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16 Of The Most Useful Facebook Applications
2009-05-29 08:30:00
Facebook, the social networking site that has more than 200 million active users nationwide, is as interesting as it is today thanks to its awesome base of applications. As of July 23rd 2008, the total number of applications have exceeded 33,000. What’s more, they’re growing more each passing day as developers identify potentials of having their stuff all over millions of Facebook profiles. Sounds good but let’s be honest. Facebook is not a tool. It is an escape. Very few people go there or would want to go there to write a document, plan a meeting or collaborate. Out of the tens of thousands of applications, only a handful is truly worth your time. Below are some of the most useful Facebook applications I’ve come across. Default Applications Photos. In my opinion, this is the most popular and useful Facebook application. There is no limit to the number of albums and photos an user can upload, you get to control your own privacy settings and label users i...
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93 Entertaining And Interesting Sites For When You Are Bored
2009-04-08 06:39:00
Arrived at the office early? Got some time to burn during lunch? Sitting comfortably with nothing to do? Look no further. I have compiled a list of 93 sites that I find very interesting. Interesting enough to distract me from finishing this article. Took me 2 weeks when it could have been settled in 2 days. =P Oh well, it just goes to show how entertaining the sites were. Some sites you may have come across before, some not. So far, I’ve only managed to find 93 that make the cut. So if you have one in mind, let me know, yes? Have fun getting distracted! Contents Generally Interesting (11) Videos (8) Photos (6) Games (10) Celebrities (11) Travel (10) Education (9) Life Improvement (16) Comedy (6) Others (6) Generally Interesting Digg Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is th...
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Top 10 Coolest Mobile Phones of 2008
2008-05-14 11:28:00
A mobile phone, a.k.a mobile, wireless, cellular phone, cell phone or hand phone, has been evolving rapidly since its conception by Martin Cooper who made the first call on a handheld mobile phone on April 3, 1973. Every year mobile phone manufacturers will compete against each other to bring out the best in features and looks to capture the ever growing market of consumers. Anyways, below are 10 of the coolest mobile phones, in my opinion, available in 2008 that are worth your attention and maybe, your money too. They are arranged in no particular order. Samsung Instinct Screen Resolution: 240 x 432 pixels Weight: 125 g Connectivity: 3G, GPS Talk Time: 5.75 hours Phonebook: 600 Camera / Video: 2 MP Samsung Glyde Screen Resolution: 240 x 440 pixels Weight: 139 g Connectivity: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA 850 / 1900 Talk Time: 3.5 hours Phonebook: 500 Camera / Video: 2 MP / Flash / Auto-Focus LG enV2 Screen Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels ...
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The Funny Side Of Google Suggest
2008-04-16 10:19:00
Google Suggest, the auto-completion search tool that ’suggests’ popular search results to you while typing is very useful. That is if you would want to know more about what the universe is searching for. Here are just an example list of 30 of the funniest Google Suggest search terms I came across. Thanks, freibooter
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Famous Bloggers : Do You Recognize These Faces?
2008-02-22 08:56:00
As of February 2008, Technorati was tracking over 112.8 million blogs worldwide. Blogs, a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order, are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them. Anyway, did you know how the editor or owner of your famous blogs look like? Look no further. Below are a list of influential bloggers you may not have seen before. Aaron Wall of SEObook Adam Curry of PodShow Amanda Congdon of ABC News Ana Marie Cox of The Ana Log Andrew Krucoff of Young Manhattanite Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish Andy Baio of Waxy Anil Dash of Dashes Arianna Huffington of Huffington Post Arnold Kim of Mac Rumors Beppe Grillo of Blog di Beppe Grillo Bill Simmons of The Sports Guy - Page 2 Biz Stone of Biz Stone, Genius Blake Robinson of CrunchGear Bob Lutz of GM FastLane Blog Brian Clark of CopyBlogger Brian Crecente of Kotaku, The Gamer’s Guide Brian Lam of Gizm...
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140 Faces Of Well Known Bloggers You Won’t Want To Miss
2008-02-22 08:56:00
As of February 2008, Technorati was tracking over 112.8 million blogs worldwide. Blogs, a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order, are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them. Anyway, did you know how the editor or owner of your famous blogs look like? Look no further. Below are a list of influential bloggers you may not have seen before. Aaron Wall of SEObook source Adam Curry of PodShow source Amanda Congdon of ABC News source Ana Marie Cox of The Ana Log source Andrew Krucoff of Young Manhattanite source Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish source Andy Baio of Waxy source Anil Dash of Dashes source Arianna Huffington of Huffington Post source Arnold Kim of Mac Rumors source Beppe Grillo of Blog di Beppe Grillo source Bill Simmons of The Sports Guy - Page 2 source Biz Stone of Biz Stone, Genius source Blake Robinson of CrunchGear source...
