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- Cool Websites and Tools [April 6th]
- 10 Wordpress Traffic Builder Plugins That Work
- 2 Tips To Blog Better From Your Browser With Scribefire
- 5 New Google Docs Features You Might Have Missed
- Top Deals of the Day [April 6th]
- How To Set Up Custom Shortcut Keys In MS Word & Make A Cheat Sheet
- Reddynote – A Collaborative To-Do List On Steroids
- How To Create Special Birthday Presents Easily With iPhoto [Mac]
- How To Add Thumbnails To Your Website With ShrinkTheWeb
- Share Monitor – See Who Is Reading Or Writing To Your Windows Shared Files
| Cool Websites and Tools [April 6th] Posted: 06 Apr 2010 08:31 PM PDT
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. Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Includes cool extras. Similar MakeUseOf Articles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 Wordpress Traffic Builder Plugins That Work Posted: 06 Apr 2010 06:31 PM PDT
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) deals with optimizing your site to increase incoming traffic to it. It is a skill that takes a lot of effort and patience to master. Here are 10 common SEO mistakes that can destroy your website (and 10 more here). You can manage your SEO online with free tools as well. Here is a list of 10 Wordpress traffic builder plugins that work. Installing these to your blog should help you get off to a good start with your SEO.
1-3. All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, SEO Friendly Images
The first 3 plugins on this list were featured in an article that Karl wrote back in December called 3 Wordpress Plugins To Automate & Improve Your Blog SEO. They were All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, and SEO Friendly Images. If you haven't already, I suggest you try them out—they really work. 4. Sociable
Sociable is a plugin that automatically adds links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages, and in your RSS feed. There are 99 different sites to choose from. Giving readers a way to share your content on social bookmarking sites is a great way to catch the attention of new readers and increase traffic to your site. 5. Headspace2 SEOHeadspace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to define tags, keywords, descriptions, page titles, and more for posts, pages, and categories on your site. It supports many add-ons as well, like Google Analytics, Statcounter, Feedburner Stats Pro, and CrazyEgg heat map.
Headspace2 also provides an import function for various other meta-data Wordpress traffic builder plugins, including All-In-One SEO and Ultimate Tag Warrior. 6. Platinum SEO PackPlatinum SEO Pack is another all-inclusive plugin that allows you to optimize your blog for search engines. Its features include automatic 301 redirects, canonical URLs, optimized post and page titles, and meta-tag generation.
With Platinum SEO you can add index/noindex, follow/nofollow, noodp, noydir, noarchive, and nosnippet meta-tags to any post or page. These options are not available in All-In-One SEO Pack. 7. SEO Smart LinksSEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site. It can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories, and tags. You can also set up your own keywords with a set of matching URLs to get your blog interlinked.
The plugin operates with high transparency so you can always see what is being linked to where and undo any changes you don't see fit. 8. SEO SlugsNext up on the list is SEO Slugs. This Wordpress traffic builder plugins removes common words like 'a', 'the', and 'in' from post slugs to improve SEO. Removing these common words and phrases makes your post titles more search engine friendly. The slug is generated once you save your post, so you can always view or change it before publishing. 9. Keyword StatisticsThis plugin can automatically generate meta keywords and descriptions needed for the SEO of your blog. Keyword Statistics checks the content of a post or page for keyword density, and it can update information automatically while the author is writing content. You can also run it manually. 10. cbnet Ping Optimizer
Did you know your Wordpress blog pings unnecessarily every time you edit a post? Ping Optimizer lets you control your pinging so the search engines don't view your site as spam. When you create a new post, your blog will notify all of the ping services that it has been updated, which encourages search engines to index your blog properly. ConclusionThese 10 plugins should help optimize your blog and get you more traffic. One thing I didn't mention in this post was the importance of good content. If you don't have good material that people will want to read, it doesn't matter how many plugins you have installed. It's hard to gain traffic on a blog, so make sure you focus on content. These plugins are meant to supplement your blog and existing SEO techniques. Do you know of any good SEO Wordpress plugins? Leave your thoughts and ideas in the comments section below! Got Questions? Ask Them Now FREE on MakeUseOf Answers! Similar MakeUseOf Articles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 Tips To Blog Better From Your Browser With Scribefire Posted: 06 Apr 2010 04:31 PM PDT
My excuse is always that I don’t have time, or it’s so difficult because I have to go to the Admin area of my blog, or I have to open up a blogging tool like Windows Live Writer and then write my blog entry. What makes it more annoying for me is that I like to write while I’m browsing the Internet, so that I can look up quotes or locate references for my article. The time and effort all of this takes is often enough to make me procrastinate and do other work instead.
