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- Cool Websites and Tools [August 3rd]
- The 10 Toughest Tech Questions [MakeUseOf Answers]
- 5 Things You Must Check Before Disposing of Old Computers
- 4 Ways To Securely Configure A Wireless Router As A Public Access Point
- Teach & Learn On The Nuvvo Online Learning Community
- Hot Tech Deals [Aug 3rd]
- Speed Up & Troubleshoot MS Office 2007 By Managing Your Add-Ins
- 5 Great Tips To Manage Your Google (& Android) Contacts
- Download & Install Wikipedia To Your iPod With Encyclopodia
- Do Much More With Your Photos Using PhotoScape [Windows]
- Keep Track Of Your Billable Time With Time Clock MTS
| Cool Websites and Tools [August 3rd] Posted: 03 Aug 2010 08:31 PM PDT
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| The 10 Toughest Tech Questions [MakeUseOf Answers] Posted: 03 Aug 2010 07:30 PM PDT
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| 5 Things You Must Check Before Disposing of Old Computers Posted: 03 Aug 2010 06:31 PM PDT
Whatever you do, there are a few things you must check before giving away, trashing, or recycling a computer. Backing up information and securely deleting private data is one major concern. You may also be able to reuse parts or the entire computer. This article provides a quick overview of your options when it comes to disposing of old computers.
1. Backup DataObviously, you will want to keep a copy of your data. Here is a quick list of information you should not forget to backup:
Is your computer no longer booting or is the hard drive dead? Check out the following articles: 2. Serial Numbers & Registration KeysThis point deserves special attention because losing a serial number or registration keys can actually cost you money. If you’re not sure where you stored that information, retrieve it before it’s too late:
If you purchased software online and downloaded the installation file, rather than having it on a CD, be safe and back that up, too. 3. Wipe Private DataIf you seriously don’t want to keep your hard drive or can’t be bothered to remove it from your old computer, make sure all your private information is gone. Your data in the wrong hands could result in humiliation, financial loss, or worst of all: identity theft. Neither deleting files, nor emptying the trash, or formatting your hard drive is enough! To be on the safe side, you must shred and overwrite your data. Follow the steps described in this article: How To Completely & Securely Erase Your Hard Drive [Windows]
Some great suggestions on how to delete, shred, and terminally wipe your private information are also given in the replies to this question on MakeUseOf Answers: How can I clean a laptop before donating it? 4. Strip Out Useful PartsBasically, all parts of your computer, if still functional, may be useful for you or someone else. So think twice before you trash anything. If computer parts are alien to you, read this article first: The Basic Parts Of A Computer & How To Upgrade Them [Technology Explained]
Try to sell the parts you can’t use yourself on eBay, and give away leftovers via your local FreeCycle. 5. Re-Use Entire ComputerThis may be the most important point! Maybe you can actually still use your old computer. So check out the possibilities before you submit it to the trash. If your old computer is still running, it can serve many purposes. If it can connect to the internet, you could donate the CPU time. Your could also give it to someone who needs it or turn it into an entertainment center. These and many more ideas are summarized in my article Top 10 Cool Uses For Old Computers And Laptops. Finally, if your machine is really old, maybe the local tech museum is interested in it. Can you think of any more uses of old computers or parts or alternatives for disposing of old computers? Please share your thoughts in the comments. Image credits: speedy2, forwardcom, drizzle, Vyolett Do you like MakeUseOf articles? Don’t forget to share our articles with others! It’s really important to us.
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| 4 Ways To Securely Configure A Wireless Router As A Public Access Point Posted: 03 Aug 2010 04:31 PM PDT
OK, so here’s the situation. You want to share the Internet but not your personal stuff. There are actually several different ways of doing this.
