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Lately, Google has been doing some pretty massive changes that may seem unprecedented in its history. At least I have never observed them on such a scale. I’m sure many of you who own websites or blogs would agree that Google is extremely unpredictable and volatile, these days.

In the last 6 months, we have had some massive Panda updates, and last month, Google deindexed a number of blog networks which provide backlinking services, most noticeably BuildMyRank (that was forced to close down). Google has also an ongoing “Over Optimization” penalty which will penalize sites for overdoing SEO without enough keyword diversity. To top it off, Google sent out almost a millions notices of “Unnatural Links Detected” in people’s Google Webmaster Tools accounts  in February alone (and continues to do so). Read the rest of this entry »

How to Automatically Summarize an Office 2007 Document

Sometimes when writing reports, you may need to summarize it, especially if it is a long one. But that may be quite difficult to accomplish if there are a lot of different types of information contained within it. If you are using Word 2007, there is a feature to summarize documents, called the Auto Summarize feature. This is a useful feature that gives a score to each sentence in your Word document. You can use the sentences with highest score to write the summary for your document. And, if you don’t want to do even that, you still can use the Auto Summarize function. Read the rest of this entry »

Mozilla’s Firefox has been arguably the best web browser for the last couple of years and has outperformed other popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari consistently. What makes Firefox better is its simple architecture, well thought out functionality and its speed. But even Firefox can be made faster by tweaking its settings a little, and here we take a look at how it is done. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m sure you would have heard about SOPA by now, but if not, it stands for Stop Online Piracy Act, and is a recent bill tabled in the US House of Representatives on October 26th, 2011.  Although SOPA at the surface seems to be for a good cause, in that its objective is to fight content piracy, yet if you look closer, it is a dangerous piece of legislation that if passed, will have a lot of potential to disrupt the Web as a whole. Read the rest of this entry »

In many cases today, the need to sync and connect a mobile device that has information like calendar, contacts, etc to a PC has become a necessity, and you can actually do it quite easily if you know how. Let’s take a quick look at this feature now. Read the rest of this entry »

Android operating system for mobile phones has made phones better and more comfortable to use, but a very large part of that is down to the apps. If you visit the Android market, you can grasp how many varieties of applications are available.

You too, can create an application if you know how to do it. To create your own application, you will need to install Android Software Development Kit (SDK) which works in combination with Eclipse. Don’t think you need the Android SDK? Think again. You would need to use and get familiar with the SDK, if you want to jailbreak/root your Android phone at some point, for example. Read the rest of this entry »