If you run a small business or are thinking of taking the plunge into self-employment then there’s a good chance you will need a quick and easy method of invoicing and charging your customers or clients. This is especially true if your customers live abroad, but it also nice to offer a fast, secure and accessible payment method.

If I had enough money I’d buy a slow-motion capture camera that shoots video at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of frames per second. As it is, I don’t have very much money to spend on eye-wateringly expensive photographic gear so I’ll have to make do with other people’s videos instead. The fascination for slow motion video has a lot to do with the world we can’t see, much like macro and microscopic photography.

Mobile technology has improved at an incredible rate over the past 20 years. In two decades we’ve gone from cumbersome monochromatic GSM handsets to pocket-sized touch-screen computers we can’t bear to leave the house without. While the developed world is steadily moving away from what we now affectionately call “dumbphones”, for poorer nations this is [...]

Last week we took a look at some of the main social engineering threats that you, your company or your employees should be looking out for. In a nutshell, social engineering is similar to a confidence trick whereby an attacker gains access, information or money by gaining the victim’s trust. These techniques can range from phishing scams via email to elaborate phone tricks and invasive pretexting attacks.

Today’s Stuff to Watch will focus on the geekiest of geeky films. These are films that your average tech lovin’ computer whizz should love – and they’re not all dystopian sci-fi movies either (though there is some dystopian sci-fi – how could there not be?). If you love films and tech then get down to your local cinema and demand they show these classics again!

It should come as no surprise that here at MakeUseOf we love how-to guides. We love creating them, sharing knowledge, solving problems and discovering new ways to accomplish difficult tasks. If you need a tech-related how-to, and we’ve not covered it then try asking nicely and we’ll see what we can do. Now iPhone users [...]

You can install the industry’s strongest and most expensive firewall. You can educate employees about basic security procedures and the importance of choosing strong passwords. You can even lock-down the server room – but how do you protect a company from the threat of social engineering attacks? From a social engineering perspective, employees are the weak link in the chain of security measures in place.

The following films are not your average animated adventures, but tales of greed, morality and obscure production that take the audience out of their comfort zone. Feel free to laugh awkwardly, raise your eyebrows or just ponder your own existence.

Working from home might seem like a great idea, but I don’t see it. After more than a year of working from various places of residence I’m thoroughly sick of mixing business with pleasure. Home is where I go to relax, to escape work – and that’s the way I like it. When the lines between downtime and work-time become blurred, home starts to feel a bit like a rabbit hole.

Have you ever been given a gift card that you can’t use? How about a voucher for a website you’d never dream of buying from? It might be tempting to pass the card on to someone else, but instead of regifting you could always try and sell or exchange the card online. It’s unlikely that you’ll receive the full value of the gift card, but then again something is better than nothing.