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It’s important to monitor how your blog host provider is performing. You may only have one chance to attract a visitor from a search query or a backlink to your blog and if your site is down temporarily for some reason, chances are they may never retry your link and discover your blog. There are a number of free services which will monitor your site and email or SMS you when it’s down, and back online again. I’ve been using the website monitoring service Montastic for about a year now and I’m quite happy with them. The free plan actually lets you monitor up to three sites with an interval down to every 30 minutes. Each site account also includes an RSS feed.

Of course it doesn’t have to be your blog that you monitor, could be any site you’re interested in. The reason I mention this now is because I’ve noticed that of late my blog host Bluehost isn’t providing the uninterrupted service it used to, so I must contact them and find out why. Here’s a snapshot of email alerts I’ve received over the past week from Montastic. You can see that my blog was down for parts of most days.

I have another site with a different host which I’m also monitoring and it isn’t experiencing anything like this sort of downtime so it’s time to put in a ticket with Bluehost.

So I can recommend Montastic, but other free blog monitoring services were reviewed in a Mashable post back in April.

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It’s really hard to predict how PCs and laptops will evolve over the coming years but with the success of the iPad and the forthcoming launch of a number of tablets including a possible PalmPad from HP, it seems certain that tablets and touchscreen enabled devices are going to play an increasingly important role in our digital lives.

For years now, we’ve had touchpads on laptops and netbooks and most of us have become quite adept at using them. I personally still prefer to plug in a mouse as I find it easier to use. One of the problems with the touchpad is that it’s possible to lightly brush over it when typing and inadvertently move the insertion point in your document. There’s a good recent article on Digital Inspiration about disabling the touchpad when you don’t need it.

But when you think about it, touching a metal pad to move a cursor on a screen is perhaps slightly removed from what we really want to do. How much better to be able to touch a screen and say drag files and folders round. Touchscreens have obviously been around for quite some time now, but the impetus from touchscreen smartphones like the iPhone and now the iPad tablet seems to be pushing us increasingly towards touchscreen devices. I still think the mouse will be with us for some time to come on the desktop PC. Ergonomically, it’s not quite so comfortable to touch a monitor screen on a desk at eye level directly in front of you over long periods but certainly for laptops and netbooks where the screen is much lower, a touchscreen plus keyboard or a full tablet device seem to be the obvious evolution of the interface.

So over the coming years, I think we’re going to see more tablet PCs, touchscreen laptops and touchscreen netbooks. Or perhaps I’m just stating the obvious here. How do you think the user interface will evolve? Would you want a touchscreen on your netbook? Or are you going to move completely to a tablet?

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It’s possible to run a small office/home office (SOHO) set-up with a completely free operating system, software and internet services… but do you? Are there any commercial packages or paid online services you consider ‘must-haves’? I thought I’d quickly run through my paid/free stance and I’d love to hear your thoughts although I don’t think we need to get into a discussion on ‘acquiring’ commercial software for free.

Free operating system

If you run a Linux system, you’ll be familiar with free operating systems and open source software. I run Ubuntu Netbook Edition on my Acer Aspire netbook and I’m just about to try out Linux Mint on my second desktop. What holds me back from completely moving to Linux is my day job where I have to be able to work on Microsoft Word files. More on that later. I’m running Windows 7 on one desktop. Of course in the Windows world, once you’ve bought the OS, you can run a completely free set-up too.

Free software

I run a small office/home office (SOHO) set-up and work from home. Pretty much all the software I use is free or open source. However, I do some work in the publishing sector and they still rely very much on Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat. Many authors submit work in Word doc format (rarely docx I find) and authors and publishers usually expect work to be returned in doc format with Track Changes turned on. It’s a real shame that open source software hasn’t really caught on in the publishing field yet. So I have to use Microsoft Office to cope with clients who use commercial software. Yes, you could convert Word doc format to Open Office Writer odt format, turn on track changes in Open Office Writer then convert back to doc format but there’s always a worry that some formatting/changes will be lost in conversion. So for work, I have to use MS Word on my desktop running Windows 7. There’s a good recent discussion on office software, free and commercial, at How-To Geek.

