Showing posts with label online-services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online-services. Show all posts

The Last Password You'll Have to Remember

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I've been using LastPass for a while and found it to be a very useful add-on for my daily Internet browsing. LastPass is a free password manager and form filler that makes your web browsing easier and more secure and comes in a form of an add-on for your browser. Here is a brief summary of its features:
  • Create strong passwords, knowing you only have to remember one.
  • Log into your favorite sites with a single click.
  • Fill forms in a second.
  • Access and manage your data from multiple computers seamlessly.
  • Share logins with friends and let others share logins with you.
You can read more on LastPass on a mini review posted on gHacks.

Highly recommended!

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Google News for Blogs

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Google's Blog Search homepage has been updated and it now includes a list of popular stories, which are categorized and clustered similarly to Google News. Their FAQ explains:

"Blog Search uses a set of algorithms to try to determine the most popular stories in the blogosphere. We consider factors such as a blog's title and content, as well as its popularity throughout the rest of the blogging community. Then we display groups of posts that are closely related."

via Google Operating System

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Get Your Own Favicon

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Favicon is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. Browsers typically display a page's favicon in the URL bar and next to the page name in a list of bookmarks. Browsers with tabs also show favicon next to the page title.

You can design your favicon online (supports uploading an image of your own also), or download one from free libraries on the web, like FreeFavicon and FaviconRUs. If you are aiming to recent browsers, your favicon can be of type PNG, ICO or GIF (also animated).

Once you got your your icon, it needs to be hosted somewhere on the web (Picasa, GooglePages, ImageShack, Photobucket etc.) and you must have an option to get a direct link to it.

Next thing is to include a reference on your website/blog. The following line should be added to your <head> section (replace http://myFaviconURL with the URL you have from the previous step):

<link href='http://myFaviconURL' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon'/>

In Blogger’s template for example, search for the <title> section above the <head> and put it below:

<head>…

    <title>…

    <--- put it here --->

You are done!

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Ultimate Online File Conversion Tool

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Zamzar is a free online service that will convert video, audio, compressed archives and documents. You upload the file, enter your email address, and it will send you a note when your new file is ready for download. The site also supports download/conversion of YouTube (and all other flash-based video sites) videos and Office 2007 to 2003 file conversion. The list of supported types is very long. Really easy and useful!

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