One of the very popular question in the FeedBurner FAQ is about merging XML RSS feeds from different sources (like Blogger, WordPress, Flickr, Twitter, Jaiku) and then syndicate...
Microsoft Releases Word 2007 Viewer for Reading docx Documents
To open a Word 2007 document without installing Office 2007, you either had to download the Office 12 Compatibility Pack or manually convert .docx to .doc format using any of the online conversion services. The limitation with Office Compatibility Pack is that it still requires a previous version of Microsoft Office on your computer. Not anymore. Microsoft recently introduced a free Word 2007 viewer that lets you view docx Word documents,...
Excel 2007 Calculation Fix Weighs a Whooping 32 MB
After two weeks of testing, Microsoft today released a patch that will fix the Excel 2007 calculation errors. Earlier, if the result of calculation in Excel 2007 is a number from 65534.99999999995 to 65535, it is incorrectly shown as 100000 in the spreadsheet. The patch file weighs around 32 MB and that could be one of the reasons why Microsoft did not include it the regular Windows Update cycle though the patch itself is released...
Publish Your Twitter Tweets on Jaiku Automatically
Now that Jaiku is owned by Google, it will get lot of traction in the coming days - people who have refrained from micro-blogging so far are also likely to jump in. If you are a Twitter addict but also want to use Jaiku simultaneously, here's a time-saving trick - you can continue sending tweets to Twitter as before (via mobile phone, web or Google Talk) and the messages will automatically appear in your Jaiku account as well. See screenshot....
This Little Bird Is Twitting In The Google Campus
Google acquired Blogger in 2003 from Evan Williams who later launched another successful company called Twitter. Google owned a service similar to Twitter called Dodgeball but for some reason, that service never got the attention it deserved and DodgeBall soon became history. Well, Google has re-entered the "micro-blogging" space - the news just out is that Google has acquired Jaiku, another Twitter clone. The litte bird above showed...
Is Your Google Talk Friends List Too Long and Unmanageable?
If you exchange a couple of email messages with another GMail user, Google Talk assumes that the person at the other end is a known contact and will automatically add...
Camtasia Studio 5 Is Now Available - Review and Screenshots
Read review of Camtasia Studio 5 (with screenshots) TechSmith have just released released Camtasia Studio 5. The software works on Microsoft Windows Windows XP and Vista. The Camtasia Studio trial is fully-functional and runs for 30 days after installation. A free, 60-day account for Screencast.com is also included in the trial. Camtasia Studio 5 is quite nicely integrated with the Screencast.com, an online service like YouTube but...
The World Atlas of the Internet
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...