June 22, 2012
Are you a writer or artist wondering how you could ever afford to put out a book? As long as you have a bit of a following already, you could potentially raise funds using sites like Kickstarter. But what you may not know is that there’s a crowd-sourcing site a lot like Kickstarter specifically designed for books. You should give it a try!
June 21, 2012
What new guitar players really need are some basic lessons and some sort of plan to help them practise the skills they need to get better at playing. Both of these are easily achieved with the help of two great websites, Justin Guitar and Music Discipline.
June 21, 2012
If you’re a lover of Google’s famous Gmail, you’ll be very pleased to note that you can now add your own photos to your Gmail theme. Gone are the days of choosing between Google’s theme choices. Now, your theme is whatever you want it to be.
June 19, 2012
Have you ever been jogging and found yourself frustrated that all the songs in your playlist were not quite the right rhythm for the speed you wanted to run? Sometimes you get into the pace of a song perfectly only to find the next song is just a little slower or a tiny bit faster. Whatever the change in tempo, it leaves you unable to continue using the music to pace yourself unless you repeat the song that was working for you.
June 15, 2012
Almost every computer these days is equipped with a microphone and speakers, often used for Skype or Google Chat calls. Meanwhile, Facebook is a great way to update our friends with what we’re doing. So, it’s time for us to grab our microphones, get singing and sharing our music with friends. It’s time to play Enjoy! Karaoke.
June 14, 2012
Even the most seasoned WordPress enthusiast can’t have seen all of the free themes going around, so there’s every likelihood the P2 theme passed you by too. But, the P2 WordPress theme is not like other themes at all. The way P2 works, it fundamentally changes the ways in which WordPress can be used and opens up a world of possibilities.
June 12, 2012
If you’re a regular Internet user, you’ve probably got at least one webmail account and some sort of cloud data hosting somewhere, like Dropbox or Box. If you’re a big user of cloud services, you may in fact use several of these services and have multiple accounts for each service. Why not link them all together and search them at once from your Mac? You can now do this using Found.
June 8, 2012
As a reader of MakeUseOf, you’ve probably got a bit of a soft spot for open-source projects, either as a user or a collaborator. Who can pass up on supporting free, useful software that does a great job? And who wouldn’t be pleased to be a part of a great open-source project? Even supporting a project by testing and offering good feedback is still worth your time.
June 8, 2012
The latest MacUpdate Bundle is out, offering Mac applications of over $450 in value for only $50. The package includes Parallels Desktop 7 and Civilization V, but you’ll have to act quickly if you want the deal as there’s just over a week left to go. Parallels Desktop 7 is the latest release of the most loved method of running Windows applications on a Mac. It retails at $79.99, so even if you only want this application you’ve already grabbed a bargain by buying the MacUpdate Bundle.
June 7, 2012
Hachi has just arrived on the personal connections scene with a solution to an everyday problem, solved by using data you’ve already provided elsewhere. The problem many of us have on occasion is “How do I get to meet this person? Who can introduce me?”. Hachi’s solution will provide you with the best contact to introduce you.
June 5, 2012
Have you suddenly been promoted from regular coder to team leader or manager? Or have you recently side-stepped your way from managing one group of people you understood well to leading an office full of geeks? It doesn’t really matter how you got into IT management, you still need to know both how to manage well and how to lead a team of geeks.
June 1, 2012
If jamming online is what you’re hoping to do then don’t despair. There are a number of options you can try out – and they don’t cost the earth! Musicians tend to be rather a smart bunch, and there are some geeky musos who have been working hard on a solution to online jamming for some time. Lucky for you, this means all you have to do is have a go!
May 31, 2012
We’ve really only just reached the point were lots of apps are being written with integration to cloud storage in mind. Because of this, you may not have realised that quite a few very useful apps have popped up with integrated Dropbox syncing. We’ll be covering some of the best of these today.
May 29, 2012
When you’re trying to eat healthily, exercise daily and generally be good to your body, it can be a bit of a drag without regular inspiration and motivation to keep you going. Plus, we all like to find tips and hacks that will make the process of getting into shape easier for us. So, where do you get your inspiration? One cool way to get inspired is to look at some of the best infographics out there.
May 25, 2012
If you’ve ever loved scrapbooking, automatic music scrobbling with Last.fm, story-making through Storify or Memolane, or creating your lifestream you will love the new application by Evertale. Evertale is a new way to create a scrapbook-like story of your life.
