Caption Contest: Vulcan Nerve Pinch

Can you think of a humorous caption for this cartoon? Then go ahead and submit it in the comments section! Every caption you submit counts as an entry to win an awesome geeky MakeUseOf t-shirt for free! Now, join me in congratulating Mike D. for his submission, “Philips-head?! What do you mean, Philips?! Do you know how long it took me to get ANY screwdriver this size?!” in our previous caption contest “Trapped“. I also couldn’t resist awarding a t-shirt to Chirag M. for his entry, “Guess we just have to talk by the fan, no water cooler out here.”...

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Kids Can Learn Programming Basics With “Make Your Own Flappy Bird” In 20 Minutes

Kids have a new incentive to learn programming. Thanks to Code.org, they can design their own Flappy Bird game in 20 minutes. The “Make Your Own Flappy Bird” tutorial is designed for kids as young as six-year olds. It’s a great idea to leverage a popular game and tap into its global craze for teaching kids about the basics of programming. Children don’t even have to dive into intricate blocks of code and worry about functions, return values, loops and conditionals. It’s 20 minutes of fun. The Flappy Bird tutorial page gives you a fair idea how the learning progresses....

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Video Game Hub Episode 7 – Top 5 Gaming Stories Of The Week

Welcome to MakeUseOf’s Video Game Hub episode 7, the weekly news show where we count down the top five news stories from the busy world of video games. A new episode airs each and every Friday. Who has time to keep up with all that constantly changing video game news? Oh that’s right, we do! This week, we have Xbox One sort of price dropping, Twitch coming to the Xbox One, PS Plus freebies for March, a game that will be 1080p on PS4 and Xbox One, and a movie from Sony about the console war between Nintendo and Sega....

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Be Lazy: 3 Tips To Reduce The Risk Of RSI By Resting Your Hands

Typing and mouse clicks are two of the potential causes of Repetitive Strain Injury or RSI, a major health risk in computer users. With the arrival of touchscreen devices, tapping has also been added to the mix. Even if you can’t remove these three actions from the equation completely, with a few simple tricks, you can reduce their negative effects on your hands. If a sizeable portion of your workload involves a computer or a mobile device, it is difficult to give it up entirely or even scale down the time spent with it. But you must find a way...

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It’s A Dangerous World Out There. Travel Safely With Kitestring

Ever found a great deal on Craigslist, but passed it up because you’d have to go to the shady part of town in the darkest reaches of night just to grab it? I have. It’s a dilemma that effects anyone who buys and sells things online. Or simply makes a trip anywhere. But what if there was a service which makes you check-in with it, and if you fail to do so texts a friend or family member? That service exists, and is called Kitestring. And it’s really good. Here’s why. Meet Kitestring Kitestring is an SMS based service which...

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4 Websites For Affordable Recipes That Won’t Break the Bank

Want to save a few hundred dollars every month? Stop eating out and start cooking! When you eat out, you’re paying a premium for the service that went into cooking it and that can really add up over time. By cooking for yourself, not only do you eat healthier and save money, it could even become a fun and relaxing hobby. Finding the best deals and couponing online are two useful methods that’ll save money in the long run, but cooking is a dime-saving skill that will make you feel better about yourself. Furthermore, “you get what you pay for”...

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Ten Google Easter Eggs You Missed Somehow

While technology is cold and rigid, it’s still made by humans. And where there’s a human, there’s a sense of humor. Often, engineers will slip a fun secret into the code of their product—an Easter Egg, it’s called. We have seen some fun and surprising Easter Eggs in operating systems, but the king of these secrets is everyone’s favourite search engine, Google. Over the years, Google’s engineers have built a great number of these hidden treasures into its many services. Here are ten of the coolest ones that you might have missed somehow… The Anagram Of… Google for the word...

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Would this be what Dr Jones uses for his iPad, the Heming leather iPad case?

If you have an iPad chances are you go to some lengths to protect your investment. But, if you are like me you don’t want a run of the mill, everyday, everyone else has one type of case. You want something a little different as well as something that is quality made. The Heming a Kickstarter project from Castelli Davarg, certainly checks all those boxes for me. The Heming is a hand stitched full grained leather iPad case with a twist. Unlike most iPad cases that use magnets or some sort of snap on case back to keep the cover secured to the iPad, the Heming uses their own designed GECCO Sticktion Grip System to hold the iPad in place. Available for the iPad, iPad air and the mini, the Heming works in multiple orientations and provides easy access to all of the iPad’s external ports. The Heming project has many pledge points with a $56 pledge getting you a Heming in one of the three color choices to fit your iPad size. This project is seeking funding until April 7, 2014 and if successfully funded, plans to ship the Heming as early as May 2014.

