The instant sound effect web sites are always fun, but I think Instants took it to a whole new level. This web site has over 70 sound effect buttons you can play with to annoy your coworkers or keep handy for a special occasion.
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10 Places to Search for Your Next Job
Looking for a new job? There are dozens of web sites out there catered to finding you the job that best suits your needs. Here are a few of my favorites.
- Flipdog – Great local job search engine
- StandoutJobs – The standout jobs recruitment communications platform
- JobThread – Find precise targeting at fair prices
- Indeed – One search engine that claims to be for all jobs
- CareerBuilder – A very popular job finding web site
- oDesk – Great job resource for remote contractors
- SimplyHired – Another great job search tool
- Recruit.net – Search thousands of job sites, newspapers and more with one click
- Krop – Resource for creative and tech jobs
- Mployd – Cute name, and “where hiring happens”
Know of another great job hunter resource? Be sure to share!
10 Applications to Help You Get More Time Back
With the start of a new year, you are wanting to try new things right? One thing we all don’t have enough of is time – so why not manage your time better? Here are ten ways to get more of your time back in 2009.
tick – Want to focus on hitting your budgets? Tick is a simple and friendly time tracking application that will help you do just that.
1time – this tool is a web-based time and expense tracking application that allowse you to easily keep track of projects in real time.
tempo – another time tracking tool, this one also comes with powerful reporting and mobile access.
Santexq - here is the answer to the time reporting, task managing and billing needs of your dynamic business.
toggl – the time management tool you want to use.
Klok – this app is a little different because it is a personal time tracking tool. It can tell you how much time you have spend on past projects, which in turn can tell you how much time you might spend on future projects too.
Paymo – this tool acts as an assistant for anybody working as a freelance adgent out there as well as a time manager.
SlimTimer – time tracking, without the time sheet.
Harvest – this tool lets you and your staff track time, log expenses, and create invoices in one simple, integrated workflow.
Clocking IT – this keeps track of all your tasks and the time you spend on them.
Have another suggestion, tip or application that is helping you get more of your time back this year? Let me know about it.
How to Make Working with PDFs Better
So what needs to be done to make the PDF format better? Here are a few of my opinions, and some tools and services to make those requests come true.
Better PDF Editing Abilities
Need an easy way to edit PDF files without the expensive PDF editor? In the past, I have told you about creating PDFs via Open Office. However, what if you could convert those PDFs to Word doc files to edit instead? Pickup the Free PDF to Word Converter for Windows to get the job done.
Better PDF Browser Support
How about better PDF support for the browser? PDF files are notorious for crashing your modern web browser. So with that said, what tool can you use to make the experience better? A browser add-on named PDF Download. It’s features include:
- Convert Web pages to PDF. (NEW) Convert any Web pages to great looking PDF files, and then save, share, print or archive them.
- View PDF as HTML. View the contents of PDF files faster and eliminate browser problems by instantly converting any Web-based PDF to a browser-friendly HTML Web page.
- Control PDF files in Firefox. Stop crashes and get the upper hand on Web-based PDF files by automating and controlling how your Firefox or Flock browsers deal with them.
PDF Download works with Firefox 2 & 3, Flock 1, and Internet Explorer 7 & 8 (beta) web browsers.
Better Printing Abilities to the PDF Format
Now this one isn’t really PDF’s problem, however I do have a solution. If you are wanting to cut down on the paper you use, printing to the PDF format can save you some cash in the long run as well as conserve that printing paper. All you need to do is grab PrimoPDF for Windows. It will add the ability for you choose “Print as PDF” from any print screen. All you have to do is select it as the printer of your choice.
So what other things bug you about PDF files, or have you found any other solutions to your PDF powered problems? It might not be the best standard in the world, however it can come in handy from time to time.
Yahoo! Web Analytics?
Looks like Yahoo is following Google into the web analytics game. If you visit http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/ you will see that IndexTools is now well, Yahoo! Web Analytics. What was Index Tools? I don’t know either.
They are promising a powerful and flexible web site stats package. Not much is known yet due to the only thing we have to go by is the web site. I am excited to see that they are promising to get detailed reporting within minutes after and action occurs on your web site. With other similar tools, you usually have to wait till the next day to get the best results. Other features include:
- Dashboards
- Custom Reports
- Advanced Campaign Management
- Real-Time Segmentation
- Scenario Analysis… and more!
So when can you sign up for this new tool? Yahoo! Web Analytics will be made available to a wide range of Yahoo!’s customers, partners, developers and advertisers in stages throughout the rest of 2008 and into 2009.
Maybe my glass is half full, but I am excited about giving this a shot.
Mixing POP3, Gmail and Thunderbird for E-mail Anywhere!
Now not saying my e-mail situation is the best setup around, but I do like to think I have a pretty neat foundation in place. Mixing Gmail with Thunderbird and my other mail accounts elsewhere I have everything sent to one place and I can get to it all from one login location either on the desktop or on the Web.
