Youtube displays preview images of the videos on their pages to give their visitors an indication of a video’s quality and contents. The static image stills are shown on the Youtube start page, on search pages, playlists and basically on every page that links to video pages that are hosted on the video portal. Youtube [...]
Image Resizer And Optimizer Riot
The image resizer and optimizer Riot (Radical Image Optimization Tool) can process images that are loaded into its interface. The program is offered as a portable version and installer at the developer’s website. Single images that are loaded into the interface are displayed in their original form and optimized form. The optimized display is immediately [...]
Join a Ubuntu machine to a Windows domain
I had been hoping to accomplish this for some time now. At work we work under a Windows domain and I have a Ubuntu test machine that I have been hoping to join to that domain. Finally, thanks to Likewise-Open5, it happened. And, believe it or not, it’s not all that difficult. Oh sure you [...]
Google Government Requests
Google yesterday released a new tool that they call Government Requests tool which is a visual representation of the request Google received from government agencies to remove content or provide information about users of their services and products. The map shows the number of requests that Google has received between July 1, 2009 and December [...]
Unlimited online storage? Voilà!
The internet weather has been turning somewhat cloudy in recent years and by saying that I now don’t mean to start another discussion about (important) Net neutrality here but rather to bring up the smooth transition to a trend of moving data to indefinite “shadowy” remote storage sometimes referred to as “The Cloud”, the shape [...]
Untiny Reveals Shortened Link Destinations
So called url shortening services such as tinyurl or bit.ly turn a lengthy url into a smaller one that redirects to the original destination. This is handy in several situations but especially when text is either limited (like on Twitter) or difficulty to enter. The main problem of these services is that the user cannot [...]
Facebook Lite Discontinued
Facebook some time ago offered their users an alternative version of the social networking site dubbed Facebook Lite which was a stripped down version of Facebook designed for users with slow Internet connections to speed up page loading times. Facebook Lite on the other hand was not designed for mobile users who can access Facebook [...]
Google Chrome Stable Update: Security Fixes
The Google Chrome developers have released an update to the stable Google Chrome client. Google Chrome 4.1.249.1059 has been released to the stable channel on Windows. It fixes several security issues and Chrome users are asked to update the web browser as soon as possible to protect their browser and the computer system from exploits [...]
How To Create Wikipedia Books
Did you know that you can create books from Wikipedia articles? Chance is you did not as the feature is currently available in the beta interface which can only be activated by registered users. Every Wikipedia user who creates an account and switches from the standard interface to the beta interface can create books from [...]