Use a Crowdsourced Satellite Platform To Look For The Missing Malaysia Air Plane

Ever since Malaysia Air MH370 went missing, presumed crashed, with over 200 passengers and crew on board, everyone has been looking for the wreckage, in an effort to find out what happened. The trouble though is that the search area involved is vast, and combing the area will take a lot of time and a lot of manpower. Enter the power of crowdsourcing to help. Satellite company DigitalGlobe is putting its Tomnod crowdsourcing platform to work, in an effort to help find the aircraft wreckage. And you can help, simply by going to the website and looking at satellite pictures...

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Get A Handpicked Playlist Of The Week’s Best Music With Noon Pacific

Noon Pacific takes the best part of radio and isolates it into a brilliant web app. Every week, it will put 10 of the hottest new tracks into a playlist for you to listen to. There’s nothing more to it and it’s absolutely free. I love the idea of a radio show — someone with good taste in music playing cool new tracks that I can listen to for free. But I also hate listening to radio — it demands that I tune in at a certain time, I can’t stand the ads and the RJs are annoying. Enter Noon...

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Chromebooks Aren’t Perfect – Working Around the Negatives

Although we’ve recently published articles discussing Chromebook’s inherent positives, it would be short-sighted to pretend that the devices are perfect and without flaws. We at MakeUseOf find Google’s Chromebooks extremely useful – the Chromebook is great for travel, you can work offline with a Chromebook, and it’s possible to dual-boot Linux on your Chromebook. They also provide a simple level of computing to those who don’t want the complexity of traditional Apple or Microsoft machines. However, here’s a look at three ways Chromebooks can be improved and some workarounds for the meantime… 1. Printing Whilst Google’s belief in cloud computing...

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NSA Malware Plan, Google Lawsuit, Angry Birds Epic, Learn Linux [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, the NSA wants to infect you with malware, a class-action over in-app purchases, the iPhone returns, Angry Birds Epic is epic, someone hits the 1 million Gamerscore milestone, a MOOC to help you learn Linux, and an Apple-inspired aluminium Nintendo Entertainment System. The NSA Wants To Infect You With Malware How to really piss off people who fight malware every day: NSA Has Been Hijacking the Botnets of Other Hackers http://t.co/MWfEUrV62p #fb — Stephen Cobb (@zcobb) March 13, 2014 The NSA is in the business of implanting malware in order to spy on people, according...

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Download VLC Player App For Windows 8/8.1

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There is absolutely no dearth of multimedia players for Windows operating system. There are plenty of good video and audio players out there but when it comes to popularity and support for video formats, VLC is the player that stands out from the rest. Despite being an open source software, VLC supports almost all video […]