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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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4 Web Apps To See What's Trending On Facebook (And Other Social Sites)

The word ‘viral’ is just the word you would use when it comes to something that’s popular on Facebook. Whether it is a game like FarmVille or the latest I-want-it-for-my-profile-pic silhouette photo of Steve Jobs, things can be left to their own devices once you press the Share or Like button-links. But how do you as a user discover the great content that’s being shared across the millions of pages on Facebook?

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Search Through All The Data On Gmail, Google Apps & Twitter With CloudMagic

We are always searching for something. These days it’s probably less about our lives and more on the web. Well, if that’s so, then the browser extension called CloudMagic deserves at least a look-see and maybe an install. CloudMagic as the name implies, is all about the services on the cloud. The magic is that it is a super-fast way to search across multiple services.

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8 Ways To Exact Your Revenge On An Ex-Partner Online

When it comes to revenge, they say that it’s a dish best served cold. Today, it seems that when it comes to ex-partners and ex-flames, its best served online. Revenge is as old as man and his ego. Heck, they even have bestsellers on the subject. So, let’s check out some myriad (and creative) ways to take revenge on your ex-partner after a relationship has gone south.

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7 Websites That Could Help The Serious Debater Win Debates On Any Topic

The art of debating is not easily learnt. It fits like a glove to those who know how to voice their opinions, but to others who are stage-shy it’s a toilsome trek up the learning curve. But as I learnt in school, debating is a skill that everyone should cultivate. We take this further with a few more websites that will help you entrench your stand should a topic worth debating on arise.

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How You Can Use The Document Map Feature Of MS Word As A Time Saver

If you are not a power user on MS Word, I am assuming that you haven’t heard about the Document Map. The Document Map is one of those little features tucked away in MS Word. The Document Map helps you navigate through a long Word document and access different parts of it.

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5 Of The Best Interactive Media & Web Awards For Some Cool Design Inspirations

If you look at it positively, envy can also inspire creativity. Awards of various hues and colors are the perfect platform to catch a bit of both. The best that get awarded set benchmarks which the herd tries to follow. Next year, there’s going to be someone who races ahead of the herd and becomes a winner. If you are a web designer or simply learning all about it, it pays to keep an eye on some of the best web awards that are dished out. Who knows, you might vie for it one day.

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Better Your Life & Relationships One Day At A Time With The Daily Challenge

Very few of us realize that the old maxim of – every journey begins with a single step – applies so well to our lives and our efforts to improve it. The single step easily translates to a single day of our lifetime. The Daily Challenge is a web application that has come in to remind us of that very fact.

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4 Simple Text Summarizers to Tackle Information Overload

Text summarizers analyze a document and then sum it up around key points and concepts. We were taught how to summarize long pieces of text in school. Text summarization apps are just the online automatic tools that use algorithms to present a quick outline of a document. here are four free online text summarizers which try to give you the abstract with some degree of success.

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The 10 Best Sites To Rent Or Buy College TextBooks Cheaply

Today's generation has the best of the online and offline worlds. We didn’t have websites which told us where to find (rent or buy) cheap textbooks. But today’s generation just has to type in a URL and hey presto, there are more than a dozen sites plying cheap textbooks for sale or rent. So, let’s take a look at ten websites where you can get college textbooks for cheap.

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10 Handy Alternatives If You Are Tired Of The Usual Lorem Ipsum Filler Texts

Web designers probably have a kitty of Lorem Ipsum tools saved close by that’s useful for their web development work. Lorem Ipsum generators come in various forms; some of them allow customizing the dummy text generation with variable font widths, font faces, and other design elements. But there’s just so much you can take of the mock content.

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Managing Digital Information Overload - Is Technology The Cause & The Cure? [Opinion]

‘Drinking from the firehose’ is a turn of phrase you might not be familiar with. But believe me, if you are reading this blog and many others like this, it’s exactly what you are doing every day. It’s not water you are trying to gulp down, but a torrent of information. Information overload is the more precise term. Also, I am pretty sure you are drowning.

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10 Unique Live Webcam Feeds To Watch Around The World

Remote webcams peeping into your lives may make you go all choleric, but when they point at some fascinating places around the world, they can make you gawk. Real-time webcam feeds that capture unique events (or non-events) always prick our interest because there’s something in our psyche that makes us want to be voyeurs.

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3 Tools to Quickly Preview Your Images in the Context Menu With a Right-Click [Windows]

When it comes to using the mouse, the right-click context menu is a powerhouse of productivity. If tweaked right, it is definitely a shortcut to saving time. Quickly previewing your images with a right click is a good move if want to save a click or two. Previewing images is a time-saver from within dialog boxes too like the File Open box. Here are three image tools for your right-click context menu.

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3 Color Picker Add-Ons For Web Designers & Graphic Artists [Firefox]

Eyedroppers and color pickers can work outside a mammoth graphic tool like Photoshop and CorelDraw. Most of these tools are small and portable. But today, we will diverge from desktop color picking tools and look at five browser based ones. After all, a graphic artist can take his inspiration from anywhere…and if it’s anywhere online, a few very useful Firefox add-ons could come real handy.

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5 Most Effective Ways To Deal With Arrogant Internet Trolls

The Internet is without doubt a great invention. Unfortunately, no one so far has been able to develop and anti-troll device that will help to make it a more civilized place. You might have come across this beast called the troll too, in the white of comment boxes, on social networks, and on discussion boards. So, how do you take the war to the trolls?

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How To Use Twitter To Organize A Protest [Opinion]

The placard is old-world. If you want to raise a hue and cry, there’s nothing better than social networking to voice your protests. Causes have found a new venue on Twitter and Facebook. The ‘Arab Spring’ showed the world that civil resistance has got a new weapon in the form of Twitter.

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Play Around With These Five Cool 3D Firefox Plugins

Firefox is not yet a 3D browser. Though 3D technology has already come to cinema halls and television, modern browsers are still taking the first few steps through the dimensions. The technology may be ripening with some fresh developments every day, but there are some simple ways to explore the potential that exist today - with a few Firefox add-ons for example.

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5 Ways You Can Search the Web Using Tag Clouds

Quite a few blogs and websites have them. Tag clouds are one of the simplest visualization tools available that can enhance access to buried articles on your website. The eye prefers to pan and scan rather than go vertically or horizontally in search of information. So, some web services have continued to take the help of tag clouds. Here are six web services that help you look for content using tag clouds.

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How Many Friends On Facebook Is Too Much? [Opinion]

I never thought that we would be so ‘obsessed’ with friends. Collecting friends seems to be a fad that refuses to die down thanks to social networks. When we talk about social networks, we usually hold up the example of Facebook. From debating privacy breakdowns to putting up an argument on what we are going to talk about here, Facebook is served up as an example.

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Google Fun – Go Inside Search & Explore Google Services In A Whole New Way At The Playground

You wouldn’t use words like snazzy, flashily stylish, or even showy with Google’s almost barebones effectiveness. Recent changes though have helped to dress up Google and readied it for the Web 2.0 party. We have seen that Google and its interlinked maze of products can be whole lot of fun. You can check out the links at the bottom, but right now let’s click on a link that will take us inside Google Search and into the Playground.

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