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While turning a website into the desktop wallpaper on your Mac has been possible, you now have a way to turn your favorite website into the screen saver. That way you can see your favorite website on your Mac’s screen when the screen saver gets activated.
There are various reasons why you would like to have a website as your screen saver. The good thing is setting up a website as a screen saver is easier than you think.
Turning a Website into a Screen SaverIn order to accomplish the task you are going to need a free app called WebViewScreenSaver. As the name implies, it lets you have the view of the web in place of your regular screen saver.
4. On the following screen you can enter a list of the URLs that you want to be displayed as the screen saver.
5. By default, it will add Google’s homepage as the URL. To edit it to your chosen URL, select it and press the Enter key on your keyboard.
Enter the new URL, and press the Enter key to save it.
ConclusionIf you have always wanted to set that beautiful-looking website as the screen saver for your Mac, you now have a way to do so with the help of this free app.
Mahesh Makvana
Mahesh Makvana is a freelance tech writer who’s written thousands of posts about various tech topics on various sites. He specializes in writing about Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android tech posts. He’s been into the field for last eight years and hasn’t spent a single day without tinkering around his devices.
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Turn Your Kitchen Into A Kids’ Science Lab
Many of these experiments also have the potential to be very messy – but where’s the fun in tidy experiments?
Grow and eat sugar crystal sticksNot only can you grow these sugar crystals but you can eat them afterwards. That’s the ideal experiment as far as I’m concerned. You can also grow sugar crystals on a string but chewing on string is considerably less appetising, so invest in a skewer or two, if possible.
To make one sugar crystal stick, you’ll need:
A wooden skewer
A glass or jar
A clothes peg
One cup of water
Three cups of sugar
Food colouring
Method:
Boil up your cup of water and add three cups of sugar.
Stir the mixture until the sugar has dissolved. This will give you sugar syrup.
If you want to make sugar sticks in different colours, add a couple of drops of food colouring to the mixture.
Let the mixture cool for a while, so you don’t crack your glass when you pour it in.
Okay, now you can pour it in.
Take your wooden skewer, dip it into the mixture and then roll it in a little bit of granulated sugar. This will encourage sugar crystals to form on its surface.
Clip the clothes peg onto the skewer, and then lower the skewer into the glass, so that the peg lies flat across the top of the glass and the skewer is suspended, pointing downwards, and about halfway into your sugar syrup. Make sure that the skewer does not touch the side of the glass.
Put the glass somewhere it won’t be disturbed and leave it for a few days to allow the sugar crystals to build.
Check back so your children can see the crystals forming.
When the sugar stick is ready, eat it and tell your children that the experiment didn’t work and that you need to try it again.
Just kidding.
Make a rainbow in a bottleThere are two ways to try this experiment, depending on what you have in your kitchen. You can either use liquids of various densities, or you can use sugar solutions of different strengths.
The taller and thinner the jar or bottle you use, the better the final result.
For the first version of the experiment, you’ll need:
A tall, thin jar or bottle (a small olive oil or balsamic vinegar bottle is ideal)
100ml of honey
100ml of washing-up liquid
100ml of water
100ml of olive oil
100ml of rubbing alcohol
Food colouring to create five different colours
Method:
Use your food colouring to give each of the liquids a different colour.
The pouring requires a steady hand.
Very carefully, pour the coloured honey into your jar and let it settle.
Next, add the washing up liquid.
Then the water.
Careful now.
Add the olive oil.
Finally, add the rubbing alcohol and you have created a rainbow in a jar.
If you don’t have all of the above ingredients, you can use sugar and water to create liquids of varying densities.
Get five cups and pour 100ml of hot water into each one.
Add two sugar cubes to the first cup, three to the second, four to the third and so on.
Add food colouring to each cup to make one pink, one blue, one green etc.
Pour the water with the most sugar dissolved in it into the jar first.
Add the next cup (with the second highest volume of sugar) with a very steady hand.
Continue with the next cup.
Behold the rainbow.
Stay in and see the water fireworksYou’ll need:
A jar
Oil
Warm water
Food colouring in different colours
Method:
Fill your jar almost to the top with water.
Pour three tablespoons of oil into a bowl.
Drop small spots of food colouring in various shades into the oil.
Mix it with a fork.
