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4 Portable Application Sites & Suites You May Not Know About
At MakeUseOf, we have provided you with countless articles on perfecting your USB flash drive with portable applications. If you've yet to see our Best Portable Apps page, you need to give it a look. Portable software can really change the way you work and enjoy your personal Internet experience. I don't go anywhere without 16GB of portable goodness on me. It's as essential as my keys or wallet.
6 Websites That Will Bring You Back To The '90s
Oh, man. I may have a biased opinion, being born in '89, but were the '90s not incredible? Nostalgia just drives me nuts and the '90s felt like the peak of music, movies, gaming, and the blossoming of the Internet. Maybe that's just reminiscing and wishing I was still a kid, but I know some of you agree with me, right? Vanilla Ice, Nickolodeon, Super Nintendo, pop music, less-corporate Internet; how could you not love that?
Review: What's New In Minecraft 1.2 [MUO Gaming]
With snapshots being released on an every-other-day basis, Minecraft 1.2 is right around the corner. Looking at the list of updates cited on the official Minecraft wiki, it seems like this update is quite sizable in comparison to 1.1. March's eventual update should leave many happy and few disappointed, with mob AI updates, new creatures, varying new item drops, and more.
Is Minecraft Really That Great? [Opinion]
Minecraft is quite possibly the most viral and addictive indie game that we've ever come to see. Who knew that a concept as elementary as playing with toy blocks could become such a sensation? I play it, you or your friends probably play it, and more than 20 million people worldwide have legally purchased an account. Are we overrating this game though? Is Minecraft getting a little too much credit?
Emulating & Playing Classic SNES Games On The PC With ZSNES
In my opinion, the Super Nintendo was the greatest gaming console that ever existed. Boasting titles like Chrono Trigger, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, EarthBound, Final Fantasy III, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Super Punch-Out, F-Zero, Star Fox, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, and more, is it really hard to see why?
Bring Sticky Notes To Your Deskop With Hott Notes [Windows]
Through the use of sticky notes, I feel like I've been able to just about double my daily productivity. Being able to have physical reminders that nagged for certain tasks to be completed was a real help when I used pen-and-paper notes. The days of pen and paper are over though, and I'm at my computer a lot more often than I am at a work desk. Eventually, I found that pinning notes to my desktop was just as effective a strategy.
UniBall: Free 2D Space Soccer & Hockey Game [Windows]
UniBall (formerly X-Pong) has been around since the 1990's and remains one of the longest running and unchanged, completely free online MMOs on the Internet. The game was partially created by a current PopCap developer and was loosely modeled after ARC. If you've ever played HaxBall, it's very similar but much more dynamic and competitive. It's a little bit more similar to SubSpace Continuum's Hockey Zone.
3 Tools To Help Create & Edit Minecraft Skins
Minecraft made the jump to 1.1 recently and still (unofficially) holds on to the title of the most successful and addictive, single-player indie and MMO game that we've seen in a long, long time. I'm addicted to it right now and if you aren't then it's only because you haven't played it or you haven't played the right server. There's one out there for you.
Get Desktop RSS Update Notifications With Feed Notifier [Windows]
I work online, and when the Internet is your workplace then you know things move fast. You've got to keep up with trends and you've got to be on the ball or you might miss out on opportunities, excitement, or (in my case) money. Feed Notifier does a fantastic job of delivering RSS notifications more effectively than any software I've used. It doesn't matter if you're an entrepreneur or just someone who likes to keep up to date with the news.
How to Automatically Join IRC Servers and Channels With HydraIRC
Last week, I made my attempt at welcoming newbies to the wonderful world of Internet Relay Chats. This week, we're going to step things up to the next level for those of you who have decided that HydraIRC belongs in your taskbar. If you're anything like me, you feel it's necessary to be in 50 different channels at once. It's time for you to learn how to save yourself a lot of time at every startup.
Chat on IRC Like It's 1995 With HydraIRC [Windows]
You may be taking your Skype instant messaging and video calls or your iPhone FaceTime for granted, but way back before the standalone IM client was even an idea, there was one major solution: IRC (Internet Relay Chat). There are a lot of multi-IM clients that support the IRC protocol, but nothing really beats the efficiency and oldschool feel of a standalone chat client.
3 Websites to Find Software Compatible With 64-Bit Operating Systems
Chances are, those of you who are buying a brand new computer in the next year will be getting your hands on something running a 64-bit operating system. x64 has its pros and cons, but it is the future. Not even the strongest personal complaint about software incompatibility is going to be enough to bring technology to a halt! Here are three solutions that ought to put you on to some brand new, 64-bit compatible goodies.
My 3 Favorite & Easiest Ways To Download Videos Off The Web
It seems that every year a promising new video service emerges (most recently, perhaps Vevo) and another hits the dust (most recently, MegaUpload/MegaVideo). As the trend continues, we storage junkies must adapt. We've talked a lot on this subject in the past, but I'm confident that you'll find my ways to be the easiest and most effective. Storing remote video content locally is a challenge no more.
4 Sites to Find Interesting New Startups and Betas to Join
Through the caverns of the Internet, I've managed to get put on rather quickly to some of today's hottest Internet startups such as ifttt, Instagram, and turntable.fm. Startups and betas are as popular as they've ever been, but until recently, it's been pretty tough finding these little guys in the wide space of the Internet.
How To Safely & Easily Update Your Video Card Drivers
Hunting for device drivers isn't such a task anymore, anyway. Most of your Windows drivers will never need to be touched right out of the box. Your video card is in its own sacred territory though. Video card drivers are updated more frequently than, for example, your network card's drivers. Updating your video card drivers can show a huge performance boost across your system, as well. Keeping these drivers up to date is quite essential if you're a gamer.
5 Must-Have Bukkit Plugins For Your Minecraft Server
Don't worry, things definitely haven't changed since a week ago when I shared how to use ModLoader to easily install mods to your Minecraft client. Minecraft is still a phenomenon. Notch is still considered to be a genius. The game is still going strong as the greatest indie title of all time. Let's all gasp now. One thing that is going to be changing, though, is my vantage point.
The Best 3 Private Torrent Trackers That You Should Be Invited To
Just like the good old Napster days though, public torrent sites and trackers are riddled with trojans and other garbage. The best way to enjoy your filesharing experience is getting an invite to one of the many (but few illustrious) private trackers. While invite-only web is becoming a slight trend, I'm here to share three niche-specific and very reliable private sites that I use to get my complete media fix. Let's get started.
4 Crazy Websites All About Crazy Food
Although you can find pictures and news on just about anything online, as of recently I've become more of a "foodie." It's not much of a secret that we, here in America, are big on food. It's slowly becoming more of a trend online though, and people worldwide are becoming more interested in seeing others' crazy edible creations.
5 Sites To Find Fun And Free Massively-Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs)
Though possibly the most popular, the world of MMOs spans far beyond the realms of Everquest and World of Warcraft. There are hundreds to thousands of well-developed and even free online games for you and all of your friends to enjoy. You've just got to know where to look. So I'm here to share five MMO directories that I've had plenty of luck with in narrowing doing the choices.
Send Text Messages From Your iPhone/iTouch or Desktop With Textfree
One of my biggest pet peeves is having to constantly check through text messages while I'm on my desktop or laptop at my desk. I've always thought it was be so much easier to have texts forward to one of my instant messengers, but a concept like that doesn't exactly exist (or at least not to my knowledge). We've shed light before on how you can replace your texting plan with a few free apps, but Textfree from Pinger really goes a step beyond that.