Category: Web
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FlockDraw: Real-time, Collaborative Drawing
Drawing has been a medium for communicating ideas since the beginning of time, probably because of it’s simplicity. That’s the idea behind FlockDraw. FlockDraw is an amazing online application from Dan Blake (a founder of the equally simple TinyChat.com) and Ryan Hile. The purpose is to bring collaborative, real-time drawing to the internet. Like TinyChat,…
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Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions
Now that the Google Chrome web browser officially supports extensions, great extensions are appearing every day. I’ve gone through and picked ten of my favorite (and most useful) extensions so far and put them into a fancy Top 10 list. Before you can install extensions you’ll need to download and install the new beta version…
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How to Remove Duplicate Facebook Entries from Motorola Droid Contacts
One mildly irritating bug I’ve noticed on my Motorola Droid is that some of my contacts accumulate duplicate Facebook profiles in their contact information. Opening their contact information can show from 5-7 additional Facebook profiles, but they all open the correct profile page. Here’s a quick fix I came up with to remove the duplicates:…
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How to Manage Attachments in Gmail
Since Gmail offers nearly unlimited storage space, most people keep emails with attachments archived so they can access important files later. This works great when you need to dig up pictures sent from a relative or print a copy of the report you wrote last year. Unfortunately, it’s pretty easy for messages to get lost…
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Google Chrome (finally) Offers Support for Extensions
For many of us, extension support was the last thing that was holding us back from fully switching to Google’s Chrome web browser. As of today, you can browse the officially opened Google Chrome Extension Gallery which offers 300+ extensions and growing. To enable extension support, you’ll have to download and install Chrome beta first.…
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Google Adds Real-Time Search Results
Google has recently released a new real-time search option that contains a scrolling list of results that update as new results become available. Don’t worry, this won’t be replacing Google’s standard search results, but it will be eventually be an option you can enable in the sidebar. Real-time results combines posts from news sources, blogs,…
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WordPress Plugin: Login To Other User Accounts With Skeleton Key
WordPress allows for contributors to be geographically separated but still able to work together in an online environment. At times, however, administrators need to log into their contributor’s accounts to troubleshoot and fix problems. Since most people aren’t comfortable telling you their private passwords, how can you login to a user’s account without having them…
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WordPress Plugin: Lock Accounts After Invalid Logins with User Locker
As the popularity of content management systems such as WordPress increases, the number of security threats will also increase. Your first defense against intruders is the WordPress login page. By default, there is no limit to the number of times a user can attempt to login to WordPress. This makes your website vulnerable to brute…
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Twitter Now Supports Geotagging (but you have to enable it first)
You’ve probably heard the buzz for the last few weeks, and now it’s official – Twitter now supports geotagging your tweets. What exactly does this mean? From Twitter Support: Twitter’s Geotagging feature allows users who opt-in to the service to selectively Geotag their tweets with their exact location and provide more context to users about…