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		<title>5 Ways Google Keep will Unclutter Your Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don't lose your best ideas.  A few reasons on why you need Google Keep]]></description>
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<p>Remembering the little things are difficult, but incredibly useful.</p>
<p>Instead of telling you about the features of Google Keep (Which you can watch from the video below), let me tell you how it&#8217;s made my life so much simpler by using it every day for several months.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been using it for quite a long time: since it was codenamed &#8216;Memento&#8217;, and I&#8217;m still a daily user even now, when it&#8217;s the current Google Keep state, so everything I mention below is what I actually do, not what think the app could be used to do.</p>
<p>So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been using it for:</p>
<p><strong>1. Record down ideas throughout the day</strong></p>
<p>When do you get your best ideas?  It&#8217;s not usually &#8216;brainstrom sessions&#8217;, but it&#8217;s typically in places where you&#8217;re free of distractions, like in the shower, toilet, right before bed etc. </p>
<p>Those are also the times where ideas get lost.  Recording down ideas as an when it happens is the best way to make sure you follow up on them.  Because Google Keep can be integrated into my phone lockscreen, it just takes me no longer than a swipe and a button press to record an idea. </p>
<p>Having such a low barrier to entry also results in two things.  You tend to capture ideas regardless of how strongly you feel about them at that point in time.  You don&#8217;t limit yourself to capturing the &#8216;best&#8217; ideas, you just capture ideas, and move on.  </p>
<p>It can be pictures, sounds, text, a page in a book, anything.</p>
<p>There is currently no way to sort them, tag them, etc.  but you can search, which is what you need 99% of the time, so speeding up the capturing of ideas is a worthy trade off, because things are so much faster.  It&#8217;s absolutely frictionless.</p>
<p><strong>2. Find Receipts and warranties when you need them</strong></p>
<p>Sorting through mountains of receipts, adds a ton of stress when something breaks down.  To solve this, just snap a pic with Google Keep, and label it &#8220;blender warranty&#8221; (if you bought a blender of course).  Then just proceed to move on with life, and when you need it, just search ONCE and find the receipt.  </p>
<p><strong>3. Keeping a spare copy of transit maps</strong></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t normally take the subway, but when I do, I&#8217;d like to use Google Keep to snap a map on my phone just in case I&#8217;m in a corner where I can&#8217;t see the printed map on the train.  Again, this is something I want to find easily, and can pull up in seconds.  </p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UbvkHEDvw-o?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><strong>4. Making an on-the-fly-to-do-list </strong></p>
<p>For very short term to do&#8217;s like making a list of things to buy once you arrived at the store, is something you can easily do, and Google Keep comes complete with checkboxes for easy task management.  Dead on easy.</p>
<p><strong>5. Never forget crucial parts of a manual</strong></p>
<p>Manuals, especially for electronics (camera folks &#8211; I&#8217;m looking at you) tend to be a very extreme dump of information which makes no sense to most people (including me).  Most of them are however, smart enough to include a &#8216;Quick Start&#8217; section which you should read first.  If you&#8217;re a first time user of the device, it also happens to be most read and used section.  </p>
<p>The issue is that in most cases, you&#8217;re out and about and you don&#8217;t bring that unreasonably large manual with you.  Just use Google Keep to keep photos of the parts of the manuals you actually want to read.</p>
<p>These are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, because I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;d have much more uses for it in your own life situations.</p>
<p><strong>Try <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.keep">Google Keep</a>, and leave a comment below about what you&#8217;re going to use it for!</strong></p>
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		<title>How Much Should You Tip in Any Country?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get your head around service, and tipping situations which differ from country to country.  The fastest way to check up those rates, and never feel embarrassed again.]]></description>
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Some workers take extremely low wages (In desperate times, some take zero wage), just to have a chance to be employed, and make their money through tips.     </p>
<p>Most places are OK with tips, in some countries (Like Malaysia), service charge is put in place in most places like restaurants, so a tip isn&#8217;t encouraged.  In some countries, hotels even make special effort to put up a signboard telling tourists not to encourage a tipping culture.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re travelling, and don&#8217;t want to offend anyone, just go to <a href="http://www.howmuchshoulditip.co.uk/">How-Much-Should-I-Tip</a> and select your country of choice, and all your questions will be answered.  (It also has a funnier &#8211; but more foul-languaged sister site which I won&#8217;t link to but the link is easily visible from the site above :))</p>
<p>You want to know how to treat waiters, porters, taxi drivers, and get some local tipping tips, this is the one-stop-shop for getting your head around service situations which differ from country to country.  So check up those rates, and never feel embarrassed again.</p>
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		<title>How to switch Google profiles in Chrome WITHOUT using Incognito Mode</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to take the easy way out (instead of using Incognito mode), follow these steps]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_3340" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 217px"><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  src="http://www.friedbeef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/incognito.png" alt="incognito How to switch Google profiles in Chrome WITHOUT using Incognito Mode" width="207" height="200" class="size-full wp-image-3340" title="How to switch Google profiles in Chrome WITHOUT using Incognito Mode" /><p class="wp-caption-text">incognito</p></div><br />
I&#8217;ve had my Gmail and Adsense accounts in two different accounts, and so far, the only way to log in to both of them was to use the Incognito window&#8230; which does the trick, but it is pretty cumbersome opening another window and typing in your passwords all over again every time you want to do this.</p>
<p>So if you want to take the easy way out (which is what all the tips on the blog are about), follow these steps:</p>
<p>1. Use Chrome (Why wouldn&#8217;t you?)<br />
2. Do <a href="http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#038;answer=2364824">this</a> </p>
<p>This will add a seperate user profile where all you need to do is click on the top left and select your profile.  This will open a new window which has your new profile.</p>
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<p>Why would you want to do this???</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re either:</p>
<p>1. Too lazy <del datetime="2013-03-16T02:14:13+00:00">efficient</del> to key in your password ALL OVER AGAIN every time you get onto Incognito mode<br />
2. Not wanting to bother logging out, and let your family members use the computer<br />
3. Wanting a separate set of browser bookmarks &#038; passwords to make life easier</p>
<p>Just go with this solution.  It carries across everything, from your passwords to your history to you bookmarks etc.<br />
So yes, life really can be that easy.</p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="https://plus.google.com/106994223570450059722/posts">Anil</a> for this cool tip :)</p>
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		<title>My Favorite Online Video Service [Frequency]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frequency crawls all the various video services, and supercharges it by taking the best videos from all the services, and letting you browse them easily.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ll be honest. 99% of all my online video consumption is on YouTube. I simply don’t have time to go through all the other niche video sites which also have amazing content. Good content however exists on every platform, which is why I use <em>Frequency</em>, which is both a free web based service, and a free iPad app which crawls all the various video services, and supercharges it by taking the best videos from all the services, and letting you browse them easily.</p>
