The internet is a tool for many things. You can use it to organize your life, educate yourself, socialize, promote your business or just waste time. All of these topics have been covered extensively on MakeUseOf. Today I want to show you how you can use the World Wide Web to help save energy and resources which in turn will save you money and preserve the environment.
Today on the show I take a look at some cool websites and tools as listed in Cool Websites and Tools (edition #197).
Listen to the podcast for some more information and insight than what’s available in our quick reviews.
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Having trouble accessing favorite sites from work? Whether it’s an office firewall blocking Twitter or the prying eyes of co-workers, here are some excellent tools that can both help you and make it look as if you are working.
Make your co-workers, bosses, and friends think you’re working. What if you could cover any webpage with a fake word document or even the Google homepage and peek through a small window to surf access Youtube, Facebook or some other site without anyone seeing. Enter Vanishd.
You may some day encounter a situation in which you will require a wireless internet connection for a desktop computer. Perhaps you have decided to move your office from one room to another in your home. However, the new room does not have the cable or telephone connection you need to bring that computer online.
On Sunday, we posted the first part of this guide, about how to downgrade your PSP and then upgrade to a custom firmware.
For those of you who’ve just tuned in; a custom firmware is one that is written by hackers (or crackers, depending on your point of view), which gives you all the possibilities of the official firmware, but also enables the use of homebrew.
Homebrew are applications developed not by Sony, but by the community. The different types of homebrew applications range from text editors to ISO loaders. Due to the latter one, which enables piracy, Sony is strongly against homebrew and does its very best to contain it.
In what is probably a clear challenge to VOIP services such as Skype, Google has now introduced video and voice functionality to their Google Talk gadget inside Gmail.
However, some of you will NOT see it yet as Gmail is doing their usual and rolling it out slowly to users. So some of you will have it and some of you won’t. So if you don’t have it yet, don’t despair. You will see it eventually!
iPhone users have quickly learned that one of the perks of constant internet access is “perfect” reference capability. Searching around on the browser is one way to do it, but you run into unnecessary stuff like ads and intermediary pages.
Specific iPhone Apps are the way to go when you want a quick reference with limited load time. Check out these 6 Apps and give your iPhone a serious academic upgrade without spending a dime.
Flickr contains over three billion photos. let’s face it. Some of them are better than yours, and mine. But despite that, there are things you can do to be noticed.
Everything on the web is about context, and Flickr is no exception. If you provide tags for your photos then people can gather more information about the photograph, search on the tags, and find your image when they need one that meets specific requirements.
You can tag images for your own purposes, but if you want other folk to find them, try to put yourself in the other person’s shoes, and use tags that people might use in a search.
