Tips & Hacks

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9 Tips to Make the Most of Google Search

Posted by Saad as Google, Tips & Hacks 1 Comment

This article was originally written by me for a newsletter that is mostly consumed by non-techie business audience. You may know most of the search techniques that are described in this article. I have not been able to cover everything due to word limitation. If I have missed something interesting, do share it in [...]

Falcon – Browser Based Image Editor

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Often times when I’m at work or at any other location away from my personal computer (which has piles of softwares and tools installed) – I often feel in need of many softwares which I don’t get access to on spot. Google & Zoho has made my life a lot easier with their complete [...]

Download WordPress 2.8 Beta 1

Posted by Saad as Tips & Hacks, Wordpress 3 Comments

Wordpress has recently announced their Wordpress 2.8 Beta 1.
You can easily download Wordpress 2.8 Beta 1, here, and also leave your feedback for the developers, here. This is not a final release, so don’t update your blog just yet, as it may have a lot of bugs and loop holes.
So what to expect [...]

Protect Your Site from Spammers – Matt Cutts

Posted by Saad as Tech News, Tips & Hacks 1 Comment

Head of Google’s Web Spam Team, Matt Cutts recently spoke on a panel about “Preventing Virtual Blight” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. So for those of you who couldn’t attend that conference, Matt cutts has recorded a special summarized version (“director’s cut”) of his presentation and made it available for Free (~ [...]

Use of Twitter in an Information Retrieval System

Posted by Saad as Featured, Social Media, Tips & Hacks 15 Comments

Firstly, A Happy New Year to all my readers! I have been a bit slow with blogging lately because of the tremendous pressure with work & my postgraduate research. But anyway, since Xmas & New Year is over I’m back in my serious business – Blogging!
I’m sure most of you are already using [...]

  • Tags: twitter
  • Posted on 4th January 2009

Keep track of the Latest Tech News

Posted by Saad as Tech News, Tips & Hacks 3 Comments

Do you want to stay ahead of the technology world and get access to all the breaking technology news without driving yourself crazy by tracking hundreds of different websites? Today, I’ll be covering some of the easy ways of keeping track of the tech world. You have probably heard of some of them already, but [...]

Send SMS from Gmail

Posted by Saad as Google, Tips & Hacks 3 Comments

Right after Gmail launched their Task Manager, they have released yet another cool feature in Gmail Labs – SMS from Gmail Chat!
This brand new Gmail Labs feature Labs lets you send Text SMS right from Gmail Inbox. It combines the best parts of IM and texting: you chat from the comfort of your computer, [...]