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- Read QR & Datamatrix Codes With Your Phone Using I-Nigma
- Cool Websites and Tools [November 26]
- 3 Useful Programs That Help Manage Multiple Monitors
- 2 Ways To Add Social Bookmarking Buttons To Your Blog
- The 5 Games You Should Be Installing On Your Android Mobile Phone
- Top 4 Sites To Share Private Home Movies With Family & Friends
- GoogSysTray: An All In One Google Notifier App
- Count Words & Analyze A Document’s Readability With Word Counter [Mac]
| Read QR & Datamatrix Codes With Your Phone Using I-Nigma Posted: 27 Nov 2009 04:01 AM PST
Would you generate a TinyUrl for it and type that in on your phone? Forget about it and move on? Not this time. This time, you’ve got I-Nigma – free software from 3GVision that may become one of your best friends in situations like these. I-Nigma exists for almost any model of phone with a camera. Take a second and check the compatible devices list to make sure that this article is relevant to you. Features
What Is A QR Code?Jimmy wrote an article on QR Codes last year. But here’s a quick summary. QR stands for Quick Response – a two dimensional bar code structure designed by a Japanese company called Denso-Wave in 1994. Originally used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing, Quick Response codes have since become a handy resource for cell phone users that want to quickly transfer text information from a computer (or other information resource) to a mobile device. They are most frequently used in Japan, but I have seen them on magazines and bulletin boards in the United States before (although I had no clue what they were).
Starting Off With I-NigmaFirst, visit this page and follow the instructions to download I-Nigma to your mobile device. As long as your device (doesn’t even have to be a phone) has a camera, it’s most likely capable of running I-Nigma. Next, you’ll want to go find or generate some QR or DataMatrix codes. I personally use “Mobile Barcodes” for generating mine – it has a great layout and a lot of options. Select a type of QR code to generate, then fill in the required fields and click “submit“.
The program will output the encoded image according to the data you provide. Now it’s time to scan your image with your phone. Save it, print it, or leave it on your screen for the next step. Finally, open up I-Nigma on your device, and it should immediately go to the capture screen. Hold it up about 6-10 inches from the QR Code you just generated, and let it scan – it should take about a half second at most. When it scans, I-Nigma will prompt you for an action according to the content it interprets. If it is an SMS, you will have the option to send it, a link will open the default browser, etc.
Quick note: Since I-Nigma works across several platforms, the look and feel can change for different devices. In general, from what I’ve seen, this will cause no real confusion. Also, I’ve seen some comments about I-Nigma using the unpopular Internet Explorer to visit links. To fix this issue, set Opera or Skyfire (whatever you use) as your default internet browser, and restart I-Nigma. Ways To Use I-Nigma & QR Codes
To be honest, I think QR and Data Matrix codes are very interesting innovations. I know of alternatives like Microsoft Tag (which requires an internet connection), but have always found QR gets the job done just fine. Do you have a better solution to the common problem of computer-to-mobile content? Feel free to share your ideas here and let the rest of us know. Also, I know I-Nigma isn’t the only QR reader out there – let me know what you use so I can check it out! Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section! Become a MakeUseOf fan on Facebook? – Our photos, MakeUseOf specials and more. Related posts
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| Cool Websites and Tools [November 26] Posted: 26 Nov 2009 05:01 PM PST
(1) Memorari – Newly launched reminder service that lets you schedule reminders and get them delivered via SMS, Email or Instant Messenger. It has clean interface and really easy to use. Simply choose a date/time, pick delivery option, type your reminder message and Memorari will do the rest. Read more: Memorari – Delivers Reminders Via SMS, Email or IM
(2) FidoFactor – Great user driven website that lets users look for dog friendly places (restaurants, parks, and hotels) in the cities of San Francisco, Boston, New York, and Portland. Read more: FidoFactor – Find Dog Friendly Places (3) Numbeo – This site lets you compare cost of living between cities around the globe. The site currently holds data for 293 major cities worldwide, and presents you detailed reports reflecting prices in areas such as Market, Transportation, Utility, Rent Per Month, Buy Apartment Price, Salaries, Restaurants and Financing. Read more: Numbeo – Compare cost of living between two cities (World Wide) (4) NeedASig – Web application that lets you generate cool email signatures and icons. These signatures are great for spicing up your emails, and can also be used as protection from email spam bots. Read more: NeedASig – Generate Cool Email Signatures & Icons (5) Colorhat – Free online time management application that helps you manage your time no matter what you spend it on. In addition to letting you record and add times while specifying the activity, it shows you graphical reports of the entered data. Read more: Colorhat – Free Online Time Management Application
These are just half of the websites that we discovered in the last couple of days. If you want us to send you daily round-ups of all cool websites we come across, leave your email here. Or follow us via RSS feed. Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section! New on Twitter ? Now you can follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Related posts
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| 3 Useful Programs That Help Manage Multiple Monitors Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:01 PM PST
There are free programs out there that can help you manage those monitors and I’d like to share three of them. MultiMon TaskBar
MultiMon TaskBar manager is the first program I hear people talking about. Basically, MultiMon does several things that make managing monitors easier.
