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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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7 Websites That Give You Nutritional Information to Eat Smarter

Nutritional information is crucial for understanding diets especially if you afflicted with lifestyle diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity etc. Nutritional guides help us to choose healthy foods. So, let these seven online nutritional guides help you cook up just the right dish.

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6 Simple & Stylish Note Taking Browser Apps [Chrome]

If you are a productivity maven you probably have scoured the add-ons and extensions available for browsers in search of note-taking tools. Do you take notes right on the browser or do you have a desktop app for the job? Let’s take a walk through the Chrome Web Store and take a look at these six stylish note-taking apps for the Chrome browser.

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The Top 10 Best How-To YouTube Video Channels

Type ‘How-To’ in the Google Search box and see the large number of suggestions it throws up. It could be that it is among the most types of all queries, or it could be that we all want to learn something new. A few most definitely will be from YouTube. Which are some of the better “How-To” YouTube channels? Let’s find out.

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7 Websites With Energy Calculators That Can Help You Save Energy This Summer And Live A Greener Life

Energy efficiency if followed, could return handsome savings all-round the year. Some benchmarks have it pegged at around an average of 30 percent. Anything less than that is also welcome. Let’s check out ten informative web resources that can help you save energy (summers and winters) and keep that ‘green’ smile.

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6 Chrome Extensions That Check the Validity and Safety of Webpage Links With a Click

Links could be broken; links could point to the wrong page; even worse, links could be an open door to phishing scams or malware downloads. That’s why it helps to keep at least one link checker in your browser. Here are six Chrome extensions you can try out.

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GrabMyBooks: A Firefox Add-On For HTML To ePub Conversions & Making Your Own eBooks

GrabMyBooks is your browser based tool that can grab content from any webpage (or the entire webpage itself) and compile it in a very readable ePub format for your digital handhelds or eBook readers. Let’s look at its key features and see how easily it can feature in our must-have add-on downloads.

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Quixey Helps You "Functionally" Search For The Right Apps Based On What You Want To Do

Quixey describes itself as a functional search engine for apps across any platform and for any use. Quixey is in beta right now. But the well designed and user-friendly website has hit the ground running with its avowed aim of helping you find just the right app for the task you had in mind.

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How To Take A Screenshot & Apply Artistic Effects With The New MS Word 2010

If Microsoft 2007 covered all that you could think of doing with a document, think again. Two new features (among the ten or so) introduced in Microsoft Word 2010 help to reduce your dependency on a third-party screenshot tool and a photo editor by just a smidgen. The latest version of Microsoft Office Suite gives you an 'inbuilt' screenshot tool and a slew of artistic effects.

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8 MORE Knowledge Websites With Free Online Video Lectures

The online video world is more than music videos and somebody’s cat chasing a laser pointer. It is also a treasure trove of knowledge nuggets and crowd wisdom. Our fixation on YouTube shouldn’t allow us to miss out on some other great video sites out there.

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3 Chrome Extensions For Gmail That Help You Use Email Quickly

It is sometimes a chore to open up Gmail and compose an email. What one needs is a productivity hack that could short circuit the process by a few seconds. Here are three Chrome extensions designed for Gmail that looked like the perfect email productivity solution.

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SnapShoter: A Screen Capture Tool & Clipboard Manager Rolled Into One [Windows]

Screenshot tools are a large tribe and an ever growing one. From the industrial standard SnagIt to even little browser add-ons that reside in our browser, you can have your pick. Fast, lightweight, and portable are three adjectives that fit SnapShoter (ver1.4.9b) to the T. You can throw in ‘free’ too and you have a winner among the ranks.

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10 Fun & Useful Chrome Extensions For Your Wikipedia Browsing

Wikipedia has managed to maintain its top-dog status when it comes to quick access (and free) source of valuable information. Just so that deep diving into Wikipedia remains a fun and educational experience, a bounty of Chrome extensions is a must-have for the browser.

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10 Websites For Unit Conversions & Calculations

The old bugbear of unit conversions confounds many. Online unit converters and calculators save the day today. It’s no longer a case of 1,000,000 headaches = 1 mega-headache as online unit converters do the math with a click. Here are ten of them.

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MailStore Home - One Of the Easiest Free Email Backup Tools Available [Windows]

Far sighted email management calls for two things – a systematic backup plan and an efficient search system to find the email that’s lost like the needle in the archived haystack. Take a look at MailStore Home, a free solution for email archiving and backup.

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Get Educated On Online Web Apps & Services With Grovo’s Video Lessons

How 'digitally' educated are we about the web and the many apps and tools it throws up? Grovo is another fresh ‘n new online learning tool you can use if you want to grade up your internet education. All the education and training on Grovo is through online videos.

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Top 10 RSS Feeds For Medical News & Alerts

We are living on the cutting edge of great medical leaps. Medical news and alerts help us to keep pace with these leaps. Let’s look at some top websites for medical news and stay alert with the help of their feeds.

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How to Print Multiple Pages on One Sheet Of Paper & Be Eco-Friendly

The utility of printing multiple pages on a single sheet of paper cannot be overstated enough. Perhaps in lesser eco-conscious times, condensing your print jobs might not have collected any attention. But as we head off to battle with the forces of global warming and natural depletion, learning how to utilize each square inch of paper is a must.

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Search & Download Movie Information With High Resolution Movie Covers Using Movie411

Movie411 is a free software that enables you to quickly search and download movie information and DVD box art (both front and back covers). Movie411 is a portable application that's simple and free. Let’s check it out in more detail.

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6 More Prank Websites To Give You Ideas For Playing Practical Jokes On Your Friends

Nobody has said that April has the only reserved day for pranks. Thankfully, and for some, quite irksomely pranks are a year round activity. It can be embarrassing, it can be hilarious, it can be downright ugly too, but more often that if done tastefully, is sheer fun. That is, if you aren’t the subject of the prank.

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7 Travel Quizzes to Take & Improve Your Travel IQ

Surprisingly, travel quizzes aren’t that many on the web or it could be that Google Search failed me when I went ‘travelling’ for travel quizzes. Though the ones I found made me realize that there’s a big leap between one’s geographical IQ and travel IQ. Is that your story too? Take these seven travel quizzes and find out if you know your Timbuktu from Shangri-La.

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