30件你不知道可以通过Internet来办到的事
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pcworld做了一个很有意思的选题:30件你未曾想到居然可以在internet上完成的事情:
1.时光倒流:一个可以存储历史网页的站点(archive.org)，你可以在这里找到某些网页在历史上某天的存储，这个功能我经常用，有时候google搜索不出，或者google cache里都没有，这是最后一招。当然，这个站点主要存储国外的，国内可以用Web InfoMall (www.infomall.cn/ )。
2.直接使用google的所有功能：来这个站点，google所有功能都来了。
3.blogger都在谈论什么，随时知道：这个站可以让你随意定制，不用再去访问那些繁杂的blog了，想要什么，它就给你match什么。
4.疯狂的共享音乐、文件：这个站很慷慨，你可以上传视频等格式文件，一共10GB容量，每个月100MB流量。如果你愿意付5～40美元，还可以1～60的存储。
5.随时随地check你的邮件：你的ISP没提供邮箱的web入口？没关系，试试这个mail2web。
6.找到山姆大叔的机密文件：呵呵，机密文件，有兴趣就自己去看了，这里，这里，还有这里。
7.你也可以实时的玩TV Show：不用介绍了吧？想当明星，或者这是一个捷径，不用去参加什么X牛酸酸乳的抄鸡女牲。
8.用kayak来旅行：100多个景点（好像少了点），你随便看随便搜，什么都能搜得到，比google maps爽。哦，对了，kayak这个东西据说是爱死鸡摸人弄的船，挺浪漫哦。
9.难以启齿的事可以随便说：这里可以发匿名邮件，所以你上司有口气或者你爱上了哪个闺女不敢表白，那就用这个玩意吧。
10.非常容易的blogging：我怀疑这个是枪稿了，这也算是别人想不到的？不过具体有些什么很好的地方，大家自己试用看看了。
11.免费寻求技术支持：呵呵，微软的技术支持要35美刀，你可以来这里，免费！
12.获得做好爸爸妈妈的技巧：我彻底怀疑这是pcworld的枪稿了，晕，这条是你花30美元/月，可以随便询问关于育儿的问题。
13.提高你的站点的技巧：这个不错，很多站点都有。去这里，可以免费获得代码，在你的站点里加入某些关键词的词条（感谢coderman）。
14.成为网络行销强人：晕，该不会是教人发垃圾邮件吧，靠。这里。
15.开会变得很轻松：要钱的东西，就不介绍了，这里。
16.货比三家：没什么希奇的，类似于younet.com，选手机的。
17.精打细算，follow your money：如果你跟我一样是月光族，可以试试这个，大概是个帮你理财的东西吧。
If you've ever wondered where all your money goes, now you can find out. Where's George literally tracks your dollars using the serial numbers on each bill. Whoever receives your greenbacks will have to log on to the site for you to track the dough, so you might want to write the URL on your bucks before you fork them over.
That Web site may look just like your bank's, but is it really? Find out by downloading Corestreet's free Spoofstick applet. It displays the real domain of the site in your browser toolbar, regardless of what the address window says--an invaluable tool for fighting phishers. The toolbar is available for both IE 6.x and Firefox 1.x.
Is your antivirus software on the fritz? Don't despair, just stop by Panda Software's site for a free system scan. You'll have to download an applet, surrender your e-mail address, and use Internet Explorer (the scanner requires ActiveX). Panda detects and disinfects most forms of malware, and will alert you to (but won't fix) spyware infestations.
Forget about schlepping down to Kinko's to order business cards. At IPrint you just choose a card template and start filling in text. You can pick fonts, colors, graphics, and paper, preview your work, and place an order with a few clicks. A box of 250 is $18 and up; you can also get matching letterhead, envelopes, labels, coffee mugs, and more.
Want a quick and easy way to promote your business? CafePress will put your corporate logo on T-shirts, caps, coffee mugs, mouse pads, and more. You can give the items away to customers or sell them directly from a CafePress-powered page on your site. The site handles everything from production to payment, and then gives you a cut of each sale.
