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Learn CPR is a free public service supported by the University of Washington School of Medicine. Learn the basics of CPR - cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Updated with new CPR Guidelines issued by the American Heart Association and published in Circulation, March 31, 2008. - Matt

This month, I would like to provide a practical guide to social media for businesses, focusing on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. I've chosen these three tools because they are clearly the most populous and innovative networks on the web and offer significant value to any professional. - Matt

Ed Stetzer recently compiled a list of 48 questions to ask yourself for honing your personal accountability. Unfortunately, each year we hear of preachers, politicians, and average Joes who compromise their integrity and make life-ruining mistakes. Sadly, many of those mistakes could have been avoided with the right accountability systems in place. - Matt

This article describes how to remove the .NET Framework Assistant for Firefox from your computer. - Matt

Just like the title says. - Matt

"This must have taken forever to put this compilation together. Lucky for us, we know have one easy, go to source for these 50 advertisements." - Matt

Muddy River Media is a registered, non-profit mission society which exists to consistently provide free, quality media resources for churches using the internet as the primary delivery tool. We create and offer media such as: Illustrative Videos, Small Group Videos and leader's guides, Motion Backgrounds, Life Story Videos, Countdown Timers, Stock Photographs, and Illustrations. - Matt

A non profit’s website needs to make it easy to find out more about their cause, to donate money, and to become more involved. It needs to make it easy for media contacts to find the information they need and the contact information of key personnel. And it needs to do all this in a way that’s inviting to the organization’s targeted donors and/or volunteers. - Matt

Whatever country we live in, we’re probably all familiar with the well-known photography magazines available in our newsagents and bookstores. The UK has Practical Photography, France has Photo, the Italians have Zoom and the Americans have American Photo. What you may not know is that there are many more photography magazines that are only available online. And some of them are good, very good. - Matt

Inspired by Roku’s awesome Netflix video download box and impressed with Boxee’s free A/V media center platform, it was merely a matter of time before I’d create the BoxeeBox, an Ubuntu-powered HTPC that I call my “one box to rule them all.” Here’s how it’s done. - Matt

Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth. his zone of sharpness is called the depth-of-field, and it extends in front of and behind the point that you actually focused on. The size of the zone is determined by three key factors - the aperture of the lens, the focal length of the lens used, and the distance you are from the subject. - Matt

ost of us can’t afford a full lighting rig - however what if there was a way to experiment with the type of lighting gear that pro photographers use without spending too much money? What if you could make it yourself. In this post I’ve found 10 DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks that put some of these lighting techniques within the grasp of the rest of us. - Matt

A detailed article that explains the difference between DPI levels for printing vs on-screen displays, and why the 72DPI rule is nothing but a myth turned pseudo industry standard. If you find selecting a DPI for printed applications confusing, this should clear it all up for even the greenest user. - Matt

The Star Wars encyclopedia that anyone can edit. - Matt

Eliminate unwanted catalogs you receive in the mail. - Matt

The ultimate resource in grid systems. "The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.” Josef Müller-Brockmann - Matt

We all have them - little coding tricks and snippets of knowledge that we’ve picked up over years of experimentation and evolution of our processes, that are now part of our regular routine and save us time, gnashing of teeth and allow us to work quickly and efficiently. Here’s some - perhaps you know a few of these already. - Matt

Want to get more out of your WRT54GL? Worried about the 250GB bandwidth limit. Learn how to flash your WRT54GL with the Tomato firmware which offers bandwidth monitoring for your entire network and many other features like QOS. - Matt

Your guide to the top technology podcasts that cover Internet, computer software, gadgets, viral web video and productivity tips. - Matt

Details on how to use single user mode to reset a lost/forgotten Ubuntu password. - Matt

You can pay companies like Rosetta Stone hundreds of dollars to learn a foreign language, or you can learn these languages for free with the help of podcasts. This site lists podcasts that will teach you 37 languages, including many of the most popular ones — English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin, and more. - Matt

This is a guide to typography for people who are not professional typographers—namely, lawyers. I assume that your goal is pragmatic: to achieve the best typographic result at the minimum possible cost (= your time). - Matt

The Stanford Engineering Everywhere program offers online access to full courses in the school's engineering program—including classes in computer science and artificial intelligence. Courses include lecture videos, reading lists, handouts, quizzes, tests, and even a social network for fellow online students. - Matt

Ideas and ways to start an online photography business. - Matt

A hodgepodge of resources for Wordpress developers. - Matt

When you're tired of wasting money and time due to phone systems that require you to press 10 or more options in order to reach a real person and spending many minutes or even hours on hold, consult the GetHuman database of secret phone numbers and codes that immediately get an actual, live person on the line for customer service at nearly 1000 major companies. - Matt

Designing effective web forms isn ’t easy, as we need to figure out more practical styling and functionality techniques to provide a great user experience. And this list has got it all to get you going on the right path - Matt

Elements of design has created a portfolio of web site menus to show case various designs. - Matt

Helix is a customized distribution of the Knoppix Live Linux CD. Helix is more than just a bootable live CD. Helix has been modified very carefully to NOT touch the host computer in any way and it is forensically sound. Helix wil not auto mount swap space, or auto mount any attached devices. Helix also has a special Windows autorun side for Incident Response and Forensics. - Matt

Now you can attend OSCon for free. Well, sort of. Book publisher and conference organizer O’Reilly has shared over 100 presentations from the July conference. Some speakers did not share their presentations (at an open source conference? really?), but it appears most did. - Matt