11/26/2008 Manage & Collaborate Your Projects With OfficeZilla For those of you who are looking for a centralized place to manage your projects or to facilitate collaboration with your co-partners, then OfficeZilla could be what you are looking for. OfficeZilla is a free project management and collaboration site. It comes with a comprehensive suite of tools and resources that allow you to manage your [...] more info

11/26/2008 Resize MANY Images Quickly With Fotosizer & EasyThumbs I was helping a buddy of mine create his artist portfolio on the inter-webs. His digital pictures of his work were very large and would all need to be resized to thumbnails and medium sized images.  So today’s article is going to be a two for one. For this article we are working with Windows [...] more info

11/26/2008 Jarte : A Portable Replacement For Microsoft Notepad Last time, I showed you some new portable apps that have appeared on the PortableApps site but I have been looking for a long time for a portable MS Notepad replacement.   Sometimes, when I am using another computer, I like to be able to fire up a notepad-type program to type some quick notes and [...] more info

11/26/2008 Make Use Of Podcast #41: Facebook Award & Gifts for Geeky Kids This week, NASA installs its urine converter and Facebook is awarded hundreds of millions from a spammer. The podcast is available through iTunes so don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast if you have an iPod, or in another podcatcher if you have a different MP3 player. NASA’s space cup (see video below) Facebook wins record spam payout 17 [...] more info

11/26/2008 Cool Websites and Tools (edition #203) 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 even more app reviews subscribe to makeuseof directory. Want to submit your application to MakeUseOf directory ? See how here. (1) Bubbl.us - Free, web app for brainstorming online. [...] more info

11/25/2008 Extract Your Concert DVD Audio to MP3 With 4 Simple Tools For a couple of years now, I have been awaiting a decent, standalone, freeware program that can extract DVD audio tracks and convert them to audio mp3’s. There are dozens and dozens of trialware and shareware applications, but absolutely no decent freeware programs that get this done in a satisfactory manner. I only have a [...] more info

11/25/2008 P2P File Sharing From Within Your Browser With LittleShoot P2P file sharing involves downloading files from other users computers (as opposed to a central server) and then giving away a little bit of your bandwidth to other people who may be wanting the file you just downloaded or some other file being shared by you. I am sure you are well versed with the [...] more info

11/25/2008 5 CPA Alternatives To Adsense On Your Blog Or Website We all know about Google Adsense and the contextual power that it offers.    Meaning that you don’t have to do anything except insert the code and it will automatically determine the content of your page and serve relevant advertisements.   This is fine for websites with a wide variety of content that don’t really have the [...] more info

11/25/2008 Discover Music & Videos The New Way With Soundflavor Music is an indispensable part of our culture and with the internet we have almost instant access to a variety of genres and artists like never before. So is it any wonder that free music services flourish?  Are we saturated, yet? I don’t think so. Soundflavor combines well known music discovery formats with a few more [...] more info

11/25/2008 Clipperz - Online Password Manager (with Offline Option) Last week I had a catastrophic outage of my ADSL connection at home. If you think the word catastrophic is too strong then you don’t have teenage geeks in your house. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, send me your address, and I’ll forward the kids. C.O.D. Tonight. In any case, after waiting [...] more info

11/24/2008 Google’s Mobile iPhone App Takes Voice Recognition to a New Level Google’s overwhelming presence on the web has not overlooked the iPhone platform.  Almost as soon as the iPhone was released, Google put out several Apps to integrate their search features.  Now, Google’s latest contribution to the iPhone has topped all their previous attempts.  I give you Google Mobile with Voice Recognition [iTunes Link]. The new App [...] more info

11/24/2008 Kaltura Adds Video Management Capability To Your WordPress Blog If you are running a WordPress vodcast site, or you frequently post video content on your blog, wouldn’t it be great if you can upload, import, edit and create mash up of video/audio/photos right within your WordPress admin area? Kaltura is the first open source video platform for online video management, creation, interaction and collaboration. Recently, [...] more info

11/24/2008 Make Your Own Sticky Notes with Notepad (Windows) Someone had once remarked that simplicity is making the journey of life with just baggage enough. Sometimes, I try to apply the same axiom to my ‘soft aware’ life too. And that involves squeezing the maximum juice out of what’s available in my computer. One thing that has always been available since the last 20 years [...] more info

11/23/2008 Find Best Black Friday Deals NOW with BFads (Black Friday Ads) Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and all the geeks out there are patiently waiting to scram out of bed at 2am in the morning and get in line for the Black Friday Sale. Even after all the hair pulling, biting, scratching, and kicking involved in reaching the front of the line, all of [...] more info

11/23/2008 Latest Picks from MakeUseOf Geeky Fun Check out the top picks from MakeUseOf Geeky Fun during the last week. Thanks to everyone who emailed us the links. Please keep it up guys. 1. iPhone Shuffle 2. The Real Life Photoshop 3. The Matrix Runs on Windows (video) 4. Girl GO - New Maps & Directions Site from Google 5. The Naked Computer Man To keep up with [...] more info