Pour the oil mixture into the jar of water.
Watch the fireworks appear.
Don’t leave the jar full of food colouring, oil and water unattended unless you are interested in a spontaneous, Jackson Pollock-style home makeover.
Make a bouncy eggYou’ll need:
An egg
A drinking glass or jar
White vinegar
Method:
Place your egg in the jar and cover it with vinegar. Put it somewhere it won’t be disturbed.
Check on the egg the following morning and top up the vinegar if necessary. You’ll see bubbles forming around it as the shell is dissolving in the acid. You may also see that bits of shell have floated to the top of the vinegar.
Keep the egg covered in vinegar and check it after two days.
When it’s ready, it’ll feel rubbery.
Take it out of the vinegar and carefully wash away any remaining shell.
You now have a bouncy egg.
A word of caution on this one: there is a raw egg underneath the membrane and if you bounce it too hard, it’ll pop and you’ll end up with raw egg everywhere.
It’s basically human nature to keep bouncing the egg until it does pop, so my feeling is that if you make the bouncy egg, you’re going find yourself cleaning up raw egg at some stage.
Write a letter in invisible inkYou’ll need:
Lemon juice
A paint brush or cotton bud
Paper
An iron, candle or hob
Method:
Get your child to write a secret message on the paper with a cotton bud or brush dipped in lemon juice. (It doesn’t have to be a secret but I think that getting your kid to write a shopping list is a bit lame.)
Let the paper dry.
Choose your heating method: you can use an iron, the hob or a candle and your message will magically appear. If your child has not chosen to write something delightfully observant about your personal appearance, I’ll be surprised.
Now it’s your turn to write a message back. Remember that you’re the adult.
For extra credit, you can use the secret letter trick towards the end of an Easter Egg or treasure hunt. Heat up the paper to reveal the final location of the treasure.
Blow up a balloon with baking sodaYou’ll need:
A balloon
A bottle
A funnel
White vinegar
Baking soda
Method:
First, stretch the balloon so it’s easier to blow up.
Fix the funnel into the end of the balloon and spoon several teaspoons of baking soda through the funnel into the balloon.
Fill the bottle halfway with vinegar.
Keeping the end of the balloon turned over so that the baking soda is enveloped, fit the lip of the balloon over the top of the bottle.
Lift the balloon to empty the baking soda into the vinegar.
Swirl the bottle around a bit to get it fizzing.
You may have to experiment a bit with quantities depending on the size of the bottle you’re using. Just to clear up a common online misconception that could leave some children (and apparently some adults) very disappointed – this will only inflate a balloon, not make it magically float into the air as though filled with helium.
With thanks to super-scientists Angela and Maxwell Burton for their ideas and practical know-how.
Turn Any Pc Into A Media Center
Your PC already plays music, and your hard drive holds every digital photo you’ve ever taken. And you probably watch hours of video on Hulu, Veoh, or YouTube.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could corral all that stuff within one attractive, easy-to-use interface? One that’s large enough for you to see (and control) from the couch? And, hey, while we’re at it, how about adding TV and DVR features to the mix?
You can do all that and more by transforming your PC into a self-contained media center. All you need is the right software, and possibly some extra hardware, to give your machine new life as a jukebox, a high-def digital photo frame, a movie theater, and a TiVo clone.
You don’t necessarily need to buy new hardware, and the software part of this upgrade could be easier than you think. In fact, if you’re running Windows Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate, you’re set: Microsoft baked Windows Media Center right into the OS. Mac OS X Leopard users already have basic media-center software in the form of Apple’s Front Row, though third-party alternatives are also available. And Linux users have several free options, including Freevo and LinuxMCE.
All of those applications scan your PC for photos, music, videos, and the like, and then present them inside an oversize, TV-friendly interface (commonly known as a 10-foot interface, meaning it’s easily viewable from the couch). So when we talk about turning your PC into a media center, we mean installing software that finds, catalogs, and plays your media files–and looks good while doing it.
Note: In this guide, I’ll focus exclusively on ways that you can turn your existing computer into a media center. For a complete guide to assembling a media center PC from the ground up, see Zack Stern’s excellent “Build Your Own High-Def PC.”
Center of AttentionStep one is to choose a media-center program–though as noted previously, you may already have one.
