Go to Google, type in “my photos” (without quotes) and hit Enter. You might as well see some of your private photos from Gmail and Google Plus, listed on Google search results. This seems a little scary but trust me, its not. Google keeps making minuscule changes to how search works and this change is [...]
After Google and Facebook, Twitter joins the hue of two factor authentication for secured logins. With the increasing number of unauthorized logins and hack attempts on Twitter accounts these days, it was about time Twitter introduced a safe way to login to a Twitter account which requires an extra level of security code and is [...]
Passwords are something we tend to forget, once we start using password managers, save password in browsers and use other ways to secure our online properties. Truth is, I never remember any of my passwords because of the simple reason is that if I remember my password, I will be tempted to type it and [...]
Hacked Facebook accounts is not a new story these days. Once in a while, I get those emails where panicked users are worried regarding the security of their Facebook accounts. “I think my Facebook account has been hacked, I can’t login to my account”. “How do I login to my Facebook account? it won’t let [...]
If you want to transfer all your Facebook photos and photo albums to your Google Drive or Dropbox accounts, this article is for you. The other day I was trying to download and backup all my Facebook photos, videos, tagged photos and albums and found that I have a lot of files to download. These [...]
I am a big fan of Pingdom tools, it provides detailed insights on how fast or slow your websites loads. I have used different tools to monitor and measure the loading time of websites but off late, I have sticked with Pingdom. I was using Google webmaster tools and Google Analytics to have detailed data [...]
Tumblr is slowly emerging into an evolving platform for designers, writers, developers and people who do creative work. If you are a creative, a coder, a designer, an illustrator, a writer or starting up on your journey to become a creative, Tumblr is surely one of the best ways to showcase your work to the [...]
When you embed a YouTube video in your website, the annotations are not turned on by default. The viewer has to click the small annotations link to turn on video annotations for the YouTube video. (see example on how to turn on video annotations for a YouTube video). There can be situations when you may [...]
Depending on the internet connection speed, the YouTube video player can take a significant amount of time to load in the visitor’s browser. If you have a webpage where you have embedded a good number of YouTube videos, it might slow down the page on the client’s end. This is because the YouTube video player [...]
Have an interesting site that you not only want it for later reference, you also want to be able to add notes, share it with your friends and more. Annotary is a great tool for storing all the interesting websites that you bump into with additional features such as highlight certain parts of the web [...]
Ever since I started blogging, Google Reader has been my preferred application for reading web content and RSS feeds. Unfortunately, its not anymore; Google has decided to retire Google Reader from July 1st 2013. This is a sad news for Google Reader fans, as Reader has been the most popular RSS reader used by more than [...]
To me, Email is one of the biggest distractions which I have to deal with everyday. I have multiple email accounts, my personal Gmail account, my work email, my website email – it’s just too much to keep up with. Unsubscribing from junk mail doesn’t help much as with time, the volume and frequency of [...]
In today’s world all those who have access to the internet will have access to one or the cloud services. “Cloud” services as such not only refer to online drive storage, services exclusively to Photos, Videos, Audio, even emails, all come under the same category. And you might have at least 2 or more accounts [...]
When iGoogle was launched, Google had a note taking service called Google Notebook that let users take note while they do research on the websites being surfed. But in July 2012, Google shut the service as part of it’s efforts to focus on few projects. But few days ago, there were leaks of purported resurrection of [...]
What is an online journal and why you should have one? A personal online Journal, which is sometimes referred as an eleftronic journal or ejournal is a way to document your life on the web ensuring that only you can read your notes, see your photos and the personal things you write on your journal [...]