<p>My three favorite things about this app are:</p>
<h3>1. You can view highlights from many sites at once </h3>
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<p>Link up all your feeds from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and just pick some of your favorite topics (eg. New York Times for news) once, and <em>Frequency</em> sorts out everything for you ongoing.&#160; This essentially lets you browse channels you care about very, very quickly and watch the videos which appeal to you the most no matter where it comes from.&#160; </p>
<h3>2. You’re watching a video stream not a video</h3>
<p>One key difference between online video and TV, is that online video is much more interactive.&#160;&#160; You watch a video, decide what’s the next video, and keep going on. <em> Frequency</em> is a much more laid back approach where playlists get created dynamically, and one video goes on to the next – without interaction &#8211; Just like TV.&#160; Strangely this only works on the iPad version.&#160; PC version, you still have to click on each video to play it.&#160; I guess they figure people are more laid back when using a tablet.&#160; </p>
<h3>3. Highlights are YOUR highlights</h3>
<p><em>Frequency</em> has a section called ‘Your Highlights&quot;’.&#160; This is where the most popular content from your feeds be it Facebook, news, and other networks get aggregated and you can watch it all in a continuous stream.&#160; If you want to go deeper into certain topics, you could also create your own stream and add the relevant channels to it.&#160; In my case, I have one channel just for funny videos.</p>
<h3>All in all…</h3>
<p>While you’re waiting for YouTube to release an official iPad app, this is the way to go.&#160;No video app on the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frequency-tune-in-watch-videos/id465034728?mt=8">iPad</a> gives you as much fun,and it runs really well on the <a href="http://www.frequency.com/">website</a> alone :)</p>
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		<title>How to Effectively Work Out at Home (Sworkit)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently my favorite way to quick workouts]]></description>
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<p>Too busy to go to the gym? Can’t spare more than 5 minutes? Don’t have gear or know what exercise to do next? These are all commonly used <strike>reasons</strike> excuses which I have struggled with when I try to work out.&#160; </p>
<p>Sworkit is a free tool which customizes your home workout based on </p>
<ol>
<li>Which parts of your body you want to exercise </li>
<li>How much time you have </li>
</ol>
<p>I’ve been using it for a several weeks now, using it to get my fitness back up to speed, and I’ve been very happy with the results thus far.&#160; Especially for someone like me, <a href="http://www.friedbeef.com/friedbeefs-tech-back/">recovering from a medical incident</a>, picking short and targeted workouts have really helped to build everything up (strength, stamina, etc.) in a gradual, but yet systematic fashion.&#160; </p>
<p>It’s great and you’ll even probably learn a few new exercises because it has a good variety of routines, and everything comes with video demos for all the exercises just in case the instructions aren’t clear enough.</p>
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<p>They’ve got all their bases covered terms of accessibility.&#160; You can run <a href="http://sworkit.com/">Sworkit</a> on both desktop and mobile browsers, or if you prefer mobile apps, there are both iOS and Android versions available as well, all free (with paid functions having slightly more features).&#160; <strong>Friedbeef’s tech gives this app a two thumbs up!</strong></p>
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		<title>My Favorite Gmail Extension : How to Get Things Done Faster with ActiveInbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've tested a whole slew of Gmail plug-ins but this is by far the one which meshes with the 'Getting Things Done' GTD philosophy.]]></description>
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<p>Image Credit : <a href="http://agbeat.com/tech-news/5-free-tools-help-reach-inbox-zero/" rel="nofollow">AGBeat</a></p>
<p>Back in 2006 I wrote about how I got my <a href="http://www.friedbeef.com/get-rid-of-email-overload-once-and-for-all-part-1/">Outlook Inbox to ZERO emails</a>, and how it changed my life. Today I don’t use Microsoft Outlook but I have successfully fully adapted the “Getting-Things-Done” (GTD) principles to Gmail, and if you’re interested in dealing with email overload in Gmail, read on :)</p>
<p>The solution is <a href="http://www.activeinboxhq.com/">ActiveInbox</a>, and I’ll get to what this Gmail plug-in has allowed me to do:</p>
<ul>
<li>I have ZERO emails in my inbox even though I receive upwards of 200 emails a day on average – which means everything is sorted out in a coherent manner. </li>
<li>I choose to only see the emails I’m supposed to act on today (This is only true with the paid version)- which means I weed out everything that need to be done later and focus on important tasks due right away.&#160; Nothing gets missed or accidently forgotten – ever. </li>
<li>I never lose track of emails where I am awaiting a reply – which means less stress when trying to follow up. </li>
</ul>
<p>So here’s how a normal workflow runs for me once you install the ‘Active Inbox plug-in’:</p>
<ol>
<li>Check email only once per hour or so, nothing more.&#160; Processing your emails in bulk is much less distracting.</li>
<li>Open the unread email.&#160; </li>
<li>Archive everything that does not need a reply or action after you read it.</li>
<li>If it’s a 2 minute reply, just hit reply and archive the email.&#160; </li>
<li>Click the ‘Waiting On’ button if you’re expecting a reply (Set the deadline date if you’re on a paid version so you can follow up easily).</li>
<li>If it’s something that can wait till later, click the ‘Action’ button to ensure you act on it before you archive (Again, set a deadline date if you’re on the paid version – this will allow you to later filter out only the tasks due today, tomorrow etc.).</li>
<li>Once your inbox is empty, just do/follow up everything which is due today, or re-assign it to a later date.&#160; </li>
<li>Say goodbye to email overload.</li>
</ol>
<p>Easy right?&#160; </p>
<p>Here’s a 4 minute video which should give you a lowdown on the look and feel of the whole thing.</p>
<p><iframe height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ACMb42l-ohk?rel=0" frameborder="0" width="560" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<h3>Video Bonus:</h3>
<p>If you’ve got an hour to spare, this is Merlin Mann talking to Googlers in Mountainview back in 2007 about the concept of ‘Inbox Zero’</p>
<p><iframe height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/z9UjeTMb3Yk" frameborder="0" width="420" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p>This is undoubtedly my favorite Gmail extension of ALL time.&#160; It works for both Gmail in Chrome and Firefox (Sorry Internet Explorer users).&#160; The free version is pretty good, but if you use Gmail a lot- especially for work, <a href="http://www.activeinboxhq.com/buy.php">upgrading to the plus</a> version is a must have.&#160; At $24.95 a year, it is worth every penny, and remains one the very few web services which I have actually paid for.&#160; </p>
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		<title>Friedbeef’s Tech is Back :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back from a long break - and ready to continue - thank you to everyone for all the help and support]]></description>
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Hey all,</p>
<p>This is probably the longest hiatus I’ve ever taken from blogging since I started, but I’m really glad to be back – and the regular posts will resume shortly. </p>
<p>Long story short, I collapsed doing a half-marathon on June 24th 2012, and have been recovering ever since.  For reasons which are still sketchy, my heart stopped and at one point, I was literally <strong>dead</strong> for more than 10 minutes.  I really have to thank God (and everyone that was praying – including my whole church) that no permanent damage occurred especially to the brain, and I’m on the road to a full recovery (even back at work now).  </p>
<p>I just want to say BIG THANK YOU to every one of you for your prayers, visits, gifts, wishes, notes, Facebook, email and Twitter messages (I read them all), and encouragement throughout this whole ordeal.  It really meant a lot to me and my family during this tough time, and it helped me recover much faster.</p>
