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4 Great Websites To Make You A Visual Basic Guru
For the first few years of my engineering career, I spent a lot of time writing Visual Basic based GUI applications for automated factory machines. These were the sort of VB applications that were very difficult to test, because for the most part the users consisted of moderately educated folks who had a hard time [...]Continue reading ...
Cool Websites and Tools [May 31]
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) Buttonator - Online button maker which lets you instantly create buttons for your website. Choose a button design from different [...]
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4 Really Popular Prank Call Websites & How They Work
Not very long ago, prank calling consisted of a room full of bored teens, a rotary phone and a phone book flipped open to the “pizza delivery” section of the Yellow Pages. You’d pick straws to choose who went first, and then take turns seeing who could make the funniest prank call.However, the rapid [...]
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SparkPeople - Free Online Health & Weight-loss Community
It is easy to gain weight, but to lose weight is another story. It is kind of like a credit card, really easy to charge up the bill but when the time comes to pay it off — well, it’s not quite so easy. For example, those fast food burgers after midnight slide right down [...]Continue reading ...
Watch Hulu & Flash Videos On Your WM Device With Skyfire
I tried the SkyFire browser out when it was still in beta. It did exactly what it said it was going to do — that was, bring Flash to the mobile browsing experience along with fast and accurate webpage renderings.Well, it is officially out of beta now and I are going to give you a [...]
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Enhance Windows Explorer's Context Menu With Shell Tools
Shell extensions brings additional functionality to Windows Explorer by allowing you to perform simple tasks with even greater ease. Shell Tools offers a bundle of such shell utilities and extensions that would add to the functionality that is being offered by Windows. Although the additions are small, they are useful all the same.You can [...]
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5 Tips to Maximize Your Windows Live Experience
“Windows Live” is an umbrella term for Microsoft’s service offerings of three types — browser-based web applications like Live Hotmail and SkyDrive, various desktop applications packaged as Live Essentials, and mobile applications for access through mobile phones. You can sign up at Windows Live for free and get access to all of the Live applications [...]Continue reading ...
May Roundup: MakeUseOf Authors
In May, we saw two MakeUseOf Guides published: The MakeUseOf Network Manual and A Newbie's Initiation to Linux. If these topics have always haunted you in the past, check these manuals out. You will surely learn a thing or two about configuring your home network or switching to Linux.Simon Slagen is our PDF Manual Editor, [...]
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Cool Websites and Tools [June 1]
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) CoverCreator - Web based CD & DVD cover maker that lets you type and illustrate your own CD/DVD covers and [...]
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How to Remove Microsoft Groove Synchronization
The best way – don't install it in the first place.As with most suite programs, we don't need the whole ball of wax especially in standalone home machines. Say… in the Microsoft Office suite, it's just MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint. One program we give the go by is Microsoft Groove.
In MS Office [...]
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The Top 3 File Compression & Extraction Softwares
Whether you’re tight on space, or need to send an enormous quantity of files, archiving software is the way to go. These days, not using an archiving suite is almost unthinkable, and it’s one of the first things you should download when you reinstall your operation system.But which software is the way to go? In [...]
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Make Your Speeches Shine with Acrobat Presentations
I’ll be the first to admit I’m biased on the subject of presentation software. I think PowerPoint is terrible. I hate it, I hate how people use it, and I avoid it at all costs. There are, however, times when I’m required to give a presentation. For a while, I was using Google Docs [...]Continue reading ...
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