Get A Router That Supports Guest Browsing
Finding a router with the ability for guest browsing is the easiest way how to make a wireless router into an access point and keep your own network secure. However, money is involved and we all know how we feel about that around here. Use One Non-Wireless Router & Two Wireless RoutersYou may be asking why I would suggest such an answer when the previous tip fits the bill with only one router. What if you have some extra hardware sitting around and you don’t want to go out and buy one of those new-fangled routers that support guest browsing? OK, so the idea here is to run the Internet connection through the non-wireless router and then connect the two wireless routers from their WAN ports to LAN ports on the non-wireless router.
As long as you don’t add any static routes to the non-wireless router, you will actually be running two wireless networks that can’t “see” one another. Use one as your own secure wireless network and the other can be the public access point. Install Firmware On Your Wireless Router That Supports Guest Browsing
In Jorge’s article about how to turn an old router into a wireless bridge, he is kind enough to explain the process of installing the firmware on your router. I will caution you the same way he did and say that you really need to follow the instructions for your router type very carefully because it is possible to render the router useless. There are tutorials out there to show you how to configure the public access point feature (this one is quite easy to follow). Once finished, you should have a public access point similar to those coffee shop connections with a splash screen and all. Get Fonera 2.0 & Make Some Money With Your Public Access Point
Fon spots (what they call their public access points) are free to other Fonera owners so just purchasing one gives you access to any of the one million other Fon spots in the world. Check out the video introduction. Now you have no excuse to leave your wifi open and insecure for the world to use. I gave you four methods how to securely make a wireless router into an access point and I even included one way to possibly make some money doing so. So tell me, how will you securely share your wifi? Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras.
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| Teach & Learn On The Nuvvo Online Learning Community Posted: 03 Aug 2010 02:31 PM PDT
Here at MakeUseOf, we’ve covered a variety of choices for when you want to find resources for online learning, like Einztein online study courses, Justin’s review of free online college courseware, and of course there’s FreeVideoLectures, where you can watch videos on over 700 course topics.
Creating Your Account & ProfileSigning up at Nuvvo is free and easy to set up – all you need is a valid email address. Nuvvo combines online learning tools with the look and feel of a social network, however it is primarily for creating online learning areas where students can read lessons, take tests, and participate in discussions about the subject with other students.
You can judge the credibility of an instructor, or the activity level of a student, by their “authority” level. Authority is broken down into both teaching activity and student activity. To improve your curriculum and teaching authority, simply get active in the many areas of Nuvvo.
Finding Topics To Learn AboutJust about everyone has a subject that they are very interested in learning more about. For me, those include blogging and web design, computer programming and investigative journalism. Brainstorm the subjects that you’d love to learn more about, and start typing in keywords into the search bar on Nuvvo’s “Learning Communities” page.
I’ve always wanted to learn more about the Java programming language, so I decided to searching for Java learning communities, and discovered several. The “Java/J2EE Development” learning community had 70 other students participating and looked pretty interesting.
Joining a learning community, you’ll discover lessons, tests, trivia, discussions and more. These communities are created and run by experts who love the topic so much that they offer free lessons and other learning tools, so you’ll discover that there’s a lot of very useful information embedded into each of the lessons. For example, the lesson on basic Java concepts was detailed and provided a decent background on Java basics.
Once you’re done studying the lessons, you can take the tests that instructors created for the material, try your hand at answering some of the trivia questions, or discuss specific questions you have with the instructor and students in the discussion areas. Becoming A Nuvvo InstructorNow, if you have an area of expertise that you’d love to share with interested students, you can create your own learning community. I decided that I would create a learning community about how to blog, so clicking on “Start a Community” in your workspace takes you to the area where you can set up your learning area and associated subdomain.
Creating your first lesson is as simple as using any WYSIWYG web page editor or blogging platform. You can format headers, add bullet lists, include pictures and more.
When you create a lesson, you have the option to offer it as part of your overall learning community, or you can attach it to a “course” as part of specific courseware. You can do this in the right menu bar by selecting to publish the lesson privately in your courses.
