Windows 7, Xbox 360, Kinect, Office, etc. — and is still one...

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Learning Computer Science? Tag Some Video Tutorials On Teaching Tree

Learning with the help of massive open online courses or YouTube videos has one slight problem — there isn’t anyone around to help you take shortcuts to the precise concept. You wade in and flounder around, because there’s just so much information in a long video. If you come up for air, take a look at Teaching Tree. Teaching Tree handles the difficult part of taking you to the right concepts in the shortest time possible. It makes learning computer science with free educational videos easy as clicking on a timestamped tag. It took me two stumbles to come to...

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9 IFTTT Hacks To Superpower Your Life With Google Calendar

IFTTT is a great way to superpower and automate your life. From saving and making money, to organizing your social life and automating you Facebook Page; with your iPhone, or even with your own IFTTT recipes, there are endless ways you can use IFTTT to make your day better. Your calendar is a big part of your productivity, and managing it right can make the difference between being organized, arriving on time and remembering your tasks, and being late, forgetting to do what you’ve promised, and arriving soaking wet to the office because you didn’t know it will rain. The...

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Sites That Integrate With Google Now

There's a long list of sites that integrate with Google Now: Air Berlin, Air Canada, Emirates, Booking.com, Lastminute.com, TicketWeb, Ticketfly, Orbitz, CheapTickets, OpenTable, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Zillow and more.

There's nothing magic about integrating travel sites, hotel booking sites, event-ticketing sites with Google Now. You only need to add some markup to email notifications. "By adding schema.org markup to the emails you send your users, you can make that information available across their Google experience, and make it easy for users to take quick action. Gmail, Google Search and Google Now all already use this structured data. (...) Google Now brings users the right information at just the right time. For example, Google Now already provides updates to restaurant and hotel reservations or flight information received in Gmail. By marking up email notifications to your users, you can use Google Now to bring them similar updates about your services and products."



After an email confirming a hotel reservation, the Google Search app shows this card. Here are some examples of code that needs to be added to email notifications.

Google Now only supports schemas for event reservation, flight reservation, hotel reservation and restaurant reservation.



{ Thanks, Florian Kiersch. }

Darktable vs. Shotwell: Two Great Photo Editing Applications For Linux

Until recently, Linux only had GIMP as an acceptable photo editing tool. That’s changed, thanks to a couple new tools that provide impressive features: Darktable and Shotwell. The great thing about these two tools is that they are specifically developed for editing photos, rather than general image manipulation. This ultimately provides a better-designed interface and a more efficient workflow. I compared the two applications based on the interface and features in order to see which is the best tool for the job. Shotwell Shotwell is a rather lightweight application found in most Gnome-based distributions. Most distributions had included F-Spot before...

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Has Someone Used Your PC? 3 Ways to Check

The keyboard is misplaced. Someone left some food crumbs on your desk. Your monitor is tilted at an odd angle. You know someone has been using your computer, but you don’t have any evidence to nail down the culprit. Or do you? The truth is that the person who used your computer not only left behind crumbs of evidence on your desk, but they’ve also likely left crumbs of evidence on the computer itself, without even realizing it. No matter what someone might have done on your PC, the fact is that nearly everything you do leaves some kind of...

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Great Chrome Web Apps and Extensions for Musicians

Musicians rejoice! There are several apps and extensions available for Chrome that will aid you in your life and journey of musicianship. There are apps that will let you practice the piano while sitting at your desk. Some will display guitar tabs for you. Others will help you make instrument purchases with ease. If you’re a musician and you use Chrome, you’ll want to check out these apps. The thing about musicianship is that it’s incredibly hard to be an isolated musician. Sure, you can be alone and you can self-teach a lot of the basics by using guides and...

