Kiran Upadhyay

Panoramio is a site that allows you to share your digital pictures of certain places anywhere in the world. The main difference between this and something like Picasa is the fact that Google integrates their Google Maps so you can see where the picture was taken on a map. You can look at some popular favorite places or show off your own. Like I said, Panoramio is property of Google and is awesome. I do not know how I had never heard of it before today! Let’s take a look at how it works. Let us head on over to their website and sign up as you cannot use your Google ID. When you get to the site, it will look like this and the sign in button will appear in the upper right hand corner. Fill out the requested information and continue. When you have completed, you will see a screen that looks similar to this. You can click on Upload your photos to start or you can check out the places or tags buttons at the top of the page. Once you click on “Upload your photos”, you will see th...

The Apple Tablet is here and its officially called the Apple iPad . Steve Jobs is demoing the new Apple iPad right now live and you can follow the Engadget live blog to get all the updates as they come through. Apple iPad Tablet “SO all of us use laptops and smartphones… the question has arisen; is there room for something in the middle. We’ve wondered for years as well — in order to create that category, they have to be far better at doing some key tasks… better than the laptop, better than the smartphone” “What kind of tasks? Browsing the web. Doing email. Enjoying and sharing pics. Watching videos. Enjoying music. Playing games. Reading ebooks. If there’s gonna be a third category, it has to be better at these tasks — otherwise it has no reason for being.” Powered with an amazing 10 hours of battery life, the Apple iPad has a full capacitive multitouch, and is available with 16-64GB flash storage. The Apple iPad is .5 inches thin, weighs 1.5 pounds and has a 9.7 inch I...

I’m not really the type of person that sends faxes all that often. There may be an occasion or two when I have to forward information to my insurance company or the Human Resources department at work, but those times are very few and far between. However, since I don’t fax very often, whenever I do have a need to send a fax I used to scramble to find an available fax machine. After I started writing for MakeUseOf, I decided to reassess this occasional need and come up with a solution that would make use of available free online technologies and resources. I started looking for an answer to the question, “Can I send an email to a fax machine?” And so began my quest into the world of free online faxing. The only requirement that I set when I started this search was that the resource must be free, it must allow, at a minimum, a full textual document to be sent over the Internet. The ability to send formatted documents would be a plus, but since most of the time I just need to send over ...

God Mode is an interesting name for it and perhaps it should be dropped.  I say this for several reasons.  First of all, it’s not true to its name because it really doesn’t do anything above and beyond what Windows Vista and Windows 7 allow us to do already.  Secondly, the term “God Mode”, contrary to popular thought, does not really need to be part of the process. That being said, God Mode is a title that it has acquired and therefore it is pretty widely known as such.  The God Mode hack for Windows Vista and Windows 7 is a quick and easy way to make a panel that offers quick and easy access to quite the exhaustive list of Windows settings. In this article I would like to share how to do the god mode hack AND several ways to make better use of the shortcut once created. Let me first mention that it has been purported that this hack can have adverse effects on a 64 bit Windows Vista system so please don’t attempt this if that is your operating system. ...

There’s lots of ways to watch TV online , or to watch news online. But if you want your video viewing to be an educational experience, consider watching entire university courses online. Watching free video lectures is easier to do than you might think. All around the world top-tier universities are offering videos of entire college courses for free. Whether you’re a college-educated Westerner looking for a refresher, or a proud citizen of a developing country unable to afford university tuition, this is an amazing opportunity you should take advantage of. Watching these free video lectures won’t earn you a degree, but it will give you a great deal of knowledge and understanding – and that’s a powerful thing. Best of all: finding these courses is easy, provided you know the proper places to look. Teaching you the proper places to look is what we’re all about here at MakeUseOf. The OpenCourseWare Consortium Simply put, the OpenCourseWare Consortium is the best place to begin look...

Those of us that have been using “the Twitter” for a while have it pretty much figured out by now.  We hop onto our favorite free Twitter tools like TweetDeck, quickly glance at our many columns of rapidly-updating information, check out trending topics, and casually send replies and retweets.  This type of usage is no big deal to the savvy geek elite, but many non-geeks are easily overwhelmed by some of the new concepts Twitter presents. Seesmic released a new free Twitter tool today called Seesmic Look which aims to gently immerse the general public in the real-time web.  Seesmic Look is free and is exclusively for Windows. The first thing you will notice about Seesmic Look is that you are not required to log into Twitter when you open the free Twitter tool.  The main screen displays a very good looking showcase of the most recent trending topics with accompanying explanations.  Clicking one of the trending topics immediately takes you to a list of peop...