MultiMon catches a bit of flack because the taskbar in the second monitor has a rather archaic look to it.
There is a paid “pro” version that does offer Windows XP and Vista taskbar theme support. Personally, it doesn’t bother me that the taskbars don’t match. Display Fusion
Display Fusion brings managing multiple monitors to another level by offering support for multiple wallpapers. You can have a different wallpaper for each monitor or you can have one wallpaper span all monitors.
Display Fusion is a bit limited in the free version. For instance, if you want taskbars in more than one monitor, you’ll have to pay for the “pro” version. Bummer. Also if you want more than one button added to the title bar, you’re looking at the “pro” version. Another bummer. I think it’s worth messing with just for the wallpaper options. ZBar
ZBar is an interesting choice because it enables taskbars in each monitor AND multiple wallpapers! Before now, the other free choices have been either one or the other. Now you can have your proverbial cake and eat it, too! You even have some design choices for the taskbar, and one gets pretty close to Windows Vista’s design!
Interesting enough, it seems that there is no installation needed! I just downloaded the zip file, and opened the EXE file, and voila! One spat I would have with ZBar is the lack of a quick way to move windows from one monitor to another. I think in light of the other options, it’s a small sacrifice to make! There you have it, three FREE programs to help manage multiple monitors. In fact, I’ve actually tested running all three together AT THE SAME TIME! Right now I have the cool arrow making it easier to move windows from one monitor to another (MultiMon), multiple wallpaper options (from Display Fusion), and the Vista style taskbar in my second monitor (ZBar)! Very cool! I know people debate what program to use so if you have an opinion, share it with us! And of course if you have other options not mentioned in this article, do share! Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section! Become a MakeUseOf fan on Facebook? – Our photos, MakeUseOf specials and more. Related posts
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| 2 Ways To Add Social Bookmarking Buttons To Your Blog Posted: 26 Nov 2009 12:01 PM PST
So if you own a blog or website and think that your content has what it takes to compete on these sites then you’ll need to add social media buttons such as the ones we have here on MUO at the bottom of this post. We’ll look at two options. Firstly, the easier one – plugins. PluginsWordpress is the most popular blogging platform mostly because of how adaptable it is by using plugins – and it’s free. The first plugin we’ll look at is one you’ll recognise from many different blogs. The tweet button.
