February 2009 saw the beginning of a new feature at MakeUseOf - our downloadable PDF manuals.  The first one is Simon’s PSP Downgrading & Upgrading Guide. The second one is the Essential Guide To Buying A Laptop. These two manuals were instantly available to everyone when the posts first ...

Yes it’s that time again, it’s time for a roundup of the latest and greatest Twitter apps whizzing their way around the internet.   Some of them useful, some of them just downright weird but nevertheless quite fun and addictive (which means I got no work done and instead wasted all my ...

January was a month in which we started to write stories based on MakeUseOf reader requests.   Do you have a story idea which you would like to see us write and publish on MakeUseOf?  If so, just send me an email at mark AT makeuseof.com and if the idea is a good one, I’ll pass it along to ...

Last month, I showed you how to remove the “open in new window” option from your Firefox right-click menu by making a simple tweak to your Firefox userchrome.css file. This got me interested in what other tweaks you could make to the Firefox browser via the userchrome.css file so I went...

Welcome MakeUseOf readers to 2009! But before we can completely close the book on 2008, here is a quick roundup of our authors stories from December. Why not take a quick look and see if there’s anything that you missed from the previous 4 weeks while you were busy being dragged around the sho...

Yesterday I gave you a sneak peek into my Mark Pack which is my collection of indispensible software apps that I always have installed on the computer.    But it was too much for one post so here is Part Two of “what Mark always has installed and what he recommends you install too” So...

After using a computer for a certain period of time, and after working on a site like MakeUseOf for a certain period of time, you start to develop a certain fondness and a certain attachment for particular software apps.   I (and all the other MUO writers) test so many web apps and software tools ...

Since it’s Christmas Day, I thought it would be good to have a bit of a light-hearted and funny post today.   Forget about the web apps and software for a moment and instead just have a laugh. So I dug deep into my YouTube favourites and picked my ten favourite funniest YouTube videos.   H...

I love Adobe PDF files.  I love the format, the features and their ease of use.   But I have never really bonded with Adobe Reader or FoxIt and to be honest, I am not a big fan of overloading my computer with too many bloated software programs in the first place.   If I can find an online equiv...

We’ve talked about file recovery tools on MakeUseOf before, including one that I discussed last September.   But several friends have constantly urged me to try out Recuva, which is made and supported by the same people who created CCleaner (another favourite app of mine and MakeUseOf). The ...