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How To Pin Files And Folders To The Windows 7 Taskbar

Microsoft has added some interesting new features to the taskbar in Windows 7. This includes the ability to pin programs to it and make use of jumplists to access program functions and...

Google Calendar Gets Three New Features

Google Calendar is a calendar application that is integrated into several other Google services like Gmail. A labs section is provided by for Google Calendar users that provides access to experimental features. The...

Old Internet Explorers Affected By Security Vulnerability

Microsoft has posted a security advisory about a new security vulnerability that is affecting older Internet Explorer , precisely Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft’s latest web browser Internet Explorer 8...

Rescue that infected Windows machine with Trinity Rescue

Sticking with our current theme of rescuing, we will now focus our magnifying glass another another useful Linux tool – Trinity Rescue Kit.TRK is another live Linux distribution, but with a different spin. Instead...

Twitter Starts Scanning Direct Links To Improve Security

Twitter has been targeted by users with malicious intents ever since it started to become increasingly popular. One of the biggest problems up to yesterday were direct messages which one Twitter user could...

MakeUseOf.com

Top 5 Internet Fraud & Scams Of All Time

If you’ve been using the Internet, and specifically email, for any length of time, then by now you’re most likely aware of most of the common email scams that exist online. Dean...

Manage External Drives’ Trash With Curb [Mac]

Nothing can put a bridle on information. Ever since the beginning of age, information is always on the move. It’s always multiplied, passed on, stored for a little while, then re-replicated and continued...

Test Your Writing Quality With These 8 Readability Web Tools

Readability is the quality of writing that makes it easy (or difficult) to read and understand. Ever since the web started stringing together HTML pages, readability acquired a different sort of importance. You...

MakeUseOf Must-Have Mac Apps Giveaway Day #9 – OmniFocus

OmniFocus is a great productivity app built on the basics of David Allen’s Getting Things Done system. It caters to a different kind of productivity user than the previous GTD giveaway app,...

Use Screencast To Manage & Share Your Media Files

A few of us writers here at MUO are pretty fond of the free screen capture application, Jing, because of its practical and time saving features and because, if you haven’t noticed,...

Download Squad

Goodbye, privacy: The entire UK set to go on Google Street View tomorrow

Filed under: Internet The UK is already one of the most-monitored Western countries. It has a record number of security cameras on the streets and public transport...

Unlimited Detail claims to leave current 3D technologies in the dust

Filed under: Games Unlimited Detail is definitely the most interesting technology demo I stumbled on today. In a nutshell: current 3D...

Street Fighter IV: an iPhone game earns the Street Fighter name

Filed under: Fun, Games, iPhone Get your tissues ready, gamers, because you're about to cry some big, sloppy tears of joy. Picture this: Capcom's...

DummyImage.com is the Lorem Ipsum of web images

Filed under: Developer, Web services DummyImage.com is a great time saver for web developers laying out a quick page. It receives arguments in the URL, and returns an image...

Aviary hops on Google Apps Marketplace bandwagon

Filed under: Design, Google, Web Aviary, makers of awesome web graphics applications which recently went free, have now started offering...

TechCrunch

Lucid Imagination Raises $10 Million For Apache Search Technology

Lucid Imagination, the startup that commercially distributes the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Shasta Ventures with Granite...

Opera Mini 5 Beta Now Available For Android

Sure, Opera Mini may (or may not) already be the most popular mobile browser in the world -- but why stop there? Following up on the Android release...

Whrrl 3 Wants To Kill Farmville. Not Foursquare. Not Gowalla. Farmville.

Pelago knows that just about every location-based app in the world is seeking coverage right now just prior to SXSW where they will all battle Highlander-style. So they approached...

doubleTwist’s iTunes Alternative (That Works With Android) Adds Podcast Support

Over the last six months, doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that lets you manage your music, videos, and photos, has really been stepping up its game. In October the...

Indiagames Partners With IPL And Facebook To Launch Social Cricket Games

Earlier this year, Google landed a "landmark" deal with Global Cricket Ventures, the licensing partner to the Indian Premier League (IPL), which would give them the so rights...

Techmeme Firehose

Pop-up Reminders in Google Calendar (Amit/Digital Inspiration Technology Blog)

Amit / Digital Inspiration Technology Blog: Pop-up Reminders in Google Calendar — Google Calendar now supports pop-up reminders just like your favorite ...

Google, Facebook Sued Over Mobile Sign-up Patent (Liz Gannes/GigaOM)

Liz Gannes / GigaOM: Google, Facebook Sued Over Mobile Sign-up Patent — A little-known white-label mobile social network company is suing Google...

RealNetworks' Rob Glaser on why Apple's model must be stopped (John Cook/TechFlash)

John Cook / TechFlash: RealNetworks' Rob Glaser on why Apple's model must be stopped — RealNetworks Chairman Rob Glaser has battled Apple...

Facebook Search Queries Jump 10% in February (Liz Gannes/GigaOM)

Liz Gannes / GigaOM: Facebook Search Queries Jump 10% in February — Facebook redesigned its site at the beginning of February, moving ...

FCC Former Chairman Says Agency Lacks Control Over Handset Makers (Tricia Duryee/paidContent)

Tricia Duryee / paidContent: FCC Former Chairman Says Agency Lacks Control Over Handset Makers — In an appearance this morning at a ...

Lifehacker

Remains of the Day: The Best Jobs in America Edition [For What It's Worth]

Step inside for lessons from the life of Albert Einstein, more snazzy HTML5 demos, and an infographic look at...

Deep Water Bath Fills Your Tub to the Brim [Stuff We Like]

A luxurious soak in the bathtub is that much better when you can sink all the way up to your chin. Use Deep...

Twice-Monthly Half Mortgage Payments Might Save You Money [Personal Finance]

Some financial planners advise making two half payments on your mortgage each month instead of one full sum. The idea is that homeowners will...

Google Reader Play: Fullscreen Playback of Popular/Recommended Reader Items [Google Reader]

Google Reader Play is a new Reader feature that plays a slideshow of cool items from around the web based on the stories you...

How to Skip Commercials in Windows 7 Media Center [Windows Media Center]

If you use Windows 7 Media Center to record TV, you'd probably prefer skipping commercials. After all, a big reason you record programs is...