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- Cool Websites and Tools [November 19th]
- The 7 Best Questions From You [MakeUseOf Answers]
- How To Create Your Own Expandable Memory For Your iPhone, iPad, Or iPod Touch
- 3 Virtual Stock Market Games That Will Help You Learn How To Invest
- Hot Tech Deals [Nov 19th]
- Shorten Multiple Weblinks Into One With BridgeURL
- How To Take Office 2007 Screenshots With OneNote
- The Best Ways To Customize The Welcome Screen In Windows 7
- Block Websites Without Any Network Experience With Any Weblock
- What Is Hyper-Threading? [Technology Explained]
| Cool Websites and Tools [November 19th] Posted: 19 Nov 2010 07:31 PM PST
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| The 7 Best Questions From You [MakeUseOf Answers] Posted: 19 Nov 2010 05:31 PM PST
Today, the prize for Best Answer of the Week goes to Smayonak for his answers to the following question: How can I decrease the noise of my laptop fan? Thank you very much for your contribution Smayonak and congratulations! A great answer can be worth $50 via PayPal or Amazon voucher. You automatically enter the contest by posting a comment to a question. All we ask is that you use your email address, Disqus, Facebook, or Yahoo account to log in when posting an answer. This week I couldn’t look past these 7 great questions to share with you:
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| How To Create Your Own Expandable Memory For Your iPhone, iPad, Or iPod Touch Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:31 PM PST
Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to expand the memory on these devices or add an external hard drive as you can with your computer. However, as an owner of all three iOS devices, I've always purchased the bottom line of each model. I currently use an 8GB iPhone 3G and a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad, and I never long for a larger memory drive. The reason why? Simply put, cloud computing.
The following are some suggestions for apps and services you can use with your iOS device to expand its memory, so to speak. If you're not quite sure about how much memory space you're using in your device, simply tap the Settings app > General > About. From there, you will get a breakdown of the number of songs, videos, photos, and applications you have on your device, as well as how much memory space you have available.
You can get the same information after connecting your device to your iTunes application.
ZumoCast & Zumo DriveSongs, movies, and photos probably take up most of the space on Apple's hand-held devices. But unless you travel a lot and have a hard time getting Wi-Fi or 3G access, you shouldn't have to import hundreds of songs or movie files on your device. With a free web-streaming program and app called Zumocast, you can have access to all the media content on your computer from anywhere via Wi-Fi or 3G. This application is like adding unlimited storage space – as you would an external drive to your computer – to your mobile device. See Justin's MUO article on how to set up and use Zumocast.
Now if you concerned about having to leave your computer on in order to access your data files, you can use ZumoDrive instead to upload data to the ZumoDrive server where it can be accessed for free. This cloud storage service and app adds up to 2GB of storage space to your device. To find out more about the differences between ZumoCast and ZumoDrive, check out this blog post. Dropbox & EvernoteI would imagine all savvy computer users know about Dropbox and Evernote, but I meet iPhone users all the time who don't have a clue about theses web-based storage services and apps. With a Dropbox account, it's like adding up to 2 gigabytes of storage to your mobile device. You can selectively store any kind of media, including audio and movie files, and you can retrieve your stored content via a free Dropbox app (iTunes Store link) on your device. Dropbox is like having an Home folder on your computer. With the latest version of the Dropbox app, when you select and star individual files, you can access them offline.
In addition, Dropbox allows you to export say a PDF or Word file to another supported application on your device. This way, you're only adding content to your device when you need it. All your other content stays in your cloud account on Dropbox's server.
Evernote works pretty much the same way as Dropbox, though it's limited to text, image, and voice recording files. With an Evernote account and app (iTunes Store link), you can add up 25MB of data per month for free and access it also through your mobile device. See my article on the Dropbox for the iPad for specific how-tos on using the mobile version of the app. And see Umar's article of tips on using the Evernote. Google & Picasa AlbumIf you need more space on your iOS device for photos, you can use Google's Picasa Web Album service and Google Mobile application (iTunes Store link). Though this service and app is web-based, requiring Wi-Fi and 3G access, it's like adding 1GB of external storage space to your mobile device. This option is not robust as Evernote and Dropbox, but it's very useful for when you would like to have access to particular files without bothering to physically add them to your device.
