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- Cool Websites and Tools [June 20th]
- Thank You To MakeUseOf Friends!
- Latest Hilarious Picks [MakeUseOf Geeky Fun]
- How Big Is Your USB Memory Stick? [MakeUseOf Poll]
- Find That Particular Font You Love With WhatTheFont
- 10 Free MP3 Album Downloads [Sound Sunday]
- How to Manage Tabs in Opera Like a Pro
| Cool Websites and Tools [June 20th] Posted: 20 Jun 2010 08:31 PM PDT
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| Thank You To MakeUseOf Friends! Posted: 20 Jun 2010 07:31 PM PDT
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| Latest Hilarious Picks [MakeUseOf Geeky Fun] Posted: 20 Jun 2010 06:31 PM PDT
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Our latest mega giveaway: zozi is sponsoring a FREE 7-day, wine-tasting trip in New Zealand for two. Here’s how you can sign up. Contest ends June 25th.
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| How Big Is Your USB Memory Stick? [MakeUseOf Poll] Posted: 20 Jun 2010 05:31 PM PDT
40% of you responded that you read it every week and it has helped you find cool new free applications. 22% of you said that you read it occasionally and think it should stay. Then 20% said that you never read it. 13% said that it sucks and you hate it. You can see the full list below and we are waiting to hear back on if the feature will be killed off or not.
This weeks poll is how big is your USB memory stick? Almost everyone I know carries around a memory stick in their pocket, bag and some of them keep them around their necks. Up until recently I had a 1GB memory stick crammed with all sorts of wonderful portable goodness into it. But I never had room for the documents, music or other stuff that I wanted to carry with me. So now I have dropped $14 on a 16GB memory stick and $11 for a 8GB memory stick for my Wii. Now I carry around this 16GB stick which fits on all my portable applications as well as all my documents and files that I might need. So we are wondering – if you carry a USB memory stick with you – how big is it? Let us know below and as always drop a comment to let us know what you carry on your stick. Got Questions? Ask Them Now for FREE on MakeUseOf Answers! Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| Find That Particular Font You Love With WhatTheFont Posted: 20 Jun 2010 03:31 PM PDT
Karl recently showed you WhatFontIs which could help you but I'm going to show you another way to discover the font you want, and perhaps even get a copy of it, using WhatTheFont. There's a problem using unusual fonts – as fonts – on webpages. Simply put, if the webpage uses a font that you don't have, then you won't be able to see the page as it is intended. The simplest solution to this problem is the one that is used most. Don't actually use the font.
But now and then you need something more. You really like the font you see on a page, and you would like to to make use of it yourself to create the perfect webpage, or to use offline somewhere. To do that, you need to find out what font was used. WhatTheFont lets you upload or link to the image containing the font, asks you some questions, and presents you with some candidate fonts for comparison. So how effective is this? Depends. I'd say it's a great tool to find a similar font. To be sure you have an identical font requires a better eye than I have. Example 1 – The MakeUseOf logo
Visit the site then provide the address of the image:
Click the Continue button. WhatTheFont needs to do some work now. If you've ever used any OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software you'll be familiar with the idea. The images is composed of a set of small pixels. Fonts are instead sets of geometric models. Translation between these is the part that requires some effort. The next page that appears is where you can help. WhatTheFont has made some guesses as to what some of the characters are that make up the logo.
In some cases, the guesses are not correct. For instance, se is tagged as being the letter m. You can easily fix these by changing the values in the boxes.
These are also easy to fix though. Drag one of these images over the other and drop it. The page will be redrawn, and you can correctly tag the character. When you have completed as many of these characters as you can, click Continue again. WhatTheFont uses all of the supplied information and presents you with a set of fonts that best fit.
In this case, Futura SB-Bold Con seems a very close match. If you click on the font name you are forwarded to a more central part of the MyFonts site, and presented with information and samples specifically about that one font.
From here, the choices are yours. Look up more details, buy the font. Find free options. you can spend a lot of time in here. Example 2 – SignageLet's try something a little harder from the real world.
You know how it works now, so let's just hit the high points. First off… it didn't work. That is, until I cropped it down to just the text. After that, things went more normally.
Turns out that there are some good matches.
Anyway, that should give you enough to get started. Enjoy yourself. If you need any more help with fonts, first give the rest of MyFonts a try. if that doesn't do it for you, Identifont can help you out when the automatic options don't work. And if you want to learn to identify fonts yourself, find out some more at FontTrainer. How did it go for you? Let me know in the comments. Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf fan page on Facebook. Over 20,000 fans already!
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| 10 Free MP3 Album Downloads [Sound Sunday] Posted: 20 Jun 2010 12:30 PM PDT
It’s in your hands to make the efforts worthwhile. Don’t be a freeloader, but invest in music you enjoy. This week’s Sound Sunday includes albums from InAshton, Durgstore Fanatics, Jelly Antler, J The S, Jonny Rumble, Daniel Whittington, The Revere, Zar The Diplomat, and Shorelines End. If you enjoy any of these, watch out for future releases and in the meantime attend a live gig.
