July 20, 2008
Last week we did a poll on Top 5 Firefox shortcuts. It turned out great, after 550 + votes we had our top 5 shortcuts. The cool part about running such a poll was that it especially helped those users who had never used shorcuts before. Instead of randomly jumping at the long list of [...]
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July 20, 2008
Last year I wrote an article on the benefits of encrypting your PC folders with Truecrypt and I also briefly touched on being able to encrypt your USB stick with Truecrypt. Well, the other day I received a nice new 2GB USB stick as a freebie and so I decided to install John Haller’s Portable [...]
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July 20, 2008
We are only scratching the surface with the built-in OS X Dictionary application. Dictionary is integrated into the system so if you need to define a word while surfing with Safari, all you need to do is select that word and press Command+Control+D. It even works directly in Spotlight without opening the Dictionary application. If [...]
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July 19, 2008
Aside from being a technology blogger and a microbiology student, I also have another passion: Magic. Amateur magic is a fun hobby and a great skill to have in almost any social situation. When I was younger, I used to buy all kinds of tricks from magic shops and then try them out on my [...]
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July 19, 2008
Free music is and always has been one of the top internet favorites. (Remember Napster?) While the trend is already shifting from that dark p2p-age to the more civilized crowd, netizens today are still craving for free music and it IS available legally if you know where to look for it. iTunes Freebies With millions [...]
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July 19, 2008
Good things they say come in small sizes. The Amic free email backup utility proves this idiom to the letter. Behind this 1.3 MB tool is Alexandru Marias, a computer programmer whose belief lies in creating easy to use Windows tools. After using the tool, Alexandru has my vote at least. I am surprised it [...]
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July 19, 2008
Have you ever wanted to make it look like someone is speaking in a picture? Doesn’t that sound exciting? (No I am not joking. Why does everyone always think I’m joking?) Is adding a cartoon like bubble with text in it somewhat outside of your technical grasp? Maybe you don’t like Photoshop and you don’t [...]
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July 18, 2008
Shiira is an open source browser for Mac OS X that is based off Web Kit and written in Cocoa so it runs at native speeds on a Mac. Shiira has been in development since 2004 so it has been in development for about 4 years. Because Shiira is based on Web Kit it uses [...]
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July 18, 2008
Windows Task Manager is a bit of a tease. Sure it provides you with some usable information, but it falls far short of providing you with the information that you really need. It is most commonly used to display information on all processes running on your computer, as well as advising you of the CPU [...]
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July 18, 2008
It may sound like a threat, but the internet is not quite everywhere, yet. So what do you do when there’s no internet available to you? First, take a deep breath! The answer is actually quite simple. You plan ahead and take the internet with you. Or at least parts of it. It may not [...]
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July 17, 2008
Check out some of the latest makeuseof discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For even more app reviews subscribe to makeuseof directory. Want to submit your application to MakeUseOf directory ? See how here. (1) BigString – Access MSN, Yahoo Messenger, AIM [...]
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July 17, 2008
There’s no doubt that Friendfeed, in a short space of time has gained immense popularity as the best social media aggregator and also as a prominent networking and interaction tool. Friendfeed has also done a great job in successfully leveraging the user base which was frustrated by Twitter downtimes and looking for an alternative micro-blogging [...]
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July 17, 2008
You have to give it to Opera; it’s stayed in there. Starting as a research project in 1994, Opera has been responsible for some world changing innovations (think tabbed browsing) and yet never seemed to achieve the kind of success it deserved. But this isn’t a history lesson, it’s an article on a few of [...]
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July 17, 2008
A large part of the “Web 2.0″ image is social networking. With that is the hopeful ability to make everything accessible in one place. It is somewhat of a “let’s just make it easier for everyone scenario,” but that is what the majority of it is anyway right? Anyway, I have just found a website [...]
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July 16, 2008
Sometime back we did a poll here at Make Use Of asking our readers about their favorite music player. I was just going through the comments in that poll and one of the comments about Media JukeBox caught my attention. It prompted me to download and try out this music manager and I can safely [...]
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