05 August 2013

The Secrets Of Google Advanced Search: 5 Websites With Tips For You To Learn From



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Just for fun, let me give you this exercise. Type in something that you want to search today. Use an experimental search engine like Million Short which removes the first million or so Google results from a regular search engine result page. It’s a neat search engine built on top of Google Search you can use to specify how much you want to remove. I bet you will still get quite a few results, and hopefully fresh ones. Making these serendipitous discoveries is the fun part of a search. Though quite often, the incredibly intelligent Google algorithm loses out to...


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New Screencasting App for Mac Creates Animated GIFs too



QuickCast is a free and easy-to-use screencasting app for your Mac that also create animated GIFs from your screencast videos.



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Compiz vs. KWin: Which Window Manager Is Better?



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If you have never messed around with a Linux system, but have seen a YouTube video about it, there’s a high chance that you’ve seen someone show off their fancy desktop effects, most notably the “wobbly windows” effect. These effects are possible due to the window manager software that controls the windows that contain the various programs that you run. However, like most other Linux applications, there’s more than one that does the job, and the top two that offer the complete package are Compiz and KWin. While both of these solutions have their specific areas, we can still compare...


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How To Set Screen Saver As Desktop Background In Windows



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Customizing Windows desktop has always been an easier job. There are plenty of free as well as paid software out there to customize Windows desktop in a number of ways. On the other hand, Windows also offers a couple of basic personalization options that require no additional software. As you may know, there are a [...]

Popular ebooks go Free at the Google Play Store in India



A collection of 40 popular ebook titles by famous writers are now available as free downloads at the Google Play Store in India.



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Create your own Price Tracker for Amazon and Flipkart using Google Docs



ou can easily use Google Docs to keep track of prices of your favorite products listed on shopping sites like Amazon and Flipkart. Get alerts when the price goes down.



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Google Timer



Google Search has a cool feature: search for [set timer for 5 minutes] and you'll see this interactive timer box. You can stop the timer, reset it and Google even has a notification sound you can disable.









Obviously, you can search for [set timer for 30 seconds], [set timer for 10 minutes and 10 seconds], [set timer for an hour and a half] or any other time. If you close the search page, Google shows a warning: "Leaving this page will stop your timer".






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Cool Websites and Tools – August 4th – Hotel Room Guests, Medical Images and Windmaps



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Today in Cool Websites and Tools, we take a look at 5 cool websites, including saving some money by sharing your hotel room with a fellow traveller, a crowdsourced medical library, a wind map of the US, a fitness app that gives you real-time updating information and customized screenshots of smartphone images. Read on below! Easynest – Hotels charge per room which means that if you are a solo traveller, you pay the same price as a couple would. Easynest offers a simple proposal. Sign up on their site and when you next stay in a hotel alone, share your...


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How To Manage Your Ebook Collection For The Amazon Kindle With Calibre



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In the past, an extensive library required lots of shelf space and — if you were traveling — a seriously heavy suitcase. With eReaders, most of that is gone. Although there are still aesthetic pleasures to be had from a good old-fashioned library, hundreds of books on your eReader requires just as much physical space as half a dozen. Traveling light is no longer an issue. You can take that half dozen or few hundred books with you, on the train or abroad. It’s a special kind of freedom that tastes particularly sweet. But an eReader is not all fun...


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How To Manage Your Ebook Collection For The Amazon Kindle With Calibre



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In the past, an extensive library required lots of shelf space and — if you were traveling — a seriously heavy suitcase. With eReaders, most of that is gone. Although there are still aesthetic pleasures to be had from a good old-fashioned library, hundreds of books on your eReader requires just as much physical space as half a dozen. Traveling light is no longer an issue. You can take that half dozen or few hundred books with you, on the train or abroad. It’s a special kind of freedom that tastes particularly sweet. But an eReader is not all fun...


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App Ops: Android's Hidden Permission Manager



App Ops is a hidden system application in Android 4.3 that lets you manage the permissions used by apps. It was found by Android Police and there's a Google Play app that launches the permission manager (no root required).



I tested App Ops Starter on my Nexus 7 (2012) and it works. There are 4 permission groups: location, personal (contacts, calendar, call logs), messaging (read/write/send SMS) and device (notifications, camera). Each tab shows a list of applications sorted by the time when they last used one of the permissions. App Ops also shows the permissions used by each app.












You can disable permissions for each app you've installed and even for system apps. Sometimes disabling permissions didn't have any effect, other times it worked. For example, I disabled the "read clipboard" permission of the Google+ app and the application no longer suggested the link I copied to the clipboard. I disabled the "location" permission of Google Maps, but the app could still detect my location (I had to disable the Play Services "location" permission to prevent Google Maps from finding my location, but this affects other apps). For now, Android apps aren't optimized for the permission manager and disabling permissions could have unexpected effects: the apps might crash.



Android's permission system encourages developers to add as many permissions as possible, even if they don't currently need them. Maybe they'll use them in the future, so it's better to add them and make sure that the app updates automatically. Android's permissions are all-or-nothing, few bother to read them, even fewer understand them. Google should have done a better job here: encourage developers to use permissions sparingly, allow users to revoke permissions, add opt-in permissions like in iOS. Maybe App Ops will fix some of these issues when it will be officially available, probably in Android 5.0.

Nexus 7 Facts




Nexus 7 is:



- the first Nexus tablet



- the cheapestmost affordable Nexus device



- the first device shipped with Android Jelly Bean



- the first Android tablet that made a significant number of developers to optimize their apps for tablets



- the most popular Nexus device ever sold (7 million tablets sold in one year)



- the Nexus device with the biggest market share (10% of all the Android tablets)



- the most popular Asus tablet



- the best-value Android tablet: you won't find a tablet that costs less than $230 and offers a high-quality screen, powerful SoC, access to the Google Play Store and the latest OS updates



- the first Nexus device that has the same name as the predecessor



- the Android tablet with the highest-density display (the new Nexus 7 - 322 PPI)



- the first 7-inch 1920x1200 tablet (the new Nexus 7).