Profile: Kaly


A father of two, neo geek, tech-obsessed male who runs the MakeUseOf Directory. He is also the co-founder of MakeUseOf and been here since makeuseof went live.

Latest from Kaly

  • Experience Virtual Live with Habbo Hotel

    October 21, 2006

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    Habbo Hotel is a web based application that recreates real world atmosphere within one 5 star hotel. It gives you a virtual envirorment where you can use your imagination to create your own small cartoony world and interact with different people. Habbo hotel counts more then 50 millions members, hence it has quite active virtual [...]


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  • Alexa – Web Discovery Tool

    October 18, 2006

    While every web publisher and website owner knows about it unfortunately very few users do. Alexa has some useful user oriented services that I personally use on a daily basis so I decided to review it. Mostly Alexa used for quick checkup on popularity of a website. It provides users with such info as traffic [...]


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  • Resizr – Quick way to Resize Images Online

    October 16, 2006

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    Here is something useful for people who need simple and convenient image resizing tool. Initially planned to review only ResizR but things got out of control after dicovering several good alternatives, so here you go. Normally any extensive image editing best done using desktop software like Photoshop, that can do lot more then mere resizing. [...]


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  • Speech Accents Archive of non-native English Speakers

    October 15, 2006

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    Came across an interesting site today, The Speech Accent Archive. It’s a website that compares different english accents. George Mason University carried out an interesting research aimed at comparing accents of non native english speakers. Several non native and some native speakers(scotish, irish) were asked to read same paragraph of text. Readings were recorded and [...]


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  • Yahoo Launched a Time Capsule

    October 13, 2006

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    This is something fun and rather unusual. Yahoo has lauched a Yahoo time capsule. This time capsule will run for 30 days (from Oct. 10 untill Nov 8 ) accumulate data and then saved for the future generations. People in the future will be able to see what was it like in year 2006 through [...]


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  • Type Faster & Autocomplete Text with PhraseExpress

    October 11, 2006

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    Phrase Express is an excellent Text Autocomplete Manager program created by people from Bartles Media. With Phrase Express users can avoid repetitive typing and autocomplete frequently used text phrases or even email messages and then use them within any program, i.e Outook, Intrnet Explorer, Firefox, Word, Excel etc. It is ideal for letter templates, signatures, [...]


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  • Make some extra Money with Ether

    October 8, 2006

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    Ether is a web-based service that allows to sell valuable information over the phone, e-mail or through website. There are many people who are professionals in what they do or quite informed about particular topic. These people can be accountants, lawyers, translators, PC experts, bloggers, journalists, ebay experts, comedians and anyone with definite information about [...]


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  • Get More Productive with Qliner Shortcuts

    October 7, 2006

    www.qliner.com hotkeys is an interesting application which was built on ‘Windows shortcut keys’ concept, however this application more user focused. Windows shortcut keys (Windows specific shortcuts) were developed to help user manage Windows applications easily. Qliner hotkeys went further and enabled user to add a shortcut to almost anything on PC. It gives user a [...]


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  • Annotate Web pages you visit with Mystickies

    October 6, 2006

    Mystickies is a handy application that allows you to stick notes on the webpages you visit. It’s in particularly usefull for someone who does lots of research and reading online. Notes can be put on any pages or articles and will be visible whenever you visit them again. It’s a cool way to mark important [...]


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  • Create your own Search Engine with ROLLYO

    October 5, 2006

    Rollyo is an intresting service that lets users create personal search engines. Site provides easy to use tools that can be used to create customized search engine in a matter of seconds. The idea is to create search engine which will search for information only on the websites selected by user. To create personal engine [...]


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  • Have some fun with ultimate Flashface

    October 3, 2006

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    This service can be a lot of fun, Flashface offers intresting face DIY application. I stumbled upon this service while browsing the web. I decided to write about it, because of the accuracy and options that allow you to create people’s faces. It’s very similar to real ones. See the image above. Actuall, similar software [...]


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  • Send Voice or Video Emails with Springdoo [Deleted]

    October 1, 2006

    SpringDoo is another intresting service that allows to send video or voice messages via email. This service adds some flavor to usual email services. Instead of writing a message you can send a video or voice email. I think it is potentially usefull especially for people who do not like writing. The simplicity and interface [...]


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  • Get reminded about Birthdays

    September 30, 2006

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    www.birthdayalarm.com ahas been around for a while, it offers a very simple way to get reminders about friends’ birthdays. From my own experience, I know how bad it is to forget about important dates (ex; dating anniversary) or birthdays of close ones. The situation where you try to explain that you simply forgot, isn’t fun [...]


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