October 25, 2009
Oh readers, if only you could see me now. You’d be looking at a guy with three day stubble on his face, a pile of junk food in his stomach and a half-finished WordPress website sitting on his hard drive starting a daunting article for MakeUseOf that he has avoided for several hours. You’d be [...]
October 25, 2009
Where you go, we follow. That’s the motto of the scammer brigade; those invisible citizens of the web underworld. They populate our inboxes, our blog comments, our forums and not surprisingly, our social networks. What’s their loot? It’s our information. Social sites like Facebook are built around communities. In the real world, a community is [...]
October 25, 2009
Most people would agree that iTunes is one of the best digital music players available today. There are tons of great features that lie beyond the beautiful and intuitive interface. It allows you to play and manage multimedia from music to movies to internet radio; subscribe to podcasts, burn CDs, rip CDs and convert audio [...]
October 25, 2009
Extremely popular, and every day more so – Twitter currently has an obvious monopoly on microblogging. Not that it is very surprising, because it is an incredible website. It’s proven its usefulness in incredibly diverging scenarios, ranging from loud egocentrics to real-time news aggregation during disasters. For a more extensive read on Twitter, check out [...]
October 24, 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 more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory. (1) Linkli.st – New web tool that makes it easy to create lists of links and [...]
October 24, 2009
Just because some cameras are called point-and-shoot doesn’t mean that they’re literally supposed to be used that way. With the advent of digital photography, point-and-shoot and compact cameras include basic and advance features designed to help make the cameras easier to use, while also helping you improve the quality of images taken. The following tips [...]
October 24, 2009
Linux is a great operating system and more often than not, it’s the installation of Linux that is the matter of discussion. For a change, I will be talking about how to uninstall Linux Ubuntu (or other operating systems) from a dual boot windows pc, and still being able to boot into other OS without [...]
October 24, 2009
So when you get a new machine or you do a reformat what is the first thing you do? If you are not imaging your system, chances are you will need to install the pieces of software that enable your machine to be a tool instead of a big paper weight. I find myself downloading [...]
October 24, 2009
Here at MakeUseOf, we love doing cool things with webcams. One example is Simon’s cool article on how to control a game with your webcam. Another is a recent article I wrote on how to put together a home security system with your webcams. It was actually writing that article that made me start thinking [...]
October 24, 2009
Google Wave has been driving people nuts for invites. Did you get in yet? I have and let me tell you it’s interesting, but very confusing. It definitely takes time to get used to and it has the potential to steal more of your valuable time and attention than any tool ever has. You can [...]