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Warning : Online Web Based Desktops Are Taking Over And These 15 WebOS Are
2007-11-28 09:09:00
Some call it webtops, some call it WebOS. The purpose; to mimic the look, feel and functionality of a local computer contained within a web browser, fully accessible from any Internet-connected device. They are great because : you are always using the latest software you skip the necessary need to install updates or patches their hardware requirements are at a minimum https will safe guard your data from external interceptions No risk of getting laptop stolen Below are 10 of the most notable web desktops of the moment. AjaxWindows You can synchronize your desktop environment to be easily with AjaxWindows’ wizard. Most of the applications found in the online desktop are from Ajax13, the creators of AjaxWindows. It is deadly similar to Windows, which makes it pretty easy for existing Windows users to navigate around. It is stable (though laggy when you open too many applications) and includes the synchronization feature which no one else has at the moment of writing. Some ...
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23 Things Every Webmaster Should Know About The Behaviour Of Reader’s Eye
2007-11-23 07:35:00
Ads in the top and left portions of a page will receive the most eye fixation. Ads placed next to the best content are seen more often. Bigger images get more attention. Clean, clear faces in images attract more eye fixation. Fancy formatting and fonts are ignored. Formatting can draw attention. Headings draw the eye. Initial eye movement focuses on the upper left corner of the page. Large blocks of text are avoided. Lists hold reader attention longer. Navigation tools work better when placed at the top of the page. One-column formats perform better in eye-fixation than multi-column formats. People generally scan lower portions of the page. Readers ignore banners. Shorter paragraphs perform better than long ones. Show numbers as numerals. Text ads were viewed mostly intently of all types tested. Text attracts attention before graphics. Type size influences viewing behavior. Users initially look at the top left and upper portion of the page before moving down and to the right. Users ...
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Differences Between The 5 Types Of Archiving And Compression Formats
2007-11-07 08:00:00
.7z .7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing filters. The .7z format initially appeared as implemented by the 7-Zip archiver. Both the 7-Zip program and a library to read the .7z file format are publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. Features of the .7z format are: Open, modular architecture which allows any compression, conversion, or encryption method to be stacked. Compress ion ratios from about 2 - 10% Ability to compress large files. Largest is about 16 billion GB. Uses a 16-bit code standard for uniform representation of all the character systems in the world, digits, symbols, and control sequences to use when storing data. Support for solid compression, where multiple files of like type are compressed within a single stream, in order to exploit the combined redundancy inherent in similar files. Even archive headers (supplemental data placed at the beginning of...
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Differences Between The 5 Types Of Archiving And Compression Formats
2007-11-07 08:00:00
.7z .7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing filters. The .7z format initially appeared as implemented by the 7-Zip archiver. Both the 7-Zip program and a library to read the .7z file format are publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. Features of the .7z format are: Open, modular architecture which allows any compression, conversion, or encryption method to be stacked. Compression ratios from about 2 - 10% Ability to compress large files. Largest is about 16 billion GB. Uses a 16-bit code standard for uniform representation of all the character systems in the world, digits, symbols, and control sequences to use when storing data. Support for solid compression, where multiple files of like type are compressed within a single stream, in order to exploit the combined redundancy inherent in similar files. Even archive headers (supplemental data placed at the beginning of...
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DTI Data Recovery Services Review
2007-10-10 07:13:00
Imagine working on a special project or writing a document halfway when the monitor displays a blue screen. Imagine your computer not being able to detect the drive after restart. Both events are only 2 of the many that could happen to a hard disk at any time of the day. Imagine losing your system and not knowing how to rectify the issue at hand. Which is why data recovery is important for business continuity and disaster recovery strategy. Which is where good data recovery services like DTI Data come in. DTI Data has been on the hard drive recovery scene since 2006 1998, with a list of notable and satisfied past clients which include : Cisco Ford Motor Company Campbell’s Soup NASA United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marines Currently, DTI Data has about 51 service areas scattered throughout the United States. Oh, and another surprising thing is that DTI Data’s expertise cover ANY hard drive repair imaginable. Whether if you are ...
