PDF: Five Smashing Wisdom Treasures

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In our recent posts we’ve promised to publish the .pdf-versions of the articles you’ve considered useful and important. We’ve received many e-mails in which you supported us and asked us for print-friendly versions of five of our articles. Thanks for all the tremendous support we apparently have. It’s important to know that what we do is useful. But it is also important to state, how important you are for us.


So now it’s time to keep the promise we’ve given. Below you’ll find the .pdf-versions of five of our recent articles.


The .pdf-files of our previous posts included some mistakes - for instance, you couldn’t click on the links provided in the article. Besides, the .pdf was presented in the landscape format instead of portrait format. Both issues are fixed in these version. If you find any inconsistencies, please let us know.


You can download five wisdom treasures - print-friendly-versions of our recent articles from the following URLs:



  • What Do We Really Know About Google PageRank (1 Mb)
    How does Google PageRank work, which factors do have an impact on it and which don’t? And what do we really know about PageRank? In this article we put the facts straight.

  • Copyright Explained: I May Copy It, Right? (0.5 Mb)

    Copyright in Web is often considered as the grey area; as such it’s often misunderstood and violated - mostly simply because bloggers don’t know, what laws they have to abide and what issues they have to consider. We’ve collected the most important facts, articles and resources related to copyright issues, law and blogging. We’ve also put together most useful tools and references you can use dealing with plagiarism.

  • 200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity (0.9 Mb)

    This post covers the most useful keyboard shortcuts for essential software applications users and web-developers can/should use on a daily basis - OS, Browsers, Music Players, Communication Tools, File Management and Coding. You will also find references to related resources - there you’ll find more specific shortcuts for your needs.

  • Outstanding Startpages (3.4 Mb)
    Between standards and creativity there is a lot of room for design experiments. We observe these experiments. We explore new approaches. And we collect them, so you don’t have to. Unusual, remarkable and outstanding start pages - in a brief overview.

  • Golden Rules Of Linkbaiting (0.8 Mb)
    Linkbaiting is about gaining reputation, finding your niche, writing useful and creative content. Let’s take a look at non-trivial and most effective rules, principles, techniques, strategies, methods, examples and resources related to link building.

(Via Smashing Magazine.)

How To: Determine a wine’s age or quality by color

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The Colour Lovers weblog explains how to determine the quality and age of a wine by its color:

Pouring a small amount of wine and tilting the glass at (approx.) 45º will spread the wine enough for us to observe a span of its color... and to determine the quality of a wine in the white, blush, or red families... where trees have rings, wines have color.


The post contains an exaggerated palette of wine colors and their associated meanings. It looks like wines on the darker end of the spectrum are older and/or may have oxidized and are therefore not in their prime, while the lightest wines are generally very young and a bit immature. Wine aficionados, give us your take in the comments.



Wine Color Guide for Quality and Age [ColourLovers]

(Via Lifehacker.)

Apple’s new metallic keyboards: in wired and Bluetooth flavors

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The rumored pictures seemed plausible enough, and now Apple has confirmed the hopes / fears of typists the world over: there's a new desktop keyboard (er, two actually) in town. The new keyboards (one larger wired USB 2.0 edition with two USB 2.0 ports, one smaller Bluetooth 2.0 flavor) are crafted from anodized aluminum, and include dedicated keys for screen dimmer / brighter, expose, media controls, volume controls, and eject for optical drive. Clearly, they're making an obvious play to capture that good will the MacBook has garnered for its interesting spacing and flat keys, but it remains to be seen if such a laptop-ish keyboard can keep up with the more tactile big boys on the desktop frontier. But hey, with that much sexy, we're willing to find out. Click on for a few more glimpses, and just in case you were wondering, it's $49 for the tethered one, or $79 to go cordless.

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(Via Engadget.)

iPhoto ‘08

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We know that not everyone is as obsessed about Apple news as we are, so we're going be going through each updated app in iWork '08 and iLife '08 to highlight some of the big ticket new features. We're already done this for iWeb and Garageband, and now it is iPhoto in the spotlight (haha, get it?). Here we go:

Events

Events is the feature that his Steveness spent the most time on during his presentation. The idea is that since you are usually taking pictures at an event, iPhoto should be smart enough to group them together for you, which has the side benefit of allowing you to browse your photos that much faster. Each Event (notice the capital E) has one picture that represents it, which you can choose. These Events, in turn, make up a new iPhoto view that shows you each Event (as seen above). When you hover the Event you can 'skim' through the photos to see the individual photos that much up that Event. You can also split up the generated Events, in case iPhoto doesn't group the photos correctly

Searching

I don't know about you, but I have given up on organizing my digital files. Search is my crutch, and luckily search is much improved in iPhoto '08. iPhoto 6's search is capable, but it just gives you one way to look at the results. New in iPhoto is highly organized search results, as seen to the right. This is going to save me lots of time.

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(Via TUAW.)