A small extension that allows you to quickly look up definitions of words and phrases in the Webster dictionary (the only legally scrapable dictionary I could find). Hold Ctrl and double-click or select any word to look it up - an inline box will open to the dictionary entry of that word. You can also manually-entered queries using a shortcut which displays a small lookup form.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Google Chrome Extensions: Dictionary Lookup
Monday, December 14, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Google Acquires AppJet
Google buys yet another company: AppJet, the start-up that created EtherPad, an innovative online word processor. The EtherPad team, that includes three former Googlers, will join the Google Wave team. EtherPad will be available for the existing users until March 31, 2010.
"Other real-time editors like Google Docs work by broadcasting an updated copy of the document to everyone every 15 seconds. This creates a noticeable lag that gets in the way of collaboration. You start editing something, only to find 10 seconds later that someone else deleted it. Etherpad updates every copy of the document every half second. This 30x increase in speed changes the experience completely. Your edits hardly ever clash with other users'. So you work confidently instead of tentatively." (from EtherPad's site)
"Other real-time editors like Google Docs work by broadcasting an updated copy of the document to everyone every 15 seconds. This creates a noticeable lag that gets in the way of collaboration. You start editing something, only to find 10 seconds later that someone else deleted it. Etherpad updates every copy of the document every half second. This 30x increase in speed changes the experience completely. Your edits hardly ever clash with other users'. So you work confidently instead of tentatively." (from EtherPad's site)
Google DNS
Google launched a DNS resolving service called Google Public DNS that uses Google's infrastructure to improve page loading time. A DNS resolver converts domain names into IP addresses and this process might slow down browsing.
"As the web continues to grow, greater load is placed on existing DNS infrastructure. Since Google's search engine already crawls the web on a daily basis and in the process resolves and caches DNS information, we wanted to leverage our technology to experiment with new ways of addressing some of the existing DNS challenges around performance and security."
You can replace your ISP's DNS service with Google Public DNS by changing the settings of the network connection and using the following IP addresses:
"As the web continues to grow, greater load is placed on existing DNS infrastructure. Since Google's search engine already crawls the web on a daily basis and in the process resolves and caches DNS information, we wanted to leverage our technology to experiment with new ways of addressing some of the existing DNS challenges around performance and security."
You can replace your ISP's DNS service with Google Public DNS by changing the settings of the network connection and using the following IP addresses:
* 8.8.8.8
* 8.8.4.4
* 8.8.4.4
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Get Gmail Messages Delivered on Multiple Computers via POP
Do you access Gmail messages on two or more computers via POP clients like Outlook or Thunderbird. The problem (or advantage) with POP access is that once an email message gets downloaded onto one computer, it is skipped by other email clients.
To explain that further – let’s say you have configured both your personal laptop and work computer to download emails from your Gmail account via POP access. Now if the emails are downloaded to the laptop first, they wont be available on your work computer (and vice-versa).
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
D-Link 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure
SAFELY SHARE DIGITAL FILES LOCALLY AND OVER THE INTERNET
The D-Link® 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure (DNS-323) when used with two internal 3.5” SATA drives1 enables you to share documents, files, and digital media such as music, photos, and video with everyone on your home or office network. With the built-in FTP server3, you can access your files remotely over the Internet from anywhere in the world and keep data safe by only giving rights to specific users or groups. When configuring the DNS-323, you can create users and groups and assign them to folders with either read or read/write permissions.
This is ideal for an office environment with employee-specific sensitive data or for the home where you can ensure your children will only have access to age appropriate material. With the built-in USB print server port, you can add a USB printer to your network without a dedicated computer so anyone can print from anywhere on the network.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Download ElmuSoft FileOpenPatcher 9.0 - A patch for the Comdlg32.dll file to add more functionality to the File-Open command - Softpedia
Download ElmuSoft FileOpenPatcher 9.0 - A patch for the Comdlg32.dll file to add more functionality to the File-Open command - Softpedia
A patch for the Comdlg32.dll file to add more functionality to the File-Open command
This patch replaces the file Comdlg32.dll with a patched version. Afterwards the following dialogs will appear in english: Open File, Chose Color, Chose Font, Printer setup, Page Setup, Search/Replace Text.
