September 18, 2008
If you’re in web development or web design, you probably know how hard it is to get sites to work correctly in all the different browsers. The most difficult of them all, most people would agree, is Internet Explorer. Not only does it do funky things when it renders web pages, but each version does [...]
September 18, 2008
Sports have played a big part in our society for a long time. It’s only natural we want to show off our strength, our speed and our skill. Sports games have been around for a long time as well (think Pong, for instance), but there aren’t a lot of up to date, free sports games [...]
September 17, 2008
Check out the top picks from MakeUseOf ‘Geeky Fun’ during the last week. As usual, thanks to everyone who emailed us the links, this wouldn’t be possible without your contributions. 1. Domain Sale: “Buy 2 DONKEY Domains Get 3 for FREE” (video) 2. Console War: Nintendo vs Sony vs Microsoft (video) 3. According to Chron.com [...]
September 17, 2008
If there is one thing I hate doing the most is walking people through IP address setup’s. In my company all of our machines are given static IP’s right out of the box. It helps us with tracking and auditing. A lot of users take their laptops home to use on their home networks in [...]
September 17, 2008
We all love free apps. MakeUseOf is all about free apps! Why pay for certain applications when you can get another which works almost (or just) as well for free? While there are a few applications which have no free counterparts, you can most definitely find a majority of others which carry one or several [...]
September 17, 2008
Ten years ago, nobody ever considered having a website with videos. The enormous size of the multimedia files would make the site almost impossible to access, considering how slow the internet connection was at that time. There were many tweaks invented in order to survive the snail-like internet connection speed in the past. Some were [...]
September 17, 2008
I know that lots of people who read this blog like to have control over every aspect of their computer. That control is nice, because you can speed up your computer and make it perform the way you want it. Some articles that show this are 10 Quick Fixes to Make your Windows Computer Faster [...]
September 16, 2008
Now it’s time to say thanks to our beloved sponsors who help us pay the bills over here. So make sure to click through and check them out. CrazyEgg – Great website traffic analytics tool for people who don’t really like looking at numbers, and are more visual. GoDaddy – Want to start a blog [...]
September 16, 2008
Podcasts, Netcasts, call them what you want. Every geek out there should be listening to these things. Every single one of you. If ever you see a geek with earphones plugged into his/her ears, I guarantee you they are listening to the latest podcasts. It’s just something most geeks can’t live without. We thrive on [...]
September 16, 2008
To me the Firefox search bar is an indispensable tool and one of the few features that I cannot part with. Now of course I’m talking about my modified version of it. The default version is pretty good already, but there are still a few things that can be improved. Here are five steps anyone [...]
