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Wikis are a great way to communicate and work on a project with other people, but hosting your own wiki can be complicated to work with. Today we’ll show you how to setup your own Wiki page with Google Sites.

Note: naturally this post is meant for beginners, so the more advanced users should probably skip this one.

Create Your Wiki

We need to sign up for an account in Google before we can create a Wiki with Google Sites. Once you have your Google account, go to Google Sites and click the ‘Create Site’ button to start creating your own Wiki.

Google Sites has different templates that we can choose from for our website. Select ‘Project Wiki’ to start creating your wiki.

Specify a name that best describe the purpose of your wiki.

We can even make a visually engaging wiki with a selection of themes.

Google gives us the option to publicly share our wiki or share the wiki with a group of people that we are working with.

Adding collaborators and members in the wiki is quite simple. Select “Share this site” from the more actions dropdown and enter the email address(s) of collaborators you want to add.

You can invite people to collaborate on your wiki by sending email invitations.

We can even give different permissions to each person who we invite to edit our wiki.

Changing the Wiki’s Appearance

There is a lot of customization that we can do with our Wiki. Start by accessing the site management editor by clicking the ‘Manage Site’ menu.

The site editor let us customize the site layout, color, fonts, and theme.

Click the ‘Color and Fonts’ menu to change the site background, header, image, and fonts colors.

Inserting other Page Elements

Google Sites is tightly integrated with other Google products such as Picasa, Spreadsheet, Document, Presentation, etc. To begin inserting these elements into your Wiki, begin with clicking the ‘Edit Page’ or ‘Create Page’ button.

Click on the ‘Insert’ menu and choose the Google product that we want to incorporate into our wiki.

The great thing about Google Sites is that we can put our Google documents (spreadsheet, presentation) or Picasa photo album into any sites that we create in Google Sites.

Google Sites makes it easy for us to create Wikis without any technical know-how. It has a user friendly interface that allows us to create visually appealing and easy to use Wiki, just take a look at this Wiki site.

Now you can use Google Sites to create your own Wiki and use them in your work.

Google Sites

The heating system of the Preeceville, Sask., school is malfunctioning and officials say it can’t be repaired until spring.

Posted by Manu Cornet, Software Engineer

Manu: Hey, how would you fancy some new Gmail themes?
Jake: Sure, I would love that! How usable are they?
Manu: Huh, usable? Well, there’s a flishy-flashy theme that blinks every…
Jake: What? I don’t want things to flash, I want to read my email.
Manu: No? Well then, what about this fluorescent pink theme that will make your screen look very special when your friends are looking at…
Jake: No pink please!
Manu: Oh. Then maybe this hyper dynamic and playful theme that makes all links on the page jump away each time you try to click on…
Jake: Are you insane? Please, just give me something usable. If I want flashy game-like graphics, I can use High Score. If I want something dapper for my friends to look at, I can use Shiny. If I want cartoon characters hanging out here and there in my Gmail, I can use Zoozimps. I just want something dead simple.
Manu: What about stripping the Gmail interface to the bare bones, like these two new themes, Basic Black and Basic White?

Jake: That’s better. The dark one may be good for my eyes.
Manu: Great! Do you have an Android phone?
Jake: Yes.
Manu: Then you may like this Android theme too. How about that?

Jake: Nice! Some graphics but still subtle. Give me more.
Manu: Relaxing tree tops? This one ain’t blinking.

Jake: Not bad! What about something that would feel more handmade?
Manu: You’re in luck, sir. I have this cool Marker theme in store for you. Very unprofessional.

Jake: Nice — I’m gonna stick with this one for now.
Manu: Good choice! See you next time for some more.

We all know solid-state drives take a bit of care, so if you want to keep track of how your SSD is faring health-wise, free utility SSDLife will let you know. More »

It looks like we might finally be catching up with a long,
long time ago in a galaxy far, far away–in a couple of years, at least Researchers at the University
of Arizona have reportedly designed
an almost 360 degree hologram that updates at a rate of two seconds–not quite
animation-level, but a step in the right direction, perhaps.

