3 Secret Ways To Use Hashtags You’ve Never Tried Before

Six years after Chris Messina first introduced the hashtag, it’s taken over the Internet and is used in Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Flickr and other places. The basic purpose of a hashtag, of course, is to find a list of all posts about a certain topic. We have already told you why hashtags are key to reaching a wider audience and how to use hashtags effectively on Twitter. You can also use services such as Tagboard to search hashtags across social networks. So I thought, why not take it out of the Web services that already integrate it, and apply...

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Faster Spell Checking in Google Docs

Now it's easier to check the spelling of a Google Docs document or a Google Slides presentation. Just click the Tools menu, select Spelling and review each spelling suggestion. You can click "change", "change all", "ignore" or "add to dictionary". After performing an action, Google locates the next spelling mistake, so you don't have to manually find it.

Until now, you had to right-click each spelling mistake and select one of the options. Google Docs flags the mistakes with red underlines, so you can still fix them manually.



"The updated spell check lets you check the spelling of your entire document or presentation at once, instead of having to resolve misspellings individually," explains Google.

8 Legal Uses For BitTorrent: You’d Be Surprised

To many people, BitTorrent is synonymous with piracy. This isn’t true — BitTorrent is certainly used for piracy, but it’s also used for many legal things. If we banned BitTorrent tomorrow and removed it from the Internet, many organizations, businesses, and content creators would have to scramble to replace it. Like HTTP, which your browser uses to communicate with websites, BitTorrent is just a protocol. You could use your browser to download pirated content, just as you could use a BitTorrent client to download pirated content, but that isn’t the only possible use. Sure, let’s face it — BitTorrent is...

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Google Drive's Desktop Shortcuts

Google Drive has a new promotional message that suggests users to install the desktop Drive app and "access your Drive from a folder on your computer."

After installing the app in Windows, you'll get 4 desktop shortcuts for Google Drive and 3 of its web apps (Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides). Google's mostly silent installer doesn't ask if you want these shortcuts. I think it's impolite to clutter people's desktops with 4 shortcuts without even asking if it's OK.

The same shortcuts are also added to the start menu / screen:

The shortcuts for Docs/Sheets/Slides let you create new documents/spreadsheets/presentations from your browser. Chrome users can already install apps and add shortcuts to the new tab page or the app launcher. Sure, you can easily delete the shortcuts, but you shouldn't have to do that.

5 Message Boards To Chat With Fellow iOS Gamers

For some people, gaming on iOS is just a casual pastime. They jump in, play some Candy Crush or whatever the latest craze is, and move on with their day. This is fine, as the device is suited perfectly to such a method of play – many of the games are aimed at casual players. But there are also some hardcore games out there, and plenty of gamers who enjoy playing them. For hardcore iOS gamers, connecting with others can be quite enjoyable. That’s where message boards come into play. They are a great place to find like-minded iOS gamers...

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9 Ways to Customise the New Tab Page in Chrome

Chrome’s new tab page is serviceable, but a bit boring. Whether you’re looking for a nice background for your new tab page or want to easily create your own visual bookmarks, add custom widgets, and view live information such as the weather or updates from your social networks, we’ve got a list of ways to make Chrome’s new tab page your own. Unfortunately, many new tab page replacements don’t have the useful “Recently closed” and “Other devices” options that appear at the bottom of Chrome’s default new tab page, allowing you to reopen closed tabs and open tabs from other...

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YouTube's AJAX Interface, Live in Chrome

YouTube's AJAX interface seems to be publicly available, at least for Chrome users. Back in May, I noticed a red progress bar at the top of YouTube's pages when loading a new video: YouTube experimented with the HTML5 history.pushState to change the browser URL without reloading the page. Then YouTube's engineers detailed their plan to make YouTube pages load faster. In the new interface, the video player and the JavaScript/CSS files are only loaded once, so when you click a new link, YouTube only loads the HTML page and the video. This happens almost instantly.

For some reason, the AJAX interface currently launched by YouTube only works when you click a related video or when you load a playlist. It doesn't work yet for the homepage and search results.

How To Disable Startup Programs In Windows 8.1

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There are a couple of reasons why you would want to stop some programs from loading with Windows. Maybe Windows is booting very slowly and you want speed up the boot by disabling unnecessary startup programs; or maybe a recently installed application is automatically starting with Windows and showing annoying popups every time you turn [...]

Popular game Dots arrives on Android and Kindle Fire

Dots, a very-popular and highly addictive game for iPhone and iPad devices is now also released for Android Smartphone and Kindle Fire.

Betaworks-the company behind Dots launched today morning this simple connecting app and now it is available in Google Play and Amazon Appstore.

Dots iOS version has been downloaded 5 million times and almost 1 billion games played since its launch.

In Dots game, you have to connect as many same-colored dots as you can in 60 seconds. With the released of Android version, Betaworks also released a new untimed mode called Movers.

For the first time in Dots, an un-timed, moves based mode is available; kick back and take your time while planning strategic moves.

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Become A More Organized And Productive Leader With Wrike

Taking on new roles and responsibilities is very often a part of life. As you get older, there will be situations where you need to manage projects, people, and overall goals of an organization, or maybe even a company. Life can get pretty crazy, unless you learn real fast how to get organized and get serious about setting up a long-term vision, and then putting together plans to get there quickly. Whether you’re heading up a single project at work, or you’re managing a small company, either role requires extreme organization and planning. This isn’t always possible with just a...

