Monitor Internet Censorship Around the World

While this Wikipedia article on Internet Censorship is a great resource to learn about the level of net filtering imposed in various countries of the world, it misses a few points like you won’t know...

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Enhance Google Search Results with Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, etc.

WebMynd is an extremely useful Firefox add-on that embed search results from Flickr, Wikipedia, Backtype (for blog comments), Delicious, Digg, Amazon, LinkedIn and a dozen other...

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Extract Text from Images & Scanned PDF Manuals Online

If you are on a budget, the built-in OCR engine of Google Search is almost a perfect option for converting scanned PDFs to text - just put all your scanned PDF images onto a public website and wait...

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Quickly Set an Egg Timer in your Browser

E.ggTimer is a simple but innovative web tool that lets you create an online timer via an easy-to-remember URL.

For instance, the web address shown in the screenshot image will set a new timer in your...

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French Town Changing Name to Improve Ranks in Google

Eu, a small town in North France, ranks rather poorly in search engines as “EU” may mean lot of other things - it could refer to the more popular “European Union” or...

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Number of Links on the Homepage of Popular Websites

This chart courtesy Nick Bilton will help you visualize the number of hyperlinks that currently exist on homepage of 98 popular news websites and tech blogs.

The sites mentioned in the...

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Google AdSense Optimization Tips - WordCamp Presentation

I discussed a couple of "AdSense Optimization Tips" at the recently concluded WordCamp conference. The session was primarily focused at improving the performance of your Google ads...

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Can You Guess a Person’s Age from their Photograph

Looks can be surprisingly deceptive when it comes to guessing the age of a person but if you are really curious to know how old you look in that picture you posted on Facebook, then give How Old...

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Send Musical Scraps to your Orkut Friends with Dhingana

WeekendApps, that recently happened at the Google office in Mountain View, was a weekend long hackathon where developers had to create functional OpenSocial applications in one weekend - the...

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Did Gmail Go Down Due to a Software Update or Denial of Service Attack?

Gmail, Google’s free web mail service that turns five this year but is still in beta, went down for a couple of hours yesterday. The outage even affected Google Apps...

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How Does WordPress Make Money?

How can a company like Automattic make money if they are giving away all their products (including WordPress) for free? Someone asked this question to WordPress founder Matt at WordCamp India and he surprised, at least...

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Your Taste in Music Can Reveal How Smart (or Dumb) You Are

Virgil Griffith, popularly known for the Wikipedia Scanner that detects where the Wikipedia edits are coming from, maintains another very interesting project that maps musical tastes of...

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Tasks Written in Easy to Read Fonts Are More Likely to be Completed

The next time you jot out a set of instructions or tasks for someone to follow, keep in mind that the choice of fonts might well determine if that job gets done or not.

The...

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Exploring Ways to Embed Tables & Spreadsheets in Web Pages

While online spreadsheets like Google Docs make it very easy for anyone to embed tabular data in websites, let’s explore some new alternatives that you may find more useful depending on...

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Single Google Query uses 1000 Machines in 0.2 seconds

Google is normally quite secretive about their search infrastructure but, in a break from tradition, they have revealed that a single search query on Google can consume the processing power of 1000...

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Facebook to Users: We Are Sorry, Please Don’t Delete Your Account

It looks like lot of Facebook users have deleted (or are in the process of deleting) their Facebook profiles due to the recent uproar over Facebook’s new privacy policies. ...

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The Credit Crisis Explained in Simple English

"Credit Crunch", "Subprime mortgaged", "Leverage".. you regularly come across such complex jargon thanks to the ongoing Financial Crisis but what exactly do these terms mean?...

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Use Your Email Signature to Support a Good Cause

"Think of the environment before printing this email" - if your email signature reads like this, you may want to try something different that will actually help someone in some part of the...

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Create High Resolution Picture Collages & Posters in Seconds

I earlier recommended AutoCollage for making photo collages but the trial version adds a watermark to the final print. The second good option is Picasa but this Google software doesn’t...

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Get Google on Windows Mobile Phones

The Google Mobile App is now available for Windows Mobile phones. To download the Google App, visit m.google.com from your mobile phone browser* or visit this link.

Video Demo - Google Mobile App for...

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Screencast Video Created on Paper

If there weren’t any screen recording software around, it may have required immense effort (and talent) to create even simple screencasts like the one below.

The following screencast explains only a basic...

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Request an Invite for the Google Webmaster Conference

If you are looking to attend the webmaster conference at Google Bangalore but have not received an official invite, simply fill in this registration form before 23rd of February and they’ll...

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Get Statistics for your Tumblr Blog - What Do You Publish & How Often

If you have a blog hosted on Tumblr, you’ll simply love Tumblr Stats - it’s a free service that analyzes and displays some interesting statistics about your Tumblr based...

