Make offers magazine subscriptions via RSS
Submitted on September 26th, 2006 by admin
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Ever wondered what the future of print media might be? Make Magazine does, and they’ve put it into full effect by offering subscriptions via RSS for both print and digital subscribers.
When you subscribe to Make, you can request to receive a digital edition of the magazine instead of having a paper copy mailed to your home. With the new service, current subscribers can use a private RSS feed (which requires a username and password) to read the entire contents of the magazine in a feedreader, including projects, how-to’s, articles, and more. If you don’t wish to subscribe, you can even use search terms as a subscription.
[Via Make]
Disposable Phone Numbers
Submitted on September 26th, 2006 by admin
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Many of you have multiple e-mail addresses, partly due to wanting to keep work and personal lives separate, but also to keep spammers from hopefully ever reaching your beloved inbox. With the advent of nearly free calls thanks to VOIP services like Skype and Gizmo, why is it that we don’t yet have disposable phone numbers? Check out this interesting article and ask the author to make the software available, as it could prove quite invaluable for many of us.
Integrating web office products into your desktop
Submitted on July 26th, 2006 by admin
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The longer I am involved with TipMonkies, the more useful sites I find, and the less desktop software I use. Aside from a browser, CD/DVD burning software, a music and video player, and a graphics manipulation application, there really isn’t anything else on my PC (aside from lots of music). One suite of programs I’ve been able to uninstall is any office application, opting instead for web-based office products like ajaxWrite. The problem with web-based office products is that it’s not integrated into your desktop so you couldn’t simply double-click a Word file and have it open up automatically…or could you?
Lifehacker has a good how-to on how to integrate these products into your desktop using a little application called AutoHotKey. This little application will let you associate office filetypes on your computer to web apps and open them automatically. Sweet!
Remove unwanted objects from photos w/ Tourist Remover
Submitted on July 21st, 2006 by admin
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If you enjoy taking lots of pictures (and I’ve seen some of your Flickr collections), you have certainly taken quite a few photographs which were ruined by passing cars, or annoying people entering the frame just as you snap the photo. Don’t you wish there were some simple way of fixing your photo without paying for expensive touch-up services or trying to capture the moment again?
Tourist Remover is a free online service which lets you do just that. Part of Snapmania, a free service which will host albums of photographs online for you (up to 100MB free), has released this new tool which will remove extraneous objects from pictures. Simply snap a second photo after the event, and Tourist Remover will mix the two photos and give you a picture perfect finish. Sweet!
Reinstall Windows without losing important data
Submitted on July 21st, 2006 by admin
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Once in a while, you might want to reinstall Windows, especially if your system starts to get bogged down, or if you’d had a catastrophic loss from a virus attack. The problem is that reinstalling Windows will delete personal files and data, so what do you do? Check out this article over at InformationWeek which offers a step by step on the process complete with videos of each step.
You could always do constant backups of your system (NOTE: if you have never performed a backup, start now!), and even if you are, this article is a fairly valuable resource in order to keep your data safe and secure.
Increase search engine traffic with 103bees
Submitted on July 21st, 2006 by admin
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I’m sure that those of you who have a blog or website are always looking for ways to gain a wider audience, otherwise, you’d probably just write on a paper journal. One way to increase your readership is to have higher rankings on popular search engines. There are many methods of doing this, but one easy way would be to analyze how search engines spider your site.
103bees is a brand new service which aims to do just that. Sign up for a free account, and 103bees and you’ll be able to see which search engines provide you with the most traffic, find out what keyword combinations work best to improve your ranking, and more. If you’re serious about search engine optimization, 103bees might be just the tool you were looking for.
[Via Performancing]
Google releases accessibility search
Submitted on July 21st, 2006 by admin
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Google has just released a new service dubbed Google Accessible Search meant to be used by people with visual disabilities. The site goes beyond the normal search feature by ranking sites made to be accessible by people with disabilities higher up than those which are not. How accessible is TipMonkies?
[Via Boing Boing]
Firefox, IE, Opera: Which is better?
Submitted on July 20th, 2006 by admin
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Anyone remember Mosaic? No? Ok…ExtremeTech has written a nice browser comparison comparing the big three: Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera. The article starts with a little bit of browser history which some of you might want to skip, then moves to a table of features, making the comparison fairly easy to make.
Next, you’ll be presented with full page writeups of each browser, touting its successes and commenting on where each could improve. Whether you agree with the article or not isn’t really important, as each person chooses their browser based on personal browsing habits, but it’s definitely worth a read. And if you haven’t tried the latest versions of Opera or IE (all you Firefox guys), give them a try. As for me, I’ll stick with Flock 
[Via OSNews]
Getting started with DNS
Submitted on July 20th, 2006 by admin
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Are you looking to start hosting a website on your home PC but aren’t sure how to? Linux.com has a good article on getting started with dynamic DNS which should put you on the right path. You could also check out ZoneEdit, a free service which makes the whole process basically painless.
Attack of the next-gen search engines
Submitted on July 20th, 2006 by admin
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I came upon a nice article over at Read/Write web which compares what they dub next-generation search engines, some of which we’ve covered on TipMonkies before like Swicki and Rollyo. The article goes on to explain the main differences between traditional search engines and next-gen search engines which fall under the “Search 2.0″ moniker. As you can imagine by the name, search 2.0 uses the power of people to make search results more like, just like Web 2.0 includes all types of collaborative media such as blogging, social bookmarking, etc. The article is short, but interesting, and a few of you might find a couple of new toys to play around with.
