tech-rookie

So, You Are Interviewing for a Job and need advice? Here's the best website.

2016-09-28T18:17:00.004-07:00

The usual suspects are worth visiting, of course. There's Monster, a few blogs, but the best by far for its depth and quality of information is theinterviewguys.com.

They provide lots of information, examples, and even answers. All written in a professional and entertaining way.

Look no further, they can be of great help.

Good luck with that job interview!

The HuffPo News Source List

2016-09-15T19:46:00.002-07:00

A friend of mine who reads the Huffington Post told me recently that they had eliminated from their site a list of news sources that included some very well known newspapers, websites, but also less known blogs. I decided to surprise this friend of mine with a list similar to what the Huffpo had. No easy task. There are thousands of news websites and some of them are great and others less so.

This list is a work in progress. I accept suggestions. Thank you.

mashable.com
wired.com
politico.com
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/
http://www.newsmax.com/
breitbart.com
dailykos.com
https://newrepublic.com/
dailycaller.com
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.politifact.com/
www.motherjones.com
www.thedailybeast.com/
theverge.com
thedailybeast.com
venturebeat.com
techmeme.com
dealbreaker.com
arstechnica.com

newyorker.com

http://www.takepart.com/

fool.com
forbes.com
yahoo.finance.com
wsj.com
economist.com
ft.com
msnbc.com
cnbc.com
bloomberg.com
marketwatch.com

thenextweb.com
zerohedge.com
readwrite.com
inc.com

entrepreneur.com

recode.net

Need those colors for Bootstrap?

2016-08-27T14:26:00.001-07:00

Here's a website that shows you all the color nuances you might need for that bootstrap website you might be working on. http://mdbootstrap.com/css/colors
see picture

If you are in the computer repair business you have to know this forum

2016-07-28T12:15:00.001-07:00

The IT Knowledge Exchange

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/

I use this : Learn Online Marketing Fast

2016-07-25T07:47:00.000-07:00

You probably read the story of John Crestani, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-a-28-year-old-got-fired-then-built-a--666k-a-month-business-while-travelling-the-world-005449876.html, a young guy who barely works a few hours a week and still manages to earn tons of money. The key words to his success were online marketing. And if you would like to copy his success formula or are simply interested in online marketing, I just found what you need :

A quick course on online marketing. I haven't read the contents yet, but it looks like it's an efficient way to learn this subject's fundamentals.

fundamentals https://www.quicksprout.com/the-beginners-guide-to-online-marketing/

Genius web annotator-- no installation required and free

2016-07-22T17:46:00.002-07:00

This web annotator will let you highlight and share articles from any website. It's free and if you don't want to, you don't have to install anything. All you have to do is genius.it/ in front of any URL to annotate and read other Genius annotations on any page on the Internet.

Their website is : http://genius.com/web-annotator

Practice coding in a fast, easy to use programming environment

2016-06-17T13:27:00.002-07:00

You gotta try this IDE. If you don't have the time nor the desire to install a software program for this Repli.it is what you need.

In their website one can read : "Our mission is the democratization of programming and this is our attempt at providing a powerful yet easy to use interactive programming environment."

Learn to Code and Save the World at the Same Time...or Almost

2016-06-17T13:25:00.003-07:00

This program takes about one year. But it's self-paced, so you can take as much time as you want. The program offers four certifications and many of their "graduates" have gotten jobs. It's not a bootcamp per se, but looking at the curriculum, it looks great and comes with an unbeatable price tag: zero.

As you learn you'll help nonprofits with your newly acquired knowledge.
Find out more visiting their website: https://www.freecodecamp.com/

Great Site to Find Free Html5 Templates, sometimes you get the code too

2015-12-11T13:03:00.002-08:00

http://www.freehtml5templates.com/

Should I Join a YouTube Multichannel Network (MCN)?

2015-04-21T04:02:00.000-07:00

Should I Join a YouTube Multichannel Network (MCN)?

