October 16, 2011
Cameras in phones keep getting better and better. It’s pretty easy to find a phone with an 8 megapixel camera and a flash, and they’re not even that expensive. So do camera phones mean the end for the compact digital camera? Do you still spend money on regular cameras, or are you content with those that come in your phone?
October 9, 2011
Apple are geniuses at getting people to upgrade their iPhones and it seems there’s no shortage of people desperate to get the new iPhone 4S, despite the fact that the world was hoping for an iPhone 5. But are MakeUseOf readers the sort of people who rush out to buy the latest and greatest or not? Let’s find out in the polls.
October 2, 2011
When you encounter these websites which force you to use a Facebook login, what’s your response? Do you boycott them? Do you suffer it and log in with Facebook? Do you think it’s easier to use your Facebook login anyway? Shout it out on our poll.
September 18, 2011
Recent reports say that Tumblr has exploded in popularity and is now more than 10 times bigger than it was last year. So, we thought we’d do a showdown between Tumblr and our old favorite WordPress.com. Which side of the popularity stakes are you on?
September 11, 2011
In the past year we’ve seen many different groups claim responsibility for a number of different hactivism efforts with a wide variety of motives and victims. Most of us in the general public are aware of these, but not involved personally. So, it would be interesting to see how much support these hactivism efforts have from our readers. Do you support hacktivism?
September 4, 2011
Geeks, teens and twenty-somethings mostly ditched their watches as soon as they got their first mobile phone. But these days even watch-lovers and old folk are finally leaving their watches at home. When did you stop wearing a watch? Or do you still wear one? Join in and tell us whether you still wear a watch, with all the gadgets around that tell the time.
August 28, 2011
Those of us who spend a lot of time on our computers know that there’s often a huge gap between the typing speed of a geek and an everyday human. There’s also a wide gap between those who do two-finger typing and those who touch-type. What’s your speed across the keyboard?
August 21, 2011
Most of us would have some way of listening to music at home. But, what’s a normal set-up these days? What devices do you use? Tell us in our weekly poll.
August 14, 2011
Many smartphone providers have recently taken steps to make users pay more for basic services. Tethering laptops and other devices to a smartphone used to be an included service on most phone plans (not all), since the process of tethering was available with the phone and both parties considered tethering data costs as included in the phone’s data plan. Tell us if you think being charged extra to tether your laptop is fair? Would you try to avoid it?
August 7, 2011
It seems for a lot of games these days, users are expected to have a reliable always-on internet connection in order to play the game. We’re wondering just how many people would be inconvenienced by this attitude: Have you got a reliable always-on internet connection? Or do you use a sporadic connection? Tell us in our weekly poll.