The only other paid software I use on my Windows system is an old copy of Serif PagePlus for DTP and Serif PhotoPlus for photo editing. I haven’t upgraded these in years – the old copies I have are just fine. But a quick look on the AlternativeTo website shows that I could move to Scribus as a free alternative for DTP and there are lots of free alternatives (software and online services) for photo editing.

But for many working from home on a Windows system, I’m sure it’s possible to find all you need if you look at free software alternatives and online services. By the way, I don’t believe it’s necessary to pay for security software either. If you’re running a Window system, Microsoft Security Essentials is free for you and is probably all you need for real-time protection. If you’re running a Linux system, you probably don’t need any antimalware software.

Free services

Every online service I use is free…so far, although I don’t expect it to remain that way in the future. We’ve had it good so far. Like many of you I’m sure, I use a good spread of Google apps. Yes, they’re free but the downside is targeted ads, which I don’t mind, and the knowledge that they’re building up a fair old archive of information on you. So I try to use good alternatives to Google services when I can.

So over to you. Do you use a free OS? Is there any commercial software you must have on your Windows system? What about online services – anything you’re paying for? Drop a comment below.

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If you carry your data on a USB drive, I’m sure you’re always worried about losing it. Of course you should always take the necessary precautions about protecting the data on it like making sure it’s backed up somewhere safe and encrypting the data on it if necessary. But we don’t always do this and so we might end up losing some valuable information.

You could use Flash Drive Reminder which pops up a reminder when you try and log off Windows without removing your USB drive. Putting the drive on a car key ring might also help you to remember it but if you haven’t done this, what about getting the stick back? Doubtless if lost, some finders would just keep it, look at the data, or delete the encrypted data and reuse the stick, but I’m sure many with good intentions would return it if given the chance.

Well you could use LostDrive and edit the contact details. Or just put a text file in the root directory of the stick with your contact details. You could call the file ‘Read-me-if-you-find-this-USB-stick.txt’. But you mightn’t be happy about putting contact details in there in case the drive falls into the wrong hands.

Well I’ve come across a free service called whspr! which allows you to be contacted by email without giving away any personal details in the text file.

If you fill out the form there they give you a URL which you could put in the text file. Anyone who finds your USB stick hopefully will open the text file. You could put a message thanking them for opening the file and that you’d be most grateful if you could get in touch with the owner by clicking the URL. This would send them to a form at whspr where they can send you an email message. whspr forwards the message to your email address and now you can get in touch with the finder whose email is on the form. The URL lasts for up to 365 days so you have to remember to renew it before then. So set up an email or text reminder with your reminder app, for example Task.fm, to remind you say a week before the URL expires and get a new URL from whspr.

Hopefully, these tips should help you minimize the loss of a USB stick. Have you any tips? Drop a comment below.

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Another Google Reader topic today to follow on from my last post. This annoyance has been bugging me for a while and I’ve found a solution to it today.

More and more webmasters and bloggers are using FeedBurner to manage their RSS feeds. FeedBurner has introduced a feature which allows tracking of feed clicks in Google Analytics so as to track visitors from FeedBurner feeds. Problem is that when Google Analytics tracks FeedBurner visitors, it appends the feed item URL with Google Analytics tags, e.g. utm_source=feedburner, utm_medium=feed, etc. I’m sure you’ve all seen this. If you hover over the link to the feed URL in Google Reader before clicking it, it will start something like http://feedproxy.google.com…. Just as an example, here’s what appeared in the browser address bar after I clicked a link in Google Reader to a web page on Techie Buzz:

http://techie-buzz.com/google-chrome/google-chrome-now-supports-greasemonkey-scripts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techiebuzz+%28Techie+buzz%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Pretty ugly. If you now bookmark that web page in Delicious or Diigo, all the tracking stuff is included in the link. I don’t know about you but I just want to bookmark the URL of the web page without all that tracking data. So from the above URL, I just want:

http://techie-buzz.com/google-chrome/google-chrome-now-supports-greasemonkey-scripts.html

You could of course delete all that stuff off the end before you bookmark it, but there’s a simpler way to remove this tracking data in Firefox and Google Chrome. In Firefox, it involves installing a Greasemonkey script, while in Chrome you just install an extension.

