Hittery - Awesome Custom Search Startpage (3)
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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 ...
How To: Integrate Google Calendar Into Thunderbird (9)
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Google Calendar is a great, if not the best available tool to share calendars. However, it’s tedious to edit and keep track of it via the web interface. In saving time, integration is your best friend. Naturally, there is a vast amount of addons and tools to sync, integrate and simply work more efficiently with Google Calendar. For example you can sync it with mobile devices like the Blackberry or iPhone using GoogleSync. Then you ...
JetPhoto - Photo Management App with Tons of Great Features (4)
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Even though I’m not much of a photo person, I do manage my photos. Mostly just collecting-grouping-tagging-retouching (using iPhoto), and resizing (using now not free anymore ImageWell) to be able to easily send to my friend or use the image for my blog. I also have a Flickr account but there was only 3 photos inside it. The reason: I personally thought that online photo management process was too troublesome for the happy-go-lucky-shoot-everything amateur photographer ...
How To Prepare Your Mac For Reinstallation (4)
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Reinstalling an operating system is probably one of the most vexatious procedures one can do on their computer. Firstly, it’s a lengthy process which require you to be in front of the computer but do nothing at the same time. Secondly, a lot of the time, users overlook many things that needed to be backed up before beginning. Hence, some data gets lost along the way and is usually unrecoverable. Using Time Machine would normally ...
DialAHuman: Avoid Answering Machines and Talk to Humans (2)
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Tired from automated answering machines? check out DialaHuman, it is a database of direct access phone numbers and tips on what combinations to press to get Human operators. You can browse database alphabetically or by service category. Features: Get direct phone numbers and combination tips to get to human support personnel. Browse company numbers alphabetically or by category ( finance, government, hardware, insurance, internet, pharmaceutical, shipping, software stores and more). Improve service by contributing a ...
rmbrMe: Create & Share Your Virtual Business Card Via SMS (1)
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Web service that lets you create an online business card and then share it via text messaging. You can easily customize your card, add personal details, images and social networking links. How does it work? 1. Register, verify your mobile number and then create your virtual business card. 2. Whenever you meet someone to whom you want to give you details. 3. Text his/her number or email address to 762763 4. He/She gets your bzCard ...
Share Your Firefox Data Across Operating Systems & Computers (6)
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Many of us prefer to dual boot our systems. It could be that we don’t want to completely move to Vista or it could be that we are trying out Linux along with Windows. Let’s face it, no matter which operating system you are using, you got to surf the web. It seems like a good idea if your browser automatically knew what you had bookmarked on the other operating system and you don’t have ...
Five Online Encryption Tools to Protect Your Privacy (8)
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My recent article on cloud computing has sparked quite a discussion about how realistic the scenario is, and how no one is going to use cloud computing as a standard way of working because it puts their privacy and security at risk. The truth is, everybody with a computer and internet access is already performing cloud computing. When in need for information, do you go to the library or do you use search engines and ...
Reduce Your PC Memory Usage With Minimem (6)
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Computer memory is in high demand as you play, err, work on your computer, and performance can take a big hit when it runs low. Control the programs that use more than their share of memory using the Windows program Minimem, which moves unused or unnecessary memory pages to the hard drive. I tried it on Firefox 3, Kallout, Windows Explorer, SpyBot Search and Destroy and a few other processes, most of which seemed to ...
Sawgi: Audio Version of YouTube (1)
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Sawgi is basically a Youtube where instead of music videos you have MP3 audio files that you can play play online or download and save to your computer. Sawgi aggregates Youtube music vids, converts them to MP3 audios and lets you search, stream and download pretty much anything you want. Features: Search, listen and download MP3 files you like. Download as much audio content as you want. Embed and share desired MP3s on your blog ...
ToAnswer: Get Answers to Your Questions through Twitter (1)
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ToAnswer is like Yahoo Answers for Twitter. It is a twitter mashup tool that lets you post your questions about anything to the Twitter audience. The questions then get indexed and other twitter users who know the answer could answer it. ToAnswer collates those answers and presents them to you in a simple readable format. How it works ? 1. Get a Twitter account 2. Follow ToAsk and ToAnswer profiles (and MakeUseOf ;-)). 3. Ask ...
SuperLame Word Balloon: Easily Add Speech Bubbles to Photos (2)
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We have previously discussed apps like Kyolo and Speechable which allow you to easily add speech bubbles to your photos. SuperLame Word Balloon Engine is another cool app which lets you add customized speech bubbles to your pictures and make them look funny and better. It has a nice user interface with initially an arrow pointing towards upload image if you haven’t uploaded an image. It is fast in uploading the image and then a ...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-useful-ubuntu-keyboard-shortcuts-that-you-might-not-know-of/ (20)
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Previously, Mark has covered some of the essential keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Firefox, Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Reader. In this post, we are going to look at some of the useful keyboard shortcuts for Ubuntu. For those who are not familiar with Linux, Ubuntu is one of the most popular and most widely used Linux distributions. Over the years that I have used Ubuntu, other than the usual Ctrl + C (copy) and Ctrl ...
Monitor your FriendFeed efficiently with Feedalizr (6)
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There are quite a few Adobe AIR applications on the Web right now that allow you to monitor your FriendFeed. The most commons ones that you may know about are Alert Thingy, Twhirl, Posty, and bTT by Sobees but now we have Feedalizr to add to the list. Among all of the FriendFeed applications I have tested out, Feedalizr is definitely one of the coolest and most unique. It allows you to post updates to ...
Watch Videos In The Firefox Sidebar With YouPlayer (28)
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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 ...
MakeUseOf Your iPhone: Palringo (3)
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Clearly iPhone users have a serious need for instant messaging. After the App Store launched it seemed like everybody and their brother created an AIM client (including the protocol’s creators, AOL). Since then, I’ve been looking through the list and sorting the good from the bad. As it turns out, the 3rd party developers really busted their butts and turned out some fairly impressive apps. Even the AOL-made app is solid. One app I like ...
Cool Websites and Tools (edition #169) (2)
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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) ArchiveSearch - Search news headlines from last week, last year, last century etc. This web app from Google that lets you search news archives and view the ...
TypoBuddy: Find Misspelled Items on Ebay & Craigslist (1)
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TypoBuddy is another website for bargain hunters. Using TypoBuddy you can search and find items that were misspelled on eBay and CraigsList, and get good deals (similar to previously profiled AuctionBloopers). This works especially well for designer products that aren’t so easy to spell. From the page: “Say you are looking to buy a Louis Vuitton wallet or perhaps an espresso maker. When you search for those things on ebay you’ll normally be in a ...
4 Stylish Scripts To Make Your Web Look Better (7)
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You’ll never see me driving around in a pimped out car, but tweaking the looks of my computer and everything on it is a whole different case altogether. When you surf around the web long enough, it will happen. It’s just a matter of time. Sooner or later you’ll arrive on this God awful website that’ll make you scream out in terror and hide beneath your desk. For some reason or another, some people just ...
