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About Saikat Basu

Saikat Basu is the Deputy Editor for Internet, Windows, Productivity, and Work & Career. After removing the grime of an MBA and a ten year long marketing career, he dabbled in web development, networking, and SAP. After joining MakeUseOf in 2008, he rose from the ranks and now manages four high-growth sections while stealing time to write. You will also find his contributions in web publications like GuidingTech, GoSkills, OnlineTechTips, and Lifewire. 

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8 Places To Buy Comics Online, Whether You Like It On Paper Or Digital

I am presuming here that you the reader are now an adult or at least in your late teens who is probably reading at least a Dan Brown or the latest bestseller on political philosophy. But has the love for a Tintin or the caped crusaders gone away? Nostalgia has a strange way of popping its head. Not only that – the love for comics turns many of us into serious collectors in adulthood when we have the cents and dollars to put into it.

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Use These 3 Chrome Extensions To Speed Search Your Bookmarks With A Keystroke

Bookmarks aren’t dead yet. Give me the convenience of setting one up with a single click any day over logging into an online bookmarking service. But yes, the same convenience leads to a lifetime of bad habits. Those little URLs have a nasty habit of piling up. You know that one day, you have to roll up your sleeves and manage your stockpile of bookmarks.

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Circles, Everywhere: Streamline Social Networking With Lists

Friends’ lists on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ are the best way to not only interact with the wider world, but also the best way to cut down on the noise. Lists allow you to organize your friends and followers, and then help you prioritize the ones you want to tune into. There are just so many with whom you can have a meaningful conversation with after all without disproving Dunbar’s Number.

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Stuck On A Rock! Get Inspiring Trip Ideas With The Help Of These 5 Visual Travel Websites

If you are stuck on a rock, then inspirational travel ideas are not too difficult to come by. Facebook’s new Graph Search could be the thing for friend-recommended travel spots. If you are a visual person like me, travel videos could be a start. Alternatively, you could head to any travel website worth a price of a plane ticket; travel websites play to our sense of scenery and serenity. So, how about journeying to these five very visual websites for some travel inspiration.

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Yarny - Take Your Creative Writing To The Clouds With The Distraction Free Editor

Writing is almost like meditation. The mind whirrs around a million thoughts, but anyone who has been in the zone will attest to the fact that the calmness enveloping it shuts off the writer from the rest of the world. Creative work needs silence and a distraction free environment to connect those million thoughts. I am a writer in the very basic sense of the word and I have gone through my basic share of distraction free editors.

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How To Easily And Automatically Create Diptychs And Triptychs In Photoshop

Most of us have seen them around in things like ‘Before’ and ‘After’ photos, on T-shirts, or even on famous art, but few realize that there’s a slightly un-stylish word used to describe them. Diptychs and Triptychs are images or photos that bring together two or three similar (or different) images and place them side-by-side, often separated by a slim border.

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Hands On With Your DSLR: Best Camera Tips For The Amateur Photographer From Youtube

There are umpteen resources on learning how to photograph. And believe me; it is as easy to get drowned in the quicksand of learning as it is to be buoyant with nuggets of wisdom. Photography ideally follows the “show me how it’s done” model for quick uptake. YouTube does it best. So, which are the best YouTube channels on photography for the kid with the snazzy new camera? Let’s browse…

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The Absolutely Nonsensical List Of Interesting Single-Serving Websites

What’s a website without a few dozen hyperlinked pages? It’s very difficult to imagine that a website can be of a single page alone. And even with a single-function or what we call ‘single-serving’. Single page single-serving websites (so named by writer Jason Kottke) are also much more than demonstrative showcases of web design skills - though they should be, as cramming everything into a single webpage takes some skill.

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Create Your Own Crossword Puzzle With These Tools

Creating your own crossword puzzles has its own uses beyond just playing for fun. You can use it as a part of an interactive entry test to see if candidates have grasped the basics; revise key points of a lecture with a crossword puzzle; use crosswords as a team building exercise; build it into a promotional scheme; and okay…let’s stop here – I am sure you got my point. If you did, let’s turn to a few tools you can use to create crossword puzzles of your own.