There are of course paid options for expanding the storage capacity of the above services and apps. Apple's own $99/year MobileMe cloud service would enable you to access up to 20GB of file storage via your mobile device. While none of these options get you near the 160 gigabytes of space on a classic iPod, they do keep you from having to weigh down your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad device with files you don't regularly use but would like to have access to when needed. Cloud apps and services also mean you don't have to make a wired connection to your device in order to access or store media files. Lastly, with Apples latest iOS 4.0 update, your mobile devices can make Bluetooth connections to your computer, Bluetooth speaker devices and AppleTV, which provides you with additional ways to access media without eating up memory. So what do you think about the memory capacity of your Apple hand-held hardware? Are you always running out of space? How do you deal with storage capacity issues? We would like to know. Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras.
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| 3 Virtual Stock Market Games That Will Help You Learn How To Invest Posted: 19 Nov 2010 01:31 PM PST
In this article, I’ll show you 3 websites that allow you to practice investing in the stock market with virtual money. You can consider them games if you want to, but there aren’t many games out there that can help you make actual money. We Seed
We Seed (directory app) is one of the best stock market game sites I’ve come across and is what eventually led to the idea of this article. We Seed is free to sign up for and it allows you to invest without any risk.
The idea behind We Seed is that the cash you are given is fake, the trades are virtual, but the stock exchange conditions are real. You can build your portfolio and practice investing strategies without having to worry about losing all your money. You can start over at any time and see what works best.
To make it easier, all the companies are broken down into groups, industries and interests. Examples of this would include cooking, sports, tech and entertainment, so you can invest in companies you’ve actually heard about or see a categorized view of the ones you haven’t. There are also lots of learning resources on We Seed if you’re looking to learn the game quickly. Wall Street Survivor
Wall Street Survivor is another great fantasy stock market game. It provides a realistic learning platform using paper trading to manage your portfolio. Like We Seed, signup is easy and you can dive right into managing your virtual portfolio.
The Trades Stock page is where you will be making your trades from. Simply enter the stock symbol, the quantity, action and order type. Click Preview and you’ve made your trade. From the My Portfolio page you can track all of your open positions. To get rid of one of your positions, simply click the Sell button in the Action column. Wall Street Survivor also has a trading center where you can learn stock and options strategies, and tips for beginners, intermediate and advanced users. It also has forums and daily news, and did I mention they have prizes for the best players? Market WatchMarket Watch, owners of the Virtual Stock Exchange website, may not be as flashy as the other two sites I’ve covered, but it is equally effective.
On their Dow 30-Day Trader game, you are given a virtual $10,000 to day-trade stocks with based on the 30 companies that comprise Dow Jones Industrial Average. You can make trades as often as you like during regular US market hours and each trade will cost a virtual $10.
This stock market game is different from the others in that it exists to show off your skills. There is a leaderboard of the best traders and the winner will be featured in a Market Watch story about his or her day-trading skills. The game runs through December 30th and you can join at any time. If you want to learn about investing or jump into one of their other games, just head over to the VSE site. ConclusionThere you have it. With these informative websites you will be well on your way to dominating Wall Street. It can be really fun once you get the hang of it and you start building a mass amount of wealth. Take that knowledge and apply it to your real-life bank account and imagine how much more fun you’ll have! If you want to play on your phone, you might like Market Millionaire. Also, if you’re not into the whole stock market game thing, or you simply want additional resources, definitely check out Taty’s article on 5 Websites Where You Can Learn To Invest Money. What do you think of the resources I’ve provided? Are you interesting in learning the stock market? Image Credit: Lightspring Got Questions? Ask Them Now FREE on MakeUseOf Answers!
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| Posted: 19 Nov 2010 12:15 PM PST
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| Shorten Multiple Weblinks Into One With BridgeURL Posted: 19 Nov 2010 11:31 AM PST
A new player on the market, BridgeURL, has taken URL shortening to a completely new level by allowing one short URL to point to multiple links at once. It’s such a simple step on from the original idea of shortening URLs, but it’s quite a revolutionary game-changer in terms of potential usage. Who Would Use This?The ability to share multiple links with one URL will be a great asset to users of microblogs and social networks, eg. for Twitter and Facebook updates. Twitter users are especially heavy users of URL shorteners, due to the 140 character limitation on Tweets and the fact that user profiles can only link to one URL. An innovation such as this can make it much easier to share a lot of information in just one tweet. The possibilities are endless! How Do You Use It?
BridgeURL is unbelievable easy to use. You don’t need to sign up – just visit BridgeURL, choose a name and add your links.
The resulting URL is formed to use the name you gave it, which makes it friendly for human eyes.
When you click on the short URL, you’re taken to a page which brings up your links in iFrames. This is known as “slideshow mode”. To move between your links, there are Previous/Next arrows in the top left and right. If you like, it’s easy to pop out the frame and view the page within (here’s mine).
