24 August 2013

Improve Your English With New And Improved Definitions On Google Search [Updates]



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If Google Search has been standing in as your online dictionary of choice, then the search box will now take you deeper into a word. The latest update gives you sample sentences, synonyms, origin, and translations to go with the meaning of the word you put into the query. Google has updated both desktop and mobile search with the more comprehensive definitions. Unfortunately, for now it’s U.S. only. Knowing Google, you can be sure it will be rolled out elsewhere as well. Earlier, Google supported natural language queries. For instance, something like “definition Expeditious” or “What’s the definition of expeditious?”...


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Wikipedia Size in Print volumes



Wikipedia is big website with millions of content, there is no doubt on it, but do you ever wonder, how many volumes it would take to print English wikipedia.


A wikipedia user Tompw makes an estimated calculations that English wikipedia(only text no images and other graphical content) would fit on an approx. 1907 volumes in size of the Encyclopedia Britannica.


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  • This shows 2,537 million words across 4.3 million articles (through July 2013), implying an average of 590 words per article.

  • Same source shows 19.83 GB (=20,498,960 B) across 2,537 million words, implying 8.08 bytes/word. ASCII uses 1 byte/character which in turn implies 8.08 characters/word. However, this includes wikimarkup, and 5 char/word plus one for space is standard, so 6 characters/word will be assumed.

  • There are currently 4,311,575 articles, which means 2,543,829,250 words, which means 15,262,975,500 characters.

  • One volume: 25cm high, 5cm thick. 500 leaves, 2 pagefaces per leaf, two columns per pageface, 80 rows/column, 50 characters per row. So one volume = 8,000,000 characters, or 1,333,333 words, or 2,259.9 articles.

  • Thus, the text of the English Wikipedia is currently equivalent to 1,907.9 volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

  • Sanity check: Encyclopædia Britannica has 44 million words across 32 volumes, or 1,375,000 words per volume. This would imply 1,850 volumes for WP.


Source- Wikipedia


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Justdelete.me- Easily delete your online account with single click



Do you ever stuck on setting page while trying to delete any online account, well now it seems to be an easy process with Justdelete.me


Justdelete.me is an online directory with links of some popular web services that enables you to easily delete your account from web.


Currently JustDelete.me offering 40 services including some popular web services, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Yahoo, Google, Paypal, Dropbox, LinkedIn etc


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The developer sets different colour-coded to indicate the difficulty level of account deletion-


Green: Simple process

Yellow: Some extra steps involved

Red: Cannot be fully deleted without contacting customer services

Black: Cannot be deleted


Visit JustDelete.me


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How to Encrypt your Gmail Messages with Google Docs



Worried that someone is reading your email? You can easily encrypt your Gmail messages using the powerful AES encryption algorithm and secure your private messages.





This story, How to Encrypt your Gmail Messages with Google Docs, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 24/08/2013 under Encryption, GMail, Internet

Create your own Encyclopedia using TextEnpedia



Ever wanted to create your own Encyclopedia with your own topic description and images, then TextEnpedia is worth to try.


TextEnpedia is an open source program that lets you to create your own text encyclopedia with a Rich Text Editor & Image support. This program allows you to create own encyclopedias from scratch, with customizable text descriptions and integrated images.


TextEnpedia indexed all entries in alphabetically and allows you to packed all generated files and easily allows to add these files to the existing Encyclopedia.


This program is highly simple to use, To add any entries, just click on the Add button from the bottom of the screen, you’ll see a form asking for title, body and image. Here you can also add a link for detailed source. Once you’ve done it, click on the Save button.


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To Preview any topic, click on it from left table or search on the search box, and the description will be shown on right box.


Download TextEnpedia


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The Evolution Of The Podcast — How A Medium Was Born [Geek History]



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Some say they’re already old-fashioned, others argue they’re more popular than ever. Whatever your take on podcasts, you have to admit: they’ve democratized broadcasting, and provided people with a smorgasbord of things to potentially listen to. But where did podcasting come from? To answer this, think about what podcasting is, and how it differs from mediums before it. A podcast is kind of like a radio show, but it’s not delivered (or intended to be listened to) at a certain time. Instead, it’s automatically delivered to a listener’s device — thanks to RSS. It’s stored on their own hard drive...


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Linux Desktop Email Clients Compared: Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. KMail vs. Claws Mail



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Looking for a Linux email client? Here’s a breakdown comparing the four best options. Webmail use is still on the rise, and it’s not hard to understand why. There’s Gmail’s webmail-specific features, the ability to always see all of your email, and the convenience of viewing your email anywhere with just a browser and login credentials are just a few reasons why people have made email clients (outside of enterprise environments) almost obsolete. These advantages aside, there are still enough reasons to use a desktop email client as well. Some include desktop integration features such as system notifications for new...


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No More Notification Ads and Icon Ads in Android Apps



Here's a Google Play policy change that will make a lot of Android users happy: Android apps will no longer be able to install home screen icon for third-party services and show notification ads.



From Google: "Apps and their ads must not add homescreen shortcuts, browser bookmarks, or icons on the user's device as a service to third parties or for advertising purposes. Apps and their ads must not display advertisements through system level notifications on the user's device, unless the notifications derive from an integral feature provided by the installed app. (e.g., an airline app that notifies users of special deals, or a game that notifies users of in-game promotions)."



The Google Search app will be able to show Google Now ads, but a random game won't be able to show ads for third-party services.



There are a lot of Android apps like TrustGo Ad Detector or Lookout Ad Network Detector that show warnings if you install apps that use ad services like AirPush. "Smartphone usage has skyrocketed, and some advertisers have begun to experiment with aggressive, new techniques to display ads on mobile devices. This includes pushing ads to the standard Android notification bar, dropping generically designed icons on the mobile desktop, and modifying browser settings like bookmarks or the default homepage," explains Lookout.





New Gestures in Chrome for Android



One of the most annoying features in Chrome for Android has been finally removed in the latest beta release: swiping from the edge of the screen to switch tabs. It's very easy to trigger this gesture accidentally when you open desktop sites and some sites use similar gestures (Google Image Search).



Google replaced it with a gesture that's less error-prone: "swipe horizontally across the top toolbar to quickly switch tabs". It's hard to this accidentally when browsing the web. Google added other gestures: "Drag vertically down from the toolbar to enter into the tab switcher view. And drag down from the menu to open the menu and select the item you want without having to lift your finger. Zoom into your preferred magnification on any desktop web site by double tapping on the page and swiping your finger up-down without lifting it."






Chrome 30 for Android brings a lot of other useful features: WebGL support, media source extensions for adaptive streaming and time shifting live streams, DeviceMotion events and reverse image search powered by Google.



Reverse image search (or search by image) is also natively supported in Chrome 30 for desktop: just right-click an image and pick "search Google for this image".






Chrome Beta for Android is available in Google Play, while Chrome Beta for desktop can be downloaded from here.

Which Google Drive Images Are Added to Google+ Photos



If you're wondering why not all the image files from Google Drive are available in Google+ Photos, here's the explanation. Google+ Photos only imports photos if they meet these criteria:



1. photos MUST be at least 512 x 512

2. JPG photos MUST have 'Date Taken' EXIF metadata

3. supported formats: JPG, GIF, WebP, RAW.



I've tested various image files and these are the rules. Google wants to restrict the feature to photos, but it's not clear why GIF and WebP are allowed, while PNG isn't.






{ Thanks, Martin. }