Digital Insights: Computer Tips & Tricks

If you are building new websites, like setting up new blogs, you probably don’t want to show Google or other visitors it before everything (templates, links, descriptions, meta tags, etc.) is completely set up.

For example, when you install WordPress, there is a default Hello World post displayed on the front page and Google also indexes your important login page. This is all the stuff you don’t need to show to anyone. Read the rest of this entry »

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Finally there is a solid Youtube MP3 player available to play songs directly from Youtube. As you may know, Youtube is the largest song database in the world.

For example if you search for Beatles, you will get 137,938 results. Quite impressive. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re learning english, you could sometimes come across a word with unclear pronunciation. And if your english learning program doesn’t provide pronunciation for words you can instead use Youtube. Read the rest of this entry »

February 24 was a black Tuesday for Gmail addicts. The panic that Gmail was down spread everywhere from IRC to Twitter back and forth.

Some of Gmail users were so desperate that you could feel their desperation from tearfull words on the computer screen.

One of them was even convinced that Google went down intentionally for him to ruin his life:

Twitter was also pumping messages with “Gmail own” in every 3 words.

This Gmail blackout demonstrates how we are all dependent on one service provider.

Some tips how to prevent future downs of Gmail.

1. Have an alternate email account where you can forward emails to. You can set up to forward your emails automatically and even if the front-end doesn’t work there is a chance that some services are still functioning.
2. Do not use Gmail for business. If you have a website, you must have your own domain email address. You can forward emails, but the opposite way: from @yourdomain.com to @gmail.com

At first I thought that Hotmail developers were so lazy and didn’t bother to change the description tag on their site but further SEO investigation revealed that in fact Google decided to demean Hotmail a bit. Here’s what you can see on the SERP for the keyword “hotmail”: Read the rest of this entry »

Image by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten via Flickr

Heatmaps are very useful determining what is the hottest parts of your website. Looking at the heatmap you can see how to improve the layout for your website by placing most important buttons, navigation links or ads on the best visibility parts. To perform a real heatmap experiment with people for the site would be very expensive. Luckily there are web application at Feng-Gui that does all the job. Read the rest of this entry »

In my previous post about how to find Titanic in Google Earth 5.0 I wrote how to find the approximite destination of Titanic wreck. Read the rest of this entry »

Good news to all players who wants to legally download PC games free. Sometimes companies decide to change licence from commercial to freeware. Usually this is done for old games that are no longer in marketplaces.

While searching for ways to join several mIRC servers at the same time I found the simple answer to that question. If you are using latest version of mIRC (currently 6.35) then simply execute mirc.exe second time and you can join second server and channel. There is non option to join another server from the same instance of mIRC client. Read the rest of this entry »

Titanic in Google Earth

This is weird. I tried to search for Titanic in Google Earth 5 but nothing found except some unrelated cities:Titanic, Pollard, Clay, AR 72456, Titanic, Harvey, Jefferson, LA 70058 and few more. But where is the real Titanic? Quite funny, the biggest ship accident in history and no search returns. Has Titanic sunk even in Google Earth? Read the rest of this entry »