The following is a review of two awesome ScribeFire features that will make it easier and faster for you to post blog entries every day. Use ScribeFire & Post Blog Entries More OftenIf you are truly serious about blogging, then you have to make it an integral part of your life. When you’re browsing, reading news in your newsreader, or strolling through your favorite social networks – you need to be ready and willing to throw together a quick blog entry whenever something witty, interesting or astounding strikes you. ScribeFire is clearly the top tool of choice for this. It’s an in-browser Firefox blogging plugin – and Google Chrome users will be pleased to note that the developer is currently putting together a Google Chrome version as well.
Once you’ve installed the plugin – putting together a blog entry is as simple as clicking on the little golden ScribeFire button in your toolbar. When you do, a blog editor pops up in split-screen mode, with your editor at the bottom and your browsing activity at the top.
Now, you can also configure ScribeFire to open in a new window, or a new tab – both work equally well – but, for my purposes, since I write best when I can see the information that I’m writing about on the same screen, this split-screen setup is a dream come true. I don’t really want to cover the basics of ScribeFire because Lee did that well enough in his article that I linked to above. However, I would like to offer 2 valuable tips (features) on how you can use ScribeFire to make your blogging more efficient and less labor intensive. Use ScribeFire’s “Blog This” Feature OftenSometimes, do you feel like it’s impossible to think of a topic to blog about? It’s not like you don’t have a million ideas while you’re surfing the web and reading news articles, but the moment you open up your blogging editor, doesn’t it seem like your mind just immediately goes blank? This is why I love ScribeFire so much, because the moment you have one of those brainstorming moments, you can immediately blog about it. Better yet, thanks to ScribeFire’s “Blog This Page” feature, you can practically automate your blog entry. Let me show you how.
For this example, I’m going to toss together a quick blog post on my blog FreeWritingCenter, about Lee’s article covering ScribeFire. When you spot an article like this that sparks your own creative juices, just highlight a quote from the article that you particular want to focus on in your own blog entry, and then click the dropdown arrow on the ScribeFire button and select “Blog this page.”
When you want to keep your blog updated often with interesting and fresh content, then this is the way to go – comment on things that you read on the web or whenever the thought strikes you. Quickly quote and comment on other blogs and websites in mere minutes. Best of all, if you have an sort of special advertising code or formatting that you’d like to automatically embed into your entry so you don’t have to worry about it every time – just place it into your “Blog this Page” template in the ScribeFire Options area.
This particular feature alone is worth its weight in gold to me. I like to keep ad placement and article formatting a particular way – and with this template you don’t have to worry about it. Set it up once, and when you click “Blog this page” you’re good to go. All the work is done for you, and all you need to do is enter your thoughts and insight. It’s the ultimate efficiency in blogging. Use Zemanta To Help You Find Sources Or More InformationWhile you’re poking around in ScribeFire, you’ll also notice this odd little button that looks like a newspaper. When you hover your mouse over it, you’ll find that it mentions using Zemanta to locate related articles.
What is Zemanta? It’s actually a powerful research tool that you can use in the middle of your blog entry. When you hit on a topic that you’d really like some references for, just click on this button and Zemanta will scour the web for relevant websites, and return the results, which you can use in your blog entry. It saves you the time and trouble of conducting a Google search and sifting through all of the junk to get to what you need. Zemanta intelligently reads your blog entry and locates all of the related information for you.
On the right side of the editor, you receive results from relevant pages, along with excerpts and a link to visit the site for more information. Zemanta basically performs your blog entry research for you, and all you have to do is select the sources that you want to use. Best of all – why bother manually writing up a bibliography of source at the end of your blog entry, when Zemanta can do that for you as well? As you select the sources you want to use, Zemanta appends your sources at the bottom of your blog entry for you.
