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General Searching Tips using Google for Better Results
You might be using Google.com as a search tool everyday, just like me. To give the best result in terms of accuracy and relevance, you might be surprised that Google can do much more than just a simple search.In this article, I will share what Google have in their site: the general searching tips for Google.com...
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Google: General Search Tips 2008-07-23 21:53:44 8 GeneralSearch
ing Tips using Google
for Better ResultsYou might be using Google.com as a search tool everyday, just like me. To give the best result in terms of accuracy and relevance, you might be surprised that Google can do much more than just a simple search.In this article, I will share what Google have in their site: the 8 general searching tips for Google.com.1. Exact Phrase (using QUOTE,
No title 2008-07-23 13:25:53 Download a ' Difficult' Video using SAFARII guess most of you are masters in downloading a youtube-like video, be it from Youtube, Google Video, Metacafe, or the like. To do this, you can either use several ways like using DowloadHelper, Real Player or Keepvid.com (these three are my favorites)However, there are times when videos become 'difficult'. What do I mean by this? There are certain videos
No title 2008-07-23 02:24:21 Set a Password to Open Document, Workbook or PresentationIn the 2007 Microsoft Office, you can set and use passwords to help prevent other people from opening Microsoft Office Word 2007 documents, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentations. This feature is useful if you create important document that you don't want others to read, especially when you
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Win Local Search With Local Content
Local search, the act of showing up on page one when surfers type in phrases that hint they are looking for a local business, requires much of the same focus as any type of optimization - only localized. Here’s what I mean.
Research a Prospect…in Ten Minutes
A meeting with a prospect is more likely to result in a big sale if you go into the engagem Read more:Digg
No title 2008-07-22 20:09:51 Create Transparent Background using Paint.NETSometimes, you need to insert a pictures or images with no background colors, or in other words, to have transparent background.Using Paint.NET, you do this quite simply.Here are the steps you need to follow.Open your Paint.NET (if you don't have it, you can download it here for free).Open the image you want to edit.At the left side, choose Magic Wand (
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Download a ' Difficult' Video using SAFARI
there are times when videos become 'difficult'. What do I mean by this? There are certain videos that are inside a member area and open in a new-separated window. Therefore, to download this type of videos, you need a more powerful downloading method. And this answer is here: SAFARI.
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Pope Warns to Take Care Of Environment
Pope Benedict XVI spoke to a sea of youths in Sydney for World Youth Day. He urged the world to take better care of the environment and that we are squandering the earth's resources to satisfy its insatiable appetite for material goods.
2008 Emmy Awards: Predictions
The nominations for the 2007-2008 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced this morning. Here are Read more:Digg
Google: Avoid Google.com Redirection 2008-07-17 15:18:47 How to Get Google
.com when you type Google.comYou may have encountered this problem: when you try to type Google.com in your browser bar, what it will bring you is Google page with different domain. Google normally redirect users in countries other than the United States from Google.com to one of their country-specific sites (e.g. www.google.co.uk for Google UK) to provide easy access to country-s Read more:Avoid
Internet: Enable Disable Cookies 2008-07-17 03:37:30 How to Enable or DisableCookies
Well, I thought this topic is a must-know ana rather basic for all computer users. However, I found this kind of question in YahooAnswer often enough. Therefore, I will share it with you here. Well, what are Cookies actually? Here is a brief description of Cookies from Wikipedia:Cookies are used for authenticating, session tracking (state maintenance), and maintaini Read more:Internet
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Keyword Research Can Help You Make Money From Your Blog
Good article!! Must read to get the money from your blog..
How To Make Your Product A Habit
The NY Times has a great article this Sunday about how habits may be good for you. It is ostensibly about how Dr Val Curtis turned to Proctor and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever to help create a new habit in Ghana, washing hands with soap, ther Read more:Digg
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Set a Date to Publish your Blogger Post in the Future
If you are not always in front of you computer everyday, yet you want to be active in posting your article in Blogger, you can schedule you post to be published at the later date. This will come really handy as you can be a consistent blogger for your readers.
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Exploring: Make your own Keyboard Shortcut (windows vista trick) 2008-07-15 14:30:05 Make your own Keyboard Shortcut for your FavoriteAs discussed in my previous post, Vista assigns specific Keyboard Shortcuts for certain operations. However, Vista allows you to create one by yourself!!What you need to do is to follow these simple steps:Select a Shortcut of your favorite program. Here, I use an example of using Notepad shortcut on my desktopRight click on your selected iconClick P Read more:Exploring
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Top Blog Posts in First Three Years of WMC
Taking a look back at the first three years of the WMC blog, here are the ten most popular posts as chosen by you...