Firefox: Greasemonkey script to remove FeedBurner tracking data

First you have to install Greasemonkey. If you haven’t already done this, visit my last post for more info. Then install the FeedBurner Tracking Query Stripper from here. Once installed, when you click a link in Google Reader, the URL will load initially showing the tracking data then, after a second or two, it will magically disappear.

Chrome: Unburner extension to remove Feedburner tracking data

If Google Chrome is your browser, then install the Unburner extension from here. Again, once installed, when you click a link in Google Reader, the URL will load initially showing the tracking data then it will be stripped out.

Now when you follow a link in Google Reader in Firefox or Chrome, all the tracking analytics will be stripped out and the web page will load as it should.

I spend well over an hour a day going through my 250 feed subscriptions in Google Reader. I always work in List View so I can skim through the post titles as quickly as possible. If the title of the post doesn’t look interesting to me, I move right along. Anything that would speed up working through the feeds would improve my productivity. What I really needed was a way to filter out stuff so that I didn’t have to read uninteresting posts and at the same time that highlighted stuff of real interest.

Coincidentally, I found the answer I needed when browsing through though the posts in Google Reader, and it’s a real gem. Thanks to Arpit Kumar at Techie Buzz for blogging this great tip about filtering within Google Reader. Don’t worry, it’s real easy to install and set up so please try it out.

Google Reader Filter

Installation in Firefox is a two-stage process. First you have to install Greasemonkey then the feed filter. But first what’s Greasemonkey? Well it’s just a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function. So first download and install the Greasemonkey Firefox extension from the Greasespot homepage. It will install just like any other Firefox addon, and you’ll probably have to restart your browser. Once it’s back open, you should see a Greasemonkey icon in the lower right corner of the browser window. Now you can add Greasemonkey scripts. Hundreds have been written and are available here but today we’re going to install the Google Reader Filter script available here. Just click install on that page and then reload Google Reader.

You’ll see a new blue button called Filter settings at the top right of the Google Reader window as shown above. If you click on that you can add filter words to exclude or highlight posts in your list.

As you can see, if the post title has excluded words, the title will show as greyed out and if highlighted words are present, the title will be highlighted in green as shown above. If you check the box Hide excludes, you can drop the post completely if you like. Checking the box Prefer Highlights over excludes will highlight the post if it contains both highlighted and excluded words. Checking Hide duplicates does just what it says and any duplicate post titles in the list are excluded. The words in your filter list don’t appear to be case-sensitive. I did notice that if the word in the title is followed by a full point it won’t be excluded unless you add the word followed by a full point to the excluded list. If there’s a colon, dash or exclamation mark directly after the word in the title, it will be excluded or highlighted.

So now, in my case, I can filter out any feeds with the words iPad, Norton, etc., because I’m just not interested in these topics and my time can be more productively used reading other posts. At the same time, any topic I’m particularly interested in like Windows 7 will be highlighted and I can prioritise reading these posts if I want. Now, as I read post titles, when I spot further words I can add them to the filter.

I’ve set up the filter in Firefox on my Windows and Linux machines and they both work great. And yes I know, it’s yet another Firefox extension which is probably going to slow your browser even further. But if reading feeds in Google Reader is important for you then this is a must-have extension. And of course you can use Greasemonkey to run other scripts too. At the moment unfortunately, this filter doesn’t work in the Google Chrome browser.

All in all, a really simple way to filter your feeds within Google Reader and improve your productivity. I recommend you try it out and see what you think.

Let’s face it, we all like to get the best deal when we’re buying online – no-one likes to be ripped off and find out later you could have purchased that book, DVD or digital camera for less if you’d spent a little time shopping around. But often we haven’t got time and just go to our old favourite sites.

Well I’ve scoured my bookmarks, scouted around online, and come up with a roundup of some price comparison sites, mostly in the USA and UK, which might help you get the best price for that DVD, book or hard disk.

Digital music downloads

USA

DownloadShopper.com – Compares prices of MP3 digital music downloads from Amazon, iTunes and Walmart. Using the search tool you can find songs by artist name or song name. You can search whole album prices by selecting “album” and entering the artist or album name.

