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    Simple Presentation, Annotation and Whiteboarding Presentation Tool: PDF Presenter


    Robin Good: PDF Presenter is an open-source free cross-platform presentation software which allows you to edit and annotate existing content, import images and draw annotations .With PDF Presenter you can type text next or over existing content, create multiple tabs with different whiteboards, and save your final work as a PDF file.System requirements: Java version 6 or higher.Works on PC, Mac and Linux.Free to use.More info and download it here: http://pdfpresenter.sourceforge.net/ (Thanks... Read more


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    Share What You See, Think and Where You Are While You're Calling: Sidecar


    Robin Good: Sidecar is a mobile app for iOS and Android which allows you to make voice calls while enabling you to share video, images, notes or a map showing where you are in relationship to your other caller while you are talking.Key features: a) See What I See Video: Sidecar users can share amazing real-time videos of what’s happening around them.b) Photos: Sidecar users can easily share vivid photos at... Read more


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    Beyond iBooks Author: Origami Engine Lets You Design Interactive Magazines Collaboratively


    Robin Good: If you are looking to an alternative to iBooks Author, Origami Design may fit perfectly that bill.  From the official site: "Origami Design is a desktop application for Mac with all the tools you need to design interactive magazines, books, or other publications.You can design the magazine/book/app by yourself or in collaboration with others. There is support for import and merging of projects.The Design tool exports a content... Read more


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    Free Videoconference For Up To 12 People with the New ooVoo for Facebook


    Robin Good: ooVoo has just released a new Facebook app allowing any user to videoconference at zero cost with up to 12 people.No registration or download is required.ooVoo is a downloadable software available for Mac/PC/Android/iOS.Business Insider article: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-next-billion-dollar-business-oovoo-branches-out-to-attract-new-users-2012-5 More info about ooVoo: http://www.oovoo.com Try it: https://apps.facebook.com/ooVoovideochat/ (Thanks to Jaana Nyström for discovering this one) See it on Scoop.it, via Online Collaboration Tools ... Read more


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    Google Hangouts On-Air Is Live: Check Your Account


    Robin Good: Google Hangouts On-Air is finally live and accessible inside my Google + account.You can check whether you can now live stream from Google+ and YouTube by logging in inside your G+ account and creating a new hangout. If you see the checkmark allowing you to activate the "on-air" feature, you are all set.Find out now: https://plus.google.com/hangouts For a full comprehensive guide on how to use Google Hangouts On-Air, please check... Read more


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    Fashion Curation: Create Your Own Custom StyleBook with StyleSaint


    Robin Good: StyleBook is a fashion and glamour curation platform allowing you to easily create rich illustrated stylebooks.StyleBook looks on the surface like most other visual boards, allowing you to easily follow other users, and to select and repin images to your stylebooks.From Techcrunch: "To use StyleSaint in its current form, log in with Facebook or Twitter and create an account, once logged on, you can choose from over 55K... Read more


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    Excel for SEO: The Full Illustrated Guide


    From the original article: "Many SEOs are now finding themselves faced with the task of doing fairly complex data analysis to improve their search strategies, and Excel adequacy is not quite enough. ...With this document I intend to share some of the most valuable aspects of Microsoft Excel for the SEO. It is far from an exhaustive look at everything that can be done with Excel, but hopefully a strong... Read more


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    Google Panda And Penguin Signals and Triggers: Special Report


    From the official press release: "This special Panda and Penguin report fully examines this issue with examples, videos, links and helpful information on the topic. A whole range of sources were used in gathering data for the report, including some YouTube videos released by Matt Cutts, a Google spokesperson.The report discusses many of the triggers or problems which could result in one's site being penalized by Panda or Penguin. The... Read more


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    The Open Marketplace for Guides, Tutorials and Lesson Plans: TeachersPayTeachers


    Robin Good: Teacherspayteachers is an online marketplace for guides, tutorials and lesson plans which any educator, trainer, professor and indipendent publishers. Materials can be published and shared freely or for a proce tag."Having trouble coming up with a lesson plan for your Language Arts class this semester?Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a website where you could purchase and download such materials at your leisure?Teachers Pay Teachers, a company... Read more


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    Storytelling Advice - Inside the Story: an eBook Curating Inspirational Ideas from Great Storytellers


