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Thursday, April 23, 2009

MakeUseOf.com - Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips - April 23, 2009

The geeks behind MakeUseOf.com are dedicated to keep you up-to-date on amazing new websites and free software that can make your life easier. Here are some of our latest discoveries:

    Cool Websites and Tools [April 20'th]

    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.   (1) CornerShop - If you ever need to make rounded CSS boxes for the content on your site there is one [...]

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    Identify The Title of That Song With Tunatic

    Have you ever have that moment where you heard a song and wonder what’s its title and who’s the singer? I have, all the time. When on the move, whenever I heard a nice song (especially a foreign language song), I will record it down with my iPhone and use midomi to identify the title of [...]

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    How To Convert Any Windows Program to Run on a U3 Drive

    Have you ever been working on a different computer and thought, “Drat, I wish I had ProgramX with me. That would really help.” Or am I the only one that still uses the word ‘drat’? Yes, you could carry around a binder of CD’s and DVD’s with you, but that’s really cumbersome and doesn’t look [...]

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    How To Make Microsoft Office 2007 Look Like Office 2003

    I remember the first time I set my eyes on Microsoft Office2007. It was love at first sight because everything seemed so stylish. At second sight, I found myself a bit lost among the buttons of the new Ribbon menu. I knew there was a bit of a learning curve ahead of me. Though I mastered [...]

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    Challenge Someone And Test Your Geography Knowledge

    Geography involves more than just learning the names of nations, cities, & seas. It involves people. Geosense capitalizes on this fact by letting people from all over the world have fun relating about the different places that we each call home. This site allows you to play games to test your comprehension of geography, asking you [...]

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    Cool Websites and Tools [April 21'st]

    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.   (1) ATM Hunter - An iPhone application which lets you locate ATMs almost anywhere around the globe using your iPhone. The [...]

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    6 Reasons Why Firefox Dude May Want to Switch to Chrome

    I did it. About a week ago, I took the plunge. I made Google Chrome my default browser, and now do almost everything within Chrome. I do miss Firefox every once in a while (after all, we were in a relationship for quite a while, and over a number of version changes), but I’m [...]

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    OneSwarm Makes P2P File Sharing Private And Personal

    Torrents are one of the most used file sharing networks at the moment, and becoming more and more popular by the day. As all of you probably know, torrents make every user into an uploader as well as a downloader, sharing the load amongst peers instead of burdening one server. Most people only know torrents as a [...]

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    Easily Search Web for Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations & Images with Outwit

    The intertubes are steaming with all kinds of documents and information that you can use as reference or guidelines for your projects, presentations, homework, research and what not. You can search for these documents and data using Google or any other search engine of your choice (ex. PDF Search Engine), however the results displayed as [...]

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    5 Dead-Easy Websites to Share Files Without Signing Up

    Sharing or sending files via eMail is very inconvenient. First of all some files are simply too big to be eMailed. Secondly, when the recipient downloads mail they cannot control when to download the file and for the time it takes until the eMail is transferred they are stuck. And last but not least, someone [...]

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    Cool Websites and Tools [April 22'nd]

    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.   (1) ContactHelp - On this site you can get direct access phone numbers and a few tips on how to avoid [...]

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    The Must-see "New Tab King" Addon for Firefox (Windows)

    Have you heard about the New Tab King? You haven't? Well then what do you see when you hit Control + T in Firefox? When you open a new tab do you see a blank window or is there some useful data you can use? Did you even know you could have some cool and useful things [...]

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