Archive | Tips, Tricks and Hacks

30 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Manage tasks on Remember the Milk with Twitter

Remember the Milk or RTM is popular among many of us. The task management web application allows us to manage multiple tasks from any computer and can be done offline too with Google Gears. Remember the milk has many advanced task management options. Do you know that you can also manage and add tasks to Remember the Milk via Twitter?

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23 June 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Cool text effects for social profiles

If you are an avid Facebook user, you must be updating your status on it every now and then. Some people also love changing their status in messengers very frequently. If you want to try something new, like updating status in a cool way, you can try out some crazy text types.

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31 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Add an image search option in Firefox Search box

If you search for images as much as you search for anything on the web, you might have wished for a shortcut like having an image search option from the search box of your browser directly. You generally open up Google Image Search or Yahoo Image Search to look for images. But having an image search option directly in the search box would be much convenient and time-saving.

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25 May 2009 ~ 5 Comments

Make Twitter Widget for your blog with Google Spreadsheets

These days, you might have noticed that many blogs have a Twitter widget added along the sidebar with their latest tweets. Well that’s no big deal as you can easily get a widget from Twitter’s site. Or there are other third party tools that make it easier for you to show a Twitter widget [...]

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16 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Add Google Reader’s shared or starred items to your blog

I assume that you already run a blog. You might want to embed a list of interesting articles from your favorite blogs that you read off your Google reader. But updating a link to those posts every time from your blog’s admin can be a bit tedious. Well, if you use Google Reader as your feed reader, you can easily show your shared items on Google Reader in your blog.

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13 May 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Understanding a Google query URL

Well Google gives a lot more options for filtering your search results. Like if you want to look for the definition or meaning of a certain word, you need not go to dictionary.com and search for the word. You can get your meaning with the query, “define:word” in Google. Or you can find all the pages in a site with the query, “site:yoursite.com”. But do you know that besides these simple tricks, you can also get desired results by modifying the Google Query URL that it returns after a query.

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15 April 2009 ~ 3 Comments

How to send tweets from Gmail

There are various methods for sending tweets to Twitter. Well you send out your tweets through the medium you think is the easiest. Some tweet from the Twitter website, some from other 3rd party sites like twitpic, twitzap, friendfeed etc. while some from desktop applications like twhirl, tweetdeck, seesmic desktop etc. But you can send [...]

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28 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Copy files from browser cache to your folder on hard disk

You watch photos of your favorite celebrities on the internet and skim through the photos clicking the “Next” and “Previous” buttons in the photo galleries. You sometimes wish to save them on your hard disk but you hold back remembering the tedious task of right clicking each photo, and saving it. All the files that [...]

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19 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Undo sending a message in Gmail

There are times when you are in a hurry while writing mails and sometimes write things that could mean something else, misspell a spelling or something like that. And your practiced hand clicks the send button right away when you realize that something wasn’t right in the email. What will you do? Send another email correcting the mistakes, or regret for the next couple of minutes for having hurried? How would it be if there was some option for cancelling a message being sent? Well Gmail’s new feature lets you undo a message that is being sent.

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18 March 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Popular posts widget for your blog based on the highest number of traffic-II

In the previous post, I had discussed about hosting the XML file in Google Groups containing the analytics data from Google Analytics for Popular Posts widget. Now we’ll need to use Yahoo Pipes and some Javascript codes.

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