Don’t Like LinkedIn? 5 Other Social Networks That Can Help You Land A Job

LinkedIn has been the goto social network for finding a job as of late, and honestly, why shouldn’t it be? It has a great deal of wonderful resources and tools aimed at job-seekers and employers alike to help them both on their journeys, and is a great tool for job-finding, especially if you can make your profile irresistible. However, LinkedIn isn’t the only way you can find a job. There are other social networks out there perfect for helping you finding the perfect job. Some of them are well-hidden, and some are the usual suspects. The point is that you...

Read the full article: Don’t Like LinkedIn? 5 Other Social Networks That Can Help You Land A Job

5 More Places To Help You Find Quality Creative Commons Images

Last year, we introduced you to five great places to find Creative Commons images, with the list including heavyweights like Flickr and Google Image Search, along with a few more services you might not have heard of. Today we’re updating that list, and adding 5 more services that take the hard work out of finding Creative Commons images. There are lots of reasons you might need to find Creative Commons images – whether it’s for your blog or website, or for creating a poster, an ad, or more. No matter what reason you’re looking for Creative Commons images, make sure...

Read the full article: 5 More Places To Help You Find Quality Creative Commons Images

Taking The Battle To Craigslist Scammers: How To Avoid Scams On Craigslist

Launched way back in 1995, Craigslist took the Internet world by storm with its innovative cross of classified ads with the web. With a free account, you could post up items for sale, job openings, apartment vacancies, or just browse around as a potential purchaser. Since then, it has exploded into an international service with millions of active users and tons of popular items being sold every day. But as with all Internet-based transactions, some users prefer to game the system and scam other users for a quick buck. Fortunately, Craigslist has instated a few deterrents in the system over...

Read the full article: Taking The Battle To Craigslist Scammers: How To Avoid Scams On Craigslist

Kids Won’t Put Instagram Down? 5 Fun Ways To Use Instagram For Education

If you’re 20 or older, you know what it’s like growing without a smartphone. You also know what it’s like growing without Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and the rest of them. There was nothing too bad about growing up without these gadgets, apps and websites, so us old folks tend to conclude that growing up with them is no good. Smartphones and social networks can be a huge distraction factor for kids in school, and especially at home when they should be doing their schoolwork. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. We’ve already shown you some brilliant ways to...

Read the full article: Kids Won’t Put Instagram Down? 5 Fun Ways To Use Instagram For Education

The Secrets Of Google Advanced Search: 5 Websites With Tips For You To Learn From

Just for fun, let me give you this exercise. Type in something that you want to search today. Use an experimental search engine like Million Short which removes the first million or so Google results from a regular search engine result page. It’s a neat search engine built on top of Google Search you can use to specify how much you want to remove. I bet you will still get quite a few results, and hopefully fresh ones. Making these serendipitous discoveries is the fun part of a search. Though quite often, the incredibly intelligent Google algorithm loses out to...

Read the full article: The Secrets Of Google Advanced Search: 5 Websites With Tips For You To Learn From

New Screencasting App for Mac Creates Animated GIFs too

QuickCast is a free and easy-to-use screencasting app for your Mac that also create animated GIFs from your screencast videos.

---

This story, New Screencasting App for Mac Creates Animated GIFs too, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 05/08/2013 under GIF, Mac, Screencasting, Software.

Compiz vs. KWin: Which Window Manager Is Better?

If you have never messed around with a Linux system, but have seen a YouTube video about it, there’s a high chance that you’ve seen someone show off their fancy desktop effects, most notably the “wobbly windows” effect. These effects are possible due to the window manager software that controls the windows that contain the various programs that you run. However, like most other Linux applications, there’s more than one that does the job, and the top two that offer the complete package are Compiz and KWin. While both of these solutions have their specific areas, we can still compare...

Read the full article: Compiz vs. KWin: Which Window Manager Is Better?

How To Set Screen Saver As Desktop Background In Windows

CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL POST



Customizing Windows desktop has always been an easier job. There are plenty of free as well as paid software out there to customize Windows desktop in a number of ways. On the other hand, Windows also offers a couple of basic personalization options that require no additional software. As you may know, there are a [...]

Popular ebooks go Free at the Google Play Store in India

A collection of 40 popular ebook titles by famous writers are now available as free downloads at the Google Play Store in India.

---

This story, Popular ebooks go Free at the Google Play Store in India, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 05/08/2013 under Android, Ebooks, Offers, Internet.

Create your own Price Tracker for Amazon and Flipkart using Google Docs

ou can easily use Google Docs to keep track of prices of your favorite products listed on shopping sites like Amazon and Flipkart. Get alerts when the price goes down.

---

This story, Create your own Price Tracker for Amazon and Flipkart using Google Docs, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 05/08/2013 under Amazon, Flipkart, Shopping, Internet.

