Using The Internet
How To Search For Faces On Google Image Search
Here’s a neat tip to tell Google Image Search to just find faces, rather than images that contain your keywords.
To search faces on Google Image Search, just add ‘&imgtype=face’ behind your search URL.
E.g if you were searching for a person with the last name “Farmer” then once you’re results have been returned ( http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=farmer ) [...]
Stop YouTube Videos Playing Automatically
If you are a Firefox user you may occasionally open multiple YouTube videos in separate tabs to queue them up for viewing. The problem is that by default YouTube videos autoplay.
A way to stop this is to install the new TubeStop Firefox extension. The TubeStop firefox extension disables the autoplay feature of YouTube [...]
Save Money On Your Summer Holiday With Otbeach.com
Have you started making plans for your summer holiday yet? I’m starting to make my plans. I’m definitely heading out to Dubai later this year, as I want to experience life in such a fast-paced city.
Booking holidays over the internet is one of the best ways to get a good cheap deal, and [...]
One For The Bloggers
If you’re an avid blogger, then you really should check out the Bloggers Face-Off series from DailyBlogTips.
Every Tuesday Daniel features a weekly short interview with top bloggers, which provides useful insights into how they’ve become successful bloggers, and more importantly for some people, how they’ve managed to generate money.
The series was kicked off in style [...]
Screen Capture Complete Web Pages With Picknik Firefox Add-on
This tip is great for people who want to use create thumbnails of their website, or have to use screen captures in documents or presentations.
One of the annoying problems with the Screen Capture function on PCs is it only captures what is visible on the screen. This is ok most of the time, but sometimes [...]
Useful Firefox Shortcut To Reopen Old Tabs
If you use Firefox then I’m sure you’ll find this keyboard shortcut useful which will re-open tabs that have been closed.
Many of you know that you can open a new Firefox tab by using the ‘CTRL+T’ keyboard shortcut, and ‘CTRL+W’ to close a tab. But did you know you can re-open old tabs by [...]
Submit Your Site or Blog To Yahoo News
Although Google rules the roost in terms of online search, Yahoo is still holding onto its crown as the most popular online news aggregator. ( Source: Comscore)
Sites that are featured in Yahoo News can get thousands of new visitors per day, and joining their ranks is easier than you think. All you have to do [...]
Synchronize Your Firefox Bookmarks Between PCs
My favourite Firefox extension is the Google Browser Sync extension and it’s the first Firefox addon I always install when I’m setting up a PC.
Not only does Google Browser Sync keep your vital bookmarks synchronized between PCs, it also sychronizes your history, cookies and passwords. It even syncronizes the pages you were looking at, [...]
BugMeNot - Instant Disposable Email Addresses
Many sites make ask for you to provide an email address when you register. No matter how good their intentions, the only reason for adding this requirement is because they intend to send you emails in the future.
If like me you already receive enough emails each day and you definitely don’t want anymore spam, [...]
Upgrade To WordPress 2.2
If you missed the news, WordPress 2.2 is now out. The latest release contains dozens of bug fixes and several new features. Overall the service has been tidied up and made much more intuitive to use and friendly. I’ve just upgraded from 2.1 with no problems at all.
New features include:
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