Archive for August, 2010
Save Your Bookmarks With Historious And Always Get Access to Them
Normally when you work with separate computers, there are not many ways you can share your bookmarks. Chrome has worked out a brilliant bookmark synchronization strategy that automatically keeps all your bookmarks updated but for this you need a Google account. Moreover many other browsers do not have such synchronization features. Having access to your bookmarks therefore, is quite a problem. And Historious is its solution.
Historious stores your bookmarks by indexing them, much like a search engine does. Usage of Historious is absolutely free. You start by creating an account on the site. After you sign in, you can drag the Historious bookmarklet on to your bookmarks toolbar; if you are a Chrome user, you can either use the bookmarklet or the Historious extension for Chrome.
Whenever you are on a website, all you do is click on the extension icon or bookmarklet to add the website to your Historious bookmarks. A message will pop up in the top right telling you that the page is being indexed.
A completion message is shown after the page has been indexed.
Another way to add bookmarks to your Historious account is by visiting http://USERNAME.histori.us/ (replace USERNAME with your Historious username) and either typing the URLs of all websites or upload a bookmarks file created by a web browser or services like Delicious.
When you visit http://USERNAME.histori.us/ you encounter a search-engine like view.
Either search for your bookmark by its name or click on the “Show all sites” link to view all the indexed bookmarks.
Since the bookmark list is stored you can access it from any computer with a web connection.
Now Find Available Parking Or Bus Timings Online With Roadify
In many areas of NYC over half of all the traffic is caused by people looking for parking. With so many cars around parking spots are rare and hard to find. Another transportation problem are buses that are seldom exactly on time; their published times are not always accurate and leave the passengers waiting at the stop at times. These two problems can easily be solved through Roadify.
Roadify is a free to use website that helps you find parking spots and bus times. The site has intelligently formed a community of users who are rewarded when they let each other know of available parking or bus timings.
People use Roadify via text messages. For example, after you have created your account online and specified your cellphone number, you can provide information on a parking spot the following way:
1. Start your text with the word “GIVE”
2. Add the location of the spot.
3. Add the number of minutes until the spot will be open. If it’s open now, say “now”.
“Give 322 7th St in 5 minutes”
“Give 4th St between 5th-6th Ave now”
People can also notify each other of bus timings in real time. As you give all this information to the Roadify users and help them out, you get StreetCARma Points. Give your parking spot before you go to get 5 StreetCARma points, an open parking spot to get 3 StreetCARma point and give a bus location to get 1 StreetCARma point. With enough points earned you can get free stuff from Roadify’s business partners. This stuff can include coffee, pizza, or any other deal that is available. The offers depend on the team you join on the site.
This service is a great concept and will surely be beneficial to residents of NYC.
Hilariously Entertaining Examples Of Celebrity Caricatures
Caricature is the representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effects; and this is why caricatures have always been very entertaining and one of the great sources of fun for almost every individual. Since it creates an exceptional entertaining visual portrait of a person that draws attention of many visitors and appeal them; many artists love to create funny, hilarious yet entertaining and fun to see caricatures. Here, we have gathered some very famous celebrity caricatures that you may have never seen before. Hope you’ll like this collection.
You are welcome if you want to share more Artworks that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.
Bree Van De Kamp from Desperate Housewives
Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United
WobZIP Offers Hassle-free Online File Uncompression
ZIP archives do a wonderful job of compressing files into a single package. In Windows, you can easily create a ZIP file by selecting some files, right-clicking and going to Send To -> Compressed.
But when you open the ZIP file through Windows, you do not get the option of individually extracting files; Windows automatically extracts the archive. To get more option you need to have a 3rd party compression program installed. If a lack of installation privileges or any other reason does not let you allow such a program, WobZIP is there to solve your problem.
WobZIP is a free web service created to unzip ZIP archives. All you do is upload your archive on the site and get the list of files it contains. If the archive is password protected, simply provide the password.
You can then view the list of files and download the one you need.
If you are about to download a large ZIP from the web that contains many files that you do not need, you can pass it through WobZIP and obtain only the files you do need. This can be done through WobZIP’s “Uncompress from a URL” feature. You provide the ZIP file’s URL and its password, in case it is protected by one.