It’s also possible to view your links all at once — there’s a link option below the main one you received previously (or just add /all to the end of your URL). This is perhaps not such a great idea if you have used lots of links or linked to media-rich sites. But it could be useful for display purposes.
It’s all so simple and it looks great! LimitationsBefore you get too excited, the fact that BridgeURL uses iFrames means that websites that don’t allow their pages to be shown in iFrames will not be able to be incorporated into your short URL. Sadly, this includes Facebook, Myspace and Paypal. However, there are still plenty of other sites it will work with and in the meantime, BridgeURL is working on a solution. Ideas For UseThere are so many great things you could do with a service like this. Consider a few of these ideas and see what that prompts you to come up with. Personal Profile LinksLinks to your best social media profiles (well, except Facebook) and websites. A personal URL could link to your Twitter profile; personal blog; YouTube profile; favourite books; favourite music and favourite movies. Professional Profile LinksA professional URL could link to your LinkedIn profile; professional blog; your employer’s website and some examples of your work (portfolio). Daily NewsIf you regularly browse several news sources, why not link them all together? Take it all in using one easy link.
Morning Coffee LinksWhere do you go first thing in the morning? Gmail, news, favourite Twitter list, weather, etc. InspirationDo you have several sites you visit for creative inspiration? Link them all together and browse them as a group! Boredom BustersWhen you’re bored (or your kids are bored), do you cycle through your favourite online games? Why not link them up? Sharing With FriendsThink about things you could share: 10 favourite YouTube clips? Handful of things that made you laugh today? Cutest puppies ever? Recipes? Your favourite photos from your holiday? Use BridgeURL links With QR Codes!For an added stroke of genius, why not link your shortened URL to a QR code? From there, you could print the code on the back of a business card or just entertain your friends while they commute!
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| How To Take Office 2007 Screenshots With OneNote Posted: 19 Nov 2010 10:31 AM PST
As we work in an increasingly 'graphical' environment, a screenshot aid should ideally be just a click away. MS Office 2010 has added a screenshot button to Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word under the Insert tab. If you are using Microsoft Office 2007, you also won't miss it much because we can go back to the one MS Office program which had it in the first place.
Using The Clip Tool From OneNote's ToolbarTo copy any part of the screen to OneNote as an image, click on the Clip tool on the toolbar.
The screen turns into translucent white. Using the mouse you can drag a rectangle to take a screenshot of a partial region or the entire screen.
As soon as you drag and release, the screenshot is saved in an unfiled OneNote note. Also, in OneNote, you can place the pointer on a specific notes page where you want to add the screen clipping. OneNote also automatically adds a timestamp to the inserted screenshot.
OneNote also copies it to the Clipboard so you can also open any other MS Office program like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint and click Paste to insert the screenshot at the cursor location. Pressing Esc or clicking anywhere aborts the operation. Using The Clip Tool From The Taskbar IconRight-click the OneNote icon in the notification area of the taskbar and click Create Screen Clipping.
As before, the screen turns translucent white and you can drag a rectangle with the mouse to create the screenshot. Using The ShortcutPressing Windows Button + S is probably the fastest way to take an Office 2007 screenshot. Of course, you still have to use the mouse to drag and select the area. Know Your OptionsIf you are a heavy 'screen shooter', working with just the taskbar icon is just the thing. If the taskbar icon is not visible, then a simple setting in Options corrects that. Go to Tools – Options – Other (under Category). Place a checkmark on Place OneNote icon in the notification area of the taskbar.
You can also change the way the screenshots are saved by right clicking on the Taskbar icon and selecting Options – Screen Clipping Defaults. The three choices are self explanatory. If you want to use OneNote as just a temporary screen capture utility you can select Copy to Clipboard Only which stops the automatic pasting into your notes. You can use CTRL+V to paste the screen in any application from the clipboard.
One of the neglected siblings of the Microsoft Office family, MS OneNote has a lot of uses if you give it some love. We noted two in the following two posts – Top 5 Free OCR Software Tools to Convert Images into Text Ditching Evernote? Check Out 5 Free Web Clipping Alternatives Until the day a lot of us upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010 and use its Screenshot command, OneNote serves as a good enough screenshot stand-in. Do you use OneNote? Tell us how. Do you like MakeUseOf articles? Don’t forget to share our articles with others! It’s really important to us.
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| The Best Ways To Customize The Welcome Screen In Windows 7 Posted: 19 Nov 2010 09:30 AM PST
Other Windows 7 versions have been left out to dry, although something like this should really be a feature by default. We resort to third-party applications to customize our welcome screen. There are many alternatives, ranging from terribly amazing to just terrible, and we’ve listed the best three below. Logon Screen For Windows 7Logon Screen is one of the simplest, most down to earth application to change your log-on and welcome screens. Or rather, to customize your log-on and welcome screens’ background. Simply use the Logon Screen application to select the desired image, and off you go. Images will be automatically resized to fit your welcome screen.