<p>Finally, also big thanks especially to YOU, as reader of my blog.  It’s because of people like you who visit my site, that I’ve been able to meet so many new wonderful friends, both online and in real life.  Because you read my work, it gives me the drive and passion to keep going on, no matter how busy I have always been, and you’ve changed and shaped my life for the better.</p>
<p>Anyhow, sticking to what I set out to do with this blog in 2005 &#8211; I’m truly honored that so many of you have read, and continue to read &#8211; and I hope to continue to be helping people “solve everyday problems with simple technology” for a very, very long time :) </p>
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		<title>How To Find the Perfect Color Palette For Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a visitor lands on your website, you have only a couple of seconds to make a lasting impression. (A positive lasting impression, I might add.) The easiest way to turn a reader away from your website is to have an annoying color palette with disjointed colors that don&#8217;t complement each other. A bad color...]]></description>
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<p>When a visitor lands on your website, you have only a couple of seconds to make a lasting impression. (A positive lasting impression, I might add.) The easiest way to turn a reader away from your website is to have an annoying color palette with disjointed colors that don&#8217;t complement each other. A bad color scheme does two disservices to your blog: makes it look ugly and makes it harder for readers to concentrate. Essentially, without a solid color scheme, your blog takes a hit in terms of aesthetics and functionality. These seven different online tools and communities will help you easily find a color palette than you can draw from for years! You generally have<a href="http://www.colormatch.com/"></a> six colors in a palette &#8211; you can use these to design email submission forms, header tags, links, logos, and more! Finding a color palette for your website is a must. </p>
<p><strong>Tools For Finding Great Palettes Created By Others<br />
1. Colour Lovers Design Community For Finding Pre-Created Color Palettes</strong></p>
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<p>The easiest way to get your website set up with a professional color scheme, in my opinion, <a href="http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes">is to use one that somebody else has made</a>. The chances that another website is using the same scheme is low, and it wouldn&#8217;t be a problem even if they were. Colors on different WordPress themes make the sites look completely different all the time! For example, while you might be using the provided blue for links, the other site may be using it for titles and header tags. Note when you&#8217;re picking color palettes and designing your website that you should have two types of text on your site: clickable and un-clickable. All clickable text should be one color, and all un-clickable text should be another color. This makes it much easier for readers to navigate your site. Colour Lovers lets you choose from thousands of palettes, and you can sort the creations by certain colors! For example, if you know that you want purple to be the primary color of your site, typing in purple will bring up tons of relevant palettes! You can even search by a specific HEX #, but this will probably not give you a terribly huge pool of results to pick from. </p>
<p><strong>2. Kuler Offers Color Palettes As Well As A Creation Tool</strong></p>
<p><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  src="http://www.friedbeef.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kuler.jpg" alt="kuler How To Find the Perfect Color Palette For Your Website" title="kuler" width="447" height="109" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3247" /></p>
<p>I decided to put Kuler under the category for find pre-made color palettes, since I really like their selection more than I like their creation tool. Like Colour Lovers, you can search designs by using a keyword or hex #, and there are plenty of palettes to browse through! You should easily be able to find one that fits the tone of your website perfectly. It&#8217;s very similar to Colour Lovers, but using Kuler in conjunction with the prior tool will give you a larger selection of palettes to choose from, ensuring that you end up with a quality set of six colors. The tool on Kuler allows you to choose a base color and then to move the other colors around this base. I would rather use some of the tools I talk about later which let you automatically generate colors, so I would pay more attention to the pre-created palettes on <a href="http://kuler.adobe.com/">Kuler. </a></p>
<p><strong>3. ColorBlender For Viewing Many Color Palettes At Once</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.colorblender.com/" title="Color Blender">Color Blender</a> is another awesome source for web design color palettes. Unlike Kuler and ColourLovers, http://www.colorblender.com/ lays out their palettes in a way that allows you to see many of schemes at the same time. This gives you a better idea of how your palette would compare to other sites in terms of brightness and intensity. Picking colors while isolated from other examples is a recipe for design disaster, and ColorBlender prevents that from ever happening with its unique design. Furthermore, you can search ColorBlender by Hex # and RGB scale, but not by color. (Example: you can&#8217;t just type in orange and get results.) ColorBlender is an awesome site, and second only to Colour Lovers, in my opinion. </p>
<p><strong>4. InspiredMag&#8217;s List of 50+ Sites With Great Color Schemes</strong></p>
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<p>If you&#8217;re looking for some &#8220;real world&#8221; examples of color schemes, then look no further! There are more than 50 sites on this list by <a href="http://inspiredm.com/colour-schemes/">InspiredMag</a>, and all of them have great color designs. Reading this post is a great way to find color schemes that work for your niche, and for comparing your created color to a similar shade. (If you&#8217;re trying to create a certain color, opening this page in a new tab and then comparing to a certain site would probably help a lot!) Visit this post by InspiredMag and get your creativity flowing! </p>
<p>Tools For Creating Your Own Color Palettes<br />
<strong>5.  5K Lets You Choose Base Colors With An RGB Slider</strong><br />
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<p><a href="http://www.knorrpage.de/colormatch.html">ColorMatch 5K</a> is one of the best ways to create your own custom color palettes. Often when designers just try to handpick colors and put them together into a scheme, things don&#8217;t turn out as planned. With ColorMatch 5K, you are presented with an RGB slider that lets you choose a base color. Like the aforementioned tool in Kuler, you can create five other colors to go with this color. Why is it better than the Kuler tool? It&#8217;s much easier to use. Instead of picking the five other colors and running the risk of messing up a set of complementary colors, ColorMatch 5K automatically chooses the complimentary colors for you, and it&#8217;s pretty good at doing so. I only played with it for a couple of minutes, and I devised a few awesome color palettes. (Just so you know, the color palette that I use on my personal website about geek culture was one that I obtained from Colour Lovers.) </p>
<p><strong>6. ColorCombos Color Palette Tool Creates Sample Designs</strong></p>
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Seeing a color palette in the typical form &#8211; six colors lined up next to each other &#8211; is nice, but it&#8217;s not as good as what <a href="http://www.colorcombos.com/">ColorCombos</a> can do. Here&#8217;s how I would suggest using ColorCombos: use a tool such as ColorMatch 5K to create your color palette, and then check how it looks by using ColorCombos. This site allows you to view a color palette as something other than a list of colors &#8211; it will use your colors to add color to an image. They allow you to choose from a cupcake, paintbrush, paint can, pencil, and more! This is a great way to see what your colors will look like on your site, and not just how they go together. ColorCombos also has color palettes that you can browse as well as a color creating tool, so this is the real deal. </p>
