09/08/2010 Cool Websites and Tools [September 7th] Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory. List Your Website Here! SpiceWorks – There are several tools that let you manage and monitor your network but [...]     more info

09/08/2010 Check Out MakeUseOf’s New T-Shirt! Sales are brisk at the MakeUseOf T-Shirt store and so we have decided to expand on our selection a little bit by offering a new design.   This is one for all of our Linux and Mac fans out there! The “Tux Pad” shirt shows the Linux penguin holding an Apple iPad.  The shirt is a [...]     more info

09/07/2010 Convert Any File To PDF Format Using Nitro Reader [Windows] PDF files have been the ubiquitous file format for sharing documents, thanks to their ability to lock down the layout & formatting of the document and the tiny file size.  Adobe Acrobat has a hefty price tag that runs into many hundreds of dollars, so as awesome as PDF files are, creating them [...]     more info

09/07/2010 How To Tweak Your Facebook Places Security Settings Have you heard of Facebook Places yet? (Facebook’s announcement)  Places is basically the new ability to use Facebook to share with your friends where you are.  It’s kind of like FourSquare but it’s integrated into Facebook. It’s cool because you can tell your friends where you happen to be in case they want to join you.  [...]     more info

09/07/2010 Hot Tech Deals [Sep 7th] If you’re in the market for a new computer, laptop, mobile phone, games and other accessories; don’t waste your time searching online. We’ve taken the liberty of locating the best tech deals and unifying them into a single post for your convenience. For more fresh hot deals, visit our Hot Tech Deals page, which is constantly [...]     more info

09/07/2010 Document Your Life & Improve Your Photography Skills With Shuttercal Taking daily photos is a great way to create a visual history of your life. As time goes by, you can look back at some of the places you have been and experiences you have had. On top of all that, you will get more use out of your camera and improve your photography skills. The [...]     more info

09/07/2010 3 Great Websites To Learn About Art And Its History Visual arts affect almost all of our experiences on a daily basis. It influences the photographs we see in magazines, the ads on billboards, the colors of the latest trend in fashion, the designs of the buildings that surround us and even labels in the products we buy. Art can empower revolutions, like the famous [...]     more info

09/07/2010 Manage Your Fonts With The Fonts Panel & Font Book [Mac] If there’s an award for the most important yet neglected element of every operating system, I think fonts would at least make it to the top three of the nominations. We run into and use them all the time, but most of us never really pay attention to them. We just accept the fonts as [...]     more info

09/07/2010 5 Extensions To Add Calendar & Task Manager To Thunderbird 3 Thunderbird is Mozilla’s desktop email client. It’s free, it’s open source, and it supports add-ons. However, in its default version it is just another desktop client. What really breathes life into Thunderbird is its ability to be personalized with themes, extensions, and plugins. Is your Thunderbird ready for a custom makeover? Per default, Thunderbird does not come [...]     more info

09/07/2010 The Four Google Chrome Extensions For Easier Online Reading While the Internet is a great source of information, the information sometimes isn’t displayed in the best fashion. Web content is usually supported by advertising, and that’s fine – except ads can sometimes be distracting. Font and style choices can also be a problem. A poor combination of background and text can make it impossible [...]     more info

09/07/2010 Cool Websites and Tools [September 6th] Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory. List Your Website Here! Drag-and-Drop Ruler – Web developers often make use of installable rulers that reveal how tall [...]     more info

09/07/2010 Top 5 Sites For Video Game Deals & Bargains Gaming just doesn’t come cheap these days. Titles can run upwards of $60 each for new releases. Add in the cost of monthly subscription fees, various accessories, plus those pricey consoles to actually play the games of course, and you’re looking at a pretty serious hit to your wallet. No doubt about it, playing video games [...]     more info

09/06/2010 The Best TED Talks To Make Use Of Social Media If you’re reading this article it means you’re probably a regular internet user, you’re probably at least a little bit geeky and you’re looking to find the best ways to make use of stuff on the internet. Normally, you’re looking for tool x to solve problem y, but sometimes you want to think bigger. How [...]     more info

09/06/2010 Create, Survive & Fight In The Online Game Minecraft Minecraft is a unique game that can’t easily fit into one genre. It’s sort of a first-person creation game — the main draw is that you can shape the world by building and destroying blocks. But the game also includes a survival mode and a multiplayer mode, and there are plans to include still more [...]     more info

09/06/2010 Hot Tech Deals [Sep 6th] If you’re in the market for a new computer, laptop, mobile phone, games and other accessories; don’t waste your time searching online. We’ve taken the liberty of locating the best tech deals and unifying them into a single post for your convenience. For more fresh hot deals, visit our Hot Tech Deals page, which is constantly [...]     more info

09/06/2010 15 Of The Coolest Stop Motion Videos On YouTube Oren Lavie’s music video for Her Morning Elegance has over 14 million views and rightfully so. It is one of the best examples of how beautifully the stop motion technique can be used to create a video. Originally used as a means of bringing clay animation to the screen, photographers and artists have taken the [...]     more info

