Three Free Desktop Calendar Applications For The Mac

I didn’t bring my watch with me." One of the students replied, “Yes, but there’s a calendar next to you.” Almost all of their daily life activities are scheduled according to the calendar. Dateline This utility will put a linear transparent calendar in your desktop. By default, it will reside above everything else. If you tap on a date, it will be opened in iCal. For some people, the appearance of this desktop calendar might become annoying....

July 30, 2009 · 1 min · 189 words · John Collins

Create Your Own Top Movies of All Time List with Flickchart (FREE Invites!)

Related I am a self-confessed movie addict.IMDBis on my bookmarks toolbar. I love reading and writing movie reviews, andcatalogingmy movies online. MakeUseOf reviewed lots of web services for movie addicts. But being a MakeUseOf reader, you might jump the gun and get an invite now - read on! It shows you two movies and you pick one over the other. It then shows you two new movies, and you pick again....

July 29, 2009 · 2 min · 296 words · Alexis Lee

Easily Kill Hung Processes on Windows with Super F4

For those of you who do not know it isAlt-F4. This will politely request that the open software on your screen is to close. But with this little116KB download from GoogleCodeyou can force an utility to close withControl-Alt-F4. This will effectively kill the utility without any other intervention. These two options make this a handy dandy item for my toolkit. I downloaded the app and installed it. If you right-hit it you will see your basic options....

July 29, 2009 · 1 min · 124 words · Lindsey Roy

How to Change The Brightness Of Your Mac Display Beyond Default Levels

Related There he was, alone in a “near-dark” romantic cafe. His girlfriend has just called and said that she would be “a little bit” late. He understood too well what “a little bit” meant for her. So, armed with his MacBook, he tried to make use of the waiting time by being productive. His eyes also started to feel sore and watery. He tried to dim the display, but it was already at the lowest brightness level possible....

July 26, 2009 · 2 min · 250 words · Jacqueline Rocha

How to Set Up a Dual Boot Windows & Linux System with Wubi

Related At my school, my class and I are comparing different operating systems. About half of my class was just introduced to Linux last week when using some Knoppix disks. There will be no hard-drive partitioning (that’s scary! ), instead Ubuntu will be installed in this case as if it were any other Windows program. This also makes it easy to uninstall later, in case you don’t like it. Why would someone want to do this?...

July 26, 2009 · 2 min · 244 words · Joseph Herrera

15 Best Windows 7 Tips and Hacks

But now you want more. You want the cool tips and tricks that make Windows 7 fun! So here are the best ones to help you get the most out of your new OS. In Part 2, we will be looking at advanced tips for usability, performance, and security. The cool thing is you’re free to also rearrange system tray icons. Reorder them on the tray or move them outside or back in the tray....

July 23, 2009 · 2 min · 294 words · Carrie Jones

3 Useful Solutions for Printing Booklets on a Mac

It can just be tricky to format and plan the booklet properly for the printing. Here are several apps and methods that can make creating and printing booklets on your Mac incredibly easy. Doing so just necessitates manually rearranging the pages of a PDF or Pages document. To do this manual rearrangement, it’s crucial that you understand how booklets are formatted and bound. Each piece of paper therefore has four pages on it, and theyre folded in half....

July 23, 2009 · 2 min · 290 words · Kenneth Daniels

5 Online Resources For English Language (ESL) Teachers

At the end, I would wonder why the students staggered off looking for the nearest bar. English language teaching isveryhard and one of the hardest parts about it is preparing lesson materials. In real life, it is much more difficult. No wonder a lot of teachers burn out fast. Breaking News English attempts to fill that niche by providing 1000+ news reports and questions for discussion. So there’s something for everyone there....

July 21, 2009 · 2 min · 239 words · Steven Ruiz

How to Restart or Shut Down Your Computer Remotely using Microsoft Outlook

Related I have been using Outlook as my email client for many many moons now. it’s possible for you to get there by hittingTools - Rules and Alerts. If you already have any rules created they will be here. People use these to setup auto-forwards or automated responses. I use these to take actions on my computer. My first rule shuts down my system and the second one restarts the system....

July 21, 2009 · 1 min · 191 words · Julia Mora DDS

Plagiarism Checkers: 5 Free Websites to Catch the Copycats

Content plagiarism on the web spreads as fast as the web itself. With blogging, which is usually written words, an original thought becomes the archetype . Duplicate content is the bane of webmasters and even bloggers. A blogger can see his work being scraped on another site. The bane - a lower page rank by search engines like Google which hatesduplicate content. Many tools exist which help us in sidestepping prickly copyright issues....

July 21, 2009 · 3 min · 483 words · Barbara Jackson

How to Use Mozilla Firefox in Safe Mode

Related The Program menu of our computer lists two shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox. The first is of course the one which starts our Firefox web app. Strangely, we couldn’t care less about the second one. By comparing the performance, we can narrow down and fix the cause of any problem. We can choose toExitor go for the other two options -Continue In Safe ModeorMake Changes and Restart. Continue in Safe Mode The internet tool starts in Safe Mode with all customizations disabled....

July 20, 2009 · 2 min · 219 words · Matthew Obrien

Folx: An Automatic Download Manager for Mac

Related “Hi, my name’s J and I’m a Downloadaholic.” I could spend hours just staring at the download progress bars." I could hear the murmurs among the members of the DD - Downloadaholic D’Anonymous. My heart beats faster. Still I continued, “I tried to stop, believe me I did. And I almost succeeded. I paused again and glanced at the group leader. He nodded as a sign for me to continue....

July 19, 2009 · 2 min · 354 words · Megan Reed

5 Ways to Do a Site-Specific Search Using Search Engines

Search and search engines are the glue that binds the WWW together. Search engines bring us to the doorstep of the right information resources. But very frequently, we need to dig deeper into a single site to harvest its information. That is why most well designed websites/blogs/directories have internal site-specific search engines. There have been sites which I could have loved more but alas for a search box of its own....

July 17, 2009 · 2 min · 406 words · Melissa Forbes