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Problems with Gmail

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

UPDATE: I went out to buy some stuff from Target. When I got back, I was able to login to my Gmail account and everything seems to be working fine now. Earlier, I was logged in to my Gmail account and was gonna delete two message when all of a sudden I get an error message. [...]

Google Updates Adsense Program Policies

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

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Adsense just recently announced that they have updated their program policies. We’re now requiring AdSense publishers to comply with the spirit of our Page Quality Guidelines. If you’re an AdWords advertiser, you might already be familiar with these guidelines, which are intended to provide a better experience for users, advertisers, and publishers alike. If you use [...]

My Google Pagerank

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

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EDITED: 05/10/07 What is Pagerank? PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and [...]

Geek - New Race of People

Friday, April 27, 2007

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A few days ago I came across an interesting article. It talks about how the U.N. or United Nations has recently added “geek” as a new race of people on earth. With that, the terms “noob”*, “nerd” & “retard” are now considered as a racist terms. What is a geek? How is one considered a [...]

Google Introduces Gmail Paper

Saturday, March 31, 2007

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What is Gmail Paper? Gmail Paper is a new feature on Gmail that lets you request a physical copy of your email with a single click of a button. All you have to do is select the emails that you want to be printed and click on “Paper Archive”. Google will immediately print them for you [...]

How Projects Really Work

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

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While I was browsing through my old files, I came across a cartoon strip that I downloaded from the web a long time ago. It depicts how IT projects are done, but with a twist of humor. I totally forgot where I got it so I tried searching in Google to find the source. Anyways, this has been around the web for quite a while so I'm sure some of you have seen this already. The first version was 1.0 and since then, they've added a few more cells and this project is now in version 1.5.

Blogger.com Hijacked by Scammers

Sunday, March 18, 2007

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Be careful with what blogs you visit. Google’s Blogger.com is reportedly being hijacked by scammers to spread malware through fake blogs. Security experts are calling this the “fake blog scam”. Blog hopping or surfing hasn’t been this dangerous. Scammers are creating what would seem as a normal-looking blogs with ordinary topics like “Star Wars, school, [...]

Googe or Google?

Thursday, February 15, 2007

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Most of us are familiar with Google Doodles, the modified version of the Google logo which is used on holidays, birthdays of famous people or major events like the Olympics. Yesterday February 14th was Valentine’s Day and as part of tradition, Google created their Valentine’s Day version of Google Doodle: Do you notice something different or missing [...]

Montage-a-Google

Monday, January 8, 2007

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Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google’s image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or even posters I’ve been playing with it and I’m [...]

Clever Keys

Monday, January 8, 2007

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When composing a letter, document or a blog entry most of the time I have to look up words in the dictionary, Google or Wikipedia. Previously, I only used a Firefox extension called Dictionary Lookup Extension to look up the definition of words. However, I felt that it was kinda limited. It only looks up [...]

2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

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by Tony Long Leading off with a stupid quote from President Bush might seem a little too easy, perhaps unfair, a bit like stealing candy from a blind kid or something. But in a year chockablock with moronic quips, obtuse observations and mind-boggling inanities, you still have to put Dubya front and center. He is, after [...]