11/23/2008 Bring Back Those Polaroid-ish Photos With Poladroid [Mac Only] I’ve recently started to take photography a little more seriously, like my colleague Jason. I bought a low-end dSLR and started snapping away, hoping to learn from my mistakes, develop my own techniques and individual angles. Only a few days ago, I was watching a BBC documentary “The Genius of Photography” and was introduced to [...] more info

11/23/2008 Make ‘Frets On Fire’ Even Better With Mods (Win/Mac/Lin) Frets on Fire is a rhythm game from the likes of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. It has been Mentioned on MakeUseOf a few times before (check out Kyle’s Rock Out For Free With Frets On Fire, or Abraham’s 10 Open Source Online Games For Kids. In short, Frets on Fire is a free, open-source, multi-platform [...] more info

11/23/2008 Make Use Of Podcast #40: Spoiling some movies A little geeky fun today and if you’re a movie fan you’ll get a real kick out of this one.  Be warned, though, there are a lot of spoilers in here. Play podcast below:   .muo_af_style { background-color: #B4D0E1; border: 2px solid #4275B8; } (By) Jason Mayoff is a dad, a tech geek and a Canadian radio broadcaster (CJAD [...] more info

11/23/2008 Cool Websites and Tools (edition #202) 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 even more app reviews subscribe to makeuseof directory. Want to submit your application to MakeUseOf directory ? See how here. (1) CityMelt - If you ever need to get [...] more info

11/22/2008 Locate the Best Cell Phone Coverage in Your Area With Signal Map Let’s face it, nothing drives you more nuts then a cell phone cutting out in the middle of your conversation. Worse yet, when you attempt to call them back, you have no coverage. All of this on top of the fact that your provider shows, according to their coverage map, that your area [...] more info

11/22/2008 Get Click Heatmaps for Your Website with ClickHeat Analytics are a great tool to use with any website or blog.  They help you understand where your traffic comes from and some of the ways that traffic behaves.  In the past, MakeUseOf has covered several ways to track all of your site’s statistics. Today, I’m going to tell you more about a free [...] more info

11/22/2008 5 Apps To Get More Out Of Your NEW Mac Sometime last year, you bought yourself an iPhone and then realised that a better user experience is indeed possible! So sometime this year, you took the next logical step and upgraded your PC to a Mac - perhaps a Mac Mini to start out small, or a laptop, or even a sexy 20″ iMac. Now [...] more info

11/22/2008 Organize Your Life With Springpad Springpad is an online personal organizer. It is structured as a notebook that you can use to keep track of your appointments, notes, photos, maps, to do list, plans, contacts and any kind of information that you can ever need and think of. Springpads or your notebooks can contain maps, lists, tables, events, alarms [...] more info

11/22/2008 Convert Those PDF’s To Word. Get That Text Back! Anyone who has been involved in the computer game for more than a little while knows what a PDF is. PDF is a file format that stands for Portable Document Format. A PDF is meant to be non-editable and the body of the document is an image and not editable, or selectable text. So if you [...] more info

11/22/2008 BREAKING: New Gmail Security Flaw. More Domains Get Stolen! As many of you already know on November 2nd, MakeUseOf.com’s domain was stolen from us. It took us about 36 hours to get the domain back. As we have pointed out earlier the hacker somehow managed to get access to my Gmail account and from there to our GoDaddy account, unlock the domain and [...] more info

11/21/2008 Codeflux’s Fast and Easy Internet Diagnostic Tools Many webmasters, network administrators, hackers, and other geek types use diagnostic tools to perform certain tasks. They often use a command line to run programs such as ping, traceroute, nslookup, whois, etc.  Codeflux has an Internet tools gateway that allows you to run such programs from the convenience of your web browser. The following tools [...] more info

11/21/2008 It’s Official - Change The Look Of Gmail With Colorful Themes Google boffins are starting to play with colors. The good thing is that now we can too! This Wednesday, Google rolled out a much awaited feature to Gmail. Bright, colorful, fantastic themes! I wouldn’t have caught it but for the little feed Google gives on the signing page. And lo and behold, just a little [...] more info

11/21/2008 Make Your Wordpress Blog iPhone Compatible with WPtouch Automattic, the company behind the Wordpress blogging platform, currently hosts over 4.5 million blogs. According to their download counter, they have served just over 3.1 million downloads of their self-hosted blogging software. With nearly 8 million blogs in the wild, it’s easy to see that many content publishers have embraced the platform’s ease of use [...] more info

11/21/2008 How To Make XP Look Like Windows 7 Just recently Laurence gave us a little preview of Windows 7 . It looks like it is going to bring major improvements, with the benefit of being just as pretty as Vista. Unless you decide to finally go OS or Linux (I put off Vista because I could not decide), Windows 7 will hopefully make [...] more info

11/21/2008 Make Use Of Podcast #39: Gmail Themes Gmail gave all its loyal users (and even the not-so-loyal ones) an early Christmas present yesterday: themes. You can now customize Gmail to your taste with 31 themes, including “terminal” for all you geeks out there - and you know who you are! Which theme is your favourite?  Let us know in the comments. .muo_af_style { background-color: #B4D0E1; [...] more info