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 Posted - July 09 2009 : 20:05:44
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Question: Daine asks, "How can I share pictures or files that are too big for e-mail with my friends?"
Answer: With our digital cameras making larger and larger photos, e-mail can't always handle it; so this is a really good question. We've talked about mediafire.com before on the show, and that's a good way to share those large files, but it's not the only way. There are sites like Flickr, YouTube, etc. that let you post media files: Flickr for photos, YouTube for videos. Services like SkyDrive, from Microsoft, allow you to share large files of any type, not just media files. SkyDrive in particular gives you 25 GB of space for free. Individual files may be up to 5 GB in size each. That should allow you to share just about anything with just about anybody. You share files by sending an e-mail from within SkyDrive that includes a link to download the file. With SkyDrive, you can have both public and private files.
Cool Site: BibleGateway.com: BibleGateway.com is a website that has over 100 Bible versions and 50 languages. 20 of those versions are English. Other languages tend to have only one or two versions available, but Spanish has seven. Some of these in some languages are only New Testaments and others are full Bibles. You can search all of the versions by chapter & verse, by keyword, or topic. The site has been around since 1995, and it basically does one thing, and does it very well. You can set which version you'll search by default, and set preferences that limit which versions you can select; good for weeding out languages you don't speak, or translations you don't particularly care for. Reading plans and audio Bibles are available, again in multiple languages and translations. You also can use Commentaries and Dictionaries as well, and if you're on the go (who isn't?), you can use Bible Gateway from your smartphone or PDA, and you can download e-books for some of the foreign-language versions that you can carry around. Finally, if you have a website of your own, you can add the Verse of the Day or a Bible Search box on it.
Cool Gadget: TV Tricklesaver: In today's economy, who doesn't want to save money? Besides, if Cap and Trade passes, our electric bills are going to increase. Well, the folks at TrickleStar have a new gadget, called the TV Tricklesaver. It will turn off any devices connected to it whenever you turn off the TV. This means that if you forget to turn off the DVD player, or the game console, it'll do it for you. Turn the TV back on, and your devices are powered right back up. It costs $34.95, but will eventually save more than that.
It's All "Geek" To Me: Avatar: This week's word, avatar, like many of our words, has different meanings used in the offline world. In the online world, an avatar is simply an image, or an animated character, that represents a real user of the system. For instance, on the Second Life website, you create an avatar that then interacts with the Second Life environment on your behalf. If you have a Nintendo Wii, you create what they call a Mii, which is really just an avatar. When you play the Wii games, your avatar is what you see on the screen.
Links
SkyDrive:
http://skydrive.live.com
Bible Gateway:
http://www.biblegateway.com
TV Tricklesaver at OhGizmo:
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/08/tv-tricklesaver-cuts-your-power-bills-by-cutting-power-to-your-home-theater/
Buy a TV Tricklesaver:
http://store.tricklestar.com/products/tricklesaver/
Avatar at TechTerms:
http://www.techterms.com/definition/avatar |
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