The most obvious choice is Windows Media Center (WMC), which–despite being a Vista-bundled freebie–offers a rich feature set and a dazzling interface. With it you can view photo slide shows (complete with Ken Burns-style pan and zoom effects), watch DVDs and videos, browse your music library by cover art, and connect to various online services (including movie-download stores CinemaNow and Movielink).
WMC also supports up to four TV tuners for DVR-like viewing and recording, and it can archive recorded shows to DVD. Of course, not everyone has Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate, and even folks who do might want to check out the alternatives.
The $80 SageTV Media Center for Windows offers a more TV-centric experience than Windows Media Center, including an integrated Google Video viewer and instant commercial-skipping. Pair it with the $30 SageTV Placeshifter add-on, and you can stream all your media (including live and recorded TV) to any PC with a broadband Internet connection.
If you’d rather dip a toe in the media-center waters without spending any money, check out MediaPortal, a free application that’s every bit as powerful as WMC. It can timeshift and record TV, play videos and music, run fancy slide shows, tune in radio stations (both FM and Internet), and even play games such as Tetris. It’s compatible with Windows XP and Vista.
Macintosh users have choices as well, though they’re a bit limited in TV and DVR features. The OS X-bundled, remote-controllable Front Row serves up music, videos, photos, and DVDs, all couched in a dazzling turntable-style interface. But it doesn’t support TV programming, even if you add a tuner. For that, look to MediaCentral, a $30 program that performs all the best media-center tricks and can play/pause live TV too. (Unfortunately, it can’t record shows for later viewing.) Don’t have 30 bucks to spare? CenterStage is a community-developed program that, among other things, can play recorded TV shows now and promises more TV features (including an electronic program guide) in the future.
How To Turn Google Bigquery Into A Powerful Marketing Data Warehouse
This post was sponsored by Supermetrics. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own.
The Martech 5000 supergraphic highlights the big challenge facing marketers. As more products, tools, and platforms arise, so too does the amount of data marketers need to gather, monitor, and analyze.
To further compound this challenge, Scott Brinker, the man behind marketing’s most famous infographic, recently said that, “In some ways, forget about martech 5,000. Welcome to martech 50,000.”
So, what’s the next option marketers have when it comes to gathering big data in a large repository?
The answer is a data warehouse.
What Is BigQuery & Why Should I Care?Google BigQuery is a fast, scalable, and fully managed data warehouse that enables large-scale analytics.
There are multiple reasons why marketers should store their data in Google BigQuery.
Limitless DataBut in BigQuery, you can store an unlimited amount of data, which means you can transfer literally all your marketing data from every platform into one centralized place.
Access All Your Historical DataMany native platforms limit the amount of historical data you can access. For example, Google Search Console offers six months of historical data within its native interface.
And while applications built on top of its API increases that figure to 16 months, you still don’t have a full overview of your past performance.
But with BigQuery you can use it to store all your past data, giving a complete overview of your historical performance.
Data From Different PlatformsAs we saw in Brinker’s supergraphic, marketers have a lot of data on a lot of platforms.
Gathering all that together in one centralized repository is the only way to create a single source of truth for your marketing performance.
Analyze on a Granular LevelWithin each marketing platform, you have a number of metrics and dimensions you can dig into.
However, when exporting your data into BigQuery you’ll often be able to have your data at a higher granularity than what is possible within these native interfaces.
For example, when transferring data from Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics into BigQuery, you be able to get granularity on an event or user level.
So say you run an ecommerce site, this lets you perform a deep path analysis to identify which are the most common page paths of your website visitors and how those paths differ between those who purchased and those who were just browsing.
This analysis would not be possible within native UIs as they don’t provide raw events data.
With BigQuery, it provides a whole new opportunity to really dig into your data and achieve levels of granularity not offered within native interfaces.
How Can I Easily Pull My Data Into BigQuery?So how can you actually get your data in BigQuery?
Well, that’s exactly why we built Supermetrics for BigQuery.
Quite simply, it’s the first native BigQuery Data Transfer Service app that lets you move data from all your non-Google marketing platforms (including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Bing, and more) into BigQuery.
In addition, you can also move data from Google platforms that haven’t been integrated with BigQuery, such as Google Search Console and Google My Business, whilst also getting Google Analytics without the needing to pay for GA 360.