Creating a course is an excellent way to offer a targeted lesson plan following a structured outline of lessons. If you plan to put a lot of effort in creating high-value courseware with instruction videos, lessons and more – you can opt to charge students for the course. Students pay (and you receive payment) through Paypal. Or, if you simply want to include free courses as part of your Nuvvo learning community, then leave the cost at $0 and select the community you want to attach it to under “Course Material.”
In the course area that students gain access to, they will see you as the instructor, as well as the curriculum you’ve created and a discussion area for students to ask you (or eachother) questions. Courses are similar to learning communities, except they are more focused on a particular sub-topic, and they include an outlined curriculum students can follow to learn new skills.
Whether you decide that you want to be a teacher or a student, Nuvvo is a very cool online community devoted to people with an interest in education and a thirst for information and new skills. Have you ever tried taking lessons on Nuvvo? Do you know of similar online learning communities? Share your insight in the comments section below. Image Credit: Harrison Keely Got Questions? Ask Them Now FREE on MakeUseOf Answers!
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| Speed Up & Troubleshoot MS Office 2007 By Managing Your Add-Ins Posted: 03 Aug 2010 12:31 PM PDT
Do you use any of the 3 Microsoft Word Plugins to Boost Your MS Word Experience? Then there was the one Office add-in called UBitMenu that made MS Office 2007 look like its 2003 predecessor or even give it Firefox like tabs. But add-ins are not only what you install yourself, many add-ins are, by default, part of the MS Office suite. It doesn't take long to figure out the advantages of using add-ins. But just like anything extra that piggybacks on a default installation, there are some disadvantages to the use and abuse of Office add-ins. Two of the more clear ones are slowdown of the MS Office program, and program crashes.
It's during times like these that you need to tackle add-ins and manage them effortlessly. Thankfully, it is. Going To MS Office Options To View & Manage Add-InsMS Office has an in-built add-in manager that is accessible from the Options of each program. Let's take a look at MS Word and its installed add-ins as an example. Click the Microsoft Office Button – then click Word Options, and then click Add-Ins. The add-ins are listed in the box and arranged according to Type (COM Add-ins, Word Add-ins, Templates etc) and status like Active Application Add-ins, Inactive Application Add-ins, Document Related Add-ins, and Disabled Add-ins.
Just below the box, you can note some extra information like Publisher and a Description on the add-ins function.
To manage your add-ins specific to the MS Office program, select the add-in Type in the Manage box and then click Go.
Select or deselect the check box for the Add-in that you want to enable or disable and then click OK. From the same view, you can choose to remove the add-in or install a new one. Going To Third Party Free Software For HelpManaging your add-ins from within each program is adequate in itself. Third party free software exist though, that can tell you all the add-ins installed across the MS Office suite. Think of these two programs as a centralized console for your add-in management tasks. OfficeIns (v1.05)
OfficeIns is a simple 49KB sized Office Add-ins manager that lists all installed Microsoft Office add-ins on your computer, and allows you to disable or enable them. The free software does not need an installation and the add-in information gets saved in the program folder itself. You can select an add-in and opt for any of the four options available – Disabled, Load at Startup, Load on Demand, and Load at First Time. EnableDisable (v1.1)
EnableDisable is another free download for managing your installed Microsoft Office add-ins. The software is a 567KB download and presents a simple tabbed interface for each of the installed Microsoft Office products. Enabling or disabling add-ins is a simple matter of selecting or unselecting the checkbox next to the add-in. Add-ins as external programs also represents a loophole for malicious attacks. Therefore it is important that you install add-ins from trusted sources. As a safeguard you can set permissions in the MS Office Trust Center that Require Application Add-ins to be signed by Trusted Publisher. All unsigned and unverified add-ins will stand disabled.
A message bar alerts you when you restart the application with a security warning if there is an unsafe Office add-in. Clicking on Options on the message bar gives you the choice of re-enabling the add-on. MS Office has a Help page where these features are explained in detail for all of the programs under the suite. Check in and tell us about your add-in problems and how you manage them.
