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25 Unexpectedly Useful Websites for the Uncommonly Curious

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:33:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.webupon.com

This eclectic list of websites contains so many out of the ordinary pleasures that it is hard to know where to start.

Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:13:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

AfterVote

Footnote

Hard to Find 800 Numbers

Ninjawords

Uncyclopedia

Wikisky.org

Wink

Cork'd

ExtraTasty

Lumosity

Menupages

Top Secret Recipes

Who Is Sick?

The World's Healthiest Foods

Dethroner

EXPN

FirstShowing.net

Going.com

I Can Has Cheezburger?

iminlikewithyou

I Watch Stuff

MeeVee

MyPunchbowl

Skeptic

BullPoo

Indeed

Kiva

Rentometer

Trulia

AllHipHop.com

Amie Street

Beethere.net

Imeem

Musicovery

SingShot

Slacker

Guerrilla News Network

MediaStorm

Tech President

Topix

Act-I-Vate

copyblogger

Goodreads

Ironic Sans

Librivox

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

Verbotomy

xkcd

The Bargainist

Do My Stuff

EuroCheapo

Roadside America

TheThingsIWant.com

Ugallery.com

Wikitravel

Yapta

afreeDLL

DaFont

DZone

Infected or Not

InviteShare

MajorGeeks.com

OldVersion.com

ProgrammableWeb

Website Grader

Armor Games

K2xl

Kongregate

LikeBetter

Line Rider

Shacknews

All Things Digital

Anything But iPod

Everything USB

GoodCleanTech

iLounge

Phone Scoop

TechMeme

AppScout

Download Squad

eHub

MakeUseOf.com

Mashable

Uncov

Dabble

PrezVid

ScienceHack

Ustream.tv

uLinkx

VideoJug

Bubbl.us

Eyejot

MediaFire

Tags: sites, web 2.0

How to Get People to Like You

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:23:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A little bit more detailed than the usual "just be yourself", heh.

Clip Source: mysticeye.info

Learn to remember names. A name is very important to someone. If you don’t take the time to learn someone’s name, it indicates that you’re not interested in him or her. When someone remembers your name, it gives you the feeling that you are interesting or important.

Be easy going and natural. When you are stiff, reserved or unresponsive, you unconsciously build up a barrier. But when you are easy going and natural it is easy for people to like you.

Be interesting. Have something to talk about that people find interesting or stimulating. This way people want to be with you.

Don’t have a big ego. If you give the impression that you know it all, that you are superior, you make it hard for people to like you. Be normally humble.

Do some self-study and get rid of negative attitudes. People can consciously or unconsciously pick those up and they might find it irritable to be around you.

Always look for the positive qualities in a person. Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Try to build up someone’s ego. Make compliments. Congratulate upon someone’s achievement, or express sympathy when they are in sorrow or if they feel disappointed. The ego is a sacred thing; every human being has the desire to feel important. When you deflate someone’s ego, you are wounding him deep inside.

Give strength to people, support them. Help them to be stronger and they will give you affection.

Whether you like to admit it or not, we want people to like us. If someone tells you that he does not really care if people like him or not, he simply is not being honest. The longing to be liked is one of our deepest desires. We want to be popular, we want people to speak nothing but good of us and we want to have affection of the people around us. It is in our human nature.

Tags: how to, lists, psychology, relationships

50 office-speak phrases you love to hate

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:04:23 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Management speak - don't you just hate it? Emphatically yes, judging by readers' responses to writer Lucy Kellaway's campaign against office jargon (see link, right). Here, we list 50 of the best, worst examples.

1. "When I worked for Verizon, I found the phrase going forward to be more sinister than annoying. When used by my boss - sorry, "team leader" - it was understood to mean that the topic of conversation was at an end and not be discussed again."
Nima Nassefat, Vancouver, Canada

2. "My employers (top half of FTSE 100) recently informed staff that we are no longer allowed to use the phrase brain storm because it might have negative connotations associated with fits. We must now take idea showers. I think that says it all really."
Anonymous, England

How much should you charge for your web app?

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:45:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.instigatorblog.com

For any entrepreneur starting a web business this is a critical question. If you’re building a web application for consumers you’re probably thinking, “I’ll give it away for free and sell advertising.” So be it. As much as I dislike that model, it’s the de facto one for consumer web apps. For business-to-business web applications, the model should be different. And I’m a strong believer in what the guys at 37Signals espouse, which is very simply, “charge for your web apps.”

But what should you charge?

Thanks to Tom Markiewicz (via Twitter) I came across On Pricing.

On Pricing is a micro-blogging site (using Tumblr) to grab information about pricing web apps from around the blogosphere. It’s run by Paul Farnell, founder of Litmus, who wrote a great article on pricing web apps awhile ago.

Pricing web apps isn’t easy.

Keep your pricing simple.

Highlight the best value.

Show your pricing.

Compare your pricing to competition.

Compare pricing to other web apps.

Test and re-jig over time.

Tags: web 2.0, pricing

Top 20 Sexiest Photo Collections of 2007

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:54:16 GMT

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Clip Source: www.coedmagazine.com

Check out the Top 20 Sexiest Photo Collections of 2007 after the jump!