Before the actual patching takes place, a backup copy will be created so you can restore the original configuration.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Anonymouse.org
With AnonEmail it is possible to send e-mails without revealing your e-mail address or
any information about your identity. Therefore you can communicate more freely
and you do not have to worry that it might cause consequences for you.
This service allows you to send e-mails without revealing any personal information.
Protect your privacy, protect your data, protect it for free.
Anonymouse.org
any information about your identity. Therefore you can communicate more freely
and you do not have to worry that it might cause consequences for you.
This service allows you to send e-mails without revealing any personal information.
Protect your privacy, protect your data, protect it for free.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Get Behind the Shield! Hotspot Shield by AnchorFree
Get Behind the Shield! Hotspot Shield by AnchorFree: "Hotspot Shield protects your entire web surfing session; securing your connection at both your home Internet network & Public Internet networks (both wired and wireless). Hotspot Shield protects your identity by ensuring that all web transactions (shopping, filling out forms, downloads) are secured through HTTPS. Hotspot Shield also makes you private online making your identity invisible to third party websites and ISP’s. Unless you choose to sign into a certain site, you will be anonymous for your entire web session with Hotspot Shield. We love the web because of the freedom that it creates to explore, organize, and communicate. Hotspot Shield enables access to all information online, providing freedom to access all web content freely and securely. Secure your entire web session and ensure your privacy online; your passwords, credit card numbers, and all of your data is secured with Hotspot Shield. Standard antivirus software protects your computer, but not your web activities."
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Free Download Manager
Free Download Manager - absolutely free download accelerator and manager: "It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license."
Friday, August 14, 2009
GoToAssist Express: Sign up for a Free Trial
Instantly view and control your customers’ computers online to solve problems on the spot. Your customers get immediate, live service – no pre-installation needed.
- Handle more support requests in less time
- Assist up to 8 customers at once – for as long as you need
- Support both PC and Mac users
Unlimited Live Support – Plus Unattended Support
Your free trial includes unlimited unattended support capability – so you can work on your customers’ computers after hours. Handle routine maintenance and product updates without interrupting your customers’ daily work.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
What is Dimdim? - Dimdim: Web conferencing that just works. Dimdim provides easy, open, affordable collaboration. Use for online meetings, eLearning,
What is Dimdim? - Dimdim: Web conferencing that just works. Dimdim provides easy, open, affordable collaboration. Use for online meetings, eLearning, desktop sharing, training, distance education, unified collaboration, webinar, free web meetings and more.: "Dimdim lets anyone deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages and share their voice and video over the Internet - with no download required.
Remember how hard it was to get your music into your pocket before the iPod? Well, you know how hard it is to get your web meetings started on time? We made it our mission to create a web conferencing system as easy to use as the iPod. With Dimdim, a single click is all it takes to meet."
Remember how hard it was to get your music into your pocket before the iPod? Well, you know how hard it is to get your web meetings started on time? We made it our mission to create a web conferencing system as easy to use as the iPod. With Dimdim, a single click is all it takes to meet."
http://www.dimdim.com
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Free Remote Access for Home and Personal Use from LogMeIn
Free Remote Access for Home and Personal Use from LogMeIn: "Access Your Computer Remotely from Anywhere – Free.
• Available for PCs and Macs
• LogMeIn Free gives you fast, easy remote access to your PC
from any computer with an Internet connection
• Access your home PC from the office
• 100% FREE to use!"
• Available for PCs and Macs
• LogMeIn Free gives you fast, easy remote access to your PC
from any computer with an Internet connection
• Access your home PC from the office
• 100% FREE to use!"
Thursday, July 23, 2009
VirusTotal - Free Online Virus and Malware Scan
VirusTotal - Free Online Virus and Malware Scan: "Virustotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines. More information..."
Monday, June 29, 2009
YouTube as a Medium for Community
Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, gave a talk at the Library of Congress about YouTube and its role in the participatory culture. He explains how one of his videos, Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us, became very popular in just a few days and how this popularity took him by surprise. The video was remixed, translated, it was the starting point for a conversation at a global level.
