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About Saikat Basu

After removing the grime of an MBA and a ten-year long marketing career, Saikat dabbled in web development, networking, and SAP. He has been a former editor of several MakeUseOf sections since 2008. He is a legacy contributor now with a special interest in productivity methods and iOS. You will also find his contributions in web publications like GuidingTech, GoSkills, OnlineTechTips, and Lifewire. 

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10 Awesome OneNote Tips You Should Be Using All the Time

Microsoft OneNote is just as good as Evernote. OneNote is the digital equivalent of a binder, giving you more organizational control. We show you effective note-taking tweaks you'll love.

How To Play With Outlook.com Without Giving Up On Gmail

I don’t think you will be changing over from Gmail to Outlook.com too soon. Definitely not brand loyalty, but certainly our email habits which makes that change just a future prospect. Gmail is great by every stretch of the imagination. But even then, you can take Outlook.com for a drive around town without making Gmail feel like a partner you left for a new lover.

Organize Yourself with AllMyNotes Organizer Deluxe Edition [Giveaway]

Information is pretty much digital these days. To manage all that digital information, you need a good information organizer. AllMyNotes Organizer is a solution you should consider for storing all your ideas, notes, financial entries, address book contacts, records, and passwords. We're giving away 30 copies of AllMyNotes Organizer Deluxe valued at $1020, plus we're also giving away an unlimited number of special builds for the first 3 days of this giveaway!

8 Ways to Make Sure a Link Is Safe Before You Click It

Hyperlinks as we all know are the strands that make up the web. But just like the spiders, the digital web can trap the unsuspecting. Even the more knowledgeable among us click on links which are potentially harmful. You really cannot control you clicking, because that’s how the whole business of browsing happens. What you can control is making sure that the link or webpage you are clicking through to is as safe as a mother’s lap, and not a malware infested demon lying in wait.

Curiosity Has Landed - 5 Ways You Can Follow What The Mars Rover Is Up To

Let’s rejoice because Curiosity overcame the eight months space hop and the seven minutes of terror to land safely on Mars. Now, it will go about its business of finding out if Martians really exist…or at least their microbial forms. The car-sized super-advanced robot on wheels will search for extra-terrestrial organic clues of life. Its two year mission could give us a few clues to the second biggest question of all time – are we alone out here?

Create Your Own Web Comics & Memes With These Free Tools

You too must have enjoyed a comic or two. You too must have dreamt up comic book characters of your own. If Stan Lee could create an entire universe of super-humans, our childhood imaginations could too. Maybe then we only had our foggy flights of fancy. Now, we have a legion of comic book tools. So let’s see how you can create your own web comics with free tools, and also its more digitalized cousin – the Internet meme.

4 Free Tools For Online Video Editing

Video editing online has helped to turn everyone into armchair filmmakers. Here are the best five editors on the web.

The Top 7 Places To Learn The Art Of HDR Photography

Welcome to the art and craft of HDR. High Dynamic Range Imaging is an image-processing technique that allows you to represent a wider and deeper range of colors. The clarity and detail in the photos that comes from the HDR treatment is eye-popping. The good thing is that you can do your own quite easily and enchant the world. These ten websites tell you just how.

10 Programming Languages You Probably Never Heard Of

There are some very strange and bizarre programming languages which have turned logic on its head and have still managed to stay true to the science of communication with a computer. You are going to hear about ten programming languages you probably never heard of.

How The Heck Did I Take That Photo?! Checking Picasa For Camera Settings

One of the more hands-on ways to learn about the art and science of photography is by looking at photos and the data that comes with it. The data that comes embedded (usually) with every digital photograph is called EXIF. The good thing is that the data is easily viewable and understandable. Both of these give us the best ‘learning tool’ for photography.

Write In Peace With These Distraction-Free Editors

I have felt it. Visual clutter – thanks to menus and other markup features – have often cemented my writer’s block. So, I have tried out quite a few distraction-free text editors in a grand attempt to chip away. And yes, I have won a few battles with the minimalist text editors by my side. So, here am I rounding up the Magnificent Ten.

5 Computer Science Awards That Show Us The Future Of Technology

They are not the Oscars or the Grammy’s. Heck, they aren’t even the Webbies or the Appy Awards for the man on the street. But just like the relatively obscure names you might have encountered in the list of 10 Famous Geeks Who Changed The World, the computer science awards on this list are doing their own quiet bit to promote innovation and invention.

9 Blogs That Will Make You Into An Amazing Photographer

There's blogs which try to cover everything related to photography; there's specialized blogs that dive into the niches; there's blogs which only talk about gear, and there's blogs by talented photographers.

6 Fresh Crowdsourced Sites For Learning And Sharing Knowledge

Sharing knowledge is just another side to the great classless spirit that finds space on the web. We have seen earlier how crowdsourcing web services have tapped the power of collective wisdom for the betterment of all. So, why not tap into some fresh new crowdsourcing sites that help us share knowledge?

6 Online Recipes Measurement and Conversion Calculators for Great Cooking

As an amateur “chef” who is just about warming up the frying pan, I really need to get the right amount into the recipes for lip-smacks and compliments. The difference could be a pinch of salt. Well, we can always fall back on kitchen tools that help us get it just right. Here I am in search of online kitchen converters.

3 Fast, Clean, & Efficient Online Image Optimizers To Shrink Your Images

As a blogger and a normal guy who is running out of space on his hard drive, I am always on the lookout for a good image compression program. Thanks to the plethora of image editing apps available on the web, I am spoilt for choice. What I am looking for are fast, clean (i.e. uncluttered), and efficient image optimizers that are dead simple to use. I have found three so far.

10 Tips to Help You Use TweetDeck and Twitter More Efficiently

If we have to actively use social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+, we have to be efficient at them. We have to streamline them so that we can mine a blink-and-you-miss source like Twitter for information.There are little things you can do around Tweetdeck to make it more efficient for you.

8 Websites to Find DIY & Home Repair Tips

As your new home starts to grow on you, you develop an obsession to keep everything perfect…every nail, every fleck of paint in its right place. But things go wrong, and with time the plumbing starts to leak or the plaster shows a crack. There are handymen around for home repair of course, but just sometimes a work of love needs a DIY approach.

K-9 Mail - The Best Alternative Email Management Solution For Your Android [1.5+]

The great thing about Android is that there usually are alternatives to be found that address the shortcomings of one program. Google Play gave me the rather un-mail like name of K-9 Mail. But from first impressions, it seems that it’s capable of torpedoing any deficiencies in my mobile email management.

4 Amazingly Impressive HTML5 Web Comics

Here are some prototypes that are cool examples of what HTML5 can do to make our comic strip experience a lot more engaging. This article showcases some of these early efforts. While HTML5 may or may not be a Flash-killer, the telltale signs (and Apple) say that HTML5 could definitely be a productivity killer!

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