Really Useful Google Search Tricks
The Google Search Engine is a lot more useful when it’s used correctly. Below, we’ve listed some great tricks you can use in Google to enhance your Search Experience, and give you the results you need. Click the Examples to see the Search in action.
1/ Remove Certain Sites from Search Results.
Do a search with: searchterm -site:site.com
Example: “42 inch lcd tv” -site:richersounds.com
to exclude results for a particular site. Excellent if you find a particular website is saturating the top results, and you wish to exclude them from the results page. Also useful when you’re looking for a product, but don’t want to buy from a particular site.
10 Tips to keep your Home Network Safe and Secure
Follow these simple Tips below to ensure your Home Network is Safe and Secure – and remains so.
1/ Check your wireless security settings
Although largely phased out – you’ll be surprised how many people are still using WEP to secure their wireless network. Check your router wireless settings, and ensure you’re set to use WPA-PSK (or better yet – WPA2-PSK). Why? Put it simply – WEP can be cracked in minutes by an experienced hacker.
OSX Lion Scroll Bar How To
So you’ve upgraded to OSX Lion, and you’re just getting used to some of the great features Apple have incorporated – BUT you’ve noticed something missing? Below we answer all your questions on the OSX Lion Scroll bars..
Where have the Scroll bars gone in OSX Lion?
In a move to improve the aesthetics in OSX Lion – Apple have removed the permanent Scroll bars, and instead made them translucent in applications that can support this. The Scroll bars haven’t actually gone anywhere – but instead will appear only when used, or hovered over.
6 Mac OSX Lion Features We Love
Well… we waited for the official Lion release date, installed the update (after first making a ‘Master Disc’ incase we decide to do a fresh install later!), and have been playing around with some new features for the past week. Here’s a summary of the features we’ve found most enjoyable..
Widgets now have their own dedicated desktop rather than an overlay on the screen. A three finger swipe left from Desktop 1 reveals the Widgets screen.
WordPress 3.2 Preview of Features
With WordPress onto their second Release Candidate already, and testing well underway – it won’t be long before WordPress 3.2 becomes the baseline and we’ll be told we’re ready to upgrade in a live environment.
WordPress 3.2 is a big step for the WordPress Development Team. They’ve finally accepted that old technology is only slowing them down – and that a much brighter and exciting future lays ahead if they drop the old and work with the new. With this in mind, WordPress 3.2 will no longer support PHP4 or MySQL4. Instead, users will be required to run PHP 5.2 and MySQL5.
Mac OS X Lion Features You Need To Know About
With the OS X Lion release date fast approaching, here are some of the New Features we’re most looking forward to taking on a test drive.
Restore Partition with Safari
OS X Lion will feature a ‘restore’ partition to allow recovery of the OS without the need for Disks. Now although this has been done over and over, whats unusual about this feature is Apple are including Safari within the recovery Partition. Can’t boot your Mac? Then boot to the Recovery Partition and fire up the Apple Support Site and look for a Fix!!
Facebook to Release Full Fat App for the iPad
The New York Times have reported today that Facebook ‘insiders’ have revealed an iPad version of the Facebook App could be released in as little as a few weeks time. Although the insiders refused to reveal their indentity – they did reveal some interesting features we can expect. The app has been in production for almost a year, and has had careful design and optimization to work perfectly with the iPad. We can expect full resolution photos and a great video experience from the slick interface.
Frequency of Use on Facebook, Twitter and Other Social Networking Sites
Today Pew Internet released a report outlining trending details for Social Networking usage. One of their studies concentrated on the frequency that users use different sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Interestingly the report reveals only 6% of users ‘Never’ or ‘Less Often’ use Facebook, whereas 41% report this for Twitter. This shows a striking difference between the different pattern of use Facebook and Twitter users have.
HTC to release Gingerbread update on the Desire
In a swing of events, HTC have announced on their official Facebook Page that they’ll be releasing the long awaited Gingerbread Update to their older Desire device.
In a Wall post, they said..
Source:Facebook.com Wall Post