    Robin Good: My personal thanks go to Liz Wilson on the Paper.li Community Blog, where she has published a great article about Adam Westbrook's fantastic eBook "Inside the Story" (I bought a copy after reading her review) where he collects and curate inspirational ideas and anectodes from 24 digital storytellers.According to the author, the eBook was inspired by a project by Seth Godin – an ebook created collaboratively."The key word is... Read more


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    The Microsoft's New Social Network: So.cl


    "Over the weekend, Microsoft quietly launched an experimental social network called So.cl. which combines facets of social networking, search, and media sharing with a user interface resembling Google+.   Users are encouraged to search for information about a particular topic, then compile the best results - textual content, images and videos - into a single post.   So.cl is initially targeted to students. It may end up being useful to that... Read more


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    Monetize Every Video Impression on Any Screen: Tremor Video


    For Publishers: Tremor Video delivers a video income engine for publishers and developers to monetize every ad impression on any screen. Publishers and developers connect with numerous ad sources and partners from a single control center to capture quality brands and the top dollars they command.   For Advertisers: Tremor Video is hoping to avoid boring old display ads. With the release of their new platform it could be easier for... Read more


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    The Curated Toolkit for iPad Owners: AppStart for iPad (2012 Edition) for iPad


    Robin Good: I feel that curated selections of "apps" by a trusted source is definitely an area where people will be willing to pay to get good advice while saving time and money to choose what tools to use on their new iPad.  The new interesting aspect is that the availability of different apps and software has increased so much that the ability for someone to provide reliable advice and selection of what... Read more


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    Google Penguin Update and What Bing Suggests To Do: Diversify Out of Search


    From the original article by Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Land: "Duane Forrester, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, wrote a blog post on the Bing Search blog named Penguins & Pandas Poetry.The post is about Google’s latest Penguin update and how SEOs and webmasters need to be better prepared for such updates.The basic advice is simple, SEOs and webmasters need to do one thing – diversify.Duane is not just... Read more


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    Crowdsourced Business Models: A Guide To Create Revenue With The Help of Everyone Else


    Robin Good: If you are looking for a good introductory guide to the use of crowds for the generation of revenue and the extended monetization of existing line of products/services, I definitely recommend giving a good look to this guide prepared by Ross Dawson and Steve Bynghall.In the guide you can find out why crowdsourced business models are so promising and why they are being adopted rapidly by the major... Read more


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    Contemporary Art Curation with Kapsul.org


    Robin Good: Kapsul is a web-based platform for the collaborative creation and editing of contemporary art images, and other art-oriented, visual artworks.Kapsul allows you to easily add any image, text, PDF, video or artist information to any Kapsul, either manually or via a dedicated bookmarklet.From the official site: "Kapsul is a platform for collaboratively creating collections of images, videos, and texts online.Kapsul aims to help contemporary art curators, artists, educators,... Read more


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    eBook Pricing: Pros and Cons of Pricing an Ebook at .99 Cents


    Robin Good: Is it better to sell your eBook at .99 cents, or at a higher price? Obviously it depends onwhether you are an established author or a novice writer, and on what you write about, as there are as many good reasons to price your ebook at .99 cents as there for not doing so."...What price is too low? Too high? Of course, like many other issues in the... Read more

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Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars - The Complete Guide Part 1: Why We Need It

The time it takes to follow and go through multiple web sites and blogs takes tangible time, and since most sources publish or give coverage to more than one topic, one gets to browse and scan through lots of useless content just for the sake of finding what is relevant to his specific interest. Even in the case of power-users utilizing RSS feed readers, aggregators and filters, the amount of junk we have to sift through daily is nothing but impressive, so much so, that those who have enough time and skills to pick the gems from that ocean of tweets, social media posts and blog posts, enjoy a fast increasing reputation and visibility online.


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What we need to get much better at is scaling that system so you don’t have to pay attention to everything, but you don’t miss the stuff you care about...
Ev Williams at a Girls in Tech event at Kicklabs
via Stowe Boyd's blog

Real-time news curation, or what I call "newsmastering", is the art of finding, aggregating, filtering, selecting, curating and republishing high-quality news stories on a very specific theme, topic, or for a particular audience interest, problem, passion.

It grows out of the need to make sense of this very need to filter and make sense of the enormous amount of information that is available out there and that keeps increasing by the hour.

Real-time news curation, is also an emerging, new online professional role, the news curator, or newsmaster in sorting, editing, enriching and picking the most relevant news and stories on specific topics-themes.

