5 Online Classic Video Game Shows You Need To Watch

Currently, classic video games are a big deal. Prices are skyrocketing as collectors run out to get their hands on the gems from their childhood. With that, all kinds of websites are popping up dedicated to creating engaging and entertaining content related to classic video games. This is a good thing, as spending time watching funny reviews and other tidbits about classic games is something that never gets old for me.

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Hack YouTube – Kill the Annoyances, Improve Your Viewing

YouTube is a revolutionary service, but that doesn't mean that it’s without its flaws. There are many features on the site that are designed for convenience, other features that are meant to satiate legal requirements, and then there are features that are plain missing. Here are some ways to easily spruce up your YouTube experience.

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Google Doesn’t Rule The Entire Internet Just Yet [Search Trends]

When you examine Google search trends over time, it's amazing just how much it reveals about the public sentiment, and the rise and fall of various brands, service sand popular apps. It's really amazing to watch these trends and compare them between companies, products, websites and more. Sometimes, you can even predict which brands are going to win the war over the minds and hearts of the general public.

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7 Ways To Learn Something New Every Day With Wikipedia

Wikipedia is packed full of content. At the time of writing there are over 4 million articles contained within the English language version, with more being added all the time. All of these pages are free to view, not lumbered with ads, and are edited by people like us. It’s a resource that everybody knows about, but which very few people truly make the most of.

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Google's Bigger App Launcher

I've previously posted about Google's experimental app launcher that replaces the black navigation bar. It's the perfect fit for the Chrome integration with Google search, which also removes the search box from Google SERPs.



Google tests a new version of the app launcher in Chrome: it's huge and you can click "more" to see other Google services. I've managed to get the new interface using this URL in Chrome.

If you think "huge" is an exaggeration, take a look at this screenshot and compare it with the screenshots from this post:

{ Thanks, Silviu. }

Gmail's Inbox Tabs

Gmail has a lot of cool features that let you organize mail, but not many people use them. Creating filters is complicated and manually labelling messages is time consuming. That's why Google added features that automatically classify messages: Priority Inbox finds important messages, Smart Labels categorizes messages and lets you find notifications, bulk messages or automatically archive them. Gmail also has different inbox styles that prioritize important messages, starred or unread messages.



Now Gmail's inbox started to include a few tabs powered by Smart Labels, a feature from Gmail Labs. "On the desktop, the new inbox groups your mail into categories which appear as different tabs. (...) Your inbox is organized in a way that lets you see what's new at a glance and decide which emails you want to read when. You can easily customize the new inbox - select the tabs you want from all five to none, drag-and-drop to move messages between tabs, set certain senders to always appear in a particular tab and star messages so that they also appear in the Primary tab."

There are tabs for social updates from sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Google+, promotions (newsletters, offers and other bulk messages), notifications/updates (confirmations, bills, receipts), forum messages (online groups, discussion boards, and mailing lists) and a primary tab that shows all the other messages. This way, you can focus on important messages and read everything else later. The Smart Labels feature also has a checkbox that allows you to automatically archive messages, so that notifications, newsletters and social updates skip the inbox.

A similar feature will be added to the mobile Gmail apps for iOS and Android. The nice thing is that inbox tabs are customizable, so you can hide some of them or even all of them.

The new feature will roll out in the coming weeks, but the updated mobile apps should be available sooner. Until then, try Smart Labels.



{ via Gmail Blog }

Modern All The Way: Creating Custom Tiles for Windows 8

To tile or not to tile? One of the most divisive elements of Windows 8 is the Start screen's tiles. These square or rectangle-shaped buttons are effectively shortcuts to launching apps, and are often displaying additional data about the app they represent. This makes them vital, whatever you might think of them, and far superior to shortcut tiles. There are several very easy to use apps and utilities that can be used to create aesthetic and functional Windows 8 Start screen tiles.

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Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 and 3 Tab 10.1 unveiled June 20

In addition to S4 Galaxy Mini , Samsung also benefit from its London conference on 20 June to unveil a Galaxy Ace 3 , entry level smartphone and a Galaxy Tab 10.1 3 .

An invitation sent to the press conference announcing a Samsung on its range Galaxy. Until then, it is speculated that sun a mini version of the Galaxy S4 and devices Windows 8 .

Samsung have other interesting products in the hood. 's Galaxy Ace 3 is equipped with a dual heart processor clocked at 1 GHz and supported by 1 GB of RAM, a low change from the Galaxy Ace 2 (CPU @ 800 MHz and 768 MB RAM).

Its screen would display a diagonal 4-inch 800 x 400 pixels resolution. 4GB of internal memory would fill the storage part, expandable via microSD. Finally, a 5-megapixel sensor ensure the photo / video section. 's Galaxy Tab 3 would be in the format 10.1-inch (1280 x 800 pixels).

More powerful than the 7 inches already presented, it would be powered by a dual heart processor running at 1.6 GHz, an increase of 600 MHz compared to the Galaxy Tab 2 . Side memory alive, she would stick to her older gigabyte. She would decline in two models: 16 and 32 GB.

Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr arrive on Google Glass

While the agreement Google I / O is in full swing in San Francisco, the Google Glass grow gradually through a future update and the addition of many applications . So far, the main interest the Google Glass was their use of the Google ecosystem . They thus allowed to browse the Internet via Chrome, to make calls via Google Hangouts video or display contextual information via Google Now.

