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If you've ever tried to make a guide or tutorial visually appealing, then you know just how hard and tedious it can be. There are plenty of tools floating around the web to make this easier. Just do a search for screencasts or presentations in the ReadWriteWeb search box for our reviews on such tools. For simple guides and tutorials, or for creating overviews of a project, we may have just the solution you're looking for. Whizle is a newly launched service that looks to be a great tool for creating simple and visually appealing work.

Making A Guide with Whizle

Making a guide or tutorial with Whizle is supposed to be a piece of cake. In our tests of the service we found it to be dead simple. In creating a Whizle, we were given steps for creating a title, mission statement, and steps with descriptions. The service provides both a WYSIWYG editor for formatting text and a more interactive application for creating a whizle. We found the interactive app to be more appealing and easier to use. If you don't need all the bells and whistles the WYSIWYG editor will do just fine. Adding and removing steps for our tutorial was simple. We were also able to add Youtube videos and Flickr photos to help visualize our guide. All in all, the service did exactly what it said it would without any fuss.

Who is Whizle For?

We don't recommend using Whizle for any hardcore tutorials such as a design tutorials. Formatting images is not one of Whizle's specialties. We'd really like to recommend the service to bloggers, marketers, and those in PR looking to create simple guides for clients. Unfortunately, there isn't an option to embed any of the whizles you create. Your creations stay on the Whizle site where viewers are allowed to comment and edit your whizle if you allow them to. The service could also use a little more work in the design department. It's dead simple interface was a bit of a turn-off for us. However this is all preferential. Overall, Whizle is functional enough for beginners, but anyone looking for a more advanced tool will have to keep searching.

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Have you fired many a condescending moan at the lead characters of most chart-topping blockbusters over the past few years, commenting on how the protagonist of your homebrew first-person shooter, Hellkiller, is so much more original and marketable? Perhaps it's time you put your unsung character design skills to work -- we suggest entering a contest recently posted by LittleBigPlanet creator Media Molecule to create a clever outfit for the game's texturized heroes, Sackboy and Sackgirl.

One winner from America, Japan and Europe will be chosen from the entries, and the winning designs will be posted as free DLC for the title "in the near future". Applicants, who must be 13 years or older to enter, simply need to draw a costume over a Sackboy template on the LittleBigPlanet site, and email it to Media Molecule. They don't mention this in the rules, but we imagine equipping the mascot-worthy protagonist with intricately drawn reproductive organs is grounds for immediate disqualification.

[Via Kotaku]

 

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Biden challenges Palin to take questions  —  Joe Biden is accusing the McCain campaign of sequestering Sarah Palin, his counterpart on the Republican ticket, and challenged her Sunday to sit for network interviews.  —  “She's a smart, tough politician,” Biden told Tom Brokaw in a …

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Media Bashing 101  —  SARAH PALIN'S national opening last week was judged an unqualified success by the media elite, even though much of her debut speech Wednesday night was devoted to whacking the media elite.  —  “I've learned quickly, these past few days, that if you're not a member …

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Like it or not, the NFL 2008/2009 season is in full effect today. What's a jock-hating geek to do? Well, how about compromise? That's what EA and ESPN are doing with their NFL Sunday Countdown...

Like it or not, the NFL 2008/2009 season is in full effect today. What's a jock-hating geek to do? Well, how about compromise? That's what EA and ESPN are doing with their NFL Sunday Countdown coverage today, as the two mega brands have reached an agreement that puts the Madden franchise front and center on any given Sunday. Called the EA Sports Virtual Playbook, it will combine ESPN talking heads with virtual players (see pic). What would have happened if Tom Brady threw a quick out to Wes Welker, instead of that incomplete to Randy Moss? Now ESPN can show you, thanks to the software and a special digital camera. Of course, if you're like me and hate Madden (preferring instead the blocky goodness of yesteryear's Tecmo Super Bowl), you're still out of luck. [Gamespot]