<p><strong>7. Color Scheme Designer</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://colorschemedesigner.com/">Color Scheme Designer</a> is the best color palette creator on the internet. (Says me, but I&#8217;ve seen a lot of color palette creators.) You get to choose a base color yes, and from there on out things work much like the ColorMatch 5K, with one exception &#8211; you get the ease of creation plus the customization! You can choose from mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic, and accented analogic for creating your palette! You should try out the tool in order to see what each of these do, since they are difficult to explain. This is a wonderful tool for creating amazing color schemes in just minutes! </p>
<p><b>This post was guest written by the talented Jack Kieffer who also runs a blog called &#8216;<a href="http://www.autismpluggedin.com">Autism Plugged in</a>&#8216; which reviews apps that deal with Autism.  Thanks for submitting a post to help Friedbeef&#8217;s Tech to keep on going :) <b/></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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<p>Team collaboration online can be a painful thing: dissociated emails, scattered attachments and miscommunication can make even the most angelic of teams devolve into an unproductive mess. Whether you’re working on a school project or a multi-million dollar investment portfolio, if you’re pining for a way to get your team to work together effectively on the cloud, here are a few nifty solutions for you:</p>
<h3>1. How To Stay On Top Of Things With Your Team With Your Mobile Device</h3>
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<p>With the increasing prevalence of the iPhone and Android, it’s hard to ignore the possibility that your colleague or potential business partner has a smartphone or tablet in his or her possession; especially if you’re working in the fields of design, software or entertainment. <a href="https://do.com/">Do</a> and <a href="http://asana.com/index_0218b.php">Asana</a> are two of the most innovative social productivity apps to ever grace the App Store, and are excellent tools for helping the whole team stay updated all the time.</p>
<p>Where they excel is in their innovation of providing an on-the-fly platform where team members can be brought up to speed 10x quicker than you normally would be able to. With push notifications, a chat client, a to-do list, and a desktop app, you can just imagine how much faster tasks can be communicated along among your team members.</p>
<h3>2. How To Keep Track Of Your Project’s Progress At a Glance</h3>
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<p><a href="https://trello.com/">Trello</a> is a unique and innovative method of team planning which gives you a visual representation of the multiple projects that your team is presently working on. It works by acting as a sort of pin-board which allows you to pin “Cards” (which you’ve presumably categorized by your different projects) onto it, where you can track the progress of everyone’s individual tasks in all the projects at one glance. Think of it as providing a bird’s eye view of your entire to-do list.</p>
<p>Using the proprietary Card system, you can organize people, dates, tasks and plans as and when you need them in a visually stimulating way, similar to how you would use a regular physical pin-board to organize your work flow, except with the added power of social networking.</p>
<p>By this, it means that when a team member has completed his or her task, they can update you via their own Trello, or even suggest better ways of performing the task by editing the original Trello. To put it simply, it’s a way of archiving all those pesky emails on updates and suggestions in a logical and coherent way for everyone.</p>
<h3>3. How To Draw Diagrams &amp; Flowcharts In A Collaborative Environment</h3>
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<p>Diagrams and flowcharts make for excellent feedback tools on historical performance or as teaching guides; unfortunately, creating them using Microsoft Visio can only be best described as “suffer now so it’s easier later”, putting off many a fresh entrée and robbing valuable time from even the most task-oriented team manager. Thankfully, there’s <a href="https://cacoo.com/">Cacoo</a>, a free online diagramming solution which caters extensively with the layman in mind. </p>
<p>Firstly, it makes diagram and flowchart drawing a breeze (compared to Visio), enabling you to produce visual feedback for your team in an efficient manner. Secondly, it provides a cloud-based platform so that everything you create gets instantly shared among team members. And thirdly, it allows for real-time collaboration on your diagrams – so your team can work at different workstations on the same diagram – instead of having to meticulously pass a completed sheet from one person to another, saving time and frustration and improving communication at the same time.</p>
<h3>4. How To Have “Face-To-Face” Conversations With Your Team Members </h3>
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<p>If you missed Google Wave, and want an alternative, <a href="http://www.co-meeting.com/">Co-Meeting</a> provides a very similar experience. While the features provided are not as in-depth as Google Wave, it definitely harkens one back to similar feelings of productivity, and is as great a communicative tool in almost every way. As far as recommendations for online team-collaboration go, this is on top of my list.</p>
<h3>5. How To Share Files With Team Members… Without Email!</h3>
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<p>Tired of sending emails with attachments back and forth, and losing track of half of them, half of the time? I don’t doubt that anyone who regularly uses a computer for work hasn’t experienced this kind of dilemma, and it’s high time we found a way to overcome it.</p>
<p>The solution comes in the form of <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/">Dropbox</a>, a highly innovative desktop client which automatically uploads anything you put in its allocated folder upon the moment you click ‘save’. This is like magic for a single user – and with the ability to share Dropbox contents with other Dropbox users, it creates a web of inter-connected people with a host of amazing benefits.</p>
<p>For one, everything you edit from the moment you click ‘save’ gets instantly uploaded to the cloud, so your team members have instant access to the most updated form of documents or spreadsheets at any point in time. Secondly, this completely negates the need for thumbdrives, saving precious time (and for particularly sensitive information, money) as you work on-the-go to meet pressing deadlines. If nothing else, it’s completely free, and creates an extensive network with which to share your assignments, financial reports, to-do lists and what not with your team members in a completely hassle-free way.</p>
<p><em>This post was written by Aaron Pek</em></p>
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<p>Landing pages are very different from other generic pages of a website or blog because of the very reason that they are goal driven. A landing page, which is sometimes also referred as a “lead capture page” or a “lander” has specific goals, geared towards the publishers business strategy.</p>
<p>In short, landing pages are created to convert site visitors, leads and prospects into customers or clients. The more conversions a landing page generates, the more successful it is. </p>
<p>The copy of a landing page is a critical factor as far as click through rates are concerned. You can write a descriptive copy of 2000 words and throw it on your landing page but there is a high chance that it will convert poorly than a 100 word copy. Remember that landing pages are not typical blog posts and hence, the usual rules that apply to blog posts and article pages may not go very well with a landing page copy. </p>
<p>Most publishers are under the impression that the more descriptive and useful a landing page copy, the better will be the conversion. This is nothing but a fallacy and in most occasions, you will see that a really poor and short copy is performing better than its descriptive counterpart.&#160; </p>
<p>In this article, we will explain why some landing pages converts and what are the general traits of successful and convincing landing pages.</p>
<h3>1. Do One Thing Well</h3>
<p>It is very important to do one thing really really well. Most of the times, publishers make their sales copy noisy by adding too much information. This will confuse your leads as the more options they have, the more likely is that he won’t click a single option and prefer quitting.</p>
<p>Remember that one landing page should have one focus and only one focus. Do not try to achieve everything from a single landing page, there are chances that you won’t achieve anything and the lead will be offended with your ambitious endeavors.</p>
