Big apologizes, I really have been way to busy. Today, I’ll show you a small, useful Web 2.0 site, How To Say That Name. As you probably already figured, it is a database of names with accurate pronunciations..duh!
It’s a great site with a clean interface and lots of names. Not much else I can praise it on, except that it does its job!
I’ll try to get some more posts on tonight, but please tell your friends about this blog and help us grow!
I’m sure at some point your music collection begins to bores you and you want something new, but to your liking. The thought of going through thousands of 30-second song clips on iTunes seems too daunting. So what should you do? That’s when Andrei Oghina decided that find the right taste shouldn’t be something difficult and tedious. Andrei came up with Taste Kid. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t the first “suggestion” site, nor will it be the last. However, it is one of the better ones and it’s aesthetically pleasing, which is always a good plus. Of couse, the most important thing is its functionality. I searched Linkin Park and I got the following results:
I looked through Taste Kid’s suggestions and I already have content from nine of the artists listed. I also found some other great artists that I didn’t know before!
Taste Kid’s definitely hits it right on the mark with its great results and I definitely recommend it with two thumbs up!
Check it out right here and tell us how it went for you below!
By the way, I wanted to bring up something. Please post comments if you have the time because it can help us develop better with our visitors in mind!
If you read about our previous post about Mygazines and that it was a great source for magazine article, the website unfortunately shut down due to high costs. (We can blame it all on the Republicans…) 
This is what Mygazines says:
Dear valued members, visitors and publishers,
Due to monetary reasons and the state of the global economy, we unfortunately must close mygazines.com. We simply ran out of funds to support the daily operations.
We thank you for your patronage.
If you are a publisher interested in understanding more about our model and vision for the future of the publishing industry going forward, or to discuss our Business to Business model opportunities, please email us at mygazines@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
The Mygazines Team
Besides blaming the Republicans and the Bush Administration, we need a solution! If you got the time and the budget to run Mygazines, contact Mygazines, I suppose…
I agree with you…making flash cards for your next exam is hard. 
Did you ever wish you can just type up your flash cards or use existing ones to save your hands for being sore? It’s possible now with Quizlet. Quizlet is a service where students can collaborate together and study. There are archives of existing vocabulary words for a variety of topics and best of all, you can make your own flash cards! The site is well organized and has good database of users, which equals more content. 
It’s was started by Andrew Sutherland who is currently a junior in high school. Check out Quizlet and you’ll be surprised what this high school student did by himself!
Scenario 1:
You’re sitting in a classroom and you didn’t study. The professor leaves the room (I really doubt this is going to happen) and you have your cellphone. Of course, you can text your friend, but he might get the problem wrong. Then’s their ChaCha. You give them a text and you have a detailed paragraph only a few minutes later!
Scenario 2:
You’re out-of-state and you have twenty bucks on you. Your car is out of gas and you just pulled over. The gas station in front of you is too expensive. You can always call your family, 5 hours away, to come and bring you some money or you can ask ChaCha about the cheapest gas station in the area.
ChaCha is a service that you can call or text and ask questions. The service is completely free and the answers are accurate! You can text ChaCha (242242) or call 1-800-2ChaCha and get answers in minutes! The service is quite popular and has good reviews all over the internet! So even if you don’t need answers, check out ChaCha for the heck of it!
This is just a quick tip. I was monitoring Hoopstick and I realized that the prices are generally much cheaper towards the late afternoon. If it’s a popular item, there is a chance it may be sold out, so it’s basically a small gamble. Give to Hoopstick.com and see if you can make the right “stick”!
Creative domain names and fake identities usually don’t have anything to do with each other. To those of you looking for a domain name, I’m sure you googled “creative domain names” before. Well, here’s a name generator that actually works. It shows untaken domain names that I would have never thought of before! Also, the site also generates fake identities. You might not think that you need them but if you are on one of those survey sites…they can be quite handy! I’ll review some real survey sites later. Visit the website here. There’s a screenshot below too!
