Grid Paper PDFs
Downloadable and very printable, I find these PDFs extremely useful. Graph Paper Quick Picks Now set to: 8 1/2 x 11 Paper. Ruled in Inches.
15 Online Tools that You Will Come to Love as a Tech
I have compiled a list of 15 free online tools that will help you greatly as a tech. I’m sure that there are other good ones that I have left out so please feel free to post the ones that you like as well. IPTools offers a wide variety of online networking tools.
Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center
The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings.
JimsTips.com
The following is is a posting from the Official Gmail News Blog: Posted by Michael Santerre, Consumer Operations Associate As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind you about smart password practices. Help ensure you’re protecting your computer, website, and personal information by checking out our security series on the Google blog or visiting Phishing, a topic that’s been in the news, is unfortunately a common way for hackers to trick you into sharing personal information like your account password.
19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don’t Know
New to Rails 3? Check out the Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book and screencast. A book and screencast series showing you how to develop and deploy industrial-strength Rails apps in a direct, step by step way. The screencast series includes 12 lessons over more than 15 hours! Get the best "over the shoulder" experience of following what a top Rails 3 developer does when building an app today.
Open Loops
Wired Science presents an article on research by psychologists Daniele Marzoli and Luca Tommasi of the University G. d’Annunzio in Italy. In this study, done in dance clubs in Italy (Who says research can't be fun?), 172 subjects were approached by a researcher and asked for a cigarette. Out of the 88 people who were asked in their left ear, only 17 gave her a cigarette. Of the 88 people who were asked the same request in their right ear, 34 granted the request.
Homebrew antenna shootout
The Shootout My plan was to get relative performance measurements for various designs (including mine) of homebrew antennas for 802.11b (WiFi) wireless networks. To do this, I setup a wireless link and changed only the antenna- recording each antennas' performance under identical conditions. I didn't compare them to a commercial directional antenna as my only one has a male connector and I don't have the right cable to hook it up yet. The contestants were (click on each for design specifications). The Performance Summary The results surprised me! In our test, the Flickenger Pringles can did a little better than my modified Pringles design.
Internet Business Daily » Blog Archive Cool Gmail Trick »
Here is a very nice Gmail trick I found on precharge.net. Check it out. —————————————————————————————————————— Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses: Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it’ll still get to your inbox. It’s called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here’s how it works: say your address is pinkyrocks@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-mails.
Mark Lyon's GMail Loader (GML) - Import Your Mail into GMail
In 2004, when Gmail was launched, I was amazed by the incredibly large 1GB capacity of the free service. The ability to instantly search a large volume of email was amazing. As someone who never deleted messages and still had messages dating back to 1994, I immediately looked for a way to import my existing mail into the new service. When I couldn’t find such an option, I decided to make one for myself. My tool works by reading the local mail file and remailing it to the new destination, one message at a time, into your Gmail account. With the exception of the time stamp shown in the inbox, it works quite well for relocating your messages.
