Improve Your English With New And Improved Definitions On Google Search [Updates]

If Google Search has been standing in as your online dictionary of choice, then the search box will now take you deeper into a word. The latest update gives you sample sentences, synonyms, origin, and translations to go with the meaning of the word you put into the query. Google has updated both desktop and mobile search with the more comprehensive definitions. Unfortunately, for now it’s U.S. only. Knowing Google, you can be sure it will be rolled out elsewhere as well. Earlier, Google supported natural language queries. For instance, something like “definition Expeditious” or “What’s the definition of expeditious?”...

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Wikipedia Size in Print volumes

Wikipedia is big website with millions of content, there is no doubt on it, but do you ever wonder, how many volumes it would take to print English wikipedia.

A wikipedia user Tompw makes an estimated calculations that English wikipedia(only text no images and other graphical content) would fit on an approx. 1907 volumes in size of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

• This shows 2,537 million words across 4.3 million articles (through July 2013), implying an average of 590 words per article.


• Same source shows 19.83 GB (=20,498,960 B) across 2,537 million words, implying 8.08 bytes/word. ASCII uses 1 byte/character which in turn implies 8.08 characters/word. However, this includes wikimarkup, and 5 char/word plus one for space is standard, so 6 characters/word will be assumed.


• There are currently 4,311,575 articles, which means 2,543,829,250 words, which means 15,262,975,500 characters.


• One volume: 25cm high, 5cm thick. 500 leaves, 2 pagefaces per leaf, two columns per pageface, 80 rows/column, 50 characters per row. So one volume = 8,000,000 characters, or 1,333,333 words, or 2,259.9 articles.


• Thus, the text of the English Wikipedia is currently equivalent to 1,907.9 volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica.


• Sanity check: Encyclopædia Britannica has 44 million words across 32 volumes, or 1,375,000 words per volume. This would imply 1,850 volumes for WP.

Source- Wikipedia

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Justdelete.me- Easily delete your online account with single click

Do you ever stuck on setting page while trying to delete any online account, well now it seems to be an easy process with Justdelete.me

Justdelete.me is an online directory with links of some popular web services that enables you to easily delete your account from web.

Currently JustDelete.me offering 40 services including some popular web services, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Yahoo, Google, Paypal, Dropbox, LinkedIn etc

The developer sets different colour-coded to indicate the difficulty level of account deletion-

Green: Simple process

Yellow: Some extra steps involved

Red: Cannot be fully deleted without contacting customer services

Black: Cannot be deleted

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How to Encrypt your Gmail Messages with Google Docs

Worried that someone is reading your email? You can easily encrypt your Gmail messages using the powerful AES encryption algorithm and secure your private messages.

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This story, How to Encrypt your Gmail Messages with Google Docs, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 24/08/2013 under Encryption, GMail, Internet

Create your own Encyclopedia using TextEnpedia

Ever wanted to create your own Encyclopedia with your own topic description and images, then TextEnpedia is worth to try.

TextEnpedia is an open source program that lets you to create your own text encyclopedia with a Rich Text Editor & Image support. This program allows you to create own encyclopedias from scratch, with customizable text descriptions and integrated images.

TextEnpedia indexed all entries in alphabetically and allows you to packed all generated files and easily allows to add these files to the existing Encyclopedia.

This program is highly simple to use, To add any entries, just click on the Add button from the bottom of the screen, you’ll see a form asking for title, body and image. Here you can also add a link for detailed source. Once you’ve done it, click on the Save button.

To Preview any topic, click on it from left table or search on the search box, and the description will be shown on right box.

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The Evolution Of The Podcast — How A Medium Was Born [Geek History]

Some say they’re already old-fashioned, others argue they’re more popular than ever. Whatever your take on podcasts, you have to admit: they’ve democratized broadcasting, and provided people with a smorgasbord of things to potentially listen to. But where did podcasting come from? To answer this, think about what podcasting is, and how it differs from mediums before it. A podcast is kind of like a radio show, but it’s not delivered (or intended to be listened to) at a certain time. Instead, it’s automatically delivered to a listener’s device — thanks to RSS. It’s stored on their own hard drive...

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Linux Desktop Email Clients Compared: Thunderbird vs. Evolution vs. KMail vs. Claws Mail

Looking for a Linux email client? Here’s a breakdown comparing the four best options. Webmail use is still on the rise, and it’s not hard to understand why. There’s Gmail’s webmail-specific features, the ability to always see all of your email, and the convenience of viewing your email anywhere with just a browser and login credentials are just a few reasons why people have made email clients (outside of enterprise environments) almost obsolete. These advantages aside, there are still enough reasons to use a desktop email client as well. Some include desktop integration features such as system notifications for new...

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No More Notification Ads and Icon Ads in Android Apps

Here's a Google Play policy change that will make a lot of Android users happy: Android apps will no longer be able to install home screen icon for third-party services and show notification ads.



From Google: "Apps and their ads must not add homescreen shortcuts, browser bookmarks, or icons on the user's device as a service to third parties or for advertising purposes. Apps and their ads must not display advertisements through system level notifications on the user's device, unless the notifications derive from an integral feature provided by the installed app. (e.g., an airline app that notifies users of special deals, or a game that notifies users of in-game promotions)."



The Google Search app will be able to show Google Now ads, but a random game won't be able to show ads for third-party services.



There are a lot of Android apps like TrustGo Ad Detector or Lookout Ad Network Detector that show warnings if you install apps that use ad services like AirPush. "Smartphone usage has skyrocketed, and some advertisers have begun to experiment with aggressive, new techniques to display ads on mobile devices. This includes pushing ads to the standard Android notification bar, dropping generically designed icons on the mobile desktop, and modifying browser settings like bookmarks or the default homepage," explains Lookout.

