Ink & Virtue

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) Car Performance - Track your car´s fuel consumption [...]

RSS feeds have become the de facto standard for delivering massive amounts of content in a very simple to read and simple to understand format. Any website delivering daily, weekly or even monthly updates, and lacking a ‘Really Simple Syndication’(RSS) feed, just isn’t delivering what is becoming the most popular form of delivery. Along with [...]

For the environmentally-conscious reader, Digital-magazine store Zinio is currently offering free subscriptions to select publications as part of its “Read Green Initiative.” There are several magazines to choose from in many categories. The sign up process is very simple: just select your magazine and provide an email address, then sign up for a Zinio account [...]

For my MakeUseOf articles I’m constantly resizing images so that they will fit into our page template.  As a result, I go through a lot of repetitive actions with GIMP, the free image editing program.  After a quick Google search, I found a powerful tool to help me save a ton of time by batch [...]

New games come out all the time, old games don’t. Seems logical doesn’t it? Well, we tend to lose contact with the old days, the days of the games that brought the genre to what it is today. Days when they didn’t bury you under a ton of shooter games. I’m not going to say that I [...]

There’s nothing quite like a nicely framed photograph. Ideally we’re talking about some classy wood and quality glass.  If your image is heading to Grandma for her birthday, then that’s probably the best option. But for many of us, photographs largely live online, ready to be admired and/or criticised by the masses. For some situations, a [...]

We have to admit that we’re mad about watching videos online. It’s because it’s simply so easy to do. Plus, there are so many sources where you can get your video-fix from: YouTube, Google Video, Metacafé, just to name a few. There are even a couple of other sites (which I can’t really mention) that [...]

It seems that the world and his dog now have a Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku or Plurk account. Some of us see these services as an extension of our mobile phone or our blog, some as a way to get into internet communications. Whatever you like to call it, microblogging has propelled itself into the internet [...]

I used to be addicted to sticky notes. There I said it… The kids in the mail room were bringing me a few new packs daily. I stuck them everywhere. On monitors, servers, laptops even on interns. (Hey I have problems remembering names more than IP addresses!) So when I came across this simple <1MB application that [...]

One of the best ways to interact and keep your website, blog, or customers coming back for more is through an email newsletter. If you have a loyal following they are happy to hear from you. But, too often you have to pay for an email newsletter service because sending out an email to thousands of people from your regular email account will brand you as a spammer.

Today on the show, I’m taking a look at a couple of items in the news over the past little while.  It’s been a while since we’ve done a news show. Here’s what I’m covering : Jerry Yang steps down from Yahoo! Barack Obama to give up the Crackberry Poll: Best Google search operators and tips Google voice and video [...]

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) BBsnap - Simple web app that lets you [...]

I am a big fan of my USB stick and so one of my favourite websites is John Haller’s Portable Apps. However, it’s been some time since I last checked the site and when I finally took a look at it again at the weekend, I was pleasantly surprised to see that he has been [...]

The other day I decided that I should have some different ringtones on my iPhone 3G. Notably, I wanted a separate one for my wife, and several other different ones for my business colleagues. For some reason I had it in my head that making ringtones from the music that I had in my iTunes program [...]

Most Linux users would agree that “apt-get” is one of the many best things to happen to Linux. For those of us who have a dual boot system and miss the apt-get functionality on Windows, here are some ways to get that functionality in Windows. For people who are not familiar with apt-get, it’s basically a [...]