09/06/2010 5 Websites To Buy Strange & Unique Tech Gifts For A Student Do you know a geeky college student for whom some regular old dorm furniture or school supplies just won’t suffice as gifts? Would this geeky college student instead appreciate a strange and unique tech gift like a walking robot pencil sharpener? Look no further. There are plenty of sites where you can find the perfect gift [...]     more info

09/06/2010 10 Websites To See What HTML5 Is All About HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the most widely used markup language today. Tags, elements and angle bracket with a bit of help from CSS forms the building block of all that you see around on the World Wide Web. It has been nearly 20 years since HTML started defining how we ’see’ the web. Now, it’s [...]     more info

09/06/2010 Free One Time Password Generators For iPhone, Android & Other Devices One Time Password (OTP) tokens are typically considered the ultimate in useful consumer login security. They are a key part to using a Two-Factor Authentication system which drastically increases the security of a login from a typical username/password single factor system. The username/password security scheme is considered very insecure for a number of reasons including ease [...]     more info

09/06/2010 Effortless Disk Partition Management with Paragon Hard Disk Manager With its easy to follow step by step wizards, Paragon Hard Disk Manager makes it a cinch to address all of your hard drive maintenance needs – from partitioning, to back up and restore, migration, system recovery and much more. Paragon is the ideal option for advanced users, and with its easy to follow instructions [...]     more info

09/06/2010 Cool Websites and Tools [September 5th] Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory. List Your Website Here! OhLife – If you have been procrastinating on writing a daily journal, OhLife might just [...]     more info

09/06/2010 Thank You To MakeUseOf Friends! It’s time to say thanks to MakeUseOf’s friends who, once in a while, tip us great story ideas, help out on different projects and in some cases offer their services at discounted prices. Thank you, guys!ShrinkTheWeb – Website Screenshot Thumbnail ServiceEver wanted to add website screenshots to your website? In my professional opinion ShrinkTheWeb is [...]     more info

09/05/2010 Daniusoft Double Giveaway Winners Today, over 60 people have been gifted with free licenses for commercial apps worth over $1500 in total (not including the mini-giveaways we have on Facebook. Isn’t MakeUseOf awesome? Here are the winners for Daniusoft’s double giveaway:Stephen Knooren Reid Sigmundson Linu George Rigoberto Garcia Damien Thorn Tristan Jeff Brisbois Devin Ahmad Dani YottClick on for the DVD Creator for Mac winners.Vi Nguyen Daniel Rampelt Roderick Chu Gabriel [...]     more info

09/05/2010 360Amigo System Speedup Giveaway Winner Looking for an easy way to clean out and speed up your Windows system? Look no further. We’ll be dishing out 20 free 1-year licenses for 360Amigo System Speedup. Read our review here. Now, here are the 20 lucky people who will be experiencing a leaner, meaner, faster system.Michael Lynton Scott Biggs Omer Vidavsky Joey Leus Randy WilliamsRay Taaffe Jerril George Wayne [...]     more info

09/05/2010 Hot Tech Deals [Sep 5th] If you’re in the market for a new computer, laptop, mobile phone, games and other accessories; don’t waste your time searching online. We’ve taken the liberty of locating the best tech deals and unifying them into a single post for your convenience. For more fresh hot deals, visit our Hot Tech Deals page, which is constantly [...]     more info

09/05/2010 10 Free MP3 Albums To Download [Sound Sunday] This edition of Sound Sunday features the music for a new season. September to me has always carried a serene atmosphere: the end of a busy summer, the final warm days of the year, and falling leafs as nature prepares for cold winter days. The perfect time for an ambient, instrumental, chillout, electronic music special. Enjoy, [...]     more info

09/05/2010 What’s Your Favourite Tech Blog ? [MakeUseOf Poll] In last week’s poll, we asked you what you thought of the new DIGG. Sadly for DIGG, it seems most people aren’t impressed. Out of 312 votes in total, it seems only 8% actually like the new DIGG, while 29% voters were indifferent about it. Against the new DIGG, we have 17% screaming “WTF?” and a [...]     more info

09/05/2010 Cool Websites and Tools [September 4th] Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory. List Your Website Here! DealItem -There are some excellent sites out there that bring awesome deals, bargains and coupons [...]     more info

09/05/2010 Top 5 Websites with Fun and Insightful Psychological Tests I intend to open up to you the corners of the internet that can help tap into the darkest corners of your own mind. Last month, I brought you the best optical illusions on the web, which tested how your mind manipulates your perceptions, and now I bring you some of the web’s best psychological [...]     more info

09/04/2010 Money-saving App Ookong Debuts for Safari and Updates Chrome Extension Ookong is a free application that helps you find the best deals on Amazon, and it’s so useful that I’ve mentioned it in two of my previous articles about saving money when shopping online (3 Useful Firefox Add-ons To Help Save You Money and 3 Google Chrome Extensions to Save $$$ When Shopping Online).  The [...]     more info

