I love my audio CD collection. I really do. But carrying a hundred CDs with me on a vacation just so that I can listen to that one song when I have to, isn’t exactly my idea of fun. On the other hand, my iPod lets me take more than a hundred CDs worth of [...]

Flickr is one of the largest and most popular photo sharing websites around. They let you upload photos for free – till a certain limit – and if you pay the very nominal fee, you can upload as many photos as you want on the site. They also have a pretty good permissions system that [...]

If you have a desk job like I do, and are as fond of food as I am, you really must be having tough time dealing with all the (unwanted) calories. I know I do. Working as a code churner by day and a writer by night hardly leaves me with any time to exercise [...]

We all download software from the Internet or install applications off a CD or some other media. While some companies decide to just distribute their applications packaged in zip files, most of them use some form of an installation program, which is usually an EXE ““ Executable file – that runs you through a series [...]

A proxy server is a kind of server/software that sits between a network and another client machine and handles communication between the two. That one function is the primary use of a free proxy server ““ to act as a proxy for a client machine. Proxy servers can also be configured to store (cache) webpages [...]

I’m a big horror movie buff and would any day prefer to watch a gory bloodbath over the latest teeny bopper. Fans of horror movies aren’t exactly treated well  – around the Internet as well as in the offline world. Reviews and mentions of horror movies are few and far between in the mainstream media [...]

YouTube is the biggest video sharing site on the planet. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking for a review of the latest gadget, or a simple walking tour of a historical site, chances are you’d find it on YouTube. Most videos uploaded to YouTube are made by amateurs like you and I, usually with modest [...]

Windows XP is easily one of the most successful operating systems that Microsoft has ever released, but for those of us who remember the good old days of DOS, using a computer with a graphical point and click interface, seems almost magical ““ and mundane. Tell me, where’s the fun in not having to deal [...]

I don’t remember the last time I just barged into a brick and mortar store and purchased something on a whim. I like to research before buying almost anything and most of my research is done online. When I’m in a store looking at a product I’m interested in, I like to know the price [...]

The economy hasn’t been doing too well and there hasn’t been a lot of good news to share lately. Not only are businesses going bust each day, but consumers are feeling the pinch too, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Tough times like these call for tough measures and while we [...]

Microsoft, like all other software companies, releases patches and hot fixes for its Windows operating system quite frequently. Installing the latest patch or Hot fix is highly recommended if you want to keep your installation in tip-top shape. These patches are mostly harmless but there are times when your current configuration, hardware or software might [...]

We’ve covered a lot of ways to tweak Windows to your liking. Some of those tweaks have been simple settings hidden behind a menu while some were hidden options in the registry. If you’ve been a regular Make Use Of reader, I’m sure you have your Windows system configured exactly to your liking. But what [...]

Well, not literally, of course, but now you can access Gmail even when you’re offline. The Ninjas over at the Gmail team have created a masterpiece and are inviting you to give their new offering a spin. Too Dramatic, was it ? Well, the reason that I’m being so dramatic is that the feature that [...]

Most new external hard drives available in the market are designed to be plug and play. By plug and play, what I mean is that you can just plug in the hard drive and start using it right away. This is because the manufacturers send the disk initialised and ready to work with the most [...]

There was a time when Yahoo used to provide free POP3 access to Yahoo Mail service and life was all sweet. Then one day their evil overlords decided to pull the rug from beneath our feet and made the POP3 service a premium offering, which meant that us poor users had to pay to use [...]