How To Convert Your Blog Articles Into Cool Videos

Marketing Articles With Videos? Well, that’s what this tool does for your articles. If you’re not an author there, just click next and you’ll see the screen above. bang out in your article title and copy & paste your article text in the field below it. Playing around with this next step, I realized there are two parts. confirm these are short one-sentence blurbs that sound intriguing enough to make your audience stick around....

October 8, 2009 · 1 min · 126 words · Michael Joyce

Understanding Your Internet Speed

Related Have you ever done a speed test on your Internet connection? Or, “My speed test tells me my upload and download speeds are 512kBps. Why won’t my Skype work better?” Your Internet speed test only tells you part of the picture. Usually your download speed is greater than your upload speed. Well, with average web usage, you typically send a few letters here, a click there. That’s your upload overhead....

October 7, 2009 · 2 min · 394 words · Kathryn Hodges

3 Reasons Why Students Should Be Using Dropbox

Related Dropbox is anoft-covered cloud storage solutionhere at Make Use Of, and for good reason. There are a myriad of reasons why every student should have Dropbox in their arsenal of study tools. Read on for just a few of them! That means you could access your files from any computer, even rental laptops at school. You won’t have to remember to bring along an USB stick ever again. In addition to those, I had Chinese assignments that I always had my parents spell check for me....

October 6, 2009 · 1 min · 147 words · Brianna Morales

How To Create Your Own Unique iPhone Ringtones Using Garageband [Mac Only]

Related I bought my first cellphone at the end of 1998. Most could only beep. Now, the ringtone technology has gone way beyond monophonic. Polyphonic is also outdated. While you could buy ringtones for your cellphones if you want to, creating one feels more rewarding. As a bonus, you could show off to friends and relatives your unique ringtones that nobody else has. The next step would be giving a name to this project and choosing the place to save it....

October 6, 2009 · 2 min · 220 words · Julia Jordan

Create Cool Fantasy Nicknames with Ryder[Mac]

Heck, I wouldn’t have gone around looking for aname generatormyself. But I found Ryder and it’s a keeper. This app is simple. There’s only one button which you click to generate a new name. But don’t let the lack of features dismay you – it’s bloody hilarious. It’s written all over the title, Ryder generatesmachonames. Not fancy Superhero names or Celebrity names. Macho, carnivorous, bullet-grinding names. Download the app from thedeveloper’s website....

October 5, 2009 · 2 min · 216 words · Rebecca Cortez

Top 5 Vista Tweaks to Increase Internet Speed

Am I being over-dramatic? But what you have to understand is that at the very center of my livelihood is the Internet. I earn income, learn and unwind all on the Internet. When I lose that connection to the virtual world - I’m not a happy camper. Rewind several months to the day when I purchased a new, shiny Sony Vaio laptop. Unfortunately, it sensed nothing. Earlier, Aseem offered applications you’re able to install that will improve your PC performance....

October 3, 2009 · 2 min · 243 words · Tina Abbott

How To Use Your GPRS Cell Phone As A Modem

Such is the way for millions of other freelancers, businessmen, consultants and footloose operators the world over. The internet has revolutionized how we work by making us available almost all of the time. This comes with a fatal flaw; the internet can fail. Over the weekend, the modem provided by my ISP packed up. This is my first day being back to normal. However, I did manage to survive without my own internet connection....

October 1, 2009 · 2 min · 311 words · Amanda Herring

iWeb, Easy & Beautiful Website [Mac only]

This free Mac website building tool comes with iLife suite - free with every new Mac purchase. It promises its users quick and easy ways to build beautiful websites. Experience is the best teacher. Don’t worry too much at this stage. Just pick the one that you like, and you’re able to change your mind later. Then we can continue with the controls. This is the place to change the name of your site from “Site” into something more appealing....

October 1, 2009 · 1 min · 149 words · Ryan Morgan

Clean Up Your PC Safely with Hard Drive PowerWash (Windows)

Do you really need all of your internet temp files going back 2 years? How about all those annoying thumbs.db files? That program is called Hard Drive Power Wash. Let’s check it out. I started by downloading the free version of Hard Drive Power Wash fromhere. Using this utility, I can schedule the clean up so it can be totally automated. You know set it and forget it. Once you get this 2....

September 30, 2009 · 2 min · 248 words · David Anderson

DeSmuME- Free Nintendo DS Emulator to Play NDS Games on PC

If you want to stay on the legal side, use homebrew ROMs instead. We’ll be covering the Windows version of DeSmuME. Fetch the latest Windows binary from theirwebsite. You should have downloaded aziparchive. Browse to your nds file, and hitOpen. it’s possible for you to find the various key bindings in theConfig > Control Config. A window will pop up, asking for the number of bytes and search jot down....

September 30, 2009 · 1 min · 177 words · Ross Adams

Top 10 Activities To Do When There's A Power Outage

Thanks to batteries, a short power outage goes unnoticed. These two things mean very little. Somewhere within driving range the power is on and food is available. As long as the car starts, heat or air conditioning is nearby. During a long term power outage, you milk every electron for all it’s worth. Oh well, your smart phone still has plenty of juice. There is a world out there that is not hard wired to electricity....

September 30, 2009 · 1 min · 158 words · Sandra Oneill

3 Free Portable Software Uninstallers For Your Flash Drive

Related Why is an uninstaller a useful app to have in your armory? Normally, the better designed programs come with an uninstaller of their own. They are designed keeping in mind ease of installation, upgrades, configuration and uninstallation. That’s a complete package. But not all in the scattering of software programs are made keeping in mind such best practices. But then there’s the Windows default Add/Remove tool. True, it’s there but it sometimes fails as an umbrella solution....

September 29, 2009 · 3 min · 483 words · Kathleen Murray

How To Auto Shutdown The Computer (or Firefox) after Downloads Complete

Related I am a download junkie. I have to schedule downloads to start late at night (because of the Internet Plan). Most download managers have it, torrent has it and they are perfect for my need. There has always been a great void in this setup due to Firefox. Many a time, I have files downloading in Firefox but no way to auto-shutdown the computer. Lame I know, but it did the trick....

September 28, 2009 · 1 min · 197 words · Vanessa Castillo