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T9 Text Input on your Cell Phone Won’t Suggest Slang Terms

Try typing "7448" on your T9 enabled mobile phone and you will be surprised to see that your phone has guessed the word "Shiv" and not the more commonly used slang -...

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AdSense for Domains Available for International Publishers

If you own some "unused" web domains that still get some traffic because that domain is listed in an online web directory or printed on your old business card, here’s an...

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Remap any Unused or Faulty Keyboard Keys with Sharp Keys

If some of the important keys on your computer keyboard have stopped working or if you are using a laptop with a cramped keyboard and like to reassign the Function (Fn) and other lesser-used...

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Imagine if the Colors of Google Logo Start Dripping Down..

If the Google logo was painted on a wall and the colors start dripping down, you’ll probably get a pattern like the one below:

*Incase you have trouble viewing the above...

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Create a Safe Senders List in Gmail Similar to Outlook

Dean recently lost his web domain as all the renewal email reminders from his registrar were getting marked as spam and, unfortunately, Dean did not care to check his spam folder.

We...

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Fascinated by Charles Darwin? Morph Yourself into an Ape

Charles Darwin, in his book On the Origin of Species, proposed that all living organisms on Earth are descendants of a common ancestor.

Our ancestors were apes (or monkeys) and if you...

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Webmaster Conference at Google India

Google India is organizing a conference for webmasters (and bloggers*) at their Bangalore Office on February 28 to help you with your webmaster related questions and how you can leverage Google tools to improve...

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This Printed Newspaper Is Made of Blogs Only

If you happen to be in New York, San Francisco or Chicago, don’t forget to pick a free copy of The Printed Blog from the nearest news-stand. Alternatively you can download a PDF version of the...

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Tips for Job Seekers: How to Catch a Recruiter’s Attention at LinkedIn

This Forbes video has some good tips for job seekers on how to catch a recruiter’s attention at Facebook, Twitter and other social sites.

First, don’t be...

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Wi-Fi T-Shirt Can Detect Wireless Networks Around You

If you are not carrying a wi-fi enabled mobile phone and hate to turn on the laptop computer just to check if there’s a wireless network around, try this Wi-Fi enabled Tee Shirt.

The...

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Add Your Current Location to Gmail Signatures Automatically

Gmail users who travel frequently will simply love this. You can now instruct Gmail to automatically add your current geographic location to all your outgoing email messages so that...

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I earlier recommended using the built-in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine of Google Web Search to convert scanned PDFs into text. You had to upload the scanned documents to a website and then wait for Google bots to index them.

Now assuming...

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Disconnect for a while, read a book.

Tzomet Sfarim, a book chain based in Israel, is using a variation of the Facebook logo in their print ads to attract Israeli youngsters who may be too addicted to the social web especially Facebook.

The...

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If you try visiting Wall Street Journal online from an IP address based in India, you’ll automatically get redirected to the Indian Edition of WSJ.com.

The all new India edition was added to the WSJ.com websites this weekend and includes...

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There are three reasons why you may want to send emails as paper letters using snail mail:

1. Some of your relatives live in remote villages where they don’t have computers let alone access to Internet.

2. Your grandparents know computers...

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Google Universal Search (see live example or an extreme screenshot) changed the basic rule that only high quality web pages could put your site on the front pages of Google. You can have good positions even without text through the use of images, blogs...

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Consider this - you are sharing a computer at home, there aren’t any separate user logins and all family members use the same Firefox browser to surf the web. How do you make sure that people don’t get to know about the websites you visited...

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For people who love to carry software on a USB drive or if you are behind a corporate firewall and can’t install new software, here’s something you have been waiting for - Google Chrome 2.0 in a portable avatar.

Like other portable apps,...

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Google today introduced a small change in the YouTube player that could save us some time as we can safely skip watching videos that either have low user ratings or carry some crazy titles.

That’s because YouTube videos that are embedded...

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If you’ve been tinkering with the idea of making some quick money by printing fake notes using Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, think again.

These applications will simply refuse to print fake notes and will instead show a warning...

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If you find yourself regularly stressed out by the maddening noise at work or home, iSerenity could be of some help.

iSerenity offers a relaxing web-based environment with soothing sounds and images designed to reduce stress and calm nerves. ...

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Got an iPhone? You can use that mobile device to increase the overall population of "real" trees on our planet.

Raven Zachary, who developed the official iPhone app for the Obama campaign, has launched a new eco-friendly app called...

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You may well call it a birthday gift from Facebook but now teenagers, who are not attending high school or college, can become members of the most popular social networking site on the Internet without having to fake any information.

The minimum...

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If you are curious to know which states in America or Canada have the highest density of people who have the same surname as you, check out the surname maps at Dynastree.

Geographic Distribution of people with the surname "Patel" ...

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