April 26, 2010
For the audiophile, FLAC, short for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is an absolute gift. Since the codec is open source, software that will convert your CDs into this widely supported format is free and easy to find. Many popular music players, save a few large exceptions, such as iTunes, support FLAC natively. Since FLACs are [...]
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April 26, 2010
The recent versions of Windows are pretty smart and aware of the common problems that users face in their day to day computer usage. They can provide nice detailed troubleshooting tips and or wizards that are able to fix the problems more often than not. You might have seen such a wizard when there is [...]
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April 26, 2010
I love email. It’s fast, simple, and everybody has it. That being said, I’ve never been able to find a desktop application to really suit my needs. Web-based clients like Gmail are great but can be lacking for power users (not to mention offline support is still a little finicky) and Thunderbird can go for years without [...]
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April 23, 2010
One of the things that I’ve mentioned often here at MakeUseOf is that when you’re trying to build up your blog traffic, it’s critically important to actually take part in the blog community that you are a part of. I mentioned the importance of blog commenting for site traffic earlier, and MUO covered a comment [...]
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April 23, 2010
I have recently covered how to create your own Windows domain and how to push out group policy to your domain computers. Today we will visit how to remote install Windows software on your domain computers using group policy. In the past I have had to install applications directly on each user’s computer. This was time [...]
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April 22, 2010
Keeping up with blogs and websites these days can become cumbersome, that is if you haven’t begun grabbing the feeds and using a feed reader to keep up with everything. In fact, an awesome way to keep up with MakeUseOf is to subscribe to the feed. One of my biggest problems following blogs and websites, [...]
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April 22, 2010
Windows Live Skydrive has been featured on MUO as one of the best services to come out of Microsoft for offering 25GB of online storage. Not only can you use it as a Picasa or Flickr alternative thanks to its integration with Windows Live Photos, but with a little preparation, you can also map it [...]
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April 19, 2010
It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week, we take one software category and list the top ten most downloaded free apps. This week, we are looking at system utilities. These are the apps that can be used to help manage your Windows system. We will see utilities that help [...]
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April 19, 2010
There’s an old adage that you cannot have enough disk space. It’s true, but a much cheaper option to purchasing more is to make more sense of the space you already have. Windows doesn’t make that terribly easy, though. While you can get a decent view of the clutter in a single folder, expanding the [...]
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April 19, 2010
With terabytes of space within easy reach these days, one tends to become a hoarder — accumulating lots of files, slowly getting a little complacent in organizing file and folders; and failing to get rid of unneeded files. What this means is that more often than not, one will have a hard time finding the [...]
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April 18, 2010
Last week’s poll asked you if you used Google Wave. There was a lot of hype after the invites started going out. Some of you said that you have not used it because you do not have an invite. I have 17 left in my account so if you want one, leave a comment with [...]
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April 17, 2010
Keeping track of how things are going, whom to contact, who your friends are, not forgetting important dates, all of this is part of modern life. Naturally managing such personal information is critical and having a helping hand doesn’t hurt. Personal Information Managers or PIMs (as they are frequently known as) help you manage everything [...]
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April 17, 2010
To the average computer user, contracting a virus is like contracting a rare disease – it brings life to a halt, it is expensive to remove, and worst of all, the probability of catching a virus is much higher than that of catching a serious disease. After the dreaded infection, removal procedures usually include taking [...]
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April 16, 2010
A drop cap is the first letter of a paragraph that’s of a much bigger size than the rest that follow. The letter formatting is such that the letter “˜drops down’ to cover the few lines following the first one. Drop caps have been extensively used, from the early days of printing to the advent [...]
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April 16, 2010
Streaming free movies is becoming more of a valid alternative to ‘real’ downloads. Instead of having to wait for an entire download to finish, you can just keep pace and tag along. The problems with video streaming always boils down to quality. Not all movies free streaming movies offer enjoyable resolutions, especially when you live [...]
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