October 17, 2010
Last week, our poll asked you which of the major online retailers was your favourite. It seems MakeUseOf readers tend to favour Amazon, followed by eBay and Walmart. A total of 433 votes were counted for the poll: Amazon received 58% of the votes; eBay followed with 20% votes; Walmart had 8% of the votes; [...]
October 3, 2010
How often do you buy software? It turns out, with most MakeUseOf readers, that we buy software less than once per year. With MakeUseOf readers, 3% buy software every week, while 4% buy every two weeks. 7% buy software every month and another 6% buy software only every three months. The majority of people were [...]
September 26, 2010
Last week, we asked you when you last saw spam in your inbox. It seems that there are still plenty of people out there suffering from spam each day. However, some readers were kind enough to leave comments with some great tools for avoiding spam mail. Worth checking out if you’re in need of a [...]
September 19, 2010
Last week, we asked you to list your top 3 online music streaming services. It really boiled down to three main services: Grooveshark, Pandora and Last.fm. Given that Pandora is no longer accessible outside the US, it is quite impressive that it has secured such a large portion of the votes. Out of 724 total [...]
September 12, 2010
Last week, we asked you all to tell us your favourite tech blog. Of course, many readers mentioned that you like reading MakeUseOf – Thanks! It seems that generally when MakeUseOf readers aren’t getting their tech fix here, they’re off reading Lifehacker. Out of 1121 votes, 27% readers love reading Lifehacker, 24% list MakeUseOf as [...]
September 5, 2010
In last week’s poll, we asked you what you thought of the new DIGG. Sadly for DIGG, it seems most people aren’t impressed. Out of 312 votes in total, it seems only 8% actually like the new DIGG, while 29% voters were indifferent about it. Against the new DIGG, we have 17% screaming “WTF?” and [...]
August 29, 2010
Last week, we asked which multi-purpose login service you use when you have a choice. And, it seems that for most of us, that’s Google. From the 345 votes, we had exactly 50% using Google for log-in. 17% of readers choose to make a new account whenever possible (rather than using a multi-purpose login). The [...]
August 22, 2010
Last week’s poll asked you when was the last time you printed something? It seems our results created an almost perfect bell curve from regular printers down to people who rarely print at all. If anything, we tend more towards regular usage – many commenters blamed their industry-required paper trail for this. The largest represented [...]
August 15, 2010
In last week’s poll, we asked you which eBook reader you use. Since we know MakeUseOf readers love their gadgets, we were dying to find out which of the many types of eBook readers are the most popular with all of you well-informed shoppers. It seems most people (30%) still use a multi-purpose handheld device [...]
June 27, 2010
Last week we asked you How big your USB memory stick was. And the results are in. First place was held by the 8GB stick. I also find that the 8GB sticks are the best for working with DivX players and other set top devices. Second place was held by 4GB (which was what I had [...]