So you struck it rich selling Furbies on EBay and now you want to travel in style. At Charter Auction, you can rent a private jet starting at $2100 an hour. Plug in your departure and arrival information, and private jet owners will bid for your business. (You'll have to put $100,000 in an escrow account before you can book a flight.) A typical round trip from New York to San Francisco runs about $30,000. Pricey, but a great way to impress prospective clients.
Advertising on the Web doesn't have to be complicated. Adbrite makes buying banner ads as easy as shopping at Amazon.com. Just pick a site where you want your ad to appear, and add it to your shopping cart. Prices range from 1 cent per click to $6000 for a week-long text ad campaign, depending on the site you're targeting. You can also sell ad space on your site to others; Adbrite takes 25 percent of the cut.
There was something I wanted to tell you...now, what was it again? Oh, yeah--it was about RemindMe.com. This nifty service pops up a window on your computer for those crucial events (birthdays, anniversaries, tee times) when relying on a personal organizer just isn't enough. The stand-alone package costs $25, but a free (ad-supported) e-mail version should be available by the time you read this.
It doesn't matter how brilliant your blog is if your mom is your only reader. Get the word out with Pheedo's Blogsnob. Simply add a small piece of JavaScript code to your blog template and create a pithy, one-sentence ad that will appear on other blogs in Pheedo's network. The service works with blogs created in Blogger and TypePad (but not LiveJournal).
Is your Web site a tad, well, dull? Ravenblack's random surrealism generator will spark it right up. Just copy the site's free HTML code to your home page template. Each time your page loads, it will display a different Dali-esque comment ("A saucepan a day keeps the banana away"). Words to live by.
Your small business could be the next Amazon.com--if you don't get lost in the business jungle first. Let StartupNation be your guide. Budding entrepreneurs can find reams of free advice, success stories, online seminars, and more from radio hosts and small-business consultants Rich and Jeff Sloan. You can also buy business plan software, obtain insurance, and hire a branding consultant.
Do your teens need to take courses that their local school doesn't offer? Enroll them at either the Virtual High School or the Florida Virtual School. Your child can take a single course or a series of them across a wide range of topics. These fully accredited learning institutions educate thousands of students nationwide, but in order for your children to get class credit on their transcripts, they will need to sign up through their high school.
Got boxes of old LPs or baseball cards you don't know what to do with? Swap 'em for something you like better at SwapThing. You can swap items such as music, art, trading cards, and old schoolbooks, or offer them for sale. You can list items for free; the site charges each party a buck for every item swapped or sold. It's easier and cheaper than auctioning them on EBay.
Running a small business means having to know a little bit about everything. Need to whip up a marketing plan or write a human resources manual? SmartOnline provides the know-how and the tools. You can purchase a passel of bread-and-butter business services for $30 a month or order them à la carte. The site also offers a handful of free tools, such as an online calendar, address book, and currency converter.
You're in your car and a great song comes on the radio, but by the time you get home you've totally forgotten the band's name. With Music On Command you can buy the tune instantly. Just dial a toll-free number and punch in the station's call letters; the site sends an e-mail or SMS with a link to a store where you can download the song. At press time the service was still in beta testing, and songs were available through Buy.com for $1 apiece. The service covers more than 1200 radio stations in North America; support for Sirius and XM satellite radio is in the works.
So you've completed your 1000-page opus but can't find a publisher? Do it yourself on Lulu.com. Unlike most self-publishing sites, Lulu charges no up-front fees and requires no minimum orders. Just upload a word processing document and follow a wizard to choose the book's size, format, cover art, and price or commission. Lulu takes 20 percent of the cover price. You can sell your book via Lulu, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or your own Web site. If you order copies for yourself, you pay only binding and printing costs--around $8.50 for a standard 200-page paperback.
We all have to go sometime--and the DeathClock purports to tell you precisely when. Just plug in your birth date, gender, height, and weight; the site predicts the day of your demise based on average life expectancy, and even displays a ticker that counts down to the big day in seconds.
Why venture out on the Net when it can come to you? You can festoon your desktop with "widgets" that pull information from your favorite Web sites.
