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- Cool Websites and Tools [September 14th]
- The 10 Toughest Tech Questions [MakeUseOf Answers]
- Plan Events & Share Them With Friends On Plancast
- Syndicate Your Feeds Using Feedburner BuzzBoost
- View Any Restaurant Menu Online With OpenMenu
- Hot Tech Deals [Sep 14th]
- The Top 10 YouTube Videos With Easy To Learn Card Tricks
- Seashore – A Free Lightweight Image Editor For Your Mac
- Some Free Methods To Build A Web Page In Less Than 5 Minutes
- How To Use Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor To Check PC Compatibility
- Using HDTV As a Gaming Monitor: A Good Idea? [Geeks Weigh In]
| Cool Websites and Tools [September 14th] Posted: 14 Sep 2010 08:31 PM PDT
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| The 10 Toughest Tech Questions [MakeUseOf Answers] Posted: 14 Sep 2010 07:31 PM PDT
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| Plan Events & Share Them With Friends On Plancast Posted: 14 Sep 2010 06:31 PM PDT
This concept is very simple. However, it’s the integration with your existing social networks – Facebook and Twitter – that make this a potentially powerful event planning software tool. Whether you’re trying to get people to attend your event or you just want to let your friends know your upcoming schedule, Plancast can accommodate your needs. In this article, I am going to explore the idea of plan-sharing and why it might be a good idea to participate in. Is Sharing Your Plans A Good Idea?I like the idea of sharing my plans with others, especially if I have control over who sees them. Regarding Facebook and Twitter, I trust the people I am connected with or following for the most part, at least enough to share my plans with. Why? Because plans can change. I already use geo-location apps like Gowalla and Foursquare to share my physical location with everyone, which I think is much more revealing than whatever I’m “planning” on doing. Also, plans don’t necessarily have to be places you’re going. Web and TV events count as plans too.
From a business perspective it’s just the sort of tool you’d be looking for to alert people of upcoming events. It’s like an unofficial calendar of sorts that can be spread across the social construct. Seeing others’ plans can also give you a good idea of what everyone is up to and might inspire you to make similar plans of your own. Even if you only want to share your plans with your close friends, Plancast can be useful. Getting Started With PlancastNow that I’ve shared some of what I feel are the benefits to using this service, let’s dive right into the ‘using it’ part.
Plancast reminds me of Twitter a little, except that while Twitter asks, “What are you doing?“, Plancast wants to know, “What are you planning to do?“. See the difference? I know, it’s subtle, but let’s move forward with the interface. To start using Plancast, head over to the homepage and create an account or sign in using your Facebook or Twitter credentials.
From there you can search for all of your Facebook friends, Twitter followers, and email contacts that are using Plancast and subscribe to those whose plans you would like to be notified of. Click the Subscribe button next to the person’s name and they will get an email telling them that you’ve subscribed to their plans (by default) so they can reciprocate. Following The ActivityOnce you’ve added some people on Plancast you can begin viewing their plans, as well as start sharing your own.
On your homepage you can view recent activity from your friends in the community. There is also a local tab, which lets you type in a location to see local plans for. This can come in handy if you’re looking for something to do in a specific place.
Clicking count me in on someone’s plans will add you to a list of people planning to attend. This can also function as a ‘like’ button for you if you want to express your interest in something, even if you can’t actually attend. Anything Else?Everyone on Plancast has their own profile page, where your subscribers can visit and view your plans. You can make your plans private at any time.
Some other notable features of Plancast include the ability to search for people/plans within the interface, export friends’ plans as a Calendar Feed, and export to RSS. On your settings page, you can opt to import your activity from Facebook events, as well as enable the option to share your plans on Twitter and Facebook automatically. Integration with Google Buzz, Tungle.me, and Eventbrite are also available. Will you be checking out Plancast? Leave your thoughts, ideas, and comments below, and share this article with your friends/followers if you found it useful! Got Questions? Ask Them Now FREE on MakeUseOf Answers!