At Supermetrics, our mission is pure and simple: to let marketers easily move their data from wherever it is to wherever they want.
All our products are made by marketers, for marketers, and that’s why we wanted to make it super simple to transfer your data into BigQuery.
We eliminated the need to know the technical details of how to move your data and understand the basics of SQL. Instead, you just select what data you’d like to move into BigQuery and Supermetrics takes care of the rest.
Being able to extract the depth of data from your marketing platforms is also a vital component of conducting sophisticated analyses.
That’s why we spent a lot of time and effort to ensure our connectors provide marketers with more metrics and dimensions than any other BigQuery application available.
Furthermore, the data is also pre-transformed by our predefined schemas. This basically means that once your data is in BigQuery, you don’t need to do anything to it and it will be presented in the format marketers need.
How Can I Visualize My Data That’s in BigQuery?Once you have your data in BigQuery, then comes the fun part: exporting it to visualization and BI tools.
Products like Tableau, Looker, and PowerBI provide robust platforms to turn your data into charts so you can monitor, analyze, and report on your marketing performance.
And in order to create a full end-to-end solution for marketers, we also built a dedicated connector to Google Data Studio so you can take all your data through BigQuery and into Data Studio using Supermetrics.
There are several benefits to the Data Studio connector that comes baked into Supermetrics for BigQuery, as it:
Automatically merges data from multiple sources without needing to write SQL.
Sets data types for all your fields with friendly naming structures (For example, “Account name” instead of “account_name”).
Adds calculated metrics like CTR, eliminating the need to manually define formulas.
Automatically includes time fields like week, month and year, which you would normally need to configure.
BigQuery: Common Use Cases for MarketersThere are endless scenarios for which marketers can use BigQuery, but here are three common ones to help get you started.
Cross-Channel PPC AnalysisGather data from your PPC campaigns that run across multiple channels to identify which platforms are performing best for each campaign.
With Supermetrics for BigQuery, you can now pull data from heavily used paid marketing platforms including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Bing Ads into BigQuery so you’re able to do this.
This means you’ll have all of your data in a central location and can create all-inclusive visual reports of your blended data.
This, in turn, will ensure smarter allocation of your performance marketing budgets and improved ROI.
Web Analytics + CRMIt’s vital that digital marketers understand visitor behavior before and after conversion. Prospects often interact with several pages and content pieces across multiple visits before they do convert.
Pre-conversion, all this user data will be tied into a unique and anonymous cookie ID, which can be sent to Google BigQuery.
Once a prospect converts, they’d then have a CRM record ID, which in turn can be associated with their anonymous cookie ID by sending the cookie ID to the CRM upon conversion.
With Supermetrics for BigQuery, you can track both pre- and post-conversion on-site activity from Google Analytics and combine it with enriched data from your CRM to generate an in-depth understanding of your prospective customers.
Attribution AnalysisModern buying behavior makes attribution challenging.
As we discussed in the previous use case, it’s difficult to attribute every conversion to just one specific channel or touchpoint.
So gathering all the touchpoints someone has with you, across different channels, via multiple sources, and both pre- and post-conversion lets you not only gain a better understanding of your marketing funnel, but also – and more importantly – your customer journey.
How Can I Get Started?It’s easy to get started with Supermetrics for BigQuery.
Supermetrics for BigQuery is democratizing BigQuery for marketers. If you’d like to try it out you can start a free trial or book a demo with a member of the Supermetrics team.
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How To Turn Your Ipad Into The Best Digital Photo Frame
You can easily spend between $100 and $200 on a Wi-Fi digital photo frame, but these often have clunky interfaces for syncing photos and the displays can be quite poor. A better solution may be repurposing an old iPad or putting your current iPad in photo frame mode for special occasions.
Apple used to include a handy photo slideshow button on the iPad lock screen years ago, but this feature was abandoned with iOS 7 and later. While I’d love to see this feature return in the future, it’s possible to create a Wi-Fi digital photo frame mode for your iPad using built-in features in iOS today.