Google can now boast attract to other application vendors not least. After Path and the New York Times, Google has announced during Google I / O arrival of many third-party applications such as Facebook , Twitter , Tumblr , Evernote , CNN and the magazine it .

Application CNN allows you to view videos directly from the information on Google Glass and send alerts on the most important information that the user selected categories chain. The side of Facebook , the application for Google Glass lets you share photos directly on the social network when Twitter allows the display of the timeline, sending tweets and pictures. Evernote meanwhile can take notes voice, converted into textual form.

For Tumblr , integration into Google Glass will display the dashboard updates and post your own different content, whether images, text or emptied. Finally, the application it will display the titles of recent articles and add items to the playlist. Google Software Glass also receive update soon including better image stabilization during video capture.

In a conversation with Sergey Brin, Google registered under Glass, a journalist Slashgear complained of not being able to nod in a conversation filmed using Google Glass, forcing himself to keep his head fixed. "stay listening, we will have software that will help you " , he said Sergey Brin , Google founder in charge of Google Glass .

5 Events That Have Triggered A Domain Name Registration Gold Rush

There’s gold in them there domain names. Some are sold for seven digits – Pizza.com, for example, famously sold for $2.6 million back in 2008 – this after the original owner paid only $20 for it in the mid-’90s. Early Internet uses bought such domains without thinking much about it, only to become rich years later.

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Don’t Throw It Out Just Yet: 6 DIY Upcycling Websites That Show How To Repurpose Waste

I am sure if you saw the Great Pacific garbage patch, you would get an idea of the waste we throw out as a species. It is just one of the concentrations of plastic and waste debris out there. We always talk about recycling or reusing old stuff to protect the environment. It's probably easier to send away stuff so that it gets recycled. It's slightly more difficult to adapt a DIY approach and reuse old throwaways in a newer way.

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How to Link to a Specific Paragraph of a Google Document

You can create hyperlinks to any specific paragraph in Google Documents and thus save the reader from scrolling. Links can also point to specific slides in Google Presentations.

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This story, How to Link to a Specific Paragraph of a Google Document, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 28/05/2013 under Google Docs, Internet.

Cool Websites and Tools [May 28th 2013]

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool websites round-ups delivered to your email daily email subscribe here....

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3 Ways To Share Multiple Links On One Page

URL shortening is certainly nothing new. In fact, it's become an absolute necessity when it comes to sharing links on social networks that limit your character count like Twitter. But rather than simply shorten URLs and present them in neat little shortened URLs, it's also possible to do exactly the same thing for multiple links. There are several services which make it easy to share a bundle of links together as one shortened link.

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What Changes Do You Want To See In Windows 8.1? [You Told Us]

The Windows 8 sales figures have been solid so far, but the criticism from users hasn't stopped since day one. Thankfully a major update, titled Windows 8.1 (formerly codenamed Windows Blue), is being released by the end of 2013. No one is yet sure what changes Windows 8.1 will bring, but we thought it was a good idea to seek your thoughts on the subject ahead of time.

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This Is How You Use Facebook To Find A Job

Welcome to the modern age of career networking! It’s a wonderful world where you can find a white collar job in the same place you’ll find Grumpy Cat – that is, the Internet. In fact, you can actually use Facebook itself to find a job. Check out some of our tips below.

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Keep Your Karma – What Not To Do On Reddit

Reddit proves its worth more with each passing day. As a source of entertainment, information, knowledge, memes, and LOLs, it is unrivalled in terms of the sheer scope of content it offers to the casual Web user. Which is why it totally deserves its place on the list of seven websites we could not live without. You don't even have to join Reddit to enjoy the various pleasures it has to offer.

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YouTube's Feeling Lucky

YouTube has a cool feature that generates a playlist of 10 recommended videos. Make sure you are logged in and visit this page.

There's even an experiment that places a "play" button next to the YouTube logo, so you can quickly generate the "I'm Feeling Lucky" serendipitous playlist. If you don't like the playlist, click "play" again.

Here's how you can enable the experimental button. If you use Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari or Internet Explorer 8+:



1. open youtube.com in a new tab and log in



2. load your browser's developer console:



* Chrome - press Ctrl+Shift+J for Windows/Linux/ChromeOS or Command-Option-J for Mac



* Firefox - press Ctrl+Shift+K for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-K for Mac



* Opera - press Ctrl+Shift+I for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-I for Mac, then click "Console"



* Safari - check this article



* Internet Explorer - press F12 and select the "Console" tab.



3. paste the following code which changes a YouTube cookie:



document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=LVXsOMb_c_g; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();



4. press Enter and close the console.



To go back to the standard UI, follow the same steps, but use the following code:



document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();



{ Thanks, Yu-Hsuan Lin. }

Is It Wise To Buy Blog Or Forum Comments From Freelancers?

Last year, I wrote about identifying fake reviews. In the overall discussion about purchasing site activity (whether it be comments, posts, reviews, or whatever else you offer), it’s safe to assume that buying comments is pretty much the same thing as buying user reviews. There’s a lot of overlap between the two and they pretty much achieve the same purposes. But there are also a few subtle differences.

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8 Google Mashups To Have Fun With And Learn Something New About Our World

Let's just say, that Google developers are a thriving lot thanks to open APIs of many of its products from Google Maps mashups to YouTube. One of their online meeting places is the Google Developers site. Google Developers houses all resources like the Google Developer products and toolkits for building cutting edge applications. Quite a few of them – 424 at last count – are organized in the Showcase.

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