Be Your Own Travel Guide: 7 Tips To Travel Smarter With Google Maps

Going on a trip can be such a stressful experience. There are hotel reservations to make, restaurant reservations to place, activities to plan out, and tickets to buy. What if you forget something, or you discover that the place you wanted to visit for your dream vacation falls far short of being anything anyone would describe as a dream? I do recall a time when people planned out road trips using paper maps. In fact, I still have memories of my dad staying up late the night before a trip, and tracing out the whole route in pencil on a...

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MetroSidebar: Beautiful Tiled Sidebar For Windows 7/8.1

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It’s a well-known fact that Microsoft has dropped desktop gadgets from Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 versions due to security reasons, and has been offering a tool to completely remove sidebar or desktop gadgets from Windows 7 as well. Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users who aren’t concerned about the security can download and install […]

Evernote’s New Web Clipper Is The Ultimate Content Saving Tool

Evernote’s Web Clipper isn’t new, especially if you’re an avid user of Evernote. But if you haven’t heard, or perhaps didn’t like the Evernote clipper in the past, this is the right time to look into it again, as they’ve completely redone its look and added new features that make it better. Sometimes “upgrades” aren’t really upgrades, and instead just add bloat to an application or extension, but that’s not the case with the upgrades Evernote made to their Web Clipper recently. To put it simply, it’s magnificent. Also, before this big upgrade, they also made a smaller, but very...

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Android Is Watching: 8 Ways A Typical Smartphone Is Monitoring You

Android automatically backs up your Wi-Fi passwords to your Google account, where they’re synced to your future Android devices. This is a convenient feature that saves you from entering Wi-Fi passwords over and over, but it means that Google likely knows all your Wi-Fi passwords. And, given recent revelations about PRISM and the NSA’s ability to demand data from Google without a warrant, the NSA likely has access to all of them. But Wi-Fi passwords aren’t the only thing that Google — and therefore the US government and other governments around the world — can get from your phone. Google...

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How To Recover Windows 7/8.1 Product Key Without Using Third-Party Tools

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There are times when you may want to recover your Windows product key from a working Windows installation, whether to back up the product key before beginning to install a newer version of Windows, or to reinstall existing version of Windows operating system. The standard or the popular way of retrieving Windows product key is […]

How to Migrate your Blog from Blogger to WordPress

This step-by-step tutorial describes how you can easily move your blogspot blog from Blogger to WordPress while maintaining all your search traffic and Google juice.

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This story, How to Migrate your Blog from Blogger to WordPress, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 26/09/2013 under Blogger, WordPress, Internet

Google+ Celebrates 15 Years of Google

Mr. Jingles, the Google+ notification mascot, celebrates Google's 15th birthday. Just click the bell icon, read all your notifications or click "mark all as read" to see it.

Mr. Jingles also changed its profile photo with a pixelated image: "A little change of pace in my profile photo for #throwbackthursday.". The file name is self-explanatory: "1998-jangles-avatar.png".

Google's 1998 Easter Egg

Search Google for [Google in 1998] and you'll see a search results page from 1998, the year when Google was incorporated as a privately held company. It's an Easter Egg that reminds you how much Google has evolved, while preserving a simple user interface.



The old search results includes the original Google logo that had an exclamation mark just like Yahoo!, GoogleScout - another name for the feature that returns similar pages, a drop-down that lets you pick the number of results per page, search within results, the size of the cached pages and a list of links to other search engines. All the search results link to the Wayback Machine, since most of them no longer exist.

Google's birthday is in September, but the date has changed over the years. "Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years, depending on when people feel like having cake," mentioned a Google page. Google has usually celebrated its birthday on September 27 and this year is special: Google is 15 years old. Happy birthday, Google!



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How To Always Show Address Bar and Tabs In Internet Explorer 11

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The Modern version of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) that ships with Windows 8.1 doesn’t display address bar and tabs with default settings. One needs to right-click anywhere on the screen or swipe-up from the bottom-edge of the touch-screen to see address bar and tabs. Users who are running Windows 8.1 on a large screen might […]

A Google Experiment Asks Users to Rank Results

Google has its own search quality raters, but it doesn't hurt asking regular users to improve search results. A recent Google experiment highlights 2 search results and asks users which one is better.

Users don't have the read the search quality guidelines first, they only need to visit the 2 pages and tell Google which one they prefer. There are 4 choices: the first result, the second result, both results are equally good, neither result is good enough.



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Learnist For Android Tries To Make Munching RSS Feeds Into An Educational Experience

Learning is an admirable goal. We all strive to better ourselves, and gaining new knowledge is one of the best ways to do so. Traditionally, learning meant hitting the books — sitting down for an extended period of time with a few authoritative resources, gradually working your way through a curriculum and (hopefully) ending up with a new skill or a clearer understanding of whatever it is you’re trying to figure out. That was the past, though — today, this traditional view of learning feels almost quaint. In today’s brave new world, when you need to know something, you just...

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