Hittery - Awesome Custom Search Startpage (4)
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Those of you who have been reading MakeUseOf know that Google isn’t the only search search engine on earth. We have talked about some cool search engines to remember and also how you can create your own search engine with ROLLYO. Hittery is a new app which joins this league of websites. It isn’t a new kind of search engine but in fact a custom search dashboard with some unique features which could prove to ...
11 Productive Things To Do When You Can't Access The Net (33)
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Written on 8/28/2008 by Abhijeet Mukherjee. You can catch him at Jeet Blog where he blogs about different Web 2.0 apps and online tools and how they can help you become more productive.Photo Credit: noii'sFor many of us, the internet is a primary source of recreation and a critical part of everyday work. No matter how you use it, it's expected to be there - at all times.When the connection goes down, sadness quickly fills ...
Watch Videos In The Firefox Sidebar With YouPlayer (29)
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Who doesn’t love watching videos online ? Whether it’s a video of a recent live concert, your favorite song or a tutorial on something, you name it and you’ll find the video on the popular video sites. This is the reason why YouTube is one of the top 3 websites on the internet. It just seems to have all your favorite videos and hence you love spending time on it. YouPlayer is an innovative Firefox ...
10 Practical Tips To Move Your Blog From Obscurity To Stardom (9)
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Written on 8/22/2008 by Abhijeet Mukherjee. You can catch him at Jeet Blog where he blogs about different Web 2.0 apps and online tools and how they can help you become more productive.Photo Credit: tillwePopular blog search engine Technorati says that there are 175,000 new blogs born everyday and it is currently tracking 112.8 million blogs. Since spam dominates almost every kind of data related to the internet, you can safely assume that a huge ...
Newsflashr - Get All The News In One Place (1)
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Recently, there was a minor earthquake in Los Angeles and even before the news channels could broadcast the information, the news spread like wildfire through different mediums on the internet such as Twitter, social media sites and news aggregators. In fact breaking news is in itself a fully fledged business on the internet and a huge number of blogs and websites work around the clock to get the news to its audience. Consequently, there are ...
AceBackup - Free Advanced Backup Utility For Windows (9)
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If computers are an indispensable part of your life then I am sure you understand the value of data and what could be the consequences if you lose it. Whether it’s your picture files, music collection, videos, documents or any other form of data, you’ll know that if your operating system ditches you and the computer goes down, your data is lost too (unless you can afford to pay the data recovery firms to get ...
Browzmi: The Social Way To Explore The Web (6)
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Web 2.0 has enabled us to connect with people around the world easier than ever. Social networks such as MySpace and Facebook, sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Twitter have unraveled a new world and helped foster huge communities of internet users who work together when they are online. Browzmi is a web app which takes things a step further and intends to make the basic process of casual surfing on the internet an interactive and ...
Calgoo Connect (4)
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The availability of desktop calendars like MS Outlook Calendar and iCal and free online calendars like Google Calendar have certainly made managing schedules quick and easy. However when it comes to sharing and syncing calendars, there are still not many good solutions available which are free and convenient to work with. It’s not an easy task to share your calendars with friends, especially if you have a lot of them and they use different types ...
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Nice - this is exactly what I was looking for so I could sync my calendars up for my smartphone!
4 Cool Firefox Extensions To Capture Screens (16)
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If you are a blogger or a web content writer then I’m sure a screen capture tool is in the list of your must have tools for daily usage. With the help of a good screen capture tool you can generate screenshots relevant to your article and then put them in the post and publish it. And if you are a tech blogger like me then it becomes an almost indispensable tool. Apart from being ...
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not as cool as lifehacker, but I really like the posts on this site
Batch Rename Files in Windows With Style Using ReNamer (6)
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Let’s say you’ve got a bunch of pictures in your digital camera which you want to transfer to your PC and store them securely. When you transfer all the pictures you’ll find that the file names are a combination of letters and numbers which do not tell anything about the image. So what do you do ? Obviously renaming them is the solution. But doing it in the conventional way (one at a time) is ...
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This will go along way to helping me clean up my photo and MP3 collections...
5 Useful Google Calendar Tricks (11)
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Google Calendar is one of the best web based calendars and probably the most popular one too. It has a nice interface and comes with various features which help you to manage your daily schedule and stay up-to-date with the upcoming events. Here are 5 useful tips to help you make the most out of Google Calendar. 1. The Quick Add Feature The Quick Add feature makes adding schedules and events to the Google Calendar ...
6 Easy Ways Freelancers Can Save Money | Freelance Folder | A Blog For Freelancers And Web-Workers (27)
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Managing your money and expenses is usually just a matter of prioritizing and keeping track of things for most of us who are full time freelancers. Freelancing is not a ‘paycheck every two weeks‘ type of job. When you get a fixed income every month, it’s easier to plan things and manage your expenses. That’s not the case with freelancing where you can make get $50 today and a thousand next week from different clients. ...
Mobipocket - An Awesome ebook Reader Which is Free (5)
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I’m a big fan of ebooks and have a huge collection of ebooks on various topics. Although I don’t read them on my cellphone now but later in this year when I plan to travel extensively, I’d definitely like to have the access to my ebooks collection on my phone and read them on the go. While I was searching for ebook reading softwares online, I came across Mobipocket which is a free ebook reader ...
FlauntR : A Killer Online Image Editing Tool (12)
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There is no dearth of online image editing tools and we have already covered some of the most powerful ones and some more free image editing programs. Each of the tools try to distinguish them from the herd by including some eye-popping features and effects and thus try everything to emulate the ultimate software which exists for the purpose - Photoshop. But we know that an online image editing tool has its limitations and hence ...
Using AideRSS To Filter Your Google Reader Feeds (9)
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Google Reader is an excellent web-based RSS reader which has the ability to absorb hundreds of feeds and display them in your chosen format. However if you subscribe to a lot of feeds then you must be aware that it’s not easy to read them everyday and usually you’ll scan through them and mostly mark all as read when you can’t take the load. Enter AideRSS, a cool product to get the best RSS feeds ...
4 Awesome Tools To Save Pages For Reading Later | MakeUseOf.com (25)
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The advent of Web 2.0, blogs and various social networking sites has ensured that there is an ever increasing flow of information which is not possible to consume in one go. There are millions of websites on the internet and if you are an internet addict like me, you would easily come across hundreds of those sites every month. Some of them capture your attention while you skip the others after a glance. Also there ...
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For all of us tab addicts out there, tools like these can be helpful.
7 Unmissable Tips For Writing Great Content For The Web (22)
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If you think that every Tom, Dick and Harry can publish content on the web then you know what - you are absolutely right. Publishing is easy when we have services like blogger and wordpress that allows you to create a blog and start publishing your thoughts within minutes. It’s so easy, it’s not even funny. However, not everyone can create appealing content that captivates readers and that sometimes goes viral and gets traffic or ...
7 Google Docs Templates Which You’d Love (21)
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Google Docs has announced the inclusion of various pre-designed templates for spreadsheets, documents and presentations. It’s certainly a great addition and Google Docs has now become more useful than ever. Now when you want to create a resume, monthly budget planner or a photo album in Google Docs, you don’t need to sit and start from scratch. You can just choose from the 300+ templates available and create the document right away. While I was ...
