October 4, 2011
Although many people now use Facebook or Google’s Picasa to share and backup photos online, there are still plenty of people who prefer to keep on using Flickr for one reason or another. If you are a regular Flickr user, you might have noticed that there are plenty of tools for downloading photos, however many of them are a little hacky and are not very elegant or easy to use.
August 25, 2011
There’s two main stages involved in the website design process. The first is designing the look of the pages and the second is translating the design into the the webpages. The first stage requires design skill while the second stage needs coding expertise. For those who have better eyes for design (and no interest in coding), there’s Muse from Adobe.
August 10, 2011
If you’ve an avid Google Reader user, you might be interested in a new Adobe Air supported app called Readefine, which basically gives a fresh design to Google’s popular RSS feed reader. It also means accessing Google Reader in a separate application that you can run on your Mac, Windows, or Linux-based computer.
June 3, 2011
One of the things I’ve always liked about Gmail was that it was the first true cloud app I got used to accessing. Being completely browser based, it helped me transition from desktop apps to web-based ones, possibly because there simply weren’t any desktop email clients that could live up to what Gmail offered, at least for me, anyway. That no long holds true now that I’ve found GeeMail.
January 7, 2011
Things are really on the upswing for those who like their eBooks. We have a host of digital eBook readers jostling for space. There’s the iPad with its shoulder to the door and we have always had quite a few software readers since the early days. I still love the the press smell of a new [...]
December 15, 2010
After perusing our must-have Windows apps page, a plucky MakeUseOf reader emailed us suggesting that we put together a list for both Windows and Linux users. When I originally switched from Windows to Ubuntu I was very interested in these cross-platform apps. After more than 10 years loyalty to Bill’s operating system, I had built [...]
November 23, 2010
As many of us Twitter users already know, there is no shortage of Twitter clients available to us. Between web and desktop clients and those we access on our phone or mobile device, each Twitter client has its own feature set that makes it attractive to us. And a lot of times it’s the clients that [...]
October 21, 2010
Those of you that have followed along with MakeUseOf for a while know that we often cover various methods of making use of Google Analytics information. Google Analytics is easy to focus on because it’s one of the few free webmaster tools available on the Internet that is not only fully functional with a free [...]
August 24, 2010
Having the ability to convert video files can be pretty useful, especially if you download a lot of video content or create some yourself. There are a lot of potential uses, including converting DVD files into a playable format or making files readable on your iPod, to name a few. Being able to automate this process is [...]
August 24, 2010
Taking into view today’s digital distribution, music and movie are two main industries that are heavily affected by it. But these two are not the only ones. Other industries like newspapers, magazines, and books are also facing the harsh “adapt or die” dilemma. In order to survive, hordes of players have made their content digitally [...]