One of the best videos explaining everything about MCNs, pros and cons.

Definitely worth watching.

I Tried Three Online Home Design Tools and here's My Verdict

2015-04-19T06:18:00.002-07:00

Floorplanner, roomstyler and homestyler.

Image via Flikr ( MSU IPF Facility Information Services)

Designing your home has never been easier thanks to today's online tools. I tested a few of them and ended up liking Floorplanner, Roomstyler and Homestyler the best. Since I was simply testing, I looked for tools that were free. The main criteria for me was :

Ease of use, options available without having to upgrade to their paying version, being able to import an existing floor plan, and being able to add custom-size objects such as furniture.

The tools I tried offered plenty of options and possibilities at no cost. There were limitations too that could be overcome if you upgraded.

Roomstyler was great at first. What bothered me was the fact you can't upload an exisiting floor plan which leaves the user with no option but having to draw the plan herself and of course there is a learning curve that required some time.

Homestyler lets you import an existing floor plan! It looks user-friendly and the images/drawings look top-notch. The same thing goes for Roomstyler. The big letdown is adding furniture or other objects. You can't really change the size of furniture. So what good is this tool if you can't change the dimensions of objects? Beats me. Other than that it looked ok. But wasn't good enough for me.

Floorplanner

Thank goodness I found Floorplanner. Easy to use and gets the job done fairly quickly with no steep learning curve. The user can import an existing floor plan and he/she will be able to add custom-size furniture and other objects. Their free version will only add one project, but since I'm no Donald Trump that should be ok.

I know there's Roomsketcher, Ikea has an online tool too, but one can only add Ikea objects.

Who Was America's Greatest Photographer?

2015-03-13T02:59:00.001-07:00

It's a hard question to answer. Undoubtedly Garry Winogrand was one of the greatest.

Who are Americans? What are the conflicts that make us the people we are? To find the answers to these questions, Garry Winogrand (New York, 1928 Tijuana, 1984) walked the streets of America every day hoping to capture with his Leica anything that could expose the American identity.

"You could say I'm a student of photography, but in reality, I am a student of America," he once said.

The result of his work was everyday scenes that delineate thoroughly the feverish American life of the last half of the 20th century. Businessmen on Wall Street and elegant women on Park Avenue; famous actors and athletes; hippies, rodeos, airports, demonstrations ...

He was born in the Bronx. The son of a tanner and a laundrywoman, he spent his childhood in a humble textile area, Allerton Coops, a communist neighborhood where some buildings were adorned with the soviet hammer and reaping hook.

Intelligent and studious, he won a scholarship for gifted kids in Manhattan, but the school he attended closed and the young Garry Winogrand had to go back to the Bronx. Shortly after graduation, he joined the Air Force and worked for months as a weatherman. Bored predicting the weather, he attended Columbia University to study painting, and met there a bunch of photographers. He discovered there that photography was the only thing that interested him.

At 22, the best magazines were curious about his work. Leo Rubinfien, who worked with him at the time recalls his passion and energy, how Winogrand made him work to death, developing, editing roll after roll of film. But he learned a lot alongside the artist. No college could have taught him what he learned there, he said.

Winogrand took advantage of work assignments to capture the pictures that interested him. Always with his Leica and a large angle lens, money was not an issue when shooting subjects dear to his heart and he bought countless rolls of film to shoot what he liked. First, women (usually young and beautiful). Second, middle-aged men from the upper or middle class, typically suited. His third subject of interest were youngsters, animals, political events, people on the fringes of society (dwarves, the maimed, and the injured), cars and luxury things, rarely seen in the Bronx as well as open spaces.

Between 1959 and 1963, he photographed elegant, charming ladies sometimes walking with assurance the long, massive New York streets, other times exiting carefully taxicabs or facing the artist looking directly into the camera. The focus of his art--after his divorce-- is more on men walking alone or young women with whom he appears to be flirting with the camera.

