You use the free Google Translate service to instantly translate text from one language to another and in some language pairs, you may even listen to the translated text by clicking the blue speaker icon as show in the the above screenshot. In theory, such a feature may come handy in situations when the person on the other side of the phone doesn’t understand your language. You can type the text in your native language, hit translate and … [Read more...]

Do you want to share the most interesting part of a YouTube video with your contacts without wasting their time? YouTube URLs have long supported the “time” parameter that lets you link directly to any specific time of a video. For example, if you open the following YouTube URL in your browser, the video playback will start at the 1 minute 22 second mark and not from the beginning. http://youtube.com/watch?v=tUIuTkjY#t=1m22s What has … [Read more...]

The other day I shared how you may use Dropbox as a CDN to host the static content of your WordPress site. That will not only improve the performance of your website, because you are now using a CDN, but will also decrease the bandwidth requirement of your own web server since some of the files are getting served through Dropbox. Dropbox provides nearly 2.5 GB of free storage space and that is obviously more than enough to host all the images, … [Read more...]

For optimal site performance, it is recommended that you use a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to host your website’s static content – like images, CSS and JavaScript files – since it effectively reduces the physical distance between the user’s browser and your content. A CDN is a collection of web servers distributed across multiple locations to deliver content more efficiently to users. The server selected for delivering content to a … [Read more...]

iSendr, as you may recall, is a pretty neat web-based service to help you send files really fast. Unlike other file transfer services, the unique thing about iSendr is that you don’t have to upload your files to a third-party web server from where the recipient may download them. Here, the transfer happens directly between your two computers and there are virtually no restrictions on file sizes. From Desktop to Mobile Phone The iSendr … [Read more...]

You have certain important tasks to complete in the next hour or so and yet you have trouble staying focused for long because of all these online distractions coming through Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other websites. It maybe slightly unfair to categorize some of these sites as “time wasting” but at the same time, the endless stream of new content available on these sites can consume lot of your precious time before you even realize … [Read more...]

If there’s a party happening at your home, you’ll probably capture the moment on a Flip video camera and then upload it straight to Facebook or YouTube so that all the other family members may also enjoy it. But things were a bit different few years ago. Back then, you would shoot everything with an analog video camera on tapes and burn them on to DVDs. Therefore, in all these years, your high school reunion, your wedding video and dozens … [Read more...]