Stealing Passwords With An Android App Is Easy: Learn How To Protect Yourself

You read that headline right: If you and I were on the same WiFi network, I could probably log in to some of your sensitive accounts — and I'm not even a hacker. This is thanks to an app for rooted Android devices called dSploit. It may sound pretty malicious then, but its intentions are surprisingly good. If you understand how other people could hack your information, you can learn to protect yourself. Do not use any of the information in this article to steal other people's information.

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How To Copy Data From A Laptop

Laptops have a particularly short lifetime. While it is possible to upgrade laptop hardware, one day the time will come when that is just not possible or worth it any more. This is when you will want to copy your data from your old laptop to a new device. How you can do this essentially depends on how much data there is to back up and whether or not the old laptop is still booting.

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How To Copy Data From A Laptop

Laptops have a particularly short lifetime. While it is possible to upgrade laptop hardware, one day the time will come when that is just not possible or worth it any more. This is when you will want to copy your data from your old laptop to a new device. How you can do this essentially depends on how much data there is to back up and whether or not the old laptop is still booting.

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An iOS-Like App Launcher for your Windows Desktop

If you find the Windows Start Menu confusing, you can use an application launcher to quickly your favorite programs and websites from the desktop.

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This story, An iOS-Like App Launcher for your Windows Desktop, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 23/07/2013 under Windows, Software.

Where’s My App? New Microsoft App for Windows Phone

Microsoft has released a new app “Where’s My App” for Windows Phone 7.5 and 8 users, this apps helps Windows Phone users to easily find apps and games.

This new app also provides App availability status and highly-rated alternatives if the App you are looking for is not available.

However this app does not replace the Windows Store, but rather it focuses on searching within the most popular Apps for Android and iPhone and looking for availability or alternatives within the Windows Phone platform.

Additionally, if your favorite app has not released for Windows Phone then using this app you can send requests to app developers, encouraging them to develop for Windows Phone.

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How To Make Good Use Of Google’s Search Operators

With operators, you're able to display results that pertain only to certain websites, search through a range of numbers, or even completely exclude a word from your results. When you master the use of Google's search engine, finding the answer to nearly anything you can think of is a power that you have right at your fingertips. In this article, let's make that happen.

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The Absolute Best Ways To Follow The News On Twitter

Twitter is the coolest, most user-friendly way to keep up with the news of the world, yet sometimes we still over-complicate it. With all of the different accounts and followers and feeds flying around, it can be a little difficult to aggregate news to your individual taste. Fortunately, MakeUseOf is here to bring you the best ways to follow the news on Twitter.

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6 Quick Ways To Get Familiar With A New Operating System

In the past, the only consumer operating systems that mattered were Windows and maybe Mac OS X and Linux. Now, we also have Chrome OS, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone to worry about. And new versions of these operating systems are coming out even more frequently. Things are changing frequently. The days of learning a single operating system like Windows XP and using it for ten years are behind us. Here are some tips for keeping up with new operating systems and learning how they work.

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6 Quick Ways To Get Familiar With A New Operating System

In the past, the only consumer operating systems that mattered were Windows and maybe Mac OS X and Linux. Now, we also have Chrome OS, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone to worry about. And new versions of these operating systems are coming out even more frequently. Things are changing frequently. The days of learning a single operating system like Windows XP and using it for ten years are behind us. Here are some tips for keeping up with new operating systems and learning how they work.

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5 Ways You Can Make Money with Your Webcam and Stay Fully Clothed

So you have a webcam that you bought a while ago for recording YouTube cat videos but that never really took off and now you don't know what to do. Making money with a webcam can be difficult - unless you take the one route that everyone already knows about, if you catch my drift - and it will require some real effort out of you but it's definitely possible.

