[via Lifehacker]

You already saw Google Chrome's humorous about:internets Easter egg, but readernettleman points out that Chrome's got several special about: pages that reveal all sorts of interesting information about what's going behind the scenes. Here's the full list, with screenshots.

• about:memory
• about:stats
• about:network
• about:internets
• about:histograms
• about:dns
• about:cache
• about:plugins
• about:version

Update: Mawin adds that you can also go to two special pages on a per-site basis.view-cache:[URL] shows you some under-the-hood cache details, and view-cache:[URL] shows you the page's markup. (Though you can view source by just right-clicking on a page and choosing, um, "View page source.")

You Mac and Linux users, here are some about: page screenshots:

[via Thesimpledollar]

November 7, 2007 @ 12:30 pm - Written by Trent
Last week, I wrote a controversial article about resume tips that got a lot of readers fired up. As a result, I thought it would be worthwhile to go through the entire process of creating a strong resume, step by step.

Step 0: Do NOT fire up Microsoft Word and use a generic resume template.

Absolutely, positively, do NOT do this, no matter what. Microsoft Word is a powerful program, but just firing it up and opening up one of the included resume templates does one thing and one thing alone - make your resume look like everyone else’s.You want your resume to look unique and memorable, but classy - Word’s default templates will not cut the mustard.

Step 1: Open a plain text document and start listing all of the information you might ever include on a resume

List the details of every job, including every possible relevant accomplishment at each one. List every organized activity you’ve ever participated in, and every noteworthy honor you’ve received in your life. List everything.

Tip #1: If you don’t know where to start, include the following in this order:

Work experience (dates, names of employers, location, tasks, accomplishments)
Education (dates, degrees obtained, location)
Specific skills
Honors and awards
Other activities of note (professional organizations, special skills, etc.)

[via cnn]

Words don't tell potential employers as much as deeds

By Laura Morsch
CareerBuilder.com

So, you're experienced? Before you advertise this in your resume, be sure you can prove it.

Often, when job seekers try to sell themselves to potential employers, they load their resumes with vague claims that are transparent to hiring managers, according to Scott Bennett, author of "The Elements of Resume Style" (AMACOM).

By contrast, the most successful job seekers avoid these vague phrases on their resumes in favor of accomplishments.

Instead of making empty claims to demonstrate your work ethic, use brief, specific examples to demonstrate your skills.

In other words, show, don't tell.

Bennett offers these examples:

Instead of... "Experience working in fast-paced environment"

Try... "Registered 120+ third-shift emergency patients per night"

Instead of... "Excellent written communication skills"

Try... "Wrote jargon-free User Guide for 11,000 users"

Instead of... "Team player with cross-functional awareness"

Try... "Collaborated with clients, A/R and Sales to increase speed of receivables and prevent interruption of service to clients."

Instead of... "Demonstrated success in analyzing client needs"

Try... "Created and implemented comprehensive needs assessment mechanism to help forecast demand for services and staffing."

The worst offenders

It's good to be hard-working and ambitious, right? The hiring manager won't be convinced if you can't provide solid examples to back up your claims.

Business luminaries share their thoughts on why M.B.A.s aren't all they're cracked up to be. [via InsideCRM]

Most business schools would love for you to believe that an M.B.A. is the ticket to huge paychecks and unlimited career growth. However, a large number of businesspeople have achieved success without a business school's stamp of approval. In fact, BusinessWeek reports that fewer than one of three executives who reach upper- echelon positions hold an M.B.A. Before deciding to spend significant money and effort on earning an M.B.A., consider what these successful and intelligent players in the business world have to say about getting a business degree.

[via Lifehack]

from Stepcase Lifehack by TatsuyaNakagawa

It looks like much of the gold that was brought to China for this year’s Olympics will remain there after the games’ end. Michael Phelps’ legendary 8 gold medals for the US team helped the Americans bring up their count but not nearly enough to keep them in the top spot for winning gold since the fall of the Soviet empire. Even if you discount a few from China for biased judging, they still won this year’s Lycra War. This 29th Olympiad became China’s great coming out party. Everyone was invited and entertained while these enthusiastic hosts met their ambitious goals for the August event.

There are some important lessons we can learn from what some call China’s great awakening. This relates to Napoleon’s account to his European colleagues that China was a sleeping tiger – one he figured should best be left asleep while his forces agitated in Europe and the New World. Since Napoleon is no longer around, we decided to fill in and take some careful notes from our experience in China these past several days. We have come up with the following ten lessons from China’s Olympic preparations:

[www.quarkbase.com via Makeuseof]

Quarkbase is a new web app which claims to find everything about a website. And when you actually try it out, it certainly displays enough information to live up to your expectations. The homepage of Quarkbase is a Google like plain white page which has a box where you can put in the website name or url you want to lookup.

Contrary to the homepage, the results page is really comprehensive. It shows the entire description of site, domain owner, date when the site was created, traffic ranks like Alexa and Technorati ranks, Alexa traffic stats, social media reach of the site like in Digg, Delicious and others, similar sites, RSS feeds and much more. The results may not be dead accurate but are comprehensive nonetheless.

[www.mygazines.com via Makeuseof]

Mygazines is a website which lets you read popular print magazines online. It allows its users to upload and share their favorite magazines and hence, understandably, you’ll find even the latest issues of popular magazines like Macworld and PC Mag online. And if you’d like to read adult magazines like playboy, you can do that by signing up with them and then turning off the adult filter.

It also has a cool user interface and you can read magazines just like you’d read it in your hand, flipping through pages using the mouse button. Further it allows you easily share pages of magazines with your friends on social media. And you can create your own magazines too.

We aren’t sure if this site violates copyrights and if it does, then why it hasn’t been taken down by the big publishers yet. Make sure you read their terms carefully if you decide to sign up with them.

[via Gizmodo]

As rumored, Nikon's D90 is the first-ever DSLR with HD video recording, but maybe more importantly for actual photographers, Nikon is promising much of the same low-noise performance of their higher end DSLRs. The brand new12.3-megapixel image sensor was developed in-house like the D3 and D700's (the D300 uses a Sony sensor) and you can crank the ISO up to 6400, so we're hopeful. It's a mutant DSLR (not in a bad way) bringing down features from the higher-end cameras at the same time it cribs more hold-your-hand consumer stuff from the point-and-shoots. Now about that HD video.

[vuclip.com via Makeuseof]

Ever wanted to stream online videos (i.e. Youtube) on your mobile? Want to download and save videos favorite to your phone in MP4 format. Try VuClip. It allows you to watch web videos on your mobile phone and optionally save them in mp4 format.

VuClip simultaneously transcodes and optimizes videos to deliver optimum viewing experience on your mobile device. Works with almost any mobile phone.

Features:

• Watch videos from video sharing sites on almost any video-enabled phone.
• Search videos or browse by category.
• Download and save videos in mp4 format.
• Supports over 2,000 mobile devices.
• Share favorite videos with friends using SMS feature.
• Setup daily SMS video alerts.
• Nothing to install or download.

Note: VuClip is a free service, though you might be still charged by mobile provider for the internet usage. So make sure to check your contract before downloading videos to your phone.