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How To Upgrade Kaspersky 2012/2013 To Kaspersky 2014

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Kaspersky Lab recently announced the release of Kaspersky Antivirus 2014 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 versions. Both Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 (KIS 2014) and Kaspersky Antivirus 2014 (KAV 2014) come with several innovate antivirus technologies and also enhancements to existing security features. The ZETA shield antivirus technology is one of the newly added features to […]

New Layout for Google+ Post Pages

Google+ post pages look different: posts are now moved to the right and there's a huge box that shows the name of the page or author and the number of followers. The new layout encourages people to follow pages and Google+ users, but makes posts more difficult to read.

Here's an example of post from Gmail's Google+ page.

Better Photo Attachments in Gmail's iOS App

The latest version of the Gmail app for iOS added a better way to open photo attachments. Until now, you had to tap each photo to open it using the app's internal browser and go back to the message.

Now you can tap a photo attachment and use swipes to go to the next or previous image, just like in the built-in Photos app.

The "print" link is no longer displayed next to the thumbnail, but it's still available in the actions menu. For some reason, the filenames are no longer included.

Another new feature: "when selecting a Google Drive file or Google+ link you'll now go directly to the app if it's installed. This can be turned off using the in-app settings."



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Inside Kickstarter #1: An Exclusive Look At Pressy — How A Project Is Born

What if you could make any dream you have come true? Go to Kickstarter, and bam, you’re there. Kickstarter and similar crowdfunding websites want to be the fairy godmother of our childhood. Have an idea? Let us make it come true. But is it really as easy as it looks? There are endless Kickstarter projects out there, with endless dreamers whose only wish is to make their private dreams come true. We hear about them when they succeed magnificently, we hear about them when they fail miserably, but, unless we know them personally, we rarely hear about them before the...

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Use Gmail's New Compose Interface for Replies

When Gmail launched the new compose interface, I wondered why the interface for replying to other messages is different. By default, when you reply to a message or you forward a message, Gmail shows the rich-text editor below the message, just like before.



There are a few ways to make the reply box look like the compose box, so you can open other messages or use Gmail's search feature while replying to a mail.



1. Shift-click the "reply" link or the entire box that includes the message "Click here to Reply or Forward". You can also Shift+click "forward" to open the forwarded message in a pop-out box.

2. Use keyboard shortcuts: Shift+r to reply in a pop-out box, Shift+a to reply to all, Shift+f to forward in a pop-out box.



3. If you've already writing the reply, click the arrow above your reply and pick "Pop out reply".

To go back to the regular interface, minimize the compose box, find this message "You are currently editing your reply in a separate window" and click "Show your draft here."

4 Tools to Display RSS Feed Updates Directly on Your Windows Desktop

You used to relax in the morning with a warm cup of coffee, reading your favorite blog, until your life took over and changed everything. You even had time to browse and meander through several of your favorite blogs. Then life happened. You got busy, or you got a promotion, and your mornings transformed into a busy time where you need to race through emails before the workday started. Thankfully, RSS feeds are a savior for the worker – a way to sort of auto-browse all of those headlines without the need to click and read each one. What you’re...

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Start Coding JavaScript Right Now With These 5 Great Free Resources

“Love – love is a verb, love is a doing word,” or so the song goes. And actually, the same can be said about JavaScript: this sizzling-hot programming language is a doing language. If you think JavaScript is interesting, you need to do JavaScript – not just read about it. Getting started is much easier than you might expect, and costs nothing. I tracked down three choice resources for learning JavaScript that are all about getting you to do something with the language, rather than just read or watch videos. For Taking a Guided Tour: Codeacademy’s JavaScript Track Assuming you...

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Start Coding JavaScript Right Now With These 5 Great Free Resources

“Love – love is a verb, love is a doing word,” or so the song goes. And actually, the same can be said about JavaScript: this sizzling-hot programming language is a doing language. If you think JavaScript is interesting, you need to do JavaScript – not just read about it. Getting started is much easier than you might expect, and costs nothing. I tracked down three choice resources for learning JavaScript that are all about getting you to do something with the language, rather than just read or watch videos. For Taking a Guided Tour: Codeacademy’s JavaScript Track Assuming you...

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