Today, we will take a look at Maxthon, an award-winning and speedy web browser that has versions available for Android phones and tablets. Maxthon also has a desktop browser that is focused on speed and another version that was featured on MakeUseOf four years ago and began as an extension of IE, as well as a kid-safe browser.

Say you have an idea for a product or application and have been developing the app or you have had someone else make it for you. If you’re trying to spread it to the masses, you may have thought about approaching blogs like MakeUseOf, magazines, and other outlets so they can feature your product. However, good PR practices are also key to getting your product and ideas out there.

The list of ways to entertain yourself on the web is practically endless. Just choose your poison – Facebook, games, news sites, blogs, etc. Blogs that entertain you these days abound – you have probably heard of The Oatmeal, Hyperbole and a Half, Fail Blog, Damn You Autocorrect, Cracked, The Chive….all of which rely on images or videos to amuse you.

Are you trying to come up with things to do with your family? Spending hundreds on toys is an idea, but so is spending an afternoon with your kids making fun paper crafts. You may think the latter is rather uneventful, but there are many more things you can do with paper, printable models and online sources. Up next, we will take a look at several activities that involve a bit of paper and some ink.

A stroke of genius can lead to ideas that may or may not work out when they hit consumers. iPods, Twitter, RSS, and so on, are some ideas that have flourished favorably in today’s world. They started with the same, if not bigger, risks than any other inventions. But their ideas resulted in success stories and lie today in your apartment. Some other creations didn’t have such lucky paths.

If you’re currently attending college or university, you will know that your expenses have gone up the roof. If you use some type of budget planner (I use email-based TheBirdy), you have probably been scared off by the high amount of money you’ve spent on even little things. Do you want to try to get a grip on your expenses? Fear not.

In my operating systems class, we have 8 projects for the semester, all of which must be completed in groups of 2. These labs are time-consuming to say the least, and the last thing any of us students want to do is rot together for 30 hours sitting in the university computer labs for each project. Thus, we decided to look for time-saving tools and give real-time text editors a try. Turns out, they’ve been extremely helpful.

Today, we’ll be taking a look at certain services that help you do things you’ve always put in your New Year’s resolutions list (but got too busy to keep up with) while integrating with the service you use the most – email. These are web apps that you can actually use every day if you check your email daily.

I’ve been calling Linux Mint my main OS, an experience which has absolutely blown my mind. Linux Mint simply works beautifully, without any of the quirks that drove me up the wall in Ubuntu. However, I have observed that there are no alternatives (yet) for some of the programs that I call indispensable and have grown to love in Windows.

Android phone owners in want of voice transcription software somewhat similar to the iPhone’s Siri can now rejoice. The formerly US-only Voice Actions by Google has expanded to the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, making it easier for users in these areas to speak to their Android phone and get things done more easily and quickly. Though no system is perfect yet, Voice Actions provides a good amount of functionality.

Virtual assistant software, such as Siri, might just be a step forward in converting our smartphones to smart personal assistants. Today, we’ll take a look at Skyvi, an ad-supported app that’s currently free for a limited time only. It can help you read your social networking updates, find restaurants and answers, convert speech to text and more.

Last semester, one of my CS professors started class by saying that his superior was strongly encouraging (read: forcing) the teaching staff to use this new web-based discussion board called Piazza. As students, some of us considered it a bit annoying to have to check yet another website but little did we know, this site actually became a very useful and heavily-relied-on tool.

Dropbox is my preferred syncing service, which works wonders on computers. However on mobile devices, especially Android devices, it leaves a lot to be desired, mainly because of the lack of support for two-way syncing goodness. Dropbox may or may not implement this feature soon, but in the meantime, Dropsync does a superb job of uploading and downloading files in real-time.

Camstudio is a simple open-source screen recorder that’s great for someone who’s starting out his or her YouTube show on software tips and how-to’s. If you’re looking for something that allows you to enhance your videos even more, check out what ActivePresenter offers. ActivePresenter is a screencasting software that you can use to author training tutorials and software walkthroughs.

New online threats emerge every day, attacking corporations and consumers alike. These potentials threats aren’t disguised just as links or emails anymore. They could be coming for your personal information in all sorts of ways. Here, we will be taking a look at ClamWin, an open-source anti-virus program that’s been around for a while. Should you get it? Read on to find out.