Said researcher Nasser Peyghambarian, “We foresee many
applications, including for example, car or airplane manufacturing. They can
look at the hologram and design the system they have in real-time and look at
the model and make changes on it as they go.”

He didn’t mention anything about messages from the Rebel
Alliance, but we all know he was thinking it.

The group has been working on the technology for some time.
Back in 2008, they created a black and white 3D projection that updated every
four minutes. The new technology updates more than 100 times faster than that.

Just don’t expect the thing to land in your living room any
time soon. Says Peyghambarian, “I don’t think you can see these in our
houses in less than seven to 10 years.”

A date has been set for the second trial of a Yorkton, Sask., man charged in the shooting death of his daughter’s boyfriend.

Back in September, we heard that bookmark-syncing service Xmarks was shutting down in 2011, which came as awful news to those of us who relied on the any-browser extension to keep our bookmarks in sync no matter what browser we were using. As it turns out, the service has found someone to buy it and keep it going—with free and premium components. It's unclear what portion of the service will be free and what will be premium, but it's still likely to come as good news for Xmarks lovers. Thanks Rob! [Xmarks Blog] More »

Chrome: Chrome Toolbox is a Chrome extension from Google that enhances the Chrome experience, especially for new adopters, by offering side-by-side comparisons between Chrome and other browser’s shortcuts, enhanced video and image interaction, customized tab behavior, and more. More »

Researchers in Canada claim it’s more dangerous to your health to eat a single egg yoke than to consume a KFC Double Down.

There’s a lot of work going on in the background, but Dev Channel subscribers of Google Chrome might not even notice they’ve been upgraded overnight to Chrome 9. Tweaks to the JavaScript engine, the off-by-default hardware acceleration, and some of the extension handling are present, but most of the work listed in the lengthy changelog relates to features not quite ready for primetime. Chrome 9 arrived for Windows, Mac, and Linux users running the Dev channel release. [Google Chrome Releases] More »

Journalist David McCandless indexed over 10,000 Facebook status updates, and found that breakups peak twice a year: once just before spring break (to make you feel less guilty about all that drunken anonymous sex) and just before Christmas (to save cash on gifts). McCandless also found that most breakups happen on a Monday. The worst day of the week just got crappier.

Facebook Status Updates Reveal We’re Entering Breakup Season originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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German scientists have developed a chip which can be implanted behind the retina to restore sight to blind people.

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Want some specificity about LG’s super-duper tablet roadmap? Last we heard from the Korean tech giant, it was canning plans for a Froyo slate and looking forward to a more suitable iteration of Android, which a senior official at the company has today clarified to mean Honeycomb, describing it as the “tablet PC-version” of the OS. He’s even gone beyond the call of PR duty in placing a release schedule for the 8.9-inch LG Pad in the first quarter of 2011, boasting that it’ll come with a dual-core Tegra 2 chip inside. That sounds terribly delicious to us, as does the note that LG has worked hard to accommodate the needs and wants of European and North American consumers — the release window is explicitly said to be for both domestic and overseas markets.

Update: We’ve just heard back from LG on the matter and the company says it has nothing official to tell us. It’d seem whoever the cited official in this piece is, he was dishing details that LG doesn’t want the world to know yet. LG’s PR team has also pulled a tweet about this story, ostensibly to cover its tracks.

LG Pad coming in Q1 2011, with Android Honeycomb, dual-core Tegra 2, and 8.9-inch screen originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Archos wasn’t going to settle for shipping a single Android device out today, no sirree — the French PMP specialists are pumping out these 7-inch Archos 70 Internet Tablets effective immediately. $279 buys you a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 8GB of flash storage, and Android 2.2 running on an 800 x 480 capacitive multitouch screen, with an OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics accelerator, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth and a front-facing VGA camera in an 11oz, 0.43-inch thin package that screams to be held. Sadly, you still won’t find Android Market on here, though we’ll give Archos credit for ditching most of the proprietary connectors and ports, which should make sideloading your own apps somewhat less of a chore. (There’s also a microSDHC card slot.) Expect a 250GB hard-drive model to debut any day now for $350… along with our full review.

[Thanks, androidboi]

Archos 70 Internet Tablet now shipping for $279 with 8GB storage, Android 2.2 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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