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| Syndicate Your Feeds Using Feedburner BuzzBoost Posted: 14 Sep 2010 04:31 PM PDT
There are countless resources throughout the web where you could turn your blog RSS stream into a syndicated feed. Subscribing to Feedburner or some other feed service is great, because there’s an existing user base searching those services for your feed, but there’s a lot more you can do to create a syndicated feed. Luckily, if you make use of Feedburner for your feed, then you don’t have to look very far for a tool that helps you spread the word every time you post an update.
Let Feedburner BuzzBoost Do All The WorkTo get started, just go into your Feedburner account, click on the “Publicize” tab and then click on BuzzBoost.
Within the BuzzBoost configuration area is where you can configure how your feed will get displayed on the websites where you place the script. Ideally, it’s best to keep the updates to 4 or 5 updates from the feed for small widget or sidebar displays, or up to 10 updates if you plan on publishing the content to its own website.
You can also define whether the output HTML features the title of your blog, and if it will display only a text version of the feed or a full HTML version. For converting your feed to web content, make sure that “Full HTML” is selected. The next step provides the javascript code that you’ll insert into any website that will convert your feed to HTML content wherever you place it.
Create “Syndication” Websites Across Several DomainsIf you want to use your feed to create a syndication website or a “mini-blog” that promotes your “real” blog, you can do that by embedding your script right in the center of the webpage. A snippet of each blog update gets published automatically to the page, along with a link.
This is a good way to capture traffic from various domains and draw them back to your central website where the content can be found. For example if you have a blog called “Mobile Geeks R Us” – you can register as many domains as possible related to that niche and then syndicate your content across all of them. Keep in mind that if your RSS feed is set up to output entire articles rather than just summary blurbs – people can use your feed in this way to copy your content. This is why it’s a good idea to keep your RSS feed configured to publish only blurbs from your content. Use BuzzBoost to Create an Online Profile WebsiteAnother very cool use of the BuzzBoost RSS-to-HTML utility is to create sort of a “portal page” that displays the content from all of your blogs. All you have to do is enable BuzzBoost for each of your Feedburner feeds, and then embed it into a table format on your personal bio website, featuring content from your blogs.
You can also use this same tactic on all of the popular online portal sites that let you create “dashboards” (like Netvibes, which Angela previously reviewed) or content pages that you can make public. All you have to do is add an HTML widget, and then embed the script from BuzzBoost.
The beauty of BuzzBoost is that unlike using RSS Feed widgets where you have to configure the display when you set up the widget itself, BuzzBoost lets you syndicate your feed all over the entire Internet. Afterwards, if you want to modify how the feed is converted to HTML and displayed, you can make those changes in one place on your Feedburner account, and the changes get distributed across all of the sites where you’ve placed the script. The key to syndicated feeds is getting your content in front of as many eyes as necessary, and BuzzBoost is one of the best tools I’ve seen that can help you do that. Do you have a Feedburner account, and have you ever tried BuzzBoost? What do you think? How do you syndicate your websites? Share your thoughts in the comments section below. Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf page on Facebook. Over 24,000 fans already!
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| View Any Restaurant Menu Online With OpenMenu Posted: 14 Sep 2010 02:31 PM PDT
In the past, Google has done a pretty good job helping here. You do need to know how to search just right and how to sift through the results but the effort is usually worth it. However, what if there was a site dedicated to view and search through any restaurant menu in your area? I could then just type in “calzone” and my city/state or zip code and up would pop all of the calzone listings in restaurants in my area. I have found just that in OpenMenu.