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Tagged: iPad, Leather

Would this be what Dr Jones uses for his iPad, the Heming leather iPad case? originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on February 28, 2014 at 8:00 am.

BLU Life Pure Smartphone Review and Giveaway

Want a cheap, high-end Android smartphone? The recently released $350 BLU Life Pure strikes a great balance between price and performance for an unlocked phone. But can it beat out stiff competition from similarly priced superphones, such as the Nexus 5? To find out, we purchased a review unit. Now that we’re done with testing, we’re giving it away to one very lucky reader. Read through our review, then join the giveaway to win this BLU Life Pure smartphone for yourself! Pricing and Comparison to Nexus 5 In terms of price-to-performance, the BLU Life Pure offers great value. But how...

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Gunz 2: The Second Duel – Does It Out-Battle The Original

Back before free-to-play shooters like Loadout were commonplace, a game called Gunz took the gaming world by storm. Not only was it free, but it actually featured some insane third-person shooting with a level of speed and mobility that not many others could match. Fast forward to February 2014, and out of no where the sequel, called Gunz 2: The Second Duel, is released in an Early Access state on Steam. It’s been available oversees for some time, but not we’ve finally had the chance to get our hands on it. Is it any good? How does it match up...

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Spying On Yahoo, Bitcoin Feds, Apple Admiration, Minecraft Movie [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, GCHQ spies on Yahoo, Bitcoin vs. the Federal Reserve, 25 years of the Web, Apple admiration, Amazon’s plans for a music streaming service, Warner Bros. is making a Minecraft movie, and a working Game Boy is revealed as the best cosplay ever. British Spies Targeted Yahoo Webcams GCHQ thinks nude people are “offensive.” But invading their privacy? Not at all. Oy. http://t.co/EaFyRE3NnS — Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) February 27, 2014 GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA, spied on Yahoo users chatting via webcam. The program, titled Optic Nerve, is the latest revelation to emerge from...

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The World Map of Internet Censorship

Do you have access to social media? Political news? Well, congratulations — you’re obviously residing in a liberal country. It may not surprise you to hear that people from certain countries like China, North Korea, Indonesia and parts of Africa — to name a few — do not have access to have the privilege of accessing political and social media; blocked by their own government censors and firewalls. Don’t take Internet freedom for granted. Via WhoIsHostingThis?

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Should You Buy A Smartwatch Now, Or Wait?

Everyone is talking about smartwatches and other wearables as “the next big thing.” The Pebble saw massive success on Kickstarter, and companies as well-known as Samsung and Sony have jumped into the ring with their own smartwatches. Future smartwatches from companies as diverse as Apple, Google, and Microsoft are rumored to be on their way. So, should you buy a smartwatch today, or wait for the smartwatches to come? What’s the Point of a Smartwatch? Every smartwatch manufacturer is scrambling to figure out why you would want a smartwatch. They know why they want to sell you a smartwatch —...

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Why Selling Tickets On Seatwave Was The Most Expensive Mistake I Ever Made

I really like French music. MC Solaar. Charlotte Gainsbourg. Carla Bruni. I can’t get enough of it. Sadly, it’s quite rare for a French language musician to tour the UK. However, when Belgian-Rwandan rapper Stromae announced tour dates in London, I was overjoyed. He was playing at Koko — a reasonably small music venue in Camden, and tickets were sure to get snapped up in short order. This is largely due to the huge amount of French language speakers in London (400,000 French people live in London. More French people live in London than Bordeaux or Strasbourg), as well as...

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How and Why to Add a Real Time Clock to Arduino

Keeping time on Arduino projects isn’t as easy as you might think: once the computer connection isn’t there, your unpowered Arduino simply stops running, including its internal ticker. In order to keep your Arduino in sync with the world around it, you’re going to need what’s called a “Real Time Clock module”. Here’s how use one. What’s the point of a Real Time Clock (RTC)? Your computer most likely syncs its time with the internet, but it still has an internal clock that keeps going even without an Internet connection or the power is turned off. When you use an...

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Bing for iPhone Gets Some New Features For You To Fiddle With

Bing have just released some exciting new features for their iPhone app, including new Metro-style tiles and multiple searches. Let’s give you a rundown on what’s new to play with. The biggest visible change is that you can see very clearly what is currently trending with the big Microsoft-style tiles. Just tap on a tile to be taken to the search results. You can also be taken to the other trends, the news, and more images, just by tapping the appropriate tiles. A really cool new feature is that you can run multiple searches, and still keep the original results....

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