Wednesday, April 16, 2008

FLV Videos, Better Google, Embed RSS, Wikipedia Traffic, Google Sites

How to Prevent Others from Using Your Wireless (Wi-Fi) Network

If you enabled Wi-Fi at home, this article has tips that will help you secure your wireless network and also prevent neighbours from using your Internet connection.

Twitter

Follow Bollywood Celebrities on Twitter

This is complete directory of Bollywood stars and other people from the Indian film industry who are active on Twitter.

Create & Host Websites for Free with these Web Tools

Google Page Creator was an awesome tool for building websites but as they say, all good things come to an end, and so is Google Page Creator - the service is getting replaced with Google Sites.

OpenDNS Tutorial: What is OpenDNS

Think of the DNS as the phonebook of the Internet. You type a web address in the web browser (e.g. labnol.org) and your DNS server will translate it into a numerical IP address. OpenDNS will make this translation fast and secure.

How to Buy Popular Software Online for Less

This article has tips to help you buy software online at a price that is much less than the suggested retail price.

Also see: Which Windows 7 edition should you buy?

Most Useful Google Talk Bots

You could do lot of interesting things like read blog manage calendars, translate text and more in Google Talk.

These are possible through 'bots' which are like virtual friends who are online 24×7 and will always respond with a smile to your questions or requests.

Read Full Magazines for Free on your Desktop

This very simple trick will help you read full copies of popular magazines like PC World, Lonely Planet, Reader’s Digest, Playboy, etc. without paying any subscription charges.

Read Online Documents in Google Docs

"Send to Google Docs" is a free addon for Firefox that lets you read Microsoft Office documents and PDF files in Google Docs without having to download them on to the computer.

This is much similar to "Open as Google Document" feature of Gmail.

Translate Hindi Web Pages to English with Google

How to Embed RSS Feeds into Regular HTML Webpages

This simple tutorial illustrates how to embed RSS feeds from blogs and news websites into your HTML website using simple Javascript.

*If you are looking for a Flash solution, get one of these Flash based RSS widgets.

Learn How to Use Wikipedia More Effectively

Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, needs no introduction. Here are some of the best tools, tips and tricks to help you use Wikipedia more effectively and productively.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

VideoSpin, PDFMeNot, Scribd, Web Clipping, iPaper, BBC Images

Video Spin: A Better Video Editor Than Windows Movie Maker

Video Spin (based on Pinnacle Studio) is a free video editing software like Windows Movie that lets you make movies without any learning curve.

And once you are done editing the video, it can directly upload the clip to online video sharing sites  like Yahoo! Videos or YouTube. Another surprise - Video Spin can even output movies directly in Flash Video (flv) format.

Convert PDF to Flash Movies Online with PDFMeNot

Like Scibd and SlideShare, PDFMeNot is an online service that converts PDF documents into a Flash (SWF) movies while preserving the original layout, image graphics and other formatting.

A Guide to Free Web Clipping Tools - Save Anything on the Internet

With billions of web pages around, keeping track of information that you discover on the web is extremely tough.

So we look at free web clipping tools that help you save anything and everything from the internet to your hard drive.

Scribed iPaper - Embed Documents in Web Pages

Scribd, a perfect place for uploading Office documents and PDFs, has moved from Adobe Flash Paper to a new iPaper format that is definitely more impressive and also allows web publishers to monetize documents.

Add Text Captions to Your Images - Just like BBC or Wikipedia

Learn how to add text caption to images in your web pages similar to what you have seen on BBC or Wikipedia.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Blogger Backup, Mobile Blog, MP3 Emails, Twitter Software, Passport Photos

Create a Mobile Friendly Blog with Google Reader in 10 seconds

Your blog may look perfect on the desktop but there are lot of people checking your content on small mobile phone screens.

You need not be a geek, just use Google Reader and your mobile phone optimized blog is ready - see live example at m.labnol.org.

Turn Your Emails into MP3 Files Online

Vozme is web based tool that turns any snippet of text into an MP3 audio file that you can either listen online or download to your local hard drive.

The Best Twitter Software for Windows

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Print Your Passport Size Photos at Home

print passport size photo If you have a photo printer at home, you can easily convert any of your digital picture into a valid passport size photograph using ePassportPhoto.

Upload the digital photo, crop and you immediately get a printable strip of 6-8 photographs for free.

Backup Your Blogger Blog Posts and Comments Locally

Blogger Backup is a free Windows Utility that saves your entire Blogger posts to the disk and can easily restore them in case you accidentally delete your blog.

