Have you ever asked yourself why it is not possible to automate basic tasks on the Internet? I’m not talking about opening your favorite homepage in your web browser, but about tasks that rely on different services. Ifttt is a new service that lets you create if then actions on the Internet. It basically lets [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Create Charts Online With Chart Creator
Sometimes you may need to create a quick chart without access to a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc. You could say that installing the spreadsheet program would resolve the issue. But that’s only possible if you are working on a computer where you have sufficient rights to do that. And that’s [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Outsource Assignments, Tasks To Free Up Time
Time is valuable. For some, it is more valuable than anything else. If you run a business like I do, you will encounter tasks that need to be done but waste lots of precious time. A basic example would be comment moderating, checking for broken links or answering emails. While it is not always possible [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Text Mirror, Return Text-Only Contents Of Any Website
If you are browsing the Internet at work, chance is that you cannot visit some websites. The IT department may have blocked access to sites that may distract you from work related tasks. This may be Facebook and Twitter, web proxy sites to prevent you from circumventing the block, entertainment sites like YouTube and adult [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Find Out Where A Website Is Hosted
I just bought an expensive domain and website, and would like to share one of the things that I did to verify the seller’s legitimacy. Among other things, I check a website’s whois information and hosting information to make sure they match with the information in the sales letter. If they do not match, or [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Increase Your Typing Speed With Typing Games And Tests
The computer keyboard is the core input device on most modern computer systems. People use it for all writing purposes on the computer, from writing documents and emails to chatting with friends in chat rooms and updating the status at popular social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter. Oh, and some use it to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Web Trend Maps
The Web Trend Map is a service that computes web trends from trustworthy sources from the stream of information on today’s Internet. It does so by filtering links posted from that stream several times to come up with those trends in the end. These filters begin by the links that are posted on the Internet. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Is My Blog Working
Found another gem at Rarst’s blog today. Is My Blog Working is an online service that can be used by webmasters and interested users to find out if a blog is responding correctly. It works by entering a blog url in the form on the frontpage of the service. The service will then do some [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Improve Online Reading With Readability Bookmarklet
Online reading is not the same as reading a newspaper, book or magazine. The main reason why it is not the same are the many options that webmasters have of displaying text on their websites. They can select different fonts, font sizes, font weight, colors and many more aspects. Newspaper and books on the other [...]