So, How I Met Your Mother hasn’t been on for the last two weeks. I’m going through withdrawal. I’m also getting increasingly annoyed, because I sit down to watch TV at the designated time and there’s no show on. Or, maybe even worse, a repeat. Why can’t there be a way t...

I have a lot of music on my computer. I won’t bore you with the numbers, but let’s just say that I periodically have to painstakingly go through my iTunes library, deleting the few songs I don’t listen to, just to free up room for some more music on my hard drive. Needless to say, ...

In October, Sharninder wrote a great article here at MakeUseOf called “5 Gmail Labs Features Everyone Should Try.” That was only four months ago, but Gmail has made so many great changes over the last few months that it’s time for another edition. Gmail Labs is full of experimental...

Computer junkie that I am, there are still times I’m not near my computer to enter ideas into my system. Just about my whole life is computer-based, so when I’m out, emails, tasks, calendar events, and the like can all fall by the wayside. Or, I can just pick up the phone, dial a number,...

Like it or not, much of our success comes due to the help of other people. The opportunities you get, jobs you hold, or fun and useful things you’re able to do often come because someone else was persuaded to bring you along. To take advantage of these opportunities, however, you’ve got ...

I’ve found over the last few years that I’ve started instant messaging more and more. Since nearly everyone seems to always be at their computers, it’s a convenient way to quickly get in touch with them. Now that IM is included with things like Facebook and Gmail, I’m online ...

Windows Explorer, for any Windows user, is a key component of your computer-based life. It’s where you put files, where you find stuff, and how you manage everything on your computer. Which is unfortunate, because Windows Explorer is a terrible application. It’s bad at tracking where you...

Photoshop is hard. There’s all kinds of menus, commands, and keyboard shortcuts that you’ve got to figure out. Once you learn how it works, it’s an unbelievably useful and powerful tool, but the learning curve is enormous. Using the Web though, you can learn how to do just about an...

One of the biggest reasons for the pervasive clutter in my apartment is a lack of time to deal with it. It takes longer to put a shirt away than it does to just throw it on the floor, so onto the floor it goes. As long as there’s a path from the door to my bed, I tend not to ignore and perpetu...

Flying’s no one’s favorite thing. Unless you’re a pilot. But for most of us, flying’s little more than a hassle. Most of the annoyance of flying is due to the airport - checking in, security, terrible food, no outlets, and the like. Time spent getting a ticket and waiting for...