UK

CompareDownload.com – Compares prices of MP3 digital music downloads from Amazon UK, Tesco, iTunes, 7Digital, we7, Play, HMV, etc.

Book prices

USA

BookLookr – Compares book prices from Amazon, eBay, Half.com, Chegg and Better World.

TextBook Price Comparison – Searches dozens of online US retailers for new or used textbook prices. Search for books by ISBN, title, author and keywords.

DirectTextbook – Compares textbook prices at 200 US online bookstores.

WeCompareBooks – Although this is primarily a textbook price comparison engine designed for college students, it can still help you find the cheapest price for most books in any category.  It will show prices for used and new books, and also the shipping costs from multiple book stores.

CheapRiver – searches Amazon stores in USA and Europe to find the best offer on English books. By selecting your country it automatically includes the shipping costs to get the book delivered to you. As CheapRiver uses the current exchange rates, it lets you take advantage of changing exchange rates.

UK

Ciao from Bing – You can search for the ISBN or book title, and it will search across numerous UK online stores for the cheapest price. It will show you if the shipping is free or not, or refer you to the website.

Best Book Price – Compares book prices at a wide range of UK online suppliers. I’ve personally used this service a number of times and found it really useful.

I tried comparing the price of The Mote in God’s Eye by Jerry Pournelle. Ciao gave me a poor choice of just eBay or Play.com with Play offering £5.49 (free postage). Best Book Price gave a much better choice with £5.00 (free postage) on BookDepository and Price Ministry offering a great deal of £2.24 (free postage) for new customers.

eBook prices

USA

eBookPrice – Compares eBook prices from Amazon, eBooks.com, Diesel, eReadable and Powell’s.

DVD prices

USA

DVD PriceSearch

UK

find-DVD – Compares DVD prices from a wide range of UK suppliers. They also have a DVD Price Watch service and you can use this facility to be emailed when a DVD drops below a price that you specify.

BestDVDPrice

PriceGrabber

Ciao from Bing

I tried the UK services to track the best deal on Medium Season 3 (I’m just catching up on this great TV series). find-DVD offered £13.35 (from SelectCheaper; free postage), BestDVDPrice and Ciao from Bing both found £9.99 (£1.24 postage; £10.23 total) from Amazon Marketplace; PriceGrabber offered £11.98 (from Amazon; free postage). find-DVD listed but didn’t return prices from Amazon and Play. So my small and probably unrepresentative test shows BestDVDPrice and Ciao to be good on this occasion.

Tech prices

Difficult to choose from the wide variety of price comparison services here. I found an article at SmartMoney which compared comparison shopping sites (in Oct 2008) and PriceGrabber came out on top. Yahoo! Shopping also did well. I also see that PriceGrabber have just announced a free iPhone price comparison app.

USA

PriceWatch

PriceGrabber

UK

PriceGrabber

AUSTRALIA

My Shopping.com.au

Just listened to the Windows Weekly podcast 136 and in his Tip of the Week, Paul Thurrott mentioned Invisible Hand for Firefox and Chrome. This add-on checks for lower prices and automatically shows a discreet notification when you’re browsing a product which is cheaper at another retailer. Currently supports more than 100 US, UK and German retailers. However, I found it didn’t add any information at all to either of the searches I tried but may be useful in future price comparisons.

Well, I’ve only just scratched the surface here and really only for USA and UK tech and book price comparisons. It’s over to you now. If you’ve a found good price comparison site for your tech and book purchases in your part of the world, drop a comment and I’ll add it to the list. With your help let’s try and make this a really useful go-to resource for price comparisons around the world. I’ll try and keep it updated from the comments – and don’t worry if your commenting months down the line. It’ll be nice to keep the list up to date.

