Start Coding JavaScript Right Now With These 5 Great Free Resources

“Love – love is a verb, love is a doing word,” or so the song goes. And actually, the same can be said about JavaScript: this sizzling-hot programming language is a doing language. If you think JavaScript is interesting, you need to do JavaScript – not just read about it. Getting started is much easier than you might expect, and costs nothing. I tracked down three choice resources for learning JavaScript that are all about getting you to do something with the language, rather than just read or watch videos. For Taking a Guided Tour: Codeacademy’s JavaScript Track Assuming you...

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Tiny Core Linux Is Your Smallest Choice For An Operating System

Linux’s capacity for configuration is exceptional — while it’s pretty known that you can configure it to however you like (such as with SUSE Studio), that capacity isn’t limited to just the selection of used software (ranging everywhere from the graphics stack to the desktop environment to the office suite). In fact, one of the great benefits of Linux’s flexible nature is that you can put the software on any computer imaginable, from high-powered supercomputers to netbooks to embedded systems such as aircraft entertainment systems. In order to get Linux on such low-powered systems, the software needs to be as...

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Technophila 78 Live From MakeUseOf

This week: Retirement, retirement, retirement, retirement! We offer an in-depth look at the career of one Steven Balmer. And by that I mean tell some chair jokes. Syria’s electronic army continues using the tactics of bored sixteen year olds to make some sort of point. And we browse the bargain bin of startups in an attempt to find the next big thing. Dave: we found one that’s perfect for you. Tech News Ding dong, the witch is dead. Steve Ballmer to retire within next year! A retrospective, nine years later: did Balmer #&*@ing kill Google? We break down the evidence....

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How To Convert Videos Using VLC Media Player

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VLC media player is probably the best video player out there for Windows, or at least one of the best. VLC’s simple user interface, great number of features, support for almost all video formats, and high performance easily make it the best video player. Most of Windows users use VLC for watching videos and aren’t […]

11 Quick Tricks To Become A Chrome Omnibox Power User

Do you want to become an Omnibox power user and save plenty of time and keystrokes? All you need are a few good extensions and a little knowledge of how to tweak the search settings. The Omnibox in Google Chrome is useful for more than just searching with Google or visiting a link quickly. Omni literally means ‘universal’ and the Omnibox can be used for almost every task on the Web or otherwise, be it searching a site, setting a timer or sending a tweet. The latest version of Chrome, in fact, made it a point to improve the search...

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Download UXTheme Patcher For Windows 8.1

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While installing a theme pack (.deskthemepack or .themepack) is a straight-forward job in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1, installing a third-party visual style (popularly known as theme) isn’t as easy as it sounds. For those who don’t know, a theme pack only changes the desktop background, window and taskbar color, while a visual […]

Latest Calibre Offers Cover Grid, Docx Conversion and Virtual Libraries [Updates]

It took seven years of development, but the Calibre team finally created a version worthy of the number 1.0. Calibre has long been the tool of choice for organizing your eBook library, downloading entire newspapers or blogs and sending eBooks to almost any eReader on the market. The latest release of the open source tool includes a new cover grid view for browsing, the ability to convert .docx files and the ability to split your collection into virtual libraries. It’s also faster than previous versions, if comments from Slashdot can be believed. The most visually obvious feature is the cover...

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Latest Calibre Offers Cover Grid, Docx Conversion and Virtual Libraries [Updates]

It took seven years of development, but the Calibre team finally created a version worthy of the number 1.0. Calibre has long been the tool of choice for organizing your eBook library, downloading entire newspapers or blogs and sending eBooks to almost any eReader on the market. The latest release of the open source tool includes a new cover grid view for browsing, the ability to convert .docx files and the ability to split your collection into virtual libraries. It’s also faster than previous versions, if comments from Slashdot can be believed. The most visually obvious feature is the cover...

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Transform Google Tasks Into a Task Management Suite With Google Tasks Offline [Chrome]

Using Google Tasks is like a love-hate relationship. Only an external Google Tasks client could possibly serve as a marriage counselor for such a relationship. The problem is that finding a desktop client that actually works apart from your active browser session isn’t that easy to do. Kannon recently covered five ways to make Google Tasks a little more useful, but most of those solutions either depend on the browser being open, or they are somewhat complicated to implement. The problem with using Google Tasks directly in say, Google Calendar or inside Google Mail is that the layout and the...

