10 July 2013

Knowledge To Bank: How To Make Money On The Web By Teaching What You Know



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These days, with declining job markets in different industries, there are a lot of people looking to change jobs, and sometimes changing a job means learning a whole new skill set. If you are a teacher, or an expert in any subject at all, you could very well earn a significant income from your knowledge by teaching other people online. There are many websites where you can do just that, and in this article I'll list five of them.

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How To Uninstall Multiple Apps At Once In Windows 8.1



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There are over 100,000 Modern (Metro) apps in the official Windows Store and the number is growing every day. If you are a Windows 8/8.1 user, chances are high that you regularly visit the Store in search of new, interesting apps, and install tens of apps every week. At some point of time, we all [...]

7 Crucial Tips: How to get Your Blog Listed in Google



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A wise man man once asked "if a website exists in the forest of the Internet and no one visits it, does it truly exist?". I made that up actually, but the point is solid - a website is useless if it has no traffic, and in order to get traffic you need to be listed on Google. You could argue that Google isn't the only search engine and Bing matters too, and ... but you'd be wrong. Google is the search engine that matters, and if you want to get listed you need to play by their rules. Here are 7 crucial tips to get your blog listed on Google.

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Surprise: Internet Explorer 11 Has Matured Into A Modern Browser



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Remember Internet Explorer 6? Well, Internet Explorer isn't horrible anymore. Whether you like IE or not, you can't deny that it has improved dramatically and is now worthy of taking its place alongside other modern browsers -- especially with the new Internet Explorer 11. Internet Explorer 11 is part of Windows 8.1, which is currently available as a Preview release and will launch officially later this year. Windows 7 users will eventually be able to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11, too.

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Technophilia 71 Live From MakeUseOf



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This week on Technophilia, we have a special guest host: MakeUseOf's own Kannon!

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OK Maps, Cache This Map



The latest version of Google Maps for Android doesn't officially include the feature that allowed you to cache maps and use them offline. You won't find it in the settings or in the app's interface.



Fortunately, there's a way to preload maps, but it's not intuitive: type "OK maps" in the search box and tap the search icon. You'll see this message: "pre-loading maps" or an error message: "the on-screen area map is too large, zoom in first". If you see the error message, zoom in and type "OK maps" again.






Hopefully, Google will add the offline feature to the interface in a future update and make it even better. It would be nice to save bigger maps and to use the offline maps for local search, directions and navigation.

Export Google Latitude Friends



Google Latitude has been discontinued and a help center article offers more information about this. Unfortunately, there's something inaccurate: "you can't export your friend information out of Latitude".



Well, you can export your Latitude friends because they're added to a hidden Gmail group. Here's how to do that:



1. go to this Gmail page



2. select all contacts



3. click "More", then "Export" and pick one of the exporting options.






"Google Latitude will be retired on August 9th, 2013. Products being retired include Google Latitude in Google Maps for Android, Latitude for iPhone, the Latitude API, the public badge, the iGoogle Gadget, and the Latitude website at maps.google.com/latitude. We'll delete your list of friends on Latitude. You won't be able to see or manage friends. Any existing friends will no longer see your location in Google Maps for mobile on Android, Latitude for iPhone, the public badge, the iGoogle Gadget, and the Latitude website at maps.google.com/latitude, if you continue to use these products," says Google.

New Google Maps App for Android



When Google launched the Maps app for iPhone, many said that it looks better than the Android app. The new interface is now available in Google Maps 7.0 for Android. The app requires Android 4.0.3 and will be rolled out gradually in the coming weeks, but you can download it using these links.



The new Google Maps app has a simplified interface that focuses on the map. It has a lot of things in common with the new Google Maps for desktop, including the missing features. For now, there's no support for My Maps (it will be added later), many layers are missing, Labs features are no longer available. Map caching is now a hidden feature: type "OK maps" in the search box and the app will preload the map you're currently viewing. Google Latitude has been discontinued and replaced by a Google+ feature. In my limited testing, the app was pretty slow and laggy, so Google still has some work to do to optimize the app.



On the plus side, you get a Google Maps interface optimized for tablets, incident reports, faster route notifications and some integration with Zagat and Google Offers. "You can now see reports of problems on the road that you can tap to see incident details. While on the road, Google Maps will also alert you if a better route becomes available and reroute you to your destination faster."















There's also a new version of Google Maps for iOS that will be available soon and will add support for iPad.

How To Add Command Prompt Option To Win+X Power User Menu In Windows 8.1



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The Power User Menu (popularly known as Win+X menu) in Windows 8/8.1 is a nifty feature, especially for those who’re missing the Start menu. The Win+X menu lets users quickly access various system tools, and can be revealed by right-clicking on the Start button (In Windows 8, right-click on the Start preview that appears when [...]

