January 15, 2010
Last time I wrote an article on some cool tips and tricks in Windows Live Messenger such as how to remove ads, or view who has blocked or deleted you as a contact. This time, I am going to explore the magical features that Messenger Plus! Live brings to WLM. Messenger Plus! Live is basically [...]
October 14, 2009
Roboto is a robot fighter from the Masters of The Universe series. Oh! That’s from my childhood. This is Robo.to, with a period in between, and a new web service. What’s interesting is that one of the guys behind it with the big bucks is Justin Timberlake, the American pop star and Grammy winner. But [...]
January 21, 2009
If you’re looking for a way to spruce up your boring, old, static, text-only email signature into something more exciting and interactive, here’s how. Not only will it attract more attention to your signature and making it look more impressive; it will also liven up the mundane task of sending emails. Before we start, let [...]
September 1, 2008
Micro-blogging is all the rage nowadays, though if you don’t know what it is you might want to check out Twitter Explained for a little tutorial. The default way to handle micro-blogging and updates is to keep refreshing a page in your browser over and over, but since that can be a bit of a [...]
July 23, 2008
A relatively unknown experimental freeware called Subsume provides you with Growl notifications every time your Facebook and MySpace friends update their statuses. When I first started writing for Make Use Of, I covered MoodBlast, which sends out status updates to popular social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook but this application does the opposite, mainly. [...]
July 23, 2008
With all the social media sites available to us now, it’s very easy to go into social media overload. There’s no possible way that one can keep up with even 10 sites, let alone the hundreds that are created each month. In order to keep up with the social media phenomenon, there are numerous aggregation [...]
June 24, 2008
I am not a huge user of Facebook these days but nevertheless I have been taking a look at their newly introduced Facebook Chat because Facebook is the only medium in which I can keep in touch with a couple of long distance friends. But since I don’t like the actual Facebook website that much [...]
June 6, 2008
New media, social media, networking… who cares what its called? The fact is, for better or for worse, I find myself using it more and more these days. Profiles have always been a pain. Who doesn’t get sick of filling in details and interests and photos, but lately having an up-to-the-minute status message seems to [...]
March 28, 2008
If you’re a social network magician, you’ll know that a big part of these sites is “updating your status”. This can be something profound such as “discovered the meaning of life – 42!” to the more tedious “hey! Just discovered something big and green up my nose!“. But like it or hate it, status messages [...]
March 7, 2008
To answer the question: What are you doing? Sounds familiar? The eternal question on Facebook or Twitter that is never quite answered. I know of people who constantly change their status messages on MSN messenger. But I can’t even begin to imagine the hassle of logging into ALL my social networks online just to tell [...]
