Sunday, July 14, 2013

6 New Articles on MakeUseOf

Cool Websites and Tools [July 13th 2013]
Know What Software To Uninstall With Should I Remove It?
4 Things You Didn’t Know About BitTorrent
Don’t Want To Pay For Red Hat Linux? Try CentOS Instead
Instagram Adds Support For Photo And Video Embeds [Updates]
What Has Google Killed In The Past 7 Years?

Cool Websites and Tools [July 13th 2013]

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 09:36 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 website round-ups delivered to your daily email, subscribe here. Clickless Menu – Whether you are looking to copy the text, or search for it [...]

Continue reading the article

Read full article: Cool Websites and Tools [July 13th 2013]

Know What Software To Uninstall With Should I Remove It?

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 07:30 PM PDT

Here at MakeUseOf, we've put out many articles reviewing and highlighting software that allows you to completely and cleanly uninstall applications from your system. One issue many of you run into is not knowing which of your installed programs are essential. When you buy a new PC, it's going to come with at least one or two pre-installed programs that you will want to remove immediately. You need a way to tell apart bloatware from useful software. Should I Remove It? will tell you just that.

Continue reading the article

Read full article: Know What Software To Uninstall With Should I Remove It?

4 Things You Didn’t Know About BitTorrent

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 01:30 PM PDT

What do you think of when you hear the word "BitTorrent"? It probably depends on who you are. If you're an average Internet user, you think of free stuff. If you're the president of a large multimedia corporation you think of pirates, grabbing your goodies without paying. And if you're not technically inclined, you think of the magical way in which your tech-savvy friends find all that great stuff they didn't pay for.

Continue reading the article

Read full article: 4 Things You Didn’t Know About BitTorrent

Don’t Want To Pay For Red Hat Linux? Try CentOS Instead

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 11:30 AM PDT

In case you don't know already, most of the web is powered by Linux -- Facebook, Twitter, Google, and a vast majority of other major Internet sites use Linux for their servers. While server administrators can choose between multiple distributions for their enterprise or server setups, the primary leader of these distributions is Red Hat. However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL for short, costs a lot of money in support fees. If RHEL interests you but money is an issue, then it's almost a given to try CentOS.

Continue reading the article

Read full article: Don’t Want To Pay For Red Hat Linux? Try CentOS Instead

Instagram Adds Support For Photo And Video Embeds [Updates]

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 10:30 AM PDT

Instagram is making it easy for you to tell your stories – introducing Instagram photo and video embeds. Instagram did not previously have an embed option, unlike its rival, Vine. Photo and video embeds will increase the reach and also give us another option to share our photo and video stories. The new embed option is only available for photos and videos marked as Public.

Continue reading the article

Read full article: Instagram Adds Support For Photo And Video Embeds [Updates]

What Has Google Killed In The Past 7 Years?

Posted: 13 Jul 2013 09:20 AM PDT

Earlier this month, we had to say goodbye to Google Reader, a much-loved RSS reader. Whenever Google kills one of their products, disappointment inevitably spreads across the Internet.

Continue reading the article

Read full article: What Has Google Killed In The Past 7 Years?