The sixties were years in which terrible events (the assassination of the Kennedys and Luther King) destroyed the dominant optimism of the time. Winogrand covered these subjects too. Not as a journalist, but as an artist.

He was very prolific and despite his untimely death in 1984, 6500 undeveloped rolls, that is, some 250,000 images were a legacy that no one had ever seen.

good place to find podcasts

2015-03-12T06:46:00.001-07:00

https://www.podomatic.com/login

http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/2009/02/17/the-best-personal-finance-podcasts/

keywords google search : finance basics podcast

http://www.wikihow.com/Open-Your-Spiritual-Chakras

2015-03-12T06:45:00.001-07:00

http://www.wikihow.com/Open-Your-Spiritual-Chakras

Recommended Tools and Websites Related to SEO and text

2015-03-10T04:27:00.002-07:00

Here you'll find some tools and interesting Websites related to SEO and writing text.

A Plagiarism checker (how awesome is that?) :

http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/

An article Rewriter Tool (Can this get any better?):
http://smallseotools.com/article-rewriter/

An interesting website :
http://www.writingforseo.org/

Fashion Bloggers

2015-02-11T09:26:00.002-08:00

According to Fashionista.com the fashion personal blog isn't dead. As a matter of fact they claim it's stronger than ever. And they provide a list of the most influential fashion bloggers and some very interesting facts. I never thought much about fashion blogs, I mean I'm a geek for crying out loud, I'm not supposed to look good. But one of my cousins raves about them, so I finally decided to check them out.

I don't thing I'll be starting a fashion blog anytime soon though.

http://fashionista.com/2013/01/influential-fashion-style-bloggers-2013#16

Videoblocks, Audioblocks and Graphicstock

2015-01-31T02:22:00.001-08:00

Stock footage

Anyone in need of videos, sounds or images for their video editing or any other multimedia needs for that matter, can find useful stuff in these websites.

Videoblocks provides more than a 100,000 videos that you can use for your productions. provider of Free stock video. Once you pay they offer you unlimited downloads. Before you sign up you can test them for free. Audioblocks is a sister website that provides sounds.

Videoblock is recommended by Todd Wolf and Jared Polin from Froknowsphoto.com. And they used some of the videos for the new Froknowsphoto's Raw Talk intro.

Looking for a netbook or laptop for webdesign and coding...

2014-12-28T05:32:00.001-08:00

review..
http://www.cdiscount.com/informatique/netbooks-mini-portables/asus-eeepc-1225b-gry076m/f-107460101-1225bgry076m.html?idOffre=20852927#mpos=4|mp.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/23/reading-before-bed_n_6372828.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

2014-12-28T01:55:00.001-08:00

You've heard that using screens before bedtime can mess with your sleep, but new research suggests the problem is even more serious.

Reading from an iPad before bed not only makes it harder to fall asleep, but also impacts how sleepy and alert you are the next day, according to new research fromBrigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, said the findings could impact anyone who uses an eReader, laptop, smartphone, or certain TVs before bed.

The new research supports conclusions from older studies, which have also found that screen time before sleep can be detrimental.

"We know from previous work that light from screens in the evening alters sleepiness and alertness, and suppresses melatonin levels," Dr. Anne-Marie Chang, an associate neuroscientist in BWH’s Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders who was a co-author on the study, told The Huffington Post via email. "This study shows comprehensive results of a direct comparison between reading with a light-emitting device and reading a printed book and the consequences on sleep."

If you don't want to feel like a zombie during the day, the findings are clear: Read an actual, printed book if you must stimulate your mind before bed, and avoid screens like your life depends on it, because it actually might. Chang said that sleep deficiency -- not getting enough sleep or obtaining poor quality sleep -- has been linked to other health problems such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Chronic suppression of melatonin has also been associated with increased risk of certain cancers, she said.

Needless to say, sleep has its own innate benefits, so cutting it short is a bad idea anyway.

