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The MakeUseOf’s Online Shopping Guide

Internet shopping requires knowing a lot more than just products. You need to know where to find reviews, how to shop safely, how to compare prices, and — above all else — how to get the best deals from your favorite sites, like Amazon, Walmart, and many other online retailers.This guide is available to download as… read more »

A Complete Beginner’s Guide to iOS 11 for iPhone & iPad

So you’ve just bought your first iPhone or iPad, and you’re a little unsure where to begin. Fortunately, smartphones aren’t that complicated and Apple’s are designed from the ground up with usability in mind. In spite of this, first time iOS users can often feel perplexed. So we’ve put together a small guide that we think will… read more »

How to Use Gmail Offline: The Complete Guide

Anyone who deals with emails knows that processing emails require an active internet connection. A spotty internet connection could leave you with limited or even no access to your emails. What if you could set up Gmail offline and access all your emails without internet? It would be a real boon, especially when you’re traveling… read more »

A Short Guide to X299 Motherboards and Intel Core i9s

Intel’s new and fastest line of processors, the new Core i9 series, has drawn significant attention. It puts the company ahead of its chief rival, AMD, in the speed wars and the core wars. But if you want a taste of the action, you need a new motherboard to go with it: the X299 chipset…. read more »

How to Calculate Basic Statistics in Excel: A Beginner’s Guide

Despite not being as powerful as software specifically for statistics, Excel is actually quite adept at running basic calculations, even without add-ins (though there are some add-ins that make it even better). You probably know that it can do arithmetic, but did you know that it can also quickly get percentage change, averages, standard deviation… read more »

How to Use VirtualBox: User’s Guide

With a virtual machine like VirtualBox you can virtually install multiple operating systems, without having to buy any new hardware. Maybe you’ve heard of virtual machines (VM), but never tried one out yourself. You might be scared that you won’t set it up correctly or don’t know where to find a copy of your preferred… read more »

A Beginner’s Guide to Mac File Versioning

File Versioning is an overlooked feature of macOS. It is a feature that uses the restorative powers of Time Machine to recover older versions of your documents. Versioned file systems are nothing new, but many still don’t realise their Mac can do this. With the arrival of Apple’s new file system APFS, versioning is becoming… read more »

JSON Python Parsing: A Simple Guide

JSON (stands for “JavaScript Object Notation”) is a text-based format which facilitates data interchange between diverse applications. For example, an application written in C++ running on Windows can easily exchange JSON data with an application written in python and running on Linux. Its simplicity and flexibility has led to widespread usage in recent years, especially… read more »

Privacy and Windows 10: Your Guide to Windows Telemetry

Windows 10 was a huge success after it launched in 2015. As of March 2017, it was running on over a quarter of Desktop computers worldwide, only trailing Windows 7, which was released six years prior. Microsoft appeared to have listened to feedback about Windows 8 and sought to mix the best of Windows 7… read more »

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