<p>Let us take an example to understand this:   <br /><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/imjA7W2Qnf2KKQGdHADaA1NgFsKt2XEv_acpS08rp5Mf5uNKj4zOSItBqk99tQi5gUSE5S6vGk_ZYbUzJyDVGnepRAo3LIGVxf4bOTH4ZrRPj-BfZ-E" width="480" height="302" title="5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" alt=" 5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" />    <br />The above page looks attractive, has a substantial amount of content and calls to action. But there is a big problem in the root &#8211; too many options. The focus is missing.    <br />A typical visitor who is interested in weight loss tools, should be shown weight loss tools and only weight loss tools. The Food recipes thingy in the main navigation is thus useless and should be removed. </p>
<p>Also, the publishers should create a separate page for testimonials and instant call back as they are getting in the way of the focus of the page, which is weight loss.   <br />Now lets take a look at another landing page which has a clear focus</p>
<p><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uUkm8uwrPfmyi-dd9kRG7SUoBHm_Aq1254KumzXoG16o4V0_RjvkR1oDX6DGoLES9qXOwYpFoZVtVLv4KUVzQOu3lJecKFB51jbVOEcks9_WqL--sQY" width="480" height="351" title="5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" alt=" 5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" />    <br />The above page has a single objective &#8211; capture the email address of the visitor. There are no other options to try and hence, the conversion rate will be much higher.</p>
<h3>2. Headlines</h3>
<p>A headline makes a huge difference and convinces the customer about your product. If you design an excellent landing page and throw away a poorly written headline, the desired conversion will never happen.   <br />The moment a potential customer lands on your landing page, he will read the headline first, . A headline also reflects what you are offering, so it is an important factor which decides whether visitors are getting your message or not.</p>
<p>Write short, attractive and catchy headlines which conveys the message and forces the user to click. Do not write a very elaborate headline or stuff it with words that are found only in the dictionary. Use simple, yet convincing language.</p>
<p>Let us take another example to understand the effect of great headlines on landing pages:   <br /><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/zsgaa89r1T9rNR962cb9l6i14N-jZLY3yw0IgytSl9ZpCYQDvsJoFyoXKLpkHLfqOKVneHIirH3A7HfYC8RMNVY9C4LLnWbsoSX4o7aZd-1JmnFNopE" width="480" height="258" title="5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" alt=" 5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" />    <br />Case B has a more convincing headline which focuses on the benefits while the focus of case A is shady and partly useful.</p>
<h3>3. Prove Your Credibility With Testimonials.</h3>
<p>Testimonials are a great way to gain trust and attention from first time visitors and it is a proven way to establish yourself as an authority. However, a landing page should never be crowded with testimonials all over the page. It is considered a good practice to create a full featured page for testimonials and place a link of the testimonial page on the landing page.</p>
<p>Please bear in mind that the testimonials should come from genuine users and should never be faked. A single mistake and you will lose all credibility in one instant.   <br />Here is an example landing page which retains its focus and gains visitor trust through a brief yet compelling testimonial    <br /><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/auceUlZBkBI71mfV5K5_7aBpbPi79l5vN3B5SsGNAI-IfzV7tCpAgJ35Yeka31uxpcirkrvXY0f5AnKjzj4_Axiy5BDomdmNDmptka_GO3FC3I3bmkQ" width="480" height="205" title="5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" alt=" 5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" />    </p>
<h3>4. Call To Action</h3>
<p>Without a proper call to action, your landing page is only a show piece. Your landing page must have a clear “call to action” which equals what you want the visitor to do, once they have gone through your landing page’s copy. The less calls to action a page has, the better it will convert because the click through rate is inversely proportional to the number of calls to action on any given landing page.   <br />Placement is also very important and the call to action should blend with the existing design of the copy. Never use aggressive colors, ugly fonts and dark backgrounds. Your call to action should feel easy to the eyes and it should invoke “a sense of action”.</p>
<p>Before you implement a call to action on your landing page, ask yourself &#8211; what is the single action I want my visitors to do? Here is a good example, where the publishers wants to gain fans for his Facebook page and hence, he has placed the call to action right in the center.   <br /><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/T6IzWbC3Tob5iqcvA2BT18pXtlILVvD3Oy0C9Mw5XxFjoECdmRbiBTRt929SSo3dYGIaQKcwrsfbKMxtDDy-I6THvyLmpDaUqh77YBwO4U5m0CF82Vk" width="480" height="336" title="5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" alt=" 5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" />    </p>
<h3>5. Split Testing is a must</h3>
<p>Split testing (also known as A/B testing) is a way to test two different versions of a page on similar situations and track which one converts better. You never know which design is going to work and which copy is going to annoy your visitors. Assumption in internet marketing is a big No No and you should never pre-judge your visitors, their behaviour or needs.   <br /><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/kyb3pGcFDPpSyeLEoCag4G8pSnEGgiGJxLKIbinAjOnhnhbv1DXbqoAWCr3R11Bpgq1PUJt87JmFCIU-jXP5JV9yFAfkfcr3TShLOMdSBW6P2ZkSbYo" width="475" height="300" title="5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" alt=" 5 Great Ideas For Creating Successful Landing Pages" />    <br />Split testing takes a lot of time and perseverance, never hurry and arrive to a conclusion based on your assumptions. make small changes to your existing copy, put up the new copy on a separate landing page and track conversions using Google Analytics. If this copy performs better, tweak it again and make a new landing page and test it again. This rigorous procedure has to be continued until you have achieved your optimal conversion rate.</p>
<p><em>This guest post is written by Lior Levin, a marketing consultant for a customized resort destination site for businesses and individuals called </em><a href="http://vacationsecrets.com/" rel="nofollow"><em>vacation secrets</em></a><em>, and who also consults for a printing company that offers a variety of </em><a href="http://smartpress.com/" rel="nofollow"><em>smartpress</em></a><em> options.</em></p>
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		<title>8 FREE Online Computer Science Courses for Beginners and Advances Users</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people want to learn computer science, but not many can afford to do so at the best institutions.  Fortunately many of the best institutions in the world are opening up their courses so you can take a course from Stanford, MIT or Harvard simply by going online and learning at your own pace.  Here are 8 ways you can take advantage of this.]]></description>
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<p>Many people want to learn computer science, but not many can afford to do so at the best institutions.&#160; Fortunately many of the best institutions in the world are opening up their courses so you can take a course from Stanford, MIT or Harvard simply by going online and learning at your own pace.&#160; Here are 8 ways you can take advantage of this.</p>
<h2>Introductory Courses (Little Or No Experience Required)</h2>
<h3>MIT&#8217;s Introduction To Computer Science For A Good Overview Of The Science</h3>
<p> <a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00sc-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-spring-2011/index.htm">MIT&#8217;s Introduction To Computer Science</a> is a free course that sounds like it tries to keep the students engaged. Rather than focusing on a bunch of broad topics in an un-centered manner, it talks about a topic, and then applies that concept to an example that will get techies excited about learning computer science. (The description specifically references the Roomba, that robot that cleans your floors for you, and has recently been overtaken by the superior Mint robot.)<br />
<h3>Harvard&#8217;s Intensive Introduction To Computer Science: For Those Who Are Committed</h3>
<p> <a href="http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative/introduction-computer-science">Harvard&#8217;s Introduction To Computer Science Course</a> is what you&#8217;d expect from a basic course, except harder. Why? Because this is Harvard, and they make all of their science classes extremely hardcore. So, you&#8217;ll be focusing on algorithms, software development, multiple programming languages, and more. If you&#8217;re really looking to get deep into learning computer science, then this is definitely your course.<br />
