charts

iSleepDiary Tracks Your Sleep Patterns And Quality

6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’ve been waking up feeling like you might have been fighting off a zombie horde in your sleep, it might be time to start tracking your sleep patterns to get to the bottom of things. More »

Google Docs Beefs Up Its Response-Gathering Forms

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | If you like your Google Docs enough to use them as a public or semi-private polling tool, Google has added a grid-style question selection form, made the results charts cleaner and prettier, and now allows form owners to pre-populate fields with example data, along with adding bi-direcitonal language support. Know of a great use for Google Docs’ forms? Tell us in the comments. [Official Google Docs Blog]

Computer Repair Flowchart Troubleshoots Hardware Problems

8:00AM Azadeh Ensha | We recently showed you a fun (but accurate) tech support cheat sheet courtesy of popular web comic xkcd. If hardware is more your problem, this series of interactive charts can help you troubleshoot some common hardware problems. More »

When To Use Bar Charts Instead Of Pie Charts

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Pie charts look cooler than other kinds of charts. They’re based on pie, after all, and seem less accountant-like than bars, bubbles and lines. They are, however, often a very wrong way to represent subtle but important differences. More »

Tech Support Cheat Sheet Reveals The Secrets Of Troubleshooting

11:30AM Adam Pash | If you read Lifehacker, chances are you’ve been designated as your family’s de facto IT person, and you’ve probably spent more than your fair share of hours troubleshooting applications you know no better than the person asking. How do you do it?! More »

The Computer Hardware Chart Identifies Your PC’s Parts

1:30AM Adam Pash | Whether you’re a first-time computer builder or a seasoned pro, deviantART user Sonic480’s computer hardware poster, which helps you identify countless different types of hard drives, RAM, ports, CPU sockets, power connectors and more, is a great reference. More »

Geek Chart Graphs Turns Web Activity Into A Pie Chart

5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re looking for a novel way to represent and visualise your online persona, Geek Chart takes your activity on popular sites and turns it into an interactive pie chart. More »

Chartle.net Creates Venn Diagrams, Interactive Maps And More

4:30AM Azadeh Ensha | Looking for a simple way to create bar, pie, and line charts online? How about Venn Diagrams and interactive maps? Chartle.net can make them all. More »

Lovely Charts Creates Polished Diagrams

3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Lovely Charts is a free web-based tool for creating flow charts, site maps, network diagrams, and other visualisations with a drag-and-drop interface and a look somewhat upscale from black-line boxes and polygonal boxes. You’ll be zipping through charts after a few minutes familiarising yourself with the layout of the tools—I made the basic network diagram above within the first minute I was on the site. You can customise nearly everything: icon size, labels, the size and shape of the connections between the icons, and so on. One feature that’s missing, but in the works, is the ability to upload your own icons and artwork. Good thing, too, since my network map won’t be complete until I can add a little Xbox icon. You can export your charts as JPEG or PNG files at the size you specify. Lovely Charts has free and professional accounts, the primary difference between the two being that free accounts are restricted to saving a single chart. You can create and export as many charts as you want, but are restricted to saving one chart for future editing. If you need the ability to edit and save multiple charts but would like to avoid paying for a service, take a look at previously reviewed open-source application Dia. Lovely Charts [via Tech Crunch] More »