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• Cool Websites and Tools – August 5th – Like Buttons, Chess, Urinals, & Maildrops
• 2 Handy Tools To Monitor Your Windows Files & Folders
• Opera 15 Is A Faster, Simpler Chrome, And Here Are 3 Great Reasons To Try It
• Don’t Like LinkedIn? 5 Other Social Networks That Can Help You Land A Job
• Google Voice Mail Not Integrating With Your Carrier? Try Conditional Call Forwarding
• 5 More Places To Help You Find Quality Creative Commons Images
• How To Run Old Games & Software In Windows 8
• Taking The Battle To Craigslist Scammers: How To Avoid Scams On Craigslist
• 3 US Science Labs You Can Follow On YouTube [Stuff to Watch]
• Slid.es: Create Easy And Beautiful Presentations In Two Dimensions
• Locate Your Misplaced (Or Stolen) Device With The Android Device Manager [Updates]
• Kids Won’t Put Instagram Down? 5 Fun Ways To Use Instagram For Education
• Which Type of Facebook User Are You?
• Power Up Your Mac Screen Captures With Share Bucket & popShot
• The Secrets Of Google Advanced Search: 5 Websites With Tips For You To Learn From

Cool Websites and Tools – August 5th – Like Buttons, Chess, Urinals, & Maildrops Posted: 05 Aug 2013 09:31 PM PDT Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including adding a like button to your website, a smart and beautiful chess game for the iPhone, reading to your child via the iPad, deciding what men’s urinal to use, and setting up a disposable address to protect your real address from spam. Read on below! LikeBtn – allows you to add a Like Button to your website with just a few lines of code. Instead of the many social network like buttons which are normally scattered across blog posts, you can use the code provided... Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 5th – Like Buttons, Chess, Urinals, & Maildrops

2 Handy Tools To Monitor Your Windows Files & Folders Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:30 PM PDT We’ve all lost a sock or two in the dryer, but how about losing disk space in your Windows folders? It seems like it happens out of nowhere, and before you know it you find yourself at a point where your computer is just growing inside of itself. It could be because you’ve got some bloated installation files sitting in your Steam folder, or maybe you’ve got an oversized Dropbox cache. I had a situation not too long ago where a program that I use to take automated screenshots had somehow generated a thumbnail cache over 30 GB in size.... Read the full article: 2 Handy Tools To Monitor Your Windows Files & Folders

Opera 15 Is A Faster, Simpler Chrome, And Here Are 3 Great Reasons To Try It Posted: 05 Aug 2013 07:00 PM PDT After what seems to have been an age, Opera 15 has finally left beta and is available to download. The latest, much anticipated iteration has taken a  bold step into the future, and in the process has shed a huge amount of baggage. It may seem ridiculous now, but when I was much younger, I forked over a great wad of cash for Opera, a revolutionary web browser from Norway. I took it home, excited at finally being able to ditch the slow, clunky web browser that was bundled with my ISP. At the time, I remember thinking how amazing... Read the full article: Opera 15 Is A Faster, Simpler Chrome, And Here Are 3 Great Reasons To Try It

Don’t Like LinkedIn? 5 Other Social Networks That Can Help You Land A Job Posted: 05 Aug 2013 06:30 PM PDT LinkedIn has been the goto social network for finding a job as of late, and honestly, why shouldn’t it be? It has a great deal of wonderful resources and tools aimed at job-seekers and employers alike to help them both on their journeys, and is a great tool for job-finding, especially if you can make your profile irresistible. However, LinkedIn isn’t the only way you can find a job. There are other social networks out there perfect for helping you finding the perfect job. Some of them are well-hidden, and some are the usual suspects. The point is that you... Read the full article: Don’t Like LinkedIn? 5 Other Social Networks That Can Help You Land A Job

Google Voice Mail Not Integrating With Your Carrier? Try Conditional Call Forwarding Posted: 05 Aug 2013 05:30 PM PDT Is your Google Voice voicemail broken? Or do you use multiple phone lines? A common issue among MVNO users is that their Google Voice voicemail no longer functions. For those using multiple phone lines, juggling multiple cell phones can require spider-like appendages. Both situations can go from complicated and dysfunctional to awesome by using a little known secret called “conditional call forwarding”. Conditional call forwarding can transfer incoming calls to another phone line, based on certain conditions. What’s awesome is that you can customize the conditions triggering a forwarded call. So if your phone is turned off or busy, the call will... Read the full article: Google Voice Mail Not Integrating With Your Carrier? Try Conditional Call Forwarding

5 More Places To Help You Find Quality Creative Commons Images Posted: 05 Aug 2013 05:00 PM PDT Last year, we introduced you to five great places to find Creative Commons images, with the list including heavyweights like Flickr and Google Image Search, along with a few more services you might not have heard of. Today we’re updating that list, and adding 5 more services that take the hard work out of finding Creative Commons images. There are lots of reasons you might need to find Creative Commons images – whether it’s for your blog or website, or for creating a poster, an ad, or more. No matter what reason you’re looking for Creative Commons images, make sure... Read the full article: 5 More Places To Help You Find Quality Creative Commons Images

