13 New Articles on MakeUseOf

Cool Websites and Tools [June 10th 2013]
Add The World’s Largest Social Network & Online Game To Pidgin
Selling Stuff On Facebook: Everything You Need To Know
How To Optimize SSD Speed & Performance
7 Ways to Ensure Your Loved Ones’ PC Will Never Need Fixing
Songbird Classic: Cross-Platform & Open Source Music Manager
Vimeo Channels Offer A More Diverse Watching Experience Than YouTube [Stuff to Watch]
Travel Postcards Are Dead: 4 Ways To Share Your Travel Stories With Friends & Family
Recordium Highlights & Annotates Your Voice Recordings [iOS]
Reporting From Tech Land: 8 Video Websites With The Best And Latest On Technology
Should You Use AMD Proprietary Graphics Drivers & How Do You Install Them? [Ubuntu]
Start Your Own Blog Effortlessly With Web Hosting Hub [Giveaway]
Say the Same Thing: The Next Big Word Game

Cool Websites and Tools [June 10th 2013]

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 09:31 PM PDT

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool websites round-ups delivered to your email daily email subscribe here....

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Add The World’s Largest Social Network & Online Game To Pidgin

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 07:31 PM PDT

With MSN (or Windows Live Messenger) being recently laid to rest and Skype not offering a protocol for us all to connect through, it's safe to say that all-purpose messengers like Pidgin are slowly falling out of favor. Nevertheless, it's still my all-time favorite and - although it's ancient - I am still a firm believer in AIM as a messenger. I still use it and many of my friends still use it. Text-based IMing is all I really care for and AIM gets the job done.

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Selling Stuff On Facebook: Everything You Need To Know

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 06:30 PM PDT

With Facebook, we can take to the Internet, raise our For Sale signs high, and proclaim "Yes! I do want your money for this toaster with an unpredictable short in the cord!" Before you decide to go selling items on Facebook, check out these tips below. Here on MakeUseOf, we really do have everything you need to know for selling stuff on Facebook.

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How To Optimize SSD Speed & Performance

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 05:31 PM PDT

Although Solid State Drives can deliver break-neck computing speeds, most users don't know a nasty secret - your drive might not be properly configured. The reason is that SSDs don't come optimized out of the box. Before the drive reaches peak performance, the user must engage in a fair amount of tweaking and preparatory work. In particular, AHCI mode in BIOS/EFI must be engaged and the correct AHCI drivers must be installed.

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7 Ways to Ensure Your Loved Ones’ PC Will Never Need Fixing

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:30 PM PDT

Are you tech support for your family or friends? Do you receive frantic calls because they've installed malware or somehow managed to break their computer and they need you to fix it? This can be extremely obnoxious -- not to mention time-consuming. If you're tech support, here are some tips to help you make your users' computers more newbie-proof. Once you've got everything set up right, your users will hopefully leave you alone so you can get on with your life and have more precious free time.

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Songbird Classic: Cross-Platform & Open Source Music Manager

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT

When Songbird first hit the Internet in 2006, it promised a new era in media management and web integration. Sadly, many of the critics turned on Songbird when it failed to deliver after a number of years and, today, it seems like this music player is nearly forgotten. Back in 2010, the cross-platform Songbird dropped support for Linux as part of its plan for reinventing itself as it moved forward. Has Songbird refined itself and progressed enough to warrant a second chance? Let's see!

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Vimeo Channels Offer A More Diverse Watching Experience Than YouTube [Stuff to Watch]

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 03:30 PM PDT

One thing that has always annoyed me about YouTube is a lack of proper channels. A typical "YouTube channel" is merely one user's collection of videos. Not so on Vimeo; a channel is a user-created collection of videos from any of the service's content producers. Channels revolve around themes and interests.

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Travel Postcards Are Dead: 4 Ways To Share Your Travel Stories With Friends & Family

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Sure, we all have Facebook and Instagram to share some photos and the occasional update, but don't you wish your family and friends could really take part in your travels, while sitting comfortable on their own chairs? Below you'll find several awesome services fit for all kinds of travel and travellers, that will help you share your past, present and future trips with style.

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Recordium Highlights & Annotates Your Voice Recordings [iOS]

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

If you're a student or someone who regularly records lectures, meetings, or music, a new feature rich iOS app called Recordium allows you to manage, highlight, annotate, edit, and share recordings right from an iPhone - the app runs rings around Voice Memos when it comes to what can be done with audio. Two years ago, I highlighted and reviewed Blue Microphone's Blue FiRe as the best audio recorder app for the iPhone, but Recordium now surpasses it.

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Reporting From Tech Land: 8 Video Websites With The Best And Latest On Technology

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT

You can complain about information overload or you can just enjoy swimming in the digital stream. Actually, we shouldn't crib about the fact that there is too much out there vying for our attention; we could instead look into our information diet and make a conscious effort to pick up the choicest morsels. Maybe, these ten technology video websites will help.

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Should You Use AMD Proprietary Graphics Drivers & How Do You Install Them? [Ubuntu]

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 10:01 AM PDT

If you have an AMD or nVidia graphics card or chip in your desktop or laptop, you have some serious graphics processing power under the hood. However, these highly respected graphics vendors like to keep their secrets, which includes making their drivers proprietary software. Ubuntu and other Linux distributions use open source drivers to make them work. But what's the difference between the two, and how do you install the proprietary driver in Ubuntu if you decide to use it?

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Start Your Own Blog Effortlessly With Web Hosting Hub [Giveaway]

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 09:20 AM PDT

This week, I'm taking a look at Web Hosting Hub and their $5.99 per month service, which includes free domain name registration, unlimited disk space and bandwidth and a whole lot of other features you can read about here. Web Hosting Hub is one of the many recommended web hosts listed on our Best Web Hosting Services page. We're going to be giving away 10 accounts that include year's worth of free hosting plus domain name (valued at $720), so if you could use the webspace be sure to enter at the end of this article for a chance to win!

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Say the Same Thing: The Next Big Word Game

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:59 AM PDT

Say the Same Thing (STSG) is a new game, available as a free iOS and Android download, which comes to us courtesy of the band OK Go. Letterpress made a splash when it launched last year, Pictionary-like Draw Something was a huge hit, and there's lots of popular iOS word games like 7 Little Words that will keep you busy for hours. STSG is a new word association game that brings a bit of vocabulary fun into your day.

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