class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/image50.png" alt="personal wiki" />Our story starts with something called href="http://www.tiddlywiki.com/">TiddlyWiki. In a nutshell, TiddlyWiki is a single-file wiki, which makes heavy use of JavaScript. You can download it to your own computer, Dropbox or USB stick, and use it to maintain notes about anything. That’s lovely, but it’s not exactly a website in the common sense of the word. In sweeps href="http://osmosoft.com/">Osmosoft, BT’s open-source research arm. Osmosoft took TiddlyWiki and added server-side functionality and other bells and whistles, ending up with something they call href="http://tiddlyspace.com/">TiddlySpace.

TiddlySpace lets you create, share, link and organize notes online. It’s a personal wiki, but with some interesting twists.

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Okay, that’s a bit busy, at least at first glance. Let’s take a closer look at that Getting Started note, and see what can be easily configured:

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Anything you want to change about your mini-site, you can change by editing special topics. A topic is called a “tiddler”, which is kind of like a Wiki page. It’s not called a “page” because the entire Wiki is one single page. For example, let’s change the site’s name by editing the appropriate tiddler:

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Now that I’ve edited and saved the tiddler, the site title is instantly updated:

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To create a new tiddler (note, topic) on your fledgling site, simply click the new tiddler button:

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Now you can just start writing your content, and save it once you’re done:

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The end result looks like this:

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The formatting is done using simple Wiki syntax, so to create a bulleted list, I only needed to start each line with an asterisk. You can also easily create links to other topics, of course (and you shouldn’t take my note too seriously!).

Tiddlers are divided into categories, and you can navigate between them using the menu on the right. There’s a special kind of tiddlers called “Shadows”, which contain configuration information. The SiteTitle tiddler we’ve edited before is a good example for a Shadow tiddler. There are quite a few of these, and some of them don’t even look like wiki pages.

For example, here’s the Advanced Options tiddler:

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You don’t necessarily have to share every note you make with the world; each note has a menu with several options, one of which being “make private”, which makes it so only you can read that note:

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Each TiddlyWiki hosted by TiddlySpace is called a “space” (big surprise there, I know). Each space contains quite a few configuration options, but what’s most interesting is that you can enable a wide variety of plugins for added functionality.

Here’s a quick peek into the extensive list of plugins:

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That’s just the beginning, and there’s definitely a learning curve here. Some plugins are not even documented with a single comment (such as TiddlySpaceCSRF – what is that supposed to mean?), but others are quite clear (and dare I say, cool) such as the ImageMacro plugin, which lets you add SVG images into your “space”.

TiddlySpace In The Wild

This is all a bit theoretical, I admit. Fortunately, TiddlySpace created a href="http://featured.tiddlyspace.com/">featured spaces page, showing a bit of what can be done with this interesting tool. Just two examples: href="http://tiddlypocketbook.tiddlyspace.com/">TiddlyPocketBook shows how TiddlySpace can be used to create a slick cheat sheet:

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The other example is called href="http://colmbritton.tiddlyspace.com/">colmbritton, and shows a funky homepage, with lots of social tools in the sidebar:

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Bottom Line

Is TiddlySpace for everyone? Certainly not. But if you’re looking for an innovative, low-overhead way to get your content out there and let your voice be heard, you really should take it for a spin.

Let us know if you use TiddlySpace or another wiki app.  What do you like about it and why?

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If you’re a music lover, you will love class="vt-p" href="http://www.uwall.tv/">uWall. It’s basically an MTV alternative using YouTube clips. Don’t believe me? Give it a try! At first glance, it looks like a neat way to view popular YouTube music clips. And it is, really. Using uWall means that your search for music on YouTube actually yields music, not interviews. Plus, it’s the good stuff. The best clips are all brought straight to you.

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Browse uWall

The first page you see is full of the most popular artists they could find on YouTube.

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To use it, all you need to do is click on an artist you want to hear. Then uWall will create a playlist of all the best YouTube clips of their film clips and concerts and play them for you one by one without any pauses — this could go on for a really long time. Anytime you want to change artists, just close it and click on another artist. Browsing down the list is an infinite scroll. Just keep browsing away if you like.