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VideoGamer.com: The Funniest Gaming-Related Videos On YouTube? [Stuff to Watch]

I exclusively choose to consume my video game news from sources I find put comedy before coolness. I couldn't care less about your high scores or gaming finesse, just make me laugh and tell me things I don't know. So my main sources of gaming entertainment, aside from Twitter and the inescapable mainstream, are Giant Bomb, RoosterTeeth and the the YouTube channel I'll be featuring today, VideoGamerTV.

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How To Create Your Own Virtual Tour On Google Earth With A KML File

Recording your own virtual tours in Google Earth is a great way to remember your trips, and re-experience them (to a degree) at any time. Recording a Google Earth KML file might sound complicated, but as soon as you get the steps pat, you'll be wanting to record more and more. It takes a little more skill, but can help you share stunning trips and tours around the earth with anyone.

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How To Create Your Own Virtual Tour On Google Earth With A KML File

Recording your own virtual tours in Google Earth is a great way to remember your trips, and re-experience them (to a degree) at any time. Recording a Google Earth KML file might sound complicated, but as soon as you get the steps pat, you'll be wanting to record more and more. It takes a little more skill, but can help you share stunning trips and tours around the earth with anyone.

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Cleaning The Fridge: 6 Recipe Websites Which Show You How To Cook With Leftovers

Surprisingly, the art of leftover cooking isn't new by any means. If you have ever been a college student, then this wasn't art…it was a lifestyle. From Shepherd's Pie to casseroles, many dishes can be wrapped around leftovers. Heck, quite a few were probably invented from leftovers, like fried rice. Can the good be made finger-licking better with some cooking chutzpah? Let's find out from these six websites with leftover recipes.

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Gnome-Based Desktop Environments Explained: MATE vs. Gnome Shell vs. Unity vs. Cinnamon

Ever since Gnome went ahead with their Gnome Shell idea, the Linux community has been at a frenzy to find a new desktop environment that is right for them. A majority of users used Gnome 2, but the introduction of Gnome 3 attracted a lot of users, forking Gnome 2 into MATE, modifying it with Cinnamon and Unity, or flock completely away from anything Gnome-related to desktop environments such as Xfce, LXDE, or KDE. But the Gnome desktop environment came with a lot of popular software that supported it very well, which still leaves a lot of people trying to find the version of Gnome -- MATE, Gnome Shell, Unity, or Cinnamon -- that's appropriate for them. Here's a quick take at these four to see what the major differences are.

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How to Import Web Data into Google Docs [Video]

This video tutorial explains how you can import web data - like HTML tables and lists - from external web pages into your Google Docs sheets with a simple formula.

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This story, How to Import Web Data into Google Docs [Video], was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 22/07/2013 under Google Docs, Internet.

Download Evernote 5 Beta For Windows Desktop

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The popular Evernote desktop client has just got better. Yes, Evernote has released the first beta version of its upcoming Evernote 5 desktop client for Windows operating system with plenty of new features and improvements. This major release for Windows comes almost eight months after Evernote Corporation released Evernote 5 client for Mac. For those [...]

Customize “This PC” (Computer) In Windows 8.1 Using This PC Tweaker

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In addition to Start screen personalization, boot to desktop, show desktop background on Start, slide show on lock screen, slide to shut down, and over 50 other new features, Windows 8.1 comes with a number of small changes as well. One of them is This PC. In Windows 8.1, Computer (or My Computer) has been [...]

Do You Use BitTorrent? [MakeUseOf Poll]

BitTorrent is a protocol, and as such, is not necessarily illegal. It can be used to download all types of things, from pirated movies to completely legal Linux distributions. With that in mind, do you use BitTorrent in your everyday life? You don't have to tell us what you use it for!

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3 Ways to Backup Evernote (and Do You Need To?)

Unlike, say, Dropbox, Evernote does not offer a revision history, your content all syncs as-is. This means you could potentially lose any note you accidentally delete from the trash, or any content you accidentally delete from a specific note. If you share a particular notebook other users might make changes you don't like. You get the idea: information goes away sometimes. As with any software, backups are the only real answer for that. Take matters into your own hands: back up the notes, notebooks and other information you store in Evernote.

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