In the blog entry above, I wrote the start of a post about conspiracy theories, and Zemanta was smart enough to not only identify related online articles about conspiracy theories, but even a few of the specific theories that I mentioned in my post. In my opinion this embedded feature makes ScribeFire one of the most useful blogging clients available. For my part, I’ll probably still not have enough time to blog as much as I’d like to – but at least tools like ScribeFire take away most of the excuses we can come up with to procrastinate. When you have a tool that automatically creates a blog entry based on a template, and does your research for you – seriously, how many other excuses do you have left? Do you use ScribeFire, or do you have your own favorite blogging browser plug-in? Share your feedback or insights in the comments section below. We NEED Your Comments! Please do share your thoughts in article comments! Similar MakeUseOf Articles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 New Google Docs Features You Might Have Missed Posted: 06 Apr 2010 02:31 PM PDT
Now Google is releasing new Google Docs features into the offering. There are some that are really worth checking out because they can make life easier and even expand the ways in which we use Google Docs. Follow me as I go through some of the new Google Docs features worth checking out. It just may be worth your while.
Upload Any File
Do you have a file you want access to someplace else but you don’t want to carry around a computer or disk? Upload it to your trusty Google Docs account and access it from anywhere! In my testing I uploaded a few picture files (all under 1MB), an mp3 file (about 8MB) and a wav file (over 16MB) and I’ve had no problem uploading or accessing them. Realize though that the 1GB of space you are given to keep Google Docs files in is the same space you are using for these other files. But hey, that’s enough for space you’re not paying for, right? Bulk Upload
Google has awarded us with the ability to upload more than one file at a time. It works very similarly to normal file selection. You have several options. You can hold the Ctrl button and click on the individual files you want selected. You can hold the Shift button, click the first file and then click the last file to select all files in between. Then there is the option to click and drag, drawing a box selecting all files in the pathway of your mouse. Google lets you upload all of the selected files in one batch. Very easy. Shared Folders
Being able to share and collaborate on files is pretty cool, right? Well, once you begin sharing several files with the same people it may get a bit complicated. Now Google has rolled out the ability to share folders and collaborate on files in that folder. Cool idea Google. Who would have come up with an idea like that? To implement the sharing of a folder, just right-click on a folder in your Google Docs account and you’ll see the share option. You have two methods of sharing the folder. You can invite people to collaborate by adding their email and sending them a message.
You can also set it so that anyone with a provided link can either view or edit it which you would then share with only the people you want to have access.
Email As An Attachment
While Google was rolling out sharing options, they chose also to allow for emailing files as attachments. Since you can now upload any type of file you want, it only makes sense that they allow you to send those files as email attachments if you need to. In fact, the feature gets even neater when you start sending Google Document files as email attachments and they are converted into usable offline file formats. Sharing files via an email attachment is as easy as right clicking on the file to be shared, hovering over the “Share” option, and clicking “Email as attachment…“ If it is a Google Document, you are offered more choices as far as the file format goes.
Any way you look at it though, sharing files via email attachment can come in handy. DOCX Import
In the past it was difficult to open and use a Word 2007 file if you didn’t have the right version of Microsoft Office. Since then many of the free word processing programs have become compatible. Now apparently Google Docs is compatible too. You can upload the files and convert them for editing from within Google Docs. This can come in handy if someone ever felt the need to send me a document since I don’t use Microsoft’s suite nor do I intend to in the near future (call me a penny pincher). Some of the features I have listed here are new Google Docs features that I think will make my own life easier. I must warn you that Google Docs, as awesome as the service is, has not quite “arrived” yet. You may run into some formatting difficulties when converting documents files back and forth. Just realize that Google Docs is free and the conveniences it offers may outweigh some of the difficulties. You must make the choice (see the poll about online versus desktop word processors). So what do you think of some of the new features Google is rolling out for Google Docs? Which of them can you see yourself making use of? Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf fan page on Facebook. Over 15,000 fans already!
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| Top Deals of the Day [April 6th] Posted: 06 Apr 2010 01:00 PM PDT
Today, we feature cheap netbooks, LCD displays, headphones and something that will make Lois Lane do a double-take.
