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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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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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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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 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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