<h3>Learn Binary Numbers In 60 Seconds From A YouTube Video And Increase Your Geek Cred</h3>
<p> This <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFmSlFojIw&amp;feature=player_embedded">video that teaches you binary numbers in 60 seconds</a> is less of a course and more of a quick learn for anyone who likes to call themselves a geek or a tech guy. If you don&#8217;t know <a href="http://www.friedbeef.com/the-man-who-invented-the-mouse/">binary numbers</a>, then you&#8217;re not a true geek. Fix that now by taking a minute of your time to learn something new &#8211; who knows, you might even kindle an interest in computer science! 0110011101100101011001010110101101110011 (Geeks)<br />
<h3>University of Washington&#8217;s Basic Computer Science Course on HTML For Those With No Knowledge Of HTML</h3>
<p> The University of Washington has put out a <a href="http://www.outreach.washington.edu/openuw/asp/transform.asp?course=Htmlbasics&amp;xml=htmlbasics_intro1">very simple starter course on HTML</a> &#8211; this is really for people with no prior experience in HTML. Just from blogging and doing an odd website creation here and there, I got a 100% on their post-course quiz, so this can&#8217;t be that hard of a course. But, I also am versed in HTML, so if you don&#8217;t know if an H3 tag is bigger than an H2 tag, this class is for you.<br />
<h3>Connexions&#8217; Introduction To Computer Science Course: Programming In The C Language</h3>
<p>The Hanoi University of Technology has posted a <a href="http://cnx.org/content/col10776/latest/">basic course for learning to program using C</a>, the older version of C++ that some programmers still prefer. (The two are very similar, so don&#8217;t feel like you&#8217;re learning something completely outdated.) This is great for those with little or no programming knowledge in the C language. If you&#8217;re an expert, this course isn&#8217;t really for you.</p>
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<h2>Intermediate and Advanced Courses (Programming Experience Required)</h2>
<h3>Udacity&#8217;s Online Computer Science Courses On Various Topics</h3>
<p> <a href="http://www.udacity.com/">Udacity</a> could really be placed into both categories, since it has both basic and advanced free computer science courses, but it offers a greater of number of advanced lectures, so I felt that it would be wise to place it in this section so that no newbies find themselves in deep waters. This is a site that really has a ton of different free courses, from programming a robotic car to applied cryptography. (Some pretty hard stuff.)<br />
<h3>Stanford&#8217;s Machine Learning Online Computer Science Course</h3>
<p> When some people think of <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/ml">machine learning</a>, they think of robots. This is not entirely true &#8211; machine learning is really more up the alley of autonomous cars, speech recognition, and many other types of atypical non-robotic activities. (Google&#8217;s software engineers do a lot of machine learning.) You should have a solid programming background before you dive into this course!<br />
<h3>Coursera&#8217;s Introduction To Databases Course</h3>
<p> For the <a href="http://www.db-class.org/course/auth/welcome">Introduction To Databases</a> Course, you will need some programming knowledge in order to grasp the more advanced material about structuring databases. Basically every type of relevant software has something to do with databases, so this is definitely a great course for all aspiring programmers to take!
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<p><em>This post was compiled by Jack Kiefer</em></p>
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<h1>Make money by giving ideas</h1>
<p>1. <a href="http://pickydomains.com">PickyDomains.com</a>&#160;</p>
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<p>Founded in 2007, PickyDomains is a crowdsourcing site of well over 50,000 contributors from all over the world. Clients looking to find catchy domain names, business names and slogans specify what exactly they need. A contributor then starts making suggestions. Depending on the order type and the contributor&#8217;s ranking, the moment a contributor&#8217;s suggestion gets picked and registered by a client, he gets 40% to 60% commission, averaging around $25 to $75 per order. For most, this definitely is not a way to get rich off the Internet, but the site&#8217;s most successful contributors &#8211; those with a knack for names and words &#8211; make hundreds to thousands each month. Payment is through PayPal. </p>
<p>2. <a href="http://ideabounty.com">IdeaBounty.com</a> </p>
<p>IdeaBounty is a site that allows clients to hire thousands of creative minds but only pay for the ideas they choose to use. It used to be that when a company needed ideas, they paid creative experts to come up with an end product. And that’s not even knowing how much time these experts need to finally provide a solution to a problem. With IdeaBounty, clients are exposed to thousands of different ideas, and creatives get to pitch on several different briefs. Bounty (reward) for a winning idea can go as high as $3,500. </p>
<h1>Make money doing small tasks</h1>
<p>3. <a href="http://odesk.com">oDesk.com</a></p>
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<p>oDesk is an online employment platform that serves as meeting place for clients and freelancers. Clients post jobs, and contractors apply to them. There are two forms of jobs at oDesk: fixed price and hourly. Hourly work when logged into the oDesk time system is guaranteed payment. Fixed-priced jobs, on the other hand, should be treated with caution because there is a possibility of non-payment from unscrupulous clients. Earnings can be withdrawn through PayPal, local fund transfer, wire transfer, Payoneer and MoneyBookers. </p>
<p>4. <a href="http://istockphoto.com">iStockPhoto.com</a> </p>
<p>If photography is your thing, selling stock photos is not a bad idea. Stock photos, according to Webopedia, are royalty-free photos that can be used and reused for commercial purposes. Or better yet, if you have a hard drive full of photos and don’t know what to do with them, sell the best ones. With the proper title and description, somebody in another part of the world just might like them. And when you’re ready to start clicking here and there for future upload to the site, it pays to study which types of photos sell well. Top earners at iStockPhoto make around $500 to $1,000 per month. Others even more. </p>
<p>5. <a href="http://cloudcrowd.com">CloudCrowd.com</a>&#160;</p>
<p>At CloudCrowd, projects are broken down into small tasks and then reviewed by a peer for accuracy. Tasks are completed via your Facebook work application. When completed tasks are approved, you typically receive payment on the same business day through PayPal. Whether you&#8217;re a stay-at-home parent, a freelance professional or a college student with free time, the site offers a steady stream of tasks ranging from online profile verifications, copywriting to editing that fit your educational background and lifestyle preference. You can also refer your friends to the program. And once they sign up and complete tasks, you earn a referral bonus. </p>
<p>6. <a href="http://mturk.com">Amazon’s Mechanical Turk</a> – Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, or mTurk, is an online marketplace where humans perform tasks computers are unable to do. Tasks are generally simple and may take just about a few minutes to complete. On average, most people earn $0.15 per HIT (human intelligence task). Some HITs, however, pay around $2 to $10. mTurk is most probably not going to make you rich, but it’s definitely good avenue to fill in time gaps. mTurk workers in the U.S. and India are the only ones with the option to disburse their earnings to their local bank accounts. All others can have them disbursed as Amazon.com gift certificate. As has always been said time and time again, never put your eggs in one basket. Sometimes, to maximize your earning potential, diversity is key.</p>
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		<title>7 Free Tools To Check and Analyze Website Loading Speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 01:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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<h1>Simpler straight to the point tools (Beginner)</h1>
<h3>Google Developers Page Speed Test – What Google thinks of your site and check your mobile version</h3>
