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For quite a while now, Aibek and I have been discussing how to turn Make Use Of into a better site for our readers and one of the areas we’ve been looking at is the comments area. Our long-time readers will know that the comments area has been a bit on the plain side [...]

Most things will work well on Mac but unfortunately, every operating system has its limitations. On Macs, we have what we call “quirks”. These quirks are random issues which are pretty simple to solve but Apple just won’t. OS X users will then rally on the Apple Support forums to try and unravel the solution. [...]

You’re not so impressed yet by those various shapes of USB flash drives that we’ve shown you before. Here comes another one, which is shaped like a bullet.

By Andrew Liszewski
It’s easy to share a digital photo via email or a public website, but how do you accommodate those family members who haven’t quite embraced the digital age just yet? Well one option is to upgrade your digital photo frame to one of these models from Prinics which feature a built-in 5×7 printer. [...]

This week on the show we reformat your Mac, make some cool ringtones, view your Linux partition from Windows and look at a really awesome Firefox extension (think Quicksilver for your browser.)
I’d love to hear from you. Send me your MP3 files containing comments about the show, reviews of your favourite websites or just general [...]

I have way too much stuff - so much in fact that it’s often difficult to keep track of it all. Rather than get rid of some of it though, I’ve done what any self-respecting person who calls himself a geek and a collector would do: I turned to the internet.
In the process I managed [...]

Do you dual-boot Windows and Linux?  If you do, then you’re probably familiar with the different file systems that the two operating systems use and the difficulty in transferring files between the two.  While most modern Linux operating systems can read and write to Windows file systems (NTFS and FAT/FAT32), Windows can’t read or write [...]

No one can argue that one of the most popular blogging platforms these days is Wordpress. The solid framework makes it the geek’s choice, but Wordpress further gains its popularity among laymen because of its flexibility for expanding its functions and looks. There are thousands of plugins and themes available to be downloaded and used [...]

By Andrew Liszewski
If Antiques Roadshow has taught me anything, it’s that people will pay ridiculous amounts of money for the smallest bit of nostalgia, which is probably why something as big as this Classic Storefront Rocket Ride available from Hammacher Schlemmer comes with a $10,000 price tag. (Instead of the nickel it would have cost [...]

In this article we will be looking at a free utility called Nircmd which is an excellent tool that offers a lot of features.  When used with some imagination, it can accomplish wonders.  But first let’s see what Nircmd has to offer.
Nircmd allows you to open the CD tray, dial an internet connection, increase & [...]

By Andrew Liszewski
While those light-up shirts that respond to sound or wireless networks might get you the odd look or the occasional chuckle, the Love Meter T-Shirt has the potential to get you a lot more. Apparently the concepts of love and proximity are interchangeable, so as you move closer to another person wearing one [...]

By Andrew Liszewski
Over on Instructables, Tom Ward has a great tutorial on how to create a rather professional looking electronic business card that scrolls your contact info via a 5×15 matrix of red LEDs. Not surprisingly, the design is considerably more expensive than a traditional business card, but it’s definitely the type of thing a [...]

By Andrew Liszewski
If you spend your days on a busy street corner preaching to the masses at the top of your lungs, you’ve probably noticed that people tend to ignore you more often than not. But don’t worry, I’m sure they care what you have to say, it’s probably just that they can’t hear you [...]

I’ve got to say that this is about one of the coolest table lamps I have ever seen. The brain in question is an accurate 3D modeling of the artist’s brain, which was obtained through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and then “printed” using a 3D printer. The result, as [...]

If you tend to hoard your old PC parts with the hopes of one day cannibalizing them and producing something great, then this project might get the creative juices flowing. It is a DIY Solid State Disk (SSD) that uses a USB hub and a bunch of memory sticks to create a kind of slapped [...]

While these 1-megabit cufflinks are not officially for sale, you might be able to persuade maker Jmarler to make you some if you offer the right incentive. And it is always possible that they will make it over to CAKE. Usually, geeky cufflinks are a tacky affair, but I have to say that I like [...]

It’s funny flash drive Friday and you are given the opportunity to start making backups of your most important files on a 4GB memory that looks like a mooncake - a Chinese pastry traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Features:

USB 2.0
Portable and easy operate
Plug and play
Support Window 2000/XP/Vista, MAC OS and Linux
Dimension: 43 x 34 x [...]