June Roundup: MakeUseOf Authors
June has been a busy month but we’ve kept our productivity soaring with Stefan’s new manual – A Computer Geek’s Smart Productivity Guide. The guide was unbelievably well received! Productivity is obviously no joking matter and mastering it can prove very valuable! If you have been struggling with task and time management, make sure to download the manual and take a look. Your feedback is always appreciated, so leave a comment once you’re done reading it.
Simon Slangen is our PDF Manual Editor, so if there are any subjects you would like to see turned into a downloadable PDF manual, put your ideas in the comments below or send him an email at simon@makeuseof.com. You may also find the past manuals here.
So, what has MakeUseOf served you in the month of June? Read on to find out.
Karl – Ask The Admin
Watch Hulu & Flash Videos On Your WM Device With Skyfire
Do you Doodle? Share your doodles with the world!
Compare Bing’s search results with Google’s using Bing vs. Google
Watch YouTube Videos on Your Large Screen TV
Restore Your Desktop Icons’ Position With Desktop OK [Windows]
How To Run Windows Mobile 6.5 On Your PC Desktop
How To Remove Duplicate Contacts on Windows Mobile
How To Submit Your Website To Bing & Google For More Traffic
How To Find and Remove Broken Shortcuts Automatically
Use Webslug To See How Fast Your Site Loads
How To Read Scratched CDs or DVDs In Windows
2 Websites to Verify Urban Legends and Email Scams
How To Control Your PC from Windows Mobile Cell Phone
Best Sites to Download Very High Resolution Wallpapers
3 Useful Websites for Free Downloadable Resume Templates
Find Great High Definition Movie Trailers Online
SmarterFox Makes You More Productive in FireFox
How To Become a Better Writer with VocabGrabber
How to Convert PDF to an Editable Word Document [Windows]
Portable, Multiple-Layered Image Editor — Fotographix
Varun – Tech Crazy
Enhance Windows Explorer’s Context Menu With Shell Tools
Check Your Website Design In Different Browsers With Adobe BrowserLab
10 Windows Command Line Tips You Should Check Out
Identify Unknown Files with TrID [Windows/Linux]
How To Tweet In Linux Using Pidgin
5 Little Desktop Apps You Should Check If You Mutlitask
How to Get Detailed Information & Benchmark Linux System
How to Put Home, Computer, Trash icons on Ubuntu Desktop
FARR – Launch Your Apps & Find Your Files Quickly [Windows]
Backup Program Data & Personal Settings with FBackup
Meiga – One of The Best Linux File Sharing Programs
10 Great Apps to Convert Audio & Video Files in Linux
Saikat – The Things I Do
How to Remove Microsoft Groove Synchronization
How To Change Default Webpage Source Editor Of Browsers
Use A Definition To Find The Word With OneLook’s Reverse Dictionary
How To Turn MS Word 2007 Into A Minimalist Text Editor
Top 6 Firefox Add-ons For The Movie Freak
How to Freeze a Part of a Word Document for Easy Reference
The Wordnik- Cool Online Dictionary with Sentences & Images
How to Email Smarter With Buit-In Time Zone Converters
10 Tips to Have Fun Using Advanced Google Search for Images
How To Twitter Quickly from Firefox, IE, Opera and Chrome
Gmail Tips: Four Degrees Towards Becoming A Gmail Ninja
How To Send Personalized Mass Emails in Outlook
How to Set Up Mozilla Thunderbird to Send Mass Emails
Simon – Wombat Labs
The Top 3 File Compression & Extraction Softwares
Fun Online Multiplayer Golf Gaming with PangYa
3 Ultra Cheap Alternatives To iTunes Store
La Tale – A 2D MMORPG Sidescrolling Action Game
How To Remove DRM from MOBI and PRC eBooks
Football Superstars – Live The Life Of Famous Football Players!
Runes of Magic – The Best Free Internet Multiplayer Game
Hacking Tips: Download Free Games for Your iPod
Audition – Groovalicious MMO Dancing Game
BOTS!! – Awesome Robot Battle Online Multiplayer Game
The 6 Cutest Sites with Silly Pet Pics and LOL Pets
Guy – Extreme IT
4 Very Light Alternatives to Adobe Reader
How To Set Up A Podcast On TalkShoe – The Forgotten Guide
How To Restrict Access to Websites with Privoxy [Part 1]
How To Restrict Access to Websites with Privoxy [Part 2]
3 Sites To Help You Change Your Life
How Do I Download Songs onto iTunes – A Tutorial
How To Download Streaming Video with DownloadHelper
3 Fun Programs For Free Fortune And Tarot Readings
Find Totally Free Unlimited Internet Access Almost Anywhere
3 Beginner Computer Tips That Are Often Neglected
Roblox – A Cool Lego-Based Free Virtual World for Kids
Ryan – BetterContent
4 Really Popular Prank Call Websites & How They Work
The Top 10 Grocery Coupon Websites for Cheapskates
The Best Free Websites To Find Foreclosed Houses
Top 10 Sites To Find The Hot Selling Items On eBay
Top 4 Web Tools to Create Free Websites Instantly
Top 10 Most Effective Job Search Websites
Top 10 Free Genealogy Websites to Find Ancestors
Find a Teenage Pen Pal Anywhere in the World With ePaLs
How To Deal with Spam and Report Email Scams in The U.S.
