We make a lot of player recommendations here at Make Use Of, where everyone is an addict, and we’ve even given you advice on how to record streaming radio as mp3. With the list of free players growing all the time (iffy companies are cropping up all over the web like raging teen acne – [...]

Every blog owner has been there: you log in to check your traffic and there’s been a spike or dip of epic proportions. A piddling number of visitors (or an inexplicable throng) have been to your page and you did nothing to bring it about. The first couple of times this happened to me I [...]

Creative Commons is becoming a web force to be reckoned with. I recently switched to a Firefox browser from Internet Explorer (a revelation in many ways, but that’s another article) and didn’t even have to modify my toolbar to create a Creative Commons search shortcut. CC is one of the default directories; it was already [...]

Who hasn’t noticed those little RSS subscribe buttons (Add to Google, My Yahoo, Netvibes) popping up all over the web like Starbucks in the suburbs? If you’re like me, you were drawn into the gadget-rich world of iGoogle by just one of these buttons. One minute I was trawling for articles, blissfully convinced that Facebook [...]