Google Timer

Google Search has a cool feature: search for [set timer for 5 minutes] and you'll see this interactive timer box. You can stop the timer, reset it and Google even has a notification sound you can disable.

Obviously, you can search for [set timer for 30 seconds], [set timer for 10 minutes and 10 seconds], [set timer for an hour and a half] or any other time. If you close the search page, Google shows a warning: "Leaving this page will stop your timer".

{ via Search Engine Roundtable }

Cool Websites and Tools – August 4th – Hotel Room Guests, Medical Images and Windmaps

Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including saving some money by sharing your hotel room with a fellow traveller, a crowdsourced medical library, a wind map of the US, a fitness app that gives you real-time updating information and customized screenshots of smartphone images. Read on below! Easynest – Hotels charge per room which means that if you are a solo traveller, you pay the same price as a couple would. Easynest offers a simple proposal. Sign up on their site and when you next stay in a hotel alone, share your...

Read the full article: Cool Websites and Tools – August 4th – Hotel Room Guests, Medical Images and Windmaps

How To Manage Your Ebook Collection For The Amazon Kindle With Calibre

In the past, an extensive library required lots of shelf space and — if you were traveling — a seriously heavy suitcase. With eReaders, most of that is gone. Although there are still aesthetic pleasures to be had from a good old-fashioned library, hundreds of books on your eReader requires just as much physical space as half a dozen. Traveling light is no longer an issue. You can take that half dozen or few hundred books with you, on the train or abroad. It’s a special kind of freedom that tastes particularly sweet. But an eReader is not all fun...

Read the full article: How To Manage Your Ebook Collection For The Amazon Kindle With Calibre

How To Manage Your Ebook Collection For The Amazon Kindle With Calibre

In the past, an extensive library required lots of shelf space and — if you were traveling — a seriously heavy suitcase. With eReaders, most of that is gone. Although there are still aesthetic pleasures to be had from a good old-fashioned library, hundreds of books on your eReader requires just as much physical space as half a dozen. Traveling light is no longer an issue. You can take that half dozen or few hundred books with you, on the train or abroad. It’s a special kind of freedom that tastes particularly sweet. But an eReader is not all fun...

Read the full article: How To Manage Your Ebook Collection For The Amazon Kindle With Calibre

App Ops: Android's Hidden Permission Manager

App Ops is a hidden system application in Android 4.3 that lets you manage the permissions used by apps. It was found by Android Police and there's a Google Play app that launches the permission manager (no root required).



I tested App Ops Starter on my Nexus 7 (2012) and it works. There are 4 permission groups: location, personal (contacts, calendar, call logs), messaging (read/write/send SMS) and device (notifications, camera). Each tab shows a list of applications sorted by the time when they last used one of the permissions. App Ops also shows the permissions used by each app.

You can disable permissions for each app you've installed and even for system apps. Sometimes disabling permissions didn't have any effect, other times it worked. For example, I disabled the "read clipboard" permission of the Google+ app and the application no longer suggested the link I copied to the clipboard. I disabled the "location" permission of Google Maps, but the app could still detect my location (I had to disable the Play Services "location" permission to prevent Google Maps from finding my location, but this affects other apps). For now, Android apps aren't optimized for the permission manager and disabling permissions could have unexpected effects: the apps might crash.



Android's permission system encourages developers to add as many permissions as possible, even if they don't currently need them. Maybe they'll use them in the future, so it's better to add them and make sure that the app updates automatically. Android's permissions are all-or-nothing, few bother to read them, even fewer understand them. Google should have done a better job here: encourage developers to use permissions sparingly, allow users to revoke permissions, add opt-in permissions like in iOS. Maybe App Ops will fix some of these issues when it will be officially available, probably in Android 5.0.

Nexus 7 Facts

Nexus 7 is:



- the first Nexus tablet



- the cheapestmost affordable Nexus device



- the first device shipped with Android Jelly Bean



- the first Android tablet that made a significant number of developers to optimize their apps for tablets



- the most popular Nexus device ever sold (7 million tablets sold in one year)



- the Nexus device with the biggest market share (10% of all the Android tablets)



- the most popular Asus tablet



- the best-value Android tablet: you won't find a tablet that costs less than $230 and offers a high-quality screen, powerful SoC, access to the Google Play Store and the latest OS updates



- the first Nexus device that has the same name as the predecessor



- the Android tablet with the highest-density display (the new Nexus 7 - 322 PPI)



- the first 7-inch 1920x1200 tablet (the new Nexus 7).

20 Things to Do Using YouTube's Embedded Player

Here are some things you can do from an embedded YouTube player:

1. like/unlike the video: use the thumbs up/down buttons from the top-right corner (you need to be logged in).



