Everybody’s got secrets. Passwords, Social Security numbers, a safe combination, trade secrets… Well, we can’t exactly condone corporate espionage (We’ve had enough of that, thank you very much!). However if you are, as an example, a newly-elected U.S. President, named…...

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 ...

This morning my girlfriend woke me pretty rude. She had a little problem on the attic and I was supposed to get rid of it. Reluctantly I came out of bed and followed to the attic where all my hardware is buzzing. There was a cat looking at something, but I could not see what it was. After I moved th...

so the problem of contact management is the opposite of new, and a lot has improved in recent years, but things still aren’t working for me my contacts are split like so primary list of contacts: Gmail. Auto-adding of addresses to the the list is usually good, but I wish it was easier to purge...

Windows/Unix: Free, open source instant messaging application Pidgin has just released a significant new update, chock-full of bug fixes and some snazzy new features—among them more file transfer support, interface improvements, and improved customization. For more details on the changes, chec...

The Google Talk folks have rolled out a new way to allow web site visitors chat with you. They’re calling it chatback and at first glance it seem comparable to Meebo Me but (arguably) a bit more lightweight. (I first mentioned Meebo Me in August of ‘06). It really is not just like Meebo ...

Cross-platform, multi-protocol instant messaging application Pidgin is very functional, but by default it's not what most people would call sexy. But like many great software projects, from Firefox to foobar2000, the looks and extra functionality are there—you just have to know where to find t...

Martin Fowler is writing a book about Domain Specific Languages and, because you could never accuse Martin of a lack of ambition, he’s trying to write it in a reasonably (implementation) language agnostic fashion. It’s fairly easy to write an implementation language agnostic book about o...

Martin Fowler is writing a book about Domain Specific Languages and, because you could never accuse Martin of a lack of ambition, he’s trying to write it in a reasonably (implementation) language agnostic fashion. It’s fairly easy to write an implementation language agnostic book about o...

Martin Fowler is writing a book about Domain Specific Languages and, because you could never accuse Martin of a lack of ambition, he’s trying to write it in a reasonably (implementation) language agnostic fashion. It’s fairly easy to write an implementation language agnostic book about o...