My setup uses the 2023 9.7-inch iPad Pro running the latest version of iOS 11, but this guide should work with any modern iPad running a recent version of iOS. Follow these steps and you can update your wireless digital photo frame easily from your iPhone or Mac too. You can also ensure no one can take your iPad out of photo frame mode without your permission. Here’s how:
Enable iCloud Photo Sharing (Settings → Photos → iCloud Photo Sharing) which is a free feature that lets you create albums that sync with iCloud between devices and can be shared with other iCloud users.
Create a new Shared Album (Photos → Shared → + in top left corner) and give it a name like Photo Frame. You can optionally invite other iCloud users if you want others to add their photos to the photo frame slideshow, then tap Create and your new album is ready for adding photos.
Add photos to your new shared album (Photos → Shared → Photo Frame → +) from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac using the same iCloud account with iCloud Photo Sharing enabled from the Photos app. You can even add multiple photos at the same time (Photos → Select in top right corner → Tap photos you want → Tap Share button in bottom right corner → Tap iCloud Photo Sharing from colored icon picker → select Photo Frame from Shared Album picker → Tap Post).
Disable Auto-Lock if you want to prevent your iPad display from turning off automatically (Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never); you can still turn off the display with the sleep wake button when Guided Access is not active.
Optionally turn off volume, enable Silent Mode, and turn on Do Not Disturb from Control Center if you want to avoid any interruptions. You can add videos to your shared album so volume control will affect audio playback (but not Siri volume which is separate).
Lastly, you need your iPad to remain connected to a power source to pull this off. The 12-watt or higher power adapter and Lightning cable will work just fine. For a cleaner setup, I’m using the Logitech Base stand which charges iPad Pro with the Smart Connector, but only because I already own it (it’s a bit pricey to add just for this purpose).
Setting this experience up manually does require a bit of work to get started, but adding to and maintaining the experience thereafter is quite easy. I would love to see the Photos app have a similar mode built-in, but for now these iOS features make it totally possible with a little upfront work.
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How To Keep Your New Website Project From Being A Disaster
A new website sounds great in theory…
Better design.
Improved security.
Enhanced functionality.
However, a new website project can quickly derail and cause more harm than good. Whether the new website is being designed and developed by an agency or internally within your own organization, it is important to stay on the pulse of the project. Reviving a website from a bad launch or a complete breakdown is a lot harder than following the site changes step by step — from start to hand-off.
In an effort to help guide your website project down a smooth river, here are five quick tips to better manage the transition period.
1. Make Your Voice HeardThe most important step to ensuring the ball isn’t dropped on your website is setting the expectations from day one. Voicing your concerns, your wants, and your timeline are essential to reducing headaches and confusion. Minimizing communication gaps are vital to the success of the website’s development — you’re investing money and time into this project, be sure the final product meets your standards.
2. Create a Redirect StrategyIt’s simple oversight, but not drafting a redirect strategy for all your pages from the old site to the new one is a sure-fire way to make the entire process a disaster. Imagine all the 301 and 404 error messages that will occur for site visitors… Not ideal. Creating a plan that arranges for all URLs to be transitioned successfully upon launch is a fundamental building block to preventing any major hiccups arising. Additionally, it is best practice to try and keep the transitioning content on the same URLs.
3. Protect Your Staging Site From GoogleAnother technical aspect to keep in mind during the build process is to make sure that your new (unfinished) site is not indexed by Google. This can happen in multiple scenarios, but often staging sites are accidentally indexed because there is a misconfiguration of the chúng tôi file. This can cause a big SEO problem if the new site ranks for your keywords, so just make sure to add HTTP authentication or use a VPN until the switch from old to new is ready to go live.
4. AB Test and Adjust ItUnrolling a new website is also the perfect time to perform an SEO split test. A lot of factors play into search engine rankings, and moving the wrong pieces can drop your spot rather quickly. Therefore, during a transition period for a website, it is a good idea to examine what factors may boost or drag down your individual pages. Is it on-page content? Meta descriptions? Load time? Finding areas where you can adjust your SEO approach will further increase the success of the new website version.
5. Prioritize Mobile ExperienceIn today’s internet climate, a website needs to have excellent user experience on mobile devices. Over the past five years, mobile internet searches have increased by 200-plus percent, with up to 70 percent of all internet searches coming from a smartphone or tablet. A website must be built and optimized for mobile viewing, no excuses. Consumers are researching and buying from these handheld devices, in order to sell to them, your new website has to provide an easy and effective mobile experience.
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