OpenMenu helps to bring restaurants and customers together. They offer benefits both for the restaurant and the eater. Let’s look at both. How OpenMenu Benefits RestaurantsOpenMenu offers several benefits to restaurants. It’s a place to put your menu for customers to find and search from. Restaurants should be happy to partake in a free service such as this. Your Menu In One PlaceAre you tired of attempting to maintain a menu in more than one place? You probably have at least a limited version of your menu on your website and there are also other food sites you may be maintaining your menu on. OpenMenu tries to become the one place for your menu. Check out these tools making it easy to maintain your menu in one place:
Your Menu SearchableImagine the publicity you can have if people in your area can search for menu items they want and your food shows up on their list. Just having the text of your menu online getting indexed by search engines is helpful enough but now you can have your food show up where the people can more easily find what they are looking for. How OpenMenu Benefits EatersSince I don’t own a restaurant, this is the category I fit in and the area that caught my attention with OpenMenu. I fell in love with the idea of searching for a food item I am currently craving. They call it OpenMenu Search and it offers several ways to search. First, you can search for what you want to eat. Are you visiting Chicago and wondering where you can find a good steak? Go to openmenu.com/search and type the food item and the city information.
The search results should give you everything you need to find the item you want including the dish, price, restaurant name, and the address. Clicking the link will bring up the rest of the restaurant information. Very cool. You can also search for restaurants which are listed in your area. Go to openmenu.com/search/location.php, enter your city information, and click Check Location.
It will give you a map and tell you how many restaurants are listed for the city and offer a link to the current list. Downfalls?There’s a lot of good things about OpenMenu but there are a few things that need to improve.
Restaurant owners, head on over and create your menu today. Hungry eaters, try running a food search and see what you find. Then come back and tell us your thoughts.
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| The Top 10 YouTube Videos With Easy To Learn Card Tricks Posted: 14 Sep 2010 12:31 PM PDT
We will let YouTube be our Hogwarts School and teach ourselves some easy to learn card tricks. Card tricks are not only fun and cool, but they are a social skill too. No you don't have to become Mandrake the Magician, and you don't have to pull out a rabbit. You just need a deck of cards, gather a bunch of friends around the table, and with a sleight of the hand impress the hell out of them.
Fastest Card TrickThis one is an amazing but simple color changing card trick. And you can learn it in a 'snap'. With deft fingers, you should be able to learn it in around ten minutes or so. Choose A Card From The DeckThe first video was to show you how an easy trick can be impressive. This one here is for the rank beginners and one of the most common card tricks. What's more, a kid is doing the demo. Predict The CardA very simple trick that appears damn complicated, but as the instructions reveal, it's all about counting your cards right. The Rising CardA card trick which relies on a bit of misdirection to achieve the magic effect. But you have to be slick in the first move when you lift the top two cards. This card trick is an Expertvillage how-to, and you can catch this entire series (by Brandon Nowasky) which takes you from the basic techniques to the more advanced ones. Coin Through A CardIf you aren't too good with sleight of hand tricks or fanning cards with one hand, this one is for you. Drop a coin through an impossibly small hole. I won't spoil the secret, check out the video. The Card LiftThis simple card trick again illustrates that when a trick is explained, it seems so humdrum. Try guessing the secret as to how the card rises out from the box before it is actually revealed. The 18 CardsThis is a very simple beginner's card trick that calls for a lengthy performance, but is a neat spectator trick all the same. Flip Flop Color ChangeThis card trick can be demonstrated in a few seconds, but you have to put a lot more in practicing for it. The impact is slick 'n smooth. Mind Control Card TrickA pair of scissors is mandatory. This card trick is a bit on the chancy side because it relies on psychology. But follow the tips and you may just walk away with the applause. Fan Your Cards & Make Some DisappearThis one is a cool card trick from Expertvillage again that shows how you can 'fan' your cards to make them vanish from plain view. It is a dead simple card trick, but do it when you can fan a deck with one hand. It just looks more polished. Even though these tricks may appear simple, you still need to practice. Magic is about simple logic, confidence, and performance. Let the first one remain hidden while putting on a show with the other two. And as a wannabe card magician, follow the age old 'magicians never tell' credo. Even though you learnt it all on YouTube. Image: Wikimedia Commons Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras.
