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100 Incredibly Useful and Interesting Web Sites - PCWorld
Even as the Web has become more entertaining--and certainly better looking--over the past 15 years, it has also become much more useful and practical, as the 100 sites in this feature will demonstrate. I've organized the sites in the list by the type of task they help you with. It is not a ranking; in each category I recommend sites that specialize in a different area than the others.
Maximum PC | 30 Useful (and Unknown) Web Apps You Need to Bookmark - Page 2
FillAnyPDF is a fairly simple web app which allows you to upload a PDF file, then easily write on it wherever you want. This allows you to easily fill out any form, even if they’re not in an editable PDF form. You can also share your blank form with others, so you can collect forms from a group easily. FillAnyPDF also supports electronic signatures and has a repository of free forms.
The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness. As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field. A geek is one who isn’t satisfied knowing only the surface facts, but instead has a visceral desire to learn everything possible about a particular subject.
70 Things Every Computer Geek Should Know. | Arrow Webzine
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We’re big fans of Rapportive here. Rapportive displays information about any email address you hover over when you’re in Gmail – tweets, links to social networking profiles, photographs, and more. It’s like the Gmail People Widget on steroids. You can use Rapportive to quickly verify if an email address exists or not.
Killer Tech Tips
Over the last several years working in IT for various companies as a Systems Administrator, Network Administrator, and Help Desk professional, I’ve written and learned about many ways to increase the performance of not only my PC, but also of the many PCs on my networks ranging from Windows 98 to Windows Vista. In this article, I hope to compile a complete list of all the different methods and tricks that I’ve used to get the last bit of juice out of a slow PC. Whether you are using an old PC or the latest and greatest in hardware, you can still use some of these to make your PC run faster. Note that since I write two blogs, Help Desk Geek and Online Tech Tips, I have previously written about many performance tips already which I will link back to throughout. If I have not written about it, I’ve throw in a link to a relevant article from some of my other favorite sites.
99 ways to make your computer blazingly fast
This circuit is how [John Tsiombikas] makes his cheap 3D shutter glasses work with a Linux machine . It’s not that they were incompatible with Linux. The issue is that only certain video cards have the stereo port necessary to drive the head-mounted hardware.
Hack a Day
[via onlinecolleges.net ] With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time. Search Tricks
100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School – Eternal Code
40 Google+ Tips and Tricks for Power Users | PCWorld
July 27, 2011, 8:24 AM — Google+ is all the rage right now. Even under its limited-invite "field trial" phase , the social sharing service is growing in leaps and bounds, with oodles of new users joining every day and even more champing at the bit to get in. Most of us, however, are only beginning to scratch the surface of what Google+ can do; like many Google products, G+ is brimming with advanced features and untapped tweaks. That's why I decided to put together this massive list of Google+ tips and tricks. It includes some of the best power-user pointers I've found both from my own experimentation and from following some really smart folks in the Google+ universe. For more G+ tips and general tech talk, be sure to join me on Google+ as well.
10 Web Apps To Build The Next Big Thing Without Writing Any Code
Surfin’ ain’t easy, and right now, you’re lost at sea. But don’t worry; simply pick an option from the list below, and you’ll be back out riding the waves of the Internet in no time.
Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test
Are you getting what you have paid for? By using Speedtest.net, you can consistently verify if your Internet service provider is delivering the connection speed they promised. Sign up for a free account to more easily track your Speedtest.net results from multiple computers. It will also enable you to create Speed Waves, manage your test history, label and group your connections and reserve a unique Speedtest.net nickname!Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids Quix is an extensible bookmarklet, that allows you to easily access all your bookmarks and bookmarklets, across all your browsers, while maintaining them in only one spot. All you have to do is remember the shortcut for the bookmarklet, so, basically, it’s like a command line for your browser! Quix comes with an enormous amount of powerful commands built in: check out the video below, or the first steps guide , after that, check out how to integrate it with your browser , and all the commands that are available by default. No plugins slowing down your browser A lot of developers and other heavy browser users have noticed it: they use FireFox because it's got these awesome extensions, but it's also these extensions that make FireFox slow, very very slow.