The study ran for two weeks and included 12 participants who read on an iPad for four hours before bed for five days straight, a process that was repeated with printed books. For some, the order was reversed: They started with printed books and moved to iPads.

iPad readers took longer to fall asleep, felt less sleepy at night and had shorter REM sleep compared to the book readers, researchers found. The iPad readers also secreted less melatonin, which helps regulate your sleep. They were also more tired than book readers the following day, even if both got a full eight hours of sleep.

The real-world effects may be even worse than what researchers observed over the course of their study, however. Chang told HuffPost that because iPad users were found to be more alert, people who look at screens before bed may stay up later than the study participants were allowed to, wrecking their sleep even more.

If you absolutely, positively must be on your tablet, phone, or computer before bed for whatever reason, there may be a way to make it safer. Try a filter that blocks blue light -- there's an app for Android that produces this effect, though you'll have to purchasea physical filter for your iOS device. Try F.lux if you're using a computer. Research has shown that blue light makes you more alert and suppresses your melatonin, thus hurting your quality of sleep.

"The best recommendation (although not the most popular) would be to avoid use of light-emitting screens before bedtime," Dr. Chang told HuffPost. "For those who must use computers or other light-emitting devices in the evening, software or other technology that filters out the blue light may help."

http://teachyourselftocode.com/

2014-12-28T00:52:00.001-08:00

coding jobs websites

2014-12-12T04:02:00.000-08:00

http://www.cybercoders.com/
http://www.dice.com/
http://www.computerjobs.com/fr/en/IT-Jobs/
http://www.computerwork.com/fr/en/IT-Jobs/

Bitdefender's SafePay : Safe banking and shopping online

2014-12-10T00:05:00.002-08:00

For your daily online cyberbanking and shopping

Some time ago my computer got infected with a virus, a trojan, and I didn't feel like reinstalling windows right away. So, instead I scanned my computer for any viruses or trojans and kept my computer under observation for about ten days. During that time I only used a windows application called Safepay that lets you shop and bank online in a secure and closed environment.

The Bitdefender website claims "Safepay will secure your online banking and e-shopping" , and "it works with any antivirus solution."

Unfortunately I couldn't find enough reliable reviews about it,but I decided to give it a try anyway. I had already heard about it some months ago and seen a video of how it works.

Once installed, I run it. It turned out to be a web browser that scanned the computer as its first measure of action. After that I was able to start browsing, banking and shopping and when it was time to log in or enter my bank information I felt in security doing it thanks to the virtual keyboard.

All in all, I had the impression my personal information was safe from malware. The browser isn't as fast as Chrome or Firefox, but in my case I did most of my browsing with Chrome and switched to Safepay when it came to paying or banking online.

As my verdict I recommend for your online shopping and banking even if you feel theatened by the presence of malware in your computer.

Homeless But Learning To Code

2014-12-07T01:18:00.000-08:00

give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

This story is about a programmer that saw a homeless man and decided to offer him something more valuable than a hundred bucks.

Do You Want To Give An Old Computer a Second Chance? Is Windows Vista/7/8 Too Much To Handle?

2014-12-05T12:31:00.001-08:00

Old computers can't always handle operating systems smoothly. They'll freeze, crash or perform terribly, driving you nuts in the process. Thankfully there are some options out there.

Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system. The core of the system is based on Linux and Ubuntu. Lubuntu uses the minimal desktop LXDE, and a selection of light applications. We focus on speed and energy-efficiency. Because of this, Lubuntu has very low hardware requirements. Lubuntu was founded by Mario Behling and is currently mainly developed by Julien Lavergne.

For a more complete review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Z71mc4ojA

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu

https://github.com/appacademy/prep-work/blob/master/coding-test-1/introduction-to-programming-summary.md

2014-12-05T02:39:00.001-08:00

https://github.com/appacademy/prep-work/blob/master/coding-test-1/introduction-to-programming-summary.md