Kiran Upadhyay

One thing I’ve always wanted to learn how to participate in was stock market investing. I think a lot of people that don’t invest in stocks choose not to do it because they don’t know how it works, and not knowing how it works makes it incredibly risky. After all, the best way to get good at something is to practice, but you can’t exactly  practice  the stock market. Or can you? In this article, I’ll show you 3 websites that allow you to practice investing in the stock market with virtual money. You can consider them games if you want to, but there aren’t many games out there that can help you make actual money. We Seed We Seed ( directory app ) is one of the best stock market game sites I’ve come across and is what eventually led to the idea of this article. We Seed is free to sign up for and it allows you to invest without any risk. The idea behind We Seed is that the cash you are given is fake, the trades are virtual, but the stock exchange conditions are real. You can build yo

With three email accounts, one for work, one personal and one for MakeUseOf, I find myself spending more time checking my email and trying to keep all the messages under control than actually getting much work done. Luckily, all three email accounts are  Gmail  or Google Apps accounts, and so in an attempt to organise one account, I followed several steps that can be applied to all three. Gmail provides several tools that will help you declutter your inbox and, more importantly, keep it that way. Achieving Inbox Zero is actually a pretty simple task, and maintaining it can be done with minimal effort on your part, as long as you have a decent system in place. These are a few simple steps that can help you put that system into motion and, in addition, keep your archive free of large attachments that take up space, which even with Gmail’s huge capacity, after a few years, it can begin to run out. Set up filters The first step when decluttering your inbox is to create filters. This i

If there was ever a great website to stream series and documentaries, it isn’t YouTube . No offense. MegaVideo , from the same minds of file-sharing website MegaUpload, gets a slightly better shot. It’s fun and easy to browse, has an incredible array of videos and sports one of the best web players I’ve ever seen. The whole shebang is integrated by default; dimming the lights, different aspect ratios and even downloading those videos to your computer. Here’s the catch; it isn’t free. Not that it should come as a surprise to those of you who are already familiar with MegaUpload. Everything works fine at the start, but after exactly 72 minutes of viewing pleasure, the dreaded pop-up appears. The 72 Minute Lock The 72 minute mark seems to be a crucial point in many documentaries and TV series. It might be me, but the MegaVideo time limit seems to appear when it’s least wanted. You have watched 72 minutes of video today. It means you’re not about to finish that show. You

With multiple devices syncing your contacts this way and that, with changes, additions, and deletions from all over the place, it's pretty easy to end up with a muddle mess of data. Thankfully, if you sync your contacts with Google, you've now got a backup plan should everything hit the fan. Google has introduced a restore feature for Google Contacts that allows you to undo any mistakes you've made up with up to 30 days backup. Working a bit like System Restore for Windows, Google takes snapshots of your contacts and restore them to back to the way they were 10 minutes ago, 1 hour ago, yesterday, 1 week ago, or any custom time up to 30 days ago. So next time your iPhone decides to wipe your contacts, or Outlook takes issue with your friend's new address, you can just hop on over to your Google Contacts and hit restore. Brilliant.

Google acquired YouTube in 2006 and subsequently retired its own video upload service in 2009. Google Videos now serves as a sub-search engine for videos. However, material previously uploaded to what used to be Google Video, will continue to be hosted. Not long after incorporating YouTube, Google discontinued development of the Google Video Player in 2007. It also removed the option to download its hosted videos. As a consequence, the GVI format will slowly die out. Do you still have videos in GVI format sticking around and wondering what to do with them? Would you like to know how you can download the remaining Google Video files? If you answered yes, continue reading as this article holds the answers to these questions. What Are Google Video Files Anyways? Essentially, Google Video (.gvi) files are RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format) files of the subtype AVI (Audio Video Interleave). Compared to regular .avi files, they contain an extra list with the FourCC “go

For a long time now, I’ve been dying to finally cut the cord with my cable company. We’ve subscribed to Netflix, I have my Hulu account configured and ready to go, but it’s really hard to take the plunge. My kids love watching live Nick programming. I can’t get enough of Ghost Hunters and Paranormal State. The fact is, we’re hooked on live programming and watching recorded shows just isn’t the same. There are plenty of sites where you can watch live television, and we’ve covered a whole lot of them here at MakeUseOf. A while back, Aibek posted a list of 7 sites where you could find TV shows and Mark covered the popular desktop app Livestation , where you can find just about any news channel you’d want. More recently, I reviewed a few more tools you can use to watch TV on your computer, and then of course there’s the popular Boxee option that Justin recently wrote about. Now with all of those options to choose from, you would think that letting go of cable would be easy.

Most of us search daily and some of us (like myself) even hourly. We rely on Google when doing research for school, looking for seasonal discounts and sales or just finding an answer to any question we keep wondering about. Google is actively experimenting with different interfaces and features to let us try new search experiences. But what it has always missed is a set of good keyboard shortcuts that would make navigating through Google search results much easier. This article attempts to collect and organize various ways to add and use keyboard shortcuts with Google search. 1. Google Instant Keyboard Shortcuts While You Are Typing: Tab / Right arrow — Auto-complete the search term using the top suggestion (to continue typing the next search term) Up / Down keys — Navigate through search suggestions Navigating Search Results: Down arrow + Right arrow — Navigate to the result line you need and preview the page with Google Instant preview Down arrow action pictured below