Track Data via Text Message
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 5:19 am
Tracking personal data is not on many people’s list of favorite things to do. Most of us know how to make spreadsheets and graphs for tracking, but few of us go to the trouble to track simple, daily tasks like how long we exercised or the amount of money we spent on gas. However, to meet our personal goals, data tracking is important.
To keep you on track with your goals and New Year’s resolutions, try Ask Me Every. Instead of having to remember to chart data every day, Ask Me Every sends you a text message asking a question, to which you reply. Your data is then automatically charted.
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Opt Out of Google Advertising
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:47 am
Online advertising is a multi billion dollar industry that is ever growing and becoming more complex. In the earlier years of the web, online marketing was much more basic, and simply revolved around placing generic banners on websites for a fixed rate. These days, however, advertising is much more targeted. I recently ran across a quote that went something like “If a product is offered to you for free, then you’re not the customer, you’re the product being sold.”
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Make a Logo for Your Business or Website the Easy Way
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 5:17 am
New websites appear on the Internet every single day. Each one of these sites needs individual branding in order to survive for any great length of time. A great business logo is the first piece of good branding, but not everybody has the artistic skills or vision needed to create a memorable logo.
Logotype Maker is a quick way to make a custom logo for your business with little artistic skill required.
Enter the name of your business, then click Generate Logo.
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Review: Flipboard for iPhone
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:48 am
One of our favorite apps on iPad is Flipboard. It is like a personalized magazine—the news aggregator to end all news aggregators. It keeps up with our Facebook friends, Twitter, Google Reader RSS feeds, individual RSS feeds and many other exclusive and nearly exclusive services. Its interface is clean, and recent updates have made it sync with other iOS devices running Flipboard.
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Google Currents Editions Review
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 5:44 am
Apple iPad owners who have used the popular Flipboard app know that it’s almost unbeatable in terms or reading experience and user interface. Flipboard is a customizable, yet very unique magazine style web reader app that pulls in articles from several different news sources.
As great of an app that Flipboard is, it is still extremely limited in many ways. For starters, Flipboard is only available on Apple devices for the time being, so Android tablet owners, Kindle Fire tablet owners, and even BlackBerry Playbook tablet owners are not offered the Flipboard app.
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Convert PDFs to HTML
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 5:24 am
PDFs are, by far, the easiest way to share a document because they ensure the person receiving the document sees it in the same font style and layout as you do. But, while sharing a PDF via email is great, sharing a PDF on a website is not always ideal. Some mobile devices do not easily open PDFs, and even if they do, on slow connections PDFs may not load.
PDFtoHTML converts standard PDFs to HTML, which can then be inserted into any website and read by any browser.
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