Tag: Web
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Create Budgets, Visualize Expenses, and Reduce Debt for Free with Mint.com
When I got my first glimpse of a “big kid job” by taking an engineering internship in 2008, I quickly realized that my strategy of “save enough money for food” wasn’t going to cut it anymore. Since I was earning significantly more than I was at my previous part-time jobs, I needed a way to…
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How to Fix Chrome’s Broken RSS Feed Handling
If you’ve ever tried opening an RSS feed in Google Chrome, you may have been dismayed to find that it does a horrible job of handling them. RSS feeds (like ours) are meant to provide an easy subscription method to a website, allowing you to view your favorite websites all in one place with an…
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Want to Create a Web Application? Use CakePHP for Rapid, Secure Development
So you’ve got a sweet idea for a web application—great, let’s get to work! You’ll need a basic GUI, some sort of user registration, a templating system, logic processing, error handlers, form verification, AJAX processing, and… woah, this is adding up in a hurry. At what point do you get to start making the app…
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Stream Music, Create Playlists, and Save the Party for Free with Grooveshark
Here is the situation: You’re at a party – the girls want to dance and your buddy wants to fist pump like a champ – but no one has any music. You spot an iPod in the corner and take a look at the selection, but all you see are 90’s boy bands and a…
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Gmail Adds Highly Requested Feature – Rich Text Signatures
I have a very simple email signature in Gmail, but I’ve always been disappointed that I wasn’t able to add links or change the formatting. I mean, we can use the rich text editor in the main composition window of Gmail, why can’t we use it in our signatures? For example, I get away with…
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Curious About Google Docs? Now You Can Try It Without a Google Account
Instead of purchasing expensive office suites like Microsoft Office, many people are using free online services like Google Docs to do their word processing, presentations, and spreadsheets. The best thing about Google Docs is that your files are available anywhere you have an internet connection, and they can be instantly exported into common formats (including…
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How to Create Custom RSS Feeds for Specific Subjects or Authors with Yahoo Pipes
Now that I’m writing for both Techerator and MakeUseOf, I wanted an easy way to publish links to articles I’ve written on my personal website. In the past, I’ve also wanted to create custom RSS feeds for specific topics or authors I enjoy reading, instead of subscribing to the full “firehose” of a popular site’s…