Again, the list of files is displayed from where you can choose the files you need.
WobZIP is highly useful because in addition to regular ZIP files, the service can also work with 7z, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB, and NSIS archive formats. 100 MB is the maximum archive size you can upload to WobZIP.
Check out WobZIP
The 9 Insanely Cool Google Chrome Extensions You May Need To Know About
You might have been using Chrome for a quite some time now but there is a good chance you are not taking its full advantage. Chrome’s maximum potential lies in the power of its extensions. Below We have gathered 9 Insanely Cool Google Chrome Extensions You May Need to Know About. You will not find these extensions in similar lists on other websites; I hope you find them to be useful to your computer usage.
Give the list a thorough reading, try out any extension you are interested in, and let me know in the comments how they worked out for you. You are welcome to share if you know more useful chrome extension which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter.
As you’re reading content (eg: nytimes.com articles) around the web, Readness.com will suggest additional content that you’ll enjoy – based on what your friends have recently read, and also what articles are popular that you have yet to read. It uses Facebook Connect to import your friends – but does not write to your wall / spam your friends.
Apture Highlights is a free tool, built from the ground up to let you take the power of Google search, and the richness YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Wikipedia with you to any site. Just highlight a phrase on any site to reveal the web’s best content without ever leaving the page. Fast, powerful, and fun.
It will automatically previews pdfs, powerpoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.
With this extension you can easily reopen previously closed tabs. There is no limit on how many tabs can be remembered. It is kind of a mix of the “recently closed” bar on the New Tab page and the History page. It currently supports only the very basic functionality.
With this ext, you can make notes on any web page, any position. when you open that page again, the notes get loaded automatically.
PanicButton makes it easier for you to hide all of your tabs at once just by clicking on a button. They are then saved as bookmarks in a separate folder. After that the PanicButton turns green and shows you how many tabs are currently hidden. Another click on the PanicButton restores all of the tabs you have hidden earlier.
With Session Manager you can quickly save your current browser state and reload it whenever necessary. You can manage multiple sessions, rename or remove them from the session library. Each session remembers the state of the browser at its creation time, i.e the opened tabs and windows. Once a session is opened, the browser is restored to its state.
Convert any website to PDF document with this incredible Web to PDF online converter. It Allows you to view the converted PDF using Google Docs and of course you can download it to your computer.
Whenever you need a quick check or a second opinion, such as before logging into your favorite game, when using your bank account or buying something online, use QuickScan, directly from your browser. BitDefender QuickScan takes full advantage of the “in-the-cloud” scanning service and is capable to detect active malware in less than a minute, taking just a fraction of the system resources needed by a regular virus scan. It’s not a virus cleaning tool.
h this extension you can easily reopen previously closed tabs. There is no limit on how many tabs can be remembered. It is kind of a mix of the "recently closed" bar on the New Tab page and the History page.
Now Résumé & Portfolio Management Made Simple With Jobrary
In today’s competitive environment, when applying for a job you have to ensure that your résumé leaves a good impression. If you are going to apply to different positions you might vary the template used to create your CV. The same goes for your portfolio. Handling all those changes and sending out your different CVs to companies can become a tedious task. With Jobrary you can easily manage your CVs and portfolios.
Jobrary is a free web service that lets you create and manage a complete CV online. Before you start out you will need to sign up for an account. This process will include specifying your domain name which will appear as http://DOMAINname.jobrary.com/. This is the URL that employers can visit to view your résumé.
Before you finalize your CV you can choose to keep the URL private and inaccessible to employers. Switching from PUBLIC to PRIVATE is a one click action. Simply click on the button located on the top right of the CV editing page.
When it comes to your CV, numerous fields are offered by Jobrary. Fields are distributed categorically amongst Objective, Education, Experience, Skills, Certification, Reference, and any other custom category you would like to add. All categories have fields that allow you to share the complete information. Here is how a field in the Education category looks like:
And here is how a field in the Experience category looks like:
The Portfolio section lets you add pictures, videos, and PDFs to your CV.
