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- Cool Websites and Tools [June 17th]
- 10 Free Android Apps A Busy Mom Will Love
- Smories.com – A Safe Online Space For Kids To Be Read To By Other Kids
- Redshift Keeps Your Eyes Sharp & Helps You Sleep [Linux]
- Moderate Wordpress Comments On Your Desktop With Comments Notifier
- 3 Cool Apps For Secretly Answering Your Windows Mobile Phone In A Meeting
- Job Search With Your Mobile Phone With Hire-A-Droid [Android]
- Easily Share Files & Folders On A Domain With Easy Share
- Design A Quick Personal Name Card Using Your Photo & Drawberry [Mac]
- How To Record Skype Video Calls For Free With Vodburner
| Cool Websites and Tools [June 17th] Posted: 17 Jun 2010 08:31 PM PDT
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| 10 Free Android Apps A Busy Mom Will Love Posted: 17 Jun 2010 06:31 PM PDT
The good news is that like others who hold “C” class titles, we moms can use our Androids and a few of its nifty little apps to make our homes more organized, time better managed and when it’s all said and done, our lives easier! Here are 10 totally free and totally cool Android apps that are perfect for Mom:
OurGroceries
Create multiple lists for different stores and send them directly to your husband’s Android. My favorite feature of this free Android app? Enter in a new recipe and OurGroceries will build a list for you based off the ingredients you’ll need.
Shopsavvy
This is a fantastic app to take outlet mall shopping – think the outlet offers a rock bottom price for that Vera Bradley bag you’ve been eyeing? Well it happens to be on sale with free shipping somewhere else and now you know that thanks to Shopsavvy. It’s consumer empowerment at its best – this is truly one app I can no longer live without.
Jorte
Put plainly and simply, it’s cute! For personal organizers it has an unexpectedly attractive interface with a pink, red and lavender-ish color scheme. Lets face it, organizing is just more fun when it’s pretty. Combined with the fact that Jorte offers top-notch functionality, this is a win-win app.
Mom 2 Be
Name Culture
This naming app stands out above other Android naming apps that simply provide a laundry list of the 5,000 most popular girls and boys names. Name Culture provides name meanings and origins and allows users to search for names by these criteria. However, like some of the less helpful naming apps, Name Culture is free.
White Noise Lite
This awesome and free app lets you choose from 10 different sounds; Airplane, Beach Waves, Chimes, Clock, Crickets, Fan, Rain, Thunder, Train, and White Noise. Just place your Android somewhere near the baby and play one of these 10 perfectly looped ambient sounds and your baby will be sleeping peacefully in no time!
Shapes
Shapes is designed to entertain, interact with and most importantly teach young children their shapes and animals. Simple and free, moms report this basic app keeps most little ones engaged for quite a while. My two year old played (and learned!) with Shapes for almost 9 minutes – 9 minutes!!! That’s a record for someone who normally can’t even stand still for all of 30 seconds.
Doodle Kids
This app is great entertainment for all ages (even some of us adults like to fiddle with this app now and then) and is an excellent addition to any lengthy car ride.
My Days
Women in the Droid community love this app – although many of us wish that it auto synced with Google Calendar. Still, for the free price tag and easy to use interface with a full month calendar view, it’s one app you’ll most definitely want on your Droid at all times.
MomsZeal
It’s also just a fun place to chitchat and make friends while waiting for soccer practice to finish or after a hard long day of mommying.
If you are a busy mom, what free Android apps do you rely on to make your job a little bit easier? Let us know about them in the comments. Image Credit: Raul A Got Questions? Ask Them Now for FREE on MakeUseOf Answers! Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Smories.com – A Safe Online Space For Kids To Be Read To By Other Kids Posted: 17 Jun 2010 04:31 PM PDT
Something interesting about children is that they seem to enjoy being read to by other children. I remember being in grade school and having times when I was allowed to read to the kindergarten class. For some reason children love it when other children take that kind of time.
