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Linux rarely needs to be rebooted. But when it does, it’s often slow to boot. Fortunately, there are ways to speed things up. Some of these methods are not terribly More...

Does Linux have what it takes to meet the needs of the corporate desktop? Jack Wallen thinks so. Here’s his list of office apps that can handle everything from word processing to project management to data More...

With the unsure economy and Microsoft Vista failing to gain overwhelming acceptance, many people are considering a migration to Linux. As a supporter of Linux and open source, I regard this new popularity as a coup — but it comes with a hint of More...

Make Use Of is well known for publishing articles mainly about useful stuff. Well, it’s time to turn the tables around, pull off my tie, untuck my shirt and have some fun. Maybe some of the applications are to be created for not useful, or just More...

Portable applications for your USB drive or other portable More...

by Gina Trapani Companies like Google and Microsoft give away free software as a courtesy to their users to hook more people on their services ("free as in beer.") But open source organizations are often non-profit and made up of volunteer More...

  by Gina Trapani A year of AJAX, APIs, mashups, tags, maps, aggregators, feeds, launchers, shortcuts and search: 2005 ushered in an explosion of swanky new webapps and desktop software that munges, tracks and transmits data every which way. Here More...

  by Gina Trapani2006 was another wild and wacky year in software and web development. While Google launched or acquired a new product every week, Intel Macs made the unholy marriage of Windows and OS X possible, Joe Schmoe's became the self-made More...