If you’ve ever used Firefox you’ll appreciate the fact that it’s incredibly easy to use and intuitive right out of the box.  This is perhaps one of the key reasons why it now owns 21.5% of the worldwide browser market share, and Internet Explorer is having its worst month yet. Frankly speaking, as Internet speeds [...]

Hotel search engines are a dime a dozen these days, but DealBase approaches this proposition from a very interesting angle ““ great deals and savings. Its simple site that make is easy to find best hotel deals and discount hotel rooms online. The premise of how DealBase works is simple. Just search for a destination [...]

Since computers are in use more hours per day than they used to be, making your computer more energy efficient is becoming increasingly important.  Not only will not only go easy on your wallet, but you get to help out the environment as well. Here are 5 ways you can help to decrease power consumption [...]

I rarely find myself recommending a Microsoft product to people, but Windows Live Writer certainly bucks the trend here.  As a desktop application for blogging, it’s powerful, simple to use and set up. If you’re a blogger and you’re not convinced, here are 7 reasons why you should try out Windows Live Writer 2009. 1. [...]

Sometime last year, MakeUseOf featured an excellent list of disposable tools for the web. It covered a spread of useful disposable email accounts, phone numbers, login details, fake names, and file sharing tools. Disposable services are incredibly useful when you just want a bit of anonymity online. Can’t trust a website that looks a little dodgy with [...]

JoikuSpot Light is an awesome piece of freeware which allows you to tether your mobile phone’s 3G capabilities and turn it into a wi-fi hotspot. Bascially, it gives you a dead-simple way to connect your laptop or pc to internet via cell phone. Not only does this mean you’ve got a wi-fi hotspot in your [...]

Pick up a handmade village craft in your local store and you may be rewarded with a warm fuzzy feeling that you’ve helped a poor villager in a remote location. After all, you’ve created demand for his craft. Surely, he’ll be rewarded accordingly. “¦Right? Look a little closer and you’ll see a very different story. [...]

Having difficulties trying to get people to understand you? One way to get your message across in a more effective manner is just to simplify what you’re trying to say. Cut the jargon, use simpler words, and you’ll be surprised how much more receptive your audience or readers may be. This is often simpler said [...]

Color co-ordination is definitely not one of my strong suits. Ask my girlfriend and she’ll tell you what a mess I make just picking out matching clothes. For anyone like me who’s basically ‘design-challenged’, here are two awesome tools which will help you get perfectly color coordinated. Search Color Schemes (Use Words) Picking out a [...]