The best part about Facebook is getting back in touch with old friends. There’s no better place to reconnect with your college buddies or past coworkers than Facebook – the largest social network on the planet, with 400 million members. Even if Facebook’s Friend Suggestions does a wonderful job of helping you discover new friends, [...]

If you follow more than a hundred people on Twitter, your tweet stream can get overwhelming. On the other hand, you might have already had enough of the sharing overload on social networks and may be keeping away from Twitter altogether. Whatever the case, information overload has become a real cause of concern for many [...]

No matter which version of Windows you use, you will find your PC slowing down after a few months of regular use. This holds true for the latest incarnation as well ““ Windows 7. There are several third-party utilities that optimize Windows, but it is not safe to run system programs from unknown developers. In [...]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer may be the worst browser on the planet, and any Mac lover or Linux geek can easily expound on the flaws in the Windows operating system. However, it would be foolhardy to abandon our objectivity and criticize all Microsoft products. Not only does Microsoft make some great products, but several of them [...]

We have covered 8 steps to regain control of your Facebook Privacy in Part 1. If you haven’t already, please read it, as we covered privacy basics in search visibility, photos and videos, relationships and contact information. Let us now proceed with the next steps concerning Facebook privacy controls in the context of applications, friends, [...]

My earlier post on 10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy was one of the Top 10 Most Popular MakeUseOf Posts in 2009, indicating that users are seriously concerned about their privacy on the world’s largest social network. However, Facebook has updated their privacy settings and philosophy since then, which brings us to this [...]

The verb “to google” was officially added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006. As the Official Google Blog clarifies the trademark, it should only be strictly used when you use Google to search. But that doesn’t stop us from using alternative search engines to search for people, does it? [...]

Faviki is a unique social bookmarking service that uses semantic tags based on structured information from Wikipedia. What does that mean, why does it matter, and why should you use another social bookmarking service if you already have hundreds of bookmarks in Delicious? In this article, let us see why Faviki is an attractive social [...]

The Internet is a great place to satisfy your curiosity about anything under the sun. There are tons of resources to learn about anything that may catch your fancy, whether it is for a casual look, a serious hobby, or a lifelong pursuit of knowledge in a specific field. Whatever the nature of your interest, [...]

In today’s collaborative professional environment, teams often need to work on documents at the same time. The Track Changes feature of MS Office works only if each reviewer updates a document and sends it to the next reviewer, but this rarely happens in real life. Instead, we end up with multiple versions of the same [...]

While Twitter is a fun place to hang out, it has associated risks just like any other social network. As examples of the risks involved with Twitter, there are phishing scams, government security lapses, and people getting fired because of tweeting. Here are 10 solid Twitter safety tips you can make use of to enjoy [...]

Google recently started a new service called Google Public DNS to help speed up your web browsing. This is an alternative to the DNS provided by your ISP, and other public DNS services like Open DNS, that we covered previously on MakeUseOf. Which of these options best optimize your internet speed? The good news is [...]

Speakers and presenters at conferences are increasingly finding their audience live tweeting during their presentation. In most cases, the presenter has no clue about what the audience is saying on Twitter. This leads to a disconnect between the true thoughts of the audience in contrast with that of the presenter. In order to avoid such [...]

Internet World Stats show that English web surfers represent less than 28% of the Internet population. In other words, if your blog or website is English-only, it is largely useless to 72% of Internet users. True, your readers can take the effort of using a translation service themselves, but wouldn’t it be friendlier to make [...]

Since we covered Posterous on MakeUseOf a year ago, the service has added tons of new features and has grown into a mature platform. Many people love the simple, easy way to email brief text, photos, and audio/video clips to get them on their Posterous. Beyond this simplicity however, there are some cool things you [...]