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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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10 Things You Can Do For Fun & Learning On The Library Of Congress Online

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. 33 million books (838 miles of shelves) is quite a lot of reading. Just to boggle your mind with statistics, 10,000 new items are added to the library’s catalog each day. For those of us who have yet to experience something like the majestic Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building, an online peek is the next best option.

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Why It's Better To Have Different Twitter Accounts [Opinion]

How many Twitter accounts do you have? If we can separate our personal and professional workspaces with email, why should Twitter be any different? But the case for keeping different Twitter accounts goes deeper beyond this obvious reason. This is what I will try to hammer out here.

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10 Websites To Participate In Photoshop Contests & Show Off Your Skills

Contests challenge our primitive instincts. Who among us can deny that we are drawn to it if the contest is up our alley. If you do know your Photoshop then you should try your hand at some of the Photoshop contests that are regularly announced online. You will be up against the best and that’s actually the best way to learn. So, here are ten Photoshop contests that you should keep an eye on.

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10 Best Websites That Show You How to Start a Business

The road to business success is littered with failures. On the other hand, it is also paved with success because people like you and me dared to venture and do it inspite of the obstacles. Starting your own business is not for the faint-hearted because it takes a lot of enterprise and sheer hard work. Let’s now take a look at how we can start our own business with the guidance of these ten websites.

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Stop Excessive & Annoying Video Ads On YouTube & Other Video Sites With AdBlockVideo [Firefox]

Ads are a necessary evil. In the offline world, they inform, entertain, and let the producers make money so that they can continue producing ‘great’ content for us. Thankfully when it comes to all browsers, you can stay away from the ad-war by using the available ways to block ads. Here we look at a Firefox add-on, and three more options for Chrome users.

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10 Unique Google Maps Mashups You Can Explore For Information

Do you know you can find anything on a map these days? Columbus might have disagreed, but aren’t maps made for that very purpose? Well, I was talking more along the lines of finding offbeat things like CIA secret prisons to free beer (ok nix that last one…it’s more in my imagination!). But thanks to the Google Maps API and innovative minds, we have a glut of mashups detailing everything on a map.

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10 Offbeat & Alternative Search Engines You Might Not Have Heard Of

These ten alternative search engines are offbeat in two ways – firstly, in the way some of them get to the data, and secondly in the way they display it. You should keep a few alternative search engines in your search toolbox. Will you be keeping any of these? Let’s find out.

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The Perfect PDF Solution: novaPDF Professional [Giveaway]

Reading PDF files is easy these days, with plenty of offline and online options available. When you set out to create your own PDF files then the options thin out somewhat. Of course, you don’t have to lean only towards Adobe Acrobat, when a few more capable PDF creation tools are there in the market. This week, we'll be giving away 25 free copies of NovaPDF Professional worth $1250 in total! Want a copy? First, read up on what it's all about and find out how to win one for yourself.

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News360 - A Fresh News Aggregator For Your Smartphone, Tablet, & Desktop

Another news aggregator? How many more do we need? Well, a news junkie definitely wouldn’t be asking this question. For him (or her) another news gathering tool is another for the quiver. News360 calls itself a ‘next generation news aggregation and personalization service’. It is basically tailored for the mobile web. In fact, it has apps which cover the iPhone, iPad, Win Phone 7, Playbook, Android, and the web.

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Design Your Own Perfect Home With Autodesk Homestyler

There’s a designer in all of us. When it comes to designing for ourselves, it doesn’t get any more personal than designing your own home. Of course, you can hire a professional to do the job, but if you have a good eye and want to give your home your own touch, try your hand on Autodesk Homestyler.

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6 Ways to Send and Receive Business Cards on iPhone

Business cards are still a slick way to make new contacts. Here's how to send and receive business cards on your iPhone.

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Customize the MS Word 2010 Ribbon by Adding Your Own Tab With Commands You Use Most Often

We have seen quite a few ways to tweak MS Office 2010 for our own productive ends. Granted, the whole MS Office suite is a productivity tool to begin with, but there’s still some spanner work you can do to make it more personalized. In this Word tutorial, we improve our workflow by adding a favorites tab to the Ribbon with all our frequently used commands.

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8 Websites For Creative Business Ideas If You Want To Be An Entrepreneur

When it comes to ideas you never know which ones will work. Without crazy ideas we wouldn’t have the airplane or the Frisbee. If you are an enterprising entrepreneur, you probably are in search of the next great big idea. These eight websites with business ideas might not be your genie’s lamp, but they could light a spark.

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4 Websites That Offer Family Friendly Ratings & Reviews On Movies

Media and entertainment are all around us. Thankfully so is education and information. As adults, we are attuned to sift the wheat from the chaff; but our kids aren’t, however precocious they might be. So, how do you decide which movies are family-friendly and which should be dealt with parental censorship?

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10 YouTube Channels You Can Switch On To Catch The Best Movie Reviews

There are a lot of movie buffs on YouTube giving their two-cents worth by way of movie reviews. In fact, they have full-blown YouTube channels to show-off their critical takes. Which are the better ones out there? Just like the reviews you catch, the select ten is also taken from a list I follow. Agree or disagree, just give them a ten second glance.

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5 Other Google Labs That Will Help Keep You Informed About Google Developments

Google recently announced that it is putting the padlock on Google Labs, the experimental section from where many groundbreaking ideas spewed forth. An update to the announcement did say that Google did not have any plans to change in-product experimentation channels. But which are the individual Google product labs that sometimes lie obscured by the parent Google Labs?

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7 Interesting Free Movie Sites That You Might Have Missed

What’s with the movies? Online movie sites may be bursting out from every nook and cranny of the digital world, but we cineastes never stop queuing up. Just as we have missed a few more interesting websites on movies, you also might have done the same. So, let’s again dim the lights, crackle the nachos, and showcase seven more interesting movie websites.

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How to Customize the MS Office 2010 Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar has been a part of MS Office since the 2003 version, but it has come to the forefront since the introduction of MS Office 2007 and more prominently with MS Office 2010. You can enhance your productivity with two quick and easy changes to the Quick Access Toolbar.

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5 Cool Word Sites That Are A Bit Different

The different type of word sites helps us explore the language in all its uniqueness. That also helps us fall in love with the language. My continuing search for word sites – regular or offbeat - has made me stumble on to some that most of us might miss among the crowd of the more popular ones.

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9 Live Citizen Science Projects You Can Participate In To Learn More About Our Planet & Space

Science has gone social. Research scientists maybe crunching away at their super-computers but they aren’t neglecting the remarkable potential of the most powerful computer of all – the human brain. When you put a few billion together you get a massive neural network that no computer can match.

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