There are many great tutorials on the web for using a Mac to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a PC. Unfortunately, you may be unable to follow such tutorials if you do not readily have access to a Mac to perform the preparation necessary for the installation. Great progress has been made in [...]

If you’re a regular on MakeUseOf, you’ve probably noticed that post comments don’t look quite the same as they previously did. It gives me great pleasure to announce that MakeUseOf comments are now powered by DISQUS Comments. Many thanks to Daniel Ha and the rest of the good folks at Disqus for their help and [...]

Google Talk is a great tool for instant communication, but one thing it lacks is chat rooms. Chat rooms are a great way for a group of friends or colleagues to chat together online, but unfortunately, Google Talk lacks support for chat rooms. Partychapp is a chat bot that takes care of this problem, and [...]

Just a few days ago, Google announced the release of the Chrome OS source code. Within less than 24 hours, the web was littered with disk images for running the new OS on virtual machines such as VMWare and VirtualBox. I even managed to put together my own Google Chrome OS download in the form [...]

There’s a great new service called Wikirank that keeps you abreast of the latest hot topics on Wikipedia. Wikirank has charts for the number of visits that have taken place on Wikipedia article pages. On the font page, you’ll see an interesting comparison for the traffic that has taken place on pages over the course [...]

Gizmo5 provides a free service much like Skype, that allows you to make free PC-to-PC calls. In addition to providing many of the great things that Skype provides (free PC-to-PC calls, instant messaging, regular phone calls with great rates, etc), Gizmo5 provides an instant conference calling service. You don’t need a Gizmo5 account to use [...]

This week Microsoft announced a new product for web developers called Expression Web SuperPreview. It allows you to preview sites in multiple Internet Explorer browsers simultaneously, without having them installed. The beta version was released on the eve of the MIX09 Developer Conference, which was earlier than expected. You can download it here. According to [...]

Have the telemarketers managed to get a hold of your cell phone number? Are you sick of having to ignore unwanted calls? With CallsBlocker you can block calls on your Blackberry and never have to deal with unwanted calls ever again! CallsBlocker is a great free Blackberry call blocking software written by Fabian Heuwieser that [...]

Firebug is a web developer’s best friend. It is a Firefox add-on that makes it very easy to debug and develop web pages. It provides you with a way to inspect page elements and perform many other functions as well. But what about Firebug on other browsers? Installing Firebug on IE, Safari, Chrome or Opera [...]

LEGO is a timeless toy that generations have enjoyed around the world. Back in 2003, LEGO released a free software tool called LEGO Digital Designer. The easiest way to describe it is to say that it is a CAD tool that uses LEGO bricks to perform the design. You can download LEGO Digital Designer for [...]

If you are a Linux or UNIX user, you probably use SSH (Secure Shell) to access the command line on your machines remotely. In addition to providing secure access to shell accounts, SSH can also securely transport other kinds of web traffic as well. In a sense, it can provide you with a quick and easy [...]

gifninja is a website that lets you create animated gifs quickly and easily.  You can either create an animated gif from individual images or by uploading a video. gifninja also provides you with a nice utility to split an animated gif into separate images. Convert video to animated gif To convert a video to an [...]

TrayIt! is a very small but powerful tool for helping you manage your Windows task bar and system tray. Basically, it offers a simple solution to keeping your windows taskbar clean by letting you minimize programs to system tray where they only appear as a tiny icon. Neat! TrayIt is only about a 300k download [...]

Without a doubt, one of my favorite features in Google Reader is the ability to share interesting articles with my friends, as well as receive interesting articles from them. When you share common interests with others, the information you get from shared items is often more interesting that the majority of the information you get [...]

Most of the digital images and pictures you see on the web are raster graphics images or bitmaps (.bmp). A raster graphics image is simply defined with a grid of pixels that are set to certain colors. Raster graphics images are resolution dependent and cannot be made larger without loss of apparent quality. Therefore, for [...]