September 13, 2011
When it comes to travel, Microsoft Bing gives us a better deal than Google. Google has a cool tool in the experimental Google Hotel Finder. You can also use Google to do a quick flight search by typing in something like flight New York to London and get a scheduled flight list. But this article is not about Google…it’s about Bing Travel and how it has taken off while its chief rival revs up its engines.
September 10, 2011
Not sure where your time goes? Keep track of it. Hamster is a Linux application that helps you do just that. Computers help us get work done, but they can also be distracting. That’s why it’s important to keep track of when you’re actually working; time management saves you time. Beyond distractions, however, it’s a good idea to figure out which daily tasks are eating up your time.
September 8, 2011
Owning a website seems like a terrific idea on paper. The last thing most people consider when thinking up the next great website is the work. Owning a popular website means regular server maintenance, closely monitoring the health and uptime of your web server, and keeping track of the health of your internal and external links.
September 8, 2011
There are a few websites out there that are devoted simply to answering the basic question that you’ll eventually ask: “Is this website down?” Here, we have three of these websites, and they are all based on this one solitary purpose. Even though they all do the same basic function, they are very helpful in even the most dire social media crises.
September 8, 2011
If you’re running a blog, Google Analytics may be the best single tool in your arsenal of traffic-generating weapons. Available for free, and capable of providing excellent data, Analytics is a must-have. The basic site isn’t well optimized for mobile devices however, which can be frustrating for webmasters who want to keep tabs on sites without dragging around a laptop.
September 6, 2011
Volcano eruptions, earthquakes, floods – it seems like mother nature is striking back. Yet natural disasters are exactly that – natural – and they have been happening for millions of years. In fact, we owe our existence to a series of the same. Humans have become largely detached from nature and disasters are a reminder of how dependent on mother nature we remain to this day.
September 3, 2011
We at MakeUseOf cover a lot of browsing privacy tips and tools. Here are a few useful addons for privacy and security as well as essential steps to regain your privacy in Google Chrome and some uses for browsing in privacy mode (that isn’t porn). This post is another addition to your privacy and security arsenal. [...]
August 20, 2011
Google offers quite a few options to monitor recent news and updates. We have Google Alerts, Google News and Google Blog Search. However, sadly, none of these options are perfect and so therefore the best way to monitor recent pages indexed by Google around your search term is to scan daily through “Past 24 hours” results.
August 18, 2011
Over the past few months, I’ve discovered a very strange phenomenon creeping into my work schedule. I seem to keep losing time. How do you lose time? It’s easier than you might think. You get started on a project, and then it strikes you to check email then Facebook, and then Twitter too. You then glance at the clock and realize that somewhere in there you’ve just lost two hours.
August 17, 2011
One of my goals is to start tracking my expenses. I’ve tried Mint and even trusted it with my bank information, but I never actually logged on the website much to get an overview of my transactions. At this point, I feel like it’s better to keep it simple when it comes to managing my own finances, and to develop a simple system to make me like the process of money management.