To find how people communicate on YouTube, Professor Wesch and his students studied YouTube and the way anonymity, interactivity, authenticity and popularity define it as a new medium for community.
To find how people communicate on YouTube, Professor Wesch and his students studied YouTube and the way anonymity, interactivity, authenticity and popularity define it as a new medium for community.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Test Your Site in Different Browsers Using Adobe BrowserLab
Test Your Site in Different Browsers Using Adobe BrowserLab
If you create a web site, a difficult task is to test if it looks properly in most of the browsers and the operating systems that your users are likely to use. Unfortunately, this requires that you install multiple operating systems, buy more than one computer or use virtual machines.
An easier way to test your site is to use online services like BrowserShots, which generates screenshots for a web page in more than 80 versions of the most common browsers used in Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac. The process takes time and you may have to wait up to an hour to see the screenshots.
An easier way to test your site is to use online services like BrowserShots, which generates screenshots for a web page in more than 80 versions of the most common browsers used in Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac. The process takes time and you may have to wait up to an hour to see the screenshots.
Adobe BrowserLab is a recently-launched service that has the advantage of generating screenshots almost instantaneously, but the number of browsers that are tested is smaller: Firefox 2.0 (XP, OS X), Firefox 3.0 (XP, OS X), IE6 (XP), IE7 (XP), Safari 3.0 (OS X). The service has an interesting "Onion Skin View", which superimposes one screenshot over another to see the differences between the different renderings. BrowserLab is integrated with Dreamweaver CS4, but you don't need to buy the software to use the online service.
"Cross-browser testing has been one of the biggest challenges for Web designers because it is such an arduous and time-intensive task. Now with Adobe BrowserLab, designers have a simple solution that enables comprehensive browser compatibility testing in just a matter of minutes," says Adobe's Lea Hickman. The bad news is that the service is free for a limited time.
"Cross-browser testing has been one of the biggest challenges for Web designers because it is such an arduous and time-intensive task. Now with Adobe BrowserLab, designers have a simple solution that enables comprehensive browser compatibility testing in just a matter of minutes," says Adobe's Lea Hickman. The bad news is that the service is free for a limited time.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Caption Editor for YouTube Videos
CaptionTube is a site that lets create captions for YouTube videos. For example, you can include a transcript of the video in one or more languages and YouTube's search engine will bring more viewers.
The site lets you caption any YouTube video, not just the ones that you've uploaded, and the captions can be exported as an XML file that will be later imported at YouTube.
The site lets you caption any YouTube video, not just the ones that you've uploaded, and the captions can be exported as an XML file that will be later imported at YouTube.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Lifehacker - Better Organize Your Tabs with Tree Style Tab - Downloads
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Tree Style Tab adds folder-tree-like navigation to your tab management, organizing tabs based on the order in which they were opened and the pages they originated from. The main idea behind Tree Style Tab is that you can keep track of the relations of your open tabs to each other so you can always follow the breadcrumb trail back to where you started—especially handy when you're researching something and end up with an endless pile of unorganized tabs. The extension's options are highly configurable, allowing you to customize the tab bar location, behavior of new tabs, and more. Tree Style Tab is free, works wherever Firefox does (including Firefox 3 betas).
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Transcriptions: free, lightweight Mac transcription app
Transcriptions: free, lightweight Mac transcription app: "If you're a journalist, a social scientist or even just a blogger, you've probably been through the process of transcribing a recorded interview. I do a lot of transcription, but I had always done it the hard way: with a text editor open in one window, and my audio in the other. I should have just downloaded Transcriptions, which handles the whole transcription process in one app, with a lot of cool extras.
It supports both audio and video, with adjustable playback rate and automatic or manual time stamping. I don't have a foot pedal, so I haven't been able to test this, but it apparently supports those, too. I know there are other, more elaborate transcription apps out there, but this one is free, easy to use, takes up under 1MB of disk space. It makes my work a lot of less of a pain than it was when I was using Quicktime and TextEdit to do the job of this one neat little app."
It supports both audio and video, with adjustable playback rate and automatic or manual time stamping. I don't have a foot pedal, so I haven't been able to test this, but it apparently supports those, too. I know there are other, more elaborate transcription apps out there, but this one is free, easy to use, takes up under 1MB of disk space. It makes my work a lot of less of a pain than it was when I was using Quicktime and TextEdit to do the job of this one neat little app."
