February 6, 2012

Copy a File’s Path to the Clipboard without any Registry Hacks!

If you ever wanted to copy the full path of any file or folder to the clipboard but without installing any third-party utilities or making any changes to your Windows registry, here’s a tip for you.

Copy the File’s Location to the Clipboard
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the file or folder whose path you want [...]

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Copy a File’s Path to the Clipboard without any Registry Hacks!

Tip: Squeeze Some More Apps in the iPad Dock

The iPad, like the iPhone and the iPod Touch, has a dock at the bottom of the screen where you can “stick” icons of your favorite apps so that they remain accessible from all the other Home screens.
There’s however one major difference between the iPad dock and that of your iPhone or the iPod Touch.

Add [...]

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A Better Way to Embed Twitter Lists in Webpages

Lists are one of the most interesting features of Twitter as they let you follow updates from a group of people, or multiple websites, without you having to add them individually to your Twitter account.
For instance, you can follow the Tech Brands list to get updates from all the popular tech websites at one place. [...]

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Dummies Guide to Creating Facebook Pages

Facebook has released a step-by-step guide that has everything you need to know to create a Facebook Page for your website, your business or anything else that you own or represent*.
The guide will mostly appeal to newbies who have never created a Facebook Page before but there’s one tip in the guide that is [...]

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Google Looks To Hire "Social" Chief

Google’s track record in terms of social media is not pretty.  Consider the facts: Orkut never caught on in the U.S., Lively was killed after about six months, and so far, Buzz hasn’t done much besides make people freak out.  Still, Google’s reportedly forging ahead by looking to hire a “Head of Social.”
Liz Gannes obtained [...]

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Agency Marks 10 Years Fighting Cybercrime

The Internet Crime Complaint Center is marking its 10-year anniversary of fighting cybercrime.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) was established in May 2000 as a partnership between the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Since its launch IC3 has received more than 1.5 million complaints of cybercrime.

“This year marks [...]

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Is Deleting Your Facebook Account Really a Good Idea?

Since Facebook announced its plans to take over the web, there has been a lot of talk about privacy concerns, and about deletion of Facebook profiles. There is also concern about the lack of openness in Facebook’s Open Graph initiative. Others are just bored with the social network. Whatever the reasons, an increasing number of [...]

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Accept Fan Breaks Twitter

All hell broke lose today when a fan of the 80s metal band Accept (sometimes considered the poor man’s AC/DC) tweeted “Accept pwnz”. A bug in Twitter made user @pwnz his follower.
So the story goes, and the bug that let people steal followers was born.

Twitter posted to its status blog:
We identified and resolved a bug [...]

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Canadian Internet Usage Climbs

The majority (80%) of Canadians, or 21.7 million people, used the Internet for personal reasons in 2009, up from 73 percent in 2007, according to a new survey by Statistics Canada.
Rates of Internet use increased in every province during this two-year period. The largest relative increase in Internet users occurred in New Brunswick and Newfoundland [...]

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Facebook Location Features to Involve Places Tab?

Reports of Facebook launching location features have been circulating for quite some time. Such features were widely expected to be launched at the company’s F8 developer conference last month, but while Facebook did make some pretty big announcements, location features were not among them.
Last week, AdAge reported that such features will come as early as [...]

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Obama Slams the iPad, iPod, XBox and Playstation

Does President Obama realize that the iPod, Xbox and Playstation are supposed to be distractions, diversions and a form of entertainment? Apparently not. As far as I can tell they aren’t supposed to be “tools of empowerment”, as Obama laments!
In a speech to the graduating class today at Hampton University in Virginia Obama said this:

“You’re coming [...]

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Google Launches New Features for Google Reader

Google announced some changes it has been making to Google Reader over the past month. These include support for HTML5 HTML5 <video> and <audio> tags. This is helpful for sharing content with friends using mobile devices.
Another new feature is the "not interested" option for Google Reader’s recommended items. This lets you hide these items [...]

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Google @ Intel ISEF 2010

On Monday, several thousand high school students will descend on San Jose for this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). A project of the Society for Science & the Public, Intel ISEF brings together more than 1,500 high school students from over 50 countries to showcase and discuss their research and compete for [...]

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This week in search 5/7/10

This week was a big one for search. We announced a number of new enhancements:
A new look for Google
By now, you’ve probably noticed Google has a fresh look and feel. This week, we announced a new contextually relevant left-hand panel on the search results page that brings together all of the most relevant search tools [...]

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Google Apps highlights – 5/7/2010

We’ve been busy over the last few weeks with improvements to make Google Apps more useful, whether you use Google Apps at work, at school or at home.
Improvements to comments in Buzz
We’ve been making continuous improvements to Buzz, including a few changes to comments over recent weeks. We added new options so you can [...]

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