Import POP3 Accounts into Gmail
First things first, we have my Gmail account. This acts as my main mail account. From there, I have added all my other mail accounts from other various locations (such as lunarpages.com or mitchkeeler.com) to Gmail. Google’s e-mail client can act as an e-mail fetcher for all your other POP3 e-mail accounts. Here is a post from them describing how to set that up:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288
The short version would be go to Settings > Accounts and then “Add Another Mail Account”.
Get Gmail to Work with IMAP
This is where problem two comes into play. I want to be able to use Thunderbird on my desktop PC to manage my e-mail and then Gmail via the browser on my laptop (or anywhere else) to get to all my same mail via the Web. To enable IMAP in Gmail:
- Sign in to Gmail.
- Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
- Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
- Select Enable IMAP.
- Configure your IMAP client and click Save Changes.
To configure Thunderbird for Gmail/IMAP, be sure to check out this post here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77662
Now for the Little Annoying Things
Alright, my mail system is in place and I can mirror Thunderbird with Gmail (or vice versa). There are a few small kinks yet to be worked out though. The worst of them is that your address book will not stay in sync between platforms. You can do this manually of course, but that is a pain in the rear. There are also a few configuration tweaks you have to change to get your tags and folders to match up with the right spot inside of Thunderbird.
Lifehacker has done a good write up on most of these other little tweaks you may wish to do, so check that out for more information. There you have it. It might not be the prettiest system but it does get the job done.
Internet Marketing and SEO with Daryl Kennedy
There is no doubt in my mind that Internet marketing and search engine optimization are playing a larger and larger role in a webmaster’s life. A few years back, you would put up a web site and hope for the best. These days though, you must really study and learn several aspects of the marketing game if you want to stand a chance.
Marketing in general has really always excited me, so I thought it might be a good idea to talk with somebody who does this as their day to day business. Daryl Kennedy is the VP of Operations over at TechWyse Internet Marketing. When approached about the interview – my first thoughts were “Whoo hoo! Now I can pick the brain of somebody who really understands this Internet marking stuff” and I have to say I was not disappointed.
How did you find yourself in the Internet marketing world? Most people on the web want to get to the top themselves in popularity. You guys specialize in helping other people make a name for themselves.
Daryl: Getting into the Internet marketing world for myself was quite by accident. I have always been a resourceful person. I have always enjoyed efficiency and understanding new technology. After being in the business of developing web sites, I decided it would be far more resourceful to learn and understand the newer search engine phenomena then hit the streets cold calling which was far more traditional.
After studying search engines for about 6 months, I quickly found that by following search engine principles I could get our own company on the first page of Google, Yahoo! and MSN rather easily. Ironically, many other companies across North America and especially Toronto, Canada began noticing themselves! Since this was clearly a way for companies to begin to generate revenue they began asking me to help them in the same way.
Playing with Prism Again
Prism, Mozilla’s answer for bringing the web in as desktop applications, continues to amaze me. I just downloaded the newest release, and it has a few new features worth checking out. They have an extension for one, that works with Firefox 3 so that you can quickly split out web applications from Firefox without the need to manage a separate Prism application. You can convert to a Prism powered application right there in Firefox.
You can also pick an icon to represent the web site or Prism application you are setting it up as. By default it searches for the favicon, but you can edit it to go to any image. That image will become the desktop icon for it. The Fluid Flickr group had a lot of nice icon examples you could use too. (thanks to TwisterMc for that jewel)
To help with performance, each Prism app also runs in it’s own profile:
Prism now places each web app into its own process/profile so they don’t interfere with each other, which also makes it possible to install a web app twice and use it simultaneously with two different user accounts.
Personally Prism really excites me a lot and if this is still the beta form of the project, I can’t imagine the goodies waiting for me in the final release.
Hosting Tutorials with HostHow.com
I always have my eye out for new hosting web sites, and this one really impressed me. HostHow is a new tutorial database telling you the ins and out of hosting. They cover how to do things, why to do things and when to do things. Here are a few example links I really enjoyed reading over there:
- How To Install Pixelpost Photoblogging Software
- How to extract a zip archive via Cpanel
- How to restrict access to your website with .htaccess
- How to change your MX records to use Google Apps Gmail
Looks like a great resource to bookmark or subscribe to (and you know how I love to collect those). If their goal is to create the largest free repository of web hosting tutorials on the net they are well on their way to doing so. If you want to submit your own work there, feel free to contact them.
Smplr Way to Start Your Day
Need a simpler way to start your web browsing experience? One of the most original start pages I have seen in a long time is smplr.
Yep, that is it. No boxes, no RSS and nothing else to distract you. How do you use it? Type in certain keywords or phrases and it does the work for you. Here are all the commands you can use:
These are the triggers that smplr currently supports. Type one, followed by a query. go:(open a supplied url), y:(yahoo), news:(google news), w:(weather, zip code only), wiki:(wikipedia), film:(imdb), tv:(epguide), mmm:(recipes), wow:(thottbot), ebay:(ebay), game:(mobygames), bt:(thepiratebay), buy:(pricegrabber), stock:(yahoo finance), blog:(technorati), snopes:(urban legends)
They also have several themes you can pick from too – changing the background picture. All in all smplr is one unique way to start your browsing experience that can at least say it is copying nobody else out there in the start page world.
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