January 5, 2009
Are you looking for a powerful freeware desktop calculator that can take care of all complex mathematical calculations? Look no further, SpeedCrunch is the one for you. SpeedCrunch is a high precision and powerful freeware desktop calculator for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is easy to use and is loaded with plenty of useful features [...]
January 1, 2009
Being a gentleman of Southern persuasion (only a few miles south of the Mason-Dixon line, but why bother with details?), I’ve picked up some bad linguistic habits. I’m not trying to say that everyone in the South speaks poorly, but more than the occasional verbal faux pas can be heard in and around my town. [...]
December 28, 2008
It’s a new year, and the beginning of a new semester in school. Students who didn’t do so hot last year have probably made a New Year resolution to improve their grades. To help you all with the next semester, I’ve decided to make a list of extremely helpful web tools that will make school [...]
December 22, 2008
Last week we covered some fun Google Easter Eggs, that you can find while browsing the site. This week, to take a more academic approach, we are going to cover 7 almost unknown specialized Google search engines that can be used for specialized consumer and academic research. Also included in this realm, but not [...]
November 16, 2008
Whether you’re bored at work, like to stimulate the nostalgia, or just love to craft, paper modelling is a real fun way for you or your kids to waste time. Though it might seem like a somewhat childish hobby, there are really many kinds of papercraft, varying in theme and difficulty. A lot of different [...]
October 22, 2008
Here I would like to share a couple of really cool websites for motivational talks by highly successful people. These are inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers, ranging from best-selling authors and CEOs to web gurus. Check them out, I am pretty sure you’ll find them well worthy of your time. (1) [...]
October 13, 2008
Wikipedia, for most of us, needs no introduction. We use it perhaps almost as frequently as we use Google for our information needs. All of us might then wonder about the need to download and use a free information resource which is available only a click away online. But imagine that you are marooned on [...]
September 2, 2008
Going to school or college? Already having butterflies in your stomach thinking about the calculus problems that await you? We here at Make Use Of believe there is no alternative to hard work…(well, there just might be one – it IS the age of the internet baby!). So here is a piece of the Internet [...]
August 21, 2008
As a college student, I would have to say that for me the most difficult part of financing higher education is tuition. Going to a private institution, and even a public institution, can be a very expensive life cost. Fortunately, there are scholarships and grants scattered all over the place just waiting for students to [...]
July 13, 2008
We here at Make Use Of try to make your switch to Linux as smooth as possible, which includes using simple and common terminology. However there are plenty of terms that are unavoidable or at least impractical to avoid. Some terms we can explain as we go along, but some are so common that they [...]