Marketing to Canadians: How to Deal with Language, Cultural,
Come & start thinking about marketing to Canadians as the Canadian dollar is strong; most Canadians shop on the Internet, and online ad and keyword-search rates are favorable Read more:Digg
Internet: Cool Trick Javascript 2008-07-14 23:15:30 Simple InternetTrick
Well, this post is quite off from what I have been doing all these while. This is a cool trick that you have to try when you have nothing to do or just feel bored.Here is the instruction video. Please watch, I put in a lot of efforts to produce this video.If you don't see the flash video below in 10 seconds (I have limited bandwidth), you can click here (I uploaded the video i
Searching: Tags (windows vista trick) 2008-07-14 07:00:39 Tags are Important to search for files in computerAll the files stored in you computer can have tags. Tags are simply words that describe the documents and their relevance to you. You can add tags to you photos or files, for instance, Joanne, birthday, party. By doing this, you just need to go to the search box of you explorer (on the top right) or at the start menu, and type these tags. You get w
Searching: Indexing (windows vista trick) 2008-07-14 06:59:42 Exclude Files form appearing in your search resultsTips: Modifying your index system in this manner will help to speed up slightly your search and also use less space in your hard disk.Vista manages and updates an index of all your files silently. The Index stores information such as file names and tags to make your files easier and faster to find when you type a search clue in to the search box.H Read more:Indexing
Exploring: On Screen Keyboard (windows vista trick) 2008-07-14 06:57:25 On Screen Keyboard: The solution to your aging KeyboardThis morning I came across a question in Yahoo.Answer that urged me to post this article. The question says that the asker can't use the 'print screen' button to capture an image from his computer.There could be a lot of reasons to this problem, and I went on to answer him and said he might want to try the 'on screen keyboard (OSK)' to check i Read more:Exploring
Firefox Trick: How to Set Homepage 2008-07-14 06:56:07 Set you Favorite Website as your Homepage
This is a basic application that many people probably know. However, there are a lot of people are actually asking this in YahooAnswer. So, again, I thought it would be great if I can share this trick here.You can set a website to be homepage of you browser (here, I am using Firefox
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Youtube Trick: Download Video using addon Downloadhelper 2008-07-14 06:55:04 Download Youtube Video using DownloadHelperAs Youtube.com is growing really fast now, there are many ways in which you can download the videos posted in youtube. Out of those methods popular in the internet, I do have a few favourites in downloading the videos, and I will share with you here.Almost all youtube-like video can be downloaded by Firefox Add-on called Video Downloadhelper (it was known Read more:Download
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Youtube trick: Download Video using Keepvid 2008-07-14 06:53:48 Download Youtube Video using Keepvid.comAs Youtube.com is growing really fast now, there are many ways in which you can download the videos posted in youtube. Out of those methods popular in the internet, I do have a few favorites in downloading the videos, and I will share with you here.Now, I will share with you another method to download other than Real Player, Downloadhelper, Convertdirect.com Read more:Download
Media Player Classic: Subtitle 2008-07-14 06:52:41 Setting Up Subtitle
in Media Player Classic
A normal way to play a subtitle when you are playing a movie is to download the .srt (or other subtitle extensions) files and place the file in the same folder as the movie. Using Media Player Classic, you don't have to do this!! So long you are online, you can download the subtitle right away from the Menu bar. So this will save you the time to downlo
Firefox: Open Multiple Links 2008-07-14 06:50:57 Open Multiple
Links using Firefox
Add-On Snap LinksDo you use Google a lot? Are you an active member of social bookmarking websites like Del.icio.us or Digg? If your answers are YES, then this article is worth reading.In Google search result, sometimes you want to check out the links in the result page, but it is quite time consuming and kind of tiring to open all the links one by one.. However, u
Blogger: Schedule Posts Future 2008-07-14 06:48:08 Set a Date to Publish your Blogger
Post in the Future
If you are not always in front of you computer everyday, yet you want to be active in posting your article in Blogger, you can schedule you post to be published at the later date. This will come really handy as you can be a consistent blogger for your readers.To do this, here is the video I've made. Please comment if you have any opinions about Read more:Schedule
Windows Vista Trick: Resizing your Font Size Quckly 2008-07-14 03:13:05 Resize Font Size using your Mouse!!I will keep this article simple. No picture, no video.Well, maybe you know that if you want to change the size of your fonts, you would need to go to Control Panel, then bla bla bla.. ( I won't elaborate on this as I am about to tell you a faster way).This is the faster way:Press your 'Ctrl' button on your keyboardThen using your Mouse WHEEL, scroll it up to make Read more:Windows Vista
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Google Trick: Customize Google Homepage 2008-07-14 02:44:43 Customize GoogleHomepage
for Better SearchIn my previous article, we have discussed the method on how to clear your past history. Now, I will share with you a way to optimize Google as the best search engine (to me at least).CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted informatio Read more:Trick
Google Trick: Clearing Past Searches 2008-07-10 13:17:11 Clearing Past Searches in Google
I have been answering in Yahoo Answer for quite sometime now. As someone who thinks that I am only good at these computer stuffs, I usually answer in this category. When I browse through this category, I found that there are so many people asking about this topic, so I thought it would be great if I share this tips here.Tips: You can clear your Google search history Read more:Clearing
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Exploring: Quick Launch Keyboard Shortcut (windows vista trick) 2008-07-06 14:07:33 Knowing Keyboard Shortcut will make your Life much EASIER..Windows Vista assigns keyboard shortcuts to programs and documents on your QuickLaunch
bar. It's really easy to use it.Tips: Just use the WINDOWS key + the NUMBER of the program in the order it appears on your Quick Launch Bar.The image below is my quick launch bar. So here, the order of my programs is:FirefoxWindows Live MessengerWindows Read more:Exploring
Exploring: Keyboard Shortcut (windows vista trick) 2008-07-03 09:08:16 Keyboard Shortcut: Time SaverHere are some keyboard shortcuts specific in Vista, that I find very useful in saving time. Try to use it often, and you will be able to memorize it with minimum efforts.Opening Shortcuts WINDOWS KEY + E - Open Windows Explorer **WINDOWS KEY + F - Open Search **WINDOWS KEY + U - Open the Ease of Access CenterWINDOWS KEY + R - Open the Run Window **WINDOWS KEY + (1-9) - Read more:Exploring
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Speed Up Windows Vista
Many people have written or asked me questions about problems that Vista has, especially in terms of the speed. Slow computer system is indeed what computer users find annoying really. However, this is what I found when I was surfing to kill my spare my free time last week: WINDOWS VISTA PERFORMANCE AND TUNING.
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