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2 Great News Resources You Can Access via Facebook


style="border: 0px none;margin-left:20px;float:right;" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/0-fb-news-intro.jpg" />Where do you get your href="http://makeuseof.com/tags/news">news from? Less and less of you are thinking ‘ href="http://makeuseof.com/tags/newspapers">newspaper‘ every day. This is generally due to the fact that newspapers aren’t fast enough. For breaking news, most of us flock to our href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/watch-live-tv-news-online-livestation/">television to find out what’s going on. For even faster results, we turn to the Internet.

It’s where we go on the Internet that interests me. Not everyone frequents news sites to find out what’s going on. In a lot of cases, we’re looking to the places we already spend the most time at–Google, href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-track-breaking-news-alerts-online-with-twitter/">Twitter and Facebook. Facebook, as it turns out, is a great place to get our news, especially since it’s where we spend the most time online.

In this article, I’ll show you 2 great places that you can get all the top news headlines from using Facebook.

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Why Not Traditional News Sites?

What makes Facebook so great is the sheer amount of power it holds in its 500+ million user base. The size of Facebook has basically made it a necessity for businesses to get in the game and create a Facebook page, and this includes news organizations.

Let me paint a picture for you. You’re at your desk viewing your computer. You open your web browser up and start typing an address. Your destination? Facebook, of course. Now, let’s say you come across some buzz in your news feed about something newsworthy that just took place. What do you do?

I’ll tell you what you don’t do–leave Facebook to head to a news site. These sites already have a presence on Facebook, so there really is no need to leave. You can simply click through to their page to get the information you need, as well as other users’ reactions to it.

href="http://facebookheadlinenews.com/">Facebook Headline News

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Let’s say you like the idea of getting your news on Facebook, but you don’t know what source to use. Facebook Headline News is an amazingly simple site that pulls in all of the top headlines from the news sources on Facebook.

While it is a standalone website, all of the content is taken from Facebook pages. Headlines are separated by news outlet, and you have the option of clicking the header to be taken to that organizations Facebook page, or if you see a story of interest you can click the link to be taken directly to the article.

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Facebook Headline News is great because it allows you to view all of the industry news of a particular topic without having to follow all of the news sites associated with it. This prevents you from overloading your news feed in Facebook with, well, news.

There are over 20 topics, including business, gadgets, gaming, technology, movies, music, TV, videos and sports.

href="http://www.facebook.com/news">News on Facebook

In contrast, if you would like less news and more headlines, you should investigate the News on Facebook page.

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Run by employees at Facebook, the news page ( href="http://www.facebook.com/news">facebook.com/news) is used to highlight news and media companies, giving you the “inside scoop” on what news sites are posting on Facebook.

Comprised primarily of headlines from major news outlets like the BBC, CNN, and ABC News, you can check in daily to see what’s going on or ‘Like’ the page to get updates in your feed. If you’re not that into news but still want to know what’s going throughout the week this is a pretty good resource for you.

Conclusion

With these two resources, you can get all the news you’re looking for right from Facebook. Add these pages into your daily routine and you will know everything that’s going on in the world.

If you’re looking for news about Facebook, I suggest you revisit Saikat’s article on the href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-10-resources-and-articles-to-know-everything-about-facebook/">Top 10 Resources and Articles To Follow All About Facebook, as well as href="http://facebook.alltop.com/">Facebook on Alltop.

What do you think about getting your news from Facebook? I’d love to read your thoughts, ideas and comments below!

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    10+ Resources For Free Professional WordPress Themes


    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/2010/08/wordpress.jpg" alt="new free wordpress themes" />There are countless resources for finding free WordPress themes, from WordPress’ very own repository, to professional designers who release themes for download on their sites. A handful of these designers have been generous enough to contribute their time and talent to bring us new, free, premium-like WordPress themes, alongside their paid themes.

    The following list features some of the best WordPress designers, with free portfolio, magazine and minimalist themes, amongst many others, available for download.

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    class="vt-p" href="http://www.woothemes.com/themes/free/">Woo Themes

    Woo Themes have some of the best premium themes out there, and every now and then they generously release a theme for free. One of their best free themes of all times is class="vt-p" href="http://www.woothemes.com/2009/02/irresistible/">Irresistible, which is perfect for those of you looking for a lifestreaming WordPress theme. Their other free themes include magazine themes, and straightforward minimalist blogs.

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    class="vt-p" href="http://graphpaperpress.com/">Graph Paper Press

    Graph Paper Press has a small collection of free WordPress themes, which are the perfect choice for those of you looking for a stunning portfolio theme. They do, however, require that you sign up to download their themes, which is really no price at all to pay for the freemium themes you’ll get in return.

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    class="vt-p" href="http://www.press75.com/">Press 75

    Press 75 releases one new, free WordPress themes theme every now and then. With Press 75, you should get it while you can, because they don’t keep their free themes up indefinitely. At the moment, you can snag the theme, class="vt-p" href="http://www.press75.com/themes/seven-five-theme-demo/">theSevenFive, a minimalist lifestream theme with native support for Twitter, Flickr, Last.fm, Delicious, and many more services that you can filter straight into your blog.

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    class="vt-p" href="frogsthemes.com">FrogsThemes

    FrogsThemes showcases some of the best in portfolio WordPress themes, and they always have a couple of free themes on display. At the moment, the popular class="vt-p" href="http://www.frogsthemes.com/wordpress-portfolio-themes/simplefolio/">SimpleFolio and class="vt-p" href="http://www.frogsthemes.com/wordpress-portfolio-themes/foliogrid/">FolioGrid are available for download.