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| Seashore – A Free Lightweight Image Editor For Your Mac Posted: 14 Sep 2010 11:31 AM PDT
Looking for freeware clears the stage of all but a few players, most famously GIMP and Acorn. We decided to take Seashore for a spin. It takes the middle ground between the advanced, but overly cluttered and complicated GIMP, and the beautiful simplicity of Preview. SeashoreThe Seahorse project has been out and about for quite a while, and aggregated a notable followership, but it was discontinued for the last three years. Only a couple of months ago, Seashore pushed out a working 0.5 preview, featuring drastic changes to the interface and functionality.
Seashore is based on GIMP and developed with the Cocoa framework, and proves once and for all that GIMP-based applications don’t have to be awkward. As an intermediate to advanced image editor, Seashore hasn’t ported all the available features, but enough for the average user.
All these can be found in the default application view, with a layer overview on the left and a feature-ridden ribbon on the top which, together with the pop-ups, allows immediate access to all features. These cover selection tools, brushes, filling, effects, nudge, stamp, color picker, crop tool, and more. Now here’s where Seashore shows itself as an old-fashioned image-editor, but not in a particularly good way. The application misses tools for creating shapes, both free-form and basic squares and arrows. Typesetting is included, but rasterizes itself after creation – which, in human language, means that the text, font type and color can’t be changed later on.
This can be circumvented by using the selection tool to select part of an empty layer, and coloring it with the fill tool. It shouldn’t be necessary, but it allows you to create a quick square, rectangle, circle, ellipse and free-form shape. This can be made easier by ticking off the aspect ratio checkbox.
The effects menu, mentioned above, looks like a blurred dot and arrow. This feature makes up for the lack of freeform shapes, and is again focused around image manipulation. These effects cover a goodly number of things, both fun and practical. You can use the blur and distort tools, 11 total, and the generate and tile tools to create great backgrounds or warp your photographs. The transform tools are especially useful for manipulating multiple layers, including perspective, scale and rotation. SummaryCompared to GIMP, using Seashore is an incredibly fluid and intuitive experience. It’s obvious, though, that Seashore isn’t intended for seasoned graphic editors, and it isn’t a match for the likes of Photoshop and Pixelmator. Seashore is also an old-school free image editor. Although the effects pane offers an incredible array of features, the absence of simple shapes makes this application mostly appropriate for working with ‘real’ photographs. What’s you’re opinion on Seashore? Let us know in the comments section below! Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras.
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| Some Free Methods To Build A Web Page In Less Than 5 Minutes Posted: 14 Sep 2010 10:31 AM PDT
But most layman internet users that I know shiver when they heard the phrases “web building” and “web design”. So I tried to compile a list of methods of how to build a web page without any web design skills in less than 5 minutes. The ApplicationsLet’s start with the obvious: web building applications. The quickest and easiest way to build webpages and websites should be by using applications that are built specifically for that purpose. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. While there are many powerful website builders, the ones that can help novice users to build webpages without any web building skills are next to none. Add the word “free” in there and you are looking at the (almost) impossible. The only application that I could find which fits the quick, easy and free requirements is Apple’s iWeb. The app is part of the iLife Suite (costing $79), but the suite comes for free with every Mac purchase. After setting up a new site, you can create a new page in iWeb. Go to the “File – New Page” menu. You’ll have your new page based on the pre-designed template that you chose.
The rest is just a matter of changing the text and replacing the photos.
