Archive for September, 2008

Aardvark

Posted: September 29, 2008 in Hardware

Aardvark is a very useful Firefox extension. Powerful and user-friendly selector utility for selecting elements and doing various actions on them. It can be used for cleaning up a page prior to printing it (by removing and isolating elements) and for web development.

Jing

Posted: September 28, 2008 in Software
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Sep 28, 2008 Create and share screencaptures (photos and videos) with this great free program from Techsmith (makers of Camtasia Studio screen capture software). Camtasia is a very cool program but it’s very expensive but Jing is free. After you create your captures you can upload them to Screencast.com (comes with Jing download) which is [...]

Cloud Computing

Posted: September 26, 2008 in Web 2.0
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Sep 26, 2008 What is “cloud computing“? Simply put it’s the use of resource on the Internet to get things done (doing work or being creative). In the old days you went to a search engine and typed a topic in, you clicked on search and came up links to match your query. You went [...]

Geni.Com

Posted: September 22, 2008 in Web 2.0
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Geni is a tool for sharing family-trees and staying in touch with your family. Geni lets you create a family tree through the fun simple interface. You can expand your tree by adding relatives’ email addresses. They will be invited to join your tree and can add other relatives. Your tree will continue to grow [...]

GIMP Tutorials 1

Posted: September 21, 2008 in Tutorials
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I found many GIMP tutorials on Youtube. If you don’t know about GIMP it is a great image manipulation (like Photoshop) program that is very powerful and absolutely free.

Your Own Radio Station

Posted: September 20, 2008 in Web 2.0
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Pandora is a great Internet music service that allows you create stations based on your personal music taste. Lets say you like Elvis Presley, you tell Pandora you would like to hear Elvis and songs that sound like Elvis. Pandora will do just that.

Host Podcast For Free

Posted: September 18, 2008 in Media
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Yes you can host your podcast (or any audio content) for the web) for free with Podserve (one of the Big In Japan. The other great thing about Podserve is that it create an RSS feed for you so you don’t have to figure out how to do that. I guess if your podcast got [...]

Get Organized With A Pegboard

Posted: September 15, 2008 in Tips
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Organize your tech gadgets using a common pegboard that you can get at home depot. I’m going to do this when I get home today!

Make Vista Less Annoying

Posted: September 14, 2008 in Tips
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Here’s some things you can do from Lifehacker to make Windows Vista work the way you want it to, meaning stop bugging you over every tiny little thing.

Evernote

Posted: September 12, 2008 in Web 2.0
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Evernote is an app that allows you to take notes, screencaptures, audio messages, whiteboards and anything else you can get on your computer capture and save that info and sinc that information across multiple machines.This is great for me because all day long I’m scouring the net for things that might interest you. I’ve tried [...]