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Free Thanksgiving Printables

Chippy — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:00:24 +0000

Holidays are fun, but they can come with some heavy burdens as well. With Christmas, you've got to shop for the right gift for everybody on your list; for Easter you've got to find just the right springtime bonnet. That's one of the reasons we like Thanksgiving: the biggest pressure is finding enough room in [...]

What Language is That

Chippy — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:00:29 +0000

Has this happened to you? You're walking down the street, minding your own business, when all of a sudden somebody jumps out of a dark alley and shoves a sheet of paper into your hand. You look down and see there's text on it, but you don't recognize the language it's written in. How are [...]

Check for Legibility on Your Website

Chippy — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:00:19 +0000

Just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should do that thing. You could put white text on a white background on your website, but that doesn't mean that it's good for your visitors. If you have a story to tell, it's important that your visitors can actually read it, so you [...]

CD Recovery Tool

Chippy — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:00:19 +0000

While a diamond may be forever, your optical media are not. Your CDs and DVDs may seem permanent, but after just a few short years they can start to lose data integrity, whether because of surface scratches, problems with the dyes used in manufacturing, or other troubles. If you've got important data on there, you [...]

IDE for Web Development

Chippy — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:00:20 +0000

When you're putting together a complicated presentation, you use a tool like PowerPoint. Need to present complex financial data? Excel is probably your go-to tool. But what about building a website? Since the underlying code is just plain old unformatted text, often the weapon of choice is just a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit. [...]

Server-based To Do List

Chippy — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:00:47 +0000

Life is complicated, to be sure. Keeping track of what you've got to do can be quite a job, and if you're collaborating with others, that complexity can grow exponentially. Setting up complex collaboration tools can take a lot of time and effort, to say nothing of expense, making you wonder if it's all worth [...]

Combine Individual Images into PDF Files

Chippy — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:00:53 +0000

Sharing images can be complicated. One image may be fine, but if you've got a pile of pictures, you don't necessarily want to have to attach half a dozen PNG files to an email or upload a stack of JPGs to a server somewhere. One way to avoid all that is to combine your images [...]

Keep Track of Stuff People Have Borrowed

Chippy — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:00:58 +0000

Unless you're a total troll, you do have occasion to interact with other people. While some relationships are totally functional—you have to talk with the IT guy if you want your machine to connect with the network—there are others that go beyond that into the personal realm. Once you take it into friendship, you know [...]

Police Sketch Artist

Chippy — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:00:28 +0000

If you're a fan of the police drama on television, you may marvel as the ability of the detectives to solve their cases by the final commercial. Or you may sit there scratching you head wondering "why didn't they pick up on THAT clue?". One of the resources they rely on is the police sketch [...]

Lock Your Keyboard and Mouse

Chippy — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:00:30 +0000

If you've got a computer that you don't have to share with your kids, then you may not be interested in Kid-Key-Lock. After all, you don't have to worry about them trashing that important report you're working on for the office, or killing your budget spreadsheet. If that's not you, however, read on. Kid-Key-Lock is [...]

Check Your Carbon Footprint

Chippy — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:00:42 +0000

How big an impact do you make on the environment? Lots of communities encourage recycling, and there are many popular cars that get great gas mileage or are hybrids. But when all is said and done, there are still probably improvements that you could make to lessen the effect you have on Mother Earth. Carbon [...]

Paper Airplanes

Chippy — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:00:05 +0000

One of the time-honored ways to waste time—I mean to show your creativity—is to fold paper airplanes. Whether you're not paying attention in class, not paying attention in a meeting, or hopefully just killing a few hours on a rainy Saturday afternoon, paper planes can fill the bill. Unfortunately, many of us only know one [...]

Free Halloween Printables

Chippy — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:00:14 +0000

Halloween is almost upon us. This annual Fall festival is fun for young and old alike, as we dress up in fancy (or scary) costumes, bob for apples, and eat too much candy. If you're afraid of a sugar overdose, you're probably looking for other ways to enjoy this holiday. Halloween Printables is a sugar-free [...]

Address Book Tool

Chippy — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:00:35 +0000

Back in the day, if you were trying to keep track of contact information for friends and family at home, you probably had some fancy address book where you wrote all that info down. Everything was fine until Cousin George moved and you had to go back and scribble some edits into his address. At [...]

WAVE – Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

Chippy — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:00:16 +0000

If you're charged with the care and feeding of a website, presumably you want to make your visitors' user experience the best it can possibly be. You use good design techniques and test your code to make sure that it behaves the way you want it to, and is totally accessible. As a double check, [...]