Using Asynchronous AdSense Ads with Responsive Design



Google AdSense offers asynchronous ad tags that will improve the loading time of your web pages. Learn how to use asyn AdSense tag with responsive design.



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Which Dead Website Do You Miss The Most? [You Told Us]




The Web is constantly evolving. You can see these changes occurring gradually by charting how your favorite websites alter in look, feel, and even focus over the course of several years. Or you can plug a domain into the Wayback Machine and see the different stages of evolution in an instant. Either way, the Web is constantly evolving.

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9 Ways To Send Video Messages



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Voicemails, emails, and texts are out when you can't talk to someone right away and need to leave a message. Welcome to the future, guys. We have video messages now. (Okay, maybe emails and texts have their place, but voicemails don't. Voicemails suck. Don't use voicemails.) Today, I'm going to tell you just how exactly you can create video messages without much effort on your part.

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Give Your Facebook Page A Makeover [Weekly Facebook Tips]



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Is this you? You made a Facebook page for your association, made it look alright, set up a few things, got a few fans and then left the page lying around dormant. Sound familiar? Probably. It's just so easy to get distracted with the rest of life. Things like Facebook pages can easily get left to go quite dusty.

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Google Reader Backup Viewer



If you created a full backup for your Google Reader account while it was still possible, you probably need a way browse the data. Fortunately, Mihai Parparita created Zombie Reader, a tool that resurects the Google Reader interface and transforms into a viewer for your data.



"Reader is a canonical single page application: once the initial HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc. payload is delivered, all other data is loaded via relatively straightforward HTTP calls that return JSON (this made adding basic offline support relatively easy back in 2007). Therefore if I served the archived data in the same JSON format, then I should be able to browse it using Reader's own JavaScript and CSS," says Mihai.



Go to readerisdead.com, download the updated archive and use the instructions from the page. You still need Python 2.7 and some basic command-line skills. For Windows, you could use the instructions from my previous post and replace:



c:\python27\python reader_archive\reader_archive.py --output=download



with



c:\python27\python zombie_reader\zombie_reader.py download






Zombie Reader uses the Google Reader interface and your local data. It's like a Google Reader snapshot that preserved all your subscriptions, all the items you've read or marked as read, all your starred items, your tags and much more. Obviously, many features don't work (search, trends, subscribe), the application doesn't save your state and it doesn't show the latest posts from your subscriptions.



"A side effect is that I now have a self-contained Reader installation that I'll be able to refer to years from now, when my son asks me how I spent my mid-20s," says Mihai. "It also satisfies my own nostalgia kicks, like knowing what my first read item was. In theory I could also use this approach to build a proxy that exposes Reader's API backed by (say) NewsBlur's, and thus keep using the Reader UI to read current feeds. Beyond the technical issues (e.g. impedance mismatches, since NewsBlur doesn't store read or starred state as tags, or has per item tags in general) that seems like an overly backwards-facing option." I'm sure that someone will build the proxy.

10 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know Wolfram Alpha Could Do



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I continue to be amazed by Wolfram Alpha and the way it crunches numbers around openly available data. The result – it shows us the world in a far more inter-connected and interesting way. It would seem Wolfram Alpha can do anything. Well, it hasn't given me the secret of happiness yet, but yes, it can do some surprising things. Let's look at ten.

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3 Interesting Shopping Websites Offering Free International Shipping



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For international shoppers, shipping is often a major pain: Items can be much cheaper on the Web than in your country, but once you factor in the shipping, so-called “killer” deals start looking much less attractive. That’s the key attraction behind websites that offer free international delivery.

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Gmail Build Info



Desktop apps are not the only ones that have version numbers, build information and various data that belongs in an "about" page. Web apps also have all of these, but usually only developers can see them.



Here's the build info displayed for the mobile Gmail web app in Chrome. It's probably helpful for debugging the app and only available internally.






"Build At: grapebot@grapebot-cbf-9.cbf.corp.google.com:/usr/local/google/grape/grapebot/runner1_1/superpudu-client_Piper/google3

CL: 49089810

Build Label Verbose: superpudu_130708.00_p0"



Apparently, Grapebot is a bot used to build the Gmail app, while Superpudu is the codename for the mobile Gmail app. There's a list of features that are enabled, including HIGH_RESOLUTION, ACCOUNT_SWITCHER, ADS, SETTINGS_REDESIGN and more. Ads in the mobile Gmail?



Here's the build info for the Android-optimized mobile Gmail:






As you can see, the list of features is slightly different. You can find: GLOW_BUTTONS, STICKY_MENUS, ANY_ZOOMER, DOODLES, WEB_ATTACHMENTS and more.



Here's the build info for iOS. Some new features: BIG_LEAP_PROMO, ATTACH_SINGLE_PHOTO, TWO_PANE_UI (for iPad).






{ Thanks, Florian K. }