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<p>What&#8217;s great about the <a href="https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/">Google Developers Page Speed Test</a> is that this useful online tool comes straight from Google, and these are the guys you&#8217;re trying to impress, are they not? This web speed checker is also amazing because it puts your problems into specific categories and orders them by importance: high priority, medium priority, low priority, and already done. If you fix some of these high priority issues that come up when you&#8217;re analyzing your site, you can be assured that your website will be faster <em>and </em>Google will appreciate your effort.&#160; They also evaluate your mobile version if you click on the ‘mobile report’ link which comes up after your desktop results are generated</p>
<h3>iWebTool Speed Test – Check multiple websites at once</h3>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.iwebtool.com/speed_test">iWebTool Speed Test</a> is different from other tools that you can use to check how fast your website loads in that it gives simple data and allows you to test up to ten websites at the same time. If you&#8217;re looking to just quickly get a couple of pieces of data in terms of how fast your site is, and are not hoping to see things like data waterfalls and tips to improve your site&#8217;s speed, then the iWebTool Speed Test is for you! This <em>is </em>a free service, but it only allows you to make ten requests per hour. This seemed like a reasonable restriction to me, so I felt comfortable sharing it with you all. This website speed checker is not great at in-depth analysis, it just gives you loading times, but is perfect for quick comparisons and to identify if you have a problem at all in terms of loading speed. </p>
<h3>Neustar Web Performance – Keep tabs of your website speed history as you tweak it</h3>
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<p>The <a href="https://browsermob.com/free-website-performance-test">Neustar Web Perfomance</a> tool from Browser Mob is great because it keeps a running history of the sites that you&#8217;ve looked up &#8211; for instance, I looked at this website’s speed yesterday when I prepared this post, and its data still showed up today when I visited the site. Like Pingdom, the design of this tool is wonderful, and it gives some simple-to-understand statistics. In addition to this, Neustar also provides a waterfall and data from four different locations around the world! </p>
<h3>WhichLoadsFaster – Side by side comparisons</h3>
<p><a href="http://whichloadsfaster.com/">WhichLoadsFaster</a> is really a great way to compare your site to others in your niche while actually having a bit of fun! Since you&#8217;re tired of staring at waterfalls and looking at different metrics, it&#8217;s time to get down to <del>business</del> fun. Just type in two different websites, and then watch them load! Sounds boring, but once they&#8217;ve both loaded you can see which one is faster and by how much! Geeks, it&#8217;s better than it sounds &#8211; you&#8217;ll just have to check it out if you don&#8217;t believe me.</p>
<h1>Stats heavy tools (Advanced)</h1>
<h3>WebPageTest </h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.webpagetest.org/">WebPageTest</a> is for those techies who run websites <em>and actually know what they&#8217;re doing. </em>By that, I mean that they understand what first byte time, static caching, and are interested in seeing which individual pieces are taking a long time to load. If all of these things sound foreign to you, WebPageTest&#8217;s extensively detailed Waterfall will probably be of no use to you. If you&#8217;re comfortable with Waterfalls, you can really get some great information from the WebPageTest website speed checker! For people who just want the basics, this site also gives your URL a score out of one hundred and a couple of sub-section grades for quick analysis. </p>
<h3>Pingdom Tools Website Speed Checker</h3>
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<p><a href="http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/">Pingdom Tools</a> is one of my favorite website speed checkers if only because it is laid out professionally and in a way that makes it easy to navigate between your site&#8217;s different statistics. I personally like their Perfomance Grade tab which labels several subsections and gives them a rating out of one hundred &#8211; things rated very poorly are aspects of your site that you might want to take a look at at some point. The fact that Pingdom also tells you how your site compares to all of the other sites tested on the web is helpful, but make sure to do more than one run for this, as results can vary. </p>
<h3>GTmetrix </h3>
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<p><a href="http://gtmetrix.com/">GTmetrix</a> is a web speed checker that is divided into two main components: website speed and YSlow grade. Your site gets a letter grade for both of these areas, and clicking on a tab helps you to see why you got this grade and what you can do to fix it. </p>
<p><em>This post was written by Jack Kieffer</em></p>
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		<title>12 Geeky Online Clocks And Timers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Yeang</dc:creator>
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<p>When you&#8217;re sitting at your computer, there&#8217;s always that danger of getting sucked into the abyss of <em>doing nothing</em>. There&#8217;s YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, and <a href="http://www.friedbeef.com/12-geeky-techniques-to-stop-yourself-slacking-off/">all sorts of other time-wasting things</a> you could be doing. (While you&#8217;re supposed to be working.) A great way to make sure that you don&#8217;t waste too much time is to use these 12 geeky online clocks and timers! Some of them are fun and some of them are solely functional, but all of them keep the time! (To be honest, there are a couple that will probably make you waste <em>more </em>time than before, but whatever.) </p>
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<h1>GEEKLY AND USEFUL </h1>
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<h2>Timer For Your iPad No App Required</h2>
<p>When you&#8217;re on the go, and you need a timer, you can just use your iPad! <a href="http://ipadstopwatch.com/timer.html">iPad Stopwatch</a> is a timer that, unlike some others, does not use Flash. It is also sized so that it will show up nicely on the iPad&#8217;s display, and has large, tappable plus and minus buttons for adjusting the time.&#160; Why use this?&#160; Because you don’t have to install another app on your iPad.&#160; Just bookmark this site and visit it when you need a stopwatch.</p>
<h2>Pomodoro Timer: Productivity Booster</h2>
<p><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="pomodoro" border="0" alt="pomodoro 12 Geeky Online Clocks And Timers" src="http://www.friedbeef.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/pomodoro.jpg" width="450" height="176" /> </p>
<p>Many of you have probably heard of the Pomodoro technique for time management, and it has probably helped some of you. The <a href="http://www.focusboosterapp.com/live">Focus Booster</a> is basically an online Pomodoro timer that isn&#8217;t really good for anything else &#8211; it is set at 25 minutes, and you couldn&#8217;t change it if you wanted to. If you don&#8217;t know what the Pomodoro technique is, then its a great way to maintain focus throughout the day, and is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique">definitely worth reading up on</a>. </p>
<h2>Online Meditation Timer: Relaxation</h2>
<p> If you&#8217;re a fan of meditation, which, contrary to popular belief, is not the same as sleeping, then the <a href="http://www.meditate.mx/timer">Online Meditation Timer</a> is for you! You can set preparation and sitting times as well as quickly add or subtract five minutes from the time during your period of meditation. &quot;You mean sleeping?&quot; No, I don&#8217;t. &quot;Well then I must be doing it wrong.&quot; You are.<br />
<h2>The Poker Clock: Online Poker Timer</h2>
<p><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="poker clock" border="0" alt="pokerclock 12 Geeky Online Clocks And Timers" src="http://www.friedbeef.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/pokerclock.jpg" width="450" height="159" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://thepokerclock.com/">The Poker Clock</a> is for those guys who just want to hang out with their friends a play a few card games &#8211; specifically the games which involve you losing money to your more-skilled friends. You can set the round time for the game and choose blinds by using this timer! It&#8217;s helpful to keep the games moving, and to help with remembering blinds. </p>
<h2>Collection of timers and countdowns</h2>