The most peculiar thing about Logon Screen is how well it integrates with Windows 7 itself. Most of these kind of applications are portable, but Logon Screen looks like it belongs; as if it was always a part of Windows 7.
Notably, Logon Screen will also install an extension for the right-click menu (as seen above). Changing your welcome screen will be just as easy as changing your desktop wallpaper, like it should be. Windows 7 Logon Screen TweakerIf you want to do more than just change your wallpaper, Windows 7 Logon Screen Tweaker is your best choice. It adds a batch of advanced features without ditching the user friendly interface. At any point, you can review what your log-in screen is going to look like.
Some of these “tools” allow you to change the button set, remove the Ease of Access button and change the default log-in sound. Windows 6 Logon Screen Tweaker will also remove the Windows branding and the shutdown button. If you’re prone to showing off (but are on a tight budget), you can change this Windows branding to make it seem you’re using a different OS version. Of course, this will not affect your Windows functionality.
Feel free to play around. If you mess something up, you can use Windows 7 Logon Screen Tweaker to restore everything to its original state. Logon WorkShopIf we are going from simple to more advanced software alternatives, Logon WorkShop certainly fits the part. The main windows allows you to switch between different ‘logon skins’. You can export and import these profiles so you can easily apply them to different computers or even company-wide.
Of course, you can also create new skins. Logon Workshop offers the most customizability by far; you can change almost anything, including the background, look and position of the user picture, text, and every button on the screen. The screenshot below shows but one of the different configuration panels.
Undoubtedly, the interface will look too complicated and cluttered for many users, but you don’t need to use all this advanced functionality. If you want, you can just change the welcome screen background and be done with it. If you do decide to play a little with the application, and something goes south, just restore your computer to the default skin, or create a new one. What do you think of these applications to customize your welcome screen? Let us know what you’re using (and why) in the comments! Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras.
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| Block Websites Without Any Network Experience With Any Weblock Posted: 19 Nov 2010 08:31 AM PST
Even though parents understand the risk, many don’t understand the technology enough to install or enable the appropriate filters. A lot of people use parental control software, like the 5 that Varun previously covered, or other programs like FamilyShield or Visikid, which Tim covered.
Setting Up Any WeblockAny Weblock is one of the simplest applications to use, which is why I recommend it for parents that are not at all computer-savvy. Setup is a very brief three step process – install and configure, add the websites to blog, and then activate your changes. The first step is pretty straightforward. The first time you run the installed application, it will ask you what you want to set up as the administrator password.
Make sure this is something your kids, or whoever you’re trying to block content from, cannot easily guess. Obviously, using your name or simple passwords that you use all the time is not a good idea. The next step of configuration involves setting up the websites that you’d like to block. Now, if you want to bring in existing blacklists, just click on the “Import” button.
Adding Websites To The FilterOn the import screen you can bring in XML list files that you exported from your other computer (making it easy to use one list across multiple PCs), or you can click on the external link and visit the AnyUtils website for external blacklists, such as Shalla’s blacklist, which has over 1.4 million entries.
Keep in mind that this many entries may hamper performance on some systems, so if you find that you can’t access any website after enabling such a long list, just click on the “Roll back” button to set things back to before you applied the filter and then try a few lists. If you have specific sites that you want to block, such as certain popular social networking sites that make kids lose track of time and not do their homework, you can do so by clicking the green “Add” button.
In its simplest form, you just type in the domain of the site you want to block in its entirety and click OK. That’s all there is to it. No DNS configuration, no control panel searching and no hacking skills required.
Once you click on “Apply changes“, you won’t be able to access the websites that you’ve added to your blacklist. This isn’t one of those applications that only works with IE. Once you add a domain to your blacklist, no browser will be able to access the website. If you try, you’ll see the following error.
The software is also flexible enough so that you can block subdomains without actually blocking an entire domain. This work swell for websites like Blogspot, because there are many websites hosted on the blogspot.com domain, but you may only want to actually block one or two of them. With the ability to block only subdomains, you can do that.
Visiting BlogSpot.com, you’ll see that you can access the main domain just fine. If you attempt to visit any of the subdomain websites you’ve banned, up comes the “Unable to connect” error.
Other FeaturesThere are a few other cool features of this software. For example, as I mentioned briefly earlier, you can export your entire blacklist to any directory on the network or onto another computer. To do this, just select the export button at the top of the main screen.
