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Monday, September 29th, 2008At StyleFlip.com, you can design your own adhesive vinyl skin for a variety of music gear — turntables, CD players, DJ mixers, drum machines, keyboards and more. (The company says the skins are removable and leave no residue.) The site’s Flash-based interface is easy to suss out, and the previews look dramatic.
With so many [...]
Check Website Loading Speed with Site-Perf
Friday, September 19th, 2008Want to quickly find out if your website loads fast enough? Use www.site-perf.com to get an accurate estimation of your website’s loading speed.
Just type in your URL, press go, and Site-Perft will present you with a loading chart for your website. The chart displays the elements of your page and their load times, [...]
How to get removed from the TSA No Fly List
Friday, September 19th, 2008If you’re on the U.S. Government’s “No-Fly” list - or have a name similar to someone who is on that list, you can forget about enjoying a plane ride ever again. You will be questioned, searched, delayed, hassled and bullied. You can formally request that your name be removed, but that process is so cumbersome [...]
The undocumented DATEDIF excel function
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RSS Feeds for Yahoo! Search Results
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Listed below are the different feed addresses for Yahoo! - just replace keyword with your own search query or phrase before subscribing to that feed.
Web Search:
http://search.yahooapis.com/WebSearchService/rss/webSearch.xml? appid=yahoosearchwebrss&query=keyword
Videos:
http://search.yahooapis.com/VideoSearchService/rss/videoSearch.xml? appid=ysearchblog&format=mpeg&query=keyword
Images:
http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/rss/imageSearch.xml? appid=yahoosearchimagerss&query=keyword
Yahoo! News:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=keyword
The images and video clips are available as media enclosures in the RSS feed so you can directly download them locally via any pod-catcher or your [...]
How to manage your tabs in FireFox
Friday, August 29th, 2008Firefox usually has one row of tabs for its tabbed browsing feature. Tabs get reduced in size if the user opens additional websites but that stops eventually and additional tabs are not displayed anymore. The tab bar has to be scrolled to access those websites. Alternatively the icon at the end can be clicked on [...]
Find misspelled items on eBay
Friday, August 29th, 2008It makes sense that if you miss spell the item you’re auctioning on eBay, it will generally sell for a consderably lower price. This is because it won’t show up in eBay search results. You can take advantage of this by searching for the common incorrect spellings of various items. Even better [...]
Make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail Client
Friday, August 1st, 2008If you rely on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog that describes how to to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail client (i.e. the mail client that is loaded whenever a mailto link is clicked in Firefox 3.
You’ll need to [...]
10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]
Export the Feeds from a Google Reader Folder
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Most feed readers let you import and export subscriptions using the OPML format. For Google Reader, you find this option in Settings > Import/Export. But what happens if you want to export the feeds from a single folder so you can share them with a friend or upload them to a site? Google Reader [...]
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