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Rotate Your Desktop Backgrounds Automatically With WallPapa [Windows]
Wallpapa is a lightweight application that can automatically switch your desktop backgrounds after a preset interval. Not only that, it also makes the process of changing your background easier than the built-in Windows interface. If you have been following MakeUseOf, you would know that I had recently wrote a post on High Resolution backgrounds.If you [...]
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3 Free Uninstallers To Prevent Obsolete Files From Piling Up [Mac]
Mac is famous for their "drag and drop" installation/uninstallation process. Most of the time, the term "installing an app" simply means copying the app into the Applications folder (or anywhere you want the app to be). And likewise, uninstalling an app means simply deleting it from the computer - something that you should never, ever [...]Continue reading ...
Double Vision - Secretly Watch Videos at Work [Windows]
There must have been times when you wished that you could be at two places or do two things at the same time. How about watching a YouTube video and working on your presentation at the same time? You could go for a dual monitor setup, or you can try Double Vision.Double Vision is one [...]
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5 Free Password Generators For Nearly Unhackable Passwords
In this increasingly hostile computer environment, it is essential to have a strong password for everything. Whether it's email, computer account or online banking, using your cat's name as a password is a very bad idea. And if you're afraid of not going remembering it because it's too long and complicated, I'm going to show [...]Continue reading ...
How To Get On YouTube At School Using Mobile Internet
So you're a YouTube addict, and you find it difficult to make it through an entire day without browsing through the latest videos at YouTube. You're desperately trying to find out how to get on YouTube at school. Now, you could certainly attempt to bypass your school's firewall using an application like FreeProxy, but as [...]
Continue reading ...Find Recently Available Or Deleted Domain Names with JustDropped
What do you do when you start a new web project and need a new site name? I know I use a service like GoDaddy or Register.com to do a domain name search to find available domains. Now, close to 2 decades after the Internet gained popularity, all the decent domain names have been taken.
Luckily, [...]
Continue reading ...3 Features of Google Driving Directions You Probably Never Knew
We know your problems. We know that if Aunt Martha sees your red sedan pass by her front porch, she will FORCE you to come in and try her lasagna. We know that you hate Toll Road #4339 Google Maps sends you on every time you want to go somewhere.
That is why I have compiled [...]
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Top 5 Websites To Listen To CDs Before Buying
How many times have you bought a CD only to find that most of the songs are not to your liking? I am sure most of you have this kind of experience. It is definitely not a good feeling, perhaps coupled with a pain in the wallet. This doesn't apply only to physical CD that [...]
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The 3 Best Desktop Radio Players For Windows, Mac & Linux
We make a lot of player recommendations here at Make Use Of, where everyone is an addict, and we've even given you advice on how to record streaming radio as mp3.
With the list of free players growing all the time (iffy companies are cropping up all over the web like raging teen acne - awful [...]
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Geeky Fun: Latest Hilarious Picks
Check out the top picks from MakeUseOf Geeky Fun during the last week.
Caps Lock Has A New Name (Pic)
Rare Genetic Dissorder: Duke Nukem's Disease (Video)
Go Home IE6! (Pic)
Medieval Helpdesk (Video)
MacBook – The Flying Edition (Video)
World's First Sat Nav – From 1920 (Pic)
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Search Popular RapidShare Files Easily with RapidShare123
Popular torrent trackers and websites, like The Pirate Bay, are going to be going the way of the dinosaurs. That's right, they will soon be extinct.
So, we might just have to find other methods of searching for and downloading files like television shows or movies from the interweb. I have been using a website called [...]
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Free Security Suite for Windows: Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft Security Essentials is a free, comprehensive anti-virus with real-time protection, a decent detection rate, good integration with the operating system and small performance footprint.
So let's talk about the essentials. An incredibly small installer, clocking in at 5-7 MB depending on the platform, it gives you anti-virus and anti-malware functions, free updates, scan scheduling, all [...]
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4 Fun And Simple Things You Can Do Using Terminal [Mac]
Terminal is one of the utilities that is commonly found on UNIX-based computer such as Linux and Mac OS. It is where users can type commands asking the computer to perform certain tasks. Something like a DOS environment in Windows. Kinda geeky, isn't it?
That's why everyday computer users tend to avoid Terminal. People say that [...]
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The Best Free Algebra Homework Help Websites
The grade level where children make the transition from math to algebra can be very easy for some students, but difficult and confusing for others. Math concepts that are centered on clearly defined numbers and with all "factors" within the problem typically defined, are usually fairly easy for most students to follow and understand.
However, [...]
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10 Websites For Free Mobile Phone Ringtones & Other Mobile Downloads
Does music express the kind of people we are? I am not sure, but it's a direct barometer of our likes and dislikes. I guess going by the mobile ringtone rage and the number of websites feeding the craving, the idea of saying 'who we are' through music has entered the cells too. I am [...]
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Top 5 Tools To Make A Home Movie Online For Free
So, after Mark showed you how make quick and professional videos on Windows Movie Maker, you think you're cut out to be the next great online movie director? After shooting countless video clips and pictures, you now have to bring them all together with some video editing magic to create your movie.
However, renting an editing [...]
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Use Microsoft Office As An Offline Google Docs Editor with Offisync [Windows]
You would think that Microsoft Office and Google Docs working together is pretty much an impossiblity. After all, the two of them are fierce rivals and the thought of the two company's products working seamlessly together is laughable.
Well not anymore, thanks to Offisync which allows you to use, update and synchronize your Google Docs onto [...]
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