Blogger Backup follows the incremental backup style so if you run the software again after a week, only blog posts and comments published during this seven day period will be downloaded locally, not the entire blog.

Save Clippings from Microsoft Documents

You are reading a long document in Microsoft Word and wish to save some important parts to a separate file. You can either create a new Word document and copy-paste selected content to the new document or a better option is to create "document scraps."

Free Movie Recorder for Your Computer Screen - TipCam

TipCamp is a new screen recording software for Windows similar to other screencasting tools like Jing, Camtasia Studio or Camstudio.

While Jing and Camstudio render the desktop screen recording video in SWF format, TipCamp uses Flash Video (FLV) that is supported by blip.tv.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Camera Phones, Google Snooping, YouTube Tools, Techmeme Video

Stop Your Boss From Seeing Your Google Search Queries

There are chances that someone is secretly spying on your Google search tracks for various reasons. For example, the employer may monitor your Google search habits to know if you are looking for jobs elsewhere while the local ISP may be collecting your Google queries with the purpose of selling that data to large analytics companies.

When Specific Websites Do Not Open on your Computer

Your computer is connected to the Internet and you can reach most websites just fine but there’s a problem when you try to open some particular website(s). How to diagnose and fix this issue ?

The Best YouTube Video Tools

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How to Make a Time Lapse Video

Learn how this Techmeme Time Lapse movie was shot and produced in couple of hours.

techmeme cartoon

10 Creative Uses of Mobile Camera Phones

taxi in delhiMost shopping malls here have huge underground parking but there aren’t any signboards so it gets tough to locate the car. So when you park the car, just look towards the escalator (or the exit door) and take a picture or record some video. This will save lot of effort (and time) when you return with all those heavy shopping bags.

Facebook Blocked, Web Screenshots, Best Free Software

Save Screenshots of Web Pages

Kwout is like a Print Screen key for your web browser. Type in the web page address and Kwuot will convert the entire web page as an image.

Apple Safari on Windows

Apple introduced Safari for Windows around six months ago calling it the fastest web browser that is almost twice as fast as IE 7 or Firefox 2.

But did the browser really pick up any momentum ? The Google Analytics report says no.

The Best Free Software Programs for Windows

Given all these wonderful choices, why pay?

We have picked some of the best software programs and utilities for your Windows computer that are completely free and still extremely useful.

Related: Free Software Programs from Microsoft

How to Access Blocked Facebook at School

If you also happen to work in such a company where the office firewall has restricted access to Facebook, there's a workaround - your email.

Boopsie, SyncToy, Online Virtual Office, Firefox Passwords

Synchronize Files in Folders and USB Drives with SyncToy

Microsoft Synctoy is a must-have utility to help you synchronize files in different directories of the same computer or between a computer and external storage devices like the iPod and USB pen drives.

Do Stuff on Office Computer That You Thought was Impossible

Life inside the office can sometimes be very restrictive for employees.

You are not allowed to check personal email, there are no permissions to install new software, tons of websites are banned (loss of worker productivity), you cannot store music because management thinks that MP3s are illegal, YouTube videos are prohibited and so on.

The Best Tools for Running a Successful Online Office

Virtual offices, where employees and co-workers can be located in any corner of the world, have become a reality. More and more businesses are keen on exploring the concept of virtual office because they save on office rentals, employee commuting costs and host of other "unnecessary" expenses.

Your Saved Passwords in IE or Firefox Are Not Safe

When you type some password into a web form, both Internet Explorer and Firefox prompt if you would like them to remember your password. The moment you click Yes, you actually put your login credentials at serious risk.

Type Less Characters when Accessing Internet from a Mobile Phone

If you were to read the Wikipedia entry of Benazir Bhutto on a mobile phone, you would either visit Google or the official Wikipedia website, type her complete name in the search box and hit Go. That's lot of typing.

With Boopsie, you can type "ben bhu" – it will show all Wikipedia pages that match the string and clicking on the link will take you to the appropriate web page. Similar "pa hi" will find Paris Hilton.

Related: Why Use Mobile Browsers on the Desktop

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Twitter for Business - Keep your Customers Happy with Twitter

Some two years ago, Twitter launched as an online service where people could describe their current status in a brief text message ("tweet") and broadcast it to the world or a private circle of friends. It was a brand new concept though we did see some clones later in the form of Jaiku and Pownce.

When people first heard about Twitter, the first very obvious reaction was - "Why would anyone want to share moments of their private life on the Internet ?" or "Why would you want to know that I am going to the gym or caught in a traffic jam ?"

Most Useful Twitter Services That Can Help Your Business Grow