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Youtube is now in HD

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YouTube has always had the HD button in just about every video for a while now, but that wasn’t true HD. Before now YouTube has only supported a max of 720p which is still considered HD by most. But starting next week YouTube will begin allowing users to upload and view videos in 1080p true HD.

What does this mean? Every YouTube video uploaded in HD will be able to support 1080 vertical “lines” this means that videos will begin to display much clearer. Unless you are watching youtube videos on your TV you most likly will only see a slight improvement in quality and a much longer load time.

Find Wi-Fi Anywhere in the United States

If you take your laptop around town with you, you probably know how hard it is to find decent Wi-Fi service near you. Well with every problem there’s a solution.

There’s a very useful website called JiWire. They have a database of almost all the public Wi-Fi hotspots in the United States and various countries. With with the economy in the drains these days who has money to pay for Wi-Fi. Well you’re still in luck, many of the hotspots listed are free.

All you have to do is select your country, select a state/province, and tell them your city and zipcode. A list of hotels, bars and coffee shops in your area that provide Wi-Fi in your area will appear. You can then get a map to that location and see if they provide 802.11B or 802.11G.

What kind of experiences have you had when using free Wi-Fi?

How to: Keep Track of Your Money With Twitter

You use twitter, email, and text messaging every day to keep track of friends all over the world. But once your done having fun you have to actually get some work done.

Wouldn’t it be great if those services helped you get that work done. Xpenster is a new service that allows you to use a number of different services to help you keep track of your money. Heres how to Twitter with Xpenster’s service.

To get started go to the Xpenster website and register for a new account. After you login click on “Account” at the top of the page. You will then be presented with a number of options th choose from, just scroll down till you see “twitter” and click add.

You will then be asked to enter your twitter username (notice no password required). Once you have done that the xpenser twitter account(xpn) will then start following you.

You can then send direct messages to xpenser with updates about your money. For example if you wanted to post a new expense in the category of food you would post D Xpn dinner $25.00 #food. You can also record payments, all you have to do is post D Xpn received +$15.00 from #clientx.

Would you consider using twitter to manage your expenses?

Twitter Starts Serving Ads

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You’ve probably noticed that little box just below the user information on user profile pages. Well before now they’ve only linked to some internal pages of twitter.

Lately I’ve seen this question all over the web, “How does twitter make money?”. Well to put it simple, they don’t.But now twitter has started to advertise third party applications (for free).

The ads are unobtrusive and generally promote twitter related items so they blend nicely with the current layout. But the real question is how much does it cost to get your app featured in those new advertising spots. John Battelle said that Federated Media is sharing some of its revenues from ExecTweets but also notes that twitter has a history of promoting apps that they find interesting without receiving any compensation for it.  Read the rest of this entry »

How to Tweet Your Way Into a New Job

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Most people say that your resume should always be shorter than two sides of an A4 piece of paper. Well get ready to shorten that to less then 140 characters, because finding a job on twitter is about to get a lot easier

Twitter can be a great tool for finding a new job but the information is scattered all over the place. But thanks to a new website Twitter-Job-Searchengine all you have to do is type in the job you are interested in and you will be presented in a very organized fashion with a number of results

If you are going to try to get a job through twitter make sure that your web presence isnt going to damage your reputation. Just dont post anything stupid untill after you’ve signed the contract.

Joining Flickr and Twitpic

If you use twitter you probably use twitpic too. Twitpic is a service that allows you to post pictures to your twitter account. Twitpic offers a a link to your picture that is short enough to fit in your twitter post without going to another service like shorturl.

You probably want all the photos that you just uploaded to twitpic uploaded to your flickr too. Well now there is a new website that makes that task even easier.

Twitpickr is a website that allows you to migrate your pictures from twitpic to flickr. All you have to do is enter your twitter username and click start. Twitpickr will then start to search through your twitter feed for any twitpic links.

You wil then be prompted to select which pictures you want to upload to flickr. When you are done with that click upload.

You are then taken to flickr where you must log in. Once you have done that all your pictures will be magically coppied to your flickr account.

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Sites That Will Save You Cash

If you like to keep up with the latest gadgets and software you might be spending too much. With websites like RetailMeNot and DealLocker, you can find some hefty savings.

Frequent online shoppers probably know the benefits of shopping online, lower prices, the ability to shop whenever you want and the item you want will almost always be in stock. But you could be saving even more by checking known coupon websites Read the rest of this entry »

How to make any website look better

Are you tired of reading depressing news articles?

Well your in luck, there is a way to make anything look cheerfull on the web. Just check out Cornify. They will put sparkley cheerfull unicores and rainbows all over the website you are viewing.

I personaly think this free service is great for the people that check their stocks often. Chances are your stocks arnt doing well, but just click the corrnify link and it will instantly look better and more cheerfull.

Many of you are probably thinking to your self, How can i do this?

Well its easy. Just drag this link to your bookmark toolbar at the top of the window or just make it a standard bookmark. Then click it when ever you are in need of cheering up.

Now you should be able to feel happy through these depressing times