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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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3 Online Camera Simulators For Photography Beginners

Learning the basics of photography makes sense because it helps not only in photography but also in understanding the type of camera one eventually buys.

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7 Best Websites To Find Weird News

Weird news fills up the gaps and makes the world much more interesting. More often than not they raise a laugh or two. They do show that our world is a strange place, though not a humorless one. Let’s take a look at few more websites which bring the weird to our chaos weary eyes.

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3 Free Android Apps That Help To Remind You To Take Pills On Time

The days of simple diagnoses and simpler one-pill that cures all is long gone. These days it’s a cocktail of pills that addresses every illness one is unfortunate to encounter. The geekiest option is of course, to turn to a trusted mobile app…in this case, any of these Android apps which can help to remind you to take pills on time.

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PowerPoint Art: How To Create A 3-D Circle To Show A Cyclical Process

With each improved edition of PowerPoint, presenters have got better tools to play around with. So much so, that you don’t need a full-blown graphics editor to work magic on your slides. You can do it within PowerPoint itself. The following tutorial serves as an example. The steps below show how to create a three dimensional circular diagram illustrating a four step process.

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Memoires: The Diary That Helps You Jot Down Your Memories on the Go [Android 1.6+]

One of the surest ways to combat writer’s block is to keep something handy when a sudden inspiration strikes you. Earlier it used to be a scrap of paper in the wallet, but lately it has been my Android phone. I bumped into Memoires. I am still holding on to Evernote, but Memoires has a few standout features that need mentioning.

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Hack Your Day And Stay Motivated With Pinterest

Pinterest is an online pinboard which allows you to share images by ‘pining’ them to your profile. I am sure you will while away a few hours playing around creating pretty image boards or pinboards. I did too, but then I also realized that Pinterest can also be used like a vision board for personal development and productivity. Here are a few ideas.

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Use Mouse Gestures For Better Productivity With StrokePlus [Windows]

Mouse gestures are specific movements that are recognized by software and translated into quick actions on the screen. Mouse gestures can be used to perform quick actions, like forward and backward browsing or opening a program among others. We have taken you through quite a few mouse gesture tools. Let’s take a look at another lightweight one here.

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Love Books? Go Deep Inside The Story & Much Beyond Books With Small Demons

Is Small Demons a different kind of book site? It gives us a different take on books we enjoy, and so it is definitely fresh. We all read books. Some of us devour them. But more often than not we don’t go very deep into the people, places and things inside them. Small Demons goes behind the story, and picks up different threads and helps us discover where they lead.

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6 Precautions You Should Take Against Email Harvesters & Spammers

Spam has its roots in email harvesting. Email harvesting is the umbrella term for the methods spammers (or bulk email marketers) use to obtain email addresses in volumes. It could be as low tech as purchasing email address lists or go high-tech with the use of special email harvester bots which scan or spider through webpages, discussion boards, and chat groups.

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4 Stock Video Websites To Catch A Glimpse Of History Captured On Film

There are quite a few other websites out there which host stock video footage from key moments in history. They playback not only eyewitness accounts, but also give us history lessons in video…as it happened. So, which are the handful of these hosting sites which have a commendable selection of historic videos?

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Keep Your Brain Ticking With These 5 Android Memory Training Apps

On an individual level, I am finding out that the barrage of information each day is shortening my recall. I guess my brain can store only that much and not more. As experts’ advice, it’s time to sharpen the axe. So, I am heading to the Android Market to check out a few apps which can be my whetstone. You can head there too before the good ‘ol memory goes dull on you.

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7 Amazingly Inspirational Websites That You Forgot to Bookmark

The websites below are a potpourri of interesting conversations, good news from around the world, uplifting advice, and thought provoking ideas. All of them are built around the hope that you will use them to find your own inner voice. Be inspired!

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5 Poetry Websites You Can Go To Catch The Best Of Verse

As with all things, the internet is a fount for budding poets and those who are genuinely enthusiastic about the most beautiful form of literature. Which are the better ones you can go to? Let’s browse around and find the five best poetry websites to catch the best of verse.

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10 Best Comprehensive Websites to Go to for Game Cheat Codes

Video games are challenges in themselves; it’s just that cheat codes make them more interesting. From 8 bit games of old to today’s massively multiplayer online games and even Facebook games like Farmville, cheat codes are a part of the gaming culture. Use them or abhor them, here are ten gaming websites to go to for game cheat codes.

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5 Free Motivational Android Apps You Can Carry Around With You Everyday

Mobile apps have ‘reformed’ us in more ways than we can imagine. Let’s think about our daily need to motivate and push ourselves into action. Thanks to the glut of motivational apps on the Android market, goading yourself into action is now just a pocket away. let’s check out the Android Market and see which ones can give us the daily dose of motivation that we need when we flag off.

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Vocabulary Challenged? Try 8 Things On Dictionary.com To Improve Your English

Dictionary.com and its resources make it almost a portal that takes you on a journey of word discoveries. Word has it that it is probably the most frequented of online dictionary and reference sources on the web. Why not – after all you can do much more than merely look up a word here. Try these 8 for starters.

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7 Websites That Help You Learn How To Tie The Perfect Knot

I personally think having a knack for knots is one of the essential skills to have or acquire in your toolset of manliness. After all, one never knows when you might be called upon to rope a steer…or knot a tie. So, if you weren’t a Boy Scout, here are a few resources that give you a notch to add on the manliness scale.

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10 Best Hotel Search Engines to Get the Best Deals When You Travel

Are you a last minute hotel booker or one who plans out trips months in advance? If you are a business traveller, chances are that you are the former. If you aren't, then you are just the guy who could do with this article. Come to think of it, even if you are a business traveller who lives out of a suitcase, it would pay to keep these hotel search engines bookmarked because it could give you some room near your bottom-line.

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7 Twitter Photo Sharing Tips to Spread Your Photographic Masterpieces

In mid-2011, Twitter announced its photo sharing feature. It was major news because it put Twitter at loggerheads with the existing third-party Twitter photo sharing services like TwitPic , yfrog, and Instagram. But we users weren’t really bothered about the behind the scenes bad blood for it gave us a more convenient way of sharing photos from within Twitter itself.

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Organize Your Chrome Extensions Into Groups & Speed Up Your Browsing With Context

Installing Chrome extensions is easy as a click and you don’t even have to hold your breath. But we shouldn’t forget that extensions are little programs that feed off our computer’s resources. And some can be real resource hogs. Also, too many extensions create a clutter that’s not so aesthetic when you want some clean real estate on your browser. Not surprisingly, the answer lies in another extension.

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