Download and install this plugin. If you’re not familiar with installing plugins on Wordpress here is a quick guide (although the process is fairly basic and even beginners should be able to do it without any fuss): When in the wp-admin panel, click on the Plugins option in the menu to the left of the screen. Then click ‘Add new‘. Up at the top of the subsequent screen click ‘Upload‘ and choose the .zip file you downloaded earlier. When this has finished installing, click ‘Activate‘. Each of your posts should how have a Retweet button beside them with a counter. Or you could search for “Tweetmeme” from the Plugins page and the Retweet Button plugin should appear as the first result. Click on “Install” to add it to your plugins. Add This
When on the plugin menu in the WP-Admin screen, select search and enter ‘Add This‘. This popular plug-in should appear. Click on it and then select the option to install it on your blog. Each post should now have this button for your readers to promote your posts. HTML – For Advanced Users OnlyI say advanced but really you just have to know the basics of HTML or have enough patience to slowly read down through it and decipher where the post starts and ends. A small tip I’ll give you at this stage is to use your browsers Ctrl+F function to find certain parts of the HTML code. The HTML file you’ll be editing in Wordpress is called singlepost.php or something similar. Use the HTML editor under the Appearance tab in the admin menu. For I’ll say this now rather than later: Back up the file you’re editing. Trust me, it’ll save you much frustration later if it all goes wrong. This is especially important if you’re not too familiar with HTML. While the chance is small, adding code to your theme may conflict with something else and cause your website to act like a drunk carving the Christmas turkey! The most basic way of doing this is to copy all of the text in the file into Notepad (or another text editor) and save it. That way, if it messes up your blog you can simply copy the original code back in. In the singlepost.php code, find coding which indicates the end of the posting area. This is normally just after coding for the comments submission form and some ‘<div>’ tags. If you want the social media inside the post areas, select a section before the </p> tag. And if you want it further down the page select an area after that. Paste in the following code : <div id=”tools”> <div style=”float:left;”><a href=” http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url= <?php the_permalink();?>&title=<?php the_title();?>” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/sociable/digg.png” title=”Digg this!”></a><a href=” http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&noui&jump=close &url=<?php the_permalink();?> &title=<?php the_title();?>” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/sociable/delicious.png” title=”Add to del.icio.us!”></a><a href=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/sociable/stumbleupon.png” title=”Stumble this!”></a><a href=” http://technorati.com/faves?add=<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/sociable/technorati.png” title=”Add to Techorati!”></a><a href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php the_permalink();?>&t=<?php the_title();?>” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/sociable/facebook.png” title=”Share on Facebook!”></a><a href=” http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save? u=<?php the_permalink();?>&h=<?php the_title();?>” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/sociable/newsvine.png” title=”Seed Newsvine!”></a><a href=” http://reddit.com/submit?url= <?php the_permalink();?>&title=<?php the_title();?>” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/sociable/reddit.png” title=”Reddit!”></a><a href=” http://myweb.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet? t=<?php the_title();?>&u=<?php the_permalink();?>&ei=UTF” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(’home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/sociable/yahoomyweb.png” title=”Add to Yahoo!”></a> Important Note:You’ll notice with this code that a lot of the images (i.e. the buttons) are associated with my theme. So if you paste this code directly into the file the buttons won’t show up. Here’s what you’ll have to do. Find some buttons. This post gives some great choices: So, for example: When you download a Facebook button, upload it to your site using the ‘Add Media‘ option in Wordpress. When it’s finished uploading you’ll be given a URL. Copy this URL from the ‘/wp-content’ part onwards so it looks something like this:
Then copy that in place of the Facebook image URL you see here in the code. Make sure you copy it over the right image in the coding otherwise your buttons will be mixed up. This process seems tedious and time-consuming but it’s really quite simple when you think about it. And you can download any kind of button you like. If you don’t fancy the buttons on the site I suggested above, simply Google ’social media buttons’. When this is done, save the file. The bottom of your posts should look something like this:
You can add further buttons anywhere on your posts and customize them. However this really is only for advanced users who are familiar with HTML. For other social bookmarking button codes, simply Google the site’s name followed by ‘button code’ and paste it in at the bottom of the above coding. The sites included in the code above are; Digg, Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Facebook, Newsvine, Reddit and Yahoo!. For many, I think, plugins might be the quicker and easier option. There are tonnes of other designs out there. Just Google ‘Wordpress Social Media Plugins’ and you’ll see what I mean. However, the rule-of-thumb for blogging states that ‘content is king’; so no matter how many social bookmarking tools you have on your blog, nobody will use them unless your articles are useful and entertaining. What social media do you use on your blogs? Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section! New on Twitter ? Now you can follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Related posts
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| The 5 Games You Should Be Installing On Your Android Mobile Phone Posted: 26 Nov 2009 11:01 AM PST
After getting over the disappointment of finding out that Pac-Man is not free, I went in search of some other cool free games that will hold my attention and entertain me. Here’s the 5 I am still playing. To find them and install them, just navigate to the Android Market on your phone and search for them. Labyrinth Lite
This game is so addictive that it stopped a family party last week with my partner’s parents, aunt & uncle and grandfather playing it for literally hours! You have to get the little ball from one end of the screen to the hole at the other end (the one with the black and white chequered pattern) by tilting your phone backwards and forwards. The only problem is that there are lots of black holes ready and waiting to swallow up your ball and send you back to the start again.
