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makeuseof
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How to Quickly Restore Deleted Data in Vista
Windows Vista has been out for quite a bit and although there has been much dispute on whether or not XP is better, it’s...
 
makeuseof
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Glary Utilities - System Maintenance Made Easy
Slow, cluttered up, lots of dangling shortcuts, invalid registry entries, long startup times, these are all common problems for...
 
Ellen M
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ManyCam - Do More Things With Your Webcam
There are so many things you can do with a webcam or camera hooked up to your computer. You can do anything from take a picture to film a movie. There are many expensive programs that replaces elaborate hardware video and audio mixers but with the power...
Glary Utilities - System Maintenance Made Easy
Slow, cluttered up, lots of dangling shortcuts, invalid registry entries, long startup times, these are all common problems for Windows users. Keeping track of everything and performing maintenance tasks can get cumbersome sometimes but not if you use...
 
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Get Assisted By Butler On Your Mac
If you’re an OS X user you’ll have most probably used Quicksilver or at least heard of it. Well a few months ago I kind of got sick of Quicksilver and wanted to try something new.  I eventually stumbled upon Butler.Butler is a really easy to use...
 
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Amic E-Mail Backup - A Good Thing in a Small Package
Good things they say come in small sizes. The Amic free email backup utility proves this idiom to the letter. Behind this 1.3 MB tool is Alexandru Marias, a computer programmer whose belief lies in creating easy to use Windows tools. After using the...
 
Sky Kid
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Ncleaner - The App That Tells CCleaner To Take A Hike
Today we will be taking a look at nCleaner. It is a free Windows system cleaning application. This app will let you clean your system, applications, free more disk space, boost your system’s speed and get more stability and privacy protection. All for...
 
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Ncleaner - The App That Tells CCleaner To Take A Hike
Today we will be taking a look at nCleaner. It is a free Windows system cleaning application. This app will let you clean your system, applications, free more disk space, boost your system’s speed and get more stability and privacy protection. All for...
 
makeuseof
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Organize your Music Collection Effectively With Media JukeBox
Sometime back we did a poll here at Make Use Of asking our readers about their favorite music player. I was just going through...
 
makeuseof
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Ncleaner - The App That Tells CCleaner To Take A Hike
Today we will be taking a look at nCleaner. It is a free Windows system cleaning application. This app will let you clean your...
8 days ago MakeUseOf.com | Topics: Cool Software..., Windows
 
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Ncleaner - The App That Tells CCleaner To Take A Hike
Today we will be taking a look at nCleaner. It is a free Windows system cleaning application. This app will let you clean your system, applications, free more disk space, boost your system’s speed and get more stability and privacy protection. All for...
 
Jason R. Hunter
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Ncleaner - The App That Tells CCleaner To Take A Hike
Today we will be taking a look at nCleaner. It is a free Windows system cleaning application. This app will let you clean your system, applications, free more disk space, boost your system’s speed and get more stability and privacy protection. All for...
 
Yinka
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Ncleaner - The App That Tells CCleaner To Take A Hike
Today we will be taking a look at nCleaner. It is a free Windows system cleaning application. This app will let you clean your system, applications, free more disk space, boost your system’s speed and get more stability and privacy protection. All for...
 
makeuseof
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The Challenging World Of Image Editing
Pictures are visual memories and story tellers. Creating images, enhancing a photo, revealing details and adding effects is...
 
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The Challenging World Of Image Editing
Pictures are visual memories and story tellers. Creating images, enhancing a photo, revealing details and adding effects is like changing the perspective, like telling a story with different words from different angles. The list of tools available is...
 
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SteadyState - Mess up, Reboot & Everything Is Fixed!
Microsoft is offering their users a piece of free magic software, called SteadyState. We have all been there late at night and our virtual guard is down. Maybe you hopped on an unsecured network and decided to browse some hardcore porn sites bit torrent...
 
Sky Kid
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10 Tools to Overhaul Your Windows Interface
Windows interfaces have evolved steadily with time. Windows XP was a step forward in interfaces over previous versions and so is Windows Vista over Windows XP.The thing with the Windows interface is that it looks pretty for some time then we get tired...
Revo Uninstaller Will Hunt Down Your Bloatware
I have been looking for something like Revo Uninstaller for years.  If you’ve ever used “Add or Remove Programs” on Windows, you know that it’s slow, uninformative, and sometimes not very good at its sole function: uninstalling things. Revo...
 
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3 Windows Text Editors For Programmers
If you’re into programming then you’ll know how much easier it is to use a text editor that has syntax highlighting so that you can see if you left a bracket open, curly bracket open or mistyped something. In this article I will review 3 lightweight...
 
makeuseof
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Revo Uninstaller Will Hunt Down Your Bloatware
I have been looking for something like Revo Uninstaller for years.  If you’ve ever used “Add or Remove...
 
makeuseof
makeuseof posted a blog entry
10 Tools to Overhaul Your Windows Interface
Windows interfaces have evolved steadily with time. Windows XP was a step forward in interfaces over previous versions and so...
 
makeuseof
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ChipIn - The Easy Way to Raise Funds Online
ChipIn is a neat and free web app that allows you to raise money online easily and quickly - without a lot of complicated...
 
