Tynt Insight helps you benefit from others scraping your site content

Depending on the content of your site, a certain percentage of your content is going to be copied. There are many reasons why readers may copy your content. It might be a fan copying content for reference or sharing it with a friend or it might be someone stealing your content for republishing. Regardless of [...]

Google facts and figures (Infographic)

Google facts and figures (Infographic)

Track adsense revenue in Firefox without logging into your adsense account

If you are an Adsense publisher, you can avoid logging into your adsense account to track your revenue.  This Firefox add on allows you to show key Adsense statistics on your browser’s status bar. As of this writing, it’s the only Adsense Firefox add on that works with Firefox 3.6. It will show the following [...]

Student claims school spied on him via computer webcam

By Dan Hardy and Bonnie L. Cook

Inquirer Staff Writers

A Lower Merion family has set off a furor among students, parents, and civil liberties groups by alleging that Harriton High School officials used a webcam on a school-issued laptop to spy on their 15-year-old son at home.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court, the family [...]

BBC News - Google to offer 'ultra high-speed' broadband in US

Google is spreading its wings in yet another direction – this time as a network provider, offering super-fast broadband to thousands of US homes. It plans to build a fibre-optic network offering speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second) to up to 500,000 homes. It said it would compete on price with other broadband [...]

Google's First TV Ad

Goggle ran their first ever television ad during the third quarter of the superbowl.

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Switching things up a bit with a new look

As you can see, this blog has a brand new look. The layout more or less matches the old one but this one uses a light theme instead of the dark theme. Those who prefer the dark theme can still use it by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking the desired theme. This ‘on the fly’ theme switching is accomplished with a plug in called Theme Switcher [...]

Block ads in Google Chrome in two easy steps

I’m a die-hard Firefox user due to its extensibility and ad blocking. It’s a memory hog and can be a bit sluggish on slower computers. I recently decided to give Google Chrome a try and it’s among the snappiest browsers on the market. Granted, I have no extensions installed so it’s running pretty lean. The first thing I noticed was the dreaded return of ads. Ad Block Plus is one of the most popular Firefox add ons. It’s unknown if Google will permit ad blocking on a large scale with Chrome since Google is one of the world’s largest ad servers. At the moment, there is no Ad Block Plus for Google Chrome but you can block ads with Adsweep in a few simple steps. To enable Adsweep, you have to run the development version of Chrome which enables extensions so this may not be for [...]

One step forward, two steps back for Ubuntu

I run a triple boot of Ubuntu, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. I am a long time Windows user and decided to give Ubuntu a try. It’s been one pain in the ass after another. This last episode is the last straw. After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), it failed to update my multiboot screen so ended up running part of one version over another. The sound stopped working again and the touchpad died. I finally figured out I was running an older kernel and updated my GRUB menu which promptly killed my boot option for Windows XP and Vista. Now with the new version running, my touchpad was back and the sound worked but it sounded awful. Then it killed my Rosewill RNX-EasyN1 wireless usb adapter. After some searching, I finally found a temporary fix here under post [...]

2009 Black Friday External Hard Drive Deals

In my opinion, this year’s deal on external hard drives are just OK. Not worth making a trip for and definitely not worth standing in line for unless you are going for something else. There may be the same or better deals on Cyber Monday. The best deal on a cost per gigabyte basis is the Western Digital Elements 1TB Desktop Hard Drive at Target for $60. This comes out to six cents per gigabyte. After that, it’s the 1.5TB Seagate Seagate 1.5TB External USB Hard Drive from Office Depot for $100. If you are looking for a small 2.5″ drive, consider the Iomega Prestige 320GB Portable Hard Drive from Radio Shack for $50. You might be able to remove this drive and put it in a laptop. Of course, this will void your [...]


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