Jewels
It’s Bejewelled on the Android! Yay! For those of you already familiar with this classic game, no explanation or introduction is necessary. For those of you who have been hibernating the past few years, this game is where you have to get three or more identically coloured jewels in a row. When you do, they POW! off the board. This is another game which I have spent hours playing. But one little annoyance with this game is that it is sometimes difficult to touch the right jewel on the screen (especially if you have slightly big fingers like me). The game can also sometimes be a little slow to respond. Nevertheless, this is still a great game and once you have started, you’ll find it difficult to stop. Poke A Mole
I promise this isn’t as bad as it sounds! The premise of this game is that you have nine mole holes and when a mole sticks his cute furry head out of one of them, you have to hit him on the head. You do this by pressing the screen with your finger. He makes a screwed up “he got me!” face, disappears back down the hole and you get your points. It’s easy at first but obviously as the game goes on, the moles start coming thick and fast. Can you poke them all with your finger in time before they duck back down their holes again? No moles were harmed during the playing of this game. I promise. ConnectFour
Now this one really takes me back to my childhood. I had the board game version of ConnectFour and my brother used to beat me senseless every time. Fast forward twenty years and now I am being beaten senseless by an Android phone! In the unlikely event you don’t know ConnectFour, you have to get four identical coloured circles in a straight line. Considering the limited number of boxes, this is a lot more difficult than it looks and the phone, who plays against you, is a lot smarter than you may think. Pinball
This one takes a bit of getting used to, but when you finally get a hang of the controls, it isn’t such a bad game. Everyone knows what pinball is so I won’t waste time describing what you have to do. You can choose between several different styles of pinball tables and you can customise the controls. So if you don’t like pressing the screen all the time, you can change them. So those are my five favourite games. I don’t like Sudoku very much so I ignored all of them and I couldn’t find a decent chess game so if anyone knows of a good chess game on Android, please let me know the title of it in the comments below. What do you think of these games? Are they enjoyable or are they useless? Let us know your opinions and preferred equivalents in the comments and I will check them out. Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section! Become a MakeUseOf fan on Facebook? – Our photos, MakeUseOf specials and more. Related posts
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| Top 4 Sites To Share Private Home Movies With Family & Friends Posted: 26 Nov 2009 10:01 AM PST
When it comes to public video sharing sites, MakeUseOf has covered the gamut, from Aibek’s review of YouTube from a few years ago to sites like Lectr that let teachers share out educational videos. However, there are many circumstances where you want to share your private home movies with your family without letting the whole world see them. For this purpose, I’d like to review four of the best private video sharing sites on the Internet. Why It’s Difficult To Share Private Home Movies On YouTubeTo start out, I’m going to upload a very special moment that I recorded back in 2001 when our first child was just under 2 years old. She was standing on a stool helping her mother bake cookies in preparation for the family visiting. Using the very cool free WinX DVD Ripper that Karl recently wrote about, I ripped a couple of minutes from the my private DVD, added a neat background soundtrack with the Pinnacle VideoSpin app I recently reviewed, and will upload it to each of these private sharing services to show the ease or difficulty of each service. In the case of YouTube, the service is built around the concept of community video sharing, so keeping your video private isn’t completely intuitive. The first step, of course, is uploading your video.
Under privacy, you can set the video to “Private” where it will only be viewable by up to 25 people. This removes the video from the public directory, but before you can share out the video you’ll need to go to your “My Videos” section and click to edit your video.
Under the “Broadcasting and Sharing Options” section is where you’ll find the privacy area. Make sure “Private” is enabled (this tends to get deselected for some reason), and choose whether you want to choose up to 25 YouTube members to share the video with, or a new feature is that you can provide friends and family with a limited access URL they can visit to watch the video. Until YouTube added the limited access URL feature, many people were frustrated with the fact that they could only share the videos with people who had YouTube accounts. Even now, the privacy feature is clearly an afterthought with YouTube – it’s obvious that they prefer shared videos as part of the growing worldwide video community, and the site isn’t really intended for sharing private home videos. ShutterflyShutterfly is leaps and bounds ahead of YouTube when it comes to creating your own little network of family and friends that you want to share your personal videos with – without opening them up to the freaks that prowl the public video communities. On Shutterfly, you’re provided with your own personal, customized website where you can post up to 10 videos at a time (the paid account offers unlimited storage).
Under your account, just click on “Create a Share site” to generate a new, custom page for your photos and/or videos.
