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7Zip – A Free Program to Unzip and Compress Uncommon Compression Formats
The other day I downloaded a .RAR file. I hadnt the slightest what that was. I really needed the file which I found in Marks article here to take a screenshot of my cell phone for another article. So I turned to Google and entered something to the effect of Whats a RAR file and it informed me that i …
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Sublight – Search, Download, and Play Subtitles of Your Movies
There are some movies where actions speak louder than words. Then there are some movies where words are all that matter. Most of us have pretty good ears, but even then subtitles help us understand some language nuances better. Clint Eastwood’s drawling sarcasm is sometimes hard to catch in those cl …
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How To Create, Discover and Follow Twitter Lists
Using Twitter Lists is a great new way to follow groups of people at once. Anyone can create Twitter Lists, share them, and follow any public Lists created by others. You can also create private Lists that nobody else can see or follow. Let’s see how you can make use of this exciting new Twitter fea …
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Enrich Your iTunes Experience With GeekTool & TunesArt [Mac]
I dont think I need to give a long introduction to iTunes as many consider it to be the best digital music manager and player available today. MakeUseOf has even dedicated an entire PDF Manual for it: The BIG Book of iTunes. But even the best will still have room for improvement. I was looking for a …
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10 Fun Free Windows Mobile Phone Games
In the dentists office, when standing in line at the supermarket, or just to kill some time in a boring meeting, mobile games come to the rescue. Do you remember Snake on those old cellphones? Well, to be honest, the default mobile games never got much better. Now we often find Bejeweled spin-offs a …
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Share Large Files & Get Unlimited Free Web Storage Space With GoAruna
It seems its the age old enigma as far as computers and the Internet goes: How can I send (or store) a large file? Many services have limitations set up. For instance, many email providers wont allow file attachments larger than 10 MB. These days thats not much, is it? Many services allow larger …
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Cool Websites and Tools [November 21]
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) EmailMeForm Free service for those who need custom cont …
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Top 5 Freeware Registry Cleaners That Improve PC Performance
The Windows Registry is the root ball of the operating system. Every little bit of system information is rooted in the registry, be it software, drivers, user information or registration data. Over the lifetime of a computer, numerous tools are installed, updated, moved or removed. Even if done thor …
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How To Easily Record & Print Out An Internet User’s Browsing History
Anyone in the IT industry has been asked to covertly record or recover a users browsing history. It comes with the job and no one likes it. We like it even less when you have to take screenshots over and over again of long lists of URL’s. Internet Explorer and Firefox both do not have a method to pr …
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Make 4 Cool Spy Gadgets With Your Windows Mobile Phone
Have you ever wanted to live like a real spy, even for just a little while? You know what I mean traveling to exotic destinations using a handheld navigator, remotely bugging conversations or escaping peril by the skin of your teeth thanks to your trusty motion sensor gadgets. You may go to work ev …
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5 Online Services You Can Update By Email With A Mobile Phone
As the owner of a new internet-enabled phone, I have been looking at various ways I can update my favourite online services using the phones built-in email function. If I am out and about, and I want to update something, the easiest way to do it would be to send an email with any images as an atta …
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Create & Deploy Servers & Sites In A Snap With Turnkey Linux
Hardcore work on the computer requires a serious dedicated setup. You can of course run your programming stack on your gaming machine, but that hardcore gaming or hardcore development would suffer. You need a dedicated setup for thorough work of any kind. Usually such situations involve setting up a …
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Key Launch – Quickly Launch Applications From the Command Line
Sometimes we can wonder why Windows doesnt make things a bit easier. For instance, launching applications should be an area for cutting some time. Windows 7 of course, has made it slightly easier with a re-working of the Quick Launch but it’s still not as fast as the speed of thought. It will be in …
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Key Launch – Launch Applications By Typing In A Few Characters
Sometimes we can wonder why Windows doesnt make things a bit easier. For instance, launching applications should be an area for cutting some time. Windows 7 of course, has made it slightly easier with a re-working of the Quick Launch but it’s still not as fast as the speed of thought. It will be in …
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Cool Websites and Tools [November 20]
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) The Inflation Calculator Nowadays, the dollar do …
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Use F.lux To Sleep Better After Late-Night Computer Activities
A couple of months ago, Varun wrote about a very interesting yet controversial application. Since then, a lot has been learnt and the app has come quite a long way. Ill attempt to review the app again but this time, Im testing the Mac version and Ill try to look to it from a totally different perspe …
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How To Quickly Fix A Phone or MP3 Player With Water Damage
Due to my own stupidity, I was left using my old, decrepit mobile phone for four whole days with minimum contacts, no media and no apps which I normally use for e-mail, RSS and Twitter. What happened was this; I got bored so I decided to go for a stroll. After half an hour I found myself caught out …
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The 2 Great Websites for Atari 2600 Enthusiasts
It’s the early eighties. You and your friends are sitting around trying to figure out what to do on a boring night. One of your friends gets up from the sofa, walks across the shag carpeted, wood-paneled room and into a closet. The room gasps as he pulls out the wood textured, plastic modern marv …
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BookRix – A Community For Book Lovers & Wannabe Authors
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a book related website by what it offers. Agreed that the web is not the best place to read books but it is definitely a fine place to discover books. Commonly all book lovers sites revolve around a community. An online town square meet-up to se …
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Type Emails Faster with Texter Text Replacement Software
Do you find yourself typing the same things over and over again? Maybe it is a canned piece of text that you are required to send to customers or perhaps it is your signature that you type over and over on forums, websites and emails. This awesome piece of simplistic text replacement software is bro …
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