November 13, 2009
Whether you’re playing flash games at work, dealing with too many open windows, or simply looking for computer privacy, at some point you’ve probably thought about how useful it would be to hide running Windows programs with the push of a button. Personally, I find that hiding the more distracting windows actually increases my efficiency [...]
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November 12, 2009
Not using the cloud is almost impossible these days. You can use the cloud for emails, document publishing and of course storing, backing up and sharing files as well. We have reviewed quite a few online storage services in the past. Microsoft’s offering Skydrive is right up there with others when it comes to storage [...]
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November 11, 2009
Call Transmute a bookmark “˜synchronization’ tool. Transmute calls itself the ultimate bookmarks converter. Both claims need to hold true for filling in a job that’s a result of prolific web browsing and using more than one browser to do it. It’s safe to assume that you have more than one browser installed on your system. [...]
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November 11, 2009
Are you really jealous of friends who have a Kindle? They are able to download and read completely free Amazon Kindle eBooks on their fancy devices. Well don’t feel left out laptop and net book users! You can turn your portable computer or even your desktop computer into a full featured Kindle. It may not [...]
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November 9, 2009
Have you heard of Woot? Lots of people have and lots haven’t. The concept is this: get a bunch of cool merchandise and sell it at a great price for 24 hours or until the stock runs out. Everyday, add a new item and do it over and over again. There are some amazing deals [...]
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November 9, 2009
Security is probably the most important aspect of any computing experience and probably one of the most neglected. With security measures, like many things, one can go as deep as they want to go but a little effort to employ the basics can go a long way. While it is said that locks are only [...]
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November 8, 2009
I am not much of an Excel hand; spending most of my time either in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. My most regular use of Excel is as a tool to keep track of my schedule and to list what I am putting out on the web as a writer. So I can safely say that [...]
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November 6, 2009
A lot of old-school writers and producers still use the familiar pen and paper. Others have migrated to the digital world and are using Open Office or MS Word. Personally I’ve never felt quite at home in Word to write a story. Instead, I’ve always been using creative writing suites or pre-production packages. That’s right, [...]
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November 6, 2009
I downloaded this 4.9MB file from Google Code. QMMander is a free open source Windows Explorer alternative and it is pretty cool. It gives you a dual pane experience to relieve you from the pain of having to open two Explorer windows to drag and drop files between. But that’s not all ““ no sir [...]
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November 5, 2009
As many of the regular MakeUseOf readers will know, I tend to do a good few posts about cell phones and cell phone applications such as How to Use Your GPRS Cell Phone as a Modem or my Snaptu article. In both of these articles, I described connecting your cell phone to your PC via [...]
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November 5, 2009
Have you lost your Windows Administrator Password? There are lots of options to recover it nowadays but almost all of them require a third party piece of software. What if I tell you that you can recover your windows administrator password with your install disk? All you need is your install key (hint: this does [...]
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November 4, 2009
I have a hard drive in my system over here that holds confidential information. Occasionally, I have designers and programmers connected to my machine via various methods (most of the time we use the free UltraVNC) and I wouldn’t want them pulling up my, uhh umm, “not safe for work” content by accident. Come on [...]
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November 3, 2009
You must understand that what I am about to reveal to you puts me in mortal danger. Men in black and white fuel-efficient vehicles may show up at my door and threaten me with terminating screwdrivers. Those are the easy ones to spot. It’s the independent contractor that you never see coming. They could be [...]
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November 3, 2009
The two, Word and “˜Word Blindness’ don’t gel together in a single sentence. But for me, it was a fact for quite some time. I was not familiar with some of Microsoft Word’s most common features and the way they could be tweaked or extended. It was only after I was forced to stay on the [...]
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November 3, 2009
Microsoft’s Outlook is the big brother of Outlook Express, which is Window’s default desktop eMail client. Outlook is part of Microsoft’s Office suite. It comes with a lot of extra features compared to Outlook Express, including time/event management, contact management, and Microsoft Exchange Server support to synchronize and share information. Arguably, Outlook Express is a [...]
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