August 11, 2008
The availability of desktop calendars like MS Outlook Calendar and iCal and free online calendars like Google Calendar have certainly made managing schedules quick and easy. However when it comes to sharing and syncing calendars, there are still not many good solutions available which are free and convenient to work with. It’s not an easy [...]
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August 11, 2008
Do you find yourself opening Photoshop or another image editor a lot on your Mac so that you can convert the filetype of an image or rotate it because a website that you’re trying to upload an image to doesn’t accept that filetype or because you post for a blog and they want you to [...]
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August 10, 2008
Make Use Of authors have covered a wide spectrum of online and desktop image batch-resizing programs, sadly none of them were Mac-specific. Luckily, I found this small but handy application which was born and bred for the task. Previously, when I needed to resize an album of images, this is what I had to do: [...]
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August 8, 2008
Are you sick of Mac OS X Front row, Windows Media Center or want a media center for Linux. Boxee is a new kind of media center that runs on Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux, it will also support Windows in the near future (meanwhile check out cool windows media center alternatives). The framework [...]
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August 6, 2008
The rise of blogs and easily publishable content created a need for the ability to track it, hence the creation of Really Simple Syndicate Feeds or RSS for short. “RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format. [...]
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August 6, 2008
Working at night is great. The streets are quieter, I’m not drowned by disturbances and there is rarely anyone around to bother me. As it is so peaceful, I can normally go on working in front my computer endlessly, until I realize that the sun has risen and I’ve missed my night’s sleep. Has that [...]
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August 3, 2008
If you’re a stranger to Awaken, let me tell you what it does. Basically, Awaken is a simple application which sets alarms to either pause or play your iTunes. It’s extremely useful if you’d like to wake up to some funky songs in the morning; or to go bed with soothing music in the background, [...]
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August 2, 2008
As someone who has been on the hunt for an obscure product for some time now I know the power that Amazon Watcher can wield. My 8 month old daughter has been eating an Israeli cereal by a brand called Taami. I was always able to buy it in the store around my neighborhood in [...]
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August 1, 2008
Linux is for geeks right? And you gotta know command prompts and all that stuff yeah? Not exactly, in fact that kind of image is starting to fade away somewhat as Linux distros such as Ubuntu gain traction and mind share with each new release. OK so Linux still has a market share closer to [...]
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July 30, 2008
Make Use Of’s Mac section has been growing steadily over the past couple of months and we’ve published a lot of articles about random topics i.e. productivity, music, plugins, etc. So I’ve decided to start a biweekly column dedicated to people who have just started using Macs, a.k.a “Switchers”, focusing on the issues they might [...]
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July 27, 2008
podUP is a simple application that was built for one purpose and it does it very well — retrieving songs from your iPod. In the past, I’ve had friends come looking for me asking me for help with their iPods. Their complaint was that there were songs in their iPod which were not showing up [...]
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July 26, 2008
We’ve covered lots of neat Adobe AIR applications here before, but I found a new one lately that just blew my socks off. This new Adobe AIR application is sure to excite the photo lover in anyone! DestroyFlickr is a new application that was built for beauty and functionality. DestroyFlickr does its magic by giving [...]
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July 25, 2008
“Why doesn’t Google Analytics have real-time tracking?” This would have to be the single most voiced complaint I hear concerning Google Analytics. Aside from that its a solid service and a must-have for any aspiring blogger, but use it for any length of time and you’ll begin to wish for this as well. Or it [...]
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July 23, 2008
A relatively unknown experimental freeware called Subsume provides you with Growl notifications every time your Facebook and MySpace friends update their statuses. When I first started writing for Make Use Of, I covered MoodBlast, which sends out status updates to popular social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook but this application does the opposite, mainly. [...]
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July 21, 2008
If you’re an OS X user you’ll have most probably used Quicksilver or at least heard of it. Well a few months ago I kind of got sick of Quicksilver and wanted to try something new. I eventually stumbled upon Butler. Butler is a really easy to use and powerful search tool for OS X. [...]
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