Archive for December 2010

Book Review: Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography

Al Jaffee is a tireless satirist, inventor of the MAD magazine “fold-in” & my all-time favorite cartoonist. At 89, he is MAD magazine’s oldest & most prolific artist, having actively contributed to it for over five decades. His biography titled Al Jaffee's Mad Life tells the tragic story...

Google, HOWTO, SearchEngines, Trivia

HOW TO sarcastically tell someone to google for their answer

Before Google became popular, it was common to see the expression RTFM (or in polite terms, Read The Fine Manual) used in internet forums if a poster asked a question without doing any homework. These days it is more common to see messages directing such users to Google...

Javascript, Tip, WebApps

How Tynt Insight works

If you are looking for tips on a range of useful topics, head to Dummies.com (never mind the name). It is the website for the For Dummies series of plain English reference books. The site features interesting topics from it's books on varied & complex subjects.If you copy...

GMail, Hotmail, HOWTO, WebApps

HOW TO make Gmail Labels act like Hotmail Folders

If you apply a Label to an email in Gmail, it will appear under both the Inbox & the Label category chosen. This is unlike in Hotmail where an email can appear only under one Folder category. To address this issue, Gmail introduced a "Move to" option that will place an email under a single...

Hotmail, Tip, WebApps

Hotmail tip - Move, Delete, Find emails originating from a specific sender with a single click

Did you know, a context menu will pop-up after two seconds if you place your mouse on any email within HotmailWith just one click on the context menu, you can then ...reply to that email without explicitly opening itfind all emails which have originated from the same email address as that...

Learning Resources, Mobile

Free eBook: The Insider's Guide to Mobile

If you are involved or interested in Mobile development, check out Tomi T Ahonen's free eBook - The Insider's Guide to Mobile. It has 11 case studies, 7 essays & exposes 8 myths.Also read Peter-Paul Koch's assessment of the Smartphone Browser Landsca...

Websites

Track the most visited websites worldwide & by country

Google's DoubleClick Ad Planner maintains a list of the 1000 most visited websites worldwide & the top 100 websites in 20+ countries. This list is based on estimates & updated monthly.It combines information from a variety of sources including anonymized, aggregated Google Toolbar data from...

Google Docs

Find meanings of a bunch of words at once with Google Spreadsheet

A relative recently asked me if there was a quick way to find the meanings of a list of words all at once. I use & recommend WordWeb to look up difficult words but it takes one word/phrase a time.I knew about the nifty GoogleLookup function in Google Spreadsheet that fetches...

Google, HOWTO, SearchEngines

HOW TO find readability level of search results & books

Google's “Instant Preview” lets you visually preview a search result page before you actually visit a page. A new advanced search filter called Readability level now lets you predetermine whether the result pages you want to see Basic, Intermediate or Advanced. I could not find details on what methodology...

PDF, Tools

Manipulate PDF files for free with PDFRider

PDFRider (currently in version 0.5) is an open source project on Codeplex. This utility provides a GUI for the command-line program Pdftk. It can perform the following operations on PDF files -Merge PDF documents Insert pages from PDF file to another Extract pages from...

ASP, ASP.NET, HOWTO, IIS, VS2010

HOW TO use IIS 7.5 on Windows XP, Vista with Visual Studio 2010

The free download IIS Express brings the IIS 7.x feature-set to Windows XP SP2+ (which comes with IIS 5) & Windows Vista (which hosts IIS 7). With the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (a beta is now available), enabling integration with IIS Express will be easy. IIS Express will bring the best of...

Chrome, Google

Do you live on the web?

We lived in farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're gonna live on the internet! - Sean Parker/The Social NetworkGoogle has announced that the Chrome operating system which was supposed to come out in the fourth quarter of 2010 will now be available through netbooks in the first half of next year.On...

Google, SearchEngines

Google Custom Search can let your prioritize results

You can use the site: operator to make Google restrict the search results to only websites originating from a specified domain. However, there may be times when you want Google to prioritize results so that those from your favorite websites will automatically appear before results from other...