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Spezify is a new visual search engine that aggregates search results from multiples sources including Yahoo, Flickr photos, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, etc. and then arranges all these...

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Online backup services like Mozy, Carbonite, etc. are some good & inexpensive choices for storing your photos, home videos, music files, personal documents and other important computer files on to a remote location. Amazon S3 too can be used for...

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Firefox users can now use the brilliant Wolfram search engine alongside Google.

Google and Wolfram on the same page

This is possible through a new Firefox add-on that displays search results from Wolfram Alpha in a neat sidebar whenever you perform a...

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Google has enabled language translation in Gmail meaning you can now translate emails written in foreign languages to a language you can read.

The translation happens inline so you don’t have to leave the current message view. And there’s...

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If you using Amazon S3 (or CloudFront) for your web hosting needs, here are some essential tips that you should know about.

The tips discussed here will also help reduce your monthly S3 bandwidth (thus saving you money) and you don’t have to be...

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Oudi Antebi, a former marketing manager at Microsoft, has developed an awesome plug-in that turns your copy of Microsoft Office into an offline Google Docs editor. You can save your Office documents directly to Google Docs or directly open your online...

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This is something for AdSense publishers in India whose accounts have just been approved by Google.

The AdSense team at Google will hold an online webinar on May 22, at 5:00 p.m. IST to help newly approved publishers on getting started with their AdSense...

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If you were wondering how O&M created the popular Zoozoo ads for Vodafone without using computer animation, here are some behind the scenes video clips that will give you some good idea about the whole production process.

You may also want to check...

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The above graph shows how Television viewers react to commercial breaks in TV programs second-by-second. The audience level drops immediately at the start of the commercial break but then starts to grow again.

The audience starts to grow again about...

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If you want to know what people are currently saying about any web page on the Internet, you can either copy-paste the link (URL) of that page in a blog search engine like Technorati or, if you need something more instant, try any of the following...

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Adobe Creative Suite - Splash Screens and Program Icons

     

Adobe Clean is the name of the font that has been used in the splash screens and program icons of Adobe Creative Suite applications (CS3 & CS4). This Clean typeface...

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Following a list of mainstream media websites that get maximum "link love" from bloggers. Or in other words, these 50 websites are the top sources of news for bloggers and thus are linked (or cited) most frequently from blogs.

With a few...

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This illustration was created in early 2006 using logos of Web 2.0 companies that made headlines or were launched around that time. You can scan through the archives of TechCrunch or Mashable to read more about any of these Internet start-ups.

** Web...

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Our primary sources of information in the last 200 years - Timeline

In the early 19th century, the only way to get news was face-to-face communication but that started to change with the advent of printed newspapers and magazines in the 1900s.

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An employee of Baidu, the Google of China, has leaked a document folder that suggests in detail how authorities in China censor the Internet.

Video - Internet Censorship in China

These internal documents contain information about internet monitoring...

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A recommendation engine is a simple mechanism to learn about stories that other people may have enjoyed reading on your site. The list of recommended items (or web pages) is often published on the site so that new visitors can quickly discover popular...

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Common Craft, a popular educational video site that is especially known for explaining technical stuff like Twitter, Blogs, Lifestreaming, Wikis, etc. in plain English, has just been revamped.

Other than design changes, you can now watch high quality...

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Quickly wanted to share that Digital Inspiration was recently featured on the AdSense Chinese blog - the English translated versions are available here and here.

In related news, the arrangement of Google ads on this site was recently discussed in an

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If you like to abandon your Yahoo Mail account in favor of Gmail, here’s some good news. You can now move copy all your old contacts and email messages from the Yahoo! inbox to your new Gmail address without having to worry about complex IMAP or...

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If you are using Picasa Web Albums to store your photographs but don’t have the Picasa desktop software to download those images back to the hard drive, here’s a simple trick that will help you download original (full size) pictures from any...

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If you like to know how many hours have you wasted Youtube videos have you watched on the web so far, open your YouTube profile page (e.g. youtube.com/labnol - and look for the field "videos watched".

Obviously this will only count videos that...

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iGoogler is an Adobe AIR application that lets you access iGoogle, or your personalized Google home page, from the desktop.

Nothing fancy here as the app will only create a shortcut icon to the iGoogle website on your desktop and when you double click...

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Read a sample chapter from the Twitter book (also available as PDF).

Tim O’Reilly, the founder of O’Reilly Media, has written an illustrated guide on Twitter - The Twitter Book - that promises to teach you everything you need to know to...

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You can now publish your blog (or any RSS feed) for sale on the Amazon Kindle store and Amazon will share revenue with you for every Kindle user who subscribes to your feed. The facility is available to all bloggers worldwide.

How much can you earn from...

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If you have a BlackBerry and are located outside US or carry an unsupported model of BlackBerry (like the Pearl or Curve 8600 series), continue reading.

Evernote, the popular web clipping software, is now available for BlackBerry mobile phones as well...

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Lorem Ipsum refers to a dummy block of text that is often used in publishing and graphic design to fill gaps in the page before the actual words are put into the finished product. Lorem ipsum resembles Latin but has no real meaning.

** Insert Dummy...

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Do you use Google AdSense on your site? Here are two tips to help improve the performance of AdSense Link Units on your site without changing any code.

1. Don’t Reuse Colors

When you create an Ad Link unit for your site, the background color of...

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Hashtag, in simple English, is any word that begins with a hash (#) symbol.

Hash-tags are popular on Twitter because writing space is limited but people can associate their tweets with an event (or product) without having to explain the full...

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Typochondria is a state of persistent anxiety among designers that they have selected a wrong typeface or font for their project.

“The condition is often paired with optical kerning disorder or the need to constantly adjust and re-adjust the space...

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If you are connected with too many people on Facebook and need to hide your online status on Facebook Chat from certain contacts, here’s some help.

Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members...

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You may be adding just a single cube of sugar in your cup of tea or coffee but do you know how may extra sugar cubes are you eating ever day through other foods & drinks?

 

Check out Sugar Stacks - it’s an interesting site that will help...

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