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Better Your Life & Relationships One Day At A Time With The Daily Challenge
Very few of us realize that the old maxim of – every journey begins with a single step – applies so well to our lives and our efforts to improve it. The single step easily translates to a single day of our lifetime. The Daily Challenge is a web application that has come in to remind us of that very fact.
4 Simple Text Summarizers to Tackle Information Overload
Text summarizers analyze a document and then sum it up around key points and concepts. We were taught how to summarize long pieces of text in school. Text summarization apps are just the online automatic tools that use algorithms to present a quick outline of a document. here are four free online text summarizers which try to give you the abstract with some degree of success.
The 10 Best Sites To Rent Or Buy College TextBooks Cheaply
Today's generation has the best of the online and offline worlds. We didn’t have websites which told us where to find (rent or buy) cheap textbooks. But today’s generation just has to type in a URL and hey presto, there are more than a dozen sites plying cheap textbooks for sale or rent. So, let’s take a look at ten websites where you can get college textbooks for cheap.
10 Handy Alternatives If You Are Tired Of The Usual Lorem Ipsum Filler Texts
Web designers probably have a kitty of Lorem Ipsum tools saved close by that’s useful for their web development work. Lorem Ipsum generators come in various forms; some of them allow customizing the dummy text generation with variable font widths, font faces, and other design elements. But there’s just so much you can take of the mock content.
10 Unique Live Webcam Feeds To Watch Around The World
Remote webcams peeping into your lives may make you go all choleric, but when they point at some fascinating places around the world, they can make you gawk. Real-time webcam feeds that capture unique events (or non-events) always prick our interest because there’s something in our psyche that makes us want to be voyeurs.
3 Tools to Quickly Preview Your Images in the Context Menu With a Right-Click [Windows]
When it comes to using the mouse, the right-click context menu is a powerhouse of productivity. If tweaked right, it is definitely a shortcut to saving time. Quickly previewing your images with a right click is a good move if want to save a click or two. Previewing images is a time-saver from within dialog boxes too like the File Open box. Here are three image tools for your right-click context menu.
3 Color Picker Add-Ons For Web Designers & Graphic Artists [Firefox]
Eyedroppers and color pickers can work outside a mammoth graphic tool like Photoshop and CorelDraw. Most of these tools are small and portable. But today, we will diverge from desktop color picking tools and look at five browser based ones. After all, a graphic artist can take his inspiration from anywhere…and if it’s anywhere online, a few very useful Firefox add-ons could come real handy.
5 Most Effective Ways To Deal With Arrogant Internet Trolls
The Internet is without doubt a great invention. Unfortunately, no one so far has been able to develop and anti-troll device that will help to make it a more civilized place. You might have come across this beast called the troll too, in the white of comment boxes, on social networks, and on discussion boards. So, how do you take the war to the trolls?
How To Use Twitter To Organize A Protest [Opinion]
The placard is old-world. If you want to raise a hue and cry, there’s nothing better than social networking to voice your protests. Causes have found a new venue on Twitter and Facebook. The ‘Arab Spring’ showed the world that civil resistance has got a new weapon in the form of Twitter.
Play Around With These Five Cool 3D Firefox Plugins
Firefox is not yet a 3D browser. Though 3D technology has already come to cinema halls and television, modern browsers are still taking the first few steps through the dimensions. The technology may be ripening with some fresh developments every day, but there are some simple ways to explore the potential that exist today - with a few Firefox add-ons for example.
5 Ways You Can Search the Web Using Tag Clouds
Quite a few blogs and websites have them. Tag clouds are one of the simplest visualization tools available that can enhance access to buried articles on your website. The eye prefers to pan and scan rather than go vertically or horizontally in search of information. So, some web services have continued to take the help of tag clouds. Here are six web services that help you look for content using tag clouds.
How Many Friends On Facebook Is Too Much? [Opinion]
I never thought that we would be so ‘obsessed’ with friends. Collecting friends seems to be a fad that refuses to die down thanks to social networks. When we talk about social networks, we usually hold up the example of Facebook. From debating privacy breakdowns to putting up an argument on what we are going to talk about here, Facebook is served up as an example.
Google Fun – Go Inside Search & Explore Google Services In A Whole New Way At The Playground
You wouldn’t use words like snazzy, flashily stylish, or even showy with Google’s almost barebones effectiveness. Recent changes though have helped to dress up Google and readied it for the Web 2.0 party. We have seen that Google and its interlinked maze of products can be whole lot of fun. You can check out the links at the bottom, but right now let’s click on a link that will take us inside Google Search and into the Playground.
10 Things You Can Do For Fun & Learning On The Library Of Congress Online
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world. 33 million books (838 miles of shelves) is quite a lot of reading. Just to boggle your mind with statistics, 10,000 new items are added to the library’s catalog each day. For those of us who have yet to experience something like the majestic Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building, an online peek is the next best option.
Why It's Better To Have Different Twitter Accounts [Opinion]
How many Twitter accounts do you have? If we can separate our personal and professional workspaces with email, why should Twitter be any different? But the case for keeping different Twitter accounts goes deeper beyond this obvious reason. This is what I will try to hammer out here.
10 Websites To Participate In Photoshop Contests & Show Off Your Skills
Contests challenge our primitive instincts. Who among us can deny that we are drawn to it if the contest is up our alley. If you do know your Photoshop then you should try your hand at some of the Photoshop contests that are regularly announced online. You will be up against the best and that’s actually the best way to learn. So, here are ten Photoshop contests that you should keep an eye on.
10 Best Websites That Show You How to Start a Business
The road to business success is littered with failures. On the other hand, it is also paved with success because people like you and me dared to venture and do it inspite of the obstacles. Starting your own business is not for the faint-hearted because it takes a lot of enterprise and sheer hard work. Let’s now take a look at how we can start our own business with the guidance of these ten websites.
Stop Excessive & Annoying Video Ads On YouTube & Other Video Sites With AdBlockVideo [Firefox]
Ads are a necessary evil. In the offline world, they inform, entertain, and let the producers make money so that they can continue producing ‘great’ content for us. Thankfully when it comes to all browsers, you can stay away from the ad-war by using the available ways to block ads. Here we look at a Firefox add-on, and three more options for Chrome users.
10 Unique Google Maps Mashups You Can Explore For Information
Do you know you can find anything on a map these days? Columbus might have disagreed, but aren’t maps made for that very purpose? Well, I was talking more along the lines of finding offbeat things like CIA secret prisons to free beer (ok nix that last one…it’s more in my imagination!). But thanks to the Google Maps API and innovative minds, we have a glut of mashups detailing everything on a map.
10 Offbeat & Alternative Search Engines You Might Not Have Heard Of
These ten alternative search engines are offbeat in two ways – firstly, in the way some of them get to the data, and secondly in the way they display it. You should keep a few alternative search engines in your search toolbox. Will you be keeping any of these? Let’s find out.