Traditional newspapers curated news content from their associated news wire agencies, affiliated news bureaus and direct reporters, to create a bit-of-everything top-down/broadcast characterized by a mass-communication approach.

In the case of real-time news curation, it is the user who selects his preferred topics and his trusted curator / newsmaster and then subscribes to it via a feed, social channel or newsletter.

As individuals become increasingly more media literate they increasingly select their personally trusted news curators on specific topics, rather than relying on the more superficial and generic information streams provided to them by traditional news channels.

Thematic and topic-specific news channels have greater affinity with the natural flow of information on the Internet. They intercept and provide valuable news information to those specifically interested in them, filtering out the junk and picking up the most relevant items.

This, I believe is the direction in which we are haded and the modality in which human beings will keep themselves updated in the near future.

If until yesterday you have relied on generalists on main TV channels and newspapers to "present" and report to you the news they got themselves from other sources, wouldn’t it be a step forward if now you could get:

a) The specific type of news you wanted

b) from those trusted ones you believe to be "in the know" in your field of interest?

That’s right; individual experts or small teams who curate topic-specific news channels by selecting the best of all the news out there on the topic they have built authority and expertise for (while disclosing and providing you with a link for each and every source).

This eight-part guide is dedicated to explaining and illustrating what these emerging news curators do, what is the difference between them and automatic aggregation, what skills and tools they require and what their future is going to look like. More specifically:

  • What real-time news curation is,
  • why it is going to be so relevant,
  • how it came to be,
  • how it is done,
  • what tools and skills you need to do it,
  • what are the tools and technologies needed,
  • which are the existing services and tools,
  • which is the ideal news curation system features set,
  • what is the future going to look like.

Here is everything you need to know to understand how we are going to manage the information overload and what real-time news curation, or newsmastering, is all about.

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Robin Good
  • Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 2: Aggregation Is Not Curation
    We are no longer just consumers of content, we have become curators of it too. In Part 1 of this Guide I have introduced why we really need real-time news curation and what is the basic idea behind it (Part 1 - Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars - The Complete Guide Part 1: Why We Need It). In Part 2 I want to continue illustrating what "real-time news curation"...
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    Robin Good

  • Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 3: Types And Real-World Examples
    What's more important? To save editors time and abilities in finding and reporting the most relevant stories so that they can dwell more on content production, or to leverage to-the-max the power of new media technologies such as automated aggregators, search engines, or social analysis tools, to extract on auto-pilot the best content and news available out there? Photo credit: dizeloid In part III of this guide to real-time news curation (Part...
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    Robin Good

  • Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 4: Process, Key Tasks, Workflow
    What are the tasks involved in the real-time news curation process? What does exactly a news curator do? Photo credit: Carl Swahn In Part 1 of this Curation Guide I have explained the reasons why news curation has become a necessity. Part 2 was devoted to explain the difference between automatic news aggregation and human-powered manual curation. In Part 3 I have curated a visual list of both aggregated and curated...
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    Robin Good

  • Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 5: The Curator Attributes And Skills
    What skills do I need to have if I want to be an effective real-time news curator? Can I just pick the best headlines and links on my topic of interest or do I need to do know / do more? What makes a great news curator stand out from those who do automatic aggregation or from bloggers who create simple news stories lists? Photo credit: thesuperph In the previous parts of...
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    Robin Good

  • Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 6: The Tools Universe
    What tools do I need to do "content curation"? Do I need a different technology if I want to curate the news and not the rest? How about if I want to curate only video clips. Is there something just for that? How many "curation" tools are out there and what are the key differences among them? Photo credit: Robin Good After having spent time understanding why content curation fulfills such...
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    Robin Good

  • Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 7: Business Applications And Trends
    What are the business opportunities for real-time news and content curation? Are there key business drivers that companies can leverage to build new added-value content services? What are the major trends that will be driving the content curation marketplace? How will newspaper and magazines take advantage of such new emerging business models to keep their business afloat? Photo credit: ozgurdonmaz After having analyzed what are the reasons that are making content curation...
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    Robin Good

  • Web Design: The Emergence Of Page Apps
    A web designer creates beautiful layouts for the web content of his customer. The customer is happy at first, but as he grows more knowledgeable about the web and its possibilities, he starts asking new layout changes, integration of new features and more. Photo credit: Peshkova What happens next is that the designer grows angry to the customer instead of rejoycing for the new work, knowing that changes and adjustments are more...
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    Robin Good