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| 5 Great Tips To Manage Your Google (& Android) Contacts Posted: 03 Aug 2010 11:31 AM PDT
When you first start using it though, your contact list will be unorganized and mighty confusing, with missing, superfluous and duplicate contacts. If you want a tidy address book, be it in Gmail or on your Android phone, you’ve got some work ahead. Below are five great tips to fight off this insurmountable mountain of contacts. Armed with these, managing your comments will be a walk in the park.
1. Standalone Contacts URLEspecially amongst newfound Android users, some people might have a Google account, but no Google mail. Although it’s the technical convention to access your contacts through Gmail, it’s not mandatory. Other users can point their browser to google.com/contacts to manage their Google contacts as well. The screenshots below are taken from within Gmail, but will correspond to the standalone contacts page as well. 2. Import, Export & PrintIf you’re a longtime Gmail user, you won’t have a shortage of contacts. Otherwise, you can use the import feature to automatically add them from a CSV file – as used in Outlook (Express), Yahoo!, Hotmail and the like – or a vCard.
Likewise, Gmail will also export contacts in CSV, as a vCard, or even print them. This last option allows you to choose the (for you) relevant information and contacts group that needs to be printed. 3. My Contacts Vs All ContactsThe contacts interface is trifold; on the far left you’ve got the contact groups, in the middle the contents of the selected group, and on the right is a detailed overview of the selected contact(s). Most important is the difference between My Contacts and All Contacts. My Contacts are all those people you’ve consciously chosen to add. This group is contained in the larger All Contacts group – basically all the people you’ve been in contact with.
If you’re taking out the proverbial trash, you’ll want to add a number of people to your My Contacts. Apart from manually skimming the list, it’s advised to check out the Most Contacted people, as well as the View Suggestions feature when you have My Contacts selected. 4. Grouping ContactsWith a bigger address book, you’ll want to create additional contact groups. Friends, Family and Coworkers are added by default, or you can create custom groups by clicking the second icon in the top left corner.
Once you’ve selected all relevant contacts in the middle column, you can add (or remove) them to groups in the top right corner. Selecting all contacts ‘per group’ works faster than reallocating them one by one, but increases the chance likelihood of overseeing some individual contacts. 5. Find & Merge DuplicatesEspecially if you’ve imported contacts from multiple sources – or recently decided to mix your phonebook in with your email addresses, you’re bound to have a few duplicates.
Again in the My Contacts overview, you’ll be able to ‘Find duplicates’. This will spot contacts with a common name and allow you to merge them automatically. Note that duplicates with different names or terms will remain and different contacts with insufficient information (i.e. missing surname) might be merged, so be wary.
The bulk of contacts will have to be merged manually, either because they use different names, or because they’re listed by email address. To merge, select two or more contacts from the list and press Merge these x contacts. View and edit the new, merged contact and press Save. What’s your favorite tip to manage your contacts in Google? Share with us in the comments below! Do you like MakeUseOf articles? Don’t forget to share our articles with others! It’s really important to us.
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| Download & Install Wikipedia To Your iPod With Encyclopodia Posted: 03 Aug 2010 10:31 AM PDT
As Nancy pointed out in her article The 7 Coolest Wikipedia Plugins for Your Browser, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer users can benefit from the handiness of Wikipedia’s portability. You can also find Wikipedia on newer phones and the iPod Touch, but what about older generations of the iPod? Well, there’s an easy solution for that as well.
Encyclopodia – The Encyclopedia On Your iPodEncyclopodia is a free software project that brings Wikipedia to the Apple iPod. Encyclopodia can be installed on iPod genarations one to four, as well as on iPod Minis and Photo iPods.
