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Saturday, May 9, 2009

MakeUseOf.com - Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips - May 9, 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:

    4 More Somewhat Interesting Ways to Earn Money Online

    Internet has turned into a great place to earn for a living. Some of the advantages it offers are: working from home, (partial) independence and freedom, plenty of various opportunities. The best thing about making money online is that it is fun. You can do what you really enjoy and get paid for that! So besides obvious [...]

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    Join MakeUseOf on Twitter!

    If you have discovered MakeUseOf just recently and one of our 63.000+ subscribers please consider following us on Twitter as well (twitter.com/MakeUseOf). You’ll be notified everytime there is a new post on MakeUseOf Blog, web app review on MakeUseOf Directory or something new on Geeky Fun. Thank You! Enjoyed the article? Please leave a comment and [...]

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    Cool Websites and Tools [May 7'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) Glowtxt - Easily add glow to text. Simply enter your text, select glow options (style, size, animation type, glow effect [...]

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    Google Labs: Now You Can Search Web within Gmail

    A few days back, my sister wanted to install the video plug-in to start a video chat in Gmail. My task was to spoon feed her through the process. As a matter of course, I told her to search for the precise download URL using Google Search. She did, but she also waded out from [...]

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    How To Stop Spammers From Getting Your Private Info from Forums or Blogs

    I spend a good part of my day posting on blogs and forums. I have always tried to obscure my email address when posting by making it a little bit harder on bots by using something like karl at mydomainname dot com instead of the normal karl@mydomainname.com . The single most important reason for [...]

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    10 Small and Simple Yet Addicting Free Games For Mac

    Honestly, I'm not a gaming person. I'd rather spend my spare time sleeping. But once in a while, I do play games - just for the sake of having micro-breaks from my writing and designing projects. Coming from this background, I just realize that there are similarities among the games I have in my Mac: [...]

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    Wyzo Beta - The Web Browser for Downloaders

    It happens more and more, people trying to merge several items into one. We see it happening in the mobile phone sector, where nearly every phone is a camera and a radio as well, and in the software industry as well. This being good or bad is something for you to decide. We’ve seen multiple applications, [...]

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    7 Websites for Free Patriotic Wallpaper Themes

    As the summer season approaches, in the U.S. another major 4th of July celebration quickly approaches this July. Cities and towns across the country start gearing up as early as May for the local festivals, fireworks and events. One of the most popular things that many geeky Americans do is loading free patriotic [...]

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    Cool Websites and Tools [May 8'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) AnonyMouse - Proxy server that hides all traceable information such as your IP information, your browser type, operating system and [...]

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    Create Hotkeys on Windows with Keyboard Tweaker

    We have all see those expensive keyboards with keys on them that launch your email, favorite websites, applications and can even tweak volume controls. Now we aren't going to run out and drop some duckets on a new keyboard to get some hotkeys… But what if I told you that you can duplicate that [...]

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    How to Create a DVD from Any Video File

    It used to be true that, to produce a DVD, one must have expensive equipment and machinery. Thanks to some nifty free software, the creation of a DVD suitable for play in your home theater is not only possible, but simple. Today I'll be showing you how to use the free DVD Flick to convert [...]

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    3 Easy Ways To Preview a Partially Downloaded Video Files

    If you are one of those who download videos from BitTorrents site on a regular basis, you will know that the quality of the downloaded video is sometime not what you have expected it to be. After spending plenty of hours downloading only to find that it is a poor cam quality video can indeed [...]

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