Calling All Indian Bloggers
The Indian Bloggers directory (version 1.0) has been around for several years now but I need your help to take it to the next level. Please go to indianbloggers.org/me and add your blog(s). This step should not take more than a minute and you should add (or rather claim) your blogs even if they are [...]
Engadget Podcast 294 – 05.18.2012
Filed under: Podcasts As much as you may Like overanalysis of the initial public offering of a Friendster ripoff valued higher than General Motors, other stuff happened this week. Tim and Brian share their Tech Timelines with you in this, The Engadget Podcast. Feel free to leave us a testimonial in the comments below. Above [...]
Bing Can Supply Background Images for your Google Homepage
1. The homepage of Bing 2. The homepage of Google Bing puts a new image (sometimes, even a video) on their homepage every day. Google prefers rotating doodles on the homepage but they do offer you an option to add background images manually from the public photo galleries of Picasa. If you prefer Google for [...]
Find the Address of a Place through Google Maps
What’s the address? is a simple tool that can help you find the approximate address of any point on Google Maps. All you have to do is drag the red marker pin to another location and the approximate snail address of that place should pop-up in a marker window. You can also search for the [...]
Why You Should Not Rename Your Pinterest Boards?
When I first read about Pinterest, I didn’t pay enough attention as it looked like any other image bookmarking site with a beautiful interface. But as I spent more time on the website exploring pins and repinning some of them to my own boards (see here), the interest level has definitely gone up. I plan [...]
Create a Unique Password for Every Site You Use
You want to create lengthy, complicated and unique passwords for every website that you use but that rarely happens in practice because these complex strings would be nearly impossible for anyone to remember. Most people thus rely on password management software that encrypt and store all your passwords in a database which is protected by [...]
The Most Popular Month for Birthdays
Amitabh Chandra, a professor of public policy at the Harvard University, earlier published a data table detailing how many babies were born in the United States on each date between 1973 and 1999. September 16th happens to be the most common birthday while December 25th is the least popular birthday Matt Stiles, data journalist at [...]
How to View the Source Code of a Chrome Extension
There are two main reasons why you may want to read the source code of any Google Chrome extension (including Web Apps and Chrome Themes): If the Chrome extension has been created by an unknown developer, you want to ensure that it does what the description says and nothing more. You would not like to [...]
Engadget Podcast 293 – 05.11.2012
Filed under: Podcasts Looking for the real dirt behind all the salacious, earth-shaking news from the Cellular Telephone Industries Association’s 2012 throwdown? You won’t find it here, and that’s only because you won’t find it anywhere, because there wasn’t any. What we can offer instead, though, is a recording of two men having a startlingly [...]
How to find out where a picture was taken?
Say you are exploring interesting places on the Internet and come across a gorgeous destination that you would like to visit sometime in future. The only problem is that the web photograph carries no text caption and you therefore have no clue of the location where that picture was possible taken. Where was a picture [...]
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