August 19, 2008
Time for another MakeUseOf Poll, so get ready to vote. The goal of this poll is to discover those little known yet very useful web apps from Big Brother Google you didn’t know about. So make sure to vote on your Top 5. We deliberately left out the popular ones including Youtube, Gmail, Google Docs, [...]
August 19, 2008
If you are one who strives for greater productivity on computers you probably know that having to switch between the keyboard and the mouse in the middle of your work is so painful. While keyboard buffs can use shortcuts to remain at the keyboard, what if you mostly interact with the mouse? Or what if [...]
August 19, 2008
High quality CDs and DVDs have a lifetime of up to 30 years, while cheap blanks may fail after less than five years. Hence, hard disks, which are said to become error-prone after three to five years, may be less durable and reliable. However, it’s much easier to transfer data from a hard drive, to [...]
August 18, 2008
In the previous installments we discovered the two major real estate search engines, Realtor.com and Craigslist. Today we’ll take a quick look at Yahoo Real Estate and then spin by Zillow and Trulia to wrap up the series. Yahoo Real Estate puts a different spin on things. Remember that Realtor.com is Realtor® controlled and Craigslist [...]
August 18, 2008
Recently, there was a minor earthquake in Los Angeles and even before the news channels could broadcast the information, the news spread like wildfire through different mediums on the internet such as Twitter, social media sites and news aggregators. In fact breaking news is in itself a fully fledged business on the internet and a [...]
August 18, 2008
We all know how difficult it can be to keep your online accounts safe and how hackers are always trying to break into accounts with dictionary attacks. This is why you should never use short simple passwords that you can find in a dictionary such as your name, the name of your partner, child, dog, [...]
August 18, 2008
If you’ve played a video game console in the last couple of years, there is almost a 100% chance you’ve come into contact with a color-matching game. Dance Dance Revolution (DDR to the initiated), Guitar Hero, and Rock Band are all games in this genre. Guitar Hero in particular has been reproduced or cloned on [...]
August 17, 2008
If you do now or have ever run a website, you know how daunting it can be to maintain a web server. You need to become an expert on many topics like DNS, MX, CNAME, web languages, and so on. Many low traffic sites or beginner sites may be hosted on a managed and shared [...]
August 17, 2008
This week on the show I’m taking a look at some online FTP clients, a tool to sync your calendars and cloud computing. I’d love to hear from you. Send me your MP3 files containing comments about the show, reviews of your favourite websites or just general chitchat. I’ll choose a few to play on [...]
August 17, 2008
Everything that isn’t already online is going online these days. Even our banks, government sectors, health clubs, universities, grocery stores, you name it, have websites. What’s the one thing they have in common? They all have downloadable PDF forms. You want to join the gym? Here’s a PDF form for you to fill and you’re [...]
