Make Your Web Reading More Productive With The Help Of 6 Chrome Extensions

Reading on the web at the best of times is an ocular challenge. Those who love reading and a warm blanket, tend to hate reading on a web browser. Designing a better reading experience for yourself on your favorite browser is essential because there's just too much valuable information that can no longer be consumed in bit-sized chunks.

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Relax and Play (Legal) Poker with the Cross-Platform PokerTH

If you happen to enjoy playing cards on your computer and are tired of Solitaire and other card games, there are plenty of other options available. Playing Poker on your computer tends to be risky business because most time-worthy poker games are online and actually involve gambling, making its legality uncertain from country to country. If you're worried or even affected by this, don't think that you'll have to forget about playing poker on your computer. Instead, you can try out PokerTH, a fun and complete poker game that's cross-platform and free.

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Relax and Play (Legal) Poker with the Cross-Platform PokerTH

If you happen to enjoy playing cards on your computer and are tired of Solitaire and other card games, there are plenty of other options available. Playing Poker on your computer tends to be risky business because most time-worthy poker games are online and actually involve gambling, making its legality uncertain from country to country. If you're worried or even affected by this, don't think that you'll have to forget about playing poker on your computer. Instead, you can try out PokerTH, a fun and complete poker game that's cross-platform and free.

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Keep Your Computer Free From Threats With WinZip Malware Protector [Giveaway]

WinZip Malware Protector is available for $29.95 USD on Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8. That may seem like a steep price to pay for an anti-malware solution - particularly when there are a bunch of free alternatives floating around - but we’ve got a great deal for you: we’re giving away 10 copies of WinZip Malware Protector worth a total of $300 for FREE!

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50 Best New Features In Windows 8.1 [Must Read]

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Microsoft has finally released Windows 8.1 to the public and it’s available as a free update to all existing Windows 8 users. If you have upgraded to Windows 8.1 or planning to upgrade to Windows 8.1 in near feature, check out the 50 best features introduced with Windows 8.1. The Start button: Microsoft has restored [...]

Introducing Instant RSS Search

Try our new instant search engine that will help you discover RSS feeds for blogs, news websites, podcasts, and more. Powered by Google Feeds API.

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Join Thousands Of Linux Users Asking Google For Native Drive Client [Updates]

Imagine 15,000 people, all desperately wanting to use your product – so much so that they take time out of their day to sign a petition. That's the case for Google: a Change.org petition demanding a Linux version of Google Drive is rapidly approaching it's goal of 15,000 signatures.

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Join Thousands Of Linux Users Asking Google For Native Drive Client [Updates]

Imagine 15,000 people, all desperately wanting to use your product – so much so that they take time out of their day to sign a petition. That's the case for Google: a Change.org petition demanding a Linux version of Google Drive is rapidly approaching it's goal of 15,000 signatures.

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The End of This Internet

"Congratulations, you've reached the end of this internet. Look for another?" That's the message you see when you use the Google Reader bookmarklet and you read all the posts from your subscriptions. It's a joke that's quite bitter, now that the end of Google Reader is really close.

Google Reader was more than just a feed reader, it was probably the most well-connected Google service. It was integrated with so many Google services and now all of them will be a little less useful. The missing features, which relied on Google Reader, will show how important this service really was.



iGoogle's canvas view for feeds was powered by Google Reader and now it's no longer available, just like the Reader gadget.

How To Install Windows 8.1 From USB Flash Drive

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Installing an operating system from a USB drive involves mainly three steps: preparing a bootable USB by transferring all files of operating system on to the USB, enabling booting from USB on your PC, and then actually installing the operating system. Long time Windows users will know that preparing bootable USB is relatively easy if [...]

Did You Know You Could Customize The Windows Context Menu? Organize It With Right Click Enhancer

Have you ever wondered if there could be more to the Windows context menu? It has a dedicated key on every keyboard, yet are we really using it to it's full potential? Perhaps it's clogged up with a bunch of program entries from software that you don't really use. Now technically, you don't need a program to remove context entries, but if you want to extend your context menu beyond the defaults that Microsoft has limited it at, I recommend taking a look at Right Click Enhancer.

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How Many Social Networks Are You Active On? [MakeUseOf Poll]

Despite (or because of) their popularity, social networks are a controversial subject that’s often a point of contention even on MakeUseOf. Must you be a part of a social network to participate in something? How do you use your social networks? Are you even active on any? Why? And why not? Tell us how many social networks you’re active on.

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8 Websites That Offer Something You’ve Never Read Or Seen Every Day

There are very few questions that the Internet can't answer for you, and that's one of the many reasons that I love it. However, not all of us are curious enough to always know the right questions to ask. In this article, let me show you eight really cool websites that can introduce you to a piece of advice, a picture, a quote, or something else new and interesting every single day.