The creators of Smories had an idea. What if children had a place where they could watch other children reading stories without the inherent dangers of social video sites like YouTube? What they are doing with Smories.com is using the Internet to bring together story writers, child readers, and the children who love being read to. Now children can have carefully “vetted” (the word they use) stories read to them by other children without fear of danger. Without the rest of the details, you can go straight to Smories right now and begin to watch the videos of the stories being read. It’s easy because the front page contains thumbnails of a bunch of videos. As you hover your cursor over each thumbnail, you’ll see the information about each video, including the age-appropriate label.
Clicking the thumbnail will bring you straight to the video page for watching.
You might notice that right now most of the children have an English accent. That is because the site was created in the UK. They are going to be having American readers soon also so keep an ear out for them. You’ll notice that the videos aren’t professionally done. I think they were actually recorded using flip-style video cameras. They are trying to keep the atmosphere relaxed to keep the style of children reading to other children in the home. Beyond just going and watching the videos, there is also information about how to submit your own stories. They used to run contests with cash prizes for stories submitted but they recently stopped doing that. If there is no cash rendered for accepted stories, why submit them? The exposure, of course. For instance, they are now doing detailed author biography pages containing information you’d probably like to have spread around.
Don’t worry because authors still retain the copyright (copyright information). You are only giving Smories.com permission to narrate, record, and publish the recording on their site. Check out the FAQ page for more information about submitting a story, the Submit a Story page to actually submit a story, and the Tips for Writers page for some tips on writing for children. Now as for where they get the child readers, I haven’t figured that part out yet.
Smories is a safe and fun online destination for children to be read to. That and being a new place for authors to test out unpublished work and gain some exposure, I think it’s a good find. Oh, and did I mention they have an iPhone version? Got Questions? Ask Them Now for FREE on MakeUseOf Answers! Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Redshift Keeps Your Eyes Sharp & Helps You Sleep [Linux] Posted: 17 Jun 2010 02:31 PM PDT
It’s for this reason that devices like the Kindle and the Nook are fast gaining popularity. Rather than utilizing the backlit screens we know from computers and cell phones, these devices mimic paper. The result is easier to read in the sun, and is in general easier on the eyes than a screen.
Linux users, it seems, were left out of the fun: F.lux does not work on Linux. That’s where Redshift comes in. The program is currently in development, and currently requires the user to have no fear of the command line, but don’t worry: it’s not too hard to use. What It DoesIf you’re not familiar with F.lux you probably don’t know what Redshift does. Essentially this application will, as it gets darker outside, alter your computer’s display and give everything a red tinge. There’s a reason for that. The type of lighting that is around you changes as it gets darker outside. Sunlight is very white, but artificial lighting tends to be more red. As such, if you read something on a piece of paper it will look white to your eyes during the day and reddish at night. You don’t notice this because your brain automatically balances the difference. Your computer monitor, being backlit, is constantly white. Because of this, looking at your computer at night can hurt your eyes and cause you to lose sleep. Redshift helps offset this. InstallationYou’ll find really simple instructions for installing this amazing software over at Ubuntu blog OMG Ubuntu, which recently featured Redshift. If you’re not a Ubuntu user you can find generic instructions over at the official Redshift page. Heck, you’ll even find instructions for installing Redshift in Windows (but I’d advise Windows users to stick with F.lux for now). Set Up Your Gnome Clock
Once you’ve got Redshift installed you’re going to want to set up your Gnome clock so it knows your location. Why? Because it might simplify using Redshift for you. Click the clock in your tray and you’ll see your calendar. You’ll also see your “Locations” at the bottom of this pop-up. If you’ve already configured your location this way congratulations: you can skip this step. If not go ahead and add your location. The dialogue is simple enough, as you can see. Once you’ve done this you can launch Redshift. Using RedshiftThe first time you use Redshift, it’s a good idea to do so in a terminal – this will tell you about any errors the program may encounter. Open your terminal and type “gtk-redshift“. Assuming all is well, you should find this new notification applet in your system tray:
If not, you’ll probably see a request for you to manually input your latitude and longitude. Yeah, this program has a few bugs still, but don’t worry too much: doing this is easy. Go back to the configuration screen you used to set your location above and write down your latitude and longitude. Then type a new command that consists of “gtk-redshift” followed by “-l” followed by your latitude and longitude separated only by a colon. For example, if you live in Copenhagen, Denmark, type this command:
Redshift will now launch Redshift, forcing your location onto it. Do you want an indicator applet to run in the background without the indicator applet? Easy. Just use the command “redshift” instead of “gtk-redshift” and voila: trayless redshift. At Boot
Want Redshift to start when your computer does? Easy enough. Just copy whatever command you managed to type to get Redshift working, then click “System,” then “Preferences,” then “Startup Programs.” Add a new program, using your command in the “Command” box and whatever you like for the rest. Conclusion
I love reading articles from The Economist before going to bed. I do this using Readability, the service I described last week as being Safari’s “Reader” for Chrome and Firefox. I do find that I sleep better after this using Redshift than I do without, so try it out for yourself. And if you do try it out for yourself please do share with us how it worked out for you. Also share any tips you might have for using Redshift, because it’s always great to learn. Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf fan page on Facebook. Over 20,000 fans already!