What about other alternatives? One website building application that most users will be familiar with is the classic FrontPage from Microsoft (part of the Office Suite, again not free). Sadly, this fairly easy to use WYSIWYG Web Editor has been discontinued since 2006 and replaced by Expression Web – which is not WYSIWYG and also not free. Dreamweaver might be one of the most powerful web builders, but it’s not free and also not for the faint of heart. There are actually few free web building apps out there, such as NVU (discontinued) and Kompozer, but they are definitely not for novices. The Web ServicesOn the other hand, there are virtually countless easy and free web building services in the virtual world. You might as well go wild and create more than a mere webpage but websites instead. We have discussed lots of them here in MakeUseOf, such as: And don’t forget tons of free blog services out there like Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal, Posterous, Linkedin, Tumblr, and lots more. Using these services, you can have your own website(s) in no time. Let alone a webpage. But if a page is all you need, it’s also possible. Let’s take Wordpress as an example. In Wordpress, creating a page is as simple as clicking “Add New” under the “Pages” side menu.
Fill in the information that you want to present. Add some images if you want to.
And after hitting “Save“, your page is ready, and the design is already taken care of by the theme that you use.
The Unthinkable WordsThere is another quick way to build a webpage: using word processors. Most modern word processors, like Bean for Mac, or Microsoft Word for Windows, have the ability to save the pages as webpages (please note that I personally think this method is only fit to be used as a last resource when all others are unavailable. Still, you can create a valid webpage using it). Most of us would agree that using MS Word just to type words would be an overkill. We have discussed several “uncommon” ways of using Word like building mind maps and creating wallpapers. So why not webpages? If you know how to do a decent layouting with text and images (or how to use one of the templates from the Project Gallery as the basic), all that’s left to do is just save the page as a webpage.
To do that go to the “File – Save As” menu.
And choose “Web Page (.htm)” from the “Format” setting and hit “Save“.
Of course you can’t expect the result to be professional grade. Based on my experiment, the more complicated your layout is, the more messed up the result will be. So, if you really want to take this path of creating a webpage, keep the page display as simple as you can. And surely there are other methods of creating a webpage other than these three. If you know of any other alternatives, why not share them using the comments below? Image credit: tasteful Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf page on Facebook. Over 24,000 fans already!
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| How To Use Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor To Check PC Compatibility Posted: 14 Sep 2010 09:31 AM PDT
So currently this is Windows 7. All joking aside, it is a solid operating system with lots of nice new features. And if you’ve been waiting to upgrade, now is the time, it’s safe! I recently explained Windows 7 editions in simple terms and how to choose the right one for you. In this article I show you how to test whether your hardware and software are ready to make the jump to Windows 7. This is very important, as you may have to invest in more than just the new operating system.
Windows 7 Minimum System RequirementsBefore you start, let’s briefly review the minimum system requirements for both bit versions of Windows 7. Windows 7 32-bit:
Windows 7 64-bit:
If you are unsure about your hardware, just proceed with the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and any shortcomings will be revealed. If you are wondering what the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit is, have a look at this article from Mahendra: How To Choose Between 32-bit & 64-bit Windows 7 Operating Systems. Set Up Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor1. Prepare Computer For InstallationThe program supports Windows XP and Windows Vista. If you are running Windows XP, you have to run Service Pack 2 and .NET Framework 2.0 or higher. The links contain setup instructions for these two items. Make sure they are installed before you proceed. 2. Download & Install Upgrade AdvisorNow that you have prepared your computer, you can download Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor from Microsoft. 3. Prepare Computer For Running TestMicrosoft recommends to plug in any USB devices you use regularly, for example printers, scanners, or external hard drives. The upgrade advisor will also check these devices for compatibility. So go ahead and connect all your external hardware before you run Upgrade Advisor. Run Windows 7 Upgrade AdvisorThis is the easy part. Launch the program and click the > Start check button on the lower right.
Shortly after, Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor will display the results. There are two reports, one in case you wish to install Windows 7 32-bit and a second for the 64-bit version. You can save either report as .mht or an .html file, both of which will open in Internet Explorer, or print the reports.
Each report is divided into three categories: system, devices, and programs. Now lets look at some of the points the report will address. In the screenshot below you will see that I would need to perform a custom installation of Windows 7 as I’m running Windows XP. The link provides further details and helpful background information.
