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La Tale - A 2D MMORPG Sidescrolling Action Game
There’s never enough adventure, and although most people’s lives are getting exponentially more boring, we can still resort to third-party sources.Wizardry, swordfighting, monsterslaying and questsolving. Who’s with me? This is one sort of entertainment I hope I’ll never need to miss.
We’ve showed a few of these games to you in the past, mostly multiplayer and [...]
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How To Freeze A Part Of Your Word Document For Easy Reference
A computer monitor gives us just that much finite space and not more. To hopscotch from one part to another part of a large document, involves a lot of vertical scroll.You bet that anyone working on a large Microsoft Word document finds that irksome; especially when one needs to refer to a specific part of [...]
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Testing Google Chrome Alpha: Test #2 - Mac
Google has just released the Mac and Linux alpha build of Chrome at the beginning of this June, and “Danger” is the word they chose to put on the announcement page. I have to admit that I was not sure on doing the review of - direct quote from Google itself - “incomplete, unpredictable, and [...]Continue reading ...
Cool Websites and Tools [June 14]
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) LiveTyping - Online text recorder that can record text as you type. It records absolutely everything you [...]
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Hulu Desktop: Instant TV Shows and Movies on Large Screen
Hulu is a website that offers commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox and a few other networks. Hulu is only available for residents of the United States (there is a workaround though) and uses Flash to encode and stream videos at resolutions up to 480p.Recently, they have just released a [...]
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How To Auto-Launch mailto Links in Gmail or Yahoo & Send Huge Files Using your Email Account
If you have several different webmail accounts, you’ll know how painful it is to manage them in Windows. When clicking a “mailto” URL on a website, Windows will gladly launch your default desktop mail program. How about tweaking it to make Windows log in to your webmail?Affixa integrates your Google Mail and Yahoo! Mail accounts [...]
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Top 10 Free Genealogy Websites to Find Ancestors
A few years ago, during a family reunion, I learned for the first time that my granduncle on my father’s side had fought and died in World War II. The story of his demise sparked a personal interest toward my own family history.So, I did what I always do when I have something to [...]
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3 Sites To Help You Change Your Life
I hate it when people start an article or essay with a quote. It’s so trite. Yet here I go with one. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Yep, good old Socrates. But for every axiom like this there is a corollary one, and I believe it is from the other great philosopher, Anonymus, [...]Continue reading ...
How to Get Detailed Information & Benchmark Linux System
You can get a plethora of information about your Linux system via log files and the proc file system. However, the uninitiated should try Hardinfo. Hardinfo is a system profiler and benchmarking tool for your computer. Hardinfo presents detailed information about your system in a organized manner.Hardinfo is a Linux application. To install Hardinfo, [...]
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Cool Websites and Tools [June 15]
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) FlagCounter - Free flag counter widget that anyone can easily add to their website, blog or personal [...]
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How To Strip MOBI and PRC eBooks Of Encryption
Mobi and PRC are the default ebook formats used by the popular MobiPocket. In 2005, the company was aquired by Amazon, so yes, even the celebrated Amazon Kindle now works with these files. When you buy an ebook online from one of the major retailers, you can be pretty sure you’re getting a Mobi book.Now, [...]
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The Wordnik- Cool Online Dictionary with Sentences & Images
Just a couple of posts back, I had taken a look at the OneLook Reverse dictionary. And here I am, back again with Wordnik. Yes, Wordnik too, is a dictionary, though I have a feeling the web service would hate to be called that in an ironclad sense.Wordnik deliberately tries to walk away from [...]
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