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| Moderate Wordpress Comments On Your Desktop With Comments Notifier Posted: 17 Jun 2010 01:31 PM PDT
It doesn't matter if you are using the free Wordpress.com setup or if you have your own self hosted blog. There is a free application called Wordpress Comments Notifier which I was able to download from the authors homepage. After downloading the application you will need to install it. You will see a screen that looks like the one below. Simply hit next leaving both options selected as seen in the image below. It will use 6.6 MB of hard drive space.
Upon the first launch of the application we will need to set up where we want to pull our comments from. You will need your blog's full web address as well as your username and password. Fill in all the fields and then hit the next button.
Wordpress Comment Notifier will then go out and grab your recent comments from your blog as well as your comment statistics. You will see notifications as it performs each step quickly.
When Wordpress Comment Notifier is complete you will see a message stating that your blog has been set up. You can then assign the blog a nickname. I set up my personal blog called AskTheAdmin.
Now you can left click on the Wordpress icon in your system tray to bring the console to the front. When you do this you will see a window with three tabs. The first tab is all comments and it will display the total number of comments on your blog. The second tab is for pending comments that are awaiting your moderation and the last column is the spam column. This is for messages that have been marked as spam.
Now lets see what the application can actually do. I clicked on the reply button directly under the top comment. I was then able to type a reply to the comment at the bottom of the window. Upon hitting the enter button your comment will be submitted to your blog and be posted as the user which you used the username and password of in the setup step.
We can also unapprove, edit, spam and delete any comments that have been left on your blog.
For our spammed comments we will be able to edit them, choose not spam or delete them. The same options that appear for approved comments will also appear for pending comments. By right clicking on the Wordpress system tray icon you will be able to set the following settings:
You will see that you can change the interval which the application checks for new comments as well as if the application starts up with Windows. You can make changes to the data that you initially entered during setup as well. Do you check your Wordpress comments with another desktop app? If so, we would love to hear about it in the comments. Or do you check your comments using your Android phone? NEW: Download MakeUseOf iPhone App. FREE! Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| 3 Cool Apps For Secretly Answering Your Windows Mobile Phone In A Meeting Posted: 17 Jun 2010 12:31 PM PDT
The truth is, there is no way covertly and personally answering a cell phone in a meeting will work. Even if you leave the room to talk to the person calling you, you will briefly disrupt the meeting. However, there are ways of dealing with incoming calls automatically, which will not disturb the meeting or yourself.
XBLOCKRXBLOCKR isn’t exactly automatic, as it does require your attention briefly. When you receive a call, you can choose from four different actions:
An advanced version of XBLOCKER is available through its website. The download through Freeware Pocket PC (link above) is unlimited, while the XBLOCKER homepage only offers a 40 call trial version. Mobile SecretaryNow Mobile Secretary will take care of your calls without you noticing it, unless you want to. What you do is set up groups and assign your contacts to the groups. For each group you can create a custom ringtone and text message. So when you miss a call while in a meeting, the caller will receive your custom text message. For example you could ask them to call again later or let them know that you will call them back as soon as you can. You can also forward incoming text messages to another phone number.