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Video Monkey
Video Monkey is a free video encoding application exclusively for Mac. It was created after the demise of the great tool Visual Hub. Video Monkey borrows heavily from the Visual Hub video conversion tool, both conceptually and from the original code dump posted to SourceForge asTranscoderRedux.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Find Images that Contain a Certain Color
Google Image Search has a new option that lets you restrict the results based on their color. For now, the option is not available in the user interface, but you can tweak the search results URL to try it.
Searching for [red bird] shows good results, but you can still find some unrelated images. What if you search for [bird] and restrict the results to red images? Here's the URL:
Searching for [red bird] shows good results, but you can still find some unrelated images. What if you search for [bird] and restrict the results to red images? Here's the URL:
Friday, March 20, 2009
Alternative Answers for GoogleLookup
One of the most interesting functions available in Google Spreadsheets isGoogleLookup, which uses an automatically-generated database of facts to find answers for questions like "What's the population of Quebec?" or "How many employees does Google have?".
Unfortunately, the answers aren't always accurate and it would be useful to choose a different result or to edit the existing one. A recent Google Spreadsheet update added a way to change the answer: click on the cell you want to edit, select "More options" and choose one of the other two alternative answers. Maybe Google will go one step further and provide an interface for editing the facts or flagging the facts that are inaccurate.
Unfortunately, the answers aren't always accurate and it would be useful to choose a different result or to edit the existing one. A recent Google Spreadsheet update added a way to change the answer: click on the cell you want to edit, select "More options" and choose one of the other two alternative answers. Maybe Google will go one step further and provide an interface for editing the facts or flagging the facts that are inaccurate.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Yahoo! Query Language - YDN
Yahoo! Query Language - YDN: "Yahoo! makes a lot of structured data available to developers, primarily through its web services. These services require developers to locate the right URLs and documentation to access and query them which can result in a very fragmented experience. The YQL platform provides a single endpoint service that enables developers to query, filter and combine data across Yahoo! and beyond. YQL exposes a SQL-like SELECT syntax that that is both familiar to developers and expressive enough for getting the right data. Through the SHOW and DESC commands we enable developers to discover the available data sources and structure without opening another web browser."
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Online Grocer
The Country Grocer takes health and safety of food products that you purchase from us very seriously. At the present time, there are no specific food warnings to bring to your attention.
Below is a listing of links that you may find helpful. Of course, if you still have concerns feel free to call the store anytime. We would be pleased to discuss any issue you may have.
Food Recalls and Allergy Alerts, click here
Food Safety Facts, click here
Onlinegrocer.ca
729 Ridgewood Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario
K1V 6M8 CANADA
Online Grocer
Below is a listing of links that you may find helpful. Of course, if you still have concerns feel free to call the store anytime. We would be pleased to discuss any issue you may have.
Food Recalls and Allergy Alerts, click here
Food Safety Facts, click here
Onlinegrocer.ca
729 Ridgewood Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario
K1V 6M8 CANADA
Monday, March 2, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Today @ PC World Ten Cool Google Chrome Tips and Tweaks
ONE: Surprisingly Handy Keyboard Shortcuts
Google Chrome offers some unique shortcuts that go beyond the typical CTRL + T for opening new browser tabs. Here is alink to all of Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts. And here three that I find unique, when compared to those offered by Firefox and IE.
CTRL + SHIFT + N automatically opens up a Chrome 'incognito' window which allows you to surf on a PC without leaving behind any digital footprints.
SHIFT + Escape allows for fast access to Chrome?s Task Manager utility that allows you to nix browser processes that have gone awry.
CTRL + SHIFT + T will open recently closed browser tabs.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
1000 Machines Find the Results for a Google Query
1000 Machines Find the Results for a Google Query
How many servers process a Google query and serve the top search results? Google Fellow Jeff Dean says that more than a thousand machines are necessary to obtain the search results in less than 200 milliseconds.