Customize Your Internet Search Results with Google SearchWiki
5 Geeky Ways To Ask Someone To Marry You On The Internet
How To Make A Budget And Wipe Out Debt With Quicken Online
How To Write A Movie Review Online and Earn Money Doing It
Tina
5 More Excellent Ways to Waste Time Online
5 Tools to Harvest the Potential of Your Firefox Bookmarks
Normalize MP3 Volume Levels with MP3Gain
5 Quick Steps to Manage Software Updates with SUMo
How to Send Big Files & Auto-open mailto Links in Gmail / Yahoo
Use Doodle to Make an Online Poll When Planning Group Events
Create A Free Travel Packing Checklist With Packwhiz
How To Read and Interpret Body Language
5 Cool Free Internet Games for Kids That’ll Make them Love Math
Damien – Make Tech Easier
Bing: The Next Big Thing From Microsoft
4 Great Alternative Clipboard Managers For Windows
Add Email Client to Your Website with RoundCube Webmail
Testing Google Chrome Alpha: Test #1 – Linux
5 Little Useful Sticky Notes For Linux
AcetoneISO – Easy ISO Manager for Linux
How To Pin Any Application Window To The Top
Su.pr – An Extraordinary URL Shortener from StumbleUpon
Top 5 Websites To Listen To CDs Before Buying
David – The 2.0 Life
Make Your Speeches Shine with Acrobat Presentations
3 Web Apps For Staying On Top Of The Music Scene
Sync and Share All Your Online Notes with 3Banana
Clicky – A Great Alternative To Google Analytics
Find Out Where Your Favorite Artists Are Playing With Jambase
ScribbleLive- No Hassle Blog For Live Blogging
Recover Hard Drive Space with TreeSize [Windows]
3 Really Cool Adobe AIR Apps for Movies and Music
The Best Windows 7 Feature: The Taskbar
Scoopler – Cool Real Time Search Tool for Twitter
OpenTable – Restaurant Reservations & Reviews Made Easy
Tim – Twenty Ounce
How To Turn Your Gaming Console Into A Media Center
Google Squared! – Google Search to the Next Power
Get Updates From All Your Social Networks With OrSiSo
How To Set Up Your Own Secured Wi-Fi Hotspot
How To Auto Backup Computer Files with CrashPlan
How To Get A Skype-In Phone Number For Free
How to Stop Annoying “Restart” Prompt after Windows Updates
Three Firefox Security & Privacy Add-ons that can Co-exist
Jeffry – Super Subconscious
8 Free FTP Clients For Mac
How To Place Your Widgets On The Desktop [Mac]
10 Really Fun Dashboard Widget Games For Mac
How To Run iLife From An External Hard Disk [Mac only]
Testing Google Chrome Alpha: Test #2 – Mac
How To Save & Share Software Updates on Mac
MindMapping: 3 Simple Idea Mapping Software for Mac
4 Easy Ways to Burn CDs and DVDs for Free on Mac
Stefan – The Tux Geek
Recommendations On Movies, Music, Books From Glue [Firefox]
Create Windows System Restore Point with 1-Click using SCRP
Pure Sync: Free Backup and File Synchronization Tool
Sync All of Your Media Files in One Place with doubleTwist
Hulu Desktop: Instant TV Shows and Movies on Large Screen
The 8 Best Book Review Sites
Safari 4: Is It Time To Switch From Firefox?
Jim Henderson – Different Perspective
5 Websites to Learn a LOT More About Photography & DigiCams
The Ultimate ‘Upgrade To Windows 7′ Guide – Part 2
How To Remove Clutter From Google Reader with Helvetireader
2 Great Ways To Automate Set Management In Flickr
Windows 7 Libraries Explained – And Why You Want Them
Mahendra Palsule – An Unquiet Mind
5 Tips to Maximize Your Windows Live Experience
Translation For MSN: Auto Translates Messages While Chatting
The Best Sites to Understand and Share Your Strange Dreams
Leon
Liberkey: 200+ Portable Apps Wherever You Go [Windows]
Orisinal.com – Cute Flash Games For All
Michael – Doodler Blog
Photoshop Pathing: How To Use Photoshop Pen Tool
Jason K – Third Error
How To Download and Play Kongregate Games Offline
Shannon – Shannon Rist
5 Free Twitter Tools For Smarter Tweeting
Grant – The GrantBlog
10 Really Cool Free Blackberry Applications
Will Mueller – Will M
5 More Greasemonkey Scripts To Make Browsing Easier
Brad – OwensDomain
The Top 5 Sites to Find Song Lyrics Online
TanaG – Information Technology Writer
7 Common Reasons Why Windows Can Get Unresponsive
Gary – Reichel Graphic Design
(By) Jackson Chung is MakeUseOf's Assistant Editor and Mac Correspondent


