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- Cool Websites and Tools [September 25th]
- Latest Hilarious Picks [MakeUseOf Geeky Fun]
- How to Add an Easy-to-Customize Jobs Board to Your Site for Free
- Is The New Twitter Better Than Desktop Clients?
- NAVIGON MobileNavigator Giveaway Winners
- Hot Tech Deals [Sep 25th]
- 11 Online Sources For The Best In Mac Freeware [Mac]
- MakeUseOf Team Spotlight [September 25th 2010]
| Cool Websites and Tools [September 25th] Posted: 25 Sep 2010 08:31 PM PDT
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| Latest Hilarious Picks [MakeUseOf Geeky Fun] Posted: 25 Sep 2010 06:01 PM PDT
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| How to Add an Easy-to-Customize Jobs Board to Your Site for Free Posted: 25 Sep 2010 05:30 PM PDT
But do you know that you can easily build your own jobs board and add it to your site? This could be a great idea as it will give your site visitors more reasons to check back often (to look for more new job offers) as well as generate more traffic and awareness for your website (as it will add fresh dynamic content to your pages). Here’s a quick, easy and simply awesome way to create a jobs board and embed or host it on your site as subdomain: Donanza.
Step 1: Create Your Jobs BoardFirst, you will need to get yourself registered and accept the terms of use. Now, on to some basic settings. First, you will need to specify your future board name and topics. Provide:
Step 2: Customize the Look and FeelThe tool gives a very easy way to customize the look and feel of your project board to match the design of your current site or blog. In the “Project Board Settings” tab, find the “Layout” section. From there you can:
The “Theme and Colors” tab allows to customize the jobs board color palette:
Step 3: Customize the Content of Your Jobs BoardWhile your jobs board is new and no one has submitted a jobs board, you don’t want your board to be empty right? Donanza offers you to display “backfill” projects instead (they will be displayed by default):
Looking at your board, you can see the source of any “backfill” project:
Step 4: Customize the Jobs Board Text and DomainThe “General” tab under the “Project Board Settings” link allows you to customize the board with title tag, subtitle and bold text. What’s more important, you can set up your custom subdomain there. You can use your own domain name through a process called “domain mapping”. In order to map your domain to the project board you create, you will need to access your account at your registrar/host and add a CNAME record. The CNAME will point to whitelabel.donanza.com. For example, if you wish your custom domain to be projects.mycompany.com, then modify your CNAME record to point projects.mycompany.com to whitelabel.donanza.com. Once your CNAME change has been made, you will need to contact the Donanza team and they will set up everything for you. Other useful publishers’ options you may want to check out:
What do you think about Donanza? Have you heard of an easier tool to set up a jobs board? Post image by cwgcph Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras.
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| Is The New Twitter Better Than Desktop Clients? Posted: 25 Sep 2010 04:35 PM PDT
We at MakeUseOf don’t hide our love for Twitter. You can find the entire MakeUseOf staff on Twitter, and most of us are pretty active there. Our articles about Twitter, though, largely revolve around ways to avoid going to the site altogether.
First Off: Do I Have It?A lot of people are wondering how to tell if they have access to the new Twitter. Well, you probably don’t; Twitter’s not sure how long it will take to roll out to all users. To find out for sure head over to Twitter.com and look for a message like this:
If you see that, all you need in order to try out the new Twitter is click the yellow button. If you don’t see that I’m afraid you’ll have to wait for a while, but keep reading to see what’s coming up later. Switching back to the old Twitter is as simple as clicking your name in the top-right corner, then clicking “leave preview”. What’s New?
The first thing you’ll notice is that everything is wider. Like before there are two main panels, the left and the right. The left panel does largely what it did before – displaying tweets – and the right panel does largely the same thing as well – displaying information such as who you’re following and what topics are currently trending.
So, at first it looks like this is the same old Twitter, albeit a much wider one. But it’s not. Click on a Tweet and the right panel becomes useful. For example, if there’s a link to a picture, you’ll see the picture:
If the tweet is part of a conversation, you’ll see the rest of the conversation:
You get the idea; the right panel includes information to give the tweet context. Even if there’s no picture, or no conversation, you’ll see information about people mentioned in the tweet. It’s all about giving context to the little piece of information Twitter encourages us all to push out every day, which I think is welcome. You’ll also notice that your profile has a little room to breathe now, giving more emphasis to your location and bio than the old interface:
Finally, for those of you who resent having use a mouse to browse your tweets, the new interface provides you with a handy supply of keyboard shortcuts. Press “?” and you’ll see a list.
