Must have gadgets
These are some seriously cool gadgets. I wouldn’t mind some of them. Some are only consepts, but I must say: they are great concepts.
Here they are. 
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Original article: creativecloseup
Don’t you think these are just great? I really wouldn’t mind the keyboard. 
Are you a Blogger?
Do you have a blog? What do you blog about?
My blog is about the internet and anything to do with Computers. I might blog about making money online one day and the next day I’ll blog about how to fix your hard drive.
Share you blogs link with us, and lets see what you blog about.
Post-it note experiment
I found this video while I was just browsing the internet last night. I think this is the best to waste office supplies. Working in an office has never looked like so much fun.
What is RSS feeds?
might be worth putting together a page to define RSS and hopefully shed some light on the topic.
Do you want to keep up to date with the latest posts on Gitui?
We have a number of ways that you can subscribe to this site and receive updates. The main one that our readers use is our RSS feed. But what is RSS?
What is RSS?
RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.
In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added.
The problems with bookmarking
- You as the web surfer had to do all the work
- It can get complicated when you are trying to track many websites at once
- You miss information when you forget to check your bookmarks
- You end up seeing the same information over and over again on sites that don’t update very often
RSS Changes Everything
What if you could tell a website to let you know every time that they update? In a sense, this is what RSS does for you.
RSS flips things around a little and is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information sent to you for you to read in your own time. It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published.
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to.
I find the ’subscription’ description helpful. It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates.
How RSS actually technically works is probably a lesson for another day but the key today is for you to understand why it’s good and how to use it.
Let me say right up front that I’m not the most technically savvy guy going around - but even I can use RSS. At first I found it a little strange to make the change from bookmarking to RSS but I found that when I started that I just couldn’t stop.
How to Use RSS
Get an RSS Reader - The first thing you’ll want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to hook yourself up with an RSS Feed Reader.
There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features - however a good place to start is with a couple of free and easy to use web based ones like Google Reader and Bloglines. Either one will do if you’re starting out (I use Google’s Reader) - as I say there are many others to choose from but to get started either of these are fairly easy to use and will help you work out the basics of RSS.
Both of these feed readers work a little like email. As you subscribe to feeds you’ll see that unread entries from the sites you’re tracking will be marked as bold. As you click on them you’ll see the latest update and can read it right there in the feed reader. You are given the option to click through to the actual site or move onto the next unread item - marking the last one as ‘read’.
The best way to learn how to use either Google Reader or Bloglines is to simply subscribe to some feeds and give it a go. Both have helpful help sections to get you up and running.
Note: other options to tracking websites that you might already be familiar with include using pages like MyYahoo, MyGoogle and MyMSN.
Find Some Feeds to Subscribe to - there are two places to look for a site’s feed:
- On the Site
- In Your Browser
On Site Subscription
Over the last few years you may have noticed a lot of little buttons and widgets appearing on your favorite sites and blogs. Little orange buttons, ‘counters’ with how many ‘readers a blog has, links called RSS, XML, ATOM and many more.
They come in all shapes and sizes. Here are a few you might have seen:
There are plenty more - but any time you see any of these buttons or anything like them it means that the site you are viewing almost certainly has a feed that you can subscribe to. In most cases it’s as simple as either copying and pasting the link associated with the button into your RSS Reader or clicking the button and following the instructions to subscribe using the feed reader of your choice.
Spore, most downloaded game
According to Torrent Freak, Spore has been downloaded more than 500,000 times on BitTorrent, and this number is increasing rapidly. Most critics agree that Spore is a great game. However, the users aren’t too happy with the absurd DRM restrictions that come with the game. EA decided that people who buy a legitimate copy of the game, are only allowed to install it three times. The idea behind DRM is that it will stop people from pirating the game, but in reality, it often has the opposite effect. As Forbes points out, many commenters on various BitTorrent sites now legitimize downloading this game because the official copies include some heavy and intrusive DRM.
But on the other hand, it is one of the best selling games at the same time.
Another week, another NPD chart detailing the best selling PC games in the USA for the week ending September 6. While some may not consider the appearance of Spore surprising, let alone magical, the game officially launched in the US on September 7 (!)–the day after the tracking period ended–suggesting that Spore managed to hit #2 without widespread availability.
1. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion Pack
2. Spore
3. Spore Creature Creator
4. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest
5. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
6. World Of Warcraft / Blizzard
7. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
8. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion Pack Limited Collector’s Edition
9. Warcraft III Battle Chest
10. Crysis
That it the list of the most sold games in the US for the time period.
Have you played spore? is it worth the buy?
