It’s been a while since I’ve done a blog review, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t let you guys know about Untwisted Vortex, written by RT.
I couldn’t tell you how I came across this site, but I am glad I did! There’s content for most of us out there, whether we are blogging for money or not. I enjoy RT’s writing style. He writes with passion, authority and humor - three things I think are most important when writing/blogging.
Rave reviews and complaints galore abound all over the blogosphere about Amazon’s Kindle, the new portable book reader, which only weights 10.3 ounces - far less than the weight of the three or four books I typically carry on vacations or even short trips across the state.
The Kindle’s price tag at $399 may seem steep for some - but once you consider that the price of Kindle’s book offerings average 50-65% off print prices, you’ll be able to purchase more books for the same price that you would have spent on “real” books! Additionally, there’s no cost for the wireless access!
imo.im is a new kid on the block of online instant messaging. This product is designed to function within your web browser, much like Meebo, eBuddy, Yahoo! Web Messenger and others.
Like Meebo and eBuddy, imo.im is an instant messenger client aggregator that combines several instant messenger clients into one interface. imo.im combines 4 clients - AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger and Google Chat.
The Ajax based tool allows you to log in to multiple accounts at once, and to log off, just simply uncheck the box next to the name you’d like to log off!
Soooooo I started to write a post on how to use Bit Torrent then realized that there are better tutorials out there than I could ever write. For example:
http://wiki.theppn.org/index.php/BitTorrent_Tutorial
http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/1.html
http://www.utorrent.com/beginners-guide.php
I love each of those and they each give a somewhat different perspective. My own personal BitTorrent setup is using uTorrent. Make sure you set a upload max (leave downloads unlimited) otherwise other people could use more of your bandwidth to take than you will have to get and will keep you from accessing websites while you have the program open. Make sure you seed files even for a little while. If you end up joining some private sites, you will have to otherwise you’ll get kicked off.
Have you ever wondered how some of your favorite blogs and websites have created their fantastic photo galleries?
There’s a really easy and highly respected tool to help you do this - the Web Album Generator from ornj.net! Check out the sample photo album!
The features of this powerful, yet easy to use program include:
If you’re like me, you use Microsoft Office a lot in your daily life - writing papers, doing spreadsheets, checking email, yadda yadda yadda. So through all the different versions of Word, the layout has been basically the same so it was easy to adapt from one version to another. Until now. Office 2007 has a much different layout, much more graphical with a lot of bells and whistles. When I opened it the first thing I wanted to say was “What the ….” (but I was in my campus library!). Even for the accustomed Office user, it is a very hard transition - you can’t find usual tools and just typing a simple document takes more than a while if you try to do any formatting. But I’m here to help you make that transition and point out some sites that have helped me make it as well (including some awesome free video tutorials).
Ready? Let’s Go!!