#20 2007 Hooters Swimsuit Pageant

#19 Keeley Hazell’s 2008 Calendar

#18 American Idol’s Antonella Barba “Leaked” Personal Pictures

#17 Kristen Bell Complex Magazine December 2007

#16 Shera Ruben ACC “Miss COED” Shoot

#15 Petra Nemcova Represents La Senza

#14 Lindsay Lohan and Vanessa Minnillo Leaked “Knife” Personal Pictures

#13 Megan Fox GQ Feature

#12 Joanna Krupa Maxim Layout June 2007

#11 Miss South Carolina, Lauren Caitlin Upton “Miss COED” Gallery

#10 “Friday Night Lights” Adrianne Palicki in Complex Magazine

#9 “Charles and Charge’s” Nicole Eggert, All Grown Up!

#8 Carmen Electra “Cola-Cola” Ad

#7 Christina Aguilera Maxim’s “The Art of Seduction”

#6 Jessica Biel “Summer of Love” GQ

#4 Megan Fox FHM Magazine Spread

#3 Vanessa Hudgens “Leaked” Personal Photos

#2 Hayden Panettiere GQ “Obsession of the Year” Photo Shoot

#1 2007 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

2007 Victoria.s Secret Fashion Show

16 of the Most Extreme & Modern Beds You’ll Ever See

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:37:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I Just show first my favorite one out of the 16 presented there.

Clip Source: freshome.com

Point Architects from Tokyo combined a bed with a bookcase and the result was called the Uroko House. The incredible bookcase completely surrounds this bed, making him looks like an igloo made of books. The final results looks good, but unfortunately is not to practical, and takes a lot of space, bu I’m sure that little kids will love this project.

The Best Free Software

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:25:58 GMT

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Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

The Best Free Software

157 software tools. No fees. No expiration dates. No problems. Sometimes even no downloads. No kidding.

by Eric Griffith and PC Magazine Staff

Buzz up!on Yahoo!

We did the math: If you bought popular apps instead of trying their gratis counter-parts, at the manufacturers' list prices you'd be out $5,183 and change! Why spend money when you can get what you need for nothing? Sometimes, you do get what you don't pay for.

Great Google Search Tips

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:33:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Useful tips if you're into researching anything. More on site

Clip Source: blog.outer-court.com

Google Search Tips 2005

Here are some search syntax basics and advanced tricks for Google.com. You might know most of these, but if you spot a new one, it may come in handy in future searches.

A quote/ phrase search can be written with both quotations ["like this"] as well as a minus in-between words, [like-this].

You can find synonyms of words. E.g. when you search for [house] but you want to find “home” too, search for [~house]. To get to know which synonyms the Google database stores for individual words, simply use the minus operator to exclude synonym after synonym (they will always show as bold in the SERPs, the search engine result pages). Like this: [~house -house -home -housing -floor].

Google has a lesser known “numrange” operator which can be helpful. Using e.g. [2000..2005] (that’s two dots inbetween two numbers) will find 2000, 2001, 2002 and so on until 2005.

Google has some exciting back-end AI to allow you to find just the facts upong entering simple questions or phrases like [when was Einstein born?] or [einstein birthday] (the answer to both of these queries is “Albert Einstein – Date of Birth: 14 March 1879”). This feature was introduced April this year and is called Google Q&A. (See some of the various working Q&A sample queries to get a feeling for what’s possible.)

Sometimes, Google warns you about its results, especially when they might seem like promoting hate sites (of course, only someone misunderstanding how Google works could think it’s them promoting hate sites). Enter [jew], and you will see a Google-sponsored link titled “Offensive Search Results” leading to this explanation.

For some of the more popular “Googlebombed” results, like when you enter [failure] and the first hit is the biography of George W. Bush, Google displays explanatory ads titled “Why these results?”.

Tags: google, research

From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 Days

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:12:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.problogger.net

From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 Days

Hi, my name is Tina. I started a little blog called Think Simple Now on September 27th, 2007 with zero experience in blogging, internet marketing or writing. By the time Christmas came, 3 months later, I had 2135 subscribers.

I’m new to blogging, in fact, I read very few blogs. I also do not follow any blogs on blogging, with the exception of a couple of articles read from doshdosh and problogger very early on.

I have three important reasons why my blog has been successful:

Concrete Goals & Focus - You can’t get what you want if you don’t know what you want.
Content Creation - Where I spend most of my time. Content and understanding your audience is king.
Getting the Word Out - Actionable tasks I did to market my blog. All are easily reproducible by anyone. But only focus on this after area 2 have been in place. Without content, all your marketing efforts will be ineffective.

How to clean your home in 19 minutes

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:39:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

(RealSimple.com) -- With these room-by-room checklists, you can maintain a sparkling house in just 19 minutes a day, giving you more time for family, friends and you.

Kitchen, 4 ½ minutes daily

Always start with the sink

• Wipe down the sink after doing the dishes or loading the dishwasher (30 seconds).
• Wipe down the stove top (one minute).
• Wipe down the counters (one minute).
• Sweep, Swiffer, or vacuum the floor (two minutes).

Bathroom, 2 minutes daily

• Wipe out the sink (30 seconds). Wipe the toilet seat and rim (15 seconds).
• Swoosh the toilet bowl with a brush (15 seconds).
• Wipe the mirror and faucet (15 seconds).
• Squeegee the shower door (30 seconds).
• Spray the entire shower and the curtain liner with shower mist after every use (15 seconds).

Bedroom, 6 ½ minutes daily

• Make the bed (two minutes).
• Fold or hang clothing and put away jewelry (four minutes).
• Straighten out the night-table surface (30 seconds).

Family room, living room, foyer, 6 minutes daily

Tags: housing