Do you like food? Do you use social media? Ever thought of combining the two in a bowl, transferring to a pan on medium heat and tasting the results? Of course you have. But like a good supermarket, social media is literally flooded with foodie accounts, and unless you tackle the task with a list, you’ll end up getting more than you’ve bargained for. Yes, there are many foodie accounts out there. Follow the ones below and you won’t be sorry. @SeriousEats on Twitter Yup, that’s right. Kimchi and bbq sauce. On a cheeseburger. Get the recipe (it’s awesome): http://t.co/MtIjxCpgl4—...
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Microsoft might be making it cheap to get online storage by announcing a plan that gives you 200GB of SkyDrive space for $100 a year, but it still doesn’t want to tax your physical hard drive. With Windows 8.1, SkyDrive will be rolling out “smart files”, previously called placeholder files, complete with Bing-powered OCR search. Optical Character Recognition, which Microsoft revealed at the end of August, will be baked into the OS in Bing Smart Search when SkyDrive is hooked up to your Camera Roll. This feature basically reads text in a photograph and captures it, so when you search...
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We were deemed non-essential by the US government, but we’re doing a show anyway! This week: IE5 usage is down to five per cent. Who are is the five percent? Your grandparents. EA finally agrees to pay college athletes for using their name and likeness in video games…and announced they’re going to stop making video games about colleges. Win? And Apple Maps is telling people to drive out onto an airport runway. No, seriously, that’s the story. I don’t even need to put a joke here. This week’s episode is brought to you by Bitdefender QuickScan. Whenever you need a...
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The next time you have to fill out a form in a PDF or split a PDF’s pages, you don’t need to dig around for a good program or web app to do the job. As long as you have Google Chrome installed, that’s all you need. Chrome comes with a built-in PDF Viewer tool that can be used to do a lot more than just read PDF files. Sure, it’s not as powerful as Windows programs like PDFSam and there are a few cool apps to annotate PDFs online. Still, as a quick-fix solution, Chrome is perfect. You first...
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Do a Google search for “BitTorrent Client” and it will come up first, but is µTorrent really the best client out there? In short: pretty much. Sure, there are other clients, but few match µTorrent for features. Which is odd because as a 1.1 MB portable app, µTorrent is one of the smallest clients out there. There’s some compression at work there, sure, but it’s impressive none-the-less. And yes, there are ads, but you can turn them off. And yes, the interface can feel cluttered, but you can customize it. It’s a program that goes a long way to treating...
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In August 2013 I reached the end of a project that had its origins over two and a half years earlier in a pub in Manchester, England. I finally self-published my magazine online, but how did I manage it? What tools did I use, and what did I learn? Why I Launched My Magazine I’ve been running my website Kasterborous.com since 2005, reporting on the latest news, providing reviews, interviews, and feature articles on the popular British TV show Doctor Who. We’ve also got a “podKast”, released a book of reviews (Ultimate Regeneration, the basis for my recent MakeUseOf guide...
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The iOS version of the Google Search app has been updated with new features and a fresh design. Google’s 15th anniversary was probably a red-letter day for the company as it invigorates things with a few design and functional changes. Tablet and mobile users will now see a new card-based user interface with their search results. The card-based UI is more in line with the consistent design seen first in Google services like Google Now and later adopted by Google+. The objective behind the design changes in the iOS app remains the same – a more unified design that’s cleaner...
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In the world of Dota 2, stats are incredibly important. Players obsess over numbers, both their own and those of the pros. Valve offers the ability to view your recent games and your wins, losses, and abandons in the client, but for most players, this just is not enough information. Thankfully, plenty of third-parties have stepped up to the plate to provide users with the detailed statistics they crave. Whether you are looking for information about your own games, or you prefer to check out the stats of the professional players in recent tournaments, these websites have you covered. Perhaps...
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You may have heard of Tumblr before, but it’s difficult to figure out what it really is without first using the service. In the simplest terms, it’s a social network and a microblogging site; kind of like a mixture between Blogger and Twitter. It’s populated by a wide range of content, ranging from Doctor Who and Sherlock fandoms to funny pictures of cats to nature photography. Its simplistic interface makes it appealing to a younger audience, giving them the freedom of a blog along with the content curation of a social network, all in an easy-to-use package. But what began...
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The Clash were the English punk band who famously fought the law and lost, and now thanks to Google Play you can relive the band’s story with some exclusive never-before-seen footage. Despite being more commonly associated with searches and apps, Google have turned their attention to the late great Joe Strummer and bandmates in a documentary that explores life in one of the most influential bands of the last century. The Clash first emerged in 1976 during the first wave of the British punk movement but internal struggles put an end to them only ten years later. Even if you’re...
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The days of reinstalling Windows whenever your PC runs into trouble are long since gone. All you need to fix Windows 8 is a recovery disk, either on CD/DVD, USB drive or an external hard disk drive. Whether you’ve upgraded from an old version of Windows or bought a new device, one of the first things that you should do is set up your own recovery disk, a process that basically installs a set of tools onto your chosen media that can then be used to repair issues with Windows 8. These useful tools will enable you to boot your...
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