reminder: makeuseof extra lists some of the cool websites, software, and tips discovered during the previous day Cool Websites, Software and Web Applications: Abebooks – (for college students) with Abebooks you can save upto 90% on texbooks by buying international editions instead of ones published in US. “…An international edition is a textbook that has [...]

reminder: makeuseof extra lists some of the cool websites, software, and tips discovered during the previous day Free cool Software and Web Applications: OscarTorrents – this website lists torrents for all oscar nominated movies(best picture, best actor, best supporting role….). If you feel positive about movie downloads then you can get them on your PC [...]

reminder: makeuseof extra lists some of the cool websites, software, and tips discovered during the previous day Free cool Software and Web Applications: Nakido – cool file sharing application (incl. desktop client for Windows, Mac amd Linux) MIX(Lycos) – this web tool lets you mix videos from YouTube, MySpace and Google Video and share them [...]

reminder: makeuseof extra lists some of the cool websites, software, and tips discovered during the previous day The complete guide to optimising windows XP – [connectedinternet.co.uk] Mux – free, web-based video transcoder (converter). HowTo: Enter any video URL(ex; youtube page), specify desired output format(wmv, mp4, flv, mov, 3gp mobile, etc) and it’ll do the rest. [...]

Here, you’ll find couple of services that can help you eliminate concept of paper mail from your life completely(99%). Whether you need to send a postal letter or receive all of your postal mail in PDF format, these web services let you do it. Some for receiving your postal letters and some for sending them. [...]

ShareThis (Firefox / IE) – browser plug-in that lets you easily share favorite webpages with friends. Firefox Tip: How To stop PDFs from freezing firefox [howto.helpero.com] Zuula – fast and well-designed meta search engine where you can search on 5 major search engines at once: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask and GigaBlast. ConvinceMe – fastly growing [...]

Here, I want to quickly illustrate how to create, huge(up to 20 meters), awesome looking, rasterized wall posters using previously mentioned Rasterbator. It’s free and easy to use piece of software and the whole procedure won’t take you more then 5-10 min(not incl. poster printing and putting it on your wall). Enjoy! IMPORTANT: This procedure [...]

cl1p Free, simple-to-use and in some way unique application for keeping your notes/scraps online. Cl1p lets you instantly create a page(or multiple pages) where you can store notes and related files. Each such page gets its own address under cl1p.net domain(ex; http://cl1p.net/makeuseof) and can accessed or edited from that address only. So, you have to [...]

Numsum – free and powerful application for tracking and sharing your records, lists and spreadsheets online Dotcomedy – funny videos, movie trailers and tv show clips Staysafeonline.org – top 8 cyber security practices Zolved: Tip – how to configure yahoo mail account for Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird Keepass.info – free and secure password manager. Lets [...]

Below I’ve listed 4 firefox addons that offer free and equally good alternatives to some of the costly programs and web services. These addons offer solution to 6 popular problems; 1) sending big files, 2) remote file sharing, 3) remote PC access, 4) FTP client, 5) download accelerator and 6)online storage. Get them and you’ll [...]