I am a big fan of password managers, because I never remember my passwords. The reason I don’t remember them is that I always want them to be very strong passwords that can’t be easily hacked or figured out. Also, I never read Damien’s article, How To Create Strong Passwords That You Can Remember Easily. Some of [...]

Have you ever wondered how fast your connection really is? Is your Internet service provider really giving you that blazing speed you paid so much for? Well, I like to make sure I’m getting what I paid for, especially when it comes to my Internet. I need the lowest ping possible, so the frag total [...]

I am one of the worst when it comes to keeping my email address book up to date. I never add in new people I meet or get emails from. This means my auto-complete never works, and I always forget who is who. I’m sure I’m not the first one with this problem, and I’m sure I [...]

Do you love the fact that some organizations try to track your downloading behavior?  Well, I personally like my privacy, and I’m sure that most people around the Internet like their privacy as well. There are several articles on MakeUseOf about increasing your browsing privacy like this one on Chrome, and this one on Firefox. Only [...]

Most professional blogs have a privacy and disclosure policy. These policies can be very important to your blog, as they inform your readers about some of the more legal aspects of your website. However, writing your own privacy policy or disclaimer can be extremely hard unless you’ve had years of law school or have extra cash [...]

List making is often a very simple task that is done on a piece of paper or with a simple computer program.  You usually fill the list up with simple tasks that only take a few words to describe. The problem with this is that most tasks aren’t as simple as that.  They usually take [...]

Do you want to make friends or business contacts but don’t have a business card? Do you want to find another way to be a little more eco-friendly? Contxts is a great solution for both of these questions. Contxts lets you send your business card via mobile phone text message (SMS). This is not only amazingly cool, but [...]

Invites to private torrent sites are all but non-existent unless you know someone that knows someone. Yeah, they hold open registrations every once in a while, but it is usually only open for a couple of hours or a day if you’re lucky. Usually, you find out about the open registration once it’s over, and [...]

Analytics are a great tool to use with any website or blog.  They help you understand where your traffic comes from and some of the ways that traffic behaves.  In the past, MakeUseOf has covered several free traffic analytics tools to track all of your site’s statistics. Today, I’m going to tell you more about [...]

These days just about everyone around the internet knows about lifestreaming and may even have one of their own. This is due to the great growth and expansion of services like FriendFeed and Socialthing! Previously, MakeUseOf covered the top 5 lifestreaming services. One thing about most lifestreaming services is that they can’t be self-hosted. You might be [...]

How many people out there have deleted something by accident, or if not by accident, have you ever deleted something out of anger (like your ex-girlfriend’s pictures)? No hands? Well, if you don’t want to admit it haven’t done it, you will need the program Undelete Plus in case you ever do it in the [...]

Sir Francis Bacon once said, “Knowledge is power.” If that’s true, the application we are looking at today should give you “The Power of Grayskull” with its ability to provide you with anything and everything you ever wanted to know about your computer. FreshDiagnose is a program that analyzes and benchmarks every aspect of your [...]

I know that lots of people who read this blog like to have control over every aspect of their computer. That control is nice, because you can speed up your computer and make it perform the way you want it. Some articles that show this are 10 Quick Fixes to Make your Windows Computer Faster [...]

There are several good website traffic analytics tools out there, and the most popular today is probably Google Analytics. The other day I came across another alternative called BLVD Status. BLVD Status is currently in public beta, but it does provide a good service even at this stage. It comes with the basic analytic tools [...]

Frets on Fire is a free and open source game for Windows, Mac and Linux that comes with the goal of picking up your keyboard and trying to rock out just like the first guys on the keytar. Frets on Fire will definitely remind you of Guitar Hero, because the gameplay is very similar. If [...]