Do you download music from multiple sources? How about sources you don’t pay for? Even if all you’re doing is ripping CD’s onto your hard drive, odds are good you’ve got more than a few songs labeled something like “Track 06.mp3″ or “This song’s totally sweet.mp3″. How in the world are you supposed to remember [...]

I have this exact moment all the time: I hear a song. “Ooo, good song!” I say. Then, to remember what the song is so I can look it up later, I try and remember a line or a phrase from the song, which I’ll then use to figure out what song it really is. [...]

So you’ve seen The Today Show, or Oprah, or Jerry Springer, and you’ve thought “hey, that could be me!” Well, except Jerry Springer ““ let’s hope you’ve never thought you could be Jerry. But anyway, being a talk show host looks like one of the most fun (not to mention most lucrative) jobs out there, [...]

Email, in this crazy digital world, is where a lot of our communication happens, where a lot of information is stored, and is often the thing with which we spend the most time. Email can be a huge time-drain, particularly for those of us who get a lot of it ““ it can be overwhelming, [...]

I think, at some point or another, most of us have wanted to be a stand-up comedian. Come on ““ getting up on stage, talking about”¦whatever, and making endless numbers of people laugh? What could be better than that? Apparently, it’s not an easy thing to do, though ““ something about practice, and talent, and [...]

The Billboard charts for music are all well and good, but odds are, you’ve already heard of all of those bands. To sort through the rest to find the good stuff, though, will take you about 39 years. Whatever will you do? Increasingly, you’ll turn to Twitter. Twitter is rapidly becoming a place for people [...]

Instapaper is an application we’ve covered before here on MakeUseOf – Abhijeet even featured it as one of “4 Awesome Tools to Save Pages For Reading Later.” Instapaper is a great tool for saving pages and reading them later, but it’s also got the potential to be so much more. Instapaper has, over the last [...]

I’m a big Twitter fan. In the past, I’ve even figured out 9 ways to use Twitter without a browser. For anyone who wants to make the most out of Twitter, one of the most important things to do is find an application that works for you. The Twitter website is rapidly improving, but there [...]

The blogosphere has discussed, at length, how real-time search is being affected by things like Twitter and Facebook. With status updates coming out at a totally unprecedented pace, we’re able to get more information more quickly than ever before. We used to say that about the rest of the Internet, but social networking has lead [...]

I’m a big fan of applications that tap into something I already use, and make it better, more useful, and more fun. In this case, I’ve discovered a new service that taps into your instant messenger, your social networks, and your areas of expertise all at once. It’s called Aardvark, and is a brand-new application [...]

One of the coolest, and most exciting features of Twitter is how good it is at connecting people – the user base is huge and full of interesting people you can connect with in a way only Twitter allows. The problem, though, is that Twitter does essentially nothing to help you find interesting people. There [...]

Where do you go to before you decide whether or not to buy a product? If you are choosing between several similar items, how to make the right decision? Some use Amazon, others use Newegg, and there are a bunch of other websites that have tons of useful reviews. Previously, Sharninder wrote about SnapTell, to [...]

Picking the restaurant for dinner is hard. Whether it’s a date, or just colleagues or friends hanging out, there’s all kinds of unspoken pressure on the person who picks the restaurant. If the food’s terrible, it must mean I’m terrible. And what if I can’t get a reservation anywhere, and we end up eating at [...]

One of Twitter‘s coolest uses is as a real-time search engine. News tends to break and spread faster on Twitter than anywhere else, and generally speaking, people know things there before anyone else picks them up. All the stories should be taken with some healthy skepticism, but Twitter’s proving itself to be the place for [...]

I’ve been a PC my whole life, but have always harbored a secret Mac envy. I love how Macs are simple to use, that the hardware and software interface so well together, and that everything on Mac OS appears to be tailored to improving the user experience. There are a ton of advantages to Windows, [...]