When it comes to resizing or converting images, it can often be a tedious task of doing one after the other. Luckily there are a lot of great tools out there that make it easy to get through the process at just about the click of a button. Not only can you find great batch editing software to resize or convert image files, you can also find a few that will give you a few pretty impressive batch editing features as well.

Taggstar is a pretty cool little service that recently launched, making it easy to make photos on your site a little bit more interactive, and could also earn you a bit of cash in the process. Rather than just depend on sharing images with your site visitors, you can turn your images into monetization or educational tools using Taggstar. To find out how, read on.

Juggling several email inboxes can be a hassle, but luckily with all the main email providers – Gmail, Outlook (Hotmail) and Yahoo – you can merge all of your email accounts into one inbox, and send and receive email all from one place on the web. This will come in particularly handy to those of you who don’t like the idea of using a desktop client. We’ve put together a guide for all the major email providers, making it easy for you to figure out how to do it.

With Twitter launching a new look for user profiles, the biggest change you’ll have noticed by now is the big header image you can use to feature an extra image that says a little something about who you are or what you do. Twitter header images should be at least 1200 by 600 pixels, and by putting a little bit of thought into what kind of image to use, you can really spruce up your profile, and say something about who you are, all at the same time.

In an article pitching iOS Maps and Android Maps against each other, Walt Mossberg may have dropped a not-so subtle hint about one significant change that will be coming to Apple’s much criticized offering as soon as Thursday: Google Street View. According to Mossberg, Google plans to announce on Thursday that it is adding its popular Street View feature to the mobile web version of Google Maps.

The iPhone photography app Hipstamatic can be a little overwhelming at first, trying to understand how all the different combinations work and what kind of effects you can create using the app. When you first download Hipstamatic, if you haven’t already, you’ll find that it comes with a few pre-set lenses, film and flashes, which you can use in any combination of your choice.

User engagement should be a top priority for anyone running a website, blog or any kind of online business. While there is a lot that should be done in terms of encouraging users to share your content on social networks, as well as encouraging them to leave comments, there are a few more unique ideas that can help visitors interact with your site, and in some cases keep them there for a bit longer.

If you’ve been looking for a way to keep photos on your Mac organized, and iPhoto isn’t cutting it for you, a new beta app might have you covered. Free for as long as it’s in beta, Pixa is an easy to use app that makes it easy to keep your photos organized, back them up to the cloud, and open photos in external apps. In addition to keeping you organized, Pixa comes with a few pretty cool features which make it easy to stay organized, inspired and more.

Having a responsive site is a must now for anyone who wants to cater to a wider audience, no matter what device they’re happening to be on at the time. Responsive themes detect the device a visitor is using, and alter the site to give the viewer the optimal viewing experience – so whether you’re driving traffic to your site when people are on the go on their phones or sitting at their computers, Striking.ly will handle the transition.

With the amount of information we post online, we’re putting an awful lot of faith in third party services to keep our content and photos safe. Between Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and Google+, there’s no limit to the way we share our images online. And thanks to a few other third party services, there’s no limit to the ways we can back up our online photos to our computers.

We’ve already taken a look at funny Amazon reviews in the past, but thanks to a colossally dismal marketing idea on the part of Bic, creating a line of pens especially for women, we’ve once again gone digging for some of the more humorous reviews on the site. Along with the Bic for Her pens, there are also a couple of books, an ill-thought out kids toy and even one review for a wall mount, proving that your next laugh on Amazon could be pretty much anywhere.

Since the Pinterest explosion, which has admittedly recently died down a little, there have been all sorts of clones popping up left and right catering to niche audiences, or even just unabashedly copying the social networking site. One social network that has already earned itself comparisons to Pinterest is Fancy, by allowing users to save and share photos on boards, with the difference of calling them ‘lists’ instead of ‘boards.’

When you’re browsing the Web, reading the latest tech, business and world news, do you ever find yourself wondering about the people you’re reading about? If so, Summer is a handy little Chrome extension which will definitely appeal to you. Summer is something of a Crunchbase that follows you around the Web, and goes far beyond letting you know just about tech and Internet personalities.

With Spotify making it onto the MakeUseOf Best iPhone Apps list, we’re taking a closer look at what you can get out of using Spotify on your iPhone. You can select between the free or premium Spotify account, depending on how much you want to do with Spotify on your phone or tablet. Spotify Premium on your iPhone or iPad gives you on-demand music and the potential for offline access to Spotify’s entire music library with millions of songs.

There is certainly no shortage of online bookmarking sites but if you’re still on the hunt for that perfect way to bookmark your favourite posts and sites, Annotary is the perfect marriage of a social and visual bookmarking service, and it couldn’t be easier to use. Annotary is part productivity tool and part social networking site, by allowing you to bookmark pages, highlight specific parts of pages, add notes to your highlights, and share your bookmarks with other Annotary members.