These can be viewed and downloaded by the visitor to your CV’s URL. To obtain a physical copy of your CV, you can download its PDF version and print it out.
In conclusion, if you are looking for a good CV manager Jobrary is an option worth exploring.
Turn Your Web Browser Into An Online Computer With icloud
You can install anti-malware programs on your computer to keep your data safe from malware, but that still does not entirely secure your date. What if your there was physical damage to your computer? All your backups would be on your hard drive an in the case it got damaged, all data would be lost. The best solution to secure your data therefore is by storing a backup online.
icloud lets you do just that. icloud is a web service that provides its users with a virtual desktop. After creating an account and signing in to it, you virtual desktop loads up.
This desktop operates within your web browser and similar to the desktop screen of regular computers. You can store files in your icloud account and use the desktop interface to browse through files and use them.
As you can see from the image above, the files are organized and shown much like you are operating a physical computer. With the interface’s built-in apps you can play videos and music, view pictures, and browse files all within the web browser.
Emailing has also been the focus of icloud. The mail options can be accessed to add your email addresses other than the one assigned to your icloud.
A number of other email providers are supported; you can add your own as well.
Currently icloud offers 3GB storage to its free users and 100GB storage to users who pay the $40 fee. The web service is neat service to try and a great way to secure your important data.
Most Attractive (39) Corporate Website Designs Of Top Brands
World is changing rapidly and now people are making their fortune on the internet by virtue of a website, and due to this reason a professional website design is so important to achieve a solid and long-lasting impression on customers. It is a well designed corporate website which convey information about your business to your potential customers in the most direct, clean and usable manner. Below we have listed excellent examples of corporate website for your inspiration so that you can choose the best layout, graphics and color palettes for your website.
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Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder Giveaway
Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder is running a contest, where winners will get 10 Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder licenses (worth $24.95 each). Well, you guys know what Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.
Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder will find fast all similar and duplicate pictures and photos in a folder and its sub folders. Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder uses advanced algorithms to find duplicate photos in a way that a human does. Due to that fact it can find duplicate images even if they are in different image formats, different bit depth and image sizes. You can specify a percent of image similarity that will be used during the scan. Using the similarity percentage level you can broaden your results or you can specify exact match varying only in image format and/or size.
When the scan process is finished the program shows you all the duplicate images in groups and can automatically mark the smaller resolution and/or smaller file size images for deletion. With a couple of mouse clicks you can get rid of all duplicate images and save valuable disk space. It supports most popular image formats, has an intuitive user interface and is well documented.
Due to its innovative and optimised algorithms it is the fastest and the most precise product of this type on the market. It allows you to process huge amount of images in less time.
This contest will run from August 11, 2010 to August 20, 2010 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before August 22, 2010 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win free license of Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder, All you have to do is just :
1. Just leave a comment.
2. Use valid email ID in the email box.
3. Not necessary, but you can subscribe to our rss feed and follow us on twitter as well. (To track this contest and for future updates)
4. And thats it!
So what are you waiting for now? Let’s participate in the contest and good luck!
It’s Easier Than Ever To Get Real-Time Maps And Traffic Information With Waze
GPS in cars can help you determine the right way but not the best way. The GPS can lead you right into a traffic jam and cause undesired delays. If only there was a way GPS could be aware of the traffic conditions on all routes. Thanks to Waze, that idea is no longer wishful thinking but a reality.
Waze is a free “social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road.” Basically Waze is a smartphone app. It has versions for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, and Symbian phones. You can install the app on your smartphone and start submitting traffic conditions of your nearby area. Conversely you can get directions from other Waze users to choose the traffic path with the least traffic.
You start using Waze by selecting your country.
Waze will then display the most recent user activity and top Wazers in your area.
You also get a live map displaying how well Waze is covering your area.
Since Waze is a relatively new web service, there is a chance that your country might not have people updating information on Waze. But at least Waze will have you; you can submit information on the traffic condition and develop Waze in your area.
Waze is a brilliant idea. When it is fully developed and has gathered a good number of users, it will surely provide convenience to all drivers.