I also tested a very similar tool called iSecretary. It’s supposed to work as an answering machine that lets you set rules and record custom voice messages for different groups of contacts. Sadly, it proved to be a failure as callers never get to hear your custom messages. On my HTC Touch Pro the message was played through the phone rather than to the caller, regardless of settings. Call FirewallThe Call Firewall finally offers more options than the previous tools, but it’s also more difficult to set up. It provides the following features:
Are you still wondering whether answering a cell phone in a meeting is OK? Check out this article on Groundswell for guidelines. If you’re not expecting an emergency call, you should simply turn off the ringtone and vibration before you head into a meeting and forget about your phone until you have time to return calls. Also, check out other articles covering mobile apps on MakeUseOf. What apps and tactics do you use for mobile phone calls when you are in a meeting? Image Credit : mrceviz NEW: Download MakeUseOf iPhone App. FREE! Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Job Search With Your Mobile Phone With Hire-A-Droid [Android] Posted: 17 Jun 2010 11:31 AM PDT
At the same time, the globalization of almost every major industry, combined with the overwhelming adoption and integration of the Internet throughout almost all markets, is creating more and more unique opportunities that never existed even a decade ago. In other words, the world is changing around you, and unless you’re proactive and take the bull by the horns – the opportunities this “new world” presents will pass you by. One of the easiest ways to identify and capture new opportunities is by staying on top of the job market for your skills and professional experience.
Conduct an Android Job SearchAfter numerous unpaid furloughs and forced “vacation management,” I started exploring the job market to see how much things have changed over the past decade or so. Not only did I discover new exciting opportunities, but thanks to the explosion of the Internet, but I also discovered an awesome mobile tool on the Android Market for job hunting called Hire A Droid. This is quite the little powerhouse, because it hunts through multiple job search engines and returns all of the results to you to review and apply for. The search screen is very intuitive and even offers operator buttons like “AND”, “OR” and “NOT” to aid you in stringing together effective search queries. You can choose from any one of 18 countries to perform your search.
Best of all, this job search app lets you save your previous search queries so that if you search for the same keywords every day (as most people do), this feature will let you conduct the same search with a single click.
The search listings that Hire A Droid turns up is pretty comprehensive, coming from major job search resources like LinkUp, SimplyHired, Indeed and CareerBuilder. When you want to save time by hunting for jobs across a wide range of sources, this is the app that you’ll want. Where other mobile job search apps turn up no results, Hire A Droid will often turn up listings.
Almost every search I tried turned up at least some listings, and a lot depends on the area that you’re searching as well. Within each listing you’ll see the job title, date posted, the company name and the location. If you want some more details, just click once 0n any of the job ads and it’ll drop down with more information.
When you click on any of the extended details, you’ll end up on the application page for that employer. This page may look different for every job listing. You’ll typically always see a detailed review of the position. Additionally you’ll usually have several application options available. For example, in one case I found an ad that lets you email the listing to yourself or to a friend, or you have the opportunity to instantly submit your resume for the job.
In another listing, I was whisked to a page that looked pretty much like the employer website, but contained within the Hire-A-Droid app. Even in this case, there was the option to either apply immediately while online, or email the listing. In most cases you will probably want to just email the listing to yourself so that you can apply once you’re home and back at your computer.
Obviously, Hire A Droid is easily the best choice of any available mobile job search app in the Android market because it covers so many job search engines at once. Many people swear by their favorite job search engine, but if you use Hire-A-Droid where you can search them all, you’ve got all of your bases covered. Do you know of any other useful mobile job search apps? If you use any, do you apply straight from the phone or wait until you’re home and on your computer? Share your insight and experiences in the comments section below. Do you like MakeUseOf articles? Do share our articles with others! It’s really important to us. Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Easily Share Files & Folders On A Domain With Easy Share Posted: 17 Jun 2010 10:31 AM PDT
Configuring the shares and then permissions for each, the Windows way, might not be the quickest and easiest way as you shall see. You can do it a lot better and easier with Easy Share.
Once installed, go ahead and fire it up. You are greeted with a minimalistic UI, which looks like the one below:
The application presents two sections “Share details” and “Permissions“. The former lets you configure the folder and sharing details on the network, whereas the latter can be used to configure who has access to the shared folder on the network. Let’s just share a sample folder and see how easy the entire process is.
That is all the folder configuration you need to do. Next up is configuring who you want to share the folder with and what permissions they can have.
