On 12.08.09, In Cool Websites, by Matt Brian
Christmas is coming and finding presents is hard enough, especially when nobody tells you what they want. Various family members are young, play a computer games on a console or on their PC, you think you can get them a game for their present, but what do you get?
A new site, CutTheRRP has recently launched and quite simply outputs all the best gaming deals for you to choose from. Currently, it is only UK based but developments are underway to cater for all gaming markets and clue consumers in on what games are hot and what the best prices are for them.
After the jump we show you the best ways to view the hot Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and PC games with the minimum of fuss.
Fonts, we use them everyday. Some notice them and change their editors to suit their preferences, others couldn’t give a monkey’s uncle about them. Whatever category you fall in, you may be interested to know that there are a few services present on the internet that now enable you to create your own font…out of your own handwriting.
FontCapture is one such tool and creating your font is as easy as following three simple steps. I took the time out this morning to go through the process and will show you how to go about it.
The internet has the potential to store lots of information about you, sometimes whether you like it or not. Signing up on social networking websites, submitting comments and ultimately writing a blog will allow readers to contact, interact and research unique things about you.
With a simple Google search, you are able to find mentions of your online username and sometimes bring up relevant results using your full name. A recent project from the MIT Media Lab; Personas, is a new tool that searches the internet for mentions of your name and collates it’s results in categories of where it thinks your online presence is most suited.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat), was very popular around 10 years ago, around the age of dial-up internet but continues to be popular today. If you are new to IRC, think of it as a mass chatroom, where anybody can join a selected “channel”, unless it has been made private to selected users. If you’re at school, or work trying to access your favorite IRC server, chances are that the ports used for IRC communication have been blocked.
Mibbit, is a fully functional online IRC client that you can use with just your browser. Though it may be hard to use at first, it gets easier once you familiarise yourself with the service and the commands used.
You probably have heard about so called URL shortening. The concept is simple; you take a long URL, and shorten by around 75%.
The short URL will act as a redirecting link, clicking on it will direct you to the long URL. Of course, it may sound simple, and many bloggers use URL shorteners. However, there are a few key points in which you need to consider when choosing a URL shortening service:
- Reliability – How long the servers stay up for
- Characters – How short the URL can be
- Extra features – Click tracking and analytics
Of the above, Bit.ly has an even amount of everything. From features such as URL shortening, to finding out who clicked on your URL.
Don’t you always wondered how many keys and mouse clicks you do each day? Every thought if you typed more keys than your friends? With WhatPulse, it’s easy to find out!
WhatPulse is a multi-platform program that monitors how many keys your press, and how much you click/move your mouse. It is NOT a keylogger, as your computer protection software might be suspicious about this.
A few weeks back we profiled a website called BeFunky, that turned digital pictures into “Funky Works Of Art”. Last week we received an email from the creators of a web based photo service, one that offers a similar service to BeFunky but concentrates on doing one thing well, creating Polaroids from your photos. It seems the web based photo manipulation websites can do anything these days, Rollip being no exception.
Rollip provides a simple service, it gives any digital photo the classic look and feel of a vintage or Polaroid picture. All you need to do is select what sort of effect you would like to give to your photo, Rollip does the rest.
On 08.31.09, In Cool Websites, by gorsefox
I was reminiscing about an old project from the early 90’s. Its code name was Raven and it was an external data storage archive for large scale AIX (UNIX) systems. What I liked about it was that once configured it took over the task of file management and from the moment a file was first created it was copied into the archive and retained. The Raven was not a resounding success. The ideas, however, were sound and I got to thinking about how I could manage the storage on my PCs.
Bringing this concept up to date was remarkably simple.
I pressed some external USB drives into service – as it happen I have a couple of Western Digital “My Book” drives. I formatted these to mimic the drive structure of my PC. This was not strictly necessary, but it did allow me to plan out my data retention policy more simply.
Then came the exciting bit (ok, that may be an exaggeration).
I installed Allway Sync. Allway Sync is available for free download and is designed to synchronise drives and folders between, say, PCs and Laptops, or USB drives, and so forth. In my book “free” is usually an attractive proposition when I want to try something out, so I downloaded the code and got stuck in. As their Features page explains…
Lots of Twitter services has popped up over the year. Some of them are useful, and some of them are just fun to use, such as Twitpaint.
Twitpaint, is a website designed to “paint graffiti and post it on Twitter.” Your followers will then be able to click on your link, and be able to “remix” your drawing. Whilst it’s not very useful, it’s fun.
Connecting via the internet is a very natural thing to do. The medium has paved the way for couples meeting online, marrying and having babies, allowed people to organise public meetups and events and allows users from opposite ends of the earth to connect and communicate.
The problem with the sheer number of people connecting on the internet is that there are just so many tools and services to connect via. Sometimes there is a requirement to get multiple people together using a single service that everyone can use regardless of Operating System or computer type. One such service that can fill this void is TinyChat, a service that acts as a temporary yet powerful chat room, serving text based chat aswell as video conferencing, it requires no third party software and runs effortlessly in your browser.
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