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Cool Websites and Tools [November 7]
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 more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory. (1) Yast.com Innovative online application that lets …
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5 Ways to Protect & Hide Your Email to Stop Receiving Spam
eMail spam is one of the greatest annoyances of our time. For the third and fourth quarter of 2008, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group reported that approximately 90% of all eMail was spam. Thats an incredible number. It clearly demonstrates how much time and energy must be wasted to receive, id …
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3 Best Sites To Download Free Funny Voicemail Messages
Does anyone still remember the answering machine? You know the thing that your 800 voicemails have made obsolete? Maybe your parents still have one. They have a flashing red number on them and they always broke down. The thing that I remember and loved about answering machines were that you could bu …
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Use Your Google Apps Domain To Make Short URL’s
We all know some of the well known URL-shortening services such as TinyURL or Twitters own Bit.ly. MakeUseOf has also profiled many others in the past. But one of the drawbacks of using one of those URL-shortening services is that the links youre firing out by email, blog post or Twitter stream to …
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MedHelp – A Mental & Physical Fitness Log To Monitor & Analyze Your Health
Your personal health requires more than just a basic physical fitness log of exercises or weight loss. A human body is an amazing machine where every single part, in some way, influences every other part. This is why its so scary when you or someone you love has symptoms or strange behaviors that se …
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3 Great Sites To Get The Truth On MLM Pyramid Schemes
Looking to earn some extra cash for the coming holidays? Feeling the pinch of the economic downturn? Just want to make a little more money for a rainy day? When people feel this way, one of the opportunities that will evenutally knock on their doors is Multi Level Marketing (MLM). There are other na …
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10 Cool Innovative Linux Wallpapers For Ubuntu Users
Its difficult not to get bored of Ubuntus default brown look. Or perhaps even tired of waiting for the visual overhaul thats been speculated since Hardy Heron last year. How about taking things in your hand and adding some spice to the desktop with some cool wallpapers? Here are 10 cool innovative U …
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Personalize Your News With Custom Sections In Google News
The men in white coats (or white T-Shirts) at Google are at it again. They just gave us another way to overload ourselves with information culled from the web. Lot of us read Google news for headlines from around the world. The Google News service collects breaking news as published by the news serv …
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Cool Websites and Tools [November 6]
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 more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory. (1) Map-Of-The-Market Cool visual stock market map from Sma …
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Quiet Read Saves Weblinks For Later Reading [Mac]
Im a huge web geek and I spend hours, literally, crawling the Internet for cool apps and ideas for my next article. Sometimes Ill stumble upon a really great application, then another one and another. Before I know it, my browser is filled with opened tabs and Safari is hogging up all the memory. I …
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The 3 Useful Office Apps To Reduce Your Paperwork
The world of business is a tough one indeed. Anyone will tell you that. From the guys at the top earning billions per year to the lowly freelancer, tucked away in a small home office. The big jobs are often the easiest. Theres nothing like landing a huge contract or finishing off that job you know w …
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How To Connect Your Nintendo Wii Console To The Internet
If you have yet to connect your Nintendo Wii to the Internet, youre definitely missing out on a lot the console has to offer. Utilizing the Wiis built-in 802.11b/g Wi-Fi or connecting through a USB-to-Ethernet adapter, you can gain access to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service. From there, a slew …
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Read 650 Magazines Online for Free With Maggwire
That’s true…articles from 650 magazines for you to read. But instead of flipping the pages, you will have to click the mouse at Maggwire. Who reads magazines these days? Plenty of people, I would say. My mother is one of them because the digital world is still like a mystic’s ball to her. Me? For me …
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Celtx – The Ultimate Screenwriting Suite [Cross-Platform]
A lot of old-school writers and producers still use the familiar pen and paper. Others have migrated to the digital world and are using Open Office or MS Word. Personally Ive never felt quite at home in Word to write a story. Instead, Ive always been using creative writing suites or pre-production p …
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How To Tag Your Friends In Photos On Flickr
Now you can tag your friends and all other people in your Flickr photos. This may sound familiar from other services like Facebook. It took Flickr a while to implement the feature, but as youd expect, they really made the Flickr tags work well. Especially the way you have control over where you show …
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QMMander – Replace Your Windows Explorer With An Open Source Alternative
I downloaded this 4.9MB file from Google Code. QMMander is a free open source Windows Explorer alternative and it is pretty cool. It gives you a dual pane experience to relieve you from the pain of having to open two Explorer windows to drag and drop files between. But that’s not all – no sir re bob …
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Cool Websites and Tools [November 5]
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 more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory. (1) DeadCellZones Consumer generated map of location …
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Manage Multiple Users On One Twitter Account with TweetFunnel
I was thinking the other day about Twitter (check out MakeUseOfs Twitter: Best Practices and Tips [PDF Guide]) and whether or not it would be possible to have more than one person tweeting from one account. There could be several uses for such a thing. First off, a company could want multiple users …
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How To Connect Your Cell Phone To Your PC Through Bluetooth
As many of the regular MakeUseOf readers will know, I tend to do a good few posts about cell phones and cell phone applications such as How to Use Your GPRS Cell Phone as a Modem or my Snaptu article. In both of these articles, I described connecting your cell phone to your PC via USB cable. However …
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Question Of The Day – RSS Full Feeds Or Excerpts?
Todays Question Of The Day is one that was posed by Ryan in our internal email discussion group and we would now like to throw the question out to our readers. When reading RSS feeds, do you prefer to see the full post inside your RSS reader or do you just want to see an excerpt? Why is one better …
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