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| How To Set Up Custom Shortcut Keys In MS Word & Make A Cheat Sheet Posted: 06 Apr 2010 12:31 PM PDT
If we could total up the seconds lost in flitting between the keyboard and the mouse, I am sure it will add up to a nice round figure. That's why keyboard shortcuts are important to learn and master. It's not a difficult skill, we have to just key in patience and practice. The Office Ribbon still has its naysayers but I feel that when it comes to keyboard shortcuts, it gives us the easiest way to learn them. Press the Alt key and you have them displayed on the Ribbon. It's just a matter of following the letters. These keyboard shortcuts make Microsoft Office operations smooth, but it's just the first level. There are a few dozen more below the surface.
By the way, Microsoft Office Online has a short but great training course on Word shortcut keys. 3 Steps To Configuring Your Own Word Shortcut KeysThe thing about customizing keyboard shortcuts is that there are some key combinations that you instinctively remember. Also there are some commands or combination of commands for which there are no default shortcut keys. For example, you can set up custom shortcut keys for macros, specific fonts, styles, and special symbols that you frequently use. So here's how we go about bringing them all within the touch of a key.
Setting Up A Brand New Word Shortcut KeyThere are also some commands for which no Word shortcut keys are assigned by default. Take this for instance – Sending an open Word document via email. Let's see how to configure a keyboard shortcut for that – In the Customize Keyboard dialog box, check out All Commands listed under Categories. In the listings on the right, scroll down to a command called FileSendMail. Select that and press the new shortcut keys you want to have for this task in the Press new shortcut key field. Save the changes across all documents (the Normal template) or just the open one. Click on Assign to complete the process.
Custom Word shortcut keys can also be set up for Macros, Styles, Fonts, Autotext, and Common Symbols.
Explore the commands given for them under categories. There are probably some which you use very frequently. For example, a repeated activity like inserting your name or address as an autotext could benefit from a shortcut key. Remembering Them AllYou have just set up a dozen fresh shortcut keys and are on the threshold of boosted productivity. It will take a bit of time before you are silky smooth with them. With a single step, we can print out the list and keep it close. Here's how to have a cheat sheet for our personalized shortcut keys. Click on CTRL+P for the Print dialog box. You can also go from the menu, but we are talking about shortcuts aren't we? From the dropdown for Print What, select Key assignments. Click on OK to print out your keyboard shortcuts list.
Note: Only those key assignments that have been reassigned from their defaults will be printed. For a person who uses MS Word a lot, shortcut use comes from practice or purpose. For both, we have some readymade cheat sheets for download. If you like all that’s workmanlike about Microsoft Word, also check out our How To Create Professional Reports and Documents free guide. Life isn't meant for shortcuts but Microsoft Office productivity certainly is. Are you up to speed with shortcuts or do your love your mouse more? Image Credit: Sielarts informàtica Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Includes cool extras. Similar MakeUseOf Articles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reddynote – A Collaborative To-Do List On Steroids Posted: 06 Apr 2010 11:31 AM PDT
What you’re looking for is a task manager, and at best a digital one. Sure, a little notebook or cell phone schedule goes a long way, but that’ll prove either way impractical or insufficiently powerful. A still better alternative would be a web application. After all, you can’t forget a task manager in the cloud. Besides, it’s easy to organize and stunningly powerful, yet still as free as they come. Yes, we’re most definitely talking about Reddynote.
Reddynote – An Easy & Powerful Collaborative To-Do ListIf you’re looking for more than a simple to-do list, rather a diverse task manager, Reddynote is the collaborative todo list app you’re looking for. At the core, Reddynote is a simple task list. Although, “personal workspace” sounds a lot more appropriate. After all, the application also allows you to tag, label, group, collaborate and even search these tasks.
At the main Reddynote screen, you can instantly see your task inbox. These show the latest entries, or some that are nearly expiring. All in all, it’s a good place to start the rest of your day. You can instantly see your tasks’ tags, process, and due date. After expanding them, you can view any relevant notes, or edit the previously mentioned data. Next, you can click and drag some of the tasks to one of the folders on the the left hand side of the screen. Today should hold the tasks you’re intending upon completing shortly, and Postponed can hide others that don’t mind a little delay.
Collections, defined by a number of common tag denominators, can be saved as an always-updating tab at the top of the Reddynote interface. Collections like ‘family’, ‘work’ and ‘play’ put you yet a bit closer to organizing your task list. A ’shared’ tag also allows you to collaborate inter-task-wise with other Reddynote users. Adding & Organizing Tasks
The second, and most thorough way to add tasks is done right in your inbox, or from one of the other task collections.