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The playlist uWall puts up has the most popular clips up first. This makes it easy to listen to a song you know from an artist you love, then explore through their other tunes while you get on with your work or play elsewhere. But if you prefer to change the order, look at the top of the player and you’ll see a few filters: Relevance; Upload Date; View Count; Rating; Music; HD. Skip ahead just by clicking on the clip you’d prefer to be watching.

In around the same spot is the ability to share the playlist with your friends via Facebook or Twitter.

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It’s also possible to set this to full-screen and leave it running as your personalised MTV featuring your favourite artist only.

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If you want to listen to popular songs on YouTube, look at the search field. There’s an option to view artists or songs. If you click songs you will find a sea of Katy Perry, Glee and Justin Bieber. Well okay, and a few other stray songs. If you click on any of these you will hear every single version of the song on YouTube — the song section is perfect for teenagers.

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Browse uWall By Genre

But we’re just getting you started. You see, there’s a number of other tricks up uWall’s sleeve. For instance, take a look across the top and you will see some suggested genres you can browse to. These pages are just as full as the first one, so there’s plenty of inspiration.

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Down in the bottom right-hand side, there’s a “Discover uWall” section, allowing you to see what other people are listening to. These are the lists which people have sent to Twitter publicly. So your listening won’t show up there unless you think it’s good enough to tweet.

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Search uWall

All this browsing is really just for people who don’t know what they want to listen to. If you’re keen to listen to something specific there’s a search field ready and waiting on all pages. This makes it really easy to find the slightly less popular artists. And it just jumps straight up with a playlist for you. The search will find anything in the title or description, so you can get a little creative with it.

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Problems & Improvements

In my browsing, I did come across one clip which had had embedding disabled, which brought the playlist to a halt. But this was only once, and I was listening for quite a while. However, uWall could probably improve filtering of these clips a little all the same.

Another thought which springs to mind is that some clips are likely to be unavailable in some countries. This could be a pain for some listeners, so I hope that uWall is filtering out those clips or has plans to let users choose a location filter themselves.

I’d love to see uWall include an option to search for multiple artists. Currently, search items are AND by default, but I’d love an OR option.

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More YouTube

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class="align-left" style="border: 0px none; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 5px; float: right;" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/0-tonido-intro.png" alt="personal cloud computing" width="260" height="247" /> class="vt-p" href="http://www.tonido.com/">Tonido allows you to run your own personal cloud, giving you access to all of your desktop files from anywhere through a web browser or your smartphone. You can access and share all of your files, including documents, photos, music and videos. There is no uploading, no storage limits, and the service is free.

Tonido has come a long way since class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tonido-cloudless-computing-on-your-desktop/">we first covered it back in April of ‘09. They have made significant progress in their development efforts by streamlining the user interface, adding features like video streaming and adding documents via email, and making some other significant changes.

In this article, I’ll show you what’s new with Tonido. Your files will be floating around in your very own personal class="vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/cloud-computing/">cloud in no time.

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Personal Cloud Computing With Tonido

Before we get too in-depth with Tonido’s new features, lets take a refreshing look at everything you can do with Tonido. They’ve developed some very creative and interesting ways you can utilize their service, and – depending on what types of files you’ll be sharing – there is something unique for everyone.

class="vt-p" href="http://www.tonido.com/app_jukebox_home.html">JukeBox

If you’re into music (who isn’t?), you’ll love the JukeBox feature. JukeBox is an application for Tonido that gives you quick/easy access to your personal music collection.

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You can stream music (MP3, WMA, FLAC, AAC, OGG, M4A) to anywhere as well as search and tag songs, share with guest users, organize your collection, and create custom playlists.

class="vt-p" href="http://www.tonido.com/app_photos_home.html">Photos

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Photos is a Tonido app that allows the sending of photos directly (and privately) via Tonido’s P2P network to friends and family. There is no size limit, and you can set it up so that photos are automatically sent when new ones are added to your folder. Comments and ratings are also supported.

class="vt-p" href="http://www.tonido.com/app_thots_home.html">Thots

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You can utilize the Thots application as your personal blog. Thots acts as a private blog or journal, which you can use to store notes, bookmarks, web clips, and other random pieces of information. It’s very similar to WordPress, which makes it an attractive feature.

