April 30, 2008
Well, my two week descent into unusability and lack of functionality that is Safari, is finally over. About two weeks ago I undertook to stick to Safari all the time, 24 hours a day/7 days a week, while at home. Thank goodness I had an oasis of sanity every weekday when I went in to [...]
April 30, 2008
Think you are safe on the internet because you use Firefox? Think again. With the market share of Firefox increasing daily – more malware and virus authors (and websites) are exploiting this browser to spread their wares. Fortunately, the open nature of Firefox typically makes fixes come shortly after a vulnerability is discovered, and also [...]
April 30, 2008
The mobile web is starting to really take off. More websites started to offer mobile versions, new mobile apps released on a daily basis, mobile browsers getting better, etc. To sum up, more and more people access internet from mobile phones. If you got a blackberry, iPhone or any kind of smartphone, here are a [...]
April 29, 2008
A label originally introduced in Great Britain to mark foreign products thought to be of inferior quality when compared to British products, Made in Germany has now become one of the most popular labels. Today it stands for reliability and quality. Each of you is using German technology and tools. Most of you will know [...]
April 29, 2008
It’s one of the mysteries of the internet that I have never been able to get my head around – why anyone would want to pay through the nose for anti-virus software when there are perfectly good free alternatives out there. For the past five years, I have been using AVG from Grisoft and I [...]
April 28, 2008
Check out the top picks from MakeUseOf ‘Geeky Fun’ during the last week. Thanks to everyone who emailed us the links. Next time you email us something feel free to include the link to your website as well. It will be mentioned next to the source. So here you go … 1. A Glimpse into [...]
April 28, 2008
It’s time for another poll. Today we are asking you to vote on your favorite antivirus program. Actually the goal is to find out what is the most popular free antivirus program among MUO users. So please vote ! If you don’t have a favorite antivirus program and you’re using the one that came with [...]
April 27, 2008
I have had the email purists gang up on me for this in the past but I constantly use my Gmail account for backing up my digital life. This has led to the online lynch mobs chanting “an email account is not for backing up important documents!” and they are right to a certain extent. [...]
April 27, 2008
Please say hi to three new Make Use Of writers. They’ve all had their first articles published and now it’s time to see the faces behind the names. Well, except Laurence who’s doing his Carlos the Jackal impersonation! Nik has his “Satan from South Park” red face on and Alexander….well he’s just showing off [...]
April 27, 2008
Here at Make Use Of, we like to give you choices. Explorer add-ons? Here’s seven. Want your blog to get noticed? Here are six ways . Online desktop? Try eight ways. If you want instant message aggregation, there are a number of applications. You could try Trillian, Pidgin or any number of other lightweight multi-messaging [...]
