Jeffry Thurana, Author at Make Tech Easier

Gro for Smart Gardening: Nature Meets Smart Tech [iOS]

Dirt meets data with Gro: an iOS app for smart gardening. It knows what to grow in your yard and helps you along the way. Check it out.

Use Filestream.me to Download Torrent Files without Torrent Client

Want to download torrents but don’t want to be bothered by a torrent client? Check out Filestream.me, a service that will download torrent files for you.

Eight Alternatives to Mailbox Email App on iOS

We’ve just lost the popular Mailbox email app thanks to Dropbox shutting it down. If you were a user, here are several Mailbox alternatives for iOS that you can try.

Add These WordPress Plugins and Get More Traffic to Your Site

You can’t build a site and expect people to find it on their own; you have to give it a boost. These WordPress plugins can help get more traffic to your site.

Manage Your Personal Budget with Wally

Managing a personal budget doesn’t have to be such a chore. If you’re looking for an easy way to manage it on your mobile device, check out Wally.

Your WordPress Site and Telegram Are a Perfect Pair; Here’s How to Link Them

Looking for a way to interact with your audience and reach more readers? Here’s how you can connect WordPress and Telegram.

Search Subtitles for Your Movies with FlixTools Lite [Mac]

Watching movies in a language other than your native one is possible but hard to understand. Here’s how to search subtitles for movies so you’ll enjoy them.

Snap, Create, and Share Your Own Emoji with MiMo Keyboard [iOS]

MiMo Keyboard for iOS came up with a way to create and share emojis using your own pictures. It’s only limited by your imagination. Here’s how it works.

Keep a Beautiful Journal in Mac, iPhone, and iPad with Day One

Day One is a beautiful journaling app that can make you look forward to writing a journal regularly. It’s available for Mac, iOS, and Apple Watch. Check it out.

Easily Create Your Music in Mobile Devices with Music Maker Jam

If you are just starting on your musical journey, Music Maker Jam is an easy-to-use app for Android, iOS and Windows mobile that helps produce great music.

Various Ways to Play Audiobooks on iOS Devices

If you love reading audiobooks but don’t want them taking up space on your iOS device, here are some ways to play audiobooks from alternative locations.

Extend Your MacBook Battery Life with Fruit Juice

Fruit Juice is a battery management app that sits silently in the menubar while analyzing your battery to help extend your Macbook’s bettery life. Here’s how it works.

Manage Your WordPress Blogs with WordPress Desktop App

If you have more than one WordPress blog and want to manage them from your desktop, check out the new WordPress desktop app.

Search, Save, and Display iTunes Song Lyrics with Singer Song Reader

If you have thousands of songs without lyrics, adding the lyrics one by one is a pain! Fortunately, there’s a free Mac app for that called Singer Song Reader; it will help you search, save, and display iTunes song lyrics.

How to Manage Your TV Shows Automatically With Sonarr

The Internet comes with the solution to watch whatever TV shows you want, at whatever time. Sonarr is one of the best tools to do it. Here’s how it works.

Improve Your Mac Sound Quality with Boom

Not 100% happy with the sound quality when listening to music or watching videos on your Mac and yearning for more? Check out Boom 2.

Liquid – The Fastest Way to Get More Information on Selected Text [Mac]

Meet Liquid, your free personal search bar for Mac that helps to simplify the process of getting more information on selected text.

Download Any Video from the Web with Downie

Downie is a Mac-only video downloader tool that is very easy to use. After installing a browser extension, you can download any video from a site just by clicking the browser extension’s icon.

Top Tips and Tricks to Make You a Better iPhoneographer

The iPhone camera is among the best available, which is why iPhone Photography (or iPhoneography) has quickly become an art. Here’s how to get better photos with your iPhone.

Taking Your Best Selfies Using Microsoft Selfie [iOS]

There are many iPhone apps that help take selfies, and now we have a new one from the long time rival of Apple: Microsoft. The app is called Microsoft Selfie. Let’s check it out.