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Easily Understand And Make Use Of Website Statistics / Analytics
2007-09-20 11:48:00
Every website has at least 1 web analytics application running, but we rarely utilize it. What we may see are only figures and colourful charts. Data is most useful in decision making when we could fully extract and transform them into understandable information. Let’s take a look at rangit.com’s site statistics for the month of August 2007. I use the free Google Analytics . Everyone ought to, actually. Visitors Overview A traffic overview page should exist in all web analytics. It allows you to get to know your site’s traffic and their communication with your site’s structure and design. From here, everyone should be able to delve deeper to diagnose the contrasting visitor subdivisions and examine the influence that produces the quality of average page views, time on site, bounce rates, etc. Countries Overlay Know the people that you are attracting to your site. Get a clear picture of the visits, page views and quality measures of your site’s pr...
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Top 11 P2P File Sharing Clients Of 2007
2007-09-07 08:29:00
P2P is defined as a computer network that exploits diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network participants. It reduces server load and maintains high bandwidth transfer rates. Nowadays, you can get almost anything from P2P. That includes movies, e-books, songs, applications, games and pictures. But before you can do that, you gotta know which P2P file sharing client to use to get the best out of your time. Listed below are 11 of the best, free P2P file sharing clients of 2007 for you to try it if you haven’t. Forget the rest. Ares Galaxy Written in delphi, Ares was originally designed for operation on the Gnutella network. Later on in 2003, it switched to its own network of leaves and supernodes which was much more difficult to identify compared to other networks. However, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise when it was the only P2P application that could work on restricted networks like university campuses. Ares...
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15 Hottest Bittorrent Sites of 2007
2007-09-04 18:00:00
Update 5/9 : added mp3-center.org Update 13/8 : added mp3int.com and torrentplaza. General The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay is the 305th most visited internet site as of May 30th, according to Alexa. The Pirate Bay was raided by Swedish police on May 31st, went offline till June 3rd where it came back with new a new hosting location in Netherlands. Plans to setup backup servers included Belgium and Russia. Since reopening the visitor count doubled and The Pirate Bay became more popular than ever thanks to the media coverage. Directly after the raid, advertisement revenue on the site shot up to a speculated $75, 000 by Swedish newspaper SvD. Reports indicated bandwidth usage of The Pirate Bay to be at 2,000 HTTP requests per second across all 4 of it’s servers. Mininova Started in January 2005 as a successor to the then very popular SuprNova that was taken down in 2004 due to legal issues. Anyone can upload any torrent to the site, tracked by any Bittorrent tracker. Mini...
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The 12 Types Of Scam / Fraud / Cons That Everyone Ought To Be Aware Of
2007-08-28 13:03:00
People cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls. Because they can. Over the years countless people have been intentionally mislead to achieve financial goals of unscrupulous people. The first known scam ever published by the press was in 1849 during the trial of William Thompson who was known as the ‘confidence man’. He would chat with strangers until he asked if they had the confidence to lend him their watches, whereupon he would walk off with the watch. Thompson was captured when a victim recognized him on the street. Below are 12 types of common scams reported around the world. Prizes and lotteries image source You have been proclaimed by people or letters to have won a vacation, prize or competition you do not remember entering. You may be asked to pay a deposit to access your prizes. Some others are just ploys to sell cheap stuff like poor quality jewelry at exaggerated prices. Some may ask for personal details instead of money. Providing any det...
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35 SEO Tips Simplified According To Value And Importance
2007-08-02 10:03:00
There are many things that you can do to optimize your website for better ranking in search engines. Below are a list of things that anyone can do to rank better. I’d like to imagine search engines using a point system to govern the billions of websites in the universe, giving points for elements and keywords that will help in bringing the most relevant results to searchers. I’ve divided the list into 3 different categories, for better understanding of the importance that each item brings. Import ant, quite important and very important. Very Important Keywords in tag Imagine walking down a street with dozens of shops on the left and right, each with a name at the top, wanting to buy a table lamp. The street is busy and as you walk down further, you see a shop with the name of ‘Lights & Lamps’. You walk in, buy that table lamp you’ve been searching for and walk out. Little did you know, the shop next door also sells table lamps but with a cheaper...
