Here at MakeUseOf we are always looking for the latest and greatest free applications and websites. I thought I would share with you today how much I love the free calendar online called 30boxes. It is available for you to check out here.  I have replaced my Google Calendar with it some time back. But [...]

It’s the holiday season and the family is coming around to visit as usual. And as usual the technology requests are in. This year I have been tasked with converting VHS videos to DVD. I did not want to spend a fortune on conversion software and as the story goes I wanted FREE software so [...]

Before we get into what a dynamic IP address is, let me give you a little background on the topic. First off an IP address is an Internet Protocol address. For more information on what an IP address is you can check out this page on Wikipedia. We can consider this your machine’s Internet Address. [...]

How do you check what is on TV? A lot of people would say that they use something like TV Guide channel listings or even TV.com. But one – they probably do not watch international television and two they always have a data connection up and ready. I do find myself watching TV via many [...]

I have multiple offices with lots and lots of printers. Some networks are on Active Directory and some are not. Some are configured with print servers and some are not. Now when I am asked for a printer status report for a specific office or warehouse I have a lot of digging to do. There [...]

Do you hate using Microsoft products? Do you instead want to use a free, lightweight, easy to use calendar and contact management application? Well I needed something very lightweight for a project I was working on. My requirements were to use a small amount of memory, be cross-platform, we needed a calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes. [...]

Hey there loyal readers! I have found another awesome experimental Firefox add-on. This one is called Voyage ““ you know like a journey. You can download the experimental add-on from this URL.. You will need to click the box next to the allow me to download this experimental add-on. This add-on will give you a [...]

Hey there Twitter fans! How do you keep up with all your tweets and what not while you are on the go? Do you use the mobile version of their website? How last year! I have recently become addicted to The Twitter. Don’t laugh, it can happen to you! Now I am using a mobile [...]

Do you use Firefox? Most of our readers do and we all know that 10 open tabs can be highly problematic for our system memory. There have been times I have seen my Firefox get close to 1.5 gigs of memory. That is just unacceptable! So what do you do? Do you stop using Firefox? [...]

I wear many hats throughout the day and have lots and lots of repetitive tasks that I do. Photoshop has it’s own built in macro maker (or keyboard and mouse recorder and playback if you will). So for years, I have been recording macros and playing them back to do the same task over and [...]

I am very picky about the games I play. I got used to in depth text games in the late eighties on my C64 like Kyrandia. That was fun on a 1200 bps modem! Nowadays most games are graphic-intensive and have no real story line. These two games are fun and will open up your [...]

So you don’t want to spring for Adobe Acrobat Pro? I can empathize as it is really expensive and in today’s economy we shouldn’t be spending money when we don’t have to. What do you do when you need to create a PDF or convert a PDF to word document? That is why I am about [...]

Most bloggers know the value of SEO or Search Engine Optimization. By performing some tasks, tricks and jumping through some hoops you can make your website or blog appear more impressive to the bigger search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.  Optimizing certain parts of your website, including article titles, image alternate text tags and [...]

Do you have to work on websites that will be viewed on MANY different systems and MANY different browsers? Well then how do you preview a web page on all of these systems? Do you have a quadruple booting system? Access to lots and lots of computers with all the different versions of browsers installed [...]

I love to watch TV, I always have and always will. But as I get older, time becomes a bigger problem. In the early part of 2000 I snatched up a TiVo to help me watch all my prime time shows when I got around to it. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 12pm ““ 2am. [...]