Clicking on the little plus (+) icon will give you a pop-up to set up your task. Even better, if you happen to be browsing a specific set of tasks, it’ll automatically include said tags in the new task. Take Reddynote for a spin here. How do you organize your task list? Pen and paper, cellphone, online scheduler, or yet another alternative? Tell us about what you use, and the advantages that brought you over to its side! Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Includes cool extras. Similar MakeUseOf Articles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How To Create Special Birthday Presents Easily With iPhoto [Mac] Posted: 06 Apr 2010 10:31 AM PDT
Luckily, I had this conversation with my buddies a few years ago that gave me one alternative answer to the dilemma of picking a present. Basically, the one thing that normal people would surely love is themselves. So why not give the thing that they love as a birthday present? Well, not literally. You can give the person pictures of themselves.
Finding A Face In The CrowdSo, what’s so special about pictures of oneself? Well, if you arrange them into a nice design and package everything professionally, those photos could turn out to be great, special birthday presents: a personalized photo book. And Mac’s iPhoto is the perfect tool to do that. This photo management app provides you with tools to easily build a personalized book from scratch. The first tool that you should use is the Faces feature which will allow you to find photos that contain a certain person in them – among hundreds of photos in your library. If you want to create a personalized photo book as a birthday present, this feature is essential.
Painting A Picture BookThe next step is creating the actual book itself – the digital version first – and it’s as easy as clicking a few icons/buttons. Select one of the “Faces” that you want to insert into the book and click the “Book” icon in the lower bar of the iPhoto window.
As with other iApps such as iWeb and Pages, there are tons of ready to use picture book templates that you can choose.
You can also customize the book types: such as the size, cover and bindings.
After you are settled with your options, click the “Choose” button and go on to the next step. Fill In The BlanksA blank photo book based on the template that you chose will be created in the middle of the window. While at the top of the window, theres a picture strip with all the photos coming from the “Faces” collection of the person that you chose.
Edit the text on the cover :
Then drag and drop one of the photos to be the cover.
You can edit the size of the picture by moving the slider, and also the position by using the hand icon (Pan tool). The first page is a description that you can edit.
And the rest is a matter of dragging and dropping photos to fill in the book. Flip the pages and insert the pictures. Depending on what template you choose, there might be some other pages with texts that you can edit such as the inside covers of the dust jacket and the back cover of the hardback version. And Then There Are OthersThere are other tools that you can use to enrich the “building a personalized picture book” experience. To let iPhoto automatically fill in the pages with photos, use the “AutoFlow” tool. “Add Pages” tool is to go beyond the default number of pages set for that particular template. You can change the layout of the page using the layout tool. For example if you want to change the description page into a photo page, or to switch from portrait to landscape.
Another thing that you can modify is the background color. Choose whether you want to use white, grey or black. You can also change the theme (template) that you use on the fly. Just click on the “Themes” icon. But please note that you may lose any text that you added to the book (such as in the description page).
Clicking “Adjust” while selecting an image will give you several quick photo editing tools.
While the Settings button is there for you to change the font types and sizes used throughout the book.
Printing the Photo BookThe last step in this birthday gift creation process is printing the book. The easiest way is by clicking the “Buy Book” button at the bottom right of the window. You will be taken to the Apple site where you can order the book, and Apple will professionally print the book and deliver it to your door. But for those of you who think that getting the book from Apple is out of the question (because of your geographical location or another reason), you can choose some other options. You can either print the book yourself, or save it as a PDF file and bring it to the local printer. After you have the physical product in your hand, all that’s left to do is gift-wrap it and then deliver it to the birthday boy/girl. I’m sure this gift will be an unforgettable one. Do you have other cool ideas for birthday presents? Have you tried to create picture books? Share using the comment below. Image credit: Apple Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Includes cool extras. Similar MakeUseOf Articles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How To Add Thumbnails To Your Website With ShrinkTheWeb Posted: 06 Apr 2010 09:31 AM PDT
The same applies to the links on your website. Here at MakeUseOf, we use an online service called ShrinkTheWeb. It’s a website screenshot thumbnail service that allows us to easily add a thumbnail to for any website. You can see it in action in our daily Cool Websites and Tools series.
