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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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Give Instagram A Break And Take PicsArt For A Spin On Your Android

Yes, Instagram isn’t the only game in town. We may or not may be able to give up on your love for Instagram, but that shouldn’t stop us from getting around our tunnel vision and looking at some other really good mobile photo editors (or photo enhancers as I call them). PicsArt is an Android photo editor that not only deserves a good hard look, but in my opinion it is a photo app that should find a permanent corner on your smartphone.

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Catch Image Thieves With Who Stole My Pictures And Also Put It To Five More Uses [Firefox]

When it comes to textual works, we have seen how easy it is to catch the copycats. But what about pictures and photographs? Is image search that easy? Probably not; but that’s not to say it is impossible because image search technologies have evolved. Making an effort to defeat image plagiarism is this simple Firefox extension called Who Stole My Pictures.

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Productivity In Your Pocket: Use The Portable Snaptimer To Do Your Tasks In Mini-sprints [Windows]

Isn’t there some wisdom in breaking large tasks into smaller piecemeal efforts? There’s another way to look at any mammoth project or everyday task – as a massive unit of time that can be broken down into chunks of minutes. You can develop our own timer based system to do a task in mini-sprints. If you need a simple, uncomplicated timer for the job, try counting down with Snaptimer.

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Drag & Drop Your Way To Productivity With These Time-Saver Applications

Dragging and dropping your way to productivity isn’t for the real world. But put it on a web interface, and you have the fast track to shaving a few seconds here and there. Drag n’ drop web interfaces have been there since long, but it is only know we see them getting exploited (in a good sense) like anything. I went hunting for some productive drag and drop applications for day to day use. I hope I found them right.

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10 Awesome OneNote Tips You Should Be Using All the Time

Microsoft OneNote is just as good as Evernote. OneNote is the digital equivalent of a binder, giving you more organizational control. We show you effective note-taking tweaks you'll love.

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How To Play With Outlook.com Without Giving Up On Gmail

I don’t think you will be changing over from Gmail to Outlook.com too soon. Definitely not brand loyalty, but certainly our email habits which makes that change just a future prospect. Gmail is great by every stretch of the imagination. But even then, you can take Outlook.com for a drive around town without making Gmail feel like a partner you left for a new lover.

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Organize Yourself with AllMyNotes Organizer Deluxe Edition [Giveaway]

Information is pretty much digital these days. To manage all that digital information, you need a good information organizer. AllMyNotes Organizer is a solution you should consider for storing all your ideas, notes, financial entries, address book contacts, records, and passwords. We're giving away 30 copies of AllMyNotes Organizer Deluxe valued at $1020, plus we're also giving away an unlimited number of special builds for the first 3 days of this giveaway!

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Instagram Meets Life: 5 Novel Instagram Projects From Around The World

When a community based application like Instagram becomes popular, it connects the world in interesting ways. Pictures and photographs have always been great ‘focal’ if not vocal ways to communicate. The easy worldwide appeal of Instagram has also meant that people are using the photo application in unique ways. Here’s a filtered look at the world around us with these five Instagram projects.

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Bored With Just Photosharing? Here Are 5 More Things You Can Do With Instagram

With millions of filter-embellished pictures uploaded, Instagram has become a community of its own. And just like any popular community it has giving rise to its own eco-system. Do you stop at clicking nice photos and sharing them? Or do you go beyond to discover what else the world of Instagram has to offer? Maybe, you can try these 5 things with the help of Instagram.

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8 Ways to Make Sure a Link Is Safe Before You Click It

Hyperlinks as we all know are the strands that make up the web. But just like the spiders, the digital web can trap the unsuspecting. Even the more knowledgeable among us click on links which are potentially harmful. You really cannot control you clicking, because that’s how the whole business of browsing happens. What you can control is making sure that the link or webpage you are clicking through to is as safe as a mother’s lap, and not a malware infested demon lying in wait.

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Curiosity Has Landed - 5 Ways You Can Follow What The Mars Rover Is Up To

Let’s rejoice because Curiosity overcame the eight months space hop and the seven minutes of terror to land safely on Mars. Now, it will go about its business of finding out if Martians really exist…or at least their microbial forms. The car-sized super-advanced robot on wheels will search for extra-terrestrial organic clues of life. Its two year mission could give us a few clues to the second biggest question of all time – are we alone out here?

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Swap Your PJs For A Camera - Try Taking A Photo A Day And Improve Your Photography

Once, there was this interesting news item about the man with the perfect memory. No…Mr. Gordon Bell wasn’t a freak; as a research scientist he just used modern technology to record every waking moment of his life. That was a Microsoft project. On lower tiers, we use journals and blogs to document our daily lives. Why not a camera? Especially if you love pictures.

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Combine Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, & Google Reader To Make Sense Of Real Time News

Bottlenose is a strange name for a web service that aims to tie together your social networks in one place. But then this new application is all about ‘smarter collective intelligence’ that it gathers from your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google Reader accounts. It makes sense to name it after a dolphin – one of the most intelligent creatures we know about.

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Create Your Own Web Comics & Memes With These Free Tools

You too must have enjoyed a comic or two. You too must have dreamt up comic book characters of your own. If Stan Lee could create an entire universe of super-humans, our childhood imaginations could too. Maybe then we only had our foggy flights of fancy. Now, we have a legion of comic book tools. So let’s see how you can create your own web comics with free tools, and also its more digitalized cousin – the Internet meme.

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4 Free Tools For Online Video Editing

Video editing online has helped to turn everyone into armchair filmmakers. Here are the best five editors on the web.

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If You Never Learnt How To Code, Try Out Mozilla Webmaker For Learning & Fun

If you want to learn how the web really works, you have to know a bit about the technologies that make the magic. Web literacy is one of the skills that almost compulsory for the digital age. You might not make the next great app, but it will just make you feel a little more confident. Plus, the web itself is a great place to learn about web technologies. It’s not drudgery either. Let Mozilla Webmaker prove the last two statements.

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The Top 7 Places To Learn The Art Of HDR Photography

Welcome to the art and craft of HDR. High Dynamic Range Imaging is an image-processing technique that allows you to represent a wider and deeper range of colors. The clarity and detail in the photos that comes from the HDR treatment is eye-popping. The good thing is that you can do your own quite easily and enchant the world. These ten websites tell you just how.

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10 Programming Languages You Probably Never Heard Of

There are some very strange and bizarre programming languages which have turned logic on its head and have still managed to stay true to the science of communication with a computer. You are going to hear about ten programming languages you probably never heard of.

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How The Heck Did I Take That Photo?! Checking Picasa For Camera Settings

One of the more hands-on ways to learn about the art and science of photography is by looking at photos and the data that comes with it. The data that comes embedded (usually) with every digital photograph is called EXIF. The good thing is that the data is easily viewable and understandable. Both of these give us the best ‘learning tool’ for photography.

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Cure Backup Anxiety! Use PicBackMan To Automatically Bulk Upload Your Photos To Multiple Accounts

It’s time to hitch up the pants and do some backing up of all my precious memories captured in the snaps. In geek-speak, I am going to create redundant backups of my photos using multiple online storage services. Sounds impressive I bet! But doff your hats to the free software I have picked for this bulk job – PicBackMan.

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