Here is one of the 11 issues with my system. However, it’s one I can solve, hence the yellow sign with exclamation mark. Issues that cannot be solved, for example incompatible software, are highlighted with a red X.
You will also find a list of items that meet the requirements or are compatible with Windows 7. Below is an example.
The devices category encompasses internal as well as external devices. Apparently, my graphics card is compatible with Windows 7. If an essential part of your system is not compatible, for example the graphics card or CPU, you must replace that piece of hardware with a compatible version before you can install Windows 7.
Finally, a selection of programs is checked for compatibility. The Upgrade Advisor will provide solutions and links where available and this is not restricted to Microsoft products! In my case for example, it advised me to ‘upgrade to a compatible version’ of Napter or ‘visit the publisher’s website for a solution’ for HP software. The recommendations also included a link to the respective pages.
Unfortunately, several key programs are not considered in this compatibility check, including Microsoft Office (I wonder why), browsers, email clients other than Outlook, security software, and lots more. However, Microsoft provides a link to its Windows 7 Compatibility Center where you can manually check the software and hardware important to you.
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Now you should be very well prepared. Which issues did you encounter after your system was examined for compatibility with Windows 7? Are you able to solve them or do you require further advice? NEW: Download MakeUseOf iPhone App. FREE!
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| Using HDTV As a Gaming Monitor: A Good Idea? [Geeks Weigh In] Posted: 14 Sep 2010 08:31 AM PDT
The rise of HDTVs and HDMI however, has blurred the line between computer monitors and general-purpose displays. This makes the use of a television an attractive alternative to a normal monitor for gamers – what gamer wouldn’t want to play their favorite PC games on a display twice the size? But is using HDTV as a gaming monitor a good idea, or are there hidden flaws in the theory? Making The Connection
Today’s HDTVs, by contrast, offer a buffet of connection options. Even the most inexpensive televisions will typically offer multiple HDMI inputs, component, and co-ax. More expensive models might also include DVI, S-Video and more. It is HDMI, however, that is becoming the most important connection. Modern video cards are compatible with HDMI. They’re also able to send an audio signal via HDMI. This means a true one-cable connection is possible between a computer and HDTV. From a connection standpoint the use of a television for gaming seems to make sense. Resolution Problems
Actually, it is still a problem. The HDTV industry has been cramming the benefits of high-resolution televisions down the public’s throat with such force that many gamers find themselves caught in the hype, eager to try gaming on a 1080p television. This sounds exciting, but there are devils in the details. The typical 1080p computer monitor has a display size of 24 inches. The typical 1080p HDTV is 40 inches or larger, but let’s go small and assume a 40 inch display. Both displays have the same resolution, but the HDTV is obviously much, much larger. This means that the pixels on the HDTV are also much larger than the pixels on the computer monitor. This makes text hard to read on a 40 inch television. The problem becomes worse on larger televisions and is also worse on older televisions that are limited to 720p. Suddenly, gaming on a HDTV doesn’t look like such a good idea. Conclusion: What Kind Of A Gamer Are You?
This depends on what kind of gaming you do. Reading text on a HDTV usually isn’t fun, but not all games use much text. If your favorite game is Left 4 Dead 2 you may not care about how text is displayed because you don’t usually need to read text while in the game. In this game the large size of a television can give the game vibrancy and life that isn’t possible on the typical monitor. If you play World of Warcraft, on the other hand, gaming on a HDTV is going to be difficult because the game’s interface relies on the use of small text. You can mess with in-game interface settings to make text larger, but this can only help so much. Besides, no one wants half of their display taken up by chat windows in size 22 font. The determining factor when deciding to do any gaming on a HDTV is you. Do you play first person shooters and action games, which typically have a minimal interface? Or do you play RPGs and strategy games, which usually rely on small text and fine graphical details? The former group will enjoy using HDTV as a gaming monitor, but the later group is better off sticking with a traditional monitor. Let us know what you think in the comments below. Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf page on Facebook. Over 24,000 fans already!
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