Archive for February, 2008
· February 29, 2008 at 6:19 am · Online Tools
Tags: keyboard, keybr, learning, online, typing, words per minute
Ever wonder how fast you could type? I remember in middle school learning on these old DOS games how to type, and here lately I have been looking for something equal to those to help tech my nephews the same skills. Keybr.com is an awesome free solution that just might save my day and answer my problem.
Not much to talk about, because here you see the entire site. You can click on the "chart" graphic to get a chart of your most recent performance and the speed reads out how many words you can type per minute. You can also click on the "level" graphic to go between 3 different levels of typing, setup how the words come out or even import an RSS feed.
The highest speed ranking I’ve gotten thus far is 48 - how about you?
· February 28, 2008 at 9:24 am · Web Development
Tags: clone, copy, MySpace, scripts, twitter, Web-2.0, youtube
How does it go again, if you can’t beat them - join them? How about copying them instead? There seem to be a lot of clone scripts out there for some of the more popular destinations on the Web.
Attack of the Web 2.0 Clones!
* = need to pay for it
** = not really a clone, is the software used to run Wikipedia
See, even you can run your own Web 2.0 masterpiece! All you need is a little time, a solid hosting account and your own origional take, version or spin on the already popular idea.
· February 28, 2008 at 6:10 am · Free Hosting
Tags: files, free, hosting, share, upload, uploadpedia
I have another free hosting tool that you might want to give for a spin. UploadPedia is the most recent to catch my attention. You can upload up to 100 files at once, with the max being 100 MB. One interesting thing that they do is list all the top downloads and recent downloads that have been added to their service. If you are looking for privacy, this might not be the uploader for you. They do have a way to password protect your uploads though, so you don’t have to share if you do not want to. You can also search the files that have been uploaded too. From their terms of service, it looks like they accept any type of file, as long as it is not pornographic or copyrighted (or I guess both).
· February 27, 2008 at 6:55 am · Online Tools
Tags: ideas, marketing, share, tips, twitter, write
I have friends that come to me and say…
"Ok Mitch, I got a Twitter account, now what?"
Many people look at Twitter and either don’t understand it or use it to give me a summary of what they had for breakfast (just in case you were wondering, I had toast). Here are five ways of twittering your way to success:
- Share with me one of your bookmarks, or an article on a site you found interesting today
- Grab a photo from your Flickr (or any other photo sharing service) site and link me to it
- Plug your own blog, projects and work so I can check it out
- Use a service like Twitter Feed to bring your other RSS feed content into your Twitter account
- Invite your interesting friends, that you think should be twittering
If your looking for your first friend on Twitter feel free to use me:
http://twitter.com/mitchkeeler
I once was one of those people who thought that Twitter was nothing more than a waste of time. I am happy to say though I am a full fledged Kool-aid drinker now. Honestly I see no reason why any person or company shouldn’t be doing this. From a marketing stand point alone it is another great way to get yourself out there.
· February 27, 2008 at 6:25 am · Software Help
Tags: generate, podcasting, RSS, rss builder, Software Help, tools
If you are looking for free software that makes creating an RSS feed as easy as filling in a few blanks inside of a program, then look no further than RSS Builder. This simple program will make it easy to generate an RSS feed for your web site.
It provides an easy to use interface that gives you the ability to add, edit and customize topics, links, headlines and more. Once you are done generating the feed you can upload it to your server with the built in FTP tool. It also supports podcasting feeds too.
All in all, RSS Builder does a great job at making the confusing world of XML and RSS make sense, by wrapping it all in a blanket of easy to understand freeware goodness.
If you need an alternative to RSS Builder you might check out FeedSpring - another free solution to generating RSS feeds.
· February 26, 2008 at 6:30 am · Hot Web Topics
Tags: awareness, ball, cause, odd, rubber bands, stanford
I always love things a little outside your average realm of normalcy, and that is the reason why this project caught my eye. RuberBandTogether.com (as a part of the Stanford Entrepreneurship week Innovation Challenge) has set out to create the largest ball of rubber bands ever.
This whole thing reminds me of the big ball of aluminum foil I created when I was a kid. Don’t ask me why, because I no longer remember. All I know is I wanted to create a huge ball of aluminum foil! I was a kid, and kids sometimes do goofy things for no reason at all. Might have to dig that out now, just got to find which closet I tucked it away in.
The Rubber Band Together crew are also accepting donations (to cover rubber hand costs probably) so if you would like to donate you have the option there.
To get your own rubber band added, just type in your name under the "Join the Cause…" box, and you too can become a part of this odd - yet good cause. What is the good cause you say? To raise awareness of breast cancer awareness. Learn more about the project over at RubberBandTogether.com.
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