Taking Wikipedia offline is nothing new here. We covered 4 Free Tools to Download and Take Wikipedia Offline back in 2008. Encyclopedia was made possible by the developers of the iPodLinux Project, which Mark originally covered way back in December of 2007. Now that you know what we’re dealing with, let’s get to the fun part. Installation [Windows]For Windows users, the first step is to download the installation wizard. Once downloaded, connect your iPod to your PC via USB cable and start iTunes. At the bottom of your iTunes window, you will want to click on the player options button, as seen here:
In the options panel, you want to make sure Enable disk use is checked. Once you’ve done that, close iTunes.
Then, unpack the Encyclopodia installation wizard you downloaded and run the “encyclopodia-setup.exe” file. [Note]: If you get an error saying that a device is not ready, click on “Retry”. The wizard tries to access some ports while searching for the iPod.
Follow the instructions on the installation wizard until it says that the installation is complete. Eject and disconnect your iPod. Did it work?
You can test the Encyclopodia system by following these steps: If you have a 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation iPod:
If you have a 4th generation iPod or an iPod mini:
In either case, holding down the buttons will cause the iPod to reboot. While the iPod boots, hold down the rewind button (unless you have told the installation wizard to make Encyclopodia the default system). If everything appears to be working, go to the ebook library, download some .epodia-Files, and copy the files into the following directory on the harddrive of your iPod: “G:\data\encyclopodia\library\” (where “G:” is the harddrive of your iPod; it might have a different letter on your computer). [Note]: Installing Encyclopodia on Mac or Linux is a little more difficult, but it is doable. The problem is the absence of a setup wizard, but you can find installation instructions here. ConclusionIn conclusion, you don’t need to feel left out if you don’t have a fancy new-gen iPod because you can still access Wikipedia from it. Will you be installing Wikipedia on your old iPod? Are there any other cool iPod tricks or hacks you would like to share? Please leave your thoughts, ideas, and comments below. Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras.
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| Do Much More With Your Photos Using PhotoScape [Windows] Posted: 03 Aug 2010 09:31 AM PDT
It turns out that there are still many things that you can do with your photos and PhotoScape can help you with that. This is a Windows-only application that provides its users with many photo editing possibilities.
Standard Features & MorePhotoScape might not be as famous as Picasa, IrfanView, or iPhoto (Mac) but it has many unique features that even the giants don’t have. The app’s first page shows random Flickr images on the left and also gives you access to all of its features; from the common ones like an image editor to the uncommon ones like an animated GIF maker.
These menus are also available through tabs on the upper left of the window. The most basic feature is the image viewer. You can browse to the location of your image using the Windows Explorer-like left pane while having the image thumbnails on the right.
Next to the Viewer is the Editor tab. There are so many editing options available that discussing them one by one would require more room than this one article has. I suggest you explore the editing tools by yourself and experience a few nice surprises here and there.
One unique editing feature that I found and like is “Mosaic” under the “Tools” tab.
You can select an area within an image, adjust the smoothness of the mosaic effect that you want to apply, and you’ve got something like this.
Almost everything that you do to a single image within the Editor can also be applied to several images at once using the “Batch Editor“.
Drag and drop images to the Batch Editor pane and choose what kind of effects you want to apply to them, including adding a frame and resizing.
Other Unique FeaturesThe “Page” tab gives you the ability to create a layout of images and save them as one ‘page’. The list of available layouts are on the right pane, along with other options like the size of the page, background color, choices of frames and the ability to make round corners.
Another picture combining tool is located inside the “Combine” tab. The difference between this feature and the “Page” feature is that this one has no pre-configured layouts, it retains the full image, and is slightly simpler than the other one.
I personally think that the Animated GIF is a unique feature that I don’t find in many image editors. The feature allows you to combine several images into one animated GIF image. You can adjust several things about the result; including the change time, canvas size, resize ratio, image alignment, etc.