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    class="vt-p" href="http://templatic.com">Templatic

    Templatic has an impressive collection of free themes on offer on their site. They are behind the Twitter inspired class="vt-p" href="http://templatic.com/freethemes/free-livetwit-theme-quick-wordpress-site-to-display-live-tweets-on-any-topic-user">LiveTwit, and the private team collaboration blog, class="vt-p" href="http://templatic.com/news/gtd-%E2%80%93-private-blog-theme-for-teams-to-collaborate">GTD.

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    class="vt-p" href="http://www.moonthemes.com/">Moon Themes

    Moon Themes only has one theme available, but it comes with two different home page layouts, and ten different colour schemes. class="vt-p" href="http://www.moonthemes.com/features/">Eye Gaze is a great magazine theme that can be adapted to suit your personal needs.

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    class="vt-p" href="http://www.theme-junkie.com">Theme Junkie

    Theme Junkie provide premium themes, and have thrown in a couple for free. Both free themes, class="vt-p" href="http://www.theme-junkie.com/themes/channel/">Channel and class="vt-p" href="http://www.theme-junkie.com/themes/fashionpress/">Fashion Press are the perfect magazine themes with inbuilt ad management, stat management and Feedburner support.

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    class="vt-p" href="http://themeshift.com">ThemeShift

    ThemeShift have several themes on offer, and their free theme, class="vt-p" href="http://themeshift.com/destyle">deStyle is a clean, magazine style theme includes a Twitter/Flickr badge and ad management.

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    class="vt-p" href="http://shakenandstirredweb.com">Shaken & Stirred

    Shaken & Stirred released their first free theme, class="vt-p" href="http://shakenandstirredweb.com/331/introducing-our-first-free-wordpress-theme-shaken-grid">Shaken Grid, a great portfolio theme for designers, photographers and artists to showcase their work. The theme comes in two colour schemes – white and black.

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    class="vt-p" href="http://www.paddsolutions.com">Padd Solutions

    Padd Solutions have a stunning collection of freemium WordPress themes available for downloading, with sliding featured posts, automatically generated thumbnails, and ad management amongst just some of the features included. And if you don’t want to miss out on their newest themes, sign up for their newsletter to get them delivered straight to your inbox.

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    class="vt-p" href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com">Smashing Magazine

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    If none of these themes are exactly what you are looking for, you can always look for the ideal theme using the WordPress theme search engine, class="vt-p" href="http://www.seekwp.com/">SeekWP.

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    Fast And Easy Rule To Update Windows Xp-Drivers And Resources


    There are almost a hundred accessories in one’s computer that runs simultaneously and this accessories needs to be updated. Often times, users tend to discover more and more and would decide to install it again in their computer. Installing or updating recent accessories would need the latest version of Windows XP driver downloads. This ensures that your computer will run smoothly after installing other applications. XP drivers serve as the mediator between your hardware ( from the smallest wire up to the biggest component) and all the other things that you will run in it.

    Improper installation of windows driver would mean bigger problems in the future. This may lead to corruption of your files; malfunction in certain applications and even crashing of the entire computer. Thus, you should carefully install new applications you are interested in like printers applications, iPod and digital camera applications. Along with it, proper XP driver should be installed first. This will make installation run swiftly and with a breeze. An outdated driver would hinder a proper interaction of the newer software to your computer- this is how important it is. Hence, always and I mean always make sure that you will update your Windows XP driver device first and foremost.

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    5 Great Resources To Learn How To Code


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    Dream In Code

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    TryRuby

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    A Miscellany of HTML5 Tutorials

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    Now that you have our list of resources from where you can learn how to code, why don’t you pick up that keyboard and put your fingers to good effect? Once you master a language and come up with an awesome app, let us know about it and we might just dedicate a post to it.

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    The Best Free Online Grammar Resources


    online grammar checkEven the best of us have a grammatical issue from time to time. Where should we turn to to resolve those timeless questions about when to use “lay” and when to use “lie”? There are a ton of great free grammar resources on the web to answer these questions and just about any other grammatical question you have.

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    College Guides

    Some of the best free grammar resources come from colleges that make their grammar guides available to the public online. Purdue University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Ottawa all offer great free grammar guides that can help you brush up on your grammar rules. If you try your best to not be bothered by the page layouts straight from the ’90s, the grammar guides offered by the College of DuPage and Capital Community College can be really helpful.

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    online grammar check

    Unlike the other college guides that only give a general overview of grammar rules, these are alphabetical guides that provide answers to specific grammar problems. You should have no problem finding out whether “lay” or “lie” is the way to go with these guides.

    Full Books Available Online

    You probably wouldn’t think to look for print resources online, but there are a couple good ones available. A major advantage to using these resources online—besides that you don’t have to pay for them—is that you can search through them with ease. Just type in the specific issue you’re looking for guidance on and it will pop right up.

    Bartleby.com offers the classic grammar guide The Elements of Style in full. Keep in mind that it’s only able to be offered online because it’s an outdated edition, so you might find its rules particularly stingy and old-fashioned.

    Google Books offers the complete Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage. This is one of the best free grammar resources available online.

    It’s huge—it really is a whole dictionary dedicated just to grammar—so it’s nice to have it in an easily searchable online format. The only thing you might not like about it is that it’s possibly too comprehensive: it often goes into the history of the usage of words and phrases before concluding on the most correct usage. But it has answers to just about any grammar issue you can think of.

    Grammar Girl

    Grammar Girl is a podcast and website dedicated to grammar.

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    Although less comprehensive than some of the other resources I’ve listed above, Grammar Girl gives clear explanations that will help you resolve common grammar problems. And if you’re a grammar nut like me, you might want to load up some of Grammar Girl’s podcasts onto your iPod so that you can listen to them on the go.

    Conclusion

    We all know that the internet cant ignore incorrect grammar, so be sure to keep grammar resources bookmarked and handy for those quick online grammar checks. Do you know of any other useful grammar resources?

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