As every day users we usually treat MS Office in a rather half-baked way. It’s only later that we realize we could cook up so much more with tools available under MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint etc. This is a very basic tutorial on how to easily put together an interactive form with the help of Microsoft Word 2010. The feature of MS Word forms has been a constant feature from the early days. Most of us missed it because either we don’t need it or we found it too difficult to wrap our heads around it.

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Do you keep your passwords just “lying around” or do you consciously manage them with a password management tool? If you answer in the affirmative to both the questions, it’s time to take a look at Sticky Password. Sticky Password stores and protects all your personal data (e.g. passwords, user names, contacts, phone numbers, etc.). [...]

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If you use a different password for every website, how will you ever be able to remember them all? You won’t, of course, and that’s where a password manager comes in, where you only need to remember one “master password”, protecting all other unique passwords. If you’ve never used one before and the concept seems a bit intimidating, it’s very possible RoboForm is what you’ve been waiting for all along.

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We have to deal with web forms and check boxes daily: to comment on any article, to subscribe to an email alerts, to fill in the contact form, etc. It is always worth looking for more and more possible ways to optimize the process. Here are few browser-based tools to make your forms more usable and friendly.

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Formspring is a community of millions of people that all share one thing in common: curiosity. Through conversational Q&A, Formspring helps others express themselves and learn more about their social connections and the people they care about. The idea is simple, anyone can ask you anything and you choose which questions you would like to [...]

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Here at MakeUseOf, we’re big fans of using PollDaddy for our weekly polls. It’s a great free tool for polling simple questions. But what if you’re looking for something a little more hefty? What if you need something free to use for market research or HR surveys – what then? For building your larger marketing [...]

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If you manage one or more blogs, I’m sure you realize the importance of interaction. Aside from the comments area, the best way for visitors to contact and interact with the blog owner is via a contact form. In WordPress, if you want to create a registration form, it’s as easy as installing and activating [...]

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While the Internet has evolved into a community where most of us converse and exchange ideas on articles we read within comment areas, forums and through email, there are also other cases where feedback is needed, and those methods aren’t good enough. Sometimes a webmaster simply needs to provide the ability for a website visitor [...]

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The world of business is a tough one indeed. Anyone will tell you that. From the guys at the top earning billions per year to the lowly freelancer, tucked away in a small home office. The big jobs are often the easiest. There’s nothing like landing a huge contract or finishing off that job you [...]

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The name Lazarus has a Biblical connotation. Also in medical science, the Lazarus phenomenon is the ‘miracle’ when the heart starts beating again after a person has been given up for dead. In the world of web apps, the name refers to this Firefox add-on which just might save you a few cusswords and more [...]

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