Web Of Discretion: When Not To Trust Web Of Trust

Are you sure that you can completely trust one of the Internet’s most popular resources in online security? Web of Trust is a website that comes advertised as a full-featured browser plugin or extension to assist you in immediately judging the trustworthiness of a website. It’s something that we’ve covered time and time again here at MakeUseOf, and it’s even made it to our list of best websites on the Internet. Many of us know it as one of the most useful resources in web security, and I personally know that a good portion of our MakeUseOf staff are big...

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Did You Know You Can Make Your Own Chromecast For Free?

A brand-new shiny Chromecast may only be $35, but what if you can’t easily get one in your area? Lucky for you, a free app called CheapCast has hit the Play Store that can use your Android device to emulate a Chromecast dongle. With the app running in the background, any other Android device can send YouTube videos to the device running CheapCast. It’s still in an early beta phase, so streaming for apps like Netflix still isn’t supported, and you can’t stream entire Chrome tabs from your PC, but the potential for this app is incredible. Plus, if you...

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USS Enterprise vs. Millenium Falcon: Know Your Facts

Smuggler’s spacecraft versus the space voyager. Star Wars versus Star Trek. This is one fan war that will never cease. In spite of the astonishing size difference, is it fair to put the Millenium Falcon, captained by Hans Solo, up against the magnanimous USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D and its crew? How many difference can you spot, and which would win in a fight? Click to enlarge.

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Doxie Go And Xerox Mobile Wi-Fi Portable Scanners Review And Giveaway

For students, life is all about obtaining information. At the end of the day, grades will be determined by how successful a student is at retaining the information in textbooks, lectures, and other methods employed by teachers. As we rapidly progress into a digital world, paper feels like a clunky medium of transforming knowledge and ideas. Still, for students, and people in all walks of life, using paper is a reality. That’s where scanners can become incredibly useful, as they allow you to turn those pesky, wasteful papers into digital files that can be stored on a computer, tablet or...

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ArtistX: The Linux Distribution Tailored For Any Artist, Whether Graphical or Musical

There are custom Linux distributions that are made for everyone imaginable. Students, scientists, and even various artists can enjoy special Linux distributions made just for them. The joy of the flexibility Linux provides is that any person with the right skills can take an existing distribution and change whatever they want about it to release their own one. While there are a few distributions which make some major technical changes from the distribution they’re based off of, a majority of them are simple remixes — distributions that are technically identical to the one they’re based on, but they just include...

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Sick Of Yahoo? Move Your Tumblr Blog Into WordPress

Are you sick of Yahoo’s meddling with Tumblr blogs? Time to relocate to WordPress. Here’s how! Recently, Yahoo bought the up-and-coming blog platform, Tumblr. If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ll have noticed that this came with more than a few changes, such as the domain settings for blogs using a personal domain. Most notably, Tumblr seem to be trying to take a stand against pornography and blogs of a sexual nature, but also including LGBT support blogs in the process. Tumblr have removed the erotica category, filtered these tags to make sure these posts aren’t found easily,...

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Caption Contest: Atomic Phone Charger

I think we might have overdone it, Bill. Caption this image! What do you think happened here? Share your captions with us in the comments section, and the wittiest one will be selected to be awarded a coveted MakeUseOf t-shirt! The winner will be announced the following day.

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4 Hidden Gems From Sega’s Forgotten 32X Console

Everyone remembers the Sega Genesis (aka MegaDrive). If nothing else, you probably remember the slogan from the commercials – “Genesis does what Ninten-don’t.” What people don’t remember as often, and generally with good reason, is the 32 bit attachment called the 32X. This interested console was not actually a console at all, at least not in the traditional sense. Instead, it plugged into the cartridge slot of the existing Genesis and was unable to function on its own. Right off the bat, you can already tell that it was a terrible idea, but alas, Sega released it, and to say...

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6 Great Tech Tips To Beat College On A Budget

There are some easy ways to get free textbooks, study more efficiently, and cut the time it takes to write a paper in half. I’m entering my final year of university in a few weeks. For the past three years I’ve seen my peers use sloppy research methods, spend hours worrying over their unpreparedness for an exam, and shell out major cash for textbooks. College is supposed to be fun, not four years of stress. Despite growing criticisms of the “value” of a degree, this generation has the best chance to make the most out of a course. Technology has...

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Jawbones – not a Bluetooth headset, but a cool construction toy

Are your kids (or maybe yourself) bored with LEGO? Tired of TinkerToys? Do they even make TinkerToys anymore? Here’s an alternative construction toy system that I just discovered. They are called Jawbones and they feature pieces that swivel, ratchet and snap together in all sorts of creative ways. They are billing it as The Buildable Art System and Jawbones sets are available in 12 – 500 piece sets. Prices for the sets range from $8.49 to $99.98 and can be found on Amazon.

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5 More Productivity Apps for Your Mac-Based Home Office

When your Mac is the hubbub of your home office, you want to outfit it with productivity tools that actually make you, well, productive, more efficient, and maybe a little faster at what you do. I introduced my first list of Mac productivity tools back in April, and in between that time, I’ve also written about powerful automation programs like Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, and BetterTouchTool. Today I will be highlighting another set of tools I regularly access. They each have a single purpose that makes them practical and easy to use for most Mac-based home office activities. All of them,...

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