Contact management and easy permissions is what really makes Easy Share worth the install and bypassing the Windows Sharing and Security configuration. You can easily add contacts with whom you want to share files and folders with simply by using their usernames.
Once you have added the users you want to share with, you will see them listed in the main window. You can then check or uncheck the users you want to share the files with. If you scroll to the right you will also be able to edit the permissions that each of these users have for that folder.
That is all you need to do. The next time you would be able to use the already added contacts, making your job that much easier. You can of course, remove or edit details for the contacts as and when required. Easy Share is a nice little utility that makes sharing files and folders on the domain a whole lot easier and faster. Once you have your contacts configured, you can easily share folders in a snap with just a few clicks. If your computer is a member of a domain then Easy Share is a useful little application to have. How do you share your files and folders on the network? Any special tools with similar functionalities that you use for this purpose? Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras. Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Design A Quick Personal Name Card Using Your Photo & Drawberry [Mac] Posted: 17 Jun 2010 09:31 AM PDT
But apparently I was wrong. I stumbled across my friend from high school a few days ago. He runs his own printing company and I guess he’s the old school type, because after the usual, “Hi! How are you doing?” He gave me his card and waited. It took me a while – quite a long while – before I realized that he expected me to give him mine in return.
Starting A Quick DesignI finally managed to lose him with a promise to send a card design as soon as possible. Even though I still don’t know whether or not I will send the design to my friend, I decided to go through the design process anyway while trying Drawberry – a free image editor for Mac that has been collecting dust inside my hard drive for a long time. But let’s set something straight before we begin: Drawberry is no Illustrator or Photoshop. But it can be a decent alternative for those who need a simple but powerful enough drawing application. Let’s start by defining the drawing area. Click “Create” to start drawing.
Don’t be too afraid in determining the drawing area because you can easily change it in the “Page Setting” floating bar. Look for the “Canvas” option.
To add an image as the basis of your card, go to the “File – Import” menu.
And browse to the location of your photo.
If you need to change the settings of the image, go to the “Forme” floating toolbar on the right.
Resize the image and drag it to the correct position on the canvas.
If your image is not fully covering the background, you could insert a rectangle to fill in the blank spot. Now let’s go to the next step. Adding Some TextGo to the “Layers” floating toolbar and create a new layer by clicking on the little “Plus” button below. Then you can rename the layer by double clicking it on the main pane of the toolbar and retyping the name.
There are two small icons next to the name. If you want one (or more) of your layer(s) to be non-editable, use the “Lock” icon. Click the icon one more time to unlock those layers. The “Eye” icon is to make the layer(s) visible/invisible. After creating a layer, go to the tiny “Tool” floating toolbar and click Rectangle.
Draw the rectangle in your canvas.
And edit the color fill using the “Fill” tab in the “Forme” floating toolbar. You can use Gradient or Solid Color as the filling.
Whichever option you choose, click on the color box to choose the color(s) for the filling.
If you don’t want an outline at the edge of your rectangle, go to the “Stroke” tab on the “Forme” floating toolbar, and choose “None“.
Then create a new layer for the text, choose “Text” from the tiny “Tool” floating toolbar, and draw the writing area on the canvas.
You can write your name or any other text that you like, select the text, click on the “Text Format” icon at the toolbar, and edit the Font Type and Size and other Font attributes.
Drag the text to the position that you want and you have your final product. A quick and simple personal name card.
Of course you can create a business card instead of a personal name card. You can also add more personal information such as an address and phone number. Just be sure to choose an appropriate image to go along with the type of card. The last step is exporting the card to the format that you need. To do that, go to the “File – Export” menu.
As a footnote, I noticed several misspellings in the app interface and a few glitches in the workflow. It’s to be expected from an app below version 1 (I was using the latest version 0.81 at the time of writing). Hopefully the developer will address these issues in future releases. And if you’d like to have more references on creating a name/business card, you can read our other related articles: Design Your Cool Web 2.0-ish Namecard using DrawIt Lite [Mac] and 5 Ways To Create Your Business Card 2.0. Image credit: Lucid-Dreams Got Questions? Ask Them Now FREE on MakeUseOf Answers! Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| How To Record Skype Video Calls For Free With Vodburner Posted: 17 Jun 2010 08:31 AM PDT
While Skype is great for video chat, it lacks any ability to record calls. This can be a problem if you for some reason need to keep a video call on record for later use or if you want to create a home video out of your video chat. There is, however, a way to record Skype video calls for free.