You can combine several different images to create a slideshow, or you can use slightly different images to create a simple animation. Another animated GIF usage idea that crossed my mind is as an alternative to static post images in your blog. Photoscape doesn’t forget one of the most common uses of digital images: printing. It makes the photo printing process quick and easy, starting from choosing the photo paper size, setting printing orientation, to the number of photos per page. Then all of the images that you’ve chosen to be printed will be adjusted accordingly to your customized configuration. For example, a landscape-oriented image will be rotated to photo-oriented to fit the chosen paper. No more manual rotations needed.
This one feature is totally the opposite of Combine. If you have one large image that you want to split into smaller images, use the “Splitter” feature. You can choose to break the image into several parts equally (under “Col, Row” tab) or into a fixed width and height pixel size.
Another feature worth mentioning is “Color Picker“. This one will be useful if you need to do graphic designing and need to add text with matching color to a background image.
These features; along with “Raw Converter” and “Screen Capture“; make Photoscape one of the most powerful alternatives to free photo viewing/editing applications on Windows. Have you tried Photoscape? What do you think about it? Or maybe you think something else is much better? Share your opinions using the comment below. Got Questions? Ask Them Now FREE on MakeUseOf Answers!
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| Keep Track Of Your Billable Time With Time Clock MTS Posted: 03 Aug 2010 08:31 AM PDT
Time Clock MTS is time tracking software targeted towards businesses, so it does provide these advanced features. Larger businesses will have to pay for Time Clock MTS after the trial period (30 days) expires, but any individual user or business that only needs to track three employee records can use it for free indefinitely.
Creating RecordsWhen you first start Time Clock MTS you need to set up the administrative account. The admin account is responsible for creating and maintaining all of the employee records in the Time Clock MTS database. In a larger business it would be very important to keep this account protected, but for our purposes it is generally not as important. Still, the program requires that you set an admin account when you start it for the first time. Once you’ve handled that you’ll want to enter yourself into the database. By default you are not logged in to the admin account, so click on File and then click Log In As Administrator.
Now click on Employee Maintenance and then click on Add An Employee. The detail with which you need to fill out this next section will depend on your usage. If you are self employed and you only need to keep track of your own hours it is less important. If you are filling out information for an employee, however, you’ll need to use more detail. By default, the Employee Information part of the record will appear first. The other sections are Payroll, Contact and Tax information. The titles of these sections explains what each handles. Tracking JobsOnce you have entered at least one employee record, clocking in and out is done by selecting the employee record and then clicking Clock In or Clock Out.
But what if you want to keep track of the hours you are spent doing a specific task? Time Clock MTS lets you accomplish this, as well, but to do so you need to set up a Job Code. Go to Tools and then click on Options. This will bring up an option interface with numerous sections. Scroll down until you see the Job Tracking section and click on it. Now click on the icon furthest to the left (it looks like a clean sheet of paper) to create a new code. You will be asked to assign a code and name the job.
Now go back to Employee Maintenance and click Edit Selected Employee. You’ll see a job tracking drop-down menu. Click on it and select either optional (to make job tracking something you can do, but don’t have to) or compulsory (to force job tracking whenever someone clocks in). If you do enable job tracking you will have to enter the appropriate job code when you clock in. If you want to know how much time you or an employee has spent working on specific tasks you can do so by generating a Payroll Report. You can do this by selecting the employee record and then clicking on View Employee Information in the main window. A drop-down menu item will display the option to generate a payroll report. A new window will appear that included a Report Options section with a drop-down menu. Click on it and then select Job Time Report. This will display the amount of time spent on a specific job code you entered. ConclusionTime Clock MTS is great time tracking software to keep track of your time and the time of others working for you, in a professional manner. It has a large number of in-depth options, including the ability to export payroll reports to Excel. Compared to some, more mobile options – such as Toggl – Time Clock MTS feels clunky. However, Time Clock MTS lets you use all of its features for free so long as you don’t exceed three employee records. Toggl, and other services, require that you pay in order to use all of the features available. What time tracking software do you rely on to keep track of your billable hours? Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf page on Facebook. Over 24,000 fans already!
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