Protect Your Privacy and Unblock Websites with Betternet

Betternet is a free VPN service that lets you surf anonymously on all devices; it can unblock websites and protect your privacy against hackers.

Next: Beautifully-Designed Third-Party Keyboard for iOS

Tiny Heart, the developer behind several top-selling iOS apps, decided to build a perfect keyboard for iOS: Next. Here’s what you need to know about the most-funded app on Kickstarter.

Easily Clean Your Mac Using Dr. Cleaner

Dr. Cleaner is a free Mac utility app that helps to clean your Mac and provides you with better computer performance by optimizing your Mac OS X disk and memory. Here’s how it works.

Create Beautiful Social Graphics with Adobe Post in iOS

Want to create beautiful social graphics quickly? Adobe Post is a free iOS-only app that can help you create stunning social graphics in seconds. Here’s how it works.

Letterspace – A Beautiful Note-Taking and Organizing App with Markdown Support

Letterspace is a light note-taking and organizing app for Mac and iOS. It supports Markdown and can export to multiple formats. Here’s how it works.

Easily Unsubscribe from Newsletters with Mailburn for Gmail [iOS]

Missing important messages in your email? Looking for an easy way to unsubscribe from newsletters? Try Mailburn for iOS.

How To Create a Quick Presentation Using Evernote

If you use Evernote to collect materials for research or other purposes, you can turn them into cool presentations without having to rely on other software. Here’s how.

Delete Multiple Images in Messages to Free Up Space [iOS 9]

Looking at how addicted we are to sharing everything everywhere, we can bloat the Messages app with pictures and videos in no time. For storage-conscious iOS users, here are several ways to delete multiple images in Messages.

How to Turn Web Services Into Mac Apps Using Epichrome

If you are a Mac user and want a dedicated desktop app for your favorite web services, Epichrome can help you turn any web service or website into a stand-alone Mac application.

TextWrangler: a Simple Mac Text Editor on Steroids

TextWrangler, a simple Mac text editor, is not as feature-rich as a full word processor; it’s light and it handles plain and simple text without all the formatting bells and whistles. Check it out.

The Easiest Way to Batch Rename Files in Mac with NameChanger

It’s impossible to rename hundreds of files one by one individually. For Mac users, one of the recommended file renaming tools to batch rename files is NameChanger. Check it out.

Blogging in Bliss with DeskPM for Mac

Looking for the perfect desktop blogging app for Mac? DeskPM features a clean, simple, distraction-free interface and can publish to multiple platforms. Check it out.

Designing Fun and Creative WordPress 404 Pages

Some website owners dread 404 pages while others use them as their creative outlets and come up with really fun and amazing results. If you want to design a fun 404 page for your WordPress site, this tutorial will help.

20 Great iOS Apps You Can’t Get for Android

iOS apps are generally known for their better quality. Here are 20 of those apps that you can’t get on an Android device.

Subscribe To Your Favorite TV Shows With The Help Of TVShows [Updated]

Update: Ember Code has ended the service of TVShows. It is no longer available. More detail here. Update: Look like someone has taken over the project. It is now call TVShows 2. Are you one of those people who love watching TV but find it difficult to set your time to match your favorite shows? […]

Two Free Tools To Synchronize Any Folder To Dropbox [Mac]

If I had to list down the most useful tools that I’ve used in my computer life, Dropbox would be one of the top name on the list. It’s more than just a simple backup tool. The combination of desktop apps, web service and supports from tons of third-party applications, open up possibilities that I’ve […]

Process Your Images In Bulk With ResizeMe [Mac]

If you are a blogger, you would understand the importance of images to enhance the quality of blog post. There are many sources – either in the real world or in the virtual world – where you can acquire pictures that you can use for your blog. The problem is, getting the images right at […]

