New To Mac OS? Here Are 30 of the Best Apps Available Evernote Evernote is the undisputed king of note taking apps, and for good reason. It’s simple, organized in a highly intuitive way, and syncs with just about any Web service you can imagine. Since it’s one of the most popular apps in existence, there’s a veritable boatload of browser extensions and add-ons available for it as well. Download now from: Day One 2 Journal ($30) Journals are an age-old tradition — just ask Benjamin Franklin. Purchase now from: Fantastical 2 ($50) Fantastical 2 is the only calendar app you’ll ever need, so long as you’re willing to shell out a cool $50 for it. Pixelmator ($30) Mac users have an incredibly vast selection of excellent photo editing programs, but even against thousands of competitors, Pixelmator stands out as one of the best. Pocket As the name might imply, Pocket is a tool that lets you “pocket” articles, videos, and webpages for later viewing. PDF Expert ($60) Google Reader may be dead and gone, but a proper RSS reader is still a must. Text Wrangler
A Typeface Where Every Letter Is An Optical Illusion A good illusion is a few different things all at once. Depending on how you look at it, you could say it’s a work of art, a puzzle, or a piece of graphic design (Or an old woman! Or a young woman! Or a candlestick!) The typeface was created by Jacques Le Bailly, a Dutch type designer who works under the pseudonym Baron von Fonthausen (apparently not your typical stuffy aristocrat but rather one of those eccentric noblemen you occasionally read about who were into building secret passageways and joining science cults and stuff like that). At first, Le Bailly tried to base all his letters on a single shape--the rounded rectangle--but he found the results unsatisfactory. Some letters were easy to construct, others were far more complex. As the project developed, Le Bailly spent more time ensuring that the final product would be a cohesive, coherent typeface, rather than simply a collection of loosely related illusions.
How to set up your own personal home cloud storage system Storing documents on file sharing services like Dropbox and Google Drive has become a common practice online in the last five years. In that time, as people create, edit and hoard older data files, they find they are running short of the free space included with an account. With more and more people opting for either a tablet-only existence or switching from a traditional desktop computer with multiple internal drives to a laptop with a much smaller SSD drive, finding an alternate storage system is important. At a cost of between $0.05 and $0.10 per gigabyte per month for additional online storage, you can spend anywhere from $500 to $600 per year for just 1 terabyte. As you will see, a more economical solution is to own your own personal cloud hosted on your home network. Personal cloud considerations Not every solution to this problem is perfect. Router settings – Your router plays an important part in the equation as well. Home computer as a personal cloud
mindmup Capture ideas at the speed of thought – using a mind map maker designed to help you focus on your ideas and remove all the distractions while mindmapping. Create unlimited mind maps for free, and store them in the cloud. Your mind maps are available everywhere, instantly, from any device. Brainstorm, create presentations and document outlines with mind maps, and publish your ideas online and to social networks. Get Started Why use MindMup? MindMup is great for individual note-taking, collaborative planning, teamwork and classrooms. 1 Powerful keyboard shortcuts speed up your work 2 Frictionless interface helps you focus 3 Convert maps easily to PDF, PowerPoint, outlines... 4 Publish and share maps online 5 Easily save to Google Drive and manage using Google Apps
How to Run A Webserver From Your Computer: 8 Steps Edit Article Edited by Doctor It, Keyboard_Cat, Jack Herrick, Nixeagle and 15 others If you have a website too big for a commercial web host or you want to be able to quickly make changes on your website, you may want to try to run your own web server on the computer you are viewing this page from. This guide will tell you home web server basics and not tell you how to work with a particular software. Ad Steps Tips Keep your computer running all the time. Warnings Check with your ISP to make sure you are allowed to have a home server.
17 Hacks Apple Doesn’t Want You To Know About Your iPhone Love them or hate them, you've likely had an iPhone at some point -- and if not, someone you know has one. Probably a lot of someones. And it really isn't a major surprise, what with all they are capable of handling in our day-to-day lives. Phone, email, texting, tweeting, surfing, banking, planning, photography, music...there is so much available out of the box that many of the hidden features are never discovered by most users. We've compiled a list of what we think are the most handy tips and tricks to get even more out of your iPhone -- and some of them may actually astonish you. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Advertisment 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Source : diply
Pressing This Button Will Find Tweetable Sentences In Anything On The Web "Sharing. It’s hard work," writes Paul Ford on his cheekily named website SavePublishing.com. Don’t we know it: Any digital publication worth its salt has at least one full-time staffer devoted to picking and choosing and curating and sharing the most clickable snippets of its content for the hordes on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. (Okay, not that last one. But you know what we mean.) That’s what Ford has created: The SavePublishing bookmarklet, when clicked, greys out everything in an article except for the passages that are pithy enough for the Twitterati. "I doubt it," Ford admits. Ford hacked the tool together in about week (spread over several months, he says), and it’s not exactly the HAL 9000 of social media: It decides what sentences are "tweetable" by checking their length, and nothing more. As a piece of interactive satire, SavePublishing is smarter than it seems. In other words, they want to grab the best part of the content and share that, not just the headline.
