CeeVee Makes Web-Based Resume Building Quick, Easy, and Free
My Clippings October 22nd, 2009 by System
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You don’t have to have a fancy Microsoft Word template or a gorgeously tweaked document layout to build a clean looking and complete resume. Sure, you can choose a pretty template for your favorite desktop publishing or word processing app, but if you’re like me, you wind up spending more time tweaking the look and feel of the document than editing the actual text.
Thankfully, there’s CeeVee: a free Web-based resume builder that not only helps you put your resume together and fill in the important details about your skills and your work history, but it also helps you share it on popular social networks that may help you get a job.
CeeVee is free to use. You’re immediately launched into the process of creating your own resume on the Web once you’ve signed up. You can upload a photo if you’d like to include one with your resume. You can also add or remove sections that are applicable to the types of jobs you’re applying for, and tweak all of them in-line. The service offers a number of clean-looking themes and typefaces to choose from, all of which read well on the Web and lend themselves to easy sharing and printing.
Once you’re logged in, the majority of the page is taken up by your resume. Controls for adding and removing sections are on the right side of the page. For example, there’s a huge debate over whether or not “summary” or “objective” sections in resumes are worthwhile, so depending on how you feel about them you can add or remove a summary section from your resume with a single click. You can edit the contents of each section in-line with the rest of your resume, so you don’t have to leave the resume view to see how your changes will affect the overall document.
CeeVee’s resume builder makes it easy to copy/paste information from a resume you may already have, or to add information about your work experience, studies, and special skills from scratch. The entire resume interface is interactive, but when someone else views it they only see the static page with all of your information on it that they can easily print. Also, since many of us work for companies that don’t take kindly to their employees updating their resumes, you have the option to make your resume private at any time so no one can see it.
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Remove PDF Passwords
Uncategorized October 19th, 2009 by Shai Perednik
I needed to remove a password from a PDF so I could make it into a form.
“Freeware PDF Unlocker is a free PDF Password remover tool that can help you in the above situations.To remove the first type of restrictions, simply drag your PDF document onto a shortcut on your desktop or alternatively onto the PDF Unlocker icon on your desktop. Instantly, it should remove the password and allow printing or copying & pasting the contents from the PDF document.”
I used that and it worked in a few seconds.
Via Techblissonline
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My Clippings October 8th, 2009 by System
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Filed under: Design, Productivity, Web services
The Printliminator is a bookmarklet that gets any webpage ready to print. Once it’s activated, you can click on elements you don’t want to print to remove them from the page. If you don’t want to do it manually, you can remove all images on the page using one button. Another button applies a nice default print stylesheet.
Sometimes there’s only one element of a page that’s worth printing, and The Printliminator has you covered there, too. Instead of clicking to delete one thing at a time, you can option-click to delete everything but what you’re clicking on. If you make a mistake and delete something you wanted to print, there’s no undo. Just reload the page and start over.
Make webpages more printable with The Printliminator originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HotPrints Prints Free, Ad-Supported Photo Books [Free]
My Clippings October 7th, 2009 by System
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Need physical copies of some great shots, but you’re a bit too lazy to order and pay for them? HotPrints mails you free 16-page photo books, with shots pulled from Facebook, if you don’t mind some non-intrusive paper ads.
In this case, non-intrusive means the advertisements aren’t watermarked or otherwise touching your actual photos. They’re inserted between the pages, and can be pulled out, kind of like magazine subscription cards. You’d also have to be comfortable with HotPrints using “contextual” data from Facebook to target some ads at you. That means the album style you choose, the content of your profile, and region information from your Facebook account are used to target the ads, but the company claims that no identifying information is given out to its sponsoring partners. You can read more about HotPrints’ do’s and don’ts at their privacy policy.
If you’re cool with that at the cost of free, even free shipping, HotPrints’ Facebook app makes it fairly easy to pull in tagged photos of yourself or any Facebook contacts for a quickie album, with a limit of one per month. It’s a free service, requires a Facebook account (and app authorization) to use.
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Free VMWare Player 3 can now create virtual machines
My Clippings October 6th, 2009 by System
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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Linux, Freeware, Beta
VirtualBox has always enjoyed one key advantage over VMWare: it’s free. Sure, the VMWare Player is also free — but all it can do is boot virtual machines which have been previously by another app.
Rather, that’s all it could do until now. VMWare Player version 3 has hit the release candidate stage and is available for public download, and guess what? It’s now got the ability to create virtual machines. That’s pretty amazing news for virtualization hobbyists like myself.
Apart from the added VM creation chops, Player v3 also offers OpenGL support in guest machines, ALSA support on Linux guests, ThinPrint powered printing, Windows 7 support, and multiple monitor support.
And yes, it even supports Aero Glass in Vista and WIndows 7 just like its big brother.
Another great addition is the easy install wizard, which makes setting up popular operating systems on a new guest machine ridiculously easy. That is, when it works. The wizard should create a floppy configuration file which Ubuntu reads during the install process. When I tested with the Karmic Koala beta, though, Ubuntu’s installer wouldn’t recognize the floppy image and crapped out.
A regular install, on the other hand, worked just fine and completed in roughly the same amount of time as it took under VIrtualBox — if not slightly less.
The download is free, weighs in at about 90Mb, and you’ll need to have a registered account with VMWare to get access to the downloads.
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Vital Tips For Effective Logo Design
My Clippings August 27th, 2009 by System
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There have been numerous creative logo design showcases, logo design resources and logo design tutorials posted across the Web. While these help you to create a powerful toolbox for your logo designs, first you need to gain a solid understanding of what makes a logo design good and what you need to consider before starting using this toobox.
