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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 share...

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.b...

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 ...

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 se...

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 ...

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 F...

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...

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 focu...

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 a...

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 ...

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 d...

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 a...

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 C...

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...

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 impo...

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. H...

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 impressi...

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. Wi...

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, Flic...

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 conver...

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 o...

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 ar...

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...

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 contac...

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 Mi...

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 in...

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 tha...

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 produc...

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 airbrus...

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 ...

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 ...

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 reco...

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. ...

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 ro...

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 su...

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...

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 e...

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 ...

Make Sure You Alway Have The Latest Version of Software Programs

UpdateStar is a new tool to help you ensure that all software applications installed on your PC are up-to-date. Like Belarc Advisor , Upd...

Interesting Picks

Which iPod Should You Buy? Planning to buy an iPod but cannot decide which iPod model to choose from? This quick iPod Buying guide comp...

Open .XLSX Spreadsheet Files Without Excel 2007

If you have an .xlsx file attachment in your email inbox but the computer doesn't have Microsoft Office installed to open file of that e...

Guidelines For PR Professionals Who Pitch Bloggers

PR professionals often approach bloggers, with decent readership, to talk about the products and services of their clients. Though most b...

Adobe Office Gets A Word Processor, Outlook the Next Target ?

Adobe officially entered the web-office space by acquiring Buzzword, a word processor that works inside the web browser (like Google Docs o...

Move Draft Posts Written in Windows Live Writer Across Computers

Here's are simple tips for bloggers who work on multiple computers and use Windows Live Writer to compose and publish blog posts. Prob...

A Standalone FLV Player For Watching Flash Videos on the Desktop

If you download streaming video content from the web (like YouTube videos, CNN news clips, etc), chances are that you have piled up tons of ...