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Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other major search engine caches webpages they have already indexed. Generally Google indexes more pages than other search engines for a normal blog. Here’s a trick with which you can recover your website from Google cache. The process has limitations and could be very difficult for large websites but its nonetheless very handy.
To manage a Wordpress blog and to customize it, one needs basic HTML, CSS or PHP knowledge too. A new blogging platform “Yesblogs” has been recently launched. This blogging platform doesn’t require you to know any HTML or CSS techniques as the developers say.
Yahoo Pipes has a tool for using Babelfish translation by default. But Babelfish’s translation algorithm isn’t as advanced as that of Google Translator’s. Here’s a trick using which you can translate a feed using Yahoo Pipes and Google Translator.
Cloud computing has presented a challenge to the business communities who wish to print anywhere in the world without regard for computer compatibility in the receiving office. Printer manufacturer have answered the call by designing a printer that is linked directly to the internet and capable of printing any document it receives from any external source. Called e-All-In-One printers, these magicians are capable of accepting printable materials from anywhere on the globe, in any format, and producing high-quality printed documents within minutes. These five models are produced by two manufacturers.
How fond are you of web icons? If you love them, you must have downloaded web icons time and again that look more or less appealing to you. X Icon Editor is a free HTML5 web application that lets you design web icons in a jiffy.
Do you like the life sized dummies posing at the display of clothing stores? Well how about getting a mini figure of yourself? Sculpteo is an online service that lets you have a mini figure of you delivered at your home.
HTML is the main basis for the whole world wide web. Without it, the internet cannot exist as of now. Mathias Bynes of CSS Tricks has given us an idea on how a mock up webpage can be created with just CSS and no HTML. Remember, this trick should NOT be used in a real website. We’ll have to use the link tag to do this which isn’t supported by all browsers although Firefox and Opera support it.
Visitors to any post on your blog may land there for a bunch of different keywords. A visitor could be intrigued by a section on your article and thus write a comment regarding it. But he will have to scroll all the way down to the comment section and type the comment referring to the particular section on your article. Highlighter is a Wordpress plugin that enables your visitors to highlight any section of your article and add comment to it.
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have created bacteria that can be programmed like a computer. This is a great milestone on the effort to bridge the gap between the living world and the digital world. The functions that can be assigned to the bacteria are rather simple but developments in the technology can take place in the future.
If you are an avid LinkedIn user, you must have added your basic information with data on educational qualification, workplace etc. With tools like Newsweek’s career tree maker or LinkedIn’s Resume Builder, you can generate your basic profile info quickly and easily.
On Windows, you can easily rearrange icons by moving them around. People prefer to have the icons that are frequently used towards the top. But some may hate the whole idea of rearranging icons with mouse drags. Sometimes, it can be a predicament too. For example you have a Zip file on your desktop and while arranging icons, if you happen to drag another icon onto the zip, the file gets zipped into the same Zip archive. This can be annoying and happens many a times. Here’s a trick that will keep the desktop icons from rearranging themselves on Windows.
Facebook chat has been integrated into chat applications like Pidgin, Digsby and recently Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger as well. Chit Chat for Facebook is a standalone desktop chat client for Facebook that serves solely for letting you chat over Facebook. Chit Chat for Facebook has a neat interface and resembles MSN Messenger in some ways.
Hundreds of thousands of users are joining Twitter everyday. The number of registered users on Twitter has crossed the 100 million mark. Many celebrities and media icons have also taken interest in Twitter and are signing up for an account. Twitter has created a graphical tree that houses some of the notable personages who started using Twitter in 2010.
Google’s Chrome Notebook is doing the rounds on Internet these days. A video showing the usability of Chrome Notebooks and how data remains safe with it was shown on the Chrome Event on 7th December 2010. In this video, Chrome UX designer Glen Murphy shows some of the advantages of using chrome notebook. 25 computers were destroyed in the making of this video but no data from any system was lost.
A background with color gradients looks more appealing than just a plain single color background at times. Gradient backgrounds for websites are usually created with Photoshop’s gradient tools. But gradients can also be used on website via CSS codes. ColorZilla has a web based color gradient toolkit called “The Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator” that makes it easy to play around with color gradients right from the browser and then generates the CSS code for it.
There are Twitterers who post really useful stuff and you’re tempted to follow them even if they don’t follow you back. But in case of your friends, you generally follow each other mutually. This makes sending direct messages easy and you won’t have to head over to your email account just to send a one liner to your friend. This habit of yours must have accumulated lots of Direct Messages or DMs on your Twitter Inbox. Cleaning up your Twitter inbox can take a lot of time if done manually. Thanks to InboxCleaner that makes cleaning up the Twitter inbox snappy.
Twitter has somewhat become a very integral part of daily internet users. Many of you must have joined Twitter from the days when Twitter was just born. But you don’t know for sure the exact time for which you have been sending tweets. Twuration is a simple online utility for Twitter with the help of which you can know the duration for which you have been on Twitter.
Mobile Wireframe is an illustration of the basic elements used in the interface and before making any visual design for mobile applications, creating a wireframe is necessary. Moobileframes is a collection of mobile wireframes found on the web.
The latest version of Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 9 has lots of improvements over the older versions. Lots of things like a minimalist design, pinned sites, a single box for address bar and search...
Gamification adds a new scope to applications with a game-like approach to things that typically aren’t considered a game. Gamification wiki aims at cataloging all sorts of information on Gamification.