In this article, we’ll get down to the nitty gritty of what makes an effective logo design and we’ll also guide you through the principles and best practices of how to create an iconic brand identity.
You may be interested in the following related posts:
- 10 Common Mistakes In Logo Design
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What Is A Logo?
To understand what a logo is, we first must understand what the main purpose of logos is. The design process must aim to make the logo immediately recognizable, inspiring trust, admiration, loyalty and an implied superiority. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand or economic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually are strikingly different from other logo in the same market niche. Logos are used to identify.
Paul Rand, one of the world’s greatest designers states that “a logo is a flag, a signature, an escutcheon, a street sign. A logo does not sell (directly), it identifies. A logo is rarely a description of a business. A logo derives meaning from the quality of the thing it symbolizes, not the other way around. A logo is less important than the product it signifies; what it represents is more important than what it looks like. The subject matter of a logo can be almost anything.”
For more on Paul Rand, consider reading the book Design, Form & Chaos.
What Makes A Good Logo?
A good logo is distinctive, appropriate, practical, graphic and simple in form, and it conveys the owner’s intended message. A concept or “meaning” is usually behind an effective logo, and it communicates the intended message. A logo should be able to be printed at any size and, in most cases, be effective without color. A great logo essentially boils down to two things: great concept and great execution.
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Stupid Windows trick: print to your new USB printer from crappy old DOS programs
My Clippings August 25th, 2009 by System
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Plenty of people out there are still running the odd DOS application – many of them for business purposes. So what are you to do when that trusty old printer breaks down and you can’t find a new one with a parallel port?
Why not buy a fancy new USB-only printer and make use of a stupid Windows trick that’s been around for a while? It’s a fairly simple process.
Step one is to install the printer as you normally would – making sure you follow the instructions provided, of course. Once that’s done, you’re set for Windows printing. Go to control panel and open your printers, then right-click on the newly installed one and choose properties from the context menu.
Once the printer properties are up, click the ports tab and make note of which port has the check mark in it. You’ll need that information in just a minute.
Close that window, and choose to add a new printer (the option to do so should be on the file menu, or you may see an icon). Click next to start the process. On the second screen, select local printer but take the check out of automatically detect and install.
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MooTools Tutorials and Resources Round-Up
My Clippings July 28th, 2009 by System
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MooTools is a JavaScript framework that focus on being flexible, modular and compact. While still not on par in number of resources with other JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, the MooTools community has generated a large number of articles, tutorials and third party plugins that can be considered and mature and sophisticated enough for most needs.
A word about MooTools
One of the core principles of MooTools is to provide a better application programming interface for JavaScript developers, making the language better by extending its native elements and providing more concise object oriented utilities.
As a consequence of that, some people may be inclined to think that MooTools treats browser scripting as a less important feature. Indeed, MooTools is not a DOM scripting toolkit, but the whole purpose of making JavaScript better is that developers have a more solid base over which to create readable, robust, reusable browser scripting libraries.
Articles/Tutorials
Starting points
The official documentation
A really good and complete documentation. It has a very intuitive format that makes it both an excellent reference and tutorial.
jQuery vs MooTools
A mature discussion on the differences between jQuery and MooTools.
MooTools for the non-programmer
A three part series of tutorials about MooTools targeted at non-programmers:
The MooWalkthrough
A wiki-based walk through MooTools intended to introducing the library.
The MooTorial
A collection of tutorials to guide MooTools’ newcomers.
MooTools classes
A basic view on MooTools’ use of classes and how it compares to other approaches.
Natives and Elements
Explains what are native types in JavaScript and how MooTools extends and provide means for anyone to extend their functionality. It also explains the Element class.
Select and create elements
Tutorial on how to select specific elements as well as how to create and insert new elements on the page.
30 days of MooTools
A series of tutorials about key features in MooTools. (It is still incomplete – it currently has 23 tutorials)
- Intro to the Library
- Selectors
- Intro to Using Arrays
- Functions
- Event Handling
- Manipulating HTML
- Set and Get Style Properties
- Input Filtering Part I – Numbers
- Input Filtering Part II – Strings
- Using FX.Tween
- Using Fx.Morph, Fx Options and Fx Events
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MetatOGGer Automatically Identifies, Tags Your MP3s and More [Downloads]
My Clippings July 22nd, 2009 by System
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Windows only: Free application MetatOGGer is an advanced MP3 (and OGG Vorbis, FLAC, Speex, Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack, and Monkey’s Audio) tag editor that can automatically tag your music by creating audio fingerprints and comparing them with online database, MusicBrainz.
(Click the image above for a closer look.)
And while MusicBrainz already has its own dedicated application for this (the previously mentioned Picard), we’ve always found Picard to be a little clunky. MetatOGGer, on the other hand, seems quite a bit more user friendly. Likewise, MetatOGGer can automatically search out and add lyrics to your tags from web site LyricWiki.
This one didn’t make our list of the six best MP3 tagging tools, but then again, we didn’t even know it existed. And while it may not be as efficient as something like MP3Tag (our Hive Five winner), it does show a lot of promise.
MetatOGGer is freeware, Windows only, requires .NET 3.5 SP1. If you give it a try, let’s hear how it worked for you in the comments.
No Print in Chromium on Linux
Uncategorized June 2nd, 2009 by Shai Perednik
Now that my love affair with Chromium on my linux machine is past that spark stage, I’m reallizing some serious missing functions.
PRINT!!! You just can’t print, unless I’m doing something wrong. Right clicking, then clicking print does nothing. Javascript print buttons on web pages do nothing. Hell, there’s no option to at least save the dam page!
Just had to rant, but I forsee a bitter brake up if this isnt resolved in new build snapshots.
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