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- Latest Hilarious Picks [MakeUseOf Geeky Fun]
- Cool Websites and Tools [January 14th]
- The 9 Best Questions From You [MakeUseOf Answers]
- 7 Apps That Will Help You Use Your iPad For Writing Projects
- Hunch Gives You Personalized Recommendations Based On Your Interests
- Hot Tech Deals [Jan 14th]
- What Was Hot Online? What Have You Missed? Find Out With Rrrewind!
- 5 RSS Feed Search Engines You Should Try Out For Fresh Content
- Setting Up An Amahi Home Server – Adding a Drive To Your Server [Linux]
- Google Translate Brings Star Trek’s Universal Translator One Step Closer [News]
- Automatically Log Your Work & Invoice Clients With PC Fare Meter
- How To Organize Your Clothes With Your PC
| Latest Hilarious Picks [MakeUseOf Geeky Fun] Posted: 15 Jan 2011 06:02 AM PST
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| Cool Websites and Tools [January 14th] Posted: 14 Jan 2011 07:31 PM PST
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| The 9 Best Questions From You [MakeUseOf Answers] Posted: 14 Jan 2011 05:31 PM PST
At the same time I have screened more exceptionally smart answers than ever before and it was incredibly tough to select a contest winner this week. Ultimately, the Best Answer of the Week was given by Oron Joffe in reply to this question: Why does my PC take one hour to switch on? Congratulations Oron and many thanks for your continued support! These are the best questions of the week:
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| 7 Apps That Will Help You Use Your iPad For Writing Projects Posted: 14 Jan 2011 03:31 PM PST
While each of us has our own particular needs, I'm sure one or more of these apps will serve your needs. So get ready to set up a folder on your tablet and download a useful collection of resources. EvernoteAt the top of the list, the popular Evernote app (iTunes Store Link) and web syncing service is an essential tool for writing on the iPad. You can throw in all kinds of text based files, as well as photos and audio notes, into Evernote which will automatically sync all your notes to your iPad, as well as your Mac or PC.
Evernote includes a basic text writing tool that of course also syncs back to your computer or other devices. Infinote PinboardFor brainstorming and clustering your ideas, download Infinote Pinboard (iTunes Store Link). This easy-to-use app allows you to create unlimited sets of note cards in which you can change and re-size the font styles, as well as re-size the cards themselves. Notes can exported in PDF, PNG, and JPG format via email.
SimpleNoteThe best free option for a fully fledged writing application on your iPad is SimpleNote (iTunes Store Link), which I reviewed here. All your writing in SimpleNote automatically syncs to your online SimpleNote account. The app will show you the word count of a document as well as allow you to recycle versions of text in previous drafts.
SimpleNote is also supported by TextExpander (iTunes Store Link), which is not a free app, but is powerfully useful for writing because you can create a library of abbreviation shortcuts for snippets of text that you use frequently, such as your standard letter replies, phrases, long words, etc. When those abbreviations are typed, they get replaced with their assigned snippet. TextExpander does not have to be open in order to work with SimpleNote. Private JournalIf you're a frequent journal writer, the application, Private Journal (iTunes Store Link) works very well for the iPad. You can not only write in it, but also add photos and connect with your iPad iTunes library right from within the application.
While this app doesn't have automatic syncing features, you can assign a passcode so no one else will have access to your most personal writings. WordPressWordPress (iTunes Store Link) has also developed an application for its users. My own experience with the application is that it works best with simpler WordPress themes. It syncs and download all your recent WP hosted or self-hosted blog posts and allows you to edit and re-sync them back to your account.
It even allows you to add photos as you would with the web version of the text editor. DraftPadDraftPad (iTunes Store Link) is a super simple writing text editor. While it doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, it does allow you to route your text to a variety of other apps or web services, including Mail, SMS, your Google account, Twitter, and Facebook.
Clockwork NotebookClockwork Notebook (iTunes Store Link) is a recently released app that allows you to type and write handwritten notes or doodles.
The application has a notebook style changeable canvas, and it includes an Undo/Redo button, plus a feature for adding stickers. Notes can be exported in PDF format via email. For a few more recommendations check out this MUO article about study aids for iPad users. Finally in terms of typing on the iPad, check out my article about tips for faster typing on the device. The software keyboard included with the iPad is not the best option for extending pieces of writing, but you can learn to use it for writing notes, emails, and forum replies. Apple and a few other third party manufacturers have developed external keyboards for the iPad that will make typing even faster. Let us know about other tools you use for writing on your iPad. What features is the iPad missing that keeps you from using it for writing projects? Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras.
