August 31, 2009
I love living in New York City. Its constant action and celebrity sightings make it a great place to live – or visit. The best thing about NYC is its subway and bus system. Built in the early 1900s, the subway system gets New Yorkers and visitors to the places they need to go quickly [...]
August 24, 2009
As we’ve mentioned here before at Make Use Of, bookmarklets are easy to use additions to your web browsers that add functionality to websites or make it easier to perform tasks such as bookmarking to social sites or changing the way websites appear in the browser. Run with Javascript, these useful lightweight pieces of code [...]
August 2, 2009
Gmail offers more than just email – you can add gadgets to your Gmail screen to add more functionality or just for plain fun. Before we get started, you must activate Gmail Gadgets by navigating to Settings then Labs and enabling “Add any gadget by URL.” Now navigate to Settings > Gadgets to add new [...]
July 31, 2009
Whether Macs are the best computers for web development is up for debate, but one thing can be agreed upon – there are some great software apps for web development on a Mac. Here’s a list of 10 essential software apps for web development on a Mac. 10. TextWrangler is a multipurpose text editor that [...]
August 22, 2008
If you have been a computer user for a while, then you may have heard of FloppyOffice, which was – as you probably already guessed, a portable office software suite on a floppy drive! Now in 2008, you probably can only find floppies in the dark recesses of closets, boxes and landfills – but FloppyOffice [...]
July 11, 2008
ChipIn is a neat and free web app that allows you to raise money online easily and quickly – without a lot of complicated coding or hassles. Signing up is easy – just start filling in the boxes, tell them what you are raising money for, how much, how soon you need it, and your [...]
July 4, 2008
Amazon Gift Central‘s motto must be “helping even the most gift-giving challenged people the opportunity to give great gifts year round!” Many of us do not have ready access to malls or enjoy shopping for gifts for our friends and family members. However, Amazon Gift Central provides a clean, easy to use interface that prepares [...]
June 8, 2008
Are you a power Gmail user? If not, these 6 little known, yet useful Gmail tips can get you on the road to being a power Gmail user today! Import your contacts from Outlook, Thunderbird or Yahoo! Mail to Gmail. Don’t spend your entire weekend trying to copy your contacts over from another program or [...]
June 2, 2008
While we have mentioned SharePod in our free iPod tools round-up before, I wanted to take a closer look at this free iPod manager program that is designed to sync and manage my iPod. To install SharePod, visit the SharePod download site and download the .zip file. Once you unzip it, you can either drag [...]
May 20, 2008
Google Gears is a free open source application and browser plugin that you can use to sync web applications to your computer for those times when you do not have internet access. It also has the capability to work on both Firefox and Internet Explorer web browsers; and Linux, Windows, Windows Mobile and Mac operating [...]
