How much is your user generated content worth – Infographic

June 23, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff  |  No Comments

MyCube, which is set to launch a UGC-focused social network in the coming months, has pulled together this infographic that collates how much is your user generated content worth.

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Make web pages more informative with rich annotations using iGlue

June 23, 2011 |  by  |  Downloads, Sites  |  No Comments

iGlue is a semantic search tool that runs inside your browser and allows you to display structured information about any person, place or institution mentioned in any web page. Add a semantic layer over existing web pages by attaching images, videos, links, iGlue entities and comments to text fragments. View annotations added by other users in real time. iGlue has the following features: #1 collaboratively developed database to manage semantic content #2 integrated content management #3 language-independent, entity-based search #4 hyperdata – context-sensitive, smart data #5 recognition and annotation of streaming texts in natural languages #6 management of complex relational structures iGlue adds rich background information to any

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Copy, edit and share pages that you like using BO.LT

June 23, 2011 |  by  |  News, Sites  |  No Comments

BO.LT is a page sharing service that lets anyone grab virtually any page on the web and tweak it to make it more relevant to their audience. Use it to create readable, personalized URLs for the links you traffic on Twitter, Facebook, email, display ads, search ads, and anywhere else you use pages to get attention and motivate your audience. A hugely powerful copy/edit/share application for webpages named BO.LT. The idea is that you can BO.LT any page, customize the elements of it and then share it with others to get their feedback and thoughts. While that goal hasn’t changed,

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Microsoft vs Apple the history of computing – Infographic

June 23, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff  |  No Comments

In January of 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen called up Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems claiming to have a working BASIC interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer. While that claim was entirely fictitious, it took Gates and Allen just two months to create the product they claimed to already have. With the interpreter working flawlessly, MITS agreed to distribute the software under the name Altair BASIC. Microsoft was officially established just one month later, on April 4th, 1975. After launching their first Disk Operating System (DOS) in 1980 Microsoft quickly began to grow into one of the biggest names

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The journey of Facebook from inception to IPO – Infographic

June 23, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff  |  No Comments

To sum up Facebook's journey from dorm room to Silicon Valley, here is an infographic from real-time social media startup Namesake.

FontViewOK previews your fonts side-by-side

June 23, 2011 |  by  |  Softwares, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Choosing a font isn't always difficult, but it can be more time-consuming than necessary. That's because most apps don't let you view fonts side-by-side, so if you want to compare your options, your only choice is to manually make the change. And then, of course, you have to remember exactly what your previous options looked like, and what those fonts were called. A font manager like FontViewOK (free, windows, no installation needed) can make this process a whole lot simpler FontViewOK's simple interface, enter your text in the form at the top of the app, and FontViewOK automatically shows you how

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MightyText pushes messages and incoming call alerts to your computer

June 23, 2011 |  by  |  Apps, News, Sites  |  No Comments

Have you ever missed an extremely important phone call or text because you were too busy doing something else. A new extension (and accompanying Android app) called MightyText (previously Texty / Texter), a free notification service that syncs your phone's texts and calls to your computer in real-time. The idea is crazy simple, yet adds unyielding convenience: incoming SMS messages appear on your screen as a pop-up, giving you the option to read and reply to them without touching or even looking at the phone. The full extension will show each conversation thread in its entirety, as well as call

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Encipher.it encrypts text in your mail in one click

June 22, 2011 |  by  |  Downloads, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

You try your best to keep your email as secure as possible, but if anyone gets in, they get access to all your messages including some in which you might have stored other passwords or sensitive information. If you'd like to send something a bit more private to your friend, you can use the Encipher.it bookmarklet to protect it using secure AES encryption and PBKDF2key generation. Encipher.it encrypts sensitive data like credit card info, common passwords, bank details, so you can send an email and only the recipient can decypher it with the correct password. How to use Encipher.it #1 Visit

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Microsoft upgrades SkyDrive, built using HTML5 and CSS3

June 22, 2011 |  by  |  Microsoft, News, Video  |  No Comments

Microsoft has unveiled updates to SkyDrive, including speed boosts, a revamped UI, and improvements to photo viewing. took advantage of modern browsers and HTML5 to make SkyDrive faster, easier to navigate, and more beautiful for viewing photos. The latest version of the almost four-year-old service has cut wait time on actions like clicking folders, from six to nine seconds down to 100 to 300 milliseconds taking advantage of hardware accelerated graphics to make it fast to click through photo slideshows. The updated software also features H.264 (up to 100 MB) video playback, a navigation system more akin to desktop browsing, and

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Now Best Buy puts your music in the cloud via Music Cloud service

June 22, 2011 |  by  |  News, Sites  |  No Comments

Google, Amazon, and Apple have been hogging the headlines when it comes to storing your tunes in the internet ether. That doesn't mean there isn't room for another musically inclined cloud contender or at least, that's how Best Buy sees things. The big blue box has rolled out its aptly named Music Cloud service (Androids, Blackberrys, and iPhones) that lets you upload your audio to its servers and stream it wherever you go. You can also save songs locally, plus there are apps for to manage and play your music. There are two flavors of Music Cloud, Lite and

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