Best Online Resources For New and Experienced Dog Owners

The day finally came where we got to take home our new baby. Uh oh… WHAT NOW?! I’m sure I’m not alone in this panicked, first-time puppy parent feeling. The section I like best about this site is their extensive info on every breed imaginable. Find the perfect dog for you and/or your family. Now what?". I immediately thought “Oh no! My dog has Parvo!” Looking back, it was just an upset stomach but I didn’t know the difference....

July 6, 2009 · 1 min · 176 words · Joe Vaughan

How To Get Companies To Send You Free Stuff With No Catches

Oh yes, some things in life really are free. We slept in shifts, trying to keep her between us. Earlier, James offered some great methods to find the best hotel deals. These work just like frequent flier miles, and they add up quickly. One of my favorite rewards programs isGoldPointsPlus. Now that’s sweet. Think about it - what’s the one area where families usually spend the most money every week?...

July 6, 2009 · 2 min · 247 words · Christopher King

How To Access Hotmail Email Messages from Your Gmail Account

I know I do. I have heaps that I regularly check; work, websites, personal. I decided I had to do something. What I first did, was to downloadMozilla Thunderbird. I set up of all my Hotmail and Gmail accounts and it worked very well. Thankfully, Gmail had a solution. Then, forward all my emails, including those in my Hotmail email account, to that Gmail account. This way I would be able to access hotmail email from Gmail....

July 5, 2009 · 2 min · 272 words · Adrian Ramirez

How to Recover Deleted Pictures from a Digicam Memory Card

Related We come from dust, we return to dust. Thankfully, it’s for us living beings and not for digital data. A slew of software makes it possible torecover fileswhich have been lost. Where would digital forensics be without them? I call PC Inspector Smart Recovery a " doomsday' software. The software is compatible withWindows XP (not tested for Vista). Installation is a no-brainer. And so is the use - in five simple steps....

July 5, 2009 · 2 min · 236 words · Michelle Woodard

Students: Free Apps To Help You Excel at School [Mac only]

Related School can be one of the best things that ever happens in someone’s life. Or it can be the worst. Luckily, in this digital age, everybody can turn to their computer for help. There are many applications dedicated to improve your study skills, as well as the overall school experience. Schoolhouse Update: No longer available. The first thing to do to achieve a better academic grades is to organize everything into one easy-to-observe placeholder....

July 5, 2009 · 2 min · 411 words · Rebecca Wilson

Milo- Find Cheapest Local Store for the Item You Want to Buy

Related Have you heard about Milo yet? In other words, it’s a multi-search engine for shopping. That is brick and mortar shops as opposed to somewhere on the Internet. Are you surprised as well?? And when do you find that out? When you get to the store, of course. I hate taking pointless trips! And I hate being unhappy even more! Enter Milo, which will help you answer these three questions:...

July 4, 2009 · 1 min · 206 words · Joshua Howard

The 3 Best Online Radio Players For Your Desktop

Best of all, it’s ad free and virtually indetectable (sound aside, of course). your gear won’t even feel it, and the player window itself is teeny tiny. you might search by genre, language, online grid or region. There’s also a section called ‘Salsa, Bachata, Merengue’ and a category of Nerd Music. The sheer extent of the radio database is the best thing about Screamer. Screamer doubles as a recorder and encoder!...

July 1, 2009 · 2 min · 278 words · Michael Black

Roblox-Based Free Virtual World for Kids

Related My darling wife was volunteering at the world-famousPonoka Stampede(props to my cowboy homies). She saw a kid playing some cool games and asked what they were. “, I imagine the child said. “Your husband should check it out and write about it on MakeUseOf.com. His article will go straight to the front page of Digg and be Twittered near and far.” Did I mention I imagined that he said this?...

June 29, 2009 · 2 min · 302 words · Anthony Cantu

How to Convert PDF to an Editable Word Document [Windows]

Related This 2.2 MB file sure packs a wallop! Have you ever had aPDFfile that you needed to convert to an editable Word document? How about copying a block of text or a chart from a PDF to Word or another text editor? I can assure you that it has been literally torture over the years. Now, a free product comes moseying along and does the deed AND WELL! Let’s take a look atAnyBizSoft’s PDF to Word Converter....

June 27, 2009 · 2 min · 271 words · Kenneth Elliott

5 Geeky Ways To Ask Someone To Marry You On The Internet

Don’t let distance stop you. Let’s face it, it’s a web 2.0 world. The days of kneeling on one knee beside a restaurant table are long gone. Today, you’ve got text messages, instant messaging and email. Ask her to marry you using the many web technologies that are now at your disposal. In my opinion (and the opinion of several MakeUseOf readers),Weeblyis clearly one of the best. it’s possible for you to aso try aWixif you want a flash one....

June 25, 2009 · 2 min · 230 words · Matthew Harris

MindMapping: 3 Simple Idea Mapping Software for Mac

Related As a writer, I often stuck on a topic. I found that one of the best ways to expand and organize ideas is by mindmapping. Each of these children could also be expanded to grand children, great grand children, and so on. To draw mindmaps using Personal Brain, you write the main idea as the starting point. This app is also available for Windows and Linux. The free version limits users to view only three generations of a map at one time....

June 25, 2009 · 2 min · 286 words · Amber Gibbs

How To Use Photoshop Pen Tool

Aside from the usual plethora of features,Photoshopoffers tools for anyone ranging from budding photographer to astrononomer. Throughout the years, I’ve known Photoshop to be ultra powerful in the pathing arena. First, the base shadow and the shadow reflection on the actual oranges. We will be removing the base shadow and leaving the shadow reflection on the orange for now. Secondly, let’s choose our pen tool ( ). In this case, it’s on top....

June 24, 2009 · 2 min · 232 words · Ian Obrien

The Best Windows 7 Feature: The Taskbar

Related I’ve been a PC my whole life, but have always harbored a secretMacenvy. There are a ton of advantages to Windows, but Macs have recently tickled my fancy. No nagging menus, for a start. But all that existed already. The Windows 7 taskbar added a bunch of useful features and tweaks to make iteven more useful. When an utility is running, you’ll see a square around the icon in the taskbar....

June 24, 2009 · 1 min · 178 words · Melissa Avila