Evernote is a searchable digital notebook for storing and indexing all your digital info – documents, notes, recipes, music, web pages, pictures, videos, Delicious bookmarks, business cards, scanned pages, data backups – really you’re only limited by your imagination. Called ‘your second brain’ by the developers themselves, Evernote remembers stuff so you don’t have to. Here’s another good description:

As far as I’m concerned, it’s good for anything (or more importantly, everything) you can think of. And that’s sorta how I use it – a big ass digital junk drawer that syncs to the web, indexes the text within my images and works great on my iPhone – Cranking Widgets Blog

I’ve been storing and searching data on my PC for 5 or 6 years now – using an app called InfoMagic Extra which I’ve blogged about before. Although it’s pretty old it worked well – and still works well. Data are stored as RTF files so nothing is locked away that I can’t easily get out. Problem is that technology had overtaken it and modern digital notebooks offer so much more. Evernote is one of these and seems to be gaining a lot of very satisfied followers. There are many blog posts about Evernote out there so I’ll pick out just a few points.

Sync with your laptop, and mobile devices

Perhaps Evernote’s most notable feature is that your data, as well as being stored on your PC or Mac, can be synced to the Evernote servers and on to your other supported devices like laptops, iPhone, Android, etc. So you can have access to your notes everywhere and update them from each of these devices. An Evernote app hasn’t been released for Linux yet but I have heard it works under Wine.

You can also share notebooks with everyone or with select individuals. Among other uses, this will allow collaborating with business partners and clients, and also allow employers to implement a central store for notes and ideas accessible to all project members regardless of their location.

Easy to get data into Evernote

If you have a scanner you can probably scan stuff directly into Evernote. I’ve set up my Epson Perfection scanner and blogged about it. Here’s another link to a post on scanning to Evernote. You can put your digital photos into Evernote and it will try to decipher any text in them and make that searchable. Just make sure to resize your photos first otherwise you could exceed your 40MB monthly limit fairly quickly. And you can add selected text or clip entire webpages into Evernote using their Web Clipper. You can also email info to Evernote and archive your Twitter tweets.

It’s free – if you want it that way

Evernote operate a ‘freemium’ model – the app is free if you upload less than 40MB of data per month to their servers and if you want to sync limited file types – images, audio, ink, PDF. The Premium version has a 500 MB monthly upload allowance, allows syncing of all file types but one single note cannot exceed 25MB. It’s also ad-free and has SSL encryption when uploading data to the servers.

Having said that, if you don’t want to sync your info to different devices but just run Evernote on one device like your PC, or if you’re unhappy about putting your personal data in the ‘cloud’, you can actually operate Evernote completely free – by making all the notebooks Local Notebooks. This way your data will only be stored on your device and not synced anywhere else. You may also want to add your data to a Local Notebook if you’re operating a free account and you’re approaching but don’t want to exceed your monthly data limit. In this case, when you’re creating a notebook, just make it a local notebook until you get into a new month with a full data allowance, then transfer the data to your synced notebooks.

Some useful Evernote resources

There are downloadable pdf format guides for Windows and Mac Evernote versions available here. The Evernote team produce a podcast about once a month, detailing new features, Evernote use cases and answering questions. Worth downloading and listening to for the very latest on Evernote. Here’s the feed or subscribe through iTunes. Here’s a few more useful sites:

Ron’s Evernote Tips

100 different Evernote Uses – Andrew Maxwell

How to Search Evernote – ten mov.es

Evernote Blog

I’ll add more of the best resources as I come across them.

If you haven’t used bookmarklets before, they’re just useful pieces of JavaScript code which you can bookmark and which let you be more productive by simplifying tasks. Installing a bookmarklet is as simple as just dragging the bookmarklet link to your bookmark region or right clicking on the link and bookmarking it. I’ve made a folder for bookmarklets on my browser bar to keep them all together. Here are 15 of the most useful bookmarklets I’ve come across. If you think they may be useful to you, just drag the link at the start of each section across to your bookmark region and try them out.

BigTweet: Lets you share links on Twitter with your followers without leaving the webpage. It automatically shortens the link in the process and captures the title and any highlighted text. Of course you do have to log into your Twitter account through BigTweet to allow it to tweet your link but I’ve had no problem here in the year I’ve been using it. This is possibly the bookmarklet I use the most.

TwitterKeys: A pop-up box gives you symbols which you can copy and paste into your tweets.