"Their performance gains are also impressive, now serving pages in under 200ms. Jeff credited the vast majority of that to their switch to holding indexes completely in memory a few years back. While that now means that a thousand machines need to handle each query rather than just a couple dozen, Jeff said it is worth it to make searchers see search results nearly instantaneously."
"Their performance gains are also impressive, now serving pages in under 200ms. Jeff credited the vast majority of that to their switch to holding indexes completely in memory a few years back. While that now means that a thousand machines need to handle each query rather than just a couple dozen, Jeff said it is worth it to make searchers see search results nearly instantaneously."
Monday, February 16, 2009
ieSpell - Spell Checker add-on for Internet Explorer
ieSpell - Spell Checker add-on for Internet Explorer: "Introduction ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than"
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Steve Bass's Tips & Tweaks Get Your Blogs in E-mail
I'll read blogs online only if I'm forced into it. My preference is to have the blog delivered to me and see it first as e-mail. That way I can choose to read it now or later or not at all.
When it lands in my inbox, or blog folder, in my case, I have better control over my reading time. And just as important, I get to see it, because I don't know about you, but I sometimes forget to go to my favorite bloggers.
Yes, I know, I'm an oddity. (Don't rub it in.) Most people seem to use one of thousands of RSS readers. I don't need yet another program sitting in my system tray.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Offline Google Calendar
Some Google Apps users noticed a new option in Google Calendar: read-only offline access to the calendars using Google Gears. Mark Mathson has screenshots for the new feature, but it's surprising to see that Google Apps users, who usually received the updates later than Google Accounts users, get the offline Calendar earlier.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Gmail Adds Folders by Improving Label Management
For those who wondered "when do we get folders in Gmail?", there's a good news: even though Gmail still uses labels, you can treat them like folders starting from today.
Gmail added a "move to" drop-down that combines two actions that were difficult to find or difficult to understand: labeling and archiving. Instead of clicking on "More actions", selecting a label and then archiving the message, you can now click on "Move to" and select a label.
Gmail added a "move to" drop-down that combines two actions that were difficult to find or difficult to understand: labeling and archiving. Instead of clicking on "More actions", selecting a label and then archiving the message, you can now click on "Move to" and select a label.
Google Press Center: Press Release
Google Helps Share Your Latitude with Friends
Have you ever counted the number of times you ask friends “where are you?” in a given day? Well, Google is aiming to help answer this question before it needs to be asked. Today we’ve launched Google Latitude, a feature in Google Maps for mobile and iGoogle that allows you to share your location with your friends and family. While it won’t pinpoint your exact location, it gives you a good idea of where your friends are at a given time.
Using your Google account, you can opt into the feature, and then invite friends and family to join Google Latitude. Once they accept, you will see their profile picture appear on a map through your mobile device or your desktop PC. So imagine if you spot your friend in the same neighborhood as you on the map, using Google Latitude you can then click on their icon to call, text, IM or email them. We can also give you directions to their location on the map.
And of course, we thought long and hard about making sure users have complete control over how and when they want to be found. Once you’ve shared your location, you can hide it from individual friends or all of your friends at once, or you can turn off Google Latitude completely at any time. You can adjust your privacy settings in Latitude so that you share as much or as little about your location as you want, with whom you want. For more details on Google Latitude’s privacy settings, please check out this helpful video.
Google Latitude is available in 27 countries, and across a variety of devices, including:
- Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1
- most color BlackBerry devices
- most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices
- most Symbian S60 devices (Nokia smartphones)
- Google.com users of iGoogle
To get started, visit google.com/latitude from your phone’s mobile browser to download Google Maps for mobile with Latitude. Or visit http://google.com/latitudeon your PC browser and add the Latitude gadget to your iGoogle homepage.
For more information on Google Latitude, please visit our product website created for press.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Search bookmarklets
Search bookmarklets.
(To keep bookmarklets in order to use them on other web pages, drag them to your Bookmarks Toolbar. Or, install them all at once.)
Search bookmarklets
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Downloading Files from an Archive
Downloading Files from an Archive: "One of the most interesting features available in Free Download Manager, an open source software for Windows, is that you can preview ZIP archives and select the files you want to download. This can be useful if you only need a README file from a big archive or if some of the files are unnecessary."
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