How To Run Old Games & Software In Windows 8 Posted: 05 Aug 2013 04:30 PM PDT One of Microsoft’s big strengths — and weaknesses — is their focus on backwards compatibility. Most Windows applications will work just fine on Windows 8. This is especially true if they worked on Windows 7, as Windows 8 is very similar to Windows 7. Some old games and software, particularly ones designed for older operating systems like Windows XP, Windows 98, or DOS, may not work properly out of the box. Whatever type of software you’re dealing with, whether it’s a PC game or a piece of business software, performing a Google search for the name of the game along... Read the full article: How To Run Old Games & Software In Windows 8

Taking The Battle To Craigslist Scammers: How To Avoid Scams On Craigslist Posted: 05 Aug 2013 04:00 PM PDT Launched way back in 1995, Craigslist took the Internet world by storm with its innovative cross of classified ads with the web. With a free account, you could post up items for sale, job openings, apartment vacancies, or just browse around as a potential purchaser. Since then, it has exploded into an international service with millions of active users and tons of popular items being sold every day. But as with all Internet-based transactions, some users prefer to game the system and scam other users for a quick buck. Fortunately, Craigslist has instated a few deterrents in the system over... Read the full article: Taking The Battle To Craigslist Scammers: How To Avoid Scams On Craigslist

3 US Science Labs You Can Follow On YouTube [Stuff to Watch] Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:30 PM PDT YouTube is an increasingly important educational resource that’s not only a great way to study but can also help you pick up DIY basics, blossom as an artist or learn to cook. If you can create an instructional video about it, chances are there are whole channels dedicated to it on YouTube, though there are often subjects that users simply can’t quite deliver on like the big boys can. In this case, it’s science and the pursuit of knowledge. It’s unfair to expect a simple home physics enthusiast build their own particle accelerator, and for experiments on this scale we’re lucky... Read the full article: 3 US Science Labs You Can Follow On YouTube [Stuff to Watch]

Slid.es: Create Easy And Beautiful Presentations In Two Dimensions Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT Tools like Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple’s Keynote put an amazingly powerful toolset into hands that make presentations. The key is realising that you should only need a minute portion of those tools. Not every line of text needs to whirl into view with CGI bravado. Not every image needs to glow and throw a shadow. It’s fun to put these effects in, but what looks cool and engaging is often distracting instead. If you want to engage your audience, focus on the speaker and use the presentation to support what you’re saying. Simple keywords and images get you further than big... Read the full article: Slid.es: Create Easy And Beautiful Presentations In Two Dimensions

Locate Your Misplaced (Or Stolen) Device With The Android Device Manager [Updates] Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:00 PM PDT The announcement of the Android Device Manager is sure to be good news for those of us who habitually lose or misplace our phones. Another little feature that allows you to securely wipe all the data in case it has been stolen is God-sent for the security conscious… and aren't we all in today's day and age? The Android Device Manager Service will be available later this month on mobiles and tablets running Android 2.2 or above from Google Play. The Android Device Manager will be a combination of an app and a web service. Some reports on the web... Read the full article: Locate Your Misplaced (Or Stolen) Device With The Android Device Manager [Updates]

Kids Won’t Put Instagram Down? 5 Fun Ways To Use Instagram For Education Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:00 PM PDT If you’re 20 or older, you know what it’s like growing without a smartphone. You also know what it’s like growing without Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and the rest of them. There was nothing too bad about growing up without these gadgets, apps and websites, so us old folks tend to conclude that growing up with them is no good. Smartphones and social networks can be a huge distraction factor for kids in school, and especially at home when they should be doing their schoolwork. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. We’ve already shown you some brilliant ways to... Read the full article: Kids Won’t Put Instagram Down? 5 Fun Ways To Use Instagram For Education

Which Type of Facebook User Are You? Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT The more Facebook friends you have, the more likely you are to encounter the different types of stereotypical Facebook users. There are people who share status updates about anything and everything, also known as “The Over-Sharer”. How about “The Gamers” — those who inundate you with Candy Crush invitations? Or how about the broken-hearted stalker who never lets go of past relationships? Your Facebook profile sort of reflects your personality, so which type of Facebook user are you? Click to enlarge. via optify Read the full article: Which Type of Facebook User Are You?

Power Up Your Mac Screen Captures With Share Bucket & popShot Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:00 PM PDT Though OS X includes a default screenshot application, as a writer and blogger I use more than a few different programs, including Snagit, Snappyapp, and Clarify, for various purposes. But in the ever shifting world of digital applications, a new program can often trump and replace one or more similar programs. This may be the case for Fliplab’s new screenshot application, Share Bucket, a free download from the Mac App Store, and another program called popShot (donationware). As screen capture applications, their features are pretty common, but they do include some rather useful sharing and file type options not easily... Read the full article: Power Up Your Mac Screen Captures With Share Bucket & popShot

The Secrets Of Google Advanced Search: 5 Websites With Tips For You To Learn From Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:00 AM PDT Just for fun, let me give you this exercise. Type in something that you want to search today. Use an experimental search engine like Million Short which removes the first million or so Google results from a regular search engine result page. It’s a neat search engine built on top of Google Search you can use to specify how much you want to remove. I bet you will still get quite a few results, and hopefully fresh ones. Making these serendipitous discoveries is the fun part of a search. Though quite often, the incredibly intelligent Google algorithm loses out to... Read the full article: The Secrets Of Google Advanced Search: 5 Websites With Tips For You To Learn From

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