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Playing With Google

Google, as we all know is the God of all search engines, a search engine giant. No doubt Google makes our life easier with great search results, but it’s not only that. Google is also loaded with goofs and pranks within it, popularly known as Easter Eggs.

Below is a list of selected popular Easter Egg pranks by Google.

Anagram:
Google the word “anagram” and you should notice a suggested search result – “Did you mean: nag a ram” Google normally uses the phrase “Did you mean:” to correct misspellings.

[ More ] July 13th, 2010 | Marked under Featured |

WordPress Maintenance Mode Plugin

Unlike other CMS, WordPress does not have a built-in feature that’ll allow you to take your website to maintenance mode (or under construction) from live mode, but, like I had mentioned in my previous post that WordPress is flexible and allows you to install add-ons or rather plug-ins to your blog. There’s one such plug-in called the Maintenance Mode Plug-in which allows you to display a custom message on the homepage of your blog.

[ More ] July 13th, 2010 | Marked under WordPress |

Essential WordPress Plugins

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform loaded with tons of features. Most of all, its flexible and you can change it the way you like it. Open Source. It’s an advantage. Though WordPress is loaded with features, it still lacks those features that are essential for a blog. And therefore, the plug-ins originated. WordPress community developers and professional PHP programmers develop plug-ins to extend the features and make the blogging platform function even better.

Definition of WordPress Plug-in: It is a program, or a set of functions, written in the PHP scripting language, that provides specific features to your WordPress blog.

[ More ] July 10th, 2010 | Marked under WordPress |

Curves Explained – Photoshop

The curve tool is one such tool that helps you tune your images and intensify the mood, though you think you’ve taken pretty neat shots, but needs a little adjustment to make it look even better. Curves allow you to adjust the color and tonality (contrast) by changing the shape of the curve. The upper section of the curve represents the area of lower contrast and the lower section represents the area of higher contrast. Dragging the curve upwards/downwards it lightens or darkens the image respectively.

[ More ] July 9th, 2010 | Marked under Photoshop |

Recover Unsaved Documents – Microsoft Word 2007

Trouble is an uninvited guest. So is disaster and crash. You never know what happens next unless you have an 8 legged physic Octopus that can predict the future. It’s the same while you’re working on a Word document. You never know when your system crashes and hence, you screw your own a$s when you’ve realized that you hadn’t saved the document that you were working on. Lazy souls like you and me are prone to this. So, what’s the solution to it? Well, God alone bless our laziness, but there’s something we can do to recover our documents.

[ More ] July 9th, 2010 | Marked under Tutorials |

Acer Launches Liquid A1

Acer, ranking second in the global PC market, launched it’s first Android phone on the 29th of January. With not just powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, it is the world’s first Android 1.6 high definition Smartphone and is priced at Rs. 24, 900 with some amazingly unbeatable features.

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | Marked under Mobile |