Google announced today that it has launched an enhancement for the Google Voice mobile app on Android and BlackBerry devices. The tweak is designed to make placing calls quicker. The feature itself is called "Direct Access Numbers." "At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster = better," says Google software engineer Flavio Lerda. "This is true for our Google Voice mobile apps as well. When you want to make a call, your phone … [Read more...]
Taking Full Screenshots of Web Pages Was Never This Easy!
April 5, 2010 By
Do you want to capture a full screenshot of a web page without installing any software or browser extensions? Well, here’s a simple trick. Open the web page that you want to capture, go to the address bar of the browser and type "aviary.com/" just before the http:// part of the URL. For instance, if your web address is something like http://seo-chief.com, the new URL will become aviary.com/http://seo-chief.com – hit Enter and … [Read more...]
Keep Your Passwords Safe on a Piece of Paper
March 9, 2010 By
If you use the same password on multiple websites, your may be in for some trouble. Say your password for website badwebsite.com is the same as the password for goodwebsite.com. Now if the website badwebsite.com gets compromised (or the owner is malign to start with), they’ll know your password. Chances are that your username is the same (email address) for both websites so the badwebsite.com people can can easily log in to your … [Read more...]
Some really cool and useful websites that you should check out
March 2, 2010 By
Here’s a list of some really cool websites that you should check out now. Aardvark (vark.com) – What do you do when you need advice or help on something? You’ll probably contact your friends to see if they have a solution to your problem. Questions come up every day and Aardvark can help you find answers to them using the experience of your friends and friends-of-friends. You send Aardvark a question and it will pass that to selected … [Read more...]
How to Safely Open Unknown Web Pages at Work
March 2, 2010 By
You are at work and a friend sends you an email with a link to some web page that he or she wants you to check out right now. You have unrestricted access to the Internet in your office but they keep a log of everything so it’s probably not a good idea to visit NSFW (Not Safe for Work) websites from your office computer. Another problem, you don’t have personal cubicles in the office but a fairly open workspace so your colleagues can … [Read more...]
Determine a File Extension Using PHP
March 1, 2010 By
There are several ways determine a file extension using PHP. First is using the combination of strrpos() and substr() function like this : $ext = substr($fileName, strrpos($fileName, '.') + 1); For example, if $fileName is my-new-house.jpg then strrpos($fileName, '.') will return the last location a dot character in $fileName which is 15. So substr($fileName, strrpos($fileName, '.') + 1) equals to substr($fileName, 16) which return … [Read more...]
How to Migrate your Blog from WordPress.com to a Personal Domain
February 18, 2010 By
This guide is for bloggers who plan to move their site from wordpress.com to a personal web domain using the self-hosted version of WordPress blogging software (wordpress.org). After the migration in complete, all your older blog links will continue to work and visitors will be redirected to the new site. Why move to WordPress.org? Like most other people, you started your first blog on WordPress.com because the service was free, you … [Read more...]
Which is the Best Linux Distribution for your Desktop?
February 16, 2010 By
Linux today comes in several different flavors or distros as they are known in Linux circles. Some Linux distributions are light-weight (they’ll run just fine on your old laptop), some are targeted at people who just want to try out Linux without replacing their main OS while other desktop distros (say Ubuntu) include a more comprehensive collection of software applications and also support a wide variety of hardware devices. Choose the … [Read more...]
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