Improve Your Online Shopping Experience With These Amazon Extensions For Chrome

Do you shop on Amazon? Even if you don’t shop there regularly, you must have purchased at least an item or two in the past year. What is it about Amazon that makes shopping so easy? Is it good prices? A good shopping experience? Free shipping? Amazon Prime perks? All of the above? With its unquestionable advantages, Amazon is slowly biting bigger and bigger chunks out of smaller businesses and stores. With its almost unlimited budget, it can offer things almost no other business can, and being so popular, it also offers the widest selection of add-ons, extensions, plugins, and...

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Improve Your Online Shopping Experience With These Amazon Extensions For Chrome

Do you shop on Amazon? Even if you don’t shop there regularly, you must have purchased at least an item or two in the past year. What is it about Amazon that makes shopping so easy? Is it good prices? A good shopping experience? Free shipping? Amazon Prime perks? All of the above? With its unquestionable advantages, Amazon is slowly biting bigger and bigger chunks out of smaller businesses and stores. With its almost unlimited budget, it can offer things almost no other business can, and being so popular, it also offers the widest selection of add-ons, extensions, plugins, and...

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Medium: An Alternative Blogging Platform From The Founders Of Twitter

Twitter’s co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone launched their own blogging platform, Medium, about a year ago. When it first launched, we asked ourselves if it would take off or not, and it’s still a bit difficult to answer the question. In its closed beta phase, you can sign up and begin reading content posted on Medium straight away, you can’t start posting until you’re granted access. The roll out for access has been a slow-going process, and in some cases, has taken at least a year for users to get posting privileges. The founders say that the aim is...

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Stop Searching For Coupons! Promofly Will Find Them For You

The wait is now over. Promofly is finally open to everyone, with some nice new features to boot. If you love shopping online, this is a great way to save money easily. Almost a year ago, I told you about Promofly — a service that helps you easily find and use valid promo codes for thousands of stores. Almost a year has passed, but nothing much changed in the promo-code arena. We’re still shopping online, and we’re still eager to find those cool codes that provide instant discounts off the products we want. There are many websites in which you...

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Stop Searching For Coupons! Promofly Will Find Them For You

The wait is now over. Promofly is finally open to everyone, with some nice new features to boot. If you love shopping online, this is a great way to save money easily. Almost a year ago, I told you about Promofly — a service that helps you easily find and use valid promo codes for thousands of stores. Almost a year has passed, but nothing much changed in the promo-code arena. We’re still shopping online, and we’re still eager to find those cool codes that provide instant discounts off the products we want. There are many websites in which you...

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Google Tests a New Mobile Search Interface

Google tests a new card-style interface for mobile search results. There are special cards for Knowledge Graph results, results from specialized search engines and for related searches. The new interface only shows Previous/Next buttons.

Many Google web apps and mobile apps use the card-style interface that was first added to Google Now. You can find it in Google Search, Google Play, Google+, the new Google Maps, Google Keep, the new YouTube app. "A lot of use of white space, not a lot of artificial, surface-like divisions. We're really counting on bold typography, white space, and big images to give emphasis, give character and give hierarchy to the cards that we give you," said Matias Duarte, who leads the Android User Experience team.



{ Thanks, Nedas. }

Perform Case-Sensitive Search in Google Chrome

Google Chrome doesn't support case-sensitive search but you can use a bookmarklet to find and highlight all the case-sensitive occurrences of a word.

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This story, Perform Case-Sensitive Search in Google Chrome, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 22/08/2013 under Bookmarklets, Google Chrome, Internet

Blogger Bug Hides Old Comments

I don't like to use this blog to report bugs, but sometimes it's important to do that. Blogger no longer shows the old comments imported from the native commenting system. I've switched to Google+ comments and all the comments were properly imported. Now the legacy comments are no longer displayed.



Here's an old post that has 218 comments, but none are displayed:

Disabling Google+ comments fixes this issue, but the comments powered by Google+ are missing. This means that the old comments aren't lost, but there's a bug in the Google+ commenting system.