2. find the video's URL: right-click the video and click "copy video URL". You can also "copy video URL at current time".



3. find the embedding code: right-click the video and click "copy embed code".



4. share the video: use the share button from the top-right corner and click Facebook, Twitter or Google+.



5. read the video's description: click the "i" button from the top-right corner.



6. subscribe to the video's channel: click the "i" button from the top-right corner and then click the "subscribe" button.



7. find the number of views: click the "i" button from the top-right corner.



8. add the video to the "watch later" playlist: click the "clock" button next to the YouTube logo.



9. turn off annotations: click the conversation icon at the bottom.



10. enable captions: click the "CC" button. To disable them, click the same button and then "turn captions off".



11. move captions: use drag&drop to change their position.



12. change caption size: use + or - keyboard shortcuts. You can also change the caption's foreground/background colors and the font: click the "CC" button and pick "caption settings". Click "background" to enable the caption background (there's also a keyboard shortcut: b). Your settings are saved and YouTube will used them for other videos.

13. translate captions: click the "CC" button, then "translate captions" and pick a language.



14. open the video in full screen mode: click the "full screen" icon next to the YouTube logo.



15. change video quality: click the wheel icon and choose from auto, 144p, 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p.



16. change the video's speed (only in the HTML5 player): click the wheel icon and choose from 0.25x, 0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x.



17. check the stats: right-click the video and select "stats for nerds" to see the video's size, the number of frames per second, the number of dropped frames and other useful information.



18. open the video's YouTube page: click the title at the top of the player or the YouTube logo at the bottom.



19. use keyboard shortcuts (most shortcuts only work in the Flash player and they require that the video player has focus):



* k - pause/play the video

* m - mute/unmute the video

* f - full screen mode (Esc to exit)

* j or left arrow - seek backward 3 seconds

* l or right arrow - seek forward 3 seconds

* 0 - jump at the beginning of the video

* 1-9 - seek to the 10% to 90% of the video

* home/end - jump at the beginning/end of the video

* up/down arrows - increase/decrease volume by 5%



20. related videos: at the end of the video, you'll see a list of related videos and you can watch them in the embedded player. Mouse over the thumbnails to find more information about the videos.



Here's a video you can use to test these features:

YouTube Encourages Sharing Videos

When you watch a YouTube video until the end, YouTube thinks you might want to share it with other people and switches to the "share" tab automatically. The "share" tab has been recently redesigned and now shows more social services at a glance. You can also click "embed" and copy the embedding code.

If you'd like to link to a YouTube video and open the "share" tab by default, just add #action=share at the end of the URL. Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep3iIDDDlaM#action=share.



The embedded YouTube player already includes a lot of features: from the like/unlike buttons, to the share button and the information button that shows the video's description, the number of views and lets you subscribe to the associated channel.

YouTube's Channel Card Experiment

There's a new YouTube experiment that shows a channel card when you mouse over the link to a YouTube channel. The card shows the channel's images and description, a link to the Google+ page, a subscribe button, the number of subscribers and sometimes the most recent video from that channel.



This works for search results, comments, suggested videos, homepage videos, recommended channels and more. You can find more about a YouTube channel without having to open a new page.

Sometimes YouTube also shows a list of people from your Google+ circles that subscribed to the channel:

The experiment also includes the "I'm feeling lucky" play button I've mentioned here. This time, it's placed next to the upload button. The play button creates a playlist with recommended videos.

Here's how you can enable the experiment. If you use Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari or Internet Explorer 8+:



1. open youtube.com in a new tab



2. load your browser's developer console:



* Chrome/Opera 15 - press Ctrl+Shift+J for Windows/Linux/ChromeOS or Command-Option-J for Mac



* Firefox - press Ctrl+Shift+K for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-K for Mac



* Opera 12 - press Ctrl+Shift+I for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-I for Mac, then click "Console"



* Safari - check this article



* Internet Explorer - press F12 and select the "Console" tab.



3. paste the following code which changes a YouTube cookie:



document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=0xJL6SMMUyE; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();



4. press Enter and close the console.



To go back to the regular interface, use the same instructions, but replace the code from step 3 with this one:



document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();



{ Thanks, André Zlatin. }

Advanced Linux Text Editors Compared: kate vs gedit

Any Linux user will tell you that a good text editor is a vital component of a computer system, no matter if you’re a new user or a seasoned pro. While using a Terminal text editor (like nano or vim) is equally important, you might as well make use of your graphical desktop environment whenever it’s available to you. kate, KDE‘s default text editor, and gedit, Gnome‘s default text editor, are powerful tools that can get the job done and then some. However, if you’re making the all-important decision of which desktop environment you want to use, taking a look...

Read the full article: Advanced Linux Text Editors Compared: kate vs gedit