Get to know those and you could save a lot of time browsing Twitter (or, perhaps more realistically, waste a lot more time browsing Twitter). What’s Missing?If you consider yourself an avid user of TweetDeck or Gwibber, you might notice a few key features are missing here. The biggest problem, for me, is the lack of support for automatic URL shortening. There might be a Firefox or Chrome plugin to solve this problem, I realize, but it would be really nice for such a functionality to be built in. The other main advantage Twitter clients have over Twitter itself? Integration with other services. I know, I know, Twitter isn’t going to natively support Facebook or LinkedIn messages anytime soon, but to me that’s the entire appeal of a client. Still, overall I have to say Twitter is now an impressive alternative to any client. I’ll be using it a lot more now than I ever did before. What about you guys? Do you yet have access to the new Twitter? If so, do you like it? Or did you turn it off almost right away? Sharing in the comments below is an awesome thing to do, and if you have the new Twitter it just might make Mark very jealous. Do you like MakeUseOf articles? Don’t forget to share our articles with others! It’s really important to us.
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| NAVIGON MobileNavigator Giveaway Winners Posted: 25 Sep 2010 03:32 PM PDT
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| Posted: 25 Sep 2010 01:15 PM PDT
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| 11 Online Sources For The Best In Mac Freeware [Mac] Posted: 25 Sep 2010 10:31 AM PDT
Whether you’re looking for games or applications, freeware, open source apps or abandonware, you’re bound to find what you need on one of these sites. MacUpdateMacUpdate lists both free and paid applications, but if you’re only in it for the free stuff, you can easily filter your search results to include free apps only. Updated on a daily basis, MacUpdate features only the best in Mac software, with all applications rated and reviewed before being added to the site.
AppDonkeyAppDonkey features a list of over 1,000 completely free Mac apps. Search for what you want or browse by category. AppDonkey makes it easy to download several apps at once by selecting all of the apps you want, and getting them onto your computer at the click of a button.
FreeMacAppsFreeMacApps features over 400 Mac freeware applications, with a very easy to navigate and clean appearance. Links on the site lead to the original sites, so you can’t download directly from FreeMacApps. Browse apps by category or perform a search to find exactly what you’re looking for.
FreeMacWareFreeMacWare can seem a little unwieldy at first glance, but there’s a wealth of great Mac resources to be found in the site. The site is updated on a daily basis, with brief reviews accompanying a link to the software’s originating site and a download link. They also have a dashboard widget displaying the 10 latest additions to the site.
BodegaBodega is an app store of sorts for Mac software. Download the app to gain access to a world of great Mac apps, but if you’re looking only for free software, you’re going to have to filter through paid apps as well to find what you’re looking for. They do have a list of the top free apps, as well as the latest Mac software related posts on Mac blogs.
Download Free Mac GamesDownload Free Mac Games is a great site to do just that – download free Mac games. Browse the list of games by category or simply take a look at everything that’s on offer.
WikipediaWikipedia is usually a great source of lists of all kinds of software. And of course, Mac software is no exception. The list, divided into categories, is not limited to free apps only, so you’ll have to go through them one by one to find the free ones which is less than ideal, but the list is a greet way of finding software you never knew you needed.
Free Download a DayFree Download a Day is not exclusively a Mac software site, featuring freeware for Windows and Linux as well. That said, it’s updated on a daily basis with great in-depth reviews, so it’s always good to keep an eye on it for new Mac apps.
Free Mac App a DayFree Mac App a Day has undergone some changes and is now known as AppExhibit. The latest reviews on the site are of paid apps, but you can still access the entire archive of free app reviews that were posted before the revamp.
Open Source MacIf you’re looking for Open Source software, the best place for Mac users is Open Source Mac. It may not be a very long list, but all of the applications listed are as free as they get. The apps are listed by category.
Macintosh GardenMacintosh Garden is a unique Mac software repository. All of the applications listed have been abandoned. Don’t expect any updated software but rather, find some of your favorite classic games as well as a list of abandoned applications.
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| MakeUseOf Team Spotlight [September 25th 2010] Posted: 25 Sep 2010 09:30 AM PDT
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