InAshton – InAshton: REDGenres: alternative, rock
InAshton MySpace and Homepage. Drugstore Fanatics – What’s Born in the BasementGenres: alternative, rock, industrial, ambient
Durgstore Fanatics MySpace and Homepage. Jelly Antler – 1Genres: experimental, electronica, instrumental
Jelly Antler MySpace and Blog. J The S – Wish You Were HereGenre: hip hop
Jonny Rumble – JRGenres: indie, garage, power pop
Jonny Rumble MySpace and Homepage. Daniel Whittington – Things ChangeGenres: rock, americana, independent
Daniel Whittington MySpace and Homepage. The Revere – The Great CityGenre: rock
The Revere MySpace and Homepage. The New Enemy – ShakedownGenres: hardcore, punk, rock
The New Enemy MySpace and Zar The Diplomat – In This CornerGenre: hip hop
Zar The Diplomat Homepage. Shorelines End – From Across This Crowded RoomGenres: alternative, pop, rock
Shorelines End MySpace and Homepage. If you have some free music to share, please get in touch with me (tina at makeuseof dot com)! On Sound Sunday MakeUseOf promotes free mp3 downloads of either songs (no information collected) or albums. And in case you enjoyed any of the above, please subscribe to the band’s mailing list, visit their live show, or simply leave a comment to say “Thank You!” NEW: Download MakeUseOf iPhone App. FREE! Similar MakeUseOf Articles
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| How to Manage Tabs in Opera Like a Pro Posted: 20 Jun 2010 09:30 AM PDT
Opera is a bit different from Firefox and others, however. Or rather, it is a bit more advanced. While other browsers offer tabbed browsing, they treat each individual tab as a separate entity. You can display one tab at once. Opera, however, uses tabs like windows inside the browser. In this tutorial we’ll take a look at four ways to use advanced Opera tab features in order to make browsing the web easier.
1. Pin Tabs
Opera has the ability to pin tabs to the taskbar. This can be accomplished simply by right-clicking on an Opera tab and then clicking Pin Tab. When a tab is pinned, it no longer has an X on the right side of the tab which can be used to close the tab. Instead it has a magnifying glass symbol. Using the Pin Tab function allows you to make websites you visit very frequently, such as your search engine or a web-based email client, a permanent fixture in your web browser. When you use Pin Tab on a website in Opera it becomes permanent even if you close Opera. The website will still be pinned when you open Opera later. 2. Using Follower Tabs
The follower tab is a feature unique to Opera. You can create a follower tab by right-clicking on a current tab in the taskbar and then clicking Create Follower Tab. The follower tab will be blank when it first opens, but now any link you click on in the original tab will no longer open in that tab. Instead it will open in the follower tab. Follower Opera tabs are handy when you are browsing a website and blog and you want to check out multiple articles. For example, let’s say you’re browsing Makeuseof.com and you found a post you want to read. However, you want to keep browsing the main page as well. You could use the follower tab feature to make browsing easier. When you find a post to read, simply click on it to open it in the follower tab. The functionality of the follower tab can also be achieved by simply opening new tabs, but the follower tab streamlines the process so that you are not constantly opening and closing tabs. 3. Cascading and Tiling Tabs
Opera tabs are unique from other web browsers in that they act more like windows than tabs, making the taskbar label of Opera’s tab manager very appropriate. The difference in how Opera handles tabs isn’t evident at first, but it becomes obvious when you right-click on a tab and then go to the Arrange section. Here you’ll find options on how to manage tabs in the Opera browser’s space. From this menu, you can minimize or maximize all of your tabs. The more interesting options, however, are the Cascade, Tile Vertically and Tile Horizontally options. You can use this feature to tile all of your open tabs inside the Opera web browser. This feature can be used to easily arrange multiple websites so that they can be read together. It can also be used to pick out which tab you want to read, as you maximize any of the tiled tabs so that they take up the entire browser space. 4. Use Session Management
Opera has a built-in session manager by default. A session manager is a feature which can save all of the tabs which you are currently working on for later use. You can re-open these tabs at any time through the session manager. To try it, open a few tabs. Then click on the Opera menu button in the upper left hand corner of the browser. Go to Tabs and Windows > Sessions > Save This Session. Name the session and un-check the “Show these tabs and windows every time I start Opera” checkbox. Then click okay. Now close all of your open tabs. Once all tabs are closed, go back to the Sessions menu. You should see the session you saved as a selection in the menu. If you click on it all of the tabs you had open will re-open, letting you pick up where you left off. ConclusionThese tab management features should make using tabs in Opera much easier, and they are features which, for the most part, other browsers cannot yet emulate. Once you know how to use Opera tabs, you’ll find that certain tasks, such as researching multiple websites or browsing blogs, is easier in Opera than in other browsers. Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf fan page on Facebook. Over 20,000 fans already!
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