  • Content Curation And The Future Of Search: The Howard Rheingold's Interview
    Are content curation and the future of search converging? Who will you trust when it comes to find out what alternatives to a problem are out there and you have only an Internet connection? How much individual freedom do you want to sacrifice to an algorithm, no matter how accurate? Photo credit: Robin Good But why, you may rightly ask, to question Google or other search engines ability to sort and classify...
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    Robin Good

  • Create Online Surveys: Guide To The Best Free Services
    Are you looking for a web-based service that allows you to create and publish a professional online survey? Do you need to create an online survey but are not too sure about what service to use? In this MasterNewMedia guide you can find the best available online survey services and some information to help you choose your ideal one. Photo credit: John Takai Online surveys main application is to help you get...
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    Daniele Bazzano

  • How To Host Engaging Online Events: Key Principles
    How do you transform a webinar or an Internet conference into a memorable, highly engaging and useful event? What are the key areas in which one needs to work to move online events from one-way presentations, with zero interaction and involvement, to highly engaging learning experiences where everyone gets to participate? Photo credit: Andres Rodriguez In this introductory guide to the key strategies to host memorable and engaging online events, Adriano...
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    Adriano Pianesi and Amy Lenzo - Systems Thinker

  • What Makes A Great Curator Great? How To Distinguish High-Value Curation From Generic Republishing
    Today content curation is "sold", promoted and marketed as the latest and trendiest approach to content production, SEO visibility, reputation and traffic building. But is it really so? Is it really true that by aggregating many content sources and picking and republishing those news and stories that you deem great is really going to benefit you and your readers in the long run? Is the road to easy and effortless...
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    Robin Good

  • Curated Content Delivery Formats: Beyond News Portals and Magazines
    The new frontiers for content curation tools and services are in a) providing advanced collaborative ("social)" features and in b) introducing and integrating new and effective, highly visual, delivery formats. Photo credit: CaraMaria Curating content and news is not just about the selection, editing and contextualization of stories about a specific topic or theme, but it is increasingly about how these information items are (collaboratively) gathered, organized, grouped, displayed and in which...
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    Robin Good

  • The Complete Guide To The Social Media Exchange: Empire Avenue - Part 2
    Is Empire Avenue just a fad? Is EAv just another social network and maybe a fascinating new type of news reader (like Robert Scoble writes), or is it really - like I think - a whole new ball game? Photo credit: JGraphic, Empire Avenue, mashed by Robin Good And assuming one wants to start playing it, what are the best strategies and approaches to make it work? In this second part of...
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    Robin Good

  • The Complete Guide To The Social Media Exchange: Empire Avenue - Part 1
    If you are curious to see what happens at the convergence between social networking, social influence and reputation, online engagement and gamification, I think it is about time you gave a good look, if you haven’t already done so, at Empire Avenue. Photo credit: JGraphic, Empire Avenue, mashed by Robin Good Empire Avenue is an online community game based on the idea of a stock market where you buy and sell shares...
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    Robin Good

  • Online Curation: The What, Why And How - An Interview With Micah Sifry
    Why is content curation so important? In this video interview, I recorded with Micah Sifry, co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, you can taste one more viewpoint and explanation of why news and content curation are becoming so important. And not only. Photo credit: Robin Good Micah Sifry states it clear and without any hesitation: such abundance of content and of people producing it offers great business opportunities that are...
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    Robin Good

  • The Google Panda Guide: Part 5 - The AdSense Dilemma
    Hey AdSense publisher, are you really ready for Google Panda? Almost four months have gone since Panda, the new quality content filter from Google that has hit the web making thousands of web sites close business in the name of giving greater space to real quality content. Not to web sites that have been built and maintained exclusively for the purpose of making money through ads. Photo credit: Vlue - iStockphoto It's...
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    Robin Good

  • The Google Panda Guide: Part 4 - The Future I Would Like To See
    Once I started realizing that the consequences of Google Panda on MasterNewMedia were not going to go away anytime soon, I completely stopped worrying about Google and begun devoting my time and resources to my most important asset: readers and fans. I also started to wonder whether there could be a way, maybe in the future, to escape from this apparent Google stranglehold without simultaneously becoming also a victim of...
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    Robin Good

  • The Google Panda Guide - Part 3: What To Look For, What To Clean
    What do you need to do to recover from the Google Panda penalization? Is there something specific you need to look at? How long it will take to recover? The answer to all of these three questions is: nobody knows (yet) for sure. Not at least until a consistent number of Panda-hit web sites recovers from it fully and shares what it has done to do so. Photo credit: Eric Isselée...
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    Robin Good

