What with the web getting more and more social by the day, people are using instant messaging a lot to keep in touch with each other. Not only do people use it for the everyday hello, sometimes entire meetings may be conducted over chat. Therefore, it becomes really important for a user to be up [...]

Application launchers are very useful and can save you a lot of time. In their most basic form, they provide you access to your frequently used files and programs. The more advanced launchers support running of different scripts on your computer to automate tasks. MakeUseOf has covered application launchers in the past. However, more often [...]

More and more people are turning towards coding as a profession/hobby. From freelancers to actual developers, everyone seems to have their foundations strong in at least one programming platform. However, more often than not, there seems to be a problem of actually finding good content online that can teach you to code. Experimenting with a [...]

Bookmarklets are probably one of the most useful things on the Internet today. A small trinket of code saved as a bookmark can enable you to perform some truly incredible tasks, which makes your web browsing a walk in the park. At MUO, we have covered bookmarklets like Printliminator, Readability and Quix, and your feedback [...]

The recent spate of privacy flaws pertaining to Facebook has nudged even the biggest optimists into having second thoughts about what they are putting up on Facebook, and whether or not that data is safe from prying eyes. With close to 170 privacy settings, and a privacy document longer than the United States constitution, Facebook [...]

Free file hosts are a dime a dozen these days. Everywhere you look, people are downloading lots of files from free file hosts. Whether you are a designer working with impossibly huge files, or just an average Joe who wants to send over a lot of photos to someone, you cannot ignore the ease of [...]

Songvote is a cool new free service where you can easily get an idea of what your party music playlist should sound like based on guests choosing the music. The main premise behind Songvote is that the invitees of a party/event should have a say in what music is played at the party. Guests choosing [...]

While Web 2.0 is all about interactivity and a very dynamic user experience, sometimes all you want to do is read an article like the good old days of static HTML. However, it’s almost impossible to get a website that serves up content in archaic but readable HTML anymore. In such cases, the following two [...]

Adobe’s PDF (Portable Document Format) has been in the limelight ever since it came into existence in 1993. However, Adobe made it ridiculously expensive for end users to create PDF documents. While the PDF Reader was free, the creator itself was very expensive. And the story hasn’t changed one bit in all these years. PDFCreator, however, [...]

Productivity. That’s the one word that’s on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. Everyone wants to get more things done in less time. And why not? With communication expanding the way it is, it’s only natural for people to expect more work, more quickly. Everyone wants to have that coveted “25-hour” day. We’ve previously [...]

Information is always changing. Every second there are lots of articles completed & published somewhere in the world. It can be really intimidating to sort out the good from the bad, the news from the junk, and the hot from the not. While Google News does a really good job of aggregating news from all [...]

Everybody knows that Google Docs is an awesome tool to do office work online. It’s a really good online alternative to Microsoft Office and helps you get things done in the cloud. Coupled with Google’s reliable servers, you are guaranteed to have your documents and spreadsheets in a safe, guarded niche in your Google Account. [...]

PayPal recently caused a lot of furore and confusion when they announced “temporary halting” of payments to India. Every other person was left outraged and stranded with no means to withdraw funds from PayPal to a local bank. Xoom is a service that aims to solve such a crisis from affecting PayPal users. Apart from [...]

The number of How-To’s we write here at MakeUuseOf is simply staggering. Each of them requires a huge amount of research before it is ready for publication. It’s quite a challenge to break down the information and present it to our readers in a clear, lucid manner. And we understand that many fellow bloggers face [...]

My first tryst with the Internet was before Web 2.0 ever happened, before Google was everywhere, before privacy was a joke and before website interactivity was commonplace. It used to be a  time of dial-up modems and static web pages. I still have fond memories of times when the best, and perhaps only way to [...]