8373 readersIf you are one of the thousands suffering constant crashes from the June update of Mozilla Firefox 5, realize you are not alone. Literally thousands have reported on Firefox 5 crashing across all platforms, including Windows and Mac. Here are some examples, starting with the search results of Firefox crashes: Firefox Crash I installed firefox
3551 readersAt the Apple press conference today, the new Siri voice-recognition tools stole the show–allowing you to control your iPhone 4S with intelligent voice commands. The new tool will help writers dictate text, search online and use apps, but unfortunately, but it will only be available on the iPhone 4S.
To help all our readers who won’t
1193 readersLike many journalists, this GalleyCat editor always leaves the library with too many documents photocopied from books and magazines. With the right text recognition tools, we can avoid these problems all together--the best programs will transcribe scanned, photocopied, or photographed images into digital text.
Inspired by Lifehacker's list of the Five Best Text Recognition Tools,
3234 readersThe World Wide Web is constantly moving, changing, and evolving. This is a good thing of course, but it’s also good to be able to save web pages for the future. Personally, I really miss some of the websites I visited during my first full year online… 1999. Of course, you can use the good
2252 readersWordle is a fun web tool that allows people to make artistic text collages or “word clouds” from any text.
Here’s more from the site: “Wordle is a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The cl...
3038 readersOn Sundays I tend to go over stats for all my blogs – both my own and my client’s blogs too to see how traffic is looking. I’m currently writing for around 9 or so blogs and while they’re all about different topics (or have different slants) all but two of these blogs have one
2514 readersBelow are some of the biggest time wasting activities for me and some other bloggers I know. Surfing: Nothing is more fun than surfing for new post ideas and it’s easy to go overboard. When it comes to surfing or researching blog topics set strict limits in order to stay on task and on time.
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3848 readersDisclaimer: I wrote and published this post, in its entirety, from my iPad.Apple’s “magical and revolutionary device” is supposed to be the ultimate content consumption tool. You can play music, watch movies, and surf the web, all from…
2971 readersAccording to Wikipedia, the popular adage “An image is worth a thousand words” refers to the idea that complex stories can be described with just a single still image, or that an image may be more influential than a substantial amount of text. This is true, and as a blogger you have to work a
2188 readersWhatever you’re a designer, a blogger or simply a web user, you often have to share images online. Services like Photobucket have been around for ages and are quite handy, but uploading takes some time: You have to click on an upload button, select your picture, click again, wait, and finally you’re able to share