Top 10 NAS Devices Unfettered File Access From Anywhere In this age of high-resolution photos and near-constant video capture, the storage space in your PCs and mobile devices fills up faster than ever. While you can certainly use an external hard drive for offloading and backing up files from your PC (and by extension, your phone), if you disconnect the hard drive and leave it in your office, you won't be able to get to those files from home, and neither will anyone else. There are ways to allow other users to access the files on your hard drive, but they may be challenging to implement, or carry security risks. Instead, consider a good network-attached storage (NAS) device. What Can You Do With a NAS? Once you decide that you need to store files on a network drive, you then need to figure out what you want to do with them in order to determine what kind of NAS you need. NAS Drives: Buying Basics Populated or Diskless? Which Drives to Use? Better Safe Than Sorry Media-Streaming Subtleties
Indie Box: Let's Bring Our Data Home The first ready-to-use personal server appliance for storing personal data and running indie web applications at home. Made for humans, not just geeks. Pre-installed indie web applications provide functionality such as calendaring, address book management, publishing, sharing, bookmarking, photo and media management and more. Indie Box One eliminates the need to entrust our personal data to big internet companies who often share and use it in ways we don't appreciate. By keeping personal data at home under our own control, Indie Box One lets us cut the cord from the ever-more invasive internet overlords and their monetization schemes and become independent citizens of the internet again. For the first time in history, individuals now produce and collect large amounts of valuable data. Unfortunately, their advertisement-driven Web 2.0 business model is increasingly at odds with our evolving expectations about the management and use of our personal data. Hardware Software Auto-administration
Search operators - Search Help You can use symbols or words in your search to make your search results more precise. Google Search usually ignores punctuation that isn’t part of a search operator. Don’t put spaces between the symbol or word and your search term. A search for site:nytimes.com will work, but site: nytimes.com won’t. Refine image searches Overall Advanced Search Go to Advanced Image Search. Search for an exact image size Right after the word you're looking for, add the text imagesize:widthxheight. Example: imagesize:500x400 Common search techniques Search social media Put @ in front of a word to search social media. Search for a price Put $ in front of a number. Search hashtags Put # in front of a word. Exclude words from your search Put - in front of a word you want to leave out. Search for an exact match Put a word or phrase inside quotes. Search within a range of numbers Put .. between two numbers. Combine searches Put "OR" between each search query. Search for a specific site Search for related sites
15 iPhone Tricks Apple Has Been Hiding From You The ongoing debate between Android and Apple users just got a little more complicated. While both surely have qualities that appeal to all kinds of smartphone users, Apple’s staple characteristic of being more “user-friendly” may or may not be a load of false advertising. With its almost too-simple interface, iPhones have essentially remained the same since their origination. However, with every new edition of this popular device, there also comes a few major and minor updates – many of which we may not even realize exist. Apple engineers may be patting themselves on the back for their progressive shifts in this user-friendly phone, but perhaps they should have a word with the advertising department first. 1. Cult of Mac Ever wish you could listen to your favorite sleepy-time playlist before bed without having to worry about turning off your music in the middle of the night? 2. iMore Instead of sticking to the standard vibration pattern for your text messages, create your own! 3. 4. 5.
Create An Intimate Map Of Your Life, Using Just Your Email Inbox We rarely think twice when sending an email, or adding a few CCs just for good measure. But these small interactions add up, and when deconstructed en masse, will reveal more about you than you might ever expect. Immersion is an interactive network data visualization created at MIT Media Lab’s Macro Connections group by Deepak Jagdish, Daniel Smilkov and Cesar Hidalgo. All you do is give the site access to your Gmail account. It promises to look only at the email headers: From, To, CC, and timestamp fields within your email history. And through the wonders of data mining, it will build an extremely accurate web of your personal relationships. “We are basically counting each multi-personal email as an expression of a connection between the people involved in that email,” Hidalgo tells me. Interestingly enough, Immersion started as a quest to redesign the email inbox. My last week. “Certainly, we would like to evoke feelings of reflection,” Hidalgo explains. My last month. Try it here.
Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive ou iCloud? 4 applis de stockage en ligne au banc d'essai | Comparatif Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive et iCloud... Le cloud, on ne parle plus que de ça! Les applications permettant de stocker ses données en ligne se font de plus en plus nombreuses et le pionnier de la catégorie, Dropbox, peut se faire des cheveux blancs devant la concurrence. Aujourd'hui, il existe une bonne dizaine de solutions, avec chacune leurs avantages et leurs inconvénients. Nous en avons retenu 4 qui nous paraissent tenir le haut du pavé: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive et iCloud. Deux problèmes se posent en effet à l'utilisateur d'aujourd'hui: le manque d'espace sur nos ordinateurs et nos smartphones et la multiplicité des copies de documents, causée par l'utilisation simultanée de nombreux dispositifs différents, fixes et mobiles. C'est pour vous y aider que nous avons sélectionné les quatre services de stockage en ligne les plus importants dans ce comparatif. Les résultats sont éloquents. Volume et limites de l'espace gratuit Dropbox: 22 GB L'espace gratuit de base est de 2 GB.
How to set up a safe and secure Web server Fifteen years ago, you weren't a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most famous is the now-defunct GeoCities, but there were many others (remember Angelfire and Tripod?). These were the days before the "social" Web, before MySpace and Facebook. Instant messaging was in its infancy and creating an online presence required no small familiarity with HTML (though automated Web design programs did exist). Things are certainly different now, but there's still a tremendous amount of value in controlling an actual honest-to-God website rather than relying solely on the social Web to provide your online presence. It's super-easy to open an account at a Web hosting company and start fiddling around there—two excellent Ars reader-recommended Web hosts are A Small Orange and Lithium Hosting—but where's the fun in that? The hardware Faking it with a virtual machine