The best-known widget program is Pixoria's Konfabulator ($25). [Editor's note: Yahoo bought Konfabulator in July 2005 and now offers it for free. Download a copy here.] It comes with more than a dozen prefab widgets, which run the gamut from practical (clocks, stock tickers, battery and Wi-Fi monitors) to whimsical (a "werewolf" widget that displays the phases of the moon). But the real widget wonderland is Pixoria's site, where users contribute their own creations for free. Here you'll find traffic and surf cams, train schedules, radio and RSS tuners, meters that display the locations of the cheapest gas in your area, an English-to-Swedish translator, a haiku generator, a Shakespearean Insult Kit, and the unblinking red eye of the HAL 9000 computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, complete with sound bites. And all that is just for starters.
To add a new widget to your desktop, right-click the Konfabulator icon in your system tray and select Open Widget. To download more items from the site, select Get More Widgets. To view all your widgets at once, select Konspose. It doesn't get much simpler.
Stardock's DesktopX 3 ($15) features 23 widgets, including a language translator and an applet that can fetch the lyrics of virtually any song you might have a hankering to hear. The Standard ($25) and Professional ($70) versions come with tools that let you build your own widgets or overhaul your entire Windows desktop. Another place to find free stand-alone widgets, from clocks and calendars to abstract art generators, is at the Freeware Guide.
Amazon and Google are more than just Web sites--they're gigantic collections of useful data. The application programming interfaces (APIs) that access that data have enabled developers to build other amazing sites, and you can too if you're willing to hack a little code.
Amazon.com has more than 80,000 developers who use its API to build online shopping malls, as well as sites like Live Plasma, where you can search on a musician and view a groovy map showing related artists.
"We invite developers to be creative and innovative," says Amazon Web services evangelist Jeff Barr, "to take our data and do fun things with it."
It's not just Amazon. Dreamworks animator Paul Rademacher has combined data from Google Maps and Craigslist to create an interactive map that lets you find housing in markets across the country. FlickrPaper employs Flickr's API to let users build desktop wallpaper from Flickr's shared photo collection. First Floor Software used a Yahoo API to create an image search engine that displays results as a slide show. The Send to Smug Mug plug-in enables users of Smugmug.com to send pics directly to the digital photography site by right-clicking an image inside Windows Explorer. And that's just a tiny sample of what's available.
To take advantage of a site's API, you need some knowledge of common Web programming tools. Google's downloadable API kit contains a manual on how to use it, along with sample Java and .Net code. Flickr provides a wealth of APIs, as well as code samples. You'll find documentation and more for Amazon's APIs here; Yahoo's is here.
Even if you're not a code jockey, you can add Google or Amazon to your site. Simply copy a dozen lines of HTML code to add a Google search box to your home page. Selling Amazon products on your site for up to a 10 percent commission is nearly as easy. You'll have to sign up for the Amazon Associates program and copy some code to your home page. Then just wait for the money to roll in.
You don't need a mellifluous voice or wild hair to become a cybermedia star. All you require are some podcasting tools.
To start, you need audio software, such as Audacity or IPodcast Producer ($150), that records MP3 files. (You can also use Windows Sound Recorder to record .wav files, and then convert them to MP3s using a program like Musicmatch Jukebox.) Once you've recorded your file, you'll have to enclose it in an RSS feed, and upload it to your blog or Web site.
But for my money, the easiest route to podcasting is Audioblog.com ($5 a month or $50 a year). Here you'll find everything you need in one easy bloglike interface. For example, to record a podcast, you just log in and click the Audio tab, and then Record New Audio Post. Click Allow to let the site access your microphone or camera, followed by Begin and then Record. When you're done, click Stop and enter a title and description for your recording; then click Save. On the next page, click Publish Audio, and then select the blog or RSS feed you want to publish it to. It's that simple.
In fact, you don't even need a computer to begin your podcasting career. You can dial a number, record entries via phone, and then automatically post them to your blog. And if you want the world to see as well as hear you, Audioblog can do the same thing for video files captured via Webcam. Stardom is just a click away.
Just because you missed the dot-com boom doesn't mean the gravy train has passed you by completely. Here are a handful of ways you can make your Web site pay for itself and maybe bring in a little bit of extra cash as well.
ok了，有时间再翻译。点这里看以前翻译的，点这里直接看pcworld的原文。
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