Build Your Own Weather Dashboard In This Google Spreadsheet Master Class

“Computer! Show me all current weather conditions within 300 miles of my current location” “Yes Captain” “Now, show me the humidity levels for those locations, charted by longitude and latitude on a map” “Yes Captain” Would you like to turn your Google Drive account into an intelligent weather analysis system, and live out this Star Trek fantasy? Okay, you might not be able to turn Google Spreadsheets into an artificially intelligent computer system that will respond to your voice commands, but in this article I’ll show you how you can import weather data from the Internet and have your own...

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Get Tech Skills You Need At These Top 7 Online Course Sites

The 21st Century workplace isn’t any different from the amphitheaters of ancient Rome. You are fighting someone brandishing a tech skill in demand, or running to barely stay ahead of the corporate lion going cutting edge. There is no war here – it’s a battle every day. The great thing is that you will not end up as vulture feed. The Roman arena was a prison. The 21st Century workplace sets you free with multiple gates of learning. Online learning is a disruptive technology whose time has come. Even though, there are genuine criticisms against the effectiveness of massive online...

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Looking For A Markdown Editor For Linux? Try These 3 Solid Options

If you’re looking for a dependable Markdown editor for Linux, we have three great options for you to consider. Markdown is a excellent format in which to write all things Web. With easy-to-use syntax, it bridges the gap between plain text and HTML smoothly. While Windows and Mac users, and even Android users, have many Markdown editors to choose from, Linux users will find fewer options. Having said that, there are a few decent options for us Linux users; you’ll find a few of them below. But first things first: if you’re not sure why and how you should be...

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Do You Care What Happens To Google+? [We Ask You]

Google+ hasn’t exactly set the world alight. It’s done OK, building a sizable userbase thanks to Google’s insistence we all have a Google+ account – whether we want one or not. But it’s hardly Facebook or Twitter in terms of engagement. Which leads us to ponder whether anyone actually cares about Google+ and its ultimate fate. We suspect no one does, and that assumption, and the arguments for and against it, form the basis for this week’s We Ask You discussion. Google+, Google-, Google+-? We want to know, Do You Care What Happens To Google+? The future of Google+ is...

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Education For All: Volunteer In Coursera’s Global Translator Community

Coursera is calling on volunteers. The MOOC platform has launched The Global Translator Community (GTC) program that will attempt to add translated subtitles to the 600 plus video courses on the site. Coursera observes that only 40% of “Courserians” live in English-speaking countries. Translated video courses will immediately open up educational opportunities to a wider swathe of people around the world. Once the program kicks off, translated subtitles will be displayed for all students through a “closed captioning” tool at the bottom of the video player. According to Coursera, the demand for translated subtitles for the video courses is a...

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5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With The WordPress Config File

At the heart of every WordPress install is the wp-config.php file, a file so sacred and shrouded in mystery that every WordPress user knows it should never be touched. Or should it? In fact, there’s a lot of lesser known useful hacks that can be without damaging WordPress in any way, and it’s about time you took your WordPress skills up a notch. Read on for 5 of my favourite wp-config tricks. This article is strictly intended for self-hosted WordPress.org sites, not those hosted on WordPress.com (what’s the difference?). Before you start, know that you can potentially stop WordPress from...

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