I checked the Blogger help forum before posting this and I was surprised to see some top contributors claiming that "all the non-Google+ comments disappear when you switch to Google+ comments". I'll link to the official Blogger blog: "older comments will continue to appear in the new widget".



{ Thanks, Kristian. }

How To Reset Google Chrome Settings

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Google recently released Chrome v29 to Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. The newest version of Chrome comes with smarter omnibox suggestions as well as profile reset option. The reset feature helps you restore all settings such as homepage, new tab page, and search engine to their defaults. The feature will delete cookies, temporary data, […]

Selling Online? Make Sure Your Photos Sell Your Goods

How many times have you bought something second-hand in a shop without properly inspecting it first? Any answer other than “never” means you’re doing it wrong, and the same is true for Internet sales too. While the price and description you decide on will influence potential customers, it’s your photos that will draw in potential buyers. Regardless of whether you make a living selling items on eBay or simply have an attic full of junk you need to shift, you’ll get a better price and more interest by following these tips. Actually Take Some Photos This one’s pretty easy and...

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Why Email Can’t Be Protected From Government Surveillance

“If you knew what I know about email, you might not use it either,” said the owner of secure email service Lavabit as he recently shut it down. “There is no way to do encrypted e-mail where the content is protected,” said Phil Zimmermann as he suddenly shut down Silent Circle’s secure email service. The reality is that email is fundamentally insecure and can never be protected from government surveillance in the same way some other communications can. Sure, you may be using a different encrypted and “secure” email service that hasn’t shut down yet. But they’re vulnerable to the...

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Google Keep Reminders

Google Keep now allows you to add reminders to your notes. Just like in Google Now, you can add time-based reminders and location-based reminders.



"To get started, select the 'Remind me' button from the bottom of any note and choose the type of reminder you want to add. You can add time-based reminders for a specific date and time, or a more general time of day, like tomorrow morning. Adding a location reminder is incredibly easy too — as soon as you start typing Google Keep suggests places nearby," explains Google.



Here's the desktop Google Keep site:

The Android app has been updated and now supports reminders. There's a new navigation drawer with separate sections for archived notes and reminders and you can now add photos from the Gallery without using the "share" feature.

Google Keep integrates with Google Now, so all the Keep reminders are added to Google Now. You'll find them in Settings > My Stuff > Reminders. For some reason, the reminders added from Google Now aren't available in Google Keep.



When Google discontinues Google Tasks, Google Keep will be the replacement. It's optimized for mobile and it doesn't integrate with Gmail, but at least it's constantly improving and it has a cool mobile app.

10 Of The Best IFTTT Recipes To Bring Order Into Your Online Social Life

Tell yourself how many minutes of the day you give to the time sink that goes by the name of Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or any other. The minutes add up. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to balance social media and productivity with a bit of automation that can do all the grunt work for us while we can sit back and enjoy its tidbits? We really can because we came to know about IFTTT around 2011, which its creator Linden Tibbets aptly calls a “digital duct tape”. IFTTT (If This Then That) is a wonderfully useful service that helps you set...

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Google's iOS Apps Share Accounts

One of the most annoying things when you install a new Google app in iOS is that you have to sign in. If you install Gmail, Google+, YouTube, Chrome and Google Maps, you'll have to enter your email address and password 5 times. Android's account manager solves this issue.



Somehow Google managed to bring shared accounts to iOS, although it's not exactly clear how. The latest version of the YouTube app and the new AdSense app bring the following features:



- support for multiple Google accounts

- quickly switching between accounts without entering your password

- the accounts are shared between Google apps.



If you enter the credentials of a Google account in the YouTube app and then open the AdSense app, you'll find the new account and you can sign in without entering the password. If you remove an account, it will be removed from the other Google apps that support this feature. I assume that most Google apps for iOS will be updated to use this brilliant feature.

I don't know how Google managed to add this feature, so let's hope that it doesn't use a flaw in iOS to bypass sandboxing. I tested it and the shared accounts features works in iOS 6 and iOS 7 (beta).