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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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5 Book Websites That Give You Sample Chapters To Read Online

Any self-respecting online book site should have a book preview feature. Editorial reviews aren’t enough. A book lover needs to know if the author’s writing style goes with the reader’s reading style. We also need to know if the content really matches the hype surrounding the book. So, let’s not judge a book by its covers. Here are five websites that let you read sample chapters and excerpts.

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4 Websites For The English Writer That Help In The Search For Clichés

As an English language learner or even as a writer who thinks he knows it all, referencing clichés is good exercise (just so you can eliminate them!). They say there’s a cliché born every minute. These five websites on clichés’ could help you locate (and eliminate) some of them.

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10 Almost Useless But Interesting Twitter Apps

Who knew that 140 characters could be informative, opinionated, controversial, and hilarious? Well, Twitter is all that and we continue to revel in it. There are lots of Twitter apps out there -some useless; some interesting; and some bit of both. But all in the all, they are fun tools to play around with just your Twitter user name.

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7 Ways of Searching & Virtual Shopping for Amazon Books

Do you shop at Amazon for books? Then your first destination is probably the large search field on the top. But as a long-standing Amazon book shopper, you will be glad to know that it’s not the only way to search for books. Here are more ways to browse through Amazon’s shopping stocks and search for the product you want.

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5 Websites That Alert Book Lovers About New Book Releases

The digital age has given the book lover another set of eyes to find out what new books are getting released and where to grab them. Welcome to the world of book tracking and notification services. The five book recommendation websites mentioned here are like homing missiles when it comes to alerting you about new releases.

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How To Create Attractive Professional Looking Charts Using The Chart Tools Of MS Word 2010

Charts, as an illustrated way of showing boring facts and figures, has always helped to embellish professional Word documents. Charts help readers compare data and understand trends with a glance. But how do you create that impact with a well-designed chart? Let MS Word 2010 and its Chart tools show you the way.

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5 Cool Word Games You Can Play On Google Chrome & Test Your Language Skills

Word games help to continue our love affair with the language. Let’s combine English, learning, fun, and games and go over to Google Chrome’s Web Store to checkout some browser games to pass time and jiggle our brains too. Here are five cool and free word games you can play on Google Chrome.

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8 "Best Online Investing Websites" to Improve Your Gains

Investing right is a lot about timeliness. That’s where the right information bolstered by real-time data is the need of the second. The good websites on investment advice go beyond ticker tapes. When you have so many websites to pick from, how do you decide on the best online investing website?

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5 Tools to Compare Typefaces and Choose the Right Font for Your Work

Fonts and typefaces are all around us. If you are a web designer you have to carefully select them. When we attempt to select a font, we do quite a lot of comparing between the different fonts available to us. Here are seven tools which might help you to pick the right font for your work.

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How To Link MS Word 2010 To OneNote & Use It For Writing Linked Notes

MS Office 2010 adds another by letting you link MS Word 2010, and MS PowerPoint to OneNote 2010. This linking allows you to refer back to either the note or the main document by clicking on the link. This free ‘exchange’ of information makes for a great information management and research aid. But how do we set it up?

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10 Websites for Daily Tips & Time Saving Nuggets of Information

Tips are almost like ‘inside information’ or even recommendations that can help us take shortcuts through whatever we are attempting. It could be dicing potatoes or creating a startup. Tips are always welcome; in fact we are always in search of them. Perhaps, that’s why these ten websites can help us out with their collection of tips.

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7 Free Online News Games That Are Based On World Affairs & News Events

Tucked away in the smorgasbord of online games is a genre called news games. Yes, you read it right. New games take any past or present global happening and turn into an interactive game. Free news based online games are also important educational tools. Here are seven news games for you to try out right now.

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8 More Word Games You Can Play To Sharpen Your Language Skills

Every wordsmith also needs to sharpen his axe from time to time. One of the best grindstones for that can be the numerous word games avilable online for free. They not only let you play with letters, words, and sentences – but also give you a break from the occasional tedium. Let your creativity flow with these eight online word games while you take a break from your day job.

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6 Websites To Do Some Virtual Globetrotting With Google Street View

Google Street View is a feature both on Google Maps and Google Earth that brings you panoramic 360 degree views from many locations around the world. It started from the United States and now embraces all the continents (even Antarctica). Google Street View has also given rise to a motley of websites and apps – some fun, some really useful. Let’s check out six of them.

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7 Websites That Will Help Your Career With Company Information and Anonymous Job Reviews

Thanks to the information age, the web is the best career tool you can have at your disposal. Type in a company name and you are sure to get more than a few hits which will give you a peek into what a company is about. Let’s check out seven more career websites that collect company information and job reviews.

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How To Convert A PowerPoint 2010 Presentation Into A Video With One Click

Converting a PowerPoint slide to a video has lots of uses. It can be used to send a cluster of pictures to someone who does not have PowerPoint or a PowerPoint viewer installed. Microsoft Office 2010 has come in with a slew of user-friendly new features. One of the new features in PowerPoint 2010 helps you create a video with just a click.

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How To Add Tabs To Microsoft Office & Improve Your Document Management

Tabs are something which the guys at Redmond woke up late to. So far, it has escaped an introduction in MS Office; a feature I am sure many of you out there would want as a default. Microsoft Office plug-in Office Tab adds tabbed document support to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

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Put Your Digital, Social & Technical Skills To The Test With Smarterer

The fresh web service called Smarterer aims to shake our inertia about learning skills and make smarter workers out of us all. Smarterer pits us against the technology, digital, and social tools we use every day and tells us if we are able or inept with them.

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Send Your Notes to Google Docs From Firefox Using the QuickFox Add-on & A Simple Script

The here-there-and-everywhere nature of Google Docs gives me an opportunity to use it as a brain dump for my impromptu notes. Most of us live in the browser; and if it’s Firefox then QuickFox is a must-install extension. Now, using a freely available script, you can send all your saved notes to Google Docs.

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