New Gestures in Chrome for Android

One of the most annoying features in Chrome for Android has been finally removed in the latest beta release: swiping from the edge of the screen to switch tabs. It's very easy to trigger this gesture accidentally when you open desktop sites and some sites use similar gestures (Google Image Search).



Google replaced it with a gesture that's less error-prone: "swipe horizontally across the top toolbar to quickly switch tabs". It's hard to this accidentally when browsing the web. Google added other gestures: "Drag vertically down from the toolbar to enter into the tab switcher view. And drag down from the menu to open the menu and select the item you want without having to lift your finger. Zoom into your preferred magnification on any desktop web site by double tapping on the page and swiping your finger up-down without lifting it."

Chrome 30 for Android brings a lot of other useful features: WebGL support, media source extensions for adaptive streaming and time shifting live streams, DeviceMotion events and reverse image search powered by Google.



Reverse image search (or search by image) is also natively supported in Chrome 30 for desktop: just right-click an image and pick "search Google for this image".

Chrome Beta for Android is available in Google Play, while Chrome Beta for desktop can be downloaded from here.

Which Google Drive Images Are Added to Google+ Photos

If you're wondering why not all the image files from Google Drive are available in Google+ Photos, here's the explanation. Google+ Photos only imports photos if they meet these criteria:



1. photos MUST be at least 512 x 512

2. JPG photos MUST have 'Date Taken' EXIF metadata

3. supported formats: JPG, GIF, WebP, RAW.



I've tested various image files and these are the rules. Google wants to restrict the feature to photos, but it's not clear why GIF and WebP are allowed, while PNG isn't.

{ Thanks, Martin. }

Create and Store Network Settings Profiles With Simple IP Config

You’re in a rush. The boss wants you to run out to a customer site, hook up to their network and run a few tests, then return to the office and write up a quick report. On the way, you’re hoping to stop off at home for lunch and play a quick LAN game with your kids. Yes, this is the fast-paced life of a tech geek, and you love it. The only problem is that sometimes technology doesn’t keep up with us. To accomplish the sort of scenario described above, you may need to edit your network configuration settings...

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Emulate Android On Your Desktop Using Windroy

Do you wish you could run your favorite Android apps from the comfort of your Windows computer? As a PC enthusiast and desktop user, nothing is more frustrating than sitting down with my smartphone and finding an app that I really enjoy. Chances are, that app doesn’t offer any native desktop version. An app like Kik comes to mind. Kik is a great messaging service for your smartphone, but there’s no native way to use Kik from a laptop or desktop. You have to use an emulator. You’ve probably heard of BlueStacks before, and if you haven’t then you’re missing...

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Bing Takes Students Back To School With Improved Digital Literacy Skills [Updates]

Bing for Schools is an education-focused initiative which aims to improve digital literacy skills in students through the power of search. One of the highlights is the strict attention to SafeSearch filtering and blocking of adult content. A recent Pew Pollrevealed that 94% of teachers think their students are most likely use a search engine during a typical assignment. Thus, it’s important that schools ensure students do it in a child-safe environment that doesn’t barrage them with ads. Bing has invited schools across the United States to take part in the program, which will expand gradually. According to Bing, schools...

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Cybercriminals break into Indian software company website, Spreaded Phishing and Malware

Cybercriminals breaks into an Indian software solutions website and start targeted it users to steal their email passwords.

According to Bitdefender researchers, attackers hack the webpage, embed malware and dump a phishing page on the script.

Bitdefender researchers also detected Trojan.Iframe.RW and Trojan.JS.QJD, both inject iFrames into the website and redirect users to adware.

The bogus OnlineTTcopy attachment redirects to a phishing website that uses the images and login script of http://webmail.tr[REMOVED]ge.co.za/ to verify how many users have been duped to give away their e-mail credentials. JavaScript Trojans are mainly embedded in legitimate but poorly-crafted websites. Trojan.Iframe may be injected in a legal web page to download further malware and to be used for future cyber-attacks.

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Top 10 Countries with Fastest Internet Speed 2013

Akamai, has published a list of top 10 countries with fastest internet speed. South Korea is still leads the world with blazing fast internet speed.

South Korea has an average internet speed of 14.2 Mbps in Q1 2013, followed by Japan 11.7Mbps, Hong Kong with 10.9 Mbps, while the global average internet speed is 3.1 Mbps.

Top 10 Countries with Fastest Internet Speed 2013

1. South Korea – 14.2 Mbps


2. Japan – 11.7 Mbps


3. HongKong -10.9 Mbps


4. Switzerland – 10.1 Mbps


5. Netherlands – 9.9 Mbps


6. Latvia – 9.8 Mbps


7. Czech Republic – 9.6 Mbps


8. Sweden – 8.9 Mbps


9. United States – 8.6 Mbps


10. Denmark – 8.2 Mbps

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Google Updates the Dictionary OneBox

Google updated the dictionary OneBox with etymological information, a translation box and a graph that shows the use of a word over time. The graph is based on the Google Books Ngram Viewer and it shows the number of mentions of a word over time in a corpus of millions of books. You need to click the arrow icon at the bottom of the box to see the new features.

Unfortunately, the dictionary option from the search tools is no longer available. This means that Google's definitions from the web are only displayed if the words can't be found in the dictionary used by Google.

{ Thanks, James Sacuan. }

Appymouse Adds Virtual (On-Screen) Touchpad To Your Windows 8.1 Tablet

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While both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have been designed for both touch and non-touch devices, the newly introduced Modern UI works great on touch devices, and the desktop environment is perfect on typical PCs with keyboard and mouse. Navigating the desktop environment on a tablet with 8 or 10-inch screen is one of the […]

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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