How to Improve Your Cheapo Webcam's Picture Quality

Adjusting your light source, turning down the monitor brightness, softening your desk lamp light, wearing a white shirt and even setting up a background you can make a huge difference in how you come across on your webcam. Check out the image above for a before and after shot, and head over to Strobist for the details on how to get yourself looking that good on the cam. — [Via Gina Trapani - LifeHacker]
How to Improve Your Cheapo Webcam's Picture Quality [Strobist]

Three Laptop Tricks For Better Presentations

A great presentation requires ideas and techniques that have nothing to do with technology -- and they're well known. Go to Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen and Seth Godin for everything you need to know about how to deliver a great presentation.
In addition to all that, here are three laptop tricks Mike Elgan uses that are less well known, but will help you deliver better presentations. More ...

Keep your email address private with Contactify

" Contactify is designed to make posting your email address on the internet a little less spam friendly by turning your address into a URL. To get your own Contactify URL you simply enter your email address and password, then magically the service turns it into a short URL you can post on your blog or on a message board without fear of winning the Nigerian lottery 10,000 times.Potential contacts are not even given your email address when they click on your Contactify link. Instead, they are taken to a contact form on the site where they can send you a message, and you can keep your email address private. Thanks to EmilyChang for the note.

Tips and Tricks: An Introduction to Google’s Webmaster Central

"Any webmaster should be aware of the tools available to them. This is especially true for Google’s Webmaster Central, a collection of tools that allow you to better understand your website and give you more information about it.
One of the first things you will notice when you go to Google Webmaster Central is that you can check if your site is being indexed by Google. The site status wizard allows you to see when your site was last crawled and if it’s in Google’s index." - A great post by Tamar Weinberg, Here!