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Download your data from Google using Google Takeaway

Download your data from Google using Google Takeaway

We all are thankful to Google for the hordes of services they provide ranging from Google Search itself to Gmail, Picasa, Buzz and more. Google offers Google Takeaway, a service that lets you download your data scattered across various services from Google.

New York Maker Faire shows how far home 3D printing services have come

New York Maker Faire shows how far home 3D printing services have come

Many People believe that to be developing the latest cutting edge technology you either need to be based in a University research center or better still one of the world’s big electronics companies’ research labs. The do it yourself technology fans spend their spare time designing and making high technology in the same way most of us might design and build a set of shelves.

10 Best iPhone Apps To Increase Productivity in Web Designers

10 Best iPhone Apps To Increase Productivity in Web Designers

One of the biggest problems freelance web designers face is the ability to get organized and stay on track. Clients want their mockups and sites finished within a specific time period, and balancing several clients and still keeping your sanity can be a difficult task. Thankfully, this is where your iPhone can come in to save the day, with its many productivity saving apps available. Check out these top ten to get yourself back on track in your work.

Manage your posts only Reloaded WordPress plugin

Manage your posts only Reloaded WordPress plugin

Guest blogging has become very popular these days. But many of those who want to get guest posts wouldn’t want the contributors see the posts by others or the number of posts that are on the site. Wordpress lists all the posts that are on the website on the dashboard of the user. Well if you don’t want the contributors to see the posts by others, Manage your posts only reloaded plugin can be of use.

How to install Internet Explorer 8 in Windows XP virtual machine

How to install Internet Explorer 8 in Windows XP virtual machine

Internet explorer 9 has already become one of the favoured browsers among Windows users. But Internet Explorer 9 only works on Windows 7 or Windows Vista and not on Windows XP or any older version of Windows. Its because Internet Explorer 9 uses Direct2D for hardware acceleration which is not available on Windows XP. But don’t worry you can still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. But if you are running Windows XP on a virtual machine, you might have noticed that your system doesn’t show any updates for the existing Internet Explorer 6. Well here is a workaround for that.

Using Transparent wallpapers on Windows Phone

You can find lots of transparent wallpapers for your smartphone running Windows phone. A member on xda-forums by the name of RKlenka has devised a cool way to use transparent wallpapers on Windows Phone.

Reddit overcapacity message

You must have seen picture messages that show up on sites when they are overcapacity. Just forget the rest, most of you must be familiar with the Twitter Fail Whale image. Today while using Reddit, I also came across a very peculiar overcapacity message on Reddit.com.

Keyboard heatmap

Keyboard heatmap

Do you ever wonder which letters you type the most on your keyboard or simply put, what keys you hit on your keyboard the most? This largely depends on your language and the type of text. Generally, the most number of strokes are concentrated towards the center of the keyboard. Would you want to visualize the keyboard heatmap while you type a certain piece of text? Well here is a cool keyboard visualization tool.

Google TV – Go Get It to Enjoy Internet TV

Google TV – Go Get It to Enjoy Internet TV

When it comes to using internet TV, you have to think of getting a gadget that would give you the best viewing experience. That’s exactly when you can rely on Google TV. If Google TV would work the way the company is saying, then you can expect a whole new experience with your TV. By just turning it on, you’ll see the Google TV home page. You can surf the internet using the Google Chrome and can download apps on the TV just like it’s done in any smart phone.

Adobe’s Image Deblur tool

Adobe’s Image Deblur tool

Mobile phone cameras do not give results as great as SLRs but some modern day camera phones deliver such pictures that it is difficult to tell them apart from standard digital camera photos. Besides the the censor, a lot of things such as movement, amount of light etc. make a big difference in the quality of photos. Aren’t you annoyed to see motion blurred pictures that would otherwise have looked great, hadn’t there been a hand movement? Well your woes may come to an end very soon as Adobe will soon be introducing a Deblur tool in the upcoming release of Photoshop that would help you correct your blurred pictures.

Google Introduces programming language Dart

For programmers, there are lots of programming languages to choose from. Java, C#, Python etc. are some of the most popular programming languages in the current scenario. Amidst the hordes of all the prevailing programming languages, Google has just introduced a programming language and it is known as Dart.

An average font made of all typefaces on a computer

There are thousands upon thousands of fonts and everyday, a multitude of new fonts are born. There are times when you like a letter of a certain typeface and another letter from some other typeface and then wish for a typeface with the best of the both worlds. But have you ever imagined what an average font would look like? By average, I mean how would a font look with all the typefaces installed in your computer combined together? Moritz Resl has done an experiment by creating a set of alphabets by combining all the fonts installed in his system.

Limit the number of posts a user can submit in a day

Limit the number of posts a user can submit in a day

Guest blogging has become ubiquitous in the recent years. There are lots of blogs that allow guest posts their blogs; Techattitude is also one among them. There are many benefits of allowing guest posts on your blog but nothing is without demerits. Guest posts can bring you a number of quality articles to your site but at the same time also increases the chances of spammers submitting numerous duplicated posts in a single day. If you want a solution of this, here is the trick.

This is what is happening to Your Pagerank

This is what is happening to Your Pagerank

There has been a lot of confusion and uproar in the SEO world today due to what so many people think as Google stopping pagerank. I woke up this morning to the news. The death of Steve Jobs was really sad news for me in the first place, only for me to check my dick blick discount and istockphoto coupon blog to discover that my pagerank isn’t active again. I thought maybe there is a problem with the plugin I’m using to check my pagerank so I decided to use a pagerank checker site only to get an error that my pagerank can’t be found. I tried checking some of my other blogs, and also some of the favorite websites I visit regularly only to see that they all don’t have any pagerank.

Social Media, Brand Awareness and its impact

Social Media, Brand Awareness and its impact

Working out how to promote an event or brand in the first stages of launch can be a difficult decision to make. In the past it may have been all about getting out into the public with flyers, putting up posters and striking deals with already established magazines and newspapers in order to print your advert, but times are changing.

Fix computer hanging issue while applying user settings

Fix computer hanging issue while applying user settings

Even though Windows Vista has now been more or less replaced by its successor Windows 7, there are some people who use Vista as their operating system. If you are a user of Windows Vista, you must have come across the issue when the computer hangs while applying Computer Settings in the login process. This issue is also seen in Windows Server 2008. But with a quick hotfix, you can easily solve the issue.

Make more from your traffic by multivariate testing

Make more from your traffic by multivariate testing

Multivariate testing can help companies make more money by increasing website traffic and sales conversions. Companies evaluate each landing page to determine how the layout, colors, images, videos and other elements of the website affect their ability to entice customers to purchase products or services. The more appealing and user-friendly the website becomes, the more likely visitors will purchase a product from the site. Multivariate testing helps companies know definitively which website elements are most effective.

The Evolutionary Stages of Storage

The Evolutionary Stages of Storage

The storage landscape has changed dramatically in the past two decades. In the 1980s and 1990s, companies struggled with keeping their data secure, accessible, and backed up. It wasn’t uncommon for larger enterprises to have a storage engineer just to maintain storage systems and make sure that important data was safe.

5 Ways A Blogger Can Maintain Good Eye Health

5 Ways A Blogger Can Maintain Good Eye Health

As a blog owner who sits and stares at a computer screen for long periods of time each day, it’s imperative that steps be taken to maintain good eye health.