You don't get paid from an ad network if a visitor prints out their ad along with the rest of your page. In fact, there are probably lots of elements of your site that don't make a whole lot of sense on paper (e.g. links don't work). You can easily make your site more printer friendly by including a button from Joliprint. I had previously used the WordPress plug-in WP-Print … [Read more...]
SoundCloud – The Source For Music Distribution In The Cloud
SoundCloud started off as a site solving the problem of how difficult and frustrating it was for recording artists to share and collaborate on their music. Now, it's evolved into a full publishing tool for those artists to distribute their tracks and these days, it's hosting some hot tracks. Add in the fact that it embraces Creative Commons, SoundCloud is a great site to browse … [Read more...]
Attend The Google Science Fair Now
Visit http://www.youtube.com/googlesciencefair to view the Live Webcast of the Google Science Fair. An example presentation is going on now. To help make today’s young scientists the rock stars of tomorrow, in partnership with CERN, The LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American, we’re introducing the first global online science competition: the Google Science … [Read more...]
Wylio – Creative Commons Image Search With Built-In Proper Attribution
Particularly as a writer but in many other circumstances as well, you might come across the need for an image to complement your writing, presentation, or website. Fortunately, a good number of people post an even greater number of images online that are free to use under the Creative Commons stipulations. Unfortunately, finding these images and being sure to provide proper … [Read more...]
iSender, On-Demand Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
This problem arises all the time for me. A file is one place and I want it to get to another place. Say it's at home and I'm at work or a few friends want a copy of a file and it's too large to be sent as an e-mail attachment. Well, for me it's pretty easy. I open FileZilla and FTP upload the file to my server and then send them a link. This isn't the greatest solution because … [Read more...]