Pagezipper: If you’ve ever come across articles split across multiple webpages, this bookmarklet combines them into one long scrollable page. Saves a lot of time clicking and waiting for the next page to load.

Clippable: Reduces all the clutter from a webpage and makes it easier to read. Adverts, sidebars, etc are all removed and you are left with the text and images. There are other bookmarklets which are very similar like Readability.

Printliminator: Lets you select what you want to keep on a webpage before printing the page – you could of course print to a pdf using say doPDF which I’ve blogged about before.

Clip to Evernote: Use this bookmarklet to save a webpage to Evernote, the popular notebook app. I know Evernote has a Webclipper to clip text from webpages or entire webpages, but I find this bookmarklet useful in combination with Clippable mentioned above to just clip the text and images to Evernote and leave the rest of the clutter behind.

Read Later: Save a webpage to your Instapaper account to read later. You have to register with Instapaper to use this.

Save webpage as pdf: Sends a webpage to pdfdownload which converts it to a PDF. You can then download the PDF.

Subscribe with GReader: Quickly subscribe to a blog in Google Reader with this bookmarklet.

Show RSS Feed: Try this bookmarklet if your web browser has trouble detecting the RSS feed associated with a site. It will show you the full contents of that feed and also give you options to subscribe in your favourite newsreader.

Delicious Talk: See how many people have saved a particular page on Delicious and what tags they have used to describe the page.

Map that address: Highlight an address on a webpage and get a map showing its location.

List all Links: Lists all links on a page in a pop-up window.

Translate: Uses Google Translate to display the content of the page in English.

Youtubian: Go to a video on YouTube and click this bookmarklet. The page will reload with the video, a search box on the right, related videos below, and download links for Flash, MPEG, and mobile versions of the video also on the right. Click on the Expand link at the top of the page to revert back to the original YouTube page.

If you want to search for more bookmarklets, there’s a directory at marklets.com and here’s a site with over 100 useful bookmarklets for better productivity.

Hope you find some of these useful. Drop a comment on any I’ve missed that you like.

It’s possible to scan notes and documents directly to Evernote, the popular note-taking application, using Epson scanners. Here’s a quick walk-through for an Epson Perfection 4180 scanner and using Epson Scan v3.04E software.

First launch Epson Smart Panel and choose Scan to Application under Photo Project

Then scan your document/s or note/s in the usual way. I’m going to scan in a business card for this example. I found these settings were fine:

Preview, locate the image and scan it. Carry on scanning further documents and notes if you have them then close the above window. The View Images window will then appear showing all the images you have just scanned

You can actually go back and scan more notes at this stage by clicking the button in the bottom left corner. I’ve renamed my scanned image with a more useful name which will help searching in Evernote – but Evernote will pick up the text in the scanned image anyway and make that searchable. Once you click Next, you will see the applications which the scanner can already scan to. Evernote is probably not on this yet.

So we have to add Evernote to these applications. Click on the settings button (with the tool symbols) at the bottom left and then click Register at the bottom left of the Settings menu

Now you have to enter details so the scanner software can find Evernote on your PC

I’m using Evernote 3.5 beta but you may still be using the older version. In the Location panel, just click Browse and navigate until you find the Evernote.exe program (it’ll have the familiar elephant icon on green background) and click on it. Select the icon you want to use to display Evernote as in the Applications panel below. I scanned the business card as a jpg file so I have still to change the Format in the bottom panel. When you click OK you should now see Evernote registered as an application as in the screen below and you won’t have to do this registration part again – unless any subsequent Evernote upgrade changes the name of the Evernote folder! Then you would have to redefine the location of Evernote in the Location panel above.

Almost there now. Highlight Evernote and click the Settings (Tools) button at the bottom left again to check the settings you will use to save the file to Evernote:

Finally when you are happy with the settings click OK, then click Launch on the next screen and you will see the following prompt:

Click No to have the image files go directly to Evernote. Launch Evernote from your taskbar or system tray and the new note should be there. Tag it with suitable tags and drag it to the correct notebook.

Hope that’s helped in setting up your Epson scanner for Evernote. If you’re using a different version of the Epson Scan software and the procedure is different, let us know in the comments.