So say you have written a website review or you have inserted a link to a site on your blog. Wouldn’t it look much better with a small thumbnail image of that site next to the link? Of course it would. It can be especially handy for list style articles, just like MakeUseOf’s Cool Websites and Tools. Add ShrinkTheWeb Website Thumbnails To WordpressTo automate things and make our life easier, we use their Wordpress plugin. The plugin is specifically helpful for those who plan to use the ShrinkTheWeb thumbnails on a regular basis.
As you can see from the above screenshot apart from generating thumbnails it can also add small mouse-over popup previews to external links on your website. If you don’t want to bother with the plugin, you can easily and quickly generate multiple sizes of a website screenshot, simply by inserting the URL on the front page of ShrinkTheWeb. To make an image of a website page, just look at the bottom of the STW website and you’ll see a box entitled “Generate a Screenshot“. Simply enter the URL and hit the green arrow button. As an example, we will use the MakeUseOf site.
Seconds later, you’ll have quite a few sizes (there are six default sizes). There are no advertisements or watermarks on the thumbnails.
Then it’s just a case of right-clicking on the size you want and saving the image to your hard drive. But if you have a Wordpress blog, it gets even easier. Just install their plugin and everytime you want to insert a thumbnail of a website, just enter in the HTML tab of your post, <thumb>enter the domain name here</thumb>. The thumbnail image will then be automatically generated when you save the post. There are also plugins for Drupal, vBulletin and Django. There are many reasons why you might want to use ShrinkTheWeb:
The service is free but they do offer an optional paid pro service as well. Check out this page to see what you get with the pro option. Personally I think most people will be perfectly happy with the free offerings. Do you use ShrinkTheWeb? If so, what do you think about it? Or maybe you use a super-duper alternative service that you would like to tell us about? Lets us know in the comments. Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too. Includes cool extras. Similar MakeUseOf Articles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Share Monitor – See Who Is Reading Or Writing To Your Windows Shared Files Posted: 06 Apr 2010 08:31 AM PDT
My normal answer to this is that we need to enable auditing and set up object access audit policies. With that sentence I usually lose the person on the word auditing. But now there is a simple portable application that can report on all your local Windows shared files as easily as downloading, running and starting up the application.
If you click the Start button in the upper left hand corner the application will start. If you do not have any Windows shared files on your computer than nothing will happen. If you do have shares on your computer, Share Monitor will start its magic. I downloaded and ran Share Monitor on my office desktop machine. I then clicked the start button on the application, not changing anything and I still saw nothing! So I attempted to access my shared folders from my machine and then again from one of my local servers. I then saw my log start to grow. Let's see what it did:
So over the two minute span I accessed 6 folders or files on two different shares.
Now how can we use this information? Well let's take a look below:
Now if I needed to know who the hell changed my website's footer file I could look at the Share Monitor log and see that on 3/31/2010 at 3:02 PM a user logged in as “Administrator” modified my file. How do I know that? Well that is the only entry with Write + Read access to the file. All the other entries list only read access. This means that those users COULD NOT have modified my file. My culprit is the Administrator! Now this could be used to find someone deleting your files, editing stuff you do not want edited and all sorts of other creative things you want to track without the need for any auditing knowledge on Windows! And if you need to set up file sharing between a Mac and a PC check this article out from our very own Jackson Chung. Do you have an easier method to do this? We would love to hear about it in the comments! Do you like MakeUseOf articles! Please do share our articles with others! It’s really important to us. Similar MakeUseOf Articles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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With the bustling and disorganized lives of nerds and busy people worldwide, those little mental notes just don’t suffice anymore. Most likely, you don’t sporadically forget about stuff, but do it all the time.
On the right side of the screen, you can instantly search for tasks that are a bit lost in the clutter. However, the search option only takes the name of the task under consideration, and ignores any other tasks. In the above example, ‘algebra’ would turn up the topmost task on the list, but ‘math’ would return blank. Said tags can be selected from a tag cloud below, though, or used in a more advanced filter.
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Choosing a cool, special birthday present is always a problem for me (and most of the people I know). Price tag aside, the biggest headache is choosing the item that the birthday boy/girl would surely love. Vouchers are always a safe bet but they’re not personal.
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