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Streakr, Discover a cleaner better organized StumbleUpon
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Imagine if you were to mix StumbleUpon, MyBlogLog, and Myspace you would get very close to Streakr. Streakr is a community based toobar much like the well liked and (recently acquired by eBay) toolbar from StumbleUpon. It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and that couldn’t be truer than with Streakr and Stumbleupon. If you like StumbleUpon you will Streakr, so why add another toolbar to your computer if StumbleUpon does everything that StumbleUpon does? The answer is that Streaker just does some things better. The back end of their forums and connecting with other streakrs are just better done. Stumble’s forums really feel like you are stumbling through communication while Streakr is straightforward and feels much like contacting members from MyBlogLog.
The personal pages leave a little to be desired and look a little too much like MySpace, I had issues uploading my picture for some reason however for the most part Streakr works as promised. Another downside I could find is the lack of categories, whether this was done for simplicity sake or not I cannot tell but I did miss a few categories that StumbleUpon had. Some of my friends had issues with installing yet another toolbar Despite the Categories and toolbar though I was able to find a plethora (yes I said plethora) of webpages and blogs that I had never seen on StumbleUpon. There also seemed to be better pages instead of spammy pages that StumbleUpon can display.
I really felt like I was using an early version of Stumble, clean, easy, and well cataloged content. I asked a few friends to try out Streakr and this is what I heard back.
In the end you add one more resource to your arsenal to find content and cool new websites, this one is definitely worth a look.
Quickly check your PageRank, Backlinks, and Much more
A while back ago we were getting ready to write a review on Xinu a web site stats site, when something went horribly wrong. The website went down and when it came back up the author was bailing “I can’t go on with the project because it’s too huge for me, maybe other people with much money can continue”. The fate of Xinu looked bleak. Then the author decided to release the code so others could continue. Recognizing a very awesome tool when we saw one we jumped on board now you can find Noheat.com’s own Xinu powered stats program…
To check your PageRank, Backlinks, and Much more just type a URL into our new Xinu powered stats and it will compile how many links you get from from Technorati, Alexa, and Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live Search, Lycos, Digg, Bloglines, Clipmarks, and a bunch of other services.
You can also download a snapshot PDF so you can come back later to see how much has changed.
Get WIRELESS Xbox Live for your Xbox 360 without adapter
We have a Xbox 360 in our house and recently got a free Xbox Live subscription and wanted to try it out, however our Xbox 360 is at the other end of the house, and low and behold it is not equipped with an Xbox 360 wireless adapter. It was also too long to run a cable from one end of the house to the other. The Xbox 360 adapter is around $100 in most stores so thats out of the question, seems silly to charge so much for a wireless adapter. So I thought long and hard about how to connect the Xbox to the internet so that we could access Xbox Live. A scour of ebay showed slightly cheaper adapters but you are still paying over $70 shipped to get it to you. There must be another way I thought, there must be a way to get wireless xbox live for your Xbox without the adapter. Turns out there is a couple different choices…
The first choice is to ditch Microsoft and go with Linksys. They sell an adapter made for gaming systems called the Linksys WGG11B, they usually go for around $30 to $50 dollar depending on whether or not you buy it new or not. Here’s a link…Linksys WGA11B
One other solution is to either rent or buy another cable modem for that part of your house. This is usually a simple connection because it can be really inexpensive to rent an additional cable modem. Of course over time the rental fees usually $5.00 end up costing you what a cable modem costs over the span of a year, and actually cable modems go for around $12 on ebay. As long as your cable company allows this and doesn’t need to do anything fancy to your cable modem this is a really nice option since your TV already has a cable connection. Cable Modems
The other solution I was able to come up with is to take an existing computer such as a laptop with a wireless connection and share the connection with your Xbox 360.
All you need to make this work are a laptop with wireless connection, a wireless router, and a crossover cable available most places fairly cheaply Here’s a link…Crossover Cable
Its actually pretty simple to do, follow the simple instructions below for sharing your wireless internet laptop with a Xbox 360.
1. Go to Start and go to “Connect To”, if you don’t have a “Connect to” folder in your start menu you can go to your Control Panel and click on “Network Connections”.
2. Right click on your Wireless Network Connection.
3. Once in the properties of your Wireless Network Connection go to the advanced tab. If you are inexpereienced at sharing a network connection out you can click on the Network Setup Wizard and follow the prompts for sharing out your connection.
4. Once you have setup your wireless laptop to share out the wireless connection through your regular network connection simply connect the crossover cable to the laptop and to the back to your Xbox 360 and sign up for live. Be sure to have setup a hotmail account if you don’t already have one, it is required for accessing live. Also beware that if your connection to your wireless router is spotty in that section of the house you will have issues connecting.
5. Enjoy your Xbox 360 live! If you need Xbox Live points here a couple really good deals…Xbox Live Points
The most fun you ever had voting
We all love to vote, and we all have opinions so what better to do with your time than to vote on people’s opinions. The peer pressure is on, did you vote the way everyone else did? This site makes it easy to create your own polls too. You can start polls on anything such as the best YouTube video, Music, Pictures, or Ideas. Then they mix in a bit of MyBlogLog with avatars of who voted on what and who they are. So get your vote on with Polls Boutique. You never had so much fun voting.
The Day the Internet Crashed
Eric Tipton: “…The screen froze up…there was nothing I could do. I tried to force quit all the open applications but nothing worked.”
White House: “…we deeply regret that a back of the internet does not exist at this time…we had always meant to get around to making one..” They also added “They are so mad at themselves right now.”
Water into Fuel found in Cancer Cure Quest
I definitely think this qualifies as cool technology. John Kansas was not looking for an answer to the energy crisis. He was looking for a way to cure cancer. Four years ago inspiration struck in the middle of the night. Why not use radio waves to kill the cancer cells. What he ended up finding was a way to burn salt water as a fuel…
