April 30, 2009
Completely cluttering up your desktop, it happens to the best of us. If you’re working hard, you don’t always have the time to remain working in an orderly fashion. You loose yourself in your concentration, an end up with an endless pile of open windows. Not only can this be immensely system intensive, but you [...]
April 30, 2009
Okay, I admit it – sometimes I multitask a little too much, and not efficiently enough. I have about seven different POP email accounts that I log into several times a day to check email. One reason I tend not to use a single email client for all of those accounts is because I don’t [...]
April 30, 2009
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. (1) DayTipper – Over 7500 practical life tips submitted by users that provide insights to everyday problems such as [...]
April 29, 2009
Afraid of the pink slip? Keep your online resume hosted for free on these cool websites. There are dozens of resume building websites offering a combination of free and paid services. Many sites have excellent resume building tools, a wide variety of templates and formatting options, but do not allow you to host your resume [...]
April 29, 2009
The practice of point and click is so common in today’s computer world that it is hard to imagine living without the rodent. But the old timers prefer to use shortcuts. “Working with shortcuts is faster,” they claimed. “That’s why they’re called shortcuts.” In my previous article we can see why Mac users are spoiled [...]
April 29, 2009
My oldest son likes games and Web surfing, but we don’t want to give him full access to our PC, or to the entire Internet. We’ve experimented with various ways to block him off, with varying success. It wasn’t long ago that I found just the program for which I was looking, a customizable application [...]
April 29, 2009
Have you ever wondered what exactly is filling up your hard drive? I mean when you bought your machine you had a 40, 80, 250 or even a half a terabyte and a few months later you are deleting files to make room for your new torrents downloads. Well we came across a program called [...]
April 29, 2009
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. (1) AVGLinkScanner – A security add-on for your browser that automatically scans all the links on a webpage and [...]
April 28, 2009
Generally, tag or word clouds visually depict the words used in a given text. Frequently used words may stick out with an increased font size, groups of tags may appear in uniform colors. Additionally, tag clouds can visualize relationships of words. Tag clouds are much easier to grasp than simple lists, as words can be [...]
April 28, 2009
Finding and listening to new music is one of my favorite uses of the Web. There are a ton of music sites out there that are constantly finding, sharing, and promoting great new music. Countless new artists are being discovered thanks to the Web, and the music world is booming because of it. Well, the [...]
