How to Check the Health of your Hard Drive
Hard disk failure is possibly the worst thing that can happen to your computer and it often occurs without giving any warning signs. Test Your Hard Drive for Impending Problems You may however run certain tests on your computer beforehand to get an idea about the current condition of your hard disk. This should in turn [...]
Now You Can "Like" Comments on Facebook
Facebook is rolling out a feature that lets you “like” comments on posts just as you can the post itself. It’s a simple feature that has surprisingly been absent until now, but now it’s here. “Since first launching the ‘Like’ feature in 2009 and the ability to comment on News Feed stories in 2008, we’ve [...]
Access Files on your Computer from Anywhere
The problem: You have documents, photos, music and other important files on the home computer. How can you “remotely access” these files from your office computer or, when you are travelling, from your mobile phone? The solution: The simplest solution would be that you copy all your data from the home computer on to a [...]
Make Your Own 3D Glasses in 10 Seconds
You’ll need a pair of 3D glasses with red and blue (to be more precise, cyan) lenses to watch any of the 3D videos that are available on YouTube or this pool of 3D images (anaglyphs) that’s on Flickr. For instance, here’s a 3D clip from the popular Avatar movie that you’ll only enjoy if [...]
Simple Solutions to Common Windows Problems
Learn about some free software utilities that will help you fix the most common Windows problems. They are all compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Fix Windows Problems with Free Tools Q1. I am trying to delete a file from my desktop but the computer won’t let me do that. Instead, it throws [...]
Photo Memories in Facebook
There’s a nice “photo memories” feature in Facebook now that highlights old photographs from your friend’s photo albums in case you missed seeing any of them previously. Facebook has around 500+ million users who spend over 500 billion minutes per month on the site and little changes like this one will obviously push that number [...]
Digg Users Sure Dig Digg Competitor Reddit
Digg recently launched its long-awaited redesign, making the site much more appealing to publishers, as it is now easier to push content out to Digg users. Some Digg users apparently aren’t as thrilled about it. There does seem to be some issues with the new Digg, as currently Reddit, a Digg competitor, is taking up [...]
Chatroulette Comes Back to Disappoint
Last week, Chatroulette was down, displaying nothing but a blank screen and a promise of a quick return. That return didn’t come so quickly, but the site is back now…somewhat. The downtime message called the previous incarnation of Chatroulette an experiment, but this version is already far less usable, particularly if you don’t have a [...]
How One Company is Finding Value in Promoted Tweets
Many businesses have probably been wondering just how much Twitter’s Promoted Tweets could help them if they were given the chance to participate. Promoted Tweets is still in beta, and is still limited to a set of partners. One of those partners, Zecco, has been talking about the success it has had with the program. [...]
Netflix Launches App For iPhone And iPod Touch
Netflix has launched its free app for iPhone and iPod touch, allowing members to instantly watch TV episodes and movies streamed to their devices. The Netflix App for iPhone and iPod touch is available on Wi-Fi and 3G networks. Content is organized based on a members’ personal preference, popular genres, new arrivals and individual instant [...]
Google To Establish New Ops Center In Ireland
The number of people Google employs in Ireland should soon grow by 200. Google’s announced that it intends to establish a new operations center in the country, and the company’s wasting no time in getting it up and running. According to Ciara O’Brien, the center should become functional before the end of this year, and [...]
Twitter Users Have Big Impact On Brands
Active Twitter users are three times more likely to impact a brand’s online reputation via Tweets, blog posts, articles and product reviews than the average consumer, according to a new survey by Exact Target. “Consumers active on Twitter are clearly the most influential online,” said Morgan Stewart, principal, ExactTarget’s research and education group. “What happens [...]
Google Search Funnels Give Search Marketing Brand Value
A few months ago, Google introduced AdWords Search Funnels reports. These describe click and impression behavior on Google.com that leads up to a conversion, with reports like Assisted Conversions, First and Last Click Analysis, Time Lag, and Path Length. These reports are proving helpful for advertisers that would like a little more brand benefit from [...]
Google Completes Caffeine Update After Nearly a Year
Google announced today that it has completed its new web indexing system called Caffeine. The company claims it provides 50% fresher results for web searches than the previous index and is the largest collection of web content it’s offered. “Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links [...]
Google’s new search index: Caffeine
Today, we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content [...]
Woody and Buzz star in a Google Search Story
Hopefully some of you have seen one or two of our Search Story videos. We’ve been blown away by the creativity and brilliance of everyone that shared their own search story using the Search Stories Video Creator. It’s been a pleasure to see how all kinds of people use search to tell tales—whether silly, inspiring, [...]
Google Flu Trends Spreads To Eight More Countries
The next time bird flu, swine flu, or any other nasty bug strikes, it’ll be possible to get a significantly better idea of the effects worldwide. Today, Google Flu Trends started processing information in eight more countries. Google decided to focus on the southern hemisphere – where it will soon be the winter flu season [...]
Freshness May Count More in Google These Days
Google’s new SERP design (you know, with the left-hand panel), has created more areas for webmasters to focus their SEO efforts on. While most of the options available here have been available for quite some time, they are now in the user’s face and they will be used more. We spoke with Matt Cutts, head [...]
"Photo Memories" Tab Spotted Attached to Facebook Places
It’s become clear that check-ins are becoming about more than just locations. While location is obviously a big part of it, we’ve seen several examples of non-place “check-ins”. For example, Booyah recently released product check-ins. Third parties have already begun using Facebook Places for physical items. It looks like Facebook is trying to make memories [...]
You Can’t Block Mark Zuckerberg From Your Facebook Profile
Update: A Facebook spokesperson tells us, “This error isn’t specific to any one account. It’s generated when a person has been blocked a certain large number of times. In very rare instances, a viral campaign will develop instructing lots of people to all wrongly block the same person. The purpose of this system is to [...]
Life in a Day: thank you for filming
On behalf of Ridley Scott, Kevin Macdonald, LG, the Sundance Film Festival and all of us at YouTube, thank you to everyone who took part in “Life in a Day.” Using the footage you shot, Kevin will now begin to build the world’s largest user-generated documentary, capturing what it was like to be alive on [...]
YouTube Shows Future Standard Embed Code
YouTube has introduced a new way to embed videos. The new style uses an <iframe>. Viewers of videos which use the following embed code style will be able to view the embedded video in one of YouTube’s Flash or HTML5 players, depending on viewing environment and preferences: <iframe class=”youtube-player” type=”text/html” width=”640″ height=”385″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID” frameborder=”0″> </iframe> [...]
Facebook Gets 100 Billion Hits Per Day
Facebook of course announced today that it surpassed 500 million users, but the company has shared a few more stats today as well. Facebook gets 100 billion hits per day. It has 50 billion photos. It has 2 trillion objects cached, with hundreds of millions of requests per second and has 130TB of logs every [...]
Facebook Has New Suggestions for New Users
Facebook has launched a new feature for suggesting pages of interest to new users. New people who join Facebook will be presented with a list of Pages that other people in a “similar demographic” like. “Friends on Facebook are constantly helping each other connect with more of the people and interests that matter in their [...]
