The debate begins! Well, the debate may not even matter in a few years as the Internet and computing evolves but for today it’s still here.  What debate am I referring to?  Which application suite is best: the desktop applications (one that is actually installed on a local machine ie. your computer) OR web-based applications [...]

I’ve been a fan of LogMeIn Free for quite some time and I know that it has been mentioned several times in MakeUseOf articles.  LogMeIn, if you haven’t heard, is a remote desktop application which allows you to access and control a computer from any other computer with internet access and a browser.  The uses [...]

As I mentioned in my last article about dual monitors and productivity, having more than one monitor really helps manage all of those programs and tasks you’ve got going on. Since that article, I have written an article or so about how to set up dual monitors. I have now gotten rid of my old [...]

I’ve been working with a dual monitor setup for a bit now and I am loving it!  In past articles I have been sharing some of what I have learned so far.  I wrote about 6 ways to use multiple monitors to make you more productive.  Since then I have found several more ways (maybe [...]

If you are a blogger and have been for any time, you know how it is to get spam in your comments section.  What is the point to the spam and what exactly do they get out of it? Well, one benefit a spammer gets is “link juice.”  In other words, the more your site [...]

As a blogger, and an avid user of the WordPress blogging platform, I enjoy trying out new plugins.  In fact, that is one of the advantages of hosting your own blog using WordPress: the extensibility!  There are so many plugins out there that help to extend the usability of WordPress that it has actually dipped its [...]

Here at MakeUseOf we love to talk about free things. We also like to talk about making things easier to do. When we find something that is both free AND easy, we start to get excited! In this article I would like to take a task like making your own personal photo blog and show [...]

I am a late adopter, new user of Evernote note taking.  I am working on ways that I can make use of this tool.  I understand different people use tools differently and Evernote, as a tool, is no exception.  For instance, when I am out and about and something pops into my mind that I [...]

Web working is turning out to be a very popular idea these days.  Many people are turning to the Internet for their main source of income, making the physical place they work in a bit less important (I’m beginning the journey to web working myself).   Those who make their living using the Internet don’t necessarily [...]

One of the last posts I wrote was about Netvibes Wasabi and how it makes an awesome feed reader.  In this article, I would like to share a few blogs I think you should add to the collection of feeds that you keep up with.  The reason they are so important is because they are [...]

As time goes on and cell phones are more widely used, we seem to be more and more inundated with unused, outdated but perfectly usable phones.  You know where I’m coming from don’t you? You have one (or more) of those junk drawers packed full of phones and peripherals not being used!  Wouldn’t you like [...]

If you have ever been into reading RSS feeds then you know what a feed reader is.  Personally, there are so many blogs and websites that I enjoy and make use out of that I often forget some of them. Feeds come in handy for me because I can just glance through all of the most [...]

The blog is an interesting medium, don’t you think?  I still remember the days of the static web.  Back then websites were a one way communication.  If you wanted to know something, you probably ran a search and found a website.  That website hopefully would contain the information you needed.  That was about it.  The [...]

Why WordPress? These days, many people run their blogs with WordPress.  WordPress, simply put, is an easy-to-learn and use blogging platform originally created to help people manage their own blog.  Today, there are more and more people actually using WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System) to run full-fledged websites!  Sure enough there are more [...]

The first time I came across this issue, I was attempting to send video from my laptop to my television via s-video.  You see, at the time we did not have cable television (and still don’t by the way) so I was wanting to watch some YouTube videos with my wife while still working on [...]