Introducing VodburnerIf you want to record Skype video calls and you don’t mind paying, you have many options. If you don’t want to pay, however, there is one program which jumps out as the leader – Vodburner. Vodburner will let you record Skype video calls for free, but there are two simple conditions. If both you and the person you’re on the video call with have Vodburner installed you can record the call for free without restriction. If you have Vodburner, but the other person doesn’t, you can still record for free but the call with have a Vodburner watermark placed on it. You will need to pay if you don’t want the watermark on all calls. Using Vodburner To Record Video CallsInstalling Vodburner is simple . The installer is no different than the installer for any other program. Once you have installed Vodburner, however, you’ll need to authorize the use of Vodburner with Skype. Skype will display a notification stating that Vodburner is trying to gain access to Skype, and this must be approved by clicking the Allow Access button before Vodburner will function. Once Vodburner has been granted access to Skype, Vodburner will begin to record automatically as soon as you make a Skype video call. A Vodburner toolbar will become visible. This toolbar will let you know that the call is currently recording. You can choose to halt recording at any time by pressing the Pause or Stop button. The Pause button will halt the recording, but will continue recording to the same file once you resume. Stop will discard the recording and begin recording to a new file if you press the record button again.
If you don’t need to record all of your video calls you may want to disable the automatic call recording feature in Vodburner. To do this click on the Options tab. Click on Configure and then Recording. Un-check the automatic recording checkbox. Editing Video CallsOnce you hang up a call you will be prompted with a View and Edit notification. By default, Vodburner records to a proprietary format which won’t be readable by media players. Vodburner will need a moment to convert the file into usable video, and this can take several minutes on older computers. Once this process is complete you’ll be greeted by the Post Production Console.
The Post Production has two tabs. The Compose tab is where you do any editing which you might desire. For example, if you were discussing a few topics with a business partner, but there were some tangents in between, you can add transitions and edit out the parts of the call which were less important in order to create a professional presentation which can be shown to others. The options here are limited overall – if you need to seriously edit the video you’ll want to use a standalone video editing application like Windows Movie Maker or iMovie – but they’ll get the job done for quick edits. The second tab is called the Enhance tab. This is where you’ll find more advanced editing features, which include the ability to add text, photos and audio to your movie. Again, there are better ways to do this with standalone video editing programs, but if you don’t have one available you can make use of these features.
The third tab is called the Finish tab. This is where you complete the video and convert it into a commonly usable video format. Vodburner only supports the .ASF format, so you’ll have to output video to save the video to that format. The .ASF format is fairly common, and you can always convert it with a standalone video editing application if you require that your video be in a specific format. Record Away!Overall, Vodburner is very easy to use. It doesn’t have a ton of options or advanced features, but it provides basic functionality for a very attractive price – free! Remember that calls with other Vodburner users have no watermark, so make sure your friends and family install Vodburner as well if you’re on video calls with them frequently. Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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It cannot be stressed enough that answering a cell phone in a meeting is an absolute no go. However, there may be occasions in which you expect an important call, maybe even relevant to the present meeting. Announce this before the meeting starts and eventually apologize in advance.
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the future, the job market, and what opportunities exist today given all of the economic, social and business changes throughout the world. Old powerhouse industries of “industrialized” countries of the Western World all seem to be gravitating to countries with a lower cost workforce and fewer regulations.
You may often need an easy way to share your files and folders with other users or computers on the same network. This may not be so much of a task on your home network where you have only a few computers and you might only need to share a folder or two every once in a while. But it quickly becomes quite cumbersome when you are on an office network where you might be required to share files with other users frequently.
Being a person who spends most of the day around computers, the internet and electronic gadgets, I have always thought that I won’t need a physical personal name cards (or business card) anymore to trade personal data. The most usual routines are, “Here’s my number, call me so I can save yours” or “What’s your YM/GTalk/(other chat service) ID?” And if I decide to go a little bit more personal, I’ll say, “Add me to your 
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