Anything Else?

Tonido has lots more functionality with the other apps it provides. Other apps include Torrent, Workspace, Money Manager, Webshare, OpenID, Screenshare, Search, and Explorer. These make for some interesting ideas, so be sure to check them out.

If you would like to learn more about Tonido-supported applications, you can find more information class="vt-p" href="http://www.tonido.com/applications.html">here.

Now that you’re interested, let’s check out what else Tonido is capable of.

class="vt-p" href="http://www.tonido.com/mobile.html">Mobile Applications

Tonido now has mobile applications for you. You can find apps for Blackberry, iPhone and Android devices, which are available in their respective app stores.

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Using the mobile apps, users can now browse their PCs (as well as Mac and Linux computers), stream music, open popular file formats (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), create a share and much more.

Video Streaming

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With Tonido, you can now stream your videos from home. Using Tonido Explorer, you can open a web-based file browser application to manage and download your files. This allows you to view video files straight through your browser, just in case you want to watch something without having to copy the file over.

Upload Documents Via Email

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Conclusion

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Genius Mixes creates playlists of songs based on the songs it finds in your iTunes library. It also recommends other songs and albums by the artist or group of a selected song, as well as music by other artists in the iTunes Music Store that match the currently selected song.

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How It Works

It’s fairly easy to set up a Genius Mix. Open iTunes and start playing a song that you want your mix based upon.

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Now, click the Genius Mixes button at the bottom-left of the iTunes interface. iTunes will create a playlist that includes 10 artists similar to the current song you’re playing. The list is based on the songs you have saved in your iTunes library.

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If this is all that Genius Mixes does that would be great, especially because it saves you the time of having to go through your library and select songs yourself to make up a playlist. But it does more.

Other Selections

After looking over your list, you might decide that the mix is not exactly what you want. Well, first you can select a song(s) you don’t want in the list and simply delete it. It won’t delete it from your iTunes library, but it will remove it from the Genius playlist.

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You can also click the Refresh button which re-mixes the list.

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You also might want to increase the limit of songs in the list. For the most part I have found Genius Mixes to be pretty good about matching songs, which seems largely based on the genre of music.

And finally, you can simply manually add songs that you would like to be included in the list. But you can’t add them to the Genius list itself. You need to turn that list into a regular playlist (File>New Playlist from Selection) and then add the songs you want.

Save Playlist

You no doubt will want to save your Genius Mixes playlist once it’s set up the way you like. Apple has set up the left side of the iTunes interface to include a section just for your saved Genius Mixes playlists.

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Also if you click on the Genius Mixes icon in the left column of the iTunes interface, iTunes will deliver up a bunch of random mixes, based on your iTunes library.

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Other Recommendations

In the Genius Sidebar you will notice that when you select and play a song, iTunes will recommend songs and albums not in your library by the currently playing artists or group. Above that list will be a link to the artist page, if there is one, in the iTunes Music Store.

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Below artist recommendations, you get other Genius Recommendations that are based on an algorithm of songs and albums similar to your selected song and played by other iTunes users throughout the world. These songs and albums are also ones found in the iTunes Music Store.

These recommendations are a great way to discover music new to you, even if you don’t purchase your music in the iTunes Music Store.

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If for some reason Genius Mixes are not delivering good recommendations, you might try selecting Store>Update Genius, in the iTunes menu bar. This will send your iTunes library data to Apple so that it can in turn make better recommendations.

Finally, if you prefer, you can turn off Genius Mixes all together by also selecting Store>Turn Off Genius in the menu bar.

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On occasion you may have songs in your iTunes library that are not available in the iTunes Music Store, and in that case Genius Mixes won’t work. But for the most part, I have found that the Genius Mixes feature creates a good playlist of songs – many of which I forgot I had.

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