Cite A Nightmare

Sunday, February 28, 2010 4:56 PM | Posted by Mina Drezner

Most of modern students are required to site everything from everywhere on school papers. Teachers do this do avoid plagiarism, nevertheless we find it excruciating to gather all of those stupid pieces of information into one of those “fancy named” formats. Take for instance; you are done with your 5 page summary about any topic. But, REALLY you are not done at all; about 15 or 20 unformatted web pages or books are waiting for you to get them together.

Dear citing idiots (I am one myself), your search is over. I present a page that asks you to fill certain boxes and automatically it gathers all of your information into one of those collage citing formats teachers ask for. You might be lucky enough that your text was formatted before and by just placing one of the required information boxes; the page will automatically gather the rest of the details in about 3 seconds.

At first you select your text option; Magazine, book, newspaper, website, journal, film, or other. Next you place the title of the source. If the website recognizes the title it fills out the rest of the information for you (publisher, year of publication, name of page, name of site). It is an all in one package.

But wait, if BibMe does not recognize all of the information it gives you the blank space for you to fill it in by hand. This might take time, but at least you know what to look for instead of vaguely searching for a miniature engraving on a 20 year old page. Once you have been “bibbed”, you can select one of the following formats to cite your source: MLA, Chicago, APA, or Turabian.

It is simple just register for free and format all of the cites you want.

Complication Free. Stress Free.

Basic Summary:
Grade: A
Information: Great
Recommended: Yes
Conditions: Be patient if the cite does not recognize the title.
Where:
Click Here

Love;

The Gadget Guru (:

Timing is Everything

Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:33 PM | Posted by Mina Drezner

Planning is everything in the modern school life. Not only do you need to have the perfect timing and schedule in order to make all of your assignments, but you need a constant reminder of when to do it. Let’s accept it; homework is the last thing on everybody’s mind once they get home. Your internet log might be something like this; Internet, Facebook, Check what is for homework, Chat and try to multitask (failing the majority of times), and finally late at night rush through your homework. If this doesn’t sound like you at all, you are one of the few that might have a chance of getting very high grades.

Fortunately there are several alternatives to try and avoid these situations. Open your mind to Soshiku, an online assignment reminder that helps you keep up with all of your assignments. You can divide the areas into courses, which can be color coded. For each course you can manage notes, save tasks, upload files, and share messages with partners within the program. These partners can view important tasks and share the information needed in order for the execution of such.

If you reside in the USA you can even have the assignments remembered into your cell phone. This site offers the On the Go option for many regions of the country. The page basically tells you the following; Delayed assignments, assignments for Today, assignments for tomorrow, and those due in a week. The program asks you to pick a due date, and an alarm format. Meaning it tells you for when your assignment is due and you can choose when this reminder comes up, and how often. As well as you can make the assignment private meaning it is kept in secret.

Try doing something different than staring at this blog. ;)

Basic Summary:
Grade: B+
Information: Good
Recommended: Yes
Where:
Click Here

Love;

The Gadget Guru

Bored? Try Omegle :)

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:36 PM | Posted by Mina Drezner

People always talk about internet being a viable, and secure way to meet new friends, not only are there all kinds of sites to meet new people and “dates”, to which many are attracted to for different reasons, but I wish to share a website recommended by a cousin in which you can get a different idea of massive chatting sites.

Omegle is an online, free interactive chat website that gives a whole new meaning to the idea of online chatting. It proves a vast amount of chatting range with complete strangers. People tend to fear massive chatting because they are scared of having to provide their identity, and that their security could be compromised. Omegle, is a anonymous website in which one can chat freely with no need of providing personal information. Recently I had a very interesting conversation about galaxies with a complete stranger who appeared to have an extensive knowledge of the topic, I was absolutely astounded.

Even though the idea is attractive there are still dangers within the site. Not because it is unsafe, but because of the strangers themselves. For starters, this site does not control foul language, meaning one could insult or be insulted without any warning from behalf of the website. Perhaps this factor might not be alarming to same individuals but since it doesn’t have an age restriction the smaller children could be affected. Next there is the presence of Internet demons, which are those individuals who are in a long and pathetic search to find a sex partner (cyber sex), or even an online girlfriend or boyfriend. Personally I find both of these attempts pathetic. HONESTLY, GET A LIFE!

