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Use Webslug To See How Fast Your Site Loads
I have a great new tool to add to my repository! I do a lot of web troubleshooting and I am constantly helping people make their websites load faster. In doing so over the years, I fell in love with YSlow and FireBug. These are FireFox plug-ins, if you didn't already know.YSlow and Firebug help [...]
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10 Very Useful Comparison Sites You Have To Bookmark
Comparison sites are great money savers. Below, you will find 10 really good comparison sites to simply help you to choose the best and save you the trouble of surfing hundreds of websites and .Whether you’re looking for a cheap mobile plan, the best bank account for your spending habits, the cheapest digicam [...]
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ScribbleLive- No Hassle Blog For Live Blogging
It seems, in the online content-creation realm, that there’s two basic sides: there’s the blogging, and the micro-blogging. Wordpress vs. Twitter, Blogger vs. Friendfeed. One is longer-form and detailed; the other full of short, quick bursts of information.Somewhere in between those two lies this funny thing called live-blogging. It works like Twitter or Friendfeed, [...]
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Cool Websites and Tools [June 16]
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) Battery University - This is a comprehensive web guide for rechargeable batteries where you can find out basics [...]
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Free Tons of Hard Drive Space with TreeSize
My hard drive is 100GB in total. My computer is a couple years old, and 100GB was gigantic when I bought it. I never, ever thought in a billion, trillion years, that I would use all that space.And then, I got that fun-filed message saying,”You have less than 200MB available space on your hard [...]
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How To Read Scratched CDs Or DVDs In Windows
Have you ever had a CD or DVD that contained critical information but you could not get to it? Does your disk have a huge scratch running through it? Maybe it's a little chipped or cracked? Don't throw it out there might still be hope!That's right, kiddies! I have an awesome free program that [...]
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How Do I Download Songs onto iTunes - A Tutorial
I have to put this out there to get it off my chest. I hate iTunes. In my opinion, the interface is not intuitive, and the labeling of controls is misleading. Whew, I feel better. Now I’ll just wait for Steve Jobs to storm into my house and neutralize me.If I have problems with iTunes, [...]
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5 Little Useful Sticky Notes App For Linux
Perhaps you have a habit of pasting small yellow pieces of notes all over your table just to remind you to do a particular task. In this technological era, that is soon becoming obsolete. Mac OS X and Windows 7 both come with their own native sticky note applications that you can use to “paste” [...]Continue reading ...
10 Really Cool Free Blackberry Applications
Blackberry smartphones have a wealth of free applications available for them which can let you get more out of your device. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the best free Blackberry applications you can download to your device to have more fun with it, and be more productive at the same [...]Continue reading ...
Cool Websites and Tools [June 17]
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) FeedStitch - Online tool that allows you to easily combine RSS feeds and direct data feeds from Twitter, Delicious, [...]
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2 Websites to Verify Urban Legends and Email Scams
Hey did you hear? It looks like Microsoft has teamed up with AOL and they are going to give $245 to you every time you forward this email to another person. Oh and there is a horrible file probably on your Windows based machine… It is called PAGEFILE.SYS!I see these horrible emails flying around [...]
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How To Create Automatic Backups For Free With CrashPlan
It's important to make backups, but there aren't many free services that offer unlimited space for them. Suppose you and a friend simply agree to hold each other's backups at your homes. You have to backup to DVDs or, worse, CD-Rs, and meet to exchange the disks. In the past, I've shown you how to synchronize [...]Continue reading ...
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