This Flowchart Teaches You How To Identify Lights In The Sky

Have you ever looked up at the night sky, saw a light moving and didn’t know whether it was a plane or a meteor? It happens. But if you had this flowchart, you’d be able to identify 90% of all moving lights in the sky. Roughly. This flowchart by the League of Lost Causes is designed to teach you to use your deduction skills to correctly lights in the sky according to whether they move, their sizes and other characteristics. It’s even available as a poster, postcard and a mug. Click to enlarge.

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4 Ways To Reduce Your Mobile Internet Data Usage With Android Apps

You can reduce your mobile data usage without doing anything differently on your Android device. Just install and enable an app that functions as a compressing proxy. An intermediary will sit between you and the Internet, squishing your data down so it uses as little space as possible before travelling over your cellular carrier’s mobile data network. How it Works These solutions all work by routing your data through a third-party server. For example, let’s say you’re browsing to makeuseof.com in your web browser. You’ll normally connect directly to our web servers and they’d send you the data that makes...

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Geek Humor Included! Meet Cortana, Windows Phone 8.1 Digital Assistant

Windows Phone 8.1′s Siri rival Cortana is proving to be a great reason to upgrade early to the update, offering a wealth of useful voice-activated features, as well as a nice line in amusing, pithy responses to instructions that have little to do with booking appointments and making phone calls. Let’s take a look at just what she can do. Activating Cortana Before you get started with Cortana, you’ll have to upgrade to Windows Phone 8.1. If this isn’t available to you yet, you might consider the Developer Update as an alternative. Once this is installed, you’ll need to configure...

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Escape The Dungeon Crawl: 4 Co-Op Campaigns Without Loot Grinding

When it comes to cooperative campaign gaming, many of the most popular titles are loot grinders. From the recently refined Loot 2.0 version of Diablo III to the shoot-and-loot wastelands of Borderlands 2, you’ve got more than enough great choices if that’s your thing. If, however, you’re tired of playing Backpack Organizer 2014, there are plenty of great co-op campaigns that won’t have you comparing and swapping gear every 10 minutes. Check out these awesome games with full cooperative campaigns that take you off the well-worn treasure collecting path. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (PC, PS3, 360) With...

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WaterField Designs celebrates America’s birthday with their new Franklin Tote

In honor of our country’s 238th birthday, WaterField Designs has just announced their new Franklin Tote, a leather shoulder bag made here in the good old USA. The tote is made of full-grain leather that has been naturally-tanned in one of the few remaining US tanneries. The bag is 14.5″ x 13″ x 4.75″ and has a nice selection of organizational pockets on the inside that include 2 open-topped tablet-sized pockets, a zippered pocket with additional pockets inside it and an exterior magazine pocket with a zippered pocket hidden inside. You have a choice of six nylon accent colors: black, copper, flame, green, pearl or pine. The Franklin Tote is priced at $289 and is currently available for pre-order from SFBags.com. Shipping begins July 7, 2014.

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WaterField Designs celebrates America’s birthday with their new Franklin Tote originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on June 30, 2014 at 1:26 pm.

Search And Replace Text In Chrome To Boost Your Productivity Online

Being able to find and replace text in Chrome, can save you loads of time and enhance productivity. But as this is not a native tool, we’ll show you the best Chrome extensions for the job. Chrome is hands down the King of all browsers with no heirs in the waiting. But, there are some features that I sometimes wish were included in this capable browser. One of these is native ‘Search and Replace’, a standard feature in Word processing applications that users expect when editing any content. There are a few situations that come to mind where a native...

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TrueCrypt Is Dead: 4 Disk Encryption Alternatives For Windows

If you haven’t heard, TrueCrypt is no more. If you still have older versions of the program, you can continue to use them but be aware that there may be unfixed security issues in those versions. The safer course of action would be to migrate over to another solution entirely. You had a good run, TrueCrypt, but now it’s time to say farewell. For those who aren’t yet convinced that data encryption is necessary, you ought to check out these reasons to encrypt your digital life. It’s not just for the paranoid, I assure you. The alternatives covered in this...

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Mario, Hyrule, Splatoon: Here’s How Nintendo Won E3 2014

E3: the world’s biggest annual gaming event. General consensus: Nintendo knocked it out of the park. E3 challenges console competitors to showcase their coolest games for the next year or so. It’s the place to be if you want to get previews of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo’s upcoming heavy-hitters. With shaky sales since the launch of the Wii U, very few expected it – but this year’s stand-out company is Nintendo. Here’s why. New Ideas Many companies are retreading old ground, releasing sequels in abundance. Nintendo is too. But this year’s crop of games features some brilliant concepts. The giant...

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What Happens To Your Social Accounts When You Die?

Did you know that in the first eight years of operation, 30 million Facebook users have died? What happened to their accounts? What will happen to your data when you pass? You’d be relieved to know that most social networks protect your privacy and will only allow aut an authorised person or someone with a legal order to access your data after your death. Read through this infograph by WebpageFX to find out more. Click to enlarge.

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Lessons Learned From Don’t Spy On Us: Your Guide To Internet Privacy

With 500 attendees and some big names from the data privacy and human rights fields, the Don’t Spy on Us Day of Action was a fascinating afternoon of discussion, debate, and practical advice on how to keep our personal data private from snooping governments. I learned a lot, and I’ve condensed the most important parts of what I’ve learned into five main points. I’ve also included five things you can do right now to make a difference, both for yourself and for other internet users. 1. Online Privacy Isn’t Just About Protecting Our Data While keeping our personal data private...

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Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Review and Giveaway

Microsoft recently released the Surface Pro 3, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t still get your hands on the Surface Pro 2, now that prices will most likely drop to make room for the newer iteration. Although the Surface Pro 2 might not be the latest and greatest, is it still a good device to get? How does it compare to the original Surface Pro and the Surface Pro 3? We got ourselves a Surface Pro 2 with 64 GB of storage along with a Type Cover 2 keyboard (the one with actual buttons!) to check out. At the...

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