When you first set up your private site, you can choose the subdomain name it falls under, and then configure “All visitors” and set a password of your choice. This is a better option, because if you set it to Site members only, that might limit it to only Shutterfly members, but it allows all Shutterfly members to view your videos and photos. Once you’ve uploaded your content to the page, you can just send your friends and family the link and the password.
Uploading is as simple as visiting your own page logged in with your Shutterfly ID (which puts you in page edit mode), and clicking on “Click to add videos.” As you add more private videos, they automatically get published to your password-protected website. VimeoVimeo is another great video sharing site with good privacy features. Unlike Shutterfly, you don’t have a private website, instead your videos themselves are password protected. Vimeo is very much a community video sharing site, but it offers a much easier privacy setup than YouTube does.
All you have to do is click on Privacy in the left menu bar, and change the setting from “Anyone” to “Password protected” and set your password. It’s as simple and easy as that. You can even have a different password for each video so that you can easily control who has access to specific videos. I should note however that one major drawback of the free Vimeo account is that the upload takes about half an hour to go “active” before it can be viewed. However, as a free private video sharing service, the pros definitely outweigh that one con. Upload Your Video To Facebook!Of course, one of the easiest ways to share your video with only friends and family is by uploading it to your Facebook account. Since you’ve only allowed your personal friends and close family with access to your account, it makes sense that Facebook would probably be the first place you’d go to share your private home movies. Most people think of YouTube when it comes to uploading and sharing videos, but few people are aware (yet) that you can directly upload videos to Facebook right off your hard drive.
After it uploads, the video gets shared to your wall just like when you post comments or upload photos. The video isn’t published to the entire world – only the people who you’ve already added as friends and family can see your video. Just make sure, when you upload it, to set the privacy settings to “My Friends Only.” Do you know of any other websites where it’s especially easy to share private videos without publishing them to the entire Internet? Share your own resources or insights in the comments section below. Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section! Become a MakeUseOf fan on Facebook? – Our photos, MakeUseOf specials and more. Related posts
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| GoogSysTray: An All In One Google Notifier App Posted: 26 Nov 2009 08:01 AM PST
Some time back we showed you GMDesk, that lets you easily access a number of Google products from the desktop. The concept is similar to Mozilla Prism and other site specific browsers. Being the Google fanboys that we are, here is another software that keeps you on top of what’s happening in different Google services associated with your account. It is called GoogSysTray. The name is kind of lame, as GoogSystray’s SF page points out. However it works great and you will love it, especially if you use different Google products. Googsystray is essentially a notifier app. Now, before you pass over it just because of it being another one in the herd of notifier apps, consider that GoogSysTray covers more than just Gmail. Apart from providing alerts when there is a new message in your inbox, GoogSysTray also notifies you of upcoming calendar events, new Google Reader items, new Google Voice messages and Google Wave updates as well.
Once installed, GoogSysTray requires your Google Account details. You can then selectively enable or disable notifications for any of the services that GoogSysTray supports. There are plenty of options for each of them. Let’s have a look at various features that are available for different services:
For Gmail, by default, you are notified of any new messages in your inbox. You can additionally specify labels you want GoogSysTray to monitor for new messages. When a notification pops up you have the option to mark the email as read, report as spam or send it to trash, without even opening your browser.
Apart from Gmail you are notified of new items in the RSS feeds you have subscribed using your Google Reader account. You can specify a certain minimum number for new updates that must be reached before GoogSysTray notifies you. An excellent feature, as RSS notifications get overwhelming pretty quickly.
For Google Voice you can read transcripts, get notifications for SMS and send messages without needing anything more than a customizable hotkey to open up the SMS user interface. Being outside the US, I couldn’t verify Google Voice functionality, so your feedback is very much welcome. It also lets you view upcoming events for which you have set an alert in Google Calendar and updates inside your Google Wave account.
