I often find myself reinstalling operating systems, particularly Ubuntu, either because of using ‘sudo’ one too many times or the rapid development of alpha builds. Some people like to parachute from planes, well, I like running the latest builds of the OS. There are a few things that power-users do to every installation or machine [...]

If you want to start coding, there’s no better way than with Firefox add-ons. If you’re familiar with standard web programming languages, you’ll be up and running in no time. If you’re not, learning a bit of web tech won’t be very difficult, and learning how to make your own Firefox addon will surely prove [...]

Boxee, as you probably know, is a cross-platform media center application which you can download for free. Because it was designed specifically for the living room, it is suitable for use in conjunction with your large screen TV, with interface elements legible from the mythical 10 feet. Whether you run the application on an Apple [...]

Wuala is definitely one of the most under-reported start-ups, and there’s no good reason for that. It takes the best features out of both Dropbox and Mozy to create a must-have online file storage service for anyone with a computer. Developed by Dominik Grolimund and Luzius Meisser, the technology behind Wuala is truly amazing. By [...]

I’ve been a long-time nay sayer to any sort of online password manager, citing mainly reasons of security, and I took upon myself to maintain a Google Docs spreadsheet with all my >=12 character passwords. Believe me, remembering random strings of ASCII is not an option. I’ve now discovered Mitto and consequently changed my tune [...]

We’ve all seen those movies when the geek character mashes the keyboard and disables firewalls in a matter of seconds or minutes. But because we don’t discuss movie cliches on MakeUseOf, we’re going to instead look into the definition of a firewall – what it does and why you need one on your network or [...]

There’s no debate whether or not our online activities are tracked, they most surely are. It’s not even a single party that keeps the score; your ISP, website owners, advertisers and NSA know the reason you switched to Private Browsing Mode yesterday at 22:12. If the cool kids are doing it, why shouldn’t you? Here’s [...]

We aren’t born with computers (although that might be true in the future), but we sure do collect them over the years. Some may opt to sell their antique Apple II’s on eBay. But seriously, we all have those 3 year PCs and laptops sitting in a dark corner in your apartment.  Wouldn’t it be [...]

What makes the internet and technology in general very exciting, both from a consumer and journalist’s perspective, is the accelerated rate of innovation, or put more bluntly, of new stuff. We’ve reviewed quite a lot of different tools that allow you to be more productive, organized and collaborative, such as Shareflow,Tokbox and Notely, but the [...]

Today we’re going to continue our journey through the Ubuntu software repository looking for more children’s Linux educational software. As I dutifully noted in the previous article about chemistry applications, Ubuntu and Linux distributions in general, have a wealth of great educational software. As more and more parents allow their children to use the computer, [...]