makeuseof
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3 Windows Text Editors For Programmers
If you’re into programming then you’ll know how much easier it is to use a text editor that has syntax highlighting...
 
makeuseof
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IrFanView Blows Windows Viewer Out of the Water
While you’re busy editing your images with Photoshop, Gimp, or a photo-manager like Picasa, what kind of image viewer are...
 
makeuseof
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1 Free Program to Run Windows on your Mac
Virtualization seems to be one of the great buzzwords these days. Everyone wants to be running an operating system other than...
14 days ago MakeUseOf.com | Topics: Cool Software..., How-To, Mac, os x
 
Ellen M
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1 Free Program to Run Windows on your Mac
Virtualization seems to be one of the great buzzwords these days.  Everyone wants to be running an operating system other than their own.  My first experience with this sort of thing was trying to run Linux alongside Windows XP using VMware.  My...
 
Sukij
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Spyware Terminator – Free Real-time Spyware Protection
I’m a pretty careful guy so I tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to protecting my home machine from the ever increasing malware infestations we seem to be subjected to while surfing, downloading and uploading on the internet. Some might...
 
makeuseof
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Eight Great Songbird Extensions Worth A Test Drive
If you’re not familiar with Songbird then here’s an article by Mark from a few months back in case you missed it.I...
 
makeuseof
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Transmission, The Lightweight BitTorrent Client
Transmission is a free and open source bit torrent client that runs natively on multiple operating systems and is available in...
 
Sky Kid
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Remove Censorship & Browse Anonymously With Xerobank
“Reclaim your Privacy!”That is the claim of Xerobank, yet another group of software developers amongst the increasingly competitive world of web browsers. Firefox is now taking on close to 20% of the browsing market, Internet Explorer has 70% or so...
 
makeuseof
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Remove Censorship & Browse Anonymously With Xerobank
“Reclaim your Privacy!”That is the claim of Xerobank, yet another group of software developers amongst the...
 
makeuseof
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Sync Yourself with Syncplicity… With a Gift For MakeUseOf Readers!
Some time back I wrote an article on Syncplicity. First off let me start off by making clear the cheers/boos system that I used...
21 days ago MakeUseOf.com | Topics: Cool Software..., Mac, Windows, backup
 
makeuseof
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Spyware Terminator – Free Real-time Spyware Protection
I’m a pretty careful guy so I tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to protecting my home machine from the...
 
Daniel Smith - Smithereens Blog
“Useless” Websites you should Bookmark
There are so many websites out there that it’s getting harder and harder for developers to come up with a good idea. Since all the ‘good ideas’ have been taken, website owners need to come up with innovative ways to portray their web...
 
Ellen M
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Last Minute Spring Cleaning of your Windows XP System
Summer starts today. It’s the longest day of the year and it’s not too late for some last minute spring cleaning. Of course keeping your system clear of junk is always a good idea. However, here’s a quick six step guide to unclutter your system,...
 
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Feedly - A New Firefox Start Page Addon You Can’t Afford To Miss
Here on Make Use Of, we’ve talked about start pages several times before, and we’re doing it again now. This time, it’s about Feedly.Nick mentioned Feedly in the comments of this Make Use Of article and the fact that it’s just a Firefox...
 
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Get Geeky and Fix your PC with HijackThis
What is your nastiest experience with viruses and/or other malware? The other day just before presentations my friend came to me with his laptop and showed me the havoc that had reigned on it! He had burnt some discs for others, using data from their USB...
 
Kenneth LeFebvre
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Feedly - A New Firefox Start Page Addon You Can’t Afford To Miss
Here on Make Use Of, we’ve talked about start pages several times before, and we’re doing it again now. This time, it’s about Feedly.Nick mentioned Feedly in the comments of this Make Use Of article and the fact that it’s just a Firefox...
Keep your Firefox user data synced with Weave
With the unexpected news that Google was dropping its Browser Sync Firefox addon, attention is now turning to Mozilla Labs’ “Weave” project.Weave is also a Firefox add-on and its purpose is to allow you to backup your Firefox settings such as your...
 
Sukij
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Last Minute Spring Cleaning of your Windows XP System
Summer starts today. It’s the longest day of the year and it’s not too late for some last minute spring cleaning. Of course keeping your system clear of junk is always a good idea. However, here’s a quick six step guide to unclutter your system,...
 
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Last Minute Spring Cleaning of your Windows XP System
Summer starts today. It’s the longest day of the year and it’s not too late for some last minute spring cleaning. Of course keeping your system clear of junk is always a good idea. However, here’s a quick six step guide to unclutter your system,...
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Mark ONeill
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How about some WINE with your Linux?
There are thousands and thousands of applications available for Linux, and even more being developed as you read this. As much as I love Linux and Open Source, sometimes you happen to love a Windows application so much that you wonder if only this was...
 
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4 Tools for More Productive Twittering
Having recently joined the Twitter Bandwagon I was happy to see all the tools and software people have already developed to interact with the service. From Twitter trends to inserting ‘currently listening to’, let me show you five of my favorite...
 
ITbananas
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Sukij
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Trustware Bufferzone Has Your Browser’s Back
When it comes to your security, no web browser is perfect - and no malware app is going to catch everything. I came across BufferZone Free a few weeks ago and have been running it since, and I’m pretty impressed.BufferZone adds another layer of...
 
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