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.
10 Educational History Podcasts To Subscribe & Listen To
A lot of us left history back in the classrooms. For some it made for ponderous reading. Thanks to the many history podcasts available for free on the web, listening to it is both entertaining and educational. Now, with the help of these ten history podcasts we try to combine the best of both worlds.
3 Great Sites That Help You Read Books By Email
Maybe the single most important reason for reading books by email is convenience. Come to think of it, when we spend most of our waking hours staring at a computer screen and reading all sorts of stuff like emails, tweets, social scraps, and feeds – why should books be left behind?
10 Animation Blogs That Inform, Teach, & Inspire
This post has been inspired by a child sitting in front of the television and refusing to budge while her favorite animation show plays on. Some years back that was me and perhaps you. The enduring magic of animation has caught our imagination and made childhood a fantasy world. Let’s see what happens behind the scenes with the help of these top animation blogs.
Make Your Text Editing Jobs Better With Dolphin Text Editor [Windows]
Dolphin Text Editor v1.6 is a lightweight Windows app that adds some functional extras to any Windows program that handles text. Sitting in the System Tray, it can be brought up with a hotkey and the text formatting commands applied on the selected text. Dolphin Text Editor is a free software (for personal use) and it runs on all Windows versions and all Windows software.
How To Link To A Specific Part Of A Webpage & Share It
What if you wanted to send someone a specific part or line of a webpage (instead of the entire page) as a link? A click on the link should then take the receiver directly to that specific part of the webpage. Citebite and Awesome Highlighter are the web apps that satisfy our double requirements of simplicity and utility.
5 Websites On Aircrafts & The History Of Flight
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines; that wasn’t just the title of the 1965 British comedy film but also the title that should be bestowed on those fearless men who managed the modern miracle of flight possible. Today, we take airplanes and flying for granted. But where it not for developments beginning early (in fact earlier) last century, we still would have been grounded on terra firma.
5 Websites for Self Improvement With Some Anonymous Feedback From Friends
The web lends itself quite well to anonymity. Visit a blog and you can rant or rave without disclosing your identity. Anonymous feedback (or any feedback) if constructive is a great tool for betterment of a service, or as we will see – an individual.
7 Websites For Pixel Art Tutorials And Creative Inspiration
If you stare at a computer screen, then you know what pixels are all about. On the computer screen or even on mobile ones, you would have come across pixel art. The popularity of pixel art is also well illustrated by the range of online pixel art creators that help you create some cool pixel art drawings.
5 Twitter Job Services For Some Real-Time Job Search
Twitter may not merit a serious look as a job hunting and recruitment tool. But that’s something a fresher or even an experienced professional will be ill advised to overlook. You can bet that when Twitter increasingly has the power to spread revolutions, it can be a vital ally of your job hunting campaign.
5 More Cool Google Based Games You Can Play for Fun
We might not notice them during the usual runs, but thanks to third party web apps or sometimes Google itself, Google’s services get a fun face. Some of the five fun tools mentioned below have some practical use too. But you can ignore the uses and just go and have some casual fun instead.
5 Interesting Historical Events Timelines That Show History As It Happened
Think of timelines as historical markers on a scale with dates. But though timelines may be just a plot of dates and events on a long bar, they have cultural significance; maybe not the timeline itself, but certainly the events placed on it. Timelines help us to understand change as it happens over the course of time. This bird’s eye view enables us to grasp the complexity of a trend over the course of history.
How To Find Similar Images Using Google's Image Search
Like all Google products, Google Image Search has continuously been tweaked and improved. The latest change comes to the Google Similar Images option. Google has put in a feature that now you can use to search for similar images across a single site.
10 Free Online Tools to Test Your Website Loading Speeds & Create Faster Webpages
Creating faster webpages is one of the commandments of great web design. The first step you can take to optimize your website is to put it through a speed test. These ten tools are few of the many which can help test loading speeds and give cues to create faster webpages.
10 Comic Blogs That Every Comic Book Fan Should Read
Comic books are probably the first things that help us to dream. Through the growing up years, comic books and the capers in them shield us from the harsher realities of the world outside, where there are no superheroes, adventurous reporters, or philosophical dogs. Even when we grow over to more adult forms of entertainment, the magic spell of comics remains.
Put Your Passwords Through The Crack Test With These Five Password Strength Tools
All of us have read a fair share of ‘how do I crack a password’ questions. It’s safe to say that most of them are for nefarious purposes rather than an inquisitive one. Breaching passwords is as common a sport as wild hunting used to be once. So, do you stay on the secure side and put careful thought into your passwords?
5 Ways To See Your Facebook Friends On A World Map
Facebook is now the world’s largest social network with more than 500 million users worldwide. Even if you have a fraction of that geographical spread in your friend list, it really helps to locate them visually on a map. It’s not just a fun visual fun tool but has some practical uses too.
How to Find & Participate in YouTube Contests
We have seen that there’s no better place to hold a contest than the social web. Like a lot of things on the web, contests too are viral. If they catch on, they spread like wildfire. Now, could there be a more viral medium than YouTube?
10 Cool & Interesting Web Applications On Fonts & Typography
I have always been intrigued by how thick and thin lines, angles and shapes can come together and form beautiful fonts. Just a shift of pressure on a stroke and you can get something entirely new. That’s the magic of typography. Typography is art in its truest sense, and the web has certainly made it more mainstream. Choosing the right fonts and a theme to go with it are joined at the hip when it comes to web design. The right combination gives us a web design that spells ‘wow’.
6 Places to Read Old Newspapers and Archived News Online
It might be old and stale, but dated news still has its uses. Does the image of a guy who keeps stacks of yellowing newspapers in his attic seem somewhat out of the ordinary? It might be an obsessive disorder, and rummaging around in that pile may not appeal to us, but that pile could be a storehouse of valuable information.
5 Sources For Special Symbols To Spice Up Your Online Chat & Messaging
We need symbols. We might have progressed through alphabets to cultured forms of languages, but the internet age has brought us right back to where we started off as cave dwellers. Complete or incomplete sentences are fine, but sometimes nothing expresses an emotion better than an emoticon or a symbol. There are lots of online places which do not support graphic symbols or picture emoticons. Facebook is a prime example. But that shouldn’t keep you away from communicating more warmheartedly.