November 21, 2008
Many webmasters, network administrators, hackers, and other geek types use diagnostic tools to perform certain tasks. They often use a command line to run programs such as ping, traceroute, nslookup, whois, etc. Codeflux has an Internet tools gateway that allows you to run such programs from the convenience of your web browser. The following tools [...]
November 21, 2008
Google boffins are starting to play with colors. The good thing is that now we can too! This Wednesday, Google rolled out a much awaited feature to Gmail. Bright, colorful, fantastic themes! I wouldn’t have caught it but for the little feed Google gives on the signing page. And lo and behold, just a little [...]
November 21, 2008
Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform, currently hosts over 4.5 million blogs. According to their download counter, they have served just over 3.1 million downloads of their self-hosted blogging software. With nearly 8 million blogs in the wild, it’s easy to see that many content publishers have embraced the platform’s ease of use [...]
November 21, 2008
Just recently Laurence gave us a little preview of Windows 7 . It looks like it is going to bring major improvements, with the benefit of being just as pretty as Vista. Unless you decide to finally go OS or Linux (I put off Vista because I could not decide), Windows 7 will hopefully make [...]
November 21, 2008
Gmail gave all its loyal users (and even the not-so-loyal ones) an early Christmas present yesterday: themes. You can now customize Gmail to your taste with 31 themes, including “terminal” for all you geeks out there – and you know who you are! Which theme is your favourite? Let us know in the comments. [display_podcast]
November 21, 2008
Check out some of the latest makeuseof discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For even more app reviews subscribe to makeuseof directory. Want to submit your application to MakeUseOf directory ? See how here. (1) Car Performance – Track your car’s fuel [...]
November 20, 2008
RSS feeds have become the de facto standard for delivering massive amounts of content in a very simple to read and simple to understand format. Any website delivering daily, weekly or even monthly updates, and lacking a ‘Really Simple Syndication’(RSS) feed, just isn’t delivering what is becoming the most popular form of delivery. Along with [...]
November 20, 2008
For the environmentally-conscious reader, Digital-magazine store Zinio is currently offering free subscriptions to select publications as part of its “Read Green Initiative.” There are several magazines to choose from in many categories. The sign up process is very simple: just select your magazine and provide an email address, then sign up for a Zinio account [...]
November 20, 2008
For my MakeUseOf articles I’m constantly resizing images so that they will fit into our page template. As a result, I go through a lot of repetitive actions with GIMP, the free image editing program. After a quick Google search, I found a powerful tool to help me save a ton of time by batch image [...]
November 20, 2008
New games come out all the time, old games don’t. Seems logical doesn’t it? Well, we tend to lose contact with the old days, the days of the games that brought the genre to what it is today. Days when they didn’t bury you under a ton of shooter games. I’m not going to say [...]
