Let’s face it, the 2 main constants in the working world are Blackberries when it comes to mobile and Microsoft Outlook when it comes to stationary. With Flock taking over the Social world for the browsers, Outlook support is getting rather social too. Here I want to go over a bunch of useful Outlook add-ons [...]

To be fully productive on your computer only 2 to 3 years ago you had to purchase software anywhere from $19.99 to $500+ depending on the program. Previously, I’ve covered how I converted all of my main programs to freeware and open source programs. Now, I’m here to praise the works of MakeUseOf and fellow [...]

Previously known as OpenOffice.org Premium, OxygenOffice.org Professional (OOOP) is a modified source of Open Office 2.3 that contains all the “extras” you would find in a standard Microsoft Office suite and more. The simple extras include everything from a rich clip art gallery to variety of standard document templates (CV, greeting cards, etc.). However, OOOP [...]

Keeping your software up to date is the best protection for your computer. Software is usually updated for 2 reason. The first being to improve and enhance the functionality of the software. The second being to close any known system bugs. These bugs can range in everything from open access points for hackers to use [...]

Contributed by makeuseof guest-writer Adam Hirsch Considering that I am in Real Estate I only figured it would be appropriate to share the knowledge that I’ve acquired over the past 4 years. I am in real estate in New York City, so a lot of the tools I use are very specified to New York, [...]

I am currently in the process of learning CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) based web design since it is now the standard foundation of layout for almost all web sites. I have read several books now and I still believe that I am slightly lost when it comes time to applying what I know from scratch. [...]

Finally my hunt is over. Aibek, the main author of MakeUseOf told me when I first started being a guest writer that there is a “free version for everything”. So I sought out to replace any of the desktop applications that I used with free (and preferably open source) desktop only programs. I don’t feel [...]

RSS Bandit version 1.5.0.17 is truly an impressive open source desktop feed reader. Unfortunately I had only learned about this recently, because I paid to use Feed Demon by NewsGator. Feed Demon was totally worth the money to me, because you could synchronize your feeds with NewsGator Online, so whether I was at Home, Work, [...]

Scrabulous is an awesome Facebook application/game, which is Scrabble, allowing multiple games with multiple Facebook Friends. As of right now, Scrabulous has climbed to #6 in the Top Facebook Applications for “Most Activity”. Currently there are 178,120 daily active users (29%) “” 2,674 reviews. The great features of the application are as follows: It’s Scrabble, [...]

Following Mark’s post Play games online with ItsYourTurn.com, it made me realize that I’ve been using free web games for the past 5 years through Yahoo! Games. However, by games, I really mean that my game of choice is WordRacer. “Word Racer is an exciting, fun, and fast word game where up to eight players [...]