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[Light Post Friday] How Did That Video Get Viral In 48 Hours?

Friday, March 5th, 2010
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So, you were wondering, how did that video get viral in less than 48 hours? Here’s how I think it happened (Disclaimer: I am making this up as I go. Ok, not really. I’m quickly researching things as I type.)

Here it goes… someone found this video somewhere, digitized it and uploaded it to Youtube (around October 15, 2009).

However, at that time, not much people knew what it was. It was also posted on Youtube swimming on a pool of millions of other videos. How can this be viral? Nope. Not yet. There are still some ingredients missing.  Read more... (659 words, 5 images, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)

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7 Worthy Alternatives To Google Search

Friday, February 26th, 2010
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Today, I was wondering how I could ever search for something if Google didn’t exist and I asked myself, “How do I look for answers without using Google?”

I certainly wanted to answer my own question really bad so I dug up a few worthy search engines out there that can be my alternative to Google search.

Here are some of my early favorites (in no order):

1) Yahoo!

www.yahoo.com

No introduction is needed for the 3rd largest website in the world.

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2) Bing

www.bing.com  Read more... (345 words, 9 images, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

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Fast flipping of news articles using Google Fast Flip

Friday, February 19th, 2010
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If you want your news and you like to get them online, but don’t have enough time to check all the news websites and blogs, there is a cool experiment from Google Labs called Google Fast Flip.

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Google Fast Flip captures images of articles on their partner’s websites and displays them in an easy-to-read format. It’s really cool to view these images in a widescreen monitor because you are able to quickly scan on popular articles with the website’s template using all your screen real estate. I’m a quick skimmer and I really love how they are laid out. And because not all of us reads all those web news/blog content, skimming through headlines and pictures is serious time-saver.  Read more... (241 words, 3 images, estimated 58 secs reading time)

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Quick reminder: Avoid being a victim of an e-mail phishing scam

Monday, February 1st, 2010
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Quick reminder: Avoid being a victim of an e-mail phishing scam.

A good practice to save you from these e-mail hoaxes and fraudulent links (phising) is to always check (double-check then re-check) the link that you are about to click. It may save you from viruses, malwares, spywares or even save you lots of money. Especially if the link involved grabbing your personal information.

Take this phising email I recently received:

The email looked unsuspecting for a regular user at first. But after I hovered into that link “Click here to verify your account”.

 Read more... (220 words, 3 images, estimated 53 secs reading time)

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How to Automatically Redirect Google’s I’m Feeling Lucky Using Chrome

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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If you are like me who uses Google Chrome on a daily basis and was wondering or like to know if there is a way how to use Google’s I’m Feeling Lucky using the browser’s “Omnibar” or address bar? Then this step-by-step tutorial is for you. Here’s how:

1) Open your Chrome browser. Don’t have it? Download it here

2) Right-click on the omnibar, then click the “Edit search engines…”

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3) Click “Add…”

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4) Enter the following when prompted:

Name: Google Search: I’m Feeling Lucky
Keyword: >
URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=Im+Feeling+Lucky

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Have a friend in the US? Send a holiday postcard from Gmail FREE!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
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Google’s Gmail  is offering to send one free holiday postcard (yes, an actual snail mail) to anyone in the US.

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Valid only within the United States and while supplies last. After the free one, if you like, you can print more cards on your own.

Hurry! Go here and send one now!

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Experience the newly redesigned Google home with the always-visible sidebar

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
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Just enter the below script onto your browser’s address bar and hit ENTER:

javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”);

Restart your browser and go to Google.com, you should see the newly redesigned Google.com (I tried this on both Firefox 3.5.5 and Google Chrome 3.0.195.33)

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It looks awesomely clean and I love it.

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YouTube rolling out HD videos in 1080p full resolution

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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YouTube  announced the 1080p player last week  and said it would roll out support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution soon. Today, I’ve found and watched my first 1080p YouTube video and it’s totally amazing!

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Some of them can only be accessed by adding (appending) &fmt=37 at the end of the URL like this one below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuWdWZ9zCU4&fmt=37

That’s cool huh?

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I Have 10 Google Wave Invites. Want one?

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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I have 10 Google Wave invites to give out. If you want an invite, leave a comment below and express why you need it.

First-come, first-served.

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Quick Post: Google now offering storage as low as $0.25/GB

Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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If you are like me who receive a lot of emails and uploads photos at Picasa, then additional storage is just a must.  We are in luck! Google is now offering extra storage for as low as $0.25 per gigabyte. If you’ll ask me, I think that’s reasonably cheap.

Here’s Google’s price list.
20 GB ($5.00 USD per year)*
80 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
200 GB ($50.00 USD per year)
400 GB ($100.00 USD per year)
1 TB ($256.00 USD per year)
2 TB ($512.00 USD per year)
4 TB ($1,024.00 USD per year)
8 TB ($2,048.00 USD per year)
16 TB ($4,096.00 USD per year)  Read more... (120 words, 1 image, estimated 29 secs reading time)

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