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Hacking The Windows Pinball
2007-07-24 08:54:00
If you use Windows , you’d probably have the Pinball game. Did you know that there’s a cheat for it? Run the program until you get to this screen. Then just type in ‘Hidden Test‘ + press Enter. Then, move your mouse around. =)
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36 Of The Most Wicked Tux The Linux Penguin Images
2007-07-23 16:37:00
Tux the penguin. The official mascot for Linux . It was originally drawn by Larry Ewing but later branched out into different designs by many different people. Below are 32 of the coolest images of Tux pictures mostly as either a bully or a tattoo on hot mamas. Some of the tux images below would make a great wallpaper. =) Confused See No evil, hear no evil, speak no evil Tux Wars Violent Tux Thirsty Tux Tux The Gangster Tux On The Ass Tux On The Tummy Tux On The Heart Spaghetti Strap Tux Semi Naked Tux On Tummy Tux On Hips Surfboard Tux Partially Hidden Tux Tux On Santa Rina Shoulder Tux Spaghetti Strap Tux 2 Tux In Kill Bill Tux At The Privates Tux Nested Between The Valley Cute Tux Triplets Tux Quadruplets Think Tux Jumping Tux Tux In School Urinating Tux Tux In The Matrix Baby Tux Tux In Shoes Tux Sleeping Ninja Tux Tux The Apple Tux Infected DJ Tux PikaTux iPodTux
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38 Of The Most Admirably Photoshopped Celebrities
2007-07-19 08:11:00
Photoshop to the world of images is like what Google is to the world of search engines. There are just too many things you can do with photoshop. One of them is to mash the a face to a different body. Chosen below are 38 GREAT photoshopped images of celebrities that you should take a look at. Remember, all the pictures are not real and are photoshopped for amusement purposes. If Owen Wilson was a sheriff Sean Connery the doctor Ellen Degeneres the happy housewife Captain Orlando Bloom Pilot Keanu Reeves UN Delegate David Letterman Jim Carrey on ballet with Clinton Hair spokesman Affleck Nurse Kournikova Samuel Jackson the porter Jack Nicholson the teacher Snoop Dogg as a police? Fireman Clooney Ben Stiller the astronaut Angelina Jolie in a helicopter Brick layer DeNiro Nicholas Cage the border patrol Police Cruise Samuel Jackson the porter Conductor Connery Bill Clinton the magician Father Anthony Banderas Drew Barr...
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9 Things I Should Have Known About Blogging On Day 1
2007-07-17 09:38:00
I have been a full time blogger for like 9 months now. I started way back in Novermber 2006 and here’s the first post that I ever wrote on rangit.com. 9 months is actually a short time, and throughout these 9months, I learned tons of things. They were things I wish I knew when I first started blogging. Below are the 10 things that I think all blog newbies should know about before jumping in. Make sure that the blog is already making income before quitting 9-5 day job. This is the No.1 mistake I made. Seriously. I was living on my savings for the past 7 months. I always thought that having a website was like having a service that is accessible by anyone in the world. And if I had advertisements placed around it, I’ll be rich in no time. Guess what? I was wrong. It was a mistake. My budget was so tight that I couldn’t afford to go out with my buddies during the weekend for a drink. It was bad. My blog was like a leaf in a garden that didn’t stand out. I had...
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How To Hide Your Naughty Homemade Images And Videos
2007-07-13 09:14:00
If you are using Windows XP or Vista, you can do this. The technique shown in the video is pretty safe and it effectively hides however many files you want and no one will notice it. Very handy trick if you have naughty files like porn that you won’t want anyone to check out. In the internet world, anything that goes out, stays out. =)
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Making Fun Of Microsoft Was Cool Until…
2007-07-10 08:24:00
Gadgets Page Gadget news for the world
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Beryl Alternative For Windows
2007-07-09 09:09:00
This is how Beryl looks like. A 3D compiziting manager that allows you to easily organize your desktop. Here’s how it looks like. Pretty cool huh? However, it is only available in Linux. If you are on Linux, you should get it. If you are on Windows , here’s a Beryl like program that you should look at while waiting for the Windows version to be ported. It’s called Yod’M. Looks almost the same but the difference lies in function simplicity. Here’s how it looks like. Basic commands include : CTRL + SHIFT + Left/Right = Next/prev desktop CTRL + SHIFT + Up = Activate and show a “far” view of the current desktop, Left and right to turn the cube CTRL + SHIFT + Down = Activate and show a “near” view of the current desktop, Left and right to turn the cube Hold down CTRL+SHIFT to use the mouse to turn the cube. (The rotation is possible only horizontally) Yod’m 3D Beryl like alternative for Windows
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