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| Hunch Gives You Personalized Recommendations Based On Your Interests Posted: 14 Jan 2011 01:31 PM PST
Hunch is one such site that’s able to do this. Hunch personalizes the internet by getting to know you and then making smart recommendations about what you might like. In this article, I’ll show you how Hunch works, and why it offers the type of community that you just may want to be a part of. What Is Hunch?
We last covered Hunch back in July of 2009, and originally in our directory back before we even put dates on posts in there. Back then we were calling Hunch a “decision making tool”. While that could still be considered a somewhat accurate way to describe Hunch, I’m going to call it what it is today: a personalized recommendations engine. Here’s Hunch’s mission statement as depicted on their website:
Hunch provides personalized recommendations on tens of thousands of topics and is now partnering with other companies to power custom recommendations on 3rd-party sites and applications. It was started by “a bunch of MIT nerds” with backgrounds in computer science and math, who were exploring how machine learning could be used to provide smart, taste-driven recommendations. How Does Hunch Work?
To get started using Hunch, head over to the homepage and sign in with your Facebook or Twitter account. Then you are asked a series of random (and I mean random) questions, which you can choose to skip or answer. After you answer each question, you will be able to see the percentage of people who answered the same as you. Answer as many as you like to better build your taste profile. It’s actually pretty fun, I must admit.
Hunch gets smarter/more accurate in two ways. First, since Hunch is powered by collective user knowledge, topics mature over time. Newly submitted topics often won’t be very smart at first, but as more and more people train and refine them, the topics will get much smarter.
Second, the more Hunch gets to know you, the more your recommendations will become customized. Every question you answer and topic you try helps this process. When Hunch makes a recommendation, it’ll also show you why it proposed what it did. If you disagree with the reasoning, think it missed a crucial question or result, you can add all of that information yourself.
When others give one of your pros/cons a thumbs up, you get what are called Flecks. Flecks are like pats on the back, and people can “fleck you” for a question, result, or topic that you’ve contributed. You can give them to other people from their profile pages, or inline in a topic play. Written flecks must be approved by the person receiving the fleck before they are visible from their profile page. Cred, Badges & BanjosSticking with the theme of getting/giving out props to people, you also can build Cred in the Hunch community. Cred stands for credibility, which is a summary of your Hunch contributions.
You also receive badges while using Hunch. Badges represent all the different ways you’ve contributed. Banjos (that’s right, Banjos) are one type of badge, which represent a numerical summary of your total contributions. Other badges represent the type of content you’ve contributed. You can learn all about the types of badges and banjos inside of Hunch on this page. ConclusionAlso make sure you check out Hunch’s other stuff – like Twitter, iPhone apps and a Facebook game – over on their Goodies page. I think Hunch is a really interesting community. After answering just a few questions it recommended some of my favorite movies and TV shows. Once you use it for a little while and it learns more about you it can be a really useful tool for you. What do you think of personalized recommendation engines? Are you going to check out Hunch? Do you like MakeUseOf articles? Don’t forget to share our articles with others! It’s really important to us.
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| Posted: 14 Jan 2011 12:15 PM PST
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| What Was Hot Online? What Have You Missed? Find Out With Rrrewind! Posted: 14 Jan 2011 11:31 AM PST
Next time you find yourself with an evening up your sleeve, refreshing Reddit and PopURLs with some vague hope something new will happen, you can instead catch up on all the memes you missed using Rrrewind. This will quickly become one of your favourite haunts because it is just so good at letting you browse all the popular stories on the web. What’s Rrrewind?
The services Rrrewind covers include Delicious, Digg, Hacker News, Reddit, Hulu, Yahoo Videos, YouTube, Dribbble, Flickr, Amazon and Yahoo Buzz. Rrrewind goes back as far as 2009, so there’s plenty of link goodness for you to peruse. Videos and pictures are shown as embedded media, so they’re compelling and interesting to view.
How Do I Use Rrrewind?The way it works is quite simple. You click on the service you want to look at, then you browse through that service’s popular items of the day as you wish. When you’re finished, click on the big arrow on your right and it will go back a day. Repeat ad infinitum.
If you want to go back further, just click on the “Archives” link in the top right. There you can choose the day you want to start on, then continue browsing normally.
As you can see, this can get quite addictive. Hours of your life might get sucked into this void. But it is a great way to browse the best content so you can’t really knock it for doing that well.
