September 15, 2011
I just want to make it very clear that I don’t intend to make fun of the US Government. I am an upstanding, patriotic citizen of the United States. With that said, I do have a very personal, intense dislike of bureaucracy and lack of common sense. So even though there are plenty of great websites and online resources offered by the US Government, there are also a whole lot of silly online sites as well.
September 1, 2011
Who’d have thought in 2011 – the year of the fibre optic broadband connection – we’d be cementing USB sticks into the wall to share files? Not me, but that’s exactly what the term “dead drop” entails. Devised by blogger Aram Bartholl, this offline and anonymous file sharing method has taken off around the globe.
August 30, 2011
It seems like wherever you are, there is always going to be some form of the printed word within your field of view. With so many words floating around, designers take great care to make their words stand out from the crowd through stylistic fonts. But then we have the Comic Sans users.
August 30, 2011
Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple, and while he will continue as Apple’s chairman, his relinquishment of the title is a clear indication that he sees his time as Apple’s leader coming to an end. Why has he decided to step down now, and what is the legacy he leaves behind? Until he cashes in by writing an autobiography, we won’t know for certain, but that doesn’t mean we can’t give it some thought.
August 28, 2011
It’s often said that given a list of internet bookmarks, you can tell everything about that person. Nowadays, I suspect the RSS feeds you are subscribed to are much more revealing. So what feeds am I subscribed to – as a geek, technologist, web developer and keen gamer?
August 24, 2011
Officially, as of August 12th, I changed employers. I used to work for a massive global computer consulting company, with 60,000 employees across the globe. After suffering through the last few years, I decided it was time to look for a company that better values its employees. After “managed vacations” (a.k.a. forced vacations), unpaid furloughs and [...]
August 10, 2011
A couple of months ago, James revealed his home setup and challenged the rest of the MakeUseOf team to do the same. I don’t work from a static location, so I don’t have a home setup. I adjusted my setup for mobility and have tested and improved my ‘system’ while traveling across Canada for the past couple of weeks.
August 2, 2011
Whatever your flavor of apocalypse may be, it’s always a good idea to remind yourself that it might happen, so you really should ask yourself, “What am I going to do?” Get ready to grab your rad-suit, crank up the chain-saw, or check the batteries of your Geiger counter. MakeUseOf is venturing out into the wastelands with these three sites.
July 17, 2011
One of the key factors in growing your own vegetables is ensuring you rotate your crops every year to avoid a build up of disease and prevent a complete depletion of nutrients. For this particular dilemma, you could make use of VGALive, a free online vegetable plot management system and encyclopaedia.
July 9, 2011
Laugh and learn by reading quick, to the point blog posts. A variety of blogs around the Internet are good not only for laughs but for learning valuable things about human nature and living in the online age. Just because a blog is amusing doesn’t mean it can’t teach you something. Even a seemingly inane gimmick can show you something.
