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Charlie Ayers - Google Chef Now a Millionaire
Chef Charlie Ayers joined Google as their first cafeteria chef in 1999. Though Charlie is no longer an employee of Google, he owns 40k shares of GOOG and that are alone worth $26 million.He also had plans to write a cookbook titled "Revealing the Secrets of the Google Kitchen" - that never happened but Chef Charlie is now busy consulting tech companies on deciding good food for their employees.Update: Chef Charlie Ayers wife Kimberly ...
Webmaster Central Error : URLs Restricted by Robots.txt
For some reason, Google's Webmaster Dashboard says that access to following blogspot URLs is restricted by robots.txt. http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/05/guide-for-google-adsense-publishers.html...
How to Add Star Rating Widget To Blog Posts
Blogs that are on Blogger or WordPress can add the wonderful Outbrain star ratings widget to their blog posts. This ratings widget has been under a closed beta for some...
Ticker Symbol Lookup in Yahoo! Finance
When I wrote this story comparing Google Finance with Yahoo! Finance, the one area where Google had a lead over Yahoo! was ticker symbol search.While Yahoo! Finance required...
Upload Pictures to Flickr From Windows Live Photo Gallery
This is exciting news for people who use Flickr for storing photographs on the web but prefer Windows Live Photo Gallery on the desktop for managing their picture and video collection offline. Microsoft today released a new version of Windows Live Photo Gallery that lets you send pictures to Flickr directly from the desktop using Windows Live Photo Gallery. You can also bulk upload images and folders to Flickr using this new feature...
Can You Spot This Secret Feature In Facebook
Here's a simple question for anyone who has been on Facebook for some time now. How do you create a photo collage of your Facebook Friends (as shown above) without using any of the available Facebook Apps or third-party tools. And no matter how large your Facebook friends list is, the whole process should not take more than 2 seconds. Hint: This secret feature is available right inside Facebook though Mark Zuckerberg and his team...
How To Save PowerPoint Presentations Out of Google Docs
Before you upload PowerPoint PPT files to Google Presentations for editing, make sure you know that the opposite is not possible yet.Unlike other members of the Google Docs...
Technorati Blog Search Is Useful Again; Rolls Back Recent Changes
The two very useful features of Technorati - Charts and Blog Directory - mysteriously disappeared after Technorati decided to shift focus from a blog search engine to a multimedia search engine. The move may have backfired for Technorati and so they decided to revert the changes pretty soon. Other than charts and blog directory, you can also sort blog search results by authority like before to filter posts from blog sites that have...
What Will Happen When Google Becomes an Adult ?
The Forbes magazine today launched a new feature called the "The Future" where they invited personalities to predict trends and technologies that will become popular in the near future. An extremely intelligent prediction about Google's future comes from David Ewalt where he says - Over the next 10 years, Google will solidify its hold on the world's information, and as it adds data service to its portfolio, it will give away free Internet...
Google Adsense Plugin for Windows Live Writer
AdSense Coder is new plugin for Windows Live Writer that lets you to add Google Ads directly into your blog posts through Windows Live Writer itself. It will also wrap the Adsense code around your text using the align attribute. You first define different Google Ad formats that you want to include in the blog posts. AdSense Coder will then add those blocks of Javascript code to your blog posts anywhere you like. Pretty easy to use...
Modify PDF Documents without Adobe Acrobat
Since Adobe PDF is an output format, you cannot edit or recreate the PDF file unless the source documents are available. Now Adobe Acrobat does allow you to apply numerous...
Download Images From a Webpage When Right Click Is Disabled
Some websites disable the right click menu on their websites to prevent people from saving images and photographs to their desktop. There are several ways to bypass that...
Flickr To Accept Payments for Pro Accounts Via PayPal Again
Few months ago, Flickr removed PayPal as a payment method and only those Flickr members could upgrade to a Flickr Pro account who had a Credit Card. This was met with a great deal of disappointment in the Flickr community as existing Pro members, who were not having credit cards, could not renew their yearly Flickr pro membership. Well, the news is that PayPal will make a comeback on November 20, 2007. However, PayPal will now...
PC Magazine - Give an OPML Of Your Favorite Blogs
Following the footsteps of CNET Blog 100, PC Magazine too today released their own list of 100 favorite blogs. The list includes the usual suspects but if you are new to the blogging world, this is probably a good place to quickly build your reading list. There's something surprising here - PC Magazine decided to release a Windows based installer that will add this grand list of 100 blogs right into your Internet Explorer bookmarks. ...
How to Download Contacts from Facebook To Outlook Address Book
Facebook users are not too pleased with the "walled garden" approach of Facebook. The reason is simple - while you can easily import your Outlook address book and GMail...
The Advantages of Using Gmail with Google Apps Premier
If you are also planning to sign up for a new Gmail account, consider opting for Google Apps Premier Edition that makes Gmail even better. Here are five reasons:1. While...
Al Gore's Current TV Makes Impressive Foray Into Social Networks
Current TV, which is a wonderful mix of some original programming and viewer generated content, will soon launch in a new and very impressive avatar. While the original Current TV was limited to video, the new Current is more of a social network and bookmarking site where you can save and share videos, web pages and photos clipped from the web. You can also upload original videos, just as before, except now your videos can be nearly...
Add Tags To WordPress 2.3 Posts From Windows Live Writer 2008
The new WordPress 2.3 release supports keyword tagging without requiring external plug-ins like Ultimate Tag Warrior or Simple Tagging. With the new Windows Live Writer 2008, you can easily add keyword tags to WordPress blog posts (see screen capture) though this feature is not enabled by default. To enable tagging in WLW for WordPress 2.3 blogs, follow the steps below: 1. Download wlwmanifest.xml (with some images files) here and...
Merge Multiple RSS Feeds Into One with FeedBurner and Yahoo! Pipes
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...