Thoughts On RrrewindI’m sure there’s more that can be done with Rrrewind. More services could be added easily. I would also appreciate it if you had the ability to stay on the day you reached when you change services. But neither of these are necessary ideas and they would both detract from the simplicity of the website. The direct competitor here is PopURLs. PopURLs have a great number of services covered, going back as far as 2008. If PopURLs were to offer left/right archive navigation arrows such as the Rrrewind arrow it would be just as easy to navigate as Rrrewind. So if PopURLs were to add these arrows, Rrrewind might well fade into obscurity. In the meantime though, we can enjoy its simplicity and handy browse features. More Internet!If you’re mad keen to find new and interesting stuff online, try reading these articles:
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| 5 RSS Feed Search Engines You Should Try Out For Fresh Content Posted: 14 Jan 2011 10:31 AM PST
That's why you can think of feed search engines as one of the easiest ways to search for the latest feeds en masse. A feed search engine also links to the RSS feed link and a preview of the content if you choose to subscribe without browsing through the site.
Search 4 RSS
Search4RSS.com helps you discover feeds by using a keyword. An auto-complete dropdown helps you with possible keywords. You can click on the URL of the website in the search results or directly click on the RSS feed link and subscribe to it. A grey link lets you preview the feed content from the site. Search4RSS.com is actually a motley of search engines available through one search box. Plazoo
The name comes from the Dutch language and it means something that's close to 'a place to search'. Plazoo is an RSS search engine that looks for news and information in thousands of RSS-Feeds. You can search across categories like blogs, company news, job market, news and media, and more. Results can be sorted by relevance or date. A set of advanced filters also fine tunes the search results. For instance, you can set which date should the oldest result have. You can limit searches by languages and media type too. You can use a ClipBox to save any of the search results. RSSoogle
Quite obviously, the name of the feed search engine comes from RSS and Google. You can use it like a general purpose search engine or use it to search for RSS feeds with a click on either of its two buttons. RSSoogle.com also extracts the date of the feed, so you can go for the ones which are current. If you like to add the search tool to your list of search engines in the browser; click on the link given at the top. RSSMicro
RSSMicro.com is a feed specific search tool that taps into 12,000 indexed news sources. The service also uses its own proprietary feed ranking technology to improve the quality of the search results. Along with the feed search, you can do a web search, videos, and images. Before subscribing to the feed you can look into the inline preview and other included posts. After trying out the service, I am still a bit fuzzy about the co-relation between the site's own Feedrank and the real timeliness of the search results. Jamesoo
Jamesoo presents the searched out latest news in a newspaper-styled layout with a summary and a link to the main content. The search engine takes all the news from the latest RSS feeds published. You can also use the crawler in a choice of 15 languages. It is not perfect though, as some old posts make their way into the results page. Feed search engines may not be your preferred method, but RSS feed search engines are another category of search tools you can keep in your research toolbox. Feeds are coded in specific ways that make it easy to digest by search tools like these. Usual search engines commonly index a site as a whole. That's why even as search engines improve, you can use these feed specific search engines and broaden the scope of your results. Also be sure to check out these posts on some great search engines: The 5 Most Advanced Search Engines On The Web Can you recommend any more? Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf page on Facebook. Over 24,000 fans already!
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| Setting Up An Amahi Home Server – Adding a Drive To Your Server [Linux] Posted: 14 Jan 2011 09:31 AM PST
Specifically, we’ll be adding a drive or two into the server, and changing the horrible default theme. Warning: There is a tiny bit of command line work involved, but I’ve simplified things and found a GUI alternative wherever possible. Changing Your Home Server Theme With The App GalleryLet’s face it – the basic theme built into your Amahi install is pretty ugly. Like all great things (read: the iPhone) – there’s an app for that. Take a look at the app gallery by opening up your HDA through the web interface (http://hda), or by clicking the Amahi dashboard icon on your server desktop. Click on the Apps link in the top right, and you’ll be taken straight to the app tab of the setup page. Unless you’ve already explored the app directory and had a go yourself, you’ll probably be greeted by this message:
You can either click on the Available link or the blue + icon to browse the apps. For now, let’s choose the Agedashi Theme, click to expand it, and click on the big install button:
After installing, a large link to Manage Themes should appear – click that to take you directly to the appropriate setup tab. You should see two thumbnails now, so click on the second one for Agedashi and your dashboard will instantly transform into something a little nicer, like so:
I’ll show you some of the more interesting apps in a future article, but let’s move on to more important things. Adding An Additional Hard DriveThe first thing I wanted to do was to add some of the mountains of spare drives I have into the server and make them useful. Unfortunately, the process is far from plug-and-play level of easy. Take note Amahi developers – you really need to sort this out. The average user might have made it this far, but given how important the simple function of managing drives is in a server, you would really hope it was easier. Anyway, here’s how I managed it:
That’s it – if you go to the storage tab of the Amahi Setup page, you should see your total storage has now increased. In my next article, I’ll show you how to set up file duplication using the Greyhole storage pool, which allows you to duplicate certain sets of files across 2 or more drives for the ultimate in redundancy – if one drive fails, you’ll still have copies of the file on other drives. Stay tuned, and remember to ask if the comments if you’re having issues and I’ll my best to help. Hey Facebookers, make sure to check out MakeUseOf page on Facebook. Over 24,000 fans already!