  • The Google Panda Guide - Part 2: Machine Learning And The New Mindset
    If you have been hit heavily by the Google Panda penalization, like MasterNewMedia has, one of the hardest thing to do is to understand what is the appropriate frame of mind to get into before starting to fix, modify or correct possible problems. Photo credit: Eric Isselée - iStockphoto and Ashwin KA Rushing to prune and modify content on your web site may not really get you the results you need,...
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    Robin Good

  • The Google Panda Guide - Part 1: What It Is, How It Works, Collateral Damage
    MasterNewMedia, is officially among the Panda victims. The site was hit first by the new Google Farmer update, also known as “Panda”, on February 24th, and then again, even more strongly on April 11th 2011. The impact on the revenue front has been dramatic. Photo credit: Eric Isselée - iStockphoto In this MasterNewMedia multi-part guide devoted to Google Panda, you will be able to better understand what Panda is, how it...
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    Robin Good

  • Organizing An International Festival: The Back Story At IJF Perugia
    Though I am not a great fan of conferences and events (as I find them still utilizing old-fashioned delivery formats, which keep and increase the separation between audience and presenters) there are key factors that can make me become a most passionate event fan. Photo credit: Mlenny Photography Specifically: Venue: The event is designed around a special location or place, where the "being there" is not just the same as sitting inside an...
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    Robin Good

  • How To Create An Explanation Whiteboard Video Tutorial: Key Principles And Approach
    How do you create a professionally-looking explanation video that illustrates in simple words what your company does and how it solves its customers problems? Given the wide number of options on the market, the little time available to choose and the little familiarity a new client may have with your business and the services it provides, if you cannot explain rapidly and in simple words what you and your company...
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    Matthew Dunn - Say It Visually

  • Social Media For Non-Profit And Charities: Key Trends And Adoption Rates
    If you are interested in finding out the rate of organizational adoption of social media by the largest charities in the US, this new report written by Nora Barnes and sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research provides all of the information you are looking for. Photo credit: Eyeidea and AlexMax Key highlights from this report include: a) For the first time in the past four years, every charity...
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    Nora Ganim Barnes - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Entrepreneurship: The Full Story Of SEOmoz Told By Rand Fishkin
    This is the story of SEOmoz, as I have heard it by sitting in the first row of a small but very attentive audience at the LUISS University in Rome, Italy. The storyteller is Rand Fishkin himself, the father and founder of an SEO company which has become synonym of high value tools and services, competence, and a natural inclination to share valuable information before asking something in return. Photo credit:...
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    Robin Good

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Where To Submit Your RSS Feed Or Blog
As more and more people get involved with the Internet and as more Web sites, blogs, news services and other online resources ...read more


How To Fix A Slow Computer
Computer too slow? If you have not had yet the experience of working on a PC that moves like a snail, you are a unique, rare human being.
Even the New York Times asked the same question a few days ago... read more


Where To Find Free Images For Your Website
Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important article, essay or news report is already a challenge for many. Imagine ...read more


How To Send Large Files Without Email
If you need to send a large file to someone without using email, you may want to know what services and tools are available without needing tech knowledge ...read more


How To Convert Bitmaps To Vector
In the early days of desktop publishing (1985-1990) I was fascinated with Adobe Illustrator and ...read more


How To Surf The Web Anonymously
Readers have provided a few sites that allow you to surf anonymously using a Web-based tool rather than downloading software ...read more


How To Find And Select Matching Color Combinations
One of the most difficult tasks for visual communicators is selecting harmonious color combinations. Though we all feel...read more


How To Convert Powerpoint To Flash
Why Would You Ever Want to Convert a Powerpoint Presentation into a Flash File? Here is a detailed list of the key advantages ...read more


Where To Submit Your Podcasts
Podcasting is making audio files (most commonly in MP3 format) available online so that users can automatically download the ...read more


How To Make Money With Your Blog
Which are the best and most effective ways to make a profit on your blog or independent news site?
Prompted by ... read more


How To Make Low-Cost International Phone Calls
Do you want to make international calls at the lowest rates possible? If you didn't know, there are many Internet services that allow you ...read more


Free Video Stock Footage
The goal of this Master New Media guide is to save you from purchasing quality (and expensive) DVD catalogs of stock video footage and... read more


 


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