October 25, 2010
I thought that college students get heavy discounts on commercial software but I just recently found out that students can get commercial software completely free (including Visual Studio, Expression Encoder, etc), which is a nice perk. However, the perks of being a student don’t end there as there are actually quite a few student-friendly applications, which may even [...]
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October 25, 2010
We don’t only bring you great free applications and tools here at MakeUseOf. We also understand that you like your downtime too, and what better way to waste some time than with some free open source games? Maybe you’re a fan of cutesy 2D platformers? Or do you prefer staring down the barrel of a [...]
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October 19, 2010
We have looked at quite a few image viewers in the past. A place at the head of the table has been reserved for IrfanView, a really good and compact image viewer. It has come in for special praise. Then there have been some others image tools too which have earned a good word. But [...]
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September 29, 2010
I started out with Winamp, but I grew up with iTunes. I watched iTunes walk its simple and uncluttered baby steps and followed its growth until it became the giant it is today. But some people who just need a music player for their computer think that this giant is now too big to fill [...]
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September 29, 2010
Supporting 11 different retro video game systems, including NES, Game Boy and Game Gear, cross-platform emulator Mednafen is a no-nonsense emulator for Windows and Linux. If you love old games but hate collecting emulators this is a program you’ll want to check out. Emulation is awesome. It makes it possible for old code to run [...]
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September 15, 2010
There are many applications that abound for users concerned with online storage and local backup. You might be comfortable using something like Dropbox, but when you have important files outside of your Dropbox, or simply crave a little more than the simple options you get with Dropbox, you can’t go wrong with SpiderOak. The beauty of the latter, which has [...]
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September 3, 2010
If you work with lots of text-based documents, including emails, web content, lists, phone numbers and HTML code, you might occasionally need to clean up randomly ordered text, convert the case of titles, or strip away extra spaces and word duplications. When it comes to cleaning up longer pieces of text, it can be tedious [...]
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September 2, 2010
Oh, passwords. Too hard to remember if they’re all different; too insecure if they’re all the same. Is there any relief? As it turns out, there is. Dave once profiled KeePass for securing your online passwords, and I recently mentioned the Linux/Mac version of that same app, KeePassX. Between these apps you can store passwords [...]
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August 25, 2010
When desktop apps become web apps, the result is usually happiness. That’s how I feel about Livestation, an online TV service we last reviewed in 2008. The site’s made huge strides since then, of course, offering streaming news stations from within your browser as well as expanding its players to many platforms. Whether you own [...]
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August 2, 2010
We at MakeUseOf are determined to provide as much breadth in topics as possible so all of our readers’ interests can be addressed. We have explained a handful of ways to easily join and split videos, PDFs (on a Mac even), spreadsheets and other files. If you follow our Sound Sunday feature where our Answers editor lists free and [...]
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August 1, 2010
Tab structures might be a relatively new concept, they’re always linear, and even in tree-style heavily restricted for you, the end user. Already, behind the screens, Firefox developers are trying to redefine the browser interface. Tab Candy is a new way of organizing your browser tabs. The project is headed by Aza Raskin, the Creative [...]
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July 17, 2010
I love my netbook, and talk about it to no end here at MakeUseOf. I also love reading. While I prefer the feel and aesthetic of actual books to any ebook reader or laptop, I have to admit the digital world offers certain advantages: namely, unlimited access to every public domain work in existence. But [...]
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July 15, 2010
LoJack is a device that’s made life harder for would-be car thieves. Here’s how it works: a GPS chip capable of calling home is hidden somewhere on a given car. If that car is stolen, the police now have the ability to track where it is via GPS. Wish you had something like this for [...]
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July 15, 2010
As anyone who has ever taken on the role of Guybrush Threepwood, the swashbuckling wannabe pirate from the Monkey Island series, will tell you ““ 2D point and click games are engaging and funny. For anyone late to the party or simply still stuck in the 90s there’s SCUMMVM. SCUMM stands for Script Creation Utility [...]
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July 14, 2010
Ebook readers are pretty fantastic, but if you’re more into newspapers and magazines than books you may think your only option is to stick to what sites offer subscriptions for your device. That’s not true. Calibre can download entire websites and convert them to any eBook format, meaning you can read your favorite news articles [...]
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