<p> <a href="http://www.online-stopwatch.com/">Online-Stopwatch</a> is a collection of countdowns and stopwatches meant for all kinds of purposes, chess games, boiling eggs, and even metronomes.&#160; If you need to keep time of something, this website is a great place to start.<br />
<h2>Rubik’s CubeTimer: For Whiz Kids</h2>
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<p>If you&#8217;re one of the lucky ones who can solve a Rubik&#8217;s Cube, then the <a href="http://www.cubetimer.com/">CubeTimer</a> is for you! This online timer lets you hit the spacebar to begin timing your solve, and allows you to stop the time by hitting the spacebar again. It even records your previous times on the sidebar for you so you can see if you&#8217;re progressing! Of course, you could always just use this as a regular upwards counting timer, but it is meant to be used for Rubik&#8217;s Cube solving.</p>
<h2>Makeshift Alarm Clock : Kuku Klok</h2>
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<p>The <a href="http://kukuklok.com/">Kuku Klok</a> is an online alarm clock (Yes you have to keep the browser window open).&#160; You can choose from five different sounds and use the plus and minus buttons to set the time on this alarm clock.&#160; Probably not the best for everyday use, but incredibly useful to have up your sleeve if you are travelling and don’t have a working alarm clock or phone.</p>
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<h1>GEEKY AND FUN</h1>
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<h2>How Fast Online Stopwatch</h2>
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<p>The <a href="http://stopwatch.onlineclock.net/games/howfast/">How Fast Online Stopwatch</a> is not helpful, and it is not a great timepiece. But, we can forgive it these flaws, because it&#8217;s super fun! Try to click the red button twice as fast as you can &#8211; start and stop the button in the least amount of time! It sounds dumb, but if you aren&#8217;t sitting at your computer trying to beat your last time, you&#8217;re unique indeed. Would have had this post done at least fifteen minutes earlier if I didn&#8217;t include this one on the list. </p>
<h2>Timerrr Online Countdown: Old Fashioned Fun</h2>
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<p>The <a href="http://timerrr.com/">Timerrr Online Countdown</a> is one of my favorite online timers, because it combines the old with the new. Remember those old, twist-to-set timers? Timerrr is one of those, except <em>online</em>. Pretty cool, if you ask me &#8211; retro is where it&#8217;s at. </p>
<h2>The Human Clock: Different Scenes Of Time</h2>
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<p><a href="http://www.humanclock.com">The Human Clock</a> is one of the coolest clocks on the web! This site does not give you a cool design, like many other applets do, but it instead displays pictures that show your current time. These pictures were taken by real people, often have real people in them, and can be switched out with other pictures by scrolling down and clicking on the links there. It&#8217;s a good idea to just keep this open in a different tab and check on it occasionally to see what cool image comes up next! </p>
<h2>Anima Clock: Wonderful To Watch</h2>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.animaclock.com/">Anima Clock</a> is one of those online clocks that I warned you about earlier; chances are, you&#8217;re going to be spending a lot of time watching this clock change the time. It&#8217;s difficult to describe, but as the seconds pass the numbers morph into other numbers, and the design of the numbers changes with time. This is a geeky online clock that is definitely cool to look at! </p>
<h2>Industrious Clock: Hard Working</h2>
<p><img onError="javascript: wp_broken_images=window.wp_broken_images || function(){}; wp_broken_images(this);"  style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="industrious clock" border="0" alt="industriousclock 12 Geeky Online Clocks And Timers" src="http://www.friedbeef.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/industriousclock.jpg" width="450" height="137" /> </p>
<p>If clocks are too boring for you, and you&#8217;re looking for something more exciting, you should definitely check out the <a href="http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html">Industrious Clock</a>. This site actually shows the day, month, year, and time, so you won&#8217;t be short on any information. Also, as things change, a hand with a pencil erases and rewrites the numbers! Fun to watch, and useful! </p>
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		<title>How To Save Money and Paper With The Google Docs FAX Feature</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[These tools give you the ability to create and fax documents on the fly via Google Docs.  Even on your mobile!]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://docs.google.com/">Google Docs</a> is a free service that allows members to create documents and presentations, send them, convert them to different formats, publish online, and much more. Now, you can use Google Docs with a handful of online fax services to create, send, and receive faxes in a much more streamlined manner. </p>
<p>When connected with your mobile, the ability to create and fax documents on the fly via Google Docs gets even easier.    <br />There are still just a handful of fax services offering Google Docs support and/or full integration; however, the services that are offered make it easy and efficient to fax from just about anywhere, including a mobile device. Online fax services like the ones below are affordable, eliminate the need for machines and paper, and completely streamline your virtual office. </p>
<h3>1. Ginza Fax </h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.ginzafax.com/index.html">Ginza Fax</a> is a Google App that when installed, turns your Google account into an inbound and outbound fax service, allowing you to seamlessly send and receive faxes. According to published information in the Google App Marketplace, Ginza Fax allows you to send and receive faxes from anywhere in the world, and offers a free trial, after which monthly plans start at $4.99 (USD). </p>
<p><strong>How to Integrate with Google Docs:</strong> Ginza Fax published a brief, one minute<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI7Kd9wvuDo"> video on YouTube</a> to demonstrate how to use their faxing service with Google Docs.     <br />Other features of Ginza Fax include that the service will log your fax activity right into your Google Calendar, and that you can simply attach a file to an email to fax it anywhere. You can also manage fax spam by blocking anonymous senders. </p>
<h3>2. InterFax </h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.interfax.net/en/solutions/google-docs-fax">InterFax</a> is a similar service to Ginza Fax. Like Ginza Fax, you can use your Google Docs account to receive faxes. However, the main difference lies in the way in which faxes are sent. With InterFax, a bookmarklet is installed and when you open a file, you just click the “Fax This” button to send it. </p>
<p><strong>How to Integrate with Google Docs:</strong> InterFax integration with Google Docs is simple, and involves only the activation of Google Docs within the InterFax account, and installing and using the Fax This bookmarklet. InterFax published a<a href="http://www.interfax.net/en/help/google_docs_outgoing"> series of web pages on their website</a> detailing how to use it with Google Docs.     <br />Limitations with InterFax are that only documents created in or converted to Google Docs format, or documents that are in PDF format, are supported. InterFax services start at $10.00 (USD). </p>
<h3>3. PamFax </h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.pamfax.biz/en/">PamFax</a> is another online fax service that integrates with Google Docs, but has a simpler pricing model than the previous two. With PamFax, the first three faxes after sign-up are free, and then after that, fees are per fax. There is no advertising on any fax at any time. </p>
<p><strong>How to Integrate with Google Docs:</strong> PamFax offers support for a handful of online storage systems, including Google Docs. When sending a fax, you will be prompted to select an online storage system, where you can find your document and then fax it. PamFax published a how-to in their<a href="http://www.pamhelp.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&amp;group=pamfax&amp;_a=viewarticle&amp;kbarticleid=270&amp;nav=0,3"> online knowledge base</a>. </p>
<p>PamFax also integrates with Skype, and can be used with an Android mobile device, and offers several add-ons, including Facebook. Along with its low rates and no contract obligation, PamFax is a good option for people who need to fax only casually as well as those who need a flexible faxing solution.    <br /><em></em></p>
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