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10 Steps To Take When You Discover Malware On Your Computer

Viruses are everywhere! And although we’d like to think that the Internet is a safe place to spend our time (cough), we all know that there are risks around every corner. Email, social media, malicious websites that have worked their way into search engine results, and ad pop-ups all can pose a threat. Although there are precautions you can take to limit the risk of infecting your computer, sometimes you simply have bad luck and get infected anyway. But thankfully, you can do it for completely free, although removing malware can be a painful process. And because of that, I’ve...

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OS X 10.9 Mavericks Transformation Pack For Windows 7/8

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Apple announced new OS X 10.9 at WWDC 2013, dubbed OS X Mavericks. The newest version of Mac OS X boasts plenty of changes and improvements. If you have seen the pictures or the videos of OS X Mavericks and want to make your Windows look like OS X Mavericks, you can do so by […]

Yahoo start distributing Recycled Usernames

Finally, Yahoo has started distributing new usernames to people who requested desired usernames before August 7.

Yahoo announced on the mid-july, that any interested users could request up to five desired email addresses and also can start deactivate Yahoo accounts that haven’t been used in the past year and will provide to others.

Beginning today, you could find out if your dream Yahoo! username is now available. If you filled out the wishlist with your top five choices last month, you’ll be getting notified today about the username you’re able to claim as your very own.

According to yahoo post, here are the most popular username requests,

Top 3 name requests for the guys:

David

Michael

Alex

Top 3 name requests for the ladies:

Maria

Jennifer

Jessica

“Batman” and “Superman” even showed up high on the list.

If you missed the opportunity, you can still take part with $1.99 fees, and it lets you watch up to five usernames for three years. If one of the names becomes available, it will be yours.

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Little Known Gems for your Windows Computer

This is a list of little-known but essential software utilities for Windows that are free, light-weight and add new and useful features to your computer.

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This story, Little Known Gems for your Windows Computer, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 01/08/2013 under Windows, Software

Write a Chrome App for your Website in 5 Minutes

This video tutorial explains how you can write Chrome Apps and Extensions for your website without any knowledge of programming and publish them to the Chrome Web Store.

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This story, Write a Chrome App for your Website in 5 Minutes, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 23/07/2013 under Google Chrome, Software

Get Form Data from Google Docs in an Email Message

This video tutorial explains how you can send form data from Google Docs in an email message using the very useful Send Mail function of Google Docs.

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This story, Get Form Data from Google Docs in an Email Message, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 20/07/2013 under Google Docs, Internet

Thought Maps Were Dull? 7 Creative Google Maps Mashups Prove You Wrong

Truth be told — I don’t have to break sweat to prove how Google Maps can show you the world in new fantastic ways. Seafarers used them to find new lands. We use them today to understand information. Oh, maps still do take us from New Delhi to New York, but they are also turning us into virtual tourists or helping us go back in time. That’s no magical trickery, because Google Maps gives a creative programmer or designer a free rein to make something amazing out of a mashup. Mashups are combinations or composites of two different things and...

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6 Ways To Free Up Space On Your Windows Computer

Clutter can be a big downer on productivity, whether it’s your workstation, your home, or your computer. Entropy is the reason why clutter builds up over time, and entropy takes many forms in the context of computers. Files get lost, programs go unused, and little by little various nooks and crannies in your computer are taken up by stray bits of data. Suddenly, your once spacious hard drive is packed with useless things and you have to clean it up. But how? It’s not enough to delete things left and right. You need to find the big space hogs, identify...

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WordPress Editorial Calendar: The Most Useful Plugin You Never Knew You Needed

If you run a blog, you have no doubt at some point made great plans to publish regular content, to keep your blog fresh and relevant to your readers. But did you stick to that ideal? Did you find it difficult to track whether you had posts ready for the times you’d planned to publish? Most people do have trouble tracking their posts – and that’s because WordPress doesn’t have a calendar view by default. Here’s how you can start viewing your upcoming posts in a way that actually makes sense – that is, with a calendar. The WordPress Editorial...

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How To Show Libraries In Windows 8.1 Explorer Navigation Pane

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First introduced with Windows 7, Libraries feature lets you easily organize files and folders scattered across your hard drive(s) or network. The beauty of this feature is that it lets you quickly create new libraries, edit existing ones, and add files and folders to libraries without the need of additional hard drive space. Unfortunately, it […]

Grab Still Photos from Instagram using InstaGrabber

Instagrabber is a free iOS apps that allows you to easily grab still images from videos. This app helps you to find your desired frames quickly and accurately and extracts it from a video.

InstaGrabber uses ‘fine scrubbing’ technology, which allows you to find the frames you’re looking for with speed & precision.

InstaGrabber will let you to export images to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Mail or Camera Roll. You can additionally assign to contact, print and copy to clipboard.

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