To those of you a little behind in the tech world right now, Google has just released its own version of a web browser, known as Google Chrome. I’m using the new browser as I type this right now and I really can’t find anything not to dislike. However, there are some things that Google could have added. I like a simple feel but there really isn’t enough features. Many of those small things available in Firefox 3 just aren’t available. And they should get started on a Chrome Add-on program as well, so there’d be more functionality.
Here’s what CNET thinks Chrome should have and I support them every bit.
1. Profile roaming between multiple browsers. This may be a pipe dream, but if Foxmarks for Firefox has proved anything, syncing up your bookmarks between multiple machines is awesome. Doing the same with passwords, settings, and history would be even better. Considering Google already has a way for your browser to send data back to the mothership, and a hosted Web history service of its own, a little sync using my Google account doesn’t seem that hard does it?
2. Better bookmark management. Speaking of bookmarks, the bookmarking system in Chrome is about as basic as it gets. “Stripped-down” might be a better way to describe it. On the outset, it seems as robust as Firefox 3’s with a really simple one-click way to save links. Where the system falls apart is the lack of tools for organization, and a complete lack of a back-up tool to save your short (or long) list of favorite sites. Of course, a bookmarks plug-in like Delicious would help sort this out, which brings us to the next yearning…
Chrome’s bookmark management is incredibly sparse compared with some of the more mature offerings from browsers like Firefox 3. (click to enlarge)
(Credit: CBS Interactive)
3. Plug-ins. Google has acknowledged that plug-ins are on the road map, which is a good thing. Here’s how the search giant can totally one-up Mozilla, though: let me install and make changes to extensions without having to restart the browser. Nothing is worse than having 30 tabs open and having to restart, even if it remembers what I had open before. This reminds me…
4. Saved sessions/Warning messages when closing multiple tabs. Firefox’s little warning for when you’re closing a group of tabs was a huge lifesaver in version two. Firefox 3 brought with it a way to save that grouping of open tabs for later. Chrome has neither of these features. Accidentally closing your browser with a slew of tabs open means they’re gone for good–that is unless you set it from the default option of clearing what you were looking at. Chrome is also nice enough to tell you some of the most recently closed tabs back on its special start page, but that’s it.
This warning feature in Firefox has saved this author many hours of hardship over the years. Sadly it is missing from Google’s Chrome.
(Credit: CBS Interactive)
5. A full-screen mode. I love the minimalism of Chrome, but sometimes I just want those extra 60-90 vertical pixels back. Give me a keyboard shortcut for this too, and I’ll be in screen hog heaven.
6. A more customizable interface. The blue is neat, but getting that great deep purple found in incognito mode is enough of a tease to make me want to change the way it looks based on how I’m feeling. Plus, you’ve taken away the nice special Windows-theme coloring I had when you got rid of the top of the application, so let me choose how I want it to look. Bonus points for a tie-dye mode or something that changes depending on what time of day it is–like your personalized homepage service iGoogle.
Dragging tabs in and out of windows is really cool. Trying to do this with sites you’ve designated as applications does not work though.
7. A way to drag “applications” back into the main browser. The option to turn a certain site into a self-contained browser window with a stripped-down interface is great. However, the inability to drag it back into an open Chrome browser window is maddening when you’re trying to re-open some real estate on the task bar. You can do this with existing tabs and windows, and it works great.
8. A Mac/Linux version. The lack of a Mac client has left the growing percentage of Mac users in a bit of a tizzy. Worse yet, based on Google’s track record with some of its other cross-platform software offerings like Google Earth and Google Desktop search, the Mac has fared a little worse with slower release schedules and less features than its PC siblings. Hopefully new features will be rolled out to all the platforms at about the same time.
9. A pop-up blocker that blocks. Clearly Google is trying to shake things up with a pop-up blocker that really should be called a “pop-up relocator,” since it not only lets them open but also load. Frankly, this drives me nuts since I have to close them down to get them off the screen. Also if it’s really important and something I meant to click, I have to go drag it off from the bottom of the screen.
10. A regular old search box. Yes progress is good and the “omnibar” does a pretty slam-dunk job of getting new searches going, but let’s get some of the ambiguity away from that thing and have an option to leave it for URLs only. Also, a separate search box would let me pick from the other multitude of search providers in addition to Google without compromising my screen real estate.
Source: via [CNET]
