TECH POP-UPS

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www.fanfiction.net

 Following a book TV show or a movie is one thing, and participating in the world of related fanfiction (fiction written by fans on the character and/or plot of the original work) is totally another experience. FanFiction.net is the place for all your fanfiction needs. Pick a show, book, a cartoon or some comics, and chances are that you’ll find tons of stories written by other people of that fandom here. You can browse through the elaborate lists and filter the results by genre, characters, length and rating, If you’re sad that a series has come to end try its fanfictin, some of them are so well written that the line between them and the original stories will be completely blurred and you’ll get lost in an extended fictional world. As if this wasn't enough, people are also mashing up two different universes, for instance characters and elements from the magical world of Harry Potter and Once Upon a Time (TV series) crossing over in one story.

www.makeuseof.com/pages/the-best-of

 The site provides a good list of some of the best apps, games, plug-ins and tweaks for all you techiles out there. MakUseOf.com maintains a specific list of over a hundred software for different platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, as well as smartphones and tables. It is a must-visit if you use any electronic device or gadget that runs any of the above mentioned operating systems. And a lot of what’s featured there is available for free. It also lists the best portable apps and hosting services. This link is full of goodies and will come in handy on multiple occasions.

www.JustDelete.me

 Want to delete one or more of your online accounts? JustDeleteMe makes the process easier for you by giving direct links to delete your accounts from a variety of popular web services. The site also ranks and color codes different online stores, communities and social networkingsites on the basis of how easy it is to remove a personal account and information form it. Instagram, Scrib, Hotmail and all the ones marked in green let you delete your account without any hassle. However the process gets tricky as you move up the difficulty scale from yellow rated Watsapp and LinkedIn to red rated sites like Skype and Etsy. And then there are those with that dreaded black colored impossible rating, sites from where it is almost impossible to remove a username or account, for instance Evernote and Pinterst. JDM can’t do much about those but it does give you the next best alternates for them.

www.webmd.com

 This site is great for medical students as well as ordinary people. It’s one of the most popular and comprehensive sites that internet inhabitants resort to when they need any sort of medical information. WebMD has informative articles, facts, advice and tips and almost every imaginable health related topic. You can read about medicines and drugs, find out more about a disease or a condition, and update yourself with the latest happenings and advancements in the medical world. You can even type in specific symptoms to see what could be causing them, and while this can be useful, it is not a substitute for seeing a real doctor! Users can subscribe to their newsletters and can even chose specific topics according to their interest.

www.onebigphoto.com

 OneBigPHoto is chock-a-block with high quality photos that are tagged and organized in easy-to-navigate categories. So the next time you’re bored and feeling uninspired, browse through one or more of these galleries and you’ll feel refreshed in no time, thanks to the brilliant works of photography that capture life and nature (as well as man-made wonders) in a brilliant in Human Hands and “Amazing World of Cats”. You’ll also find a variety of urban as well as rural landscape photos, and examples of awesome long exposure photography.

www.visibletweets.com

What this site basically does is create cool visualizations of tweets. You can define what kind of tweets you want by entering any twitter search operation on the home page. You can specify the tweets to be included on the home page. You can specify the tweets to be included on the basis of #hastags, &mentions, username and keywords. You can also choose between the three creative animation available: tag cloud, letter by letter and rotation. This can be a great tool to use for fun (for instance what kind of messages are people sending to a celebrity after a certain even) pr even in a presentation to show the audience what people from around the world are saying about a particular brand on Twitter.

www.showbizspice.com

 If you’re a fan of Pakistani dramas, TV shows movies and music, head over to ShobizSpice. The site has all the desi entertainment news, reviews and features. You will also find on location stills, behind the scene photos, celebrity interviews, facts and trivia, updates on upcoming projects and a list of genuine twitter handles of Pakistani actors and singers, but do watch out for parody accounts and importers!

www.dmalldemons.com

 Small Demons is a social site targeting people who enjoy reading. Users can create and share Pinterest-board-like collections of their favorite books, as well as places, things and people from books. Pick a book , person (real or fictional), thing or place you like and start discovering where it can take you, you’ll be surprised. Here I’ll quote the website creators’ own words: “Everything placed into a book is there because it means something….Here is where you begin to discover what they can also mean to you”

www.cheat-sheets.org

 A cheat is a concise set of notes used for quick reference (not the one that students use in exams). Get all the cheat sheets you’ll ever need at one place. This website has a list of links for heaps quick reference sheets and guides on one webpage (Ctrl+F is your friend). Programming languages, software online services and all the IT related topics that you think ought to have a cheat sheet, are most likely to be present in the list. You’ll also find quick reference cards released to different areas of mathematics and science. Say goodbye to bookmarking individual cheat sheets and head over to this site whenever you need one.