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Who doesn’t love the American classic, Garfield? Sure I still love the regular comics, but I do have to say they are much funnier without Garfield. Somebody has gone though the effort to remove that fat cat from a ton of old comics. What you are left with is John going from a guy with a cat to a guy who is a bit schizophrenic.
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Ever since I did the Google Reader guide people have been asking me to do another post like that about some other service. I do use Google Calendar a lot as well so here are a few Google Calendar tips and tricks that you might actually get some use out of.
Greasemonkey Scripts for Google Calendar
Sync Google Calendar with Other Calendars
Add Google Calendar to your Start Page or Web Site
Extra Tips and Tricks for Google Calendar
If you know of anymore or have your own awesome tip list be sure to share. I always love adding a little ‘bit more to any online or offline application to get a little more use out of it – and I have to say Google and the other brilliant minds out there make that an easy thing to do.
Here are some of the best networking tools on the Web these days:
Now I wouldn’t recommend trying to use all of these, as many of them preform the same functions. Find the ones that work best for you, and next time you need to do a ping, traceroute or whois search you should be more than ready for the job.
Figuring out how to stretch my desktop wallpaper from one monitor all the way across to the next was one of those tasks I felt stupider about after words, because it is so simple. The secret to it all is to find a really long and large wallpaper and then set it to “tile” in your wallpaper preferences.
I can’t tell you how long I searched to figure that one out, so consider it a freebie from me to you. Now that I have one 22 inch (widescreen) monitor and one 19 inch monitor side by side I had to find some cool wallpaper to tickly my desktop fancy.
DeviantArt saves my day yet again! They have a slew of widescreen wallpapers to pick from, and here are a few of my favorites.
Know of any other resources that have really wide wallpaper? They seem to be few and far between but they are out there.
Looking for a for a free place to upload a few of your pictures? There is no shortage of places online, I can promise you that for sure. Over the past few weeks I’ve been gathering my own list up, checking it twice and have found for you 42 of the best photo or graphic hosts out there today.
I know that some people don’t like to register to get this type of service so the only requirement that I had for this list would be that you can upload without registering – with the exception of Flickr, Zooomr, Photobucket and some of the known and trusted photo hosting resources.
Here is the list of free photo or graphic hosts:
Have a perfect one for number 43? Don’t be shy! Drop in a comment or leave me an e-mail and let me know about it. Need more? Check out my other reviews of free web hosts.
Your start page says a lot about you. Do you like tons of information flying your way – or do you like to keep it short and simple? I recently got the chance to have a quick chat with one of the leaders in the start page arena Dan Cohen, CEO of Pageflakes. From taking the start page idea of out Pageflakes to what his favorite pagecasts are – I tried to cover it all with minimal fluff.
How important is user feedback and experiences (good and bad) when it comes to the Pageflakes product?
Dan: It’s extremely important and we have ongoing dialogues with our users through the blog and support forum. We monitor this full time and read & respond to every email. Our product plans include user requested information by way of reviews and feedback. We always have a representative from customer services support team involved in our product sessions.
This is to not only know how our site is produced & written, understanding sessions etc but also to represent the user base and their comments/suggestions into our future plans. They aggregate the most popular requests and common denominator feedback so we acknowledge this as paramount in our product plans. Ongoing dialogue internally and with our users are taken extremely seriously into our product design development strategies.
Start pages have a history of being something that people spend five minutes on, get caught up on whatever they want to watch – clocks or kitten saying funny things. Why should somebody invest the time to spend more time with Pageflakes?
Dan: A great number of users spend more time on Pageflakes than email and social networking sites. The old generation of personalize pages i.e. my Yahoo would result in people clicking for a moment and then visiting another site. But the old RSS information was sports, news and stocks related so if the user wanted to read more, they’d click through or venture to other websites.
With Pageflakes, users can check bank balances, email, network, visit social networking flakes so the interactive elements on Pageflakes is richer and includes flakes that users couldn’t do before. We are revolutionizing what people are doing on the Web. Technology has changed and Pageflakes is more of an engaging experience by definition to keep users on the page longer. They are learning and digging deeper into topics individually and interacting with other like minded individuals.
Looking for a new WordPress theme? There are a lot of places to go check out before you decide – so make sure you do a lot of comparisons before you decide on the theme you want.
Also be sure to go check out my theme, Simpblue for WordPress – if you haven’t already. It is free and awesome – some might even save time and say it is freeawesome. I know I would.
There is more than one way to subscribe to web pages and get the latest updates and news. Firefox itself can even become an RSS feed reader if you install the right extension. Now which extension is right for you?
I like using Google’s Notebook feature but the extension they give you is a little lacking. I think it is too small and doesn’t allow me to open and shut it very quickly. What’s the solution? Well I took the Google personalized homepage widget for Google Notebook and added it to the sidebar of Firefox.
Now you have a full note taking application to work with in your sidebar and it beats that tiny default extension Google provides you any day of the week.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
