5 Inspiring Social Media TED Talks You Should Watch

There’s nothing like a good TED Talk to brighten your day and make you think. Whether you’re itching to be more creative, struggling to find motivation, or wanting to strengthen your social relationships, there’s a TED Talk for that. There are also several amazing TED Talks about social media. Social media has taken over the Internet. Never before has the world been so globally connected, yet the phenomenon is still relatively recent and there are many out there who are actively trying to decipher the power of social media. Some of them have even given TED Talks on the matter....

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Not Just SEO: 4 Creative Ways To Use Keywords As A Secret Weapon

If you put an extremely handsome man in a room with three beautiful women, and you put an average-looking guy in a room with five-hundred beautiful women, which man do you think has better odds for getting a date? How about more than one date? The truth is — larger the group, better are the odds. Likewise, the content you focus on with your website or blog — the “keywords” — can also increase your odds of attracting more traffic if more people search with those terms. Google has done a tremendous job scaring the bejesus out of website owners....

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Facebook WhatsApp, SkyDrive OneDrive, Yahoo Siri, Apple Tesla [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, Facebook splashes the cash buying WhatsApp, the FCC responds to the loss of ‘net neutrality’, SkyDrive becomes OneDrive, Yahoo wants its own Siri, Apple is interested in Tesla, and Samsung mocks Apple in its latest set of television commercials. Facebook Buys WhatsApp For $19 Billion WhatsApp was bought for 26 Instagrams, 17 Tumblrs, 11.5 YouTubes, just over 2 Skypes or just under 10% of Facebook’s total market cap — David Greenway (@davegreenway) February 20, 2014 Facebook has acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion; $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares, and $3 billion in...

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Quickly Enable Google SafeSearch

If you want to temporarily turn on Google's SafeSearch, you can do that without opening the settings page. Just click the gear icon and select "turn on SafeSearch". When SafeSearch is enabled, you'll see a message next to gear button: "SafeSearch on". To disable it, click the same button and select "turn off SafeSearch".

If you're logged in, search settings are saved to your account and used for all devices. You can also go to the settings page and enable "Filter explicit results"

Enable Data Compression Proxy in Chrome for Desktop

Chrome's data compression proxy is only available for Android and iOS, but Jerzy Głowacki figured out a way to bring this feature to the desktop. Just install this extension and it enables the proxy. You can check the savings by visiting chrome://net-internals/#bandwidth and disable it by clicking the button from the toolbar.

"The extension sends all HTTP (but not HTTPS) traffic through Chrome Data Compression Proxy server, which uses SPDY protocol to speed up web browsing. Enabled state is indicated by a green icon. You can manually disable the proxy by clicking on the icon."



I've checked the code and it looks OK. It's also available here. Please note that this extension is not developed by Google.



{ Thanks, Jerzy. }

Search by Size in Gmail

Now you no longer need to remember search operators to filter Gmail results by size. Gmail's advanced search added a new option that lets you restrict results to messages larger or smaller than the specified size. Just click the arrow from the search box, pick "greater than" or "less than", enter the size, choose from "MB", "KB" or "Bytes" and click the search button. You can also add other filters.



"Ever wanted to find that wedding video your uncle shared as an attachment, or see which messages take up the most space in your mailbox? You can now search your emails by size in advanced search without having to memorize search operators like size: and larger:," informs Google.

Banners Begone: How Readers Supported These Three Websites

The traditional print media has seen their influence and readership recede recently. The Guardian, often regarded to be the conscience of Liberal Britain and one of the more quality newspapers in the United Kingdom, has seen its circulation dwindle from 400,000 in 2000 to just over 200,000 in 2012. Things aren’t much better at the other end of the political spectrum, with conservative daily The Telegraph having shed half its readership in the same time period. The switch from the expensive printing presses of yesteryear to the Internet hasn’t been the saving grace for the traditional news media had hoped...

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Banners Begone: How Readers Supported These Three Websites

The traditional print media has seen their influence and readership recede recently. The Guardian, often regarded to be the conscience of Liberal Britain and one of the more quality newspapers in the United Kingdom, has seen its circulation dwindle from 400,000 in 2000 to just over 200,000 in 2012. Things aren’t much better at the other end of the political spectrum, with conservative daily The Telegraph having shed half its readership in the same time period. The switch from the expensive printing presses of yesteryear to the Internet hasn’t been the saving grace for the traditional news media had hoped...

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How to Get 100 GB of Free Storage on Microsoft OneDrive

Microsoft SkyDrive is now called OneDrive. The service is similar to Dropbox or Google Drive except that Microsoft is giving away Gigabytes of free storage space, 100 GB to be precise, to both new and existing users.

To reclaim your free space on SkyDrive OneDrive, all you have to do is visit the onedrive.com website and sign-in with your Microsoft (or Live) account. If you have happen to be among the first 100,000 users to try the new OneDrive service, the bonus space will be credited to your account.

The extra space is valid for a period of one year.

OneDrive offers apps for Windows Phone, iPhone and Android device and if you happen to turn on the camera upload function on these device, another 3 GB will be added to your account. Then there’s the Dropbox like referral model earning you .5 GB for every referral up to 5 GB.

Read more about the OneDrive launch on the official blog.

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This story, How to Get 100 GB of Free Storage on Microsoft OneDrive, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 19/02/2014 under Skydrive, Internet

5 Powerpoint Tips to Improve Your Presentation Skills Overnight

You step up to the podium. Your palms are sweaty, your heart is racing, and just as you’re about to open your mouth and speak, your mind goes blank. If this is one of your worst nightmares, I might be able to help you out. Creating a Powerpoint presentation, or slides using any similar presentation software for that matter, is almost too simple. People are able to throw together some of the most atrocious, ugly, and utterly boring presentations on the planet. And people let them. And they infect the boardrooms and meeting rooms of every industry with their yawn-inspiring...

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