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Grab One Or All Of Your Downloads With Any Download Manager & FlashGot [Firefox]

Aah downloads! Probably the favorite activity we indulge in all day instead of shutting down the computer and taking a walk outside. Thanks to download managers, we can actually take a walk outside without us having to shut down the computer. If you haven’t been using a download manager then it’s high time you should use a dedicated one because the browser as a download manager just doesn’t cut it.

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Minimalist For Everything – The Single Reason To Consider A Simpler Gmail & Google Reader [Chrome]

It is ironic that a web service which dominates the world with an austere, barebones interface has a few allied services which are cluttered. In my opinion, Gmail and Google Reader are not very cluttered. Is it because we have learnt to live with them? Whatever might be your opinion, it is also true that they can be made simpler and easier on the eyes.

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Slice It - Piece Of Cake Or A Hard Shape To Crack? Play The Very Addictive Puzzler [iOS]

Cutting up any shape isn’t a big deal. Some do their slicing and dicing on a knife board, some in geometry class. You might say it’s all about symmetry. Slice It is a game (Price: $0.99) which takes this simple concept and turns it around as a puzzler. And then it proceeds to turn the way you think about proportions and sizes.

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Don’t Be Photo Bombed - Restore, Retouch & Repair Your Photos With InPaint [Rewards]

Photoshop virtuosos who can work their magic with the clone tools, know what a mask and content fill is will probably appreciate the labor it takes to touch up a photo. Inpaint flattens out the learning curve while helping you to keep your savings from bottoming out. It costs only $19.99 and comes for both Windows and Mac. But you can claim one of 18 free licenses using your MakeUseOf points!

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Keep Your Life Goals In Sight By Breaking Them Down Into Small Increments On Everest [iOS]

You can think of Everest as a combination of a goal-setting tool, a bucket list, a vision board, and a productivity coach. At its most basic, it is a getting-things-done app that means to track your journey from a definite beginning to a satisfactory end. As the app developers so pointedly say - Everyone has their Everest. We help you climb yours.

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Anyone Can Doodle, Sketch, and Paint With Doodle Buddy -- Even Your Grandma! [iOS]

Doodle Buddy is meant to be fun first. A serious drawing application for sketching works of art, second. There’s no binding for the former; the latter needs the little thing called talent. Doodle Buddy is among the flotilla of creative apps that you find for the iOS platform. Doodle Buddy is simple and free. So, can it squeeze a place on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch?

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Inspiring Interviews: 7 Websites With Intelligent Conversations To Expand Your Mind

Intelligent picks from the vast web can refresh and inspire our day. And what could be more inspiring than taking a peek into the lives of both ordinary and extraordinary people with insights. Maybe, you can find some sliver of usefulness in the conversations of these achievers. Look upon this as interviews or a talkfest of ideas.

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10 Of The Best Tools For Creating Infographics

The history of this visual science (or art) and tells us that infographics is by no means an invention of the digital culture. The only difference between then and now is the amount of information we are swamped with. Infographics gives us a tool to cut through the noise and into the meat. Patterns, trends, and relationships become a bit more understandable.

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Physics, Puzzles & A Young Boy Come Together To Play In Amazing Alex [Android]

We talked about Rube Goldberg in a game I reviewed a few days back. Amazing Alex takes off from where we left off in Apparatus. Both involve the basics of physics, both are about building objects from the simplest things around us, both have a goal (a basket here to begin with), but Amazing Alex makes it a tad more fun because it’s all through the antics of a young boy and chain reactions with objects that we see around us every day.

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Save & Reload Your Browser Tabs Just The Way You Like It With Layout Manager [Chrome]

Layout Manager in my humble opinion is a feature that Chrome or all browsers for that matter should have as a default. It not a complicated piece of work, it simply allows you to save and maintain the open windows and tabs so that you can quickly reload them whenever you want. More importantly, the selling point for the extension is: It remembers the precise layout of the windows and tabs you have open and it restores them exactly.

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Callout With Words: How to Use Microsoft PowerPoint for Drawing Speech Bubbles On Any Photo

Remember the comics of our childhood? What would they be without speech bubbles? In comics, words were calls to action and speech bubbles framed them so well. You never thought they obstructed the illustrations in any way. Speech bubbles turned into callouts when it came to business presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. They give context to what’s on the slide or a screenshot and help to turn a mundane graphic into something more interesting.

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