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.
6 Best Photoshop Plugins to Enhance Your Photo Editing Skills
You would think that Photoshop wouldn’t need any extra help, like plugins. But there’s a whole industry out there doing just that – developing plugins to enhance your photo editing jobs.
InstagramDownloader: Download All Images From Any Instagram User (Windows)
InstagramDownloader (v1.0) is a simple application. Simple in looks and simple in function. The simplicity is further bumped up by the fact that it is a portable freeware with a bulk of mere 665 KB. It does look like a weekend programming project, but let’s not deny its usefulness – especially if you are an Instagram devotee.
Top 8 Scary Websites To Spook Yourself and Your Friends
Bravado says that the web is not a tunnel of horrors. But be warned my friends, there are some scary websites out there. These scary websites may not give the screaming meemies to all of you, but some of you could just scream, if only for the fun of it. Still the beating heart – let’s enter eight scary websites to spook yourself and your friends.
Professional Mail Search In Outlook With Lookeen [Giveaway]
Lookeen is a Microsoft Outlook add-on that introduces accelerated search to the email client and is also an integrated desktop search tool. How does Lookeen add to the Office experience? Try it for yourself! This week, we're giving away 25 copies of Lookeen worth close to $1000 in total. Read on to find out more about what Lookeen can do for you and join the giveaway.
7 Ways To Learn More About The Books We Read & Get The Most Out Of Them
I hope, the reader will look upon these ideas as another reminder that books or their authors are just the beginning. You can take both as keywords and launch a search to deepen your learning not only about the books in general, but also everything else they touch upon. There are some other obvious ways we can deepen our learning by following a few web trails left by the author and his book.
How To Learn A New Skill Systematically With Collaborative Learning Playlists
Wouldn’t learning benefit from playlists? It could be a neat way to make sense of all the knowledge out there, by keeping the best learning bytes on a playlist. We can progress step by step through the playlist and pick up a new skill gradually. If “learning playlists” sounds like a cool concept, give MentorMob a visit.
4 Interesting Photography Projects That Rely On The Power Of Crowdsourcing
A photography website can and does benefit from crowdsourcing. Today, everyone with a camera phone is a photographer. From street life to the wonders of the world, everything is a click away. This can, if tapped effectively, lead to some wonderful results – like the four photography websites that are interesting concepts in themselves, but also get amplified because of crowdsourcing.
A Roundup Of 5 Online Video Dictionaries You Can Have Fun With Or Use To Look Up Words
We have already seen some examples of online dictionaries that give us one-click access to meanings, synonyms, antonyms, usage, and more. Now in another helpful twist, we see the arrival of video dictionaries. Are video dictionaries really helpful, or are they mere entertaining video memes? You decide as I give you a roundup of five online video dictionaries to make use of.
Rediscover Your Favorite Songs At These 2 Pinterest-Inspired Music Sharing Websites
Do you love Pinterest? If you do, then you will love these two websites which give you a Pinterest styled music sharing (and discovering) experience. Even if you don’t like Pinterest, and find it to be a faddish pretender for the crown of the social networking world, you just might like the eye-catching visual appeal of these sites.
How To Be A Smarter Learner By Using The Method Of Spaced Repetitions
Spaced repetition is a method that can help you plateau out the downward curve of your forgetfulness and help you memorize large amounts of data. It is an accelerated learning technique. This article is about improving your learning with two digital tools and the method of spaced repetition.
Do You Want To Learn A Foreign Language? Try French With The Help Of These 5 Websites
Learning a foreign language is not about communication alone. A new language helps to understand a different culture and expand your horizons. English is the world’s second language. Chances are it could be your first. There’s always room for one more. If it’s going to be French in the near future, let’s see how we can immerse ourselves in it with the help of these five websites.
5 Web Services That Are Using Technology To Help With Charity & Social Change
Technology continues to do its bit. From search engines that donate with every search to biggies with their outreach programs in the rural parts of the world. So, with this background let’s look at five web services which help non-profits work effectively on social change.
5 Websites That Help Parents and Children Deal With Bullying or Cyberbullying
For years bullying had been thought of as a necessary rite of passage to adulthood. If bullying is a devil’s trait, then we as concerned citizens and parents can play protectors. Educating ourselves about how to recognize a serial bully and deal with him is a first step. Maybe these five websites can be important stops on that journey.
Top 5 Celebrity Websites To Get The Latest Entertainment Gossip
I thought my previous post on the 10 Entertainment Websites To Get Your Daily Celebrity News Fix would be the end of it. After all, how much grist can rumor mills generate? Apparently quite a lot. So, if you are really keen to know what happened after Clooney got arrested, or what Brad Pitt’s sexy assistant looks like, I am throwing in five more websites for you to grab the latest entertainment gossip from.
Andmade Share Improves The Way You Share & Gives You Multiple Sharing Options [Android 2.1+]
From social channels like Twitter to the old-world email, each brings you in touch with your circle. So, wouldn’t it be great if you could share a byte of information via all these applications in one go? Andmade Share for Android makes this a possibility. In one sweep it enhances the way we share information from our mobiles.
Sickweather (Beta) – A Social Health Network That Helps You Avoid Illnesses With The Help Of A Map
Sickweather is a new kind of “social health network”. It actually wants to be the wind vane for bad health around the world. Sickweather - presently in beta - aims to show hotspots of unwellness on a map around your own location and help you stay informed so that you can take the proper precautions.
The 7 Best YouTube Channels to Watch for Photoshop Video Tutorials
How do you prefer to learn graphic designing and Photoshop? If you prefer videos, here are seven awesome YouTube channels to check out.
5 Different Q&A Websites You Can Put Your Questions To & Get Answers
The web is the oracle of the modern age. Google Search might be a digital prophet, but there are a lot of other sites which do a darn good job of answering your questions. There are some others out there which deal with a specific topic. Check out the five different sorts of question-answer help sites here.
A Few Search Tools You Can Use To Pick Up Press Releases For Blogging Ideas
Even before the internet was an idea, press releases had been the tool for promotion and social communication. Even now in the crowd of social networking and instant news feeds, press releases hold their importance. In fact, it is a valuable blog promotion and idea tool if you are keen to get some eyeballs in.
5 Websites For The Skeptics On Myths, Urban Legends, & False Beliefs
Call them hoaxes, beliefs, gossip, scams, or urban legends…at one time or the other you have come across them. The seekers of the truth head to the grand oracle which goes by the name Google these days. But there are quite a few more websites where you can read, enjoy, and debunk myths and urban legends.