09/04/2010 Hot Tech Deals [Sep 4th] If you’re in the market for a new computer, laptop, mobile phone, games and other accessories; don’t waste your time searching online. We’ve taken the liberty of locating the best tech deals and unifying them into a single post for your convenience. For more fresh hot deals, visit our Hot Tech Deals page, which is constantly [...]     more info

09/04/2010 Gmail’s Priority Inbox Solves The Bacn Problem I don’t need to explain my love for Gmail; it’s well-stated. It provides the best interface, in my opinion, for interacting with email. And it keeps getting better. The service recently added free phone calls from your browser. It long ago made spam a thing of the past, something other email services have now almost caught [...]     more info

09/04/2010 10 Cool Full Length Amateur Movies on YouTube The art of the short film may be the most underrated film style today, although with our 21st century attention spans, they are the ideal way to pass 5 or 10 minutes of spare time. YouTube is brimming with both amateur and award winning short films in every language imaginable. The movies will make you laugh, [...]     more info

09/04/2010 Speck CandyShell iPad Case Giveaway Winners Yes, yes. Our very first Speck giveaway has ended. Have we mentioned that we’re so fortunate to be joined by such a marvellous team? Check back every few weeks or so, we’re gonna have lots of goodies to offer! But for now, let’s find out who won themselves a brand spanking new CandyShell iPad case! And the [...]     more info

09/04/2010 Cool Websites and Tools [September 3rd] Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory. List Your Website Here! vReveal – Here is one free video editor that you should check out. vReveal is [...]     more info

09/04/2010 Latest Hilarious Picks [MakeUseOf Geeky Fun]   Check out the top picks from MakeUseOf Geeky Fun during the last week.The Touch Screen Haters Club (Pic) If Websites Were Pets (Pic) Music Piracy Before Computers (Pic) This Applies To 99.9% Of Albums. (Pic) Geek Wedding Invitation (Pic) This is how I feel about buying apps (Pic) Be Careful When Using Google [...]     more info

09/04/2010 The 5 Best Questions From You [MakeUseOf Answers] Are you a wiseguy? You may be just what we need at MakeUseOf Answers. This week’s prize for Best Answer of the Week goes to Dave for the answer to this question: “Where can I buy the best digital camera?” Congratulations! Could you use some extra cash in your pocket? Help us solve questions. No sign up [...]     more info

09/03/2010 Join MakeUseOf On Twitter! If you have discovered MakeUseOf just recently and are one of our 300,000+ subscribers, consider following us on Twitter as well. You’ll be notified everytime there is a new post on the MakeUseOf Blog, a web app review on the MakeUseOf Directory or something new on Geeky Fun. Plus, we would love it if you would re-tweet [...]     more info

09/03/2010 6 MORE Best Web Design Blogs You Haven’t Heard Of Not that long ago I wrote a post entitled 6 Best Blogs To Follow If You Are A Web Designer. The premise behind the article was to try to narrow down what was otherwise an abundance of great web design information floating around in cyberspace. It featured some of the most prominent blogs in the [...]     more info

09/03/2010 Hot Tech Deals [Sep 3rd] If you’re in the market for a new computer, laptop, mobile phone, games and other accessories; don’t waste your time searching online. We’ve taken the liberty of locating the best tech deals and unifying them into a single post for your convenience. For more fresh hot deals, visit our Hot Tech Deals page, which is constantly [...]     more info

09/03/2010 What Is Lorem Ipsum & Where Did It Come From? [In Case You Were Wondering] If you have ever searched for a Wordpress theme before, you will have probably noticed that some theme designers use some weird text when showing off their themes which looks like Latin.  I have always wondered what it was, why designers choose to use it and where it came from. After a bit of research I [...]     more info

09/03/2010 10 Environmental Games That Teach Kids About Earth, Ecology & Conservation It has often been said that the kids of today will inherit the Earth of tomorrow. It will surely be one where the challenges of climate change and environmental conservation will be stiffer. With the right eco-education, we can hope they will hit the ground running. A lot of schools and educational institutions are doing their [...]     more info

09/03/2010 Easily Manipulate Text Chunks and Lists with CleanHaven If you work with lots of text-based documents, including emails, web content, lists, phone numbers and HTML code, you might occasionally need to clean up randomly ordered text, convert the case of titles, or strip away extra spaces and word duplications. When it comes to cleaning up longer pieces of text, it can be tedious [...]     more info

09/03/2010 How RSS Bandit Can Feed You Everything You Need Online Recently, I’ve been suffering from major “app” overload. At one point in the past month, I had Digsby alerting me with Facebook and Twitter updates, Firefox plugins alerting me with Gmail updates, and I used Google Reader to check for updates from my favorite blogs. Between social networks, email and blogs, that pretty much sums up [...]     more info

09/03/2010 Vimperator – A Hardcore Firefox Add-On For Minimalists Firefox used to be considered the fastest of web browsers. It is still very well respected, and used by millions of people. However, the release of Chrome has made Firefox feel a little bulky. The browser doesn’t navigate pages as quickly and the stock interface takes up noticeably more display space. If you’re thinking of switching to Chrome, [...]     more info