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| Google Translate Brings Star Trek’s Universal Translator One Step Closer [News] Posted: 14 Jan 2011 09:06 AM PST
Translation books and even phone applications can only carry you so far, as it has become tedious work trying to use them to navigate exactly what you’re looking for. However, Google has just released an epic update to their Translate for Android app on its one year anniversary. What’s epic about it? Conversation Mode. What’s New With Google Translate?As reported by Tech Crunch, most of the updates to that app pertain to the user interface, but Converstion Mode, while only in alpha, is very impressive. It works exactly how you’d think it would, in a perfect world. You speak in one language into your phone, the app translates it for you, and it outputs the translation through your phone’s speaker. The person also has the opportunity to respond back into the phone, repeating the process from the other end. To see this in action, here is a YouTube video of Google demoing the app on stage, taken from a conference in Berlin back in September. The demo starts roughly 26 mins & 24 seconds in: More information about the update can be found on Google’s Mobile Blog. You can download the app on your Android device by using the bar scanner app to scan this QR Code:
ConclusionThe fact that this exists is amazing. As Google notes, the app is still in the very early stages, as they’ve experienced a few issues with background noise, accents, and other things you might expect, but all in all it looks like very good progress. I’m curious to see how this will wind up. What do you think of the new Google Translate? [Note]: Currently, the app only works in English and Spanish (sorry, rest of the world!) Source: Tech Crunch
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| Automatically Log Your Work & Invoice Clients With PC Fare Meter Posted: 14 Jan 2011 08:31 AM PST
Well, recently things changed. My client list expanded and my available time to work shrunk. I realized that a lot of my online time was wasted with constantly checking and responding to email or checking and responding to Facebook posts. What I needed was a way – some sort of daily work log – to track and quantify just how much time I could gain in productivity by cutting those areas where I waste time.
Getting Started With Monitoring Your WorkYou see just how easy it is to use the Fare Meter when you start it up and see the helpful list of 4 steps to get started.
The software is called PC Fare Meter for a very simple reason. The PC Fare Mater essentially logs the time you spend on specific tasks just like a taxi cab driver logs the time spent driving particular customers around. This software will also help you figure out how to show that time in terms of real money.
On the main screen you’ll see the list of clients (or projects). You can add a new one at the bottom of the screen. If you are in a business like web design where you charge hourly rates, you can enter your hourly rates. You can also further organize these clients into “groups”. This helps you keep track of how much time you spend on different “types” of work.
The software is also configurable enough so that you can tell it how much of your computer activity to log, and you can even allow the software to monitor more than one project at a time. Multiple project tracking works by assigning certain window text to specific projects (as you’ll later see in this article).
Once you have your project list ready, monitoring your work time is as simple as clicking one of the stop watches and starting work. So, for example, before I start working on my next MakeUseOf article I click the little stopwatch. At that point, the software logs all of my activity and how much time I spend in each window.
This gives a much more accurate representation of how much you actually worked on what you wanted to work on. When you open the project, you’ll see a breakdown of the individual windows or apps you used, and how long you spent in each one. The software will also break it down by browser window, so I can see how much time I actually worked on the article and how much time I spent Facebooking.
Sometimes, you might remember something you had to do for a different project, so you’ll open up a new window, finish that task, and then get back to your original project. You can go into the PC Fare Meter and reassign that activity time to the correct project by simply clicking on the activity and clicking the “Move Windows” button. You can select the correct project for that activity in the pop-up box.
