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Un-gay your résumé

For somebody outside Human Resources who does regular staff hires, I absolutely hate resumes. I’d honestly rather peruse an electronic document than to flip through pages upon pages of candidate-submitted CV’s. As I see it, the trend in Human Resource Management is shifting from giving major consideration to the CV as far as making hires [...]

Un-gay your WordPress Blog’s dashboard

If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time on WordPress’ Admin pages. Again, if you’re anything like me, you’ve always thought of WordPress’ dashboard as a User Interface/Information Architecture disaster. (Also, if you’re anything like me, you have a penis the size of a wine cork and you cry about it at [...]

Make (free) International Phone Calls Using Your Mobile Phone With Zoo.Tok

Startup Zoo.Tok allows you to make international phone calls from your mobile to anywhere in the world–The price? 50 pence a call or a little over $1.00. Now aside from the fact that Zoo.Tok allows you to make phone calls using your mobile phone, you might be asking yourself what the value is in using [...]

Update: Looks like you can embed video recorded using Jing Afterall

Dave McCollom from TechSmith emailed me regarding yesterday’s post about Jing. According to Dave, you can embed screen shots and videos recorded via Jing on your website after all. All you need to do is login to ScreenCast, another TechSmith service Jing automatically signs you up for to store your captures: Hi Mike – I [...]

Capture and share everything that goes on in your desktop with Jing

If you spend enough time on the internet, chances are you are no stranger to the sometimes elaborately complex task of taking screen captures, cropping/enhancing them using your photo editing software, and uploading them to a photo hosting service before you can finally share them. Now, I know a lot of you have your own [...]