One way to avoid procrastination and general tardiness is the regular use of a calendar. Mac OS X comes shipped with iCal, a great free calendar application. The slick looks and features make it almost everything a punctuality-freak wants. By synchronizing iCal with Google Calendar, you can bring your calendar to the cloud, use it [...]

As far as backwards compatibility goes, Windows 7′s own compatibility mode doesn’t work wonders. It plays dress up, with a fake nose and beard, and bridges some of the most common software issues. Generally, that is enough. All but a few troublemakers are whining about an operating system they simply don’t recognize and are otherwise [...]

Mac doesn’t count nearly as many free image editors as Windows. This is something you won’t notice if you’re using Adobe Photoshop, Pixelmator or Apple’s own Preview application. But you’ll need a second mortgage to afford Photoshop, and Preview doesn’t do much more than annotating and cropping. Looking for freeware clears the stage of all [...]

Writing is diminishing in these modern, online times. Most of what’s written online is “scanned”, rather than read. Rather than being incompatible though, the web and (creatively) written words are perfectly compatible. Don’t forget that the Internet started out as just a bunch of text. As a creative author – professional or aspiring – the [...]

On one side, the internet is inhabited by a fair amount of music blogs. They’re audiophile magazines turned digital, and often pioneers in music. When something interesting is aired, they’re the first to know. Personal internet radios – like Last.fm, Pandora and Spotify – haven’t been around for all that long. And contrary to the [...]

Whether you’re trying to create a media center remote, or wireless file server, there are a number of cellphone and computer applications that need your smartphone’s IP address. Finding these can be a real drag, on some smartphone brands more than on others. Below is an extensive tutorial to find these IP addresses, both global/public [...]

There are some amazing, free rhythm games available online, and we’ve covered the best of them. JamLegend can be played from your browser, with impressive functionality, and Frets on Fire is a multi-OS desktop variant. But however great these games are, it’s easy to get cramped when you’re using your keyboard (even if you hold [...]

I had quite a lot of trouble last week with a company’s browsing restrictions. It used an extensive directory of ‘forbidden websites’ that kept out all but a few popular sites. In effect, no games sites, no personal email, and no MakeUseOf. None of the conventional proxy servers worked, and even Google Translate failed. My [...]

The user experience that we’ve come to know and love is, when you think about it, quite flawed. Although we are only displaying a rather limited amount of data on our screen (whatever our screen resolution can handle), a lot of data is kept unused in the background, as a memory hog. It’s because of [...]

A considerable amount of internet users are of Indian origin, almost half as much as the ever-present U.S. of A. On Twitter, India is effectively one of the largest demographics. Although we’re only talking about a minority of the total Indian population, they’re an internet force to be reckoned with. While the other major players [...]