How many times have you bought a CD only to find that most of the songs are not to your liking? I am sure most of you have this kind of experience. It is definitely not a good feeling, perhaps coupled with a pain in the wallet. This doesn’t apply only to physical CD that [...]

Su.pr is a new URL shortener service created by the popular StumbleUpon team. In fact, Su.pr is more than just a URL shortener. It is also a one-stop hub for you to share and promote your content on Twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon instantly. Su.pr is currently in private Beta mode. If you like to test [...]

While I am using my Ubuntu (Linux), one thing that I found handy and useful is the ability to lock an application and keep it “always on top” of all other windows. This is a native feature of Linux and can be easily accessed by right-clicking the mouse and choose “Always On Top” from the [...]

Other than the command line, have you ever wondered how you can manage your CD/DVD images (ISO) more easily and efficiency in your Linux machine? AcetoneISO may jolly well be the answer to your needs. AcetoneISO is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images in your Linux system. It runs the poweful [...]

Perhaps you have a habit of pasting small yellow pieces of notes all over your table just to remind you to do a particular task. In this technological era, that is soon becoming obsolete. Mac OS X and Windows 7 both come with their own native sticky note applications that you can use to “paste” [...]

Editor’s note: We have a special installment for MakeUseOf readers who happen to be Chrome fans. We are reviewing the alpha build of Chrome for both Linux and Mac today. Watch out for the Mac edition later on. For those Linux users who have been waiting hard and long for the release of Google Chrome [...]

If you are running a website that supports PHP and MySQL, and you are sick of using the SquirrelMail to access your email account, then RoundCube Webmail would be the best solution to ease your pain. RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client packed with plenty of AJAX goodness. It comes with an application-like [...]

Copying and pasting text in Windows is as easy as pressing Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on your keyboard right? That’s what I’ve always thought and it is even true until now. However, after discovering some of the useful clipboard manager applications out there, I found that copying and pasting is not just restricted to simple keyboard [...]

After months of beta testing, Microsoft has finally launched their latest search engine, in replacement of the existing Live search ““ Bing.com. Many have said that this latest search engine is a great step forward (with respect to its previous Live search) and could possibly grab some of the market share back from Google. Let [...]

If you want to monitor a blog for new article update, a great way is to subscribe to its RSS feed and get notified instantly when it updates its content. What if you want to monitor more than just a blog, such as a static website, your email account, a file and you are a [...]

By default, iTunes is the only media player that you can use to sync your iPhone and iPod Touch with your computer. However, iTunes is only supported in Mac and Windows, which means Linux users with iPhones will have to find an alternative way to sync their iPhones, or at least get their music into [...]

SugarSync and Dropbox may not be the only two companies that provide online file storage services, but they are the definitely the one that provide excellent services and great usability. Being a computer geek (that’s what I love to call myself), I am always asked whether SugarSync or Dropbox is better and which one I [...]

By now, you should have heard of some of the popular cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Sugarsync, Box.net etc. Recently, there is another kid on the block and I think it is worth the mention at MakeUseOf. ZumoDrive is an online storage service that everyone can use to store their files in the Cloud [...]

Even though Firefox is the default browser in most Linux distro, that doesn’t mean you have to confine yourselves to Firefox. While I love Firefox for its user friendliness and its marvelous library of extensions, there are times where I hate it when it becomes a memory hogs and causes my computer to crash. Luckily, [...]

If you are one of those who download videos from BitTorrents site on a regular basis, you will know that the quality of the downloaded video is sometime not what you have expected it to be. After spending plenty of hours downloading only to find that it is a poor cam quality video can indeed [...]