If you looking for buttons and banner images to promote your YouTube channel, just head over to this page and download the ones that will look good on your website or email newsletter. You can link to your YouTube page in two ways: A: Link to the main channel – The user will see all your recently uploaded videos and your favorites and he will have to click the “Subscribe” button in order to subscribe to your channel. See … [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...]
Linking Analytics with another AdSense Account
February 6, 2010 By
It is important that you integrate Google AdSense with your Google Analytics account as you will then be able track the ad performance (CTR, CPM, revenue, etc.) of individual pages of your site without having to create AdSense channels. Linking AdSense with Analytics is fairly easy (see video) but consider a slightly different scenario: You are maintaining two separate Google Accounts – your first Google Account (say adsense@gmail.com) is … [Read more...]
Looking to Buy a Cameraphone or a Digital Camera? Picasa Can Help!
February 2, 2010 By
Flickr offers a very useful camera finder tool to help you choose the right digital camera or a camera phone. With the Flickr Camera tool, you can not only see the quality of shots captured by actual consumers in real-world situations but you may also compare the relative popularity of various camera models over time. Google today introduced something similar in Picasa Web Albums – see example. With Picasa (the online version, not the … [Read more...]
Quick Note to Twitter Users Who are Listed on WeFollow
February 2, 2010 By
WeFollow, as you probably know, is a public directory of Twitter users. The site, a brainchild of Digg founder Kevin Rose, was launched nearly an year ago and is still quite an hit among Twitter users. To add your own Twitter profile in the WeFollow directory, you just need to grant certain read & write permissions to WeFollow, choose a city and any five tags, and you are done. Your profile will get listed under the relevant tags and … [Read more...]
How to Make Your Wired Printer Wireless
February 1, 2010 By
Your laptop and desktop computers are connected over a Wi-Fi network but you still need a physical USB cable to connect your wired printer to one of these computers. If you find your existing setup a bit inconvenient and are looking for ways that will help you print documents from the same printer but wirelessly, here are some choices. Turn any Wired Printer into a Wireless Network Printer More new printers these days are network enabled so … [Read more...]
An Efficient Structure for WordPress Permalinks – Don’t Make the Mistake I Did
February 1, 2010 By
WordPress offers you plenty of options for choosing a permalink structure for your blog. For instance, you can chose to have dates, post IDs, categories or even the name of the author in the pemalinks (short for permanent link). The URL structure that you see on this blog uses the following custom format: /%category%/%postname%/%post_id%/ So if I am writing an article on WordPress Tips under the Blogging category, the URL of that post will … [Read more...]
Watch Bollywood Movies on YouTube
January 28, 2010 By
Some great news for movie buffs. You can watch some of the popular Bollywood movies on YouTube for free using this page. These are full-length videos so you can just connect you computer to the large TV screen, grab a snach and watch movies from the couch with your whole family. The collection is currently limited to Hindi movies from film producers like Shemaroo Entertainment, Rajshri and UltraHindi. And like most other YouTube videos, you … [Read more...]
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