September 22, 2009
A blog is a layman-friendly variation of a website, and having a blog is one of the many ways to state your presence in the virtual world. While there are many hassle-free blog services out there that will take care of everything except automatically blog for you – like Blogger and WordPress, nothing can beat [...]
June 10, 2009
If you are running a website that supports PHP and MySQL, and you are sick of using the SquirrelMail to access your email account, then RoundCube Webmail would be the best solution to ease your pain. RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client packed with plenty of AJAX goodness. It comes with an application-like [...]
May 5, 2009
To create a social networking site, you can either register a free account with a third party social networks provider or install open source software on your server and be your own administrator. There are pros and cons in these two methods. The first method allows you to handle your social networks without any technical [...]
April 17, 2009
Podcasters who are using the podpress plugin (or any other podcast plugins) in WordPress to manage their podcasts will know that there is always a tendency for the plugin to break when a newer version of WordPress is released. For those who just want a simple solution to manage their podcasts and are frustrated by [...]
March 18, 2009
In this article we’re going to take a look at another great cloud operating system, EyeOS. EyeOS differentiates itself from other solutions, such as Cloudo, by being licensed under AGPLv3. You can install EyeOS on your own server as easily as you would install WordPress. This eliminates many issues, as we’ll prove by the end [...]
February 25, 2009
Internet Relay Chat. One of the early forms of communication on the Internet, IRC featured a very basic chat protocol. While Tim has explored creating an individual IRC channel, we’ll be creating a fake IRC server using phpFreeChat, which allows you to create separate “channels” and various other features reminiscent of IRC (though certainly not [...]
January 4, 2009
Far and away, the most popular website, when it comes to storing ‘in the cloud’ bookmarks, is Delicious. It became so popular so quickly, that Yahoo picked them up in December of 2005 for somewhere between $15 million and $30 million. For those of you who don’t know what Delicious is, it is simply a [...]
December 29, 2008
Have you ever wished that you can create a beautiful online photo album and share it with your friends? Jalbum – a web photo album generator that allows you to do just that. Jalbum is a free Web photo album generator that is incredibly versatile and flexible. Not only is it extremely easy to use, [...]
December 22, 2008
When it comes to shortening a long URL, most people will think of TinyURL or one of the hundreds of other URL shortening sites. Most, if not all, of these sites take a long URL and generate a short URL based on their domain name. For example, if you use TinyURL to shorten the long [...]
November 22, 2008
Analytics are a great tool to use with any website or blog. They help you understand where your traffic comes from and some of the ways that traffic behaves. In the past, MakeUseOf has covered several free traffic analytics tools to track all of your site’s statistics. Today, I’m going to tell you more about [...]
