Cool Websites and Tools [March 23rd]
Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory.
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HaveYourFriendsBeenThere – Do you want to know which of your friends have been looking at naughty websites? Or perhaps you want to know who among your coworkers have been visiting NSFW websites while at work? Then you should check out HaveYourFriendsBeenThere? Read more: HaveYourFriendsBeenThere: Remotely Check Any Browser History For Naughty Sites. |
How Did Facebook Originate? [In Case You Were Wondering]
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled How Does Facebook Work? The Nuts and Bolts detailing how Facebook operates as part of our Technology Explained series.
In the article, I covered the technologies behind the social giant. Today, I’m going to answer another fundamental question we all have about Facebook – how did Facebook originate?
The story behind Facebook is fascinating. It involves college students, booze, hacking, investigation, and farm animals. Considering how it began, it’s pretty amazing how far the site has come in just 6 short years.
Mapping Multiple Locations On Your Website With MapTheWay
During the time I’ve started using Google Maps, I’ve found as many ways to incorporate it into my life as possible. It’s integrated into my Motorola Android car GPS software, Google Latitude lets me share my Maps location to my kids while I’m traveling, and I always use it to search for parks and historic landmarks around us when we’re on a family trip.
Other MakeUseOf authors have also shared awesome features offered by Google Maps, such as Tina’s list of the 5 best things about Google Maps, Mark’s list of awesome Google Map features, and Eyal’s article on creating collaborative Google Maps. If you haven’t guessed it yet, we’re big fans.
4 Really Funny YouTube Video Channels Worth Keeping Up With
YouTube is an interesting place. You can find almost anything there. I even find music I love there and it works kind of like my personal jukebox allowing me to make my own playlists.
YouTube also has what they call channels. Any user can start their own channel, recording and uploading videos for others to follow. As you can guess, some channels are more interesting than others. Some are less offensive than others. Some are even educational. Then there are those channels that people use just to vent.
You can also find a lot of funny Youtube videos. I would like to share 4 YouTube channels that are really funny and actually worth checking out. So sit back and have a laugh.
6 Ways To Search For Emails In Outlook 2007
For me personally, my Outlook 2007 is a massive sink. It is where a tonnage of emails pours in and Outlook embraces them without complaint. But with so many emails sinking into a fathomless pit, sometimes Outlook turns out to be very like The Bermuda Triangle . Sometimes what goes in doesn’t come out quite so easily and I have to fish for it with some effort.
Although most of us have our folders and rules to arrange all incoming emails and some of us are pretty disciplined about email organization, none of us can escape the use of the search feature for emails once in a while. We had given the search capabilities of Microsoft Outlook a brief going over in 10 Powerful Productivity Tips & Tricks For Outlook 2007.
Mastering any search how-to has almost become the thing for surviving in the digital jungle. So I guess it wouldn’t do anyone any harm if we took a more searching look at how to get to a lost email in the clutter of our inbox.
The Top 3 Browser-Based IDE’s To Code In The Cloud
For those that aren’t in the know, the browser based “IDE” is an abbreviation of Integrated Development Environment. Very simply said, it’s an application that can be used to write code, but usually with added compiler/interpreter, debugging and automation features.
Finding a decent freeware code writing application (view previous code-editor compilations for Windows or Mac), never mind an IDE, can prove difficult. Some operating systems have it harder than others, and if you use more than one, or are on the move a lot, coding can be a bastard.
Hence it pays to code in the cloud. By elevating your coding platform to an online environment, you not only rid yourself of OS issues but even of hardware independence. No matter where you find yourself, you can always access all your files with the same IDE.
How To Easily Activate Two Finger Scroll In Windows Laptops
“Wow! How did you do that?”, my friend asked me with amazement, when he looked at how I scroll up and down the webpage using my two fingers. “Can my laptop do that?” he asked. He was a bit disappointed when I explained that as far as I know, the feature is Mac-specific because Apple owns the patent to that multi-touch technology.
But my friend’s question made me think. Is it really Mac specific? So I did some searching and found an unexpected answer. It turns out that some of the latest non-Mac laptops have similar features built in, and as for the older ones – as long as they use a Synaptic touchpad, you can easily add two finger scrolling using a little help from a little application called, well, Two-Finger-Scroll.
3 Ways To Sync Thunderbird Emails Across Multiple Computers
A desktop email client has several advantages over webmail. First of all, you don’t rely on the availability of an online service. You can work on your emails without being connected to the Internet. You can set up several email accounts and there is no limit on how many gigabytes you can store for free. Thunderbird of course also comes with support for extensions, which makes it especially interesting.
The disadvantage is that you don’t have access to your emails when you’re on a different computer. So if your favorite email client is Thunderbird and this is precisely the issue you need to solve, hang on!
This article shows how you can sync Thunderbird emails across multiple computers and always have access to all of your emails no matter which computer you’re using.
Photo Magician Makes Resizing Images MAGIC!
Working in the online industry, I find myself taking lots and lots of screenshots. These screenshots may or may not be the right image size for the specific website they are destined for. Then resizing images adds another step to my web checklist.
So if I could specify an entire folder or even be able to drag and drop the images onto Photo Magician’s interface and have them auto-magically resized, that would be awesome. And awesome it is!
When you download and run this portable application you will see this screen which is the main user interface. It is very straightforward.
Cool Websites and Tools [March 22nd]
Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory.
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EasyDefine – There are plenty of dictionaries online but they all work on the principle of one word at a time. If you have a whole list of words that you want to see their definition and synonyms, it can be a real hassle. For situations like these, use EasyDefine. It is a slick new app that lets you input a list of words and generate definitions for it. Read more: EasyDefine: See Definition and Synonyms For A List Of Words. |