Nevertheless the site could be useful to kill some time of even bother people, if you are tired or want to change chatting partners just click end conversation and you will be reconnected with a completely new individual.

Basic Summary:
Grade: C+
Information: Passing
Recommended: Yes, but not strongly.
Conditions: Beware of online predators and INTERNET DEMONS
Where: Click Here

Love;

The Gadget Guru ♥

Done Searching? Try Stumbling

Monday, February 15, 2010 2:03 PM | Posted by Mina Drezner

Internet users from all over the world are daily facing the finger numbing task of finding cool websites that suit their interests. Not only is it boring, but it limits you to so many websites on the Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle display option. There is much more to discover that Google might not point out, or that your computer may not want to display. Not only is there an easy use website to end this never ending scavenger hunt, but it is also free. It was recommended to me by one of my closest friends, and now I would like to pass it on to you, dear blogger.

The site consists of the following; you have the option to either sign up or use it without signing up. I recommend signing up, due to the fact that you can save your favorite websites on your account and revisit them for free any time you wish. If you don’t sign up, you might want to keep a close by pen and paper to jot down the website’s address. Once you have signed up, or not, you can select your interests that you with to include in your Stumbling*. No need to worry if you have different needs, you can swap interests anytime you want for free. Once you have followed these few easy steps, feel free to start Stumbling.

The website’s name states clearly what it is all about. Stumble Upon, makes your interests their priority and every time you want to swap to the next site, click Stumble. What the system does is that it takes your choice of interests and directs you to pages that include one of your interests or many combined. Topics range from shopping, to online gaming, from animals to internet.

Try a place where there are endless possibilities, and a definite guarantee that you will never be bored in your life.

What are you waiting for? Start Stumbling.

Basic Summary:
Grade: A+
Information: Approved
Recommended: Yes
Conditions: Beware of becoming obsessed (tends to happen)
Where:
Click Here

Love; The Gadget Guru

*Stumbling: Verb. The act of using Stumble Upon.

The Guides To The Most Excruciating Pains Of Technology

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:32 PM | Posted by Mina Drezner

Even the best technological hackers need a hint once on a while. Loosing a grip on a rather simple technological problem might be a recurrent issue in all of our lives. The solution to many or even all of your technological problems has been found. The hyperlink bellow shows the perfect set of guides to most of the problems one might encounter with technology. The following “must haves” don’t leave out anybody on the list, it ranges from music freaks, to twitter users and stops at the problems a MAC or HP user might have along the technological journey. The do for yourself and GUIDES FOR THE DUMMIES, give you a glimpse of new technological opportunities and ideas that might have never come to mind.

Not only are the following guides excellent for those users who all ready have a computer but it helps you make all the right choices when shopping for computers, and ever putting together a PC. The authors of these manuals provide a large range of topics that might help you fix any problem. Nevertheless the catch (and yes, probably EVERYTHING on the internet has a catch), is that these guides might be so extensive that for a very specific problem, the search for the solution might be a grueling task. The user reading this text (YOU!) could be thinking, is this a really huge guide for EVERYTHING? User, these are a set of 15 guidelines, completely free from which you can get your information online or even download the manuals to have a constant access to them in your desktop.

The page is so fantastic that if you keep browsing you might encounter other information that might help you on your trip to surviving technology.

Basic Summary:
Grade: A
Information: Approved
Recommended: Yes
Conditions: Patience and Determination
Where:
Click Here

Love; The Gadget Guru ♥

What its all about

Monday, February 8, 2010 2:41 PM | Posted by Mina Drezner

Gadgets are created to make life easier, more entertaining and add a special touch to your every day monotonous life. Not only do gadgets give you a glimpse of new technology but they also help you with simple daily life situations. The purpose of this blog? Exactly that, hint you into websites and general information that could spice up your daily computer activities and make arduous tasks such as homework much easier. Reviews of websites that might not result as useful or credible as one might think can also be considered a gadget, after all who would want to be receiving important information from a biased source?