The blacklist (or block list) file is exported as an XML file. Any other PC with Any Weblock installed can import this XML file, which makes it very easy to use matching blocklists on all of your family PCs.
Once Weblock is installed on a particular PC, the next time you (or one of your kids) tries to run it, they will encounter a password entry window. The only way to get into the software to configure or disable it is to type in this password – so when you set it up initially, don’t lose it! Weblock is one of the fastest and easiest ways to initiate a website ban list for every web browser on a PC without the need for complicated configurations or tweaking every browser. Just install, create your banlist, and you’re off! Image credit: Armin Hanisch Got Questions? Ask Them Now FREE on MakeUseOf Answers!
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| What Is Hyper-Threading? [Technology Explained] Posted: 19 Nov 2010 07:31 AM PST
Understanding Hyper-Threading is important, however, because it’s a major feature on some Intel processors. Like most major processor features, it can be twisted and turned by the sales reps you meet. I’ve had a Fry’ store employee tell me that Hyper-Threading effectively doubles the number of cores on a processor. Although true in a sense, it’s mostly an exaggeration. Let’s take a look at what Hyper-Threading really means. A Brief History Of Hyper-Threading
The truth isn’t so grim. Hyper-Threading was for a time made available on certain Intel Pentium 4 and Intel Xeon processors. It was discontinued not because the feature itself was bad, but rather because the processor that used it turned out to be a bit of a misstep for other reasons. The Pentium 4 architecture was a minor disaster for Intel because it was incapable of going the direction Intel hoped (Intel wanted to have Pentium 4 processors with clock speeds of up to 10 GHz). As a result, Intel jumped back to designing processors based on the Pentium Pro family tree. Hyper-Threading was gone, but not forgotten. Intel eventually found the time and resources to integrate it into another new processor architecture - Nehalem. This is the architecture that is the basis for all current Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors. Nice Threads, Man
Despite all of the advancements we’ve made in the world of processors, they still have one major limitation – an individual processor core can only execute one instruction at a time. Let’s say, for example, that you have MS Office, Firefox and Skype all open at once. You feel like you’re multi-tasking, but in processor terms you’re not. The processor core executing data related to these programs executes one instruction at a time, but because it is so quick you don’t notice any delay. But there is a delay. That delay is due to how the data from each program is fed to the processor. Each stream of data – or thread- in to the processor must be scheduled and executed by the core individually. Hyper-threading, however, makes it possible for each processor core to schedule and assign resources to two threads at once. Imagine a worker on an assembly line. There two types of widgets coming to her, and she needs to do different things with each widget. However, sometimes there is a delay because the conveyor belt is too slow, or because the wrong widget was sent at the wrong time. Hyper-Threading is like adding another conveyor belt so there is now one dedicated to each type of widget. There is still only one worker, but now widgets can be brought to her more quickly and efficiently so she is waiting for work less often. Not The Same As Doubling Cores
Two graphs appear in Windows for each core on a Hyper-Threading processor because Windows is detecting two logical processors for each core. The term “logical processor” sounds fancy, but a logical processor is by definition a processor that has no physical existence. Windows can send threads to each logical processor, but there is still just one core doing the actual execution, so a single core with Hyper-Threading is dramatically different from two seperate physical cores. The Benefit Of Hyper-Threading
In terms of day-to-day tasks like web browsing, email and word processing, Hyper-Threading won’t have much of an impact. Yes, Hyper-Threading is theoritically better at multi-tasking. However, today’s processors are so fast that basic programs are rarely limited by the speed of your processor. The way programs are coded can also be a limitation. You may sometimes find that you have numerous programs open, but only one of your processor cores is being put to much use. That’s because the programs are, for whatever reason, not having their work divided among the different cores available. When you’re trying to do some heavy lifting, however, Hyper-Threading can be more helpful. The applications most likely to benefit are 3D rendering programs, heavy-duty audio/video transcoding apps, and scientific applications built for maximum multi-threaded performance. But you may also enjoy a performance boost when encoding audio files in iTunes, playing 3D games and zipping/unzipping folders. The boost in performance can be up to 30%, although there will also be situations where Hyper-Threading provides no boost at all. ConclusionAs the performance boost figure of only up to 30% indicates, Hyper-Threading is not the same as doubling the number of cores on a processor. If a sales rep ever tells you that, be careful, because they’re either ignorant or happy to lie to you if they think it will help push hardware. With that said, Hyper-Threading is a cool feature, and it’s worth having. It’s particularly good if you like to edit media often or you use your computer as a workstation for professional programs like Photoshop or Maya. Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf page on Facebook. Over 24,000 fans already!
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