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.
Latest Articles
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.