July 15, 2008
Ever wanted to master the keyboard shortcuts and get more productive on the web? Here is everything you need – 10 quick cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web. Download, print and stick them somewhere near your desk. Google Cheat Sheet Windows Cheat Sheet* Mac OS X Cheat Sheet [...]
July 1, 2008
Google Desktop has so many excellent ““ and highly useful ““ features. It’s easily my favorite tool for indexing the massive amount of data I keep scattered around the various folders on my computer, and it’s a lot less painful than actually taking the time to sort everything myself. It really is a tremendous productivity [...]
June 27, 2008
There’s a test version of the new Google customizable homepage (startpage), iGoogle, available to play with. When you start it up, the first thing you’ll notice are the pretty rounded corners on all your gadgets. The second thing you’ll notice are the tabs along the left side of the page, rather than across the top. [...]
June 23, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article in which I described some of the features I particularly liked about Vista. However in the comments Justin and anob pointed out that a couple of the features I had mentioned were not actually Vista specific. I decided it was time to teach myself how to [...]
June 15, 2008
When it comes to web based RSS readers, Google Reader is certainly the most popular – and the most efficient too. It offers a lot of features and has an amazing set of keyboard shortcuts which lets you browse through a long list of feeds quite seamlessly. Having said that, I continue to explore its [...]
June 4, 2008
After summarizing how to use Google to yield the best search results, it’s time to have a look at what is out there besides Google. Although Google tries hard to take over the world, or at least the internet, it’s still far from being a monopolist. Yes, there are many more search engines out there, [...]
June 1, 2008
On this week’s Make Use Of podcast I am talking to Karl Gechlik, a Make Use Of writer and the guy behind Ask The Admin. We managed to cover subjects such as Windows Vista, LocatePC, Google Maps and blog commenting. If you look underneath the show notes on this page, you will see a little [...]
May 30, 2008
The internet, a network spanning the globe. Today around 20% of the world’s population is connected. That’s over 1.4 billion people, a number with ten digits and it’s growing. Imagine each of these individuals would contribute only one sentence per day and one file per week. And now think again. How realistic is that? How [...]
May 30, 2008
GmailAssistant is an amazing little java application that allows you to check multiple Gmail accounts including Gmail for Domains at the same time. GmailAssistant accesses your Google accounts securely using IMAP over SSL. Basically folks, that means that it’s pretty secure! GmailAssistant allows you to completely customize your notification options. You can choose to have [...]
May 26, 2008
I have not been much of an online mapper up until now (give me a map and I guarantee to get you even more lost than before!) but while I was casually surfing around the other day, I somehow happened to land upon Google Maps. While idly clicking on the various buttons, I found some [...]