You can also customize the time after which GoogSysTray will check for updates for each of the services. In addition there are options to customize the popup notifications that appear. You can change colors, transparency and overall style of the notifications. GoogSysTray is a nice application you can use to remain in sync with all the commonly used Google Products. Give it a spin and let us know how you liked it. If you know of any other application that you use for similar purposes, sound off about it in the comments! Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section! Become a MakeUseOf fan on Facebook? – Our photos, MakeUseOf specials and more. Related posts
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| Count Words & Analyze A Document’s Readability With Word Counter [Mac] Posted: 26 Nov 2009 06:01 AM PST
But I ended up being a writer and I still have to shake hands with those smiling ghosts for the rest of my life. Talk about irony. Personal tale aside, writing tools are an inseparable part of any writer’s life. I’ve just come across a free Mac application that falls into this category. This writing tool is called Word Counter. The Power That Lies WithinAt first glance, this app might look insignificant. Who needs another word counter? Almost any word processor comes with this feature built in. But there is more than meets the eye because this little app can do so much more.
Click the “Count Words” icon every time you want to refresh the statistic. There’s a setting in the Preferences window to automate this process. “Instances” is a specific word or phrase from the text that you define in the instances Count window. This feature is useful for those who keep repeating a certain word or phrase in his/her writing.
You can open the Instances Count window from the “Window > Show Text Instances Window” menu or using Command + Option + I.
But if you want to know the frequency of all words within the text, use the Word Frequency window (”Window > Show Word Frequency Window” menu or Command + Option + F). You could make the searching either case-sensitive or case-insensitive. You could also sort the results by the word, frequency, or length.
If you are doing a writing project but separating the chapters into individual text files, you could do the general word count for all the files. Drag and drop those files (or Folders) to the main window and Word Counter will display the result for the individual files and also the summary.
Word Counter is also able to work with an external text editor. Mac OS X’s TextEdit is the default application. But you could easily change it with another editor from the Preferences window.
To start working with an external editor, click the editor icon in the main window. A new small “Word Counter” window will appear. You could write in the editor and Word Counter will observe from the background :
How Readable Is Your Writing?There’s a saying which says if you want your writing to be understood easily, you have to set the difficulty level of your piece to two levels below your audience comprehension level. While playing around with Word Counter, I discovered something that I never knew before: there are mathematical equations to estimate how readable a piece of writing is. In another word, you can actually calculate the difficulty level of your writing (a Windows equivalent is Bullfighter). I’m still trying to understand the concept behind this science. There’s an explanation regarding this matter on the developer’s site. The process involves some heavy calculations with many variables to consider. But you don’t have to go through the numbers because Word Counter comes with this feature. Put some text into Word Counter window and open the “Readability Statistics” window from “Window > Show Readability Statistics Window” menu or use Command + Option + R. The window will provide you with many numbers explaining how “readable” your text is. I honestly don’t understand what most of the numbers mean. But there is an explanation using plain English that is very easy to understand.
Out of curiosity, I picked some random articles from MakeUseOf and tried them using The Readability Test. The verdict is that, in general, our articles fall into the area between easy and standard. You could also try this feature and figure out why some sites felt difficult while others are easy. Do you know any other alternatives to Word Counter? Please share using the comments below. Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section! Become a MakeUseOf fan on Facebook? – Our photos, MakeUseOf specials and more. Related posts
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Be sure to check out the main menu of the application. It allows you to check out past scans, share I-Nigma with others, and mark “favorite” scans as well. Overall it’s an excellent, finger-friendly app that you’ll have no trouble getting used to.
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Many bloggers and analysts argue that search engine ranking and SEO are starting to become less and less relevant in gaining traffic as social media rises. Sites such as Digg, Twitter and Stumbleupon are sworn by in the blogosphere for getting huge spikes in traffic when a post goes viral.
Twitter is the fastest of all social media sites by its very ‘micro-blogging’ nature so having it at the top of the post works best.
This plugin, pictured here to the left combines in excess of 200 social media buttons into one. The design is minimal and very functional. It’ll look good and work well for the majority of blogs.
people using Blogger, you too can try using this code under the HTML editing section in Blogger however it may not work as Blogger templates are often poorly coded or are simply ports from Wordpress themes which don’t accept new code too well.
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There are many video sharing websites and social communities out there that let you share your videos with the entire world, but in many cases you might only want to share private home movies with family and friends.
It is a well agreed upon fact that Google makes some of the best products out there in the cloud today. So much so that people are crazy to try out anything new from Google. Wave and 
If you’ve been a student, you must be familiar with writing assignments. I love writing but keeping up with deadlines and trying to meet the word count was always two of the ghosts that haunted my school years. I thought that after graduation I could finally kiss those nightmares goodbye.
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