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5 Awesome Reasons To Use Google Forms

If you’ve ever tried to make an online survey, you’ve probably tried a few tools here and there. You’ve no doubt enjoyed some features of one product, and some of another, while being frustrated at the limitations you’ve come across. Survey tools we’ve tried and loved at MakeUseOf include PollDaddy, SurveyMonkey, Survey Legend, SIS, and MicroPoll: They all have their benefits and shortfalls. You may have already heard of Google’s Form feature, but not given it a try yet. Today I plan to convince you to give it a go. As a previous worshipper of SurveyMonkey and PollDaddy, I am...

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3 Ways You Can Preserve Your Online Presence While In Jail

Prisons are by no means fun places. The world in which you live narrows down to just a few small acres of barbed wire and concrete. You’re isolated from those you love. Phone calls are expensive, short and monitored by those in control. There’s also no internet. Horrible. I’ve never been to prison myself, but entrepreneur and blogger Alvin Tan found himself behind bars. He recently managed to offend the religious sensibilities of the conservative Muslim country of Malaysia by posting a photo of himself and his girlfriend tucking into a pork dish on Facebook, which he captioned with “Happy...

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Going Back To School? Save Money On A New Computer With 7 Secret Tips

Computer prices drop in September. But even in a land of plenty, getting the best deals requires a strategy and planning. I approach seasonal sales using a seven-part multi-spectrum approach: Alerts on price drops. Browser extensions. Aggressive price matching. Rebates and rebate tracking. Coupon stacking. Discounted gift card stacking. IFTTT’s recipe database. All of these methods will save you money. But together, these will save more than any would individually. So, let’s look into them one-by-one. Alerts on Price Drops Getting the latest alerts on sales takes work. Hunting for a specific item can mean refreshing a page several times...

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Bite The Entrepreneurial Bug By Taking 7 Free Online Courses On How To Start A Business

In any 21st century job, the work is hard and the hours are long. Thankfully, there’s a secret mantra revealed to the truly courageous – if you are not in a perfect job; create one for yourself. That’s where you stop swimming with the current and dare to go against it. Without a life jacket. From the cubicle cave you get to dunk yourself in the choppy waters of entrepreneurship. The work is hard and the hours are long. The reward – being the master of your own destiny. A couple of years back; I mentioned ten websites where you...

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TimeWarp Redirects Distractions, Keeping You Focused [Chrome]

Automatically teleport yourself to a productive site every time you try to visit a site you know you shouldn’t. TimeWarp may be simple, but it’s effective at reminding you to stop procrastinating – sometimes so subtly you’ll forget you even wanted a distraction. “I’m going to get this done,” you tell yourself, and that was the first lie. “I just want to look at Facebook for five minutes,” you tell yourself, and that was the second. Scrolling through the feeds you notice that someone is wrong about a political issue – and is wrong. “Well, I need to respond to...

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TimeWarp Redirects Distractions, Keeping You Focused [Chrome]

Automatically teleport yourself to a productive site every time you try to visit a site you know you shouldn’t. TimeWarp may be simple, but it’s effective at reminding you to stop procrastinating – sometimes so subtly you’ll forget you even wanted a distraction. “I’m going to get this done,” you tell yourself, and that was the first lie. “I just want to look at Facebook for five minutes,” you tell yourself, and that was the second. Scrolling through the feeds you notice that someone is wrong about a political issue – and is wrong. “Well, I need to respond to...

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Linux Archive Managers Compared: Ark vs. File Roller

Whenever you download any large files or collection of files, they will more than likely be contained in archive files. These archive files can be in various different formats, including .zip, .tar, and .bz2. The default archive managers for Linux, File Roller and Ark, are great programs that can read and edit these kinds of files, but are they identical? Archive managers may seem pretty simple at first glance, but they could potentially offer a lot more than you think. I compared these two based on their interface, ease of use, functionality, and the amount of supported archive types. Ark...

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4 of the Best Personal Wikis to Keep You Organized

Organization is a big buzz word these days, especially because there’s so much going on at any given time what with our smartphones, our tablets, our laptops, computers, and everything else. It can be difficult to stay focused, to keep all of your ducks in line, and to make sure you don’t forget any important tasks or appointments. Most people tackle this problem through gratuitous use of note-taking apps and to-do lists, but I submit to you a different solution: the personal wiki. After Wikipedia took the world by storm, the concept of the wiki has been applied to many...

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4 of the Best Personal Wikis to Keep You Organized

Organization is a big buzz word these days, especially because there’s so much going on at any given time what with our smartphones, our tablets, our laptops, computers, and everything else. It can be difficult to stay focused, to keep all of your ducks in line, and to make sure you don’t forget any important tasks or appointments. Most people tackle this problem through gratuitous use of note-taking apps and to-do lists, but I submit to you a different solution: the personal wiki. After Wikipedia took the world by storm, the concept of the wiki has been applied to many...

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4 of the Best Personal Wikis to Keep You Organized

Organization is a big buzz word these days, especially because there’s so much going on at any given time what with our smartphones, our tablets, our laptops, computers, and everything else. It can be difficult to stay focused, to keep all of your ducks in line, and to make sure you don’t forget any important tasks or appointments. Most people tackle this problem through gratuitous use of note-taking apps and to-do lists, but I submit to you a different solution: the personal wiki. After Wikipedia took the world by storm, the concept of the wiki has been applied to many...

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