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Saturday, March 13, 2010

MakeUseOf – This Week’s Most Popular Tips & Articles






It's important to begin well and end well. This week our 11-day must-have Mac apps Giveaway came to a close. Did you take home anything?

Even if you didn't, rest assured, we will keep surprising you. Just as we did with the 20 Pro licenses we gave away for the paid version of VDownloader - Really Easy Video Downloader Software.

We are few week into the MakeUseOf Answers section and going pretty strong. Check out The 5 Best Questions From You.

The results for last week's poll where we asked you Do you Backup your Files? How? , is also out. Look where your vote landed up and do also put in a vote for your say on How Long Do You Spend On The Internet In A Day?

Now, let's move from the poll to the posts. Check out what has been happening the past week at MakeUseOf.com


The 5 Best Posts From Last Week


A logo was always important. With the spread of social media, a logo these days has to go where it never went before - like Flickr, Facebook or Twitter. With all the online tools available tehse days for creating logos, the process is not difficult.





These six tips are the guiding rules for creating logos that can be effective signs for you social media presence.
 

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One of the more recommended places to search out images is Flickr. But Flickr can also be a great instructional and fun tool in more ways than one. For instance, teaching children the alphabet through letter-picture combos.




That's just one of the ten Flickr based games featured here. Check out the list of 10.

The delete button in your inbox is the easiest way to deal with email spam. But to take the war to the spammers and the scamsters, it is also important to attack any fraudulent or suspicious email you might receive.





This article is a guide to the regional agencies who can respond to email fraud.


Have you got used to Windows 7? It has been out for some time now. Windows 7 brings with it a number of improvements in key areas.




Here are some of the Windows 7 new features that stand out in the latest version of the popular operating system.



What do you do when you cannot boot the installation disk from your CD/DVD drive or your computer doesn't have one? You can fall back on the USB drive.





This guide shows you how to create a bootable USB flash drive using either Windows XP or Windows Vista, and then install the Windows 7 files onto the USB and then install Windows 7 onto your Netbook from USB.


 
 
 

The 5 Others That Deserve a Click

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