As another useful organization feature, you can also name the task grouping based on what you were working on. This means that within a project like “MakeUseOf”, I might start the timer at the beginning of writing an article, and I’d call that “Writing”. Then I’ll start the timer again and call that grouping of tasks “Editing.” This lets you break down your work, especially for clients that like to see a detailed breakdown of work on an invoice.
Don’t feel like going in and “fixing” those little tasks that you perform? Let PC Fare Meter automate the process with the “Auto Move” feature. Here you can tell the software that if you’re using a window or browser tab with certain text in it – always log the time in a particular project bucket.
Of course, the software wouldn’t be complete or even very useful if you couldn’t export all of your time logs. With this app, you can export your information to a CSV file. You can also archive logs (a good idea when they get very large), or just save individual files locally.
For the most part, PC Fare Meter not only tracks your time, but it helps you to automatically organize that time into buckets that later allow you to get a better picture of how much time you actually spend working on what you think you’re working on, and also accurate charge for the time you’ve spent on different jobs. Have you ever tried PC Fare Meter? Did it help you organize your computer time better? Do you use another activity logging app to develop a daily work log? Share your insight in the comments section below! Image credit: A Syed Do you like MakeUseOf articles? Don’t forget to share our articles with others! It’s really important to us.
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| How To Organize Your Clothes With Your PC Posted: 14 Jan 2011 07:31 AM PST
If you’re a fairly fashion-dumb person (like me) the need for this may not be immediately obvious. But even those who don’t care much for fashion can benefit from this. I don’t care a lot about clothes, so I often find myself forgetting what I own. If you have a similar problem, or you have a massive array of clothing to catalog and you don’t know where to start when it comes to how to organize clothes, there are some wardrobe managers that can help. HomyFads Wardrobe Manager
This beautifully simple wardrobe management software is a free download and does not require any online registration. Once you’ve installed HomyFads, you can create a wardrobe, which appears in a three-column layout. The left column contains the categories of clothing you’ve created, the middle category contains thumbnail photographs of your clothing, and the right column lets you view and add details about the clothing you own. Like all of the wardrobe management methods listed here, this is a photo-based program. You will need to take photos of your clothing in order to add them (although I suppose you could fudge it by using placeholder photos, if you feel this won’t cause confusion). There is no apparent limit on the number of items you can add, and because this program is entirely local, you can browse through your wardrobe quickly even if you’ve taken high-resolution photos. There is no social media or online functionality built into HomyFads, so you’ll have to look elsewhere if you want to share your wardrobe or browse stores for new clothing. This drawback has its advantages however, as HomyFads is by far the easiest and quickest wardrobe manager listed here. Shmotter
The clearly female-centric Shmotter is a busy online wardrobe management tool that puts an emphasis on social media. It can, if you’d like, be used as a basic utility for storing photos of your clothing and arranging them to keep them organized. However, Shmotter puts a heavy focus on outfits. You can drag any items – either those you own or those available from the site’s partners – into the outfit feature, mixing and matching as you please. Once you’ve put together something you like you can share it with friends using Twitter or Facebook. Outfits are also shared automatically over the Shmotter network, which means that everyone will be able to see an outfit that you put together and rate it. Top-rated outfits are automatically shown on the front page, presumably so you can borrow from them if you’d like. I do wish the Shmotter website was more organized, as it is a bit of a mess compared to something like HomyFads, the perfect picture of user-friendly simplicity. Still, it does its job and will probably appeal to the fashion-conscious more readily than HomyFads. ClosetBank
ClosetBank is another online wardrobe management tool, and it has many similarities and differences when compared to Shmotter. When it comes to basic wardrobe management, ClosetBank is the better of the two, as it has a more robust wardrobe overview and lets you add more information about your clothing. The interface of the website is a bit better overall, as well, although still far from the brilliance of HomyFads. On the other hand, the outfit creation part of ClosetBank (called “dress up”) is clearly inferior to Shmotter. The menu-based method of adding clothing is obtuse and the execution proved buggy in Google Chrome. And while ClosetBank does link to a number of websites on its front page, it doesn’t let you automatically add clothing sold by its partners into your outfits. You must find an image of the clothing you want to add online, download it to your computer, and then upload it to the site. ConclusionPersonally, I find HomyFads to be the best of the wardrobe management tools here, but that’s probably because I’m not much for fashion and I don’t care about making or sharing outfits. If that’s something that appeals to you, I suggest trying out both Shmotter and ClosetBank – both have their advantages and disadvantages. If you know of any better ways how to organize clothes with your PC, let us know in the comments. Follow MakeUseOf on Twitter. Includes cool extras.
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