Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on December 06, 2006 by CyberNet.

So I just installed the MyBlogLog sidebar widget here and have to say that I really like it. Up until now I have seen it virally spreading its way through some of the blogs that I visit, like TechCrunch, Digital Inspiration, and Read/Write Web which is really what compelled me to try it out. Basically when you visit a site it will show you in the list of recent visitors such as the one that I have in the sidebar. It is actually pretty cool but you have to be a member in order for it to work.

They walk you through the necessary steps so that you can customize and tweak the sidebar widget until your heart is content and then they give you a little snippet of JavaScript code to insert. It is super easy but there is an underlying feature that I didn’t realize it had…stat tracking. When you signup they give you a free 3-day trial to see if you like the “MyBlogLog Pro” which includes the real-time statistics tracking (pictured above). I currently use Google Analytics but that is often delayed several hours and sometimes gets a little screwed up. MyBlogLog stats is very nicely laid out and only costs $3 per month…and I am actually considering doing that. It would be nice to have some real-time stat tracking capabilities.

If you decide to sign-up for MyBlogLog, or are already signed up, make sure to join the CyberNet community.

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This article was written on March 07, 2007 by CyberNet.

Anybody can call themselves a doctor, but only a handful have done the work and can prove it. Really, you could call yourself anything you’d like so that you sound distinguished. That’s exactly what one of Wikipedia’s contributor’s did. Ryan Jordan claimed to be a professor of theology to give himself some credibility, yet he was a 24 year-old college dropout.

Now Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales is saying that they’re going to implement a plan where those who cite professional expertise on the site will have to have their credentials verified. Jordan ended up in a position with Wikia where he was an arbitrator.  This meant that he was in a trusted position where he had a lot of control over the content, and what stayed, and what didn’t. He had the power to override any edits made by other people.

What makes Wikipedia unique is that there’s anonymity to it, and there’s a huge variety of topics that are covered. While all of the information may not be reliable, Wikipedia does work to make them credible by hiring people like Jordan to cite the information.

 Because it’s popular, it becomes a target for vandalism. Back in January, they took new steps to prevent vandalism ‘so that immature people can’t go and destroy a page and fill it with nonsense.

This next step to require proof of credentials will only help Wikipedia become a better source of information, and hopefully that will help them keep their presence in schools and other higher education institutions where Wikipedia is currently being banned. One example of this is Middlebury College where they decided Wikipedia does have value, but it’s not an appropriate source.

While I agree it’s not an appropriate source for research, it does have a lot of important information that you could always verify the validity of on your own.

If you claim you know your stuff on Wikipedia, prove it!

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This article was written on September 30, 2006 by CyberNet.

A few weeks ago, Ashley put together a great post that walked you through several options for resizing your images. It gave you some ideas for both online resizers and software resizers but it looks like a new one has emerged.

ResizR is an online image resizer/manipulator that you can use in just seconds. You can choose the width of the image but it will not let you adjust the height. It also lets you rotate the image but the coolest feature, in my opinion, is the ability to directly enter in a URL to an image and have it resize it. You’ll no longer have to download the image to your computer and then upload it to have it resized. This will save me a little time and it will help keep my computer clean by not cluttering it with two different sizes of the same images.

If you really want to take advantage of the image resizing capabilities then you should download the Firefox extension that they offer on their homepage. It will let you click on an image and select the ResizR option which will redirect you to a page where you choose the options for the image.

The only downside about the service is that it only supports JPG files which is a little disappointing. I use GIF and PNG on a regular basis, so I am out of luck on those. Check it out, you may like it. I’m sure I’ll be using this service every now and then.

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Last year I wrote about how to use a service Microsoft acquired back in 2005 called FolderShare. It’s purpose is to keep directories/files on multiple computers in sync with each other without needing a remote server to host any of the files. That way the user’s computers are really the only limitation as to what can be shared. If you have a slow Internet connection and a lot of files it will take quite some time to sync them all, but with how widespread broadband is becoming that won’t likely be a concern of a lot of people.

Microsoft has finally gotten around to adopting FolderShare into their Windows Live program, and they have just released a version that sports a completely new interface. At first glance I would have to say that they are reusing many icons from their newly launched SkyDrive service, but that’s not a bad thing:

I’m happy to see that Microsoft hasn’t forgotten about this software because a lot of people actually use it. It’s one of the few applications that can actually remotely sync computers that are running on different platforms (Windows and Mac) which is a pretty big deal, and the fact that it is free is sure to win your heart.

FolderShare Homepage (Windows Vista/XP/Server 2003 or Mac OS X required)

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This article was written on January 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

Remember Wikiasari? We reported about it back in December as the search engine Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was exploring with. At the time, there was a screenshot floating around the Internet that was rumored to be for Wikiasari.  Well, it wasn’t.  We were pretty excited about the “tag bar” pictured at the top of that screenshot, and hoped that Wikiasari was going to still have some of those cool features we listed. Instead, that infamous screenshot actually belongs to Wikiseek, which will officially be announced on Wednesday.

As it turns out, Wikiseek’s prototype was called WikiSearch which was the name on the original screenshot. The purpose of WikiSeek is to search Wikipedia pages and those sites that have been linked to from Wikipedia. This is an alternative or a replacement to the built-in Wikipedia search. I’ll probably find myself using it as a replacement because it will return more relevant, quality results. And with the addition of the “linked to” websites, after doing a search you should have a great set of results to sift through (not to mention you’re less subject to spam)!

What’s even better about the results is that it includes a tag cloud which contains the Wikipedia categories containing your original search term.  You’ll be able to filter your results by clicking on the categories that you feel would be most appropriate (you’d do this using the ”tag bar” up at the top). The first three results on every page highlighted in blue are all from Wikipedia, and the remaining results are complied of the “linked to” items.

A few extras that they’ve thrown in to make searching easier for you:

• Search plugin for Firefox, IE7, and Opera
• Firefox extension that changes the way Wikipedia looks on your browser by adding a “WikiSearch” button to the Wikipedia search box.

Wikiseek was started by SearchMe who plans on additional search engines in the future.  They have said that much of the revenue from WikiSeek will go to the Wikimedia Foundation which means that they’re obviously wanting to help out the Wikipedia community.  I spent some time this morning doing a few searches, and it’s great. Probably the most beneficial feature is the “refine by category” using the tags up at the top.  If you use Wikipedia, you’ll definitely want to check this one out.

News Source: TechCrunch

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