31 August 2013

Set an Expiration Date for your Tweets



You can set an expiration date for your tweets using hashtags and the message will be deleted from your Twitter timeline after the set time has passed.





This story, Set an Expiration Date for your Tweets, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 31/08/2013 under Twitter, Internet

ImageEmbed Offers High-Quality Photos for your Blog Posts (mostly free for small blogs)



Image Embed helps you find photographs for your website and also offers an option for you to sell your Instagram, Flickr, Picasa and Facebook photos online.





This story, ImageEmbed Offers High-Quality Photos for your Blog Posts (mostly free for small blogs), was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 31/08/2013 under Creative Commons, Embed, Images, Internet

Google Tests a New Tablet Search Interface



Remember the card-style redesign for Google mobile search? Google tests a similar interface for tablets:









There's more white space, top search results stand out even more, while Knowledge Graph cards and results from specialized Google search engines look like distinct sections of the page.



{ via Techno-Net }

ArtistX: The Linux Distribution Tailored For Any Artist, Whether Graphical or Musical



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There are custom Linux distributions that are made for everyone imaginable. Students, scientists, and even various artists can enjoy special Linux distributions made just for them. The joy of the flexibility Linux provides is that any person with the right skills can take an existing distribution and change whatever they want about it to release their own one. While there are a few distributions which make some major technical changes from the distribution they’re based off of, a majority of them are simple remixes — distributions that are technically identical to the one they’re based on, but they just include...


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Sick Of Yahoo? Move Your Tumblr Blog Into WordPress



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Are you sick of Yahoo’s meddling with Tumblr blogs? Time to relocate to WordPress. Here’s how! Recently, Yahoo bought the up-and-coming blog platform, Tumblr. If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ll have noticed that this came with more than a few changes, such as the domain settings for blogs using a personal domain. Most notably, Tumblr seem to be trying to take a stand against pornography and blogs of a sexual nature, but also including LGBT support blogs in the process. Tumblr have removed the erotica category, filtered these tags to make sure these posts aren’t found easily,...


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The $199 Phone



It's hard to believe that a high-end smartphone can cost only $199 without contracts and carrier subsidies. Nexus 4 was released last year and its specs don't look that great when you compare it with phones like HTC One or Samsung Galaxy S4, but Nexus 4 runs the latest Android version, it has a smooth interface and many developers use it to test their apps.



From $299 to $199, Nexus 4 managed to become the first high-end smartphone that costs less than $200 off contract. Google's previous Nexus phones used to cost about $529, but Nexus 4 changed all that. Google subsidized the phone in an effort to make the phone more affordable.











Google Earth Tour Builder



Google has a new experimental service that lets you build Google Earth tours from your browser. It's called Tour Builder and it requires the Google Earth Plugin (you also get the plugin when you install Google Earth).



"Tour Builder is a new way to show people the places you've visited and the experiences you had along the way using Google Earth. It lets you pick the locations right on the map, add in photos, text, and video, and then share your creation. We originally created Tour Builder to give veterans a way to record all the places that military service has taken them, and preserve their stories and memories as a legacy for their families. But we also thought it could be a useful tool for anyone with a story to tell, so we made it available to everyone," explains Google.






Before creating a tour, you can check the gallery:









Tour Builder lets you add images and videos, import KML files, enable or disable some layers, add historical imagery. By default, tours are private, but you can share them with other people.









{ Thanks, Florian K. }