2015-05 Pointless Websites
Imagine an Internet where every picture, including cats and babies, included a beard. Where every new tab you open sounds like a can of pop opening. Where AOL’s "You’ve Got Mail" alert isn’t a thing of the past. Welcome to the useless web. Today Cool Websites and Apps takes a break from useful tools that can improve your life to focus on five things without any redeeming quality whatsoever. Seriously: all of these apps are stupid, and you shouldn’t bother to read about them. But you will. And when you’re...
Posted on May 12th, 2015
2015-04 Useful Collaboration Tools Your Team Needs to Know About
Remember the first time you ever saw the real-time collaboration feature for Google Docs (now Google Drive)? It seems obvious now, but in 2005 seeing changes happen live felt nothing short of magical. Never again would you have to email documents to various co-workers, only to manually add everyone’s changes to a single document. Ten years later and Google Drive continues to improve, Microsoft offers real-time collaboration in their online version of Office, and Dropbox is reportedly working on a real-ti...
Posted on April 18th, 2015
2015-04 Make Sure Your Data Lives Forever
They say that on the Internet, nothing ever goes away. This is true, for popular content that’s endlessly shared and remixed. But this kind of viral candy is only the tip of a really big iceberg. Beneath the surface of memes and naked celebrities lurks endless petabytes of data too boring for immortality. Wedding pictures, college essays, home videos, old emails — most of our data is in this category, and it can be disturbingly ephemeral. One of the major lessons from physics is that thermodynamics hates...
Posted on April 8th, 2015
2015-02 Say Hello to Hemp!
Looking for a super simple addition you can make to your diet this summer that delivers significant health benefits?
Say hello to hemp.
If the thought of eating hemp makes you a little uneasy, rest assured that the edible hemp seeds you see in the store do not contain THC (the psychoactive component of marijuana). In fact, you should think of hemp in the same way you do poppy seeds – which come from the opium plant.
Hemp has rapidly gone mainstream, available in most supermarkets in seeds, powder, mil...
Posted on February 12th, 2015
2014-03 100 Tips for Your Google Chromebook
Dinsan Francis
Getting started with a Google Chromebook is very easy so is being a normal Google Chromebook user. But to be a power user, you need to know some tips and tricks. Here is some to get you started!
Towards the end of the list you will find tips mostly found on development channel or beta channel of Chrome OS. So if you are using stable version of Chrome OS and find a feature not working, do not worry, it will be there in few weeks time when Chrome team updates stable version.
Thanks eve...
Posted on March 10th, 2014
2009-11 Millennium Ark: 100 Items That Disappear First in a Disaster
https://daretoprepare.com/INFO_Files/100.items.html
1. Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy...target of thieves; maintenance, etc.)
2. Water Filters/Purifiers
3. Portable Toilets (Increasing in price every two months.)
4. Seasoned Firewood(About $250 per cord; wood takes 6 - 12 mos. to become dried, for home uses.)
5. Lamp Oil, Wicks, Lamps (First choice: Buy CLEAR oil. If scarce, stockpile ANY!)
6. Coleman Fuel (URGENT $2.69-$3.99/gal. Impossible to stockpile too much.)
7....
Posted on November 14th, 2009