Platform: A Drag-And-Drop Customizable WordPress Theme

According to the latest statistical data from Royal Pingdom, there are approximately 152 million blogs exist today. To put that number into context, there are more blogs out there than the whole Japanese citizen in the world. If you want to stand out among this kind of crowds, you need to work really hard – […]

Mastering The Mac App Store, And Its Alternatives

Along with Mac OS X 10.6.6 update, Apple released the Mac version of App Store. The concept of finding, downloading, and updating applications from one place has been proven to be very successful with mobile applications, so Apple wanted to try this also on desktop apps. Despite the controversy, Mac App is also a huge […]

Spread The Word About Your Website Virally Using TAF4Free

What do you call an email that pops up out of nowhere in your inbox from somebody that you don’t know giving you a link to visit? That’s definitely a SPAM. But what do you call an email from your friend telling you to check out the exact same link? That’s a friendly recommendation. Even […]

Find And Fix The Hogs On Your Site Using YSlow Firefox Add-On

People may argue about the definition of a good website from the aesthetic point of view. But technically speaking, speed is one of the requirements of a great website. So, if you are a website owner who wants to keep your visitor happy, it’s important to have your site(s) always on the fast lane. There […]

Create Online School In One Click With Edu 2.0

I was in my quest to find online education tools when I stumbled upon Edu 2.0. After playing with it for a while, I think it’s safe to say that Edu 2.0 is by far the most complete online educational tool that I’ve come across. It goes as far as enabling users to virtually create […]

3 More Ways To Lighten The Load And Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

From the visitors point of view, light and speedy websites are more likable than the heavy and slow ones because the former will help visitors save money and time. Having a lighter site will also give benefits to the owner as it reduces the storage size and traffic bandwidth that he/she has to pay. Even […]

Two Must-Have Free Image Sharing iPhone Apps For Amateur Photographers

It’s true that professional photographers won’t replace their DSLR with cell phone anytime soon (or ever), but the quality of phone cameras today has become so much better than it used to be that we can’t just ignore them. Some even have the quality that put entry-level point and shoot camera into shame. Aside from […]

Two Free Tools To Play (Almost) Any Kind Of Movie Files On Your iPhone

As a mobile multimedia player, iPhone (including iPod Touch and iPad) is one of the best out there. The picture and sound quality is hard to rival. Unfortunately, iTunes – as the default multimedia player – limits the movie formats that it can play to only “.mp4” and “.m4v“. So there’s the file conversion ritual […]

GetGlue: A Multi Platform Recommendation Service

Sharing is one of the things that makes life more interesting. What’s so fun about having favorite things if you can’t share them with your friends and family? The joy is in telling people we love about things that enrich our lives: a good book that you’ve just read, a beautiful song that you’ve just […]

How To Automatically Download TV Episodes From The Net With TED

The Internet might be the greatest thing that could ever happened in every couch potato’s life. All the TV shows that they’ve ever want – and more – are just a few clicks away. But even if you use 24 hours of your life everyday without taking any break, it would take more than your […]

How To Setup The Ultimate Multi-Platform Writing Environment With Simplenote

I’ve just watched a beautiful animation titled “The Secret of Kells”. I’m not going to spoil anything by telling you the story here, but I can tell you that the movie described how hard the process of writing a book was back in the middle age. It required top notch craftsmanship to write each and […]

The Quick Way To Cut And Paste In Mac

As much as I love Mac, there are things that I still miss from my old Windows days. One of them is the ability to quickly cut and paste items from the Finder. It’s not because Mac doesn’t have the ability to cut and paste, but it’s because some things work differently in the different […]

MDownloader: Easier Files Downloading From File Sharing Service

Those who use file sharing services on a regular basis know only too well that downloading files from these services can be a very daunting task. But most of us stuck in this “hate ’em but need ’em” kind of relationship and can’t break free. Luckily, others hate the problem as much as we do […]

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