Internet World Maps - Visualize the popularity of Internet and Social Networking across various countries and continents. The full list includes seven interesting World Maps. ...
Focus Your Attention On the Current Task, Hide All Distractions
Distractions are always present when using a computer. For instance, you are watching a YouTube video but hate the desktop screensaver that gets activated every few minutes. Or you are writing an important Excel sheet and suddenly there's a notification in the system tray that says "Your friend Rick is Online" or that "You a new email." Here's a real scenario - I am writing this blog post in Windows Live Writer and there's Outlook,...
Google Reducing PageRank of Websites That Sell Paid Text Links
Matt Cutts has long been giving strong but indirect hints that selling text links ads (without using nofollow) or writing sponsored product reviews could harm the rankings of your blog or website in Google search results. Google is not against text link advertising, they just don't want sites to pass link juice to advertisers. Read Matt's take on the issue: You want my links for traffic.. totally fine..just don't make it so they...
The Image That You See Here Is Not a Photograph
You may not believe your eyes but the image above is not a photograph, it's just a painting of a non-real person done using airbrush, not Photoshop. Dru Blair took around 70 hours to paint this beautiful photorealistic image - look at the eyes, skin tones, hair curls.. they look so real. Dru has the details on how he completed this painting dubbed "Tica" - Photorealism at its best. Related: Fake or Real Photos...
The World Is Missing Technorati State of the Blogosphere Reports
Do you know that 120,000 new weblogs are created worldwide each day. That the most popular blogging language is Japanese, not English. That more than 1.5 million blog posts are published each day. The world came to know about these very-interesting blogging trends and statistics courtesy David Sifry, founder of Technorati, who would religiously publish his much awaited "State of the Blogosphere" report every few months. But things have...
How to Access Orkut Account from Facebook
Something very interesting for people who are active on both Facebook and Orkut.You can now easily integrate your Orkut account with your Facebook profile courtesy a new...
Anti-Phishing Game: Learn How to Spot Fake Websites
Like the Phishing Quiz from McAfee, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an interesting online game to help people recognize online scams and phishing websites easily by looking at their URL in the browser address bar or with the help of Google. The plot is interesting - you are a small fish swimming around the bay with your experienced father in search of food. You will encounter worms in the water - swim over...
Microsoft Removes WGA Validation Requirement for IE 7
Microsoft today released a new build of Internet Explorer 7 that installs without requiring you to validate the copy of Windows as Genuine. The new IE7 is available Windows XPSP2, x64 Server and Windows Server 2003. Now that users running pirated copies of Windows XP can install IE7, it makes one wonder if Microsoft took this step to counter the growing popularity of alternate browser like Firefox and Opera? [Microsoft Software Piracy]...
Create a Temporary Webpage That Self-Destructs After Some Time
You have heard of temporary email and disposable email services that help shield your actual address from spammers and email harvesting robots. Extend the same concept to...
Know When People Submit Your Stories to Digg; Get Dugg More
Whether you write a blog or a regular website, incoming traffic is always welcome even when the flow is from Digg.com. When a reader submits your blog post to Digg and the story gets dugg a couple of times more by other Digg members, you can quickly add the yellow "digg this" button to your website - that Digg button not just displays the current digg count but also encourages others site visitors to digg your story without leaving the...
Online Photo Editing in Adobe Photoshop Express - Video Demo
You have seen the screenshots but at the recently concluded Max 2007 conference, Adobe gave a live video demo of some prominent features in Photoshop Express, the much awaited...
FeedBurner Upgrades FeedSmith Plugin for WordPress Feeds
FeedBurner FeedSmith is a must-have plugin for WordPress that redirects all your RSS Feeds to a single FeedBurner feed so you can know exactly how many people have subscribed to your RSS feed. If you are already using FeedBurner FeedSmith to manage your WordPress feeds, it is important that you immediately upgrade FeedSmith with the latest version available here. The previous version of FeedSmith has a security hole that can...
Steve! Thank You For Reading Digital Inspiration
This morning I woke up to a very pleasant surprise from Steve Rubel, author of the widely-read Micropersuasion blog. An excerpt from his post - APAC Rising: In Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat he talks extensively about "the great leveling." Specifically, he writes about how broadband-enabled populations in India, China and elsewhere will make waves here in the US. This is more than just theory. It's reality. All you need to do...
Make Sure You Alway Have The Latest Version of Software Programs
UpdateStar is a new tool to help you ensure that all software applications installed on your PC are up-to-date. Like Belarc Advisor, UpdateStar scans your hard drive and prepares a complete inventory of software products (including freeware and shareware demos) that exist on your system - it then lists the available software updates, if any, alongwith a link to download those updates. So you don't have to manually hunt download.com...
Interesting Picks
Which iPod Should You Buy? Planning to buy an iPod but cannot decide which iPod model to choose from? This quick iPod Buying guide compares all the new iPod models to...
Open .XLSX Spreadsheet Files Without Excel 2007
If you have an .xlsx file attachment in your email inbox but the computer doesn't have Microsoft Office installed to open file of that extension, what are your available...
Guidelines For PR Professionals Who Pitch Bloggers
PR professionals often approach bloggers, with decent readership, to talk about the products and services of their clients. Though most bloggers would love to read PR-pitches about products that are closely related to their niche, irrelevant pitching is always ignored and sometimes met with great frustration. To save from this frustration, Ogilvy PR team (in consultation with external bloggers) have drafted a "Blogger Outreach Code...
Adobe Office Gets A Word Processor, Outlook the Next Target ?
Adobe officially entered the web-office space by acquiring Buzzword, a word processor that works inside the web browser (like Google Docs or Zoho Writer). Other than creating documents from scratch, Buzzword can also import your existing Microsoft Word .doc files. Buzzword is done in Adobe Flex, the same technology that powers Picnik, the popular online image editor. Now that Adobe has a word processor, what could be next logical...
Move Draft Posts Written in Windows Live Writer Across Computers
Here's are simple tips for bloggers who work on multiple computers and use Windows Live Writer to compose and publish blog posts. Problem: If you write a blog post in WLW on computer A and save it as a local draft, how to you access that unpublished post from another computer ? Solution: You have two options here - the first is to use "Post Draft In Weblog" (available under "Save Draft") - WLW will put the post online though in Draft,...
A Standalone FLV Player For Watching Flash Videos on the Desktop
If you download streaming video content from the web (like YouTube videos, CNN news clips, etc), chances are that you have piled up tons of Flash Video (flv) files on your desktop. Unfortunately, these FLV files cannot play directly inside the web browser or the standalone Flash Player and you need to download an additional software like RIVA in order to watch the FLV videos. But the future of these third-party FLV players may be in...