Posts filed under 'Tips'

Guest post by Aseem from HelpDeskGeek.com
Have you ever clicked on the Shutdown or Restart button in Windows and have absolutely nothing happen? Sometimes Windows gets stuck because of some process that has become hung, meaning it is running, but can’t be ended in the normal way. (more…)

Guest Article by Romil Patel from Blab Web
Every blogger wants more traffic. Even if you are ranked #1 in Alexa (Currently Yahoo), you will still want more traffic, because it means more popularity and essentially more money into your pocket (if you blog for dollars). So what do contests bring in and how do you test if they are worth while? (more…)

Guest article by Syed Abbas from Tnerd
With thousands of blogs being launched every day, one has to offer something different from the others to stand out of the crowd. The “differentiator” is what the readers will remember and that’s precisely what will bring them back to your blog. [Image credit: anniemole] (more…)

News is out that few people can access the new, toolbar-free version of StumbleUpon. But how can you access these new features still under beta testing? There are no invites, but there is a secret Stumbleupon group where you can try the magic. (more…)

The Evangelical Alliance has published the new Ten Commandments of Blogging to “give bloggers a moral edge in a virtual age.” Based loosely on the real Ten Commandments from the Old Testament, the revamped version provides guidance in online communication. (more…)

Do you know your personal computer uses more energy than Google Search to answer your query. Google claims that Google-designed data centers use use much less energy than conventional facilities to feed and cool the computers inside. Google engineers have optimized every element in the data center, from the chip to the cooling tower. (more…)

Guest article by Mircea Goia from MyTestBox
You’ve just launched a website (company) and you want people to know about it immediately. Of course, there are many places you can advertise your new website (company) - for free or for money. (more…)

I was surprised to see some top Twitter users display cool symbols in their tweets and impress their followers. Here is the little secret about how to insert those special characters and unicode symbols into your twitter posts too. (more…)

Searching for celebrities online can get your computer infected and some celebs are particularly famous for that. McAfee reports that Brad Pitt has overtaken Paris Hilton as the most dangerous celebrity to search for in cyberspace. (more…)

Microsoft sent out some First Aid kits as per a marketing plan to spread awareness about the newly launched Internet Explorer 8 beta web browser. The whole idea was to promote the new and popular feature of IE8 beta called Web Slices. The first aid kit was a humorous take to fix injuries while slicing the web without IE8. (more…)