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Can You Make A Living Out Of Ethical Hacking?

Being labeled a “hacker” usually comes with plenty of negative connotations. If you call yourself a hacker, people will often perceive you as someone who causes mischief just for giggles. But there is a difference between good and bad hackers, as there are also ethical hackers that end up doing similar tasks for good and not evil. But while ethical hackers exist, is it possible to make a living as one?

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Full Google Reader Backup

"Reader is dead," says Mihai Parparita, one of the former Google Reader engineers. You still have 2-3 days to use Google Reader, but the best thing you can do is to export your data.



Google Takeout lets you export some of your Reader data, but not everything: your subscriptions, your notes, starred items, shared items, liked items, the list of followers and the people you were following, the items shared by the people you were following. Mihai Parparita wrote some Python scripts that download everything from your Google Reader accounts, including the entire content of the posts from your subscriptions. You need Python 2.7 and a lot of free storage: my backup has more than 5 GB for about 250 feeds (vs 125 MB for the uncompressed Takeout backup).

Mihai also started to write a script that lets you browse your archive. It's a work in progress, probably because the script for downloading your data is more important right now.



There's also a script for downloading a feed's archive. "Google Reader has (for the most part) a copy of all blog posts and other feed items published since its launch in late 2005 (assuming that at least one Reader user subscribed to the feed). This makes it an invaluable resource for sites that disappear, can serve as a backup mechanism and enables tools to be created." My post from 2007 provides another way to download the history of a feed.



"I don't fault Google for providing only partial data via Takeout. Exporting all 612,599 read items in my account (and a few hundred thousand more from subscriptions, recommendations, etc.) results in almost 4 GB of data. Even if I'm in the 99th percentile for Reader users (I've got the badge to prove it), providing hundreds of megabytes of data per user would not be feasible. I'm actually happy that Takeout support happened at all, since my understanding is that it was all during 20% time," says Mihai Parparita, who spent 5 years working on Google Reader.



If you're curious to know which Reader alternative gets a thumb up from Mihai, his answer is "a toss-up between NewsBlur and Digg Reader."

Lorem Ipsum Google Translate

"In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is a placeholder text (filler text) commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout, by removing the distraction of meaningful content. The lorem ipsum text is typically a section of a Latin text by Cicero with words altered, added, and removed that make it nonsensical and not proper Latin". (Wikipedia)



What happens when you use Google Translate to find the English translation of one of the many lorem ipsum texts? You get this:

"We will be sure to post a comment. Add tomato sauce, no tank or a traditional or online. Until outdoor environment, and not just any competition, reduce overall pain. Cisco Security, they set up in the throat develop the market beds of Cura; Employment silently churn-class by our union, very beginner himenaeos. Monday gate information. How long before any meaningful development. Until mandatory functional requirements to developers. But across the country in the spotlight in the notebook. The show was shot. Funny lion always feasible, innovative policies hatred assured. Information that is no corporate Japan."



Well, Google Translate for Latin is still in alpha and the text is nonsensical. There are many actual mistakes in Google Translate. Statistical machine translation sometimes produces humorous results.



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Cool Websites and Tools [June 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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Instant Message Anyone On Your Home Network With LAN Messenger

One of the worst things in a household full of poeple is when conversations consit of shouting throughout the house. More families are turning to instant messaging as a solution for in-home communication. Heck - IM is making paging systems obsolete at most workplaces, so why not in the home? The problem arises for parents of young children, who don't want those kids to be plugged into the Internet on public IM networks - for those parents, LAN Messenger can serve as an excellent solution.

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Scrivener: The Best Writing Program for the Mac and PC

Scrivener has been around since 2006, and it is a favorite application amongst novelists and screenwriters. Scrivener is not a desktop layout application like Word and Pages, but it helps you organize and export your documents to other applications. As a full-time non-fiction tech writer, I can't recommend Scrivener enough for actually starting and drafting writing projects and today I will share my personal workflow and tips for getting the most out of Scrivener.

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Nightingale: A Faster, Cleaner Cross-Platform Fork of Songbird Music Player

I’ve tried so many desktop music players that I’m starting to lose my mind. So far I’ve tried Clementine, Spider, GOM Audio, AIMP3, and a few more. How does Nightingale fare against its fierce competition? Before answering that, you should know that Nightingale is a fork of Songbird Classic. You’ll find a lot of similarities between the two, but also a number of differences - the main one being that Songbird has officially been declared dead. Whether you were looking for a Songbird alternative or a Songbird replacement, Nightingale might have what you need.

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