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Original Post: Quote: Yeah, that's right read the title. Yeah I said it, so look amazed because I know all of your tiny little brains can't comprehend it.(Yes even the moderators: Joseph,Bgizzle,AlexRadl). What the fuck kind of name is AlexRadl anyways your first one was even lamer with all those fucking numbers. Lets not forget Teslanaut, supposed all seer of things that are apple. Dude let me just tell you (like a thousand others have told you before.) GET A FUCKING LIFE. 8,000 or more post isn't any type of achievement, it just shows that you have no life whatsoever. Also for the people who 4,000 posts or above you guys should also think about taking a break. I'm sick of all the whiners and the crybabies and the people who think they know everything, but in reality don't know shit. This site is so stupid with all the flaming and the fan boy gibberish where if you correct Teslanaut or try to say anything that isn't what he wants you to say then you've got a million of his little minions flaming you like the cocksuckers that they are. Let's not even forget about Hiratai. OMG. He has got to be the fruitiest user on the internet I've ever encountered, his jokes where never funny and that kthnxbai shit was even fruitier than he was. His lame little kindergarten minions were just as bad as Teslanauts.
Another for all the people who are a little slow and can't seem to read post count. If they have a low post count they are probably new so don't flame them and tell them to use search, just effin help them out they'll learn to use the search in due time. Another thing the moderators need to do their job and get rid of all of these lame ass threads that pop up. For example: "How often do you clip your toenails". WTF is that come on the person that thought up has to be slightly ill in the head. I mean why the hell would I want to know how many times some guy over the internet clips his toenails. And I'm sick of the racist people on this website with their "Rap is crap" routine, that shit is old as dirt can't you all come up with something better than that. And yes we all know that soulja boy is whack, we don't need it reiterated to us a thousand time. But if he is so whack why is making so much money and how the hell do you know who he is if rap is supposedly "garbage" and him too. I don't go around openly admitting that I don't like country because that is my personal opinion. So think you bunch of losers.
This is teslanaut everytime he hears the word Apple
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Yeah, that's right read the title. Yeah I said it, so look amazed because I know all of your tiny little brains can't comprehend it.(Yes even the moderators: Joseph,Bgizzle,AlexRadl). What the fuck kind of name is AlexRadl anyways your first one was even lamer with all those fucking numbers. Lets not forget Teslanaut, supposed all seer of things that are apple. Dude let me just tell you (like a thousand others have told you before.) GET A FUCKING LIFE. 8,000 or more post isn't any type of achievement, it just shows that you have no life whatsoever. Also for the people who 4,000 posts or above you guys should also think about taking a break. I'm sick of all the whiners and the crybabies and the people who think they know everything, but in reality don't know shit. This site is so stupid with all the flaming and the fan boy gibberish where if you correct Teslanaut or try to say anything that isn't what he wants you to say then you've got a million of his little minions flaming you like the cocksuckers that they are. Let's not even forget about Hiratai. OMG. He has got to be the fruitiest user on the internet I've ever encountered, his jokes where never funny and that kthnxbai shit was even fruitier than he was. His lame little kindergarten minions were just as bad as Teslanauts.
Another for all the people who are a little slow and can't seem to read post count. If they have a low post count they are probably new so don't flame them and tell them to use search, just effin help them out they'll learn to use the search in due time. Another thing the moderators need to do their job and get rid of all of these lame ass threads that pop up. For example: "How often do you clip your toenails". WTF is that come on the person that thought up has to be slightly ill in the head. I mean why the hell would I want to know how many times some guy over the internet clips his toenails. And I'm sick of the racist people on this website with their "Rap is crap" routine, that shit is old as dirt can't you all come up with something better than that. And yes we all know that soulja boy is whack, we don't need it reiterated to us a thousand time. But if he is so whack why is making so much money and how the hell do you know who he is if rap is supposedly "garbage" and him too. I don't go around openly admitting that I don't like country because that is my personal opinion. So think you bunch of losers.
This is teslanaut everytime he hears the word Apple

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hey guys
i currently own a 16 gig ipod touch on fw 2.0.1
and an ipod video on fw 1.3

i have used the ipod classic and i really like the os
i was wondering if it is possible that someone could put their ipod classic ipsw up here so i could download it and restore my ipod video to this fw

is it even possible to do this

For the life of me, I cannot figure out if this video disgusts me more(via, warning: profane language) or this pile of rubbish. (via ugly dood) I mean,

But since you have a chance at being a Bangladeshi voice in the White House, I have a couple of words of advice. Most Bangladeshi-Americans can’t afford the $300,000 outfit Cindy McCain wore on Monday. Nationally speaking, 23% of Bangladeshi Americans live below the federal poverty line. In fact, the median income for Bangladeshi’s in the US is $37,074 (Asian Indian is highest at $61,322). And even though your parents don’t know how many homes they own, only 25% of Bangladeshi- Americans own homes. And almost 23% of them have less than a high school degree.[AAJC’s A Community of Contrast] I just...I kinda want you to know how the other Bangladeshi- Americans live in this country. If you make it to the White House, it’d be great if you could advocate for the Bangladeshi community.[link]

Dude, if the Bangladeshi community is so emaciated that it needs to be rescued by a 17 year old kid, then they should all drown in the Ganges.

And not just Bangladeshi-Americans, most Americans cannot afford $300,000 dresses. Hell, I don’t even make the average salary of Bangaldeshi-Americans. Can she advocate for me too?

And btw, why are people so horrified by visible symbols of wealth? Everyone knows Cindy McCain is worth $500 million. What do you expect someone with that kind of money to do?

Maybe poor kids in Bangladesh are as horrified that this monkey has a computer while they cannot even afford two decent meals. I would be, you know.

Okay, I'm bored. Can some suggest a game or game demo? (please don't tell me to get the leaked spored, even though i probably should)

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What now for Fannie, Freddie, shareholders, taxpayers and the mortgage market?

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AC360 Exclusive: The trooper who worried Sarah Palin  —  The Alaska state trooper at the center of a probe into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power says he has “made mistakes, and I've learned from those mistakes.”  But in an exclusive interview with us, Mike Wooten, Palin's former brother-in-law …