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Monday, February 14, 2011

Qwiki - A wiki that is better than Wikipedia?

10:55 PM nobody No comments

If you think Wikipedia is too long winded, why not try Qwiki, as it offers a more interactive and simpler explanation of a topic that you want to understand.

All you need to do is to type in the topic that you want to know, for instance, "Gorilla" and an interactive player will explain gorilla to you interactively (voice, image, subtitle). You can zoom into the images by clicking on them and the player will pause automatically, allowing you to look more detail into the images.

After that, you can share it on Facebook, tweet about it and also embed it on your website/blog. And if you think that the information is insufficient, just click on Wikipedia, Google, Fotopedia or Youtube (on the left side of the page after the explanation ends) for more information. Clicking on them search the topics you intended to know on the respective database/search engine.

For a start, play with Qwiki with this search - Gorilla (Click here)

Tips- Gmail: Desktop Notifications.

10:42 PM nobody No comments

Now you can have desktop notifications when you receive new emails in your Gmail.

Just sign in your Gmail --> Click "Settings" on the top right corner of your Gmail --> At the "General" tab, scroll down until you see "Desktop Notifications" (Refer to the image below) --> Select "New mail notifications on"

Have you missed the Google Dictionary function on all Google products?

7:04 PM nobody No comments

As a reminder, Google's Gmail, Blogger and Docs have word spell checker and correction in its services.

Try it now if you have not known about it!

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Self-help: Bad sound quality in iTunes?

8:07 PM nobody No comments

If your music sounds fine in Windows Media Player but sounds bad in iTunes, here's how you can tweak the settings.

Steps:

1) Open up Apple QuickTime (NOT iTunes).------------------------------------------------------>
2) Click "Edit" --> "Preferences" --> "QuickTime Preferences"
3) Then select the "Audio" tab above.
4) Then look out for "Safe mode (waveOut only)". Select that setting.
5) Click "Apply". (The sound quality should improve by now.)

Khan get enough of Wikipedia? Now there's Khan Academy.

9:37 PM nobody No comments

The Khan Academy.org

is a not-for-profit educational organization created and sustained by Salman Khan. With the stated mission "of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the Academy supplies a free online collection of more than 2,000 videos on mathematics, science, history, and economics.

As of September 2010, Google announced they would be providing the Khan Academy with $2 million to support the creation of more courses and to enable the Khan Academy to translate their core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages, as part of their Project 10^100.

Congratulations for winning Google's Project 10^100

Khan Academy's official website

[SOLVED] Solve IE 9 Crash. IE9 Crash Solved.

3:33 AM nobody No comments

I tried Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9) and it crashed. The error was " Internet Explorer has stopped working ".

To solve this, Launch the new IE9 in "Extensions off" mode, Click Start > Type in "iexplore.exe -extoff" {enter}

IE9 will launch in "Extensions Off" mode > Click "Manage add-ons".

Select all the Add-ons (Select one and Press CTRL+A) > Then Select "Disable All".

Now launch IE9 and it should launch correctly.

Now, you can slowly enable all the add-ons one by one, to find out which one was causing the problem.

As a Google Chrome fan, I would say that IE 9 is AWESOME.
You can get it now from http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/

Like this post if this helps. Thank you!

Google Chrome Extensions - Wikipedia Companion - Mini Wiki Browser and Google Dictionary (by Google)

11:00 PM nobody No comments

Remember my post two days ago on Google Search Tips?

Now, with Google Chrome, you can search things on Wikipedia and find definitions on Google Dictionary more easily with Wikipedia Companion - Mini Wiki Browser and Google Dictionary (by Google).

Click:

Not using Google Chrome yet? Download it from Google.

Google Dictionary (by Google) is easy to use as you can search the meaning of words by double clicking on the word.

It appears beside the address bar.

Not using Google Chrome yet? Download it from Google.

Previously on TechKnew :

Google Chrome and Gmail - Drag and Drop

TechKNEW has a new layout & Google News has been updated

Google Chrome - Tips on Omnibox

Google Chrome - Open a New Tab

New Google Labs Feature in Gmail - Message Sneak Peak

Life on LINE

Google Chrome - How to Solve the Aw, Snap Problem!

Try the Google Chrome (BETA)

Google Search Tips

6:01 AM nobody No comments

Today, I am going to share something that I love on Google Search. Here's some tips on using it.

1. To search the definition of a word, type "define: (the word that you want to search)" (without the inverted commas and brackets).

2. To find something within a website. Type "(things that you want to search) site: facebook.com" (without the inverted commas and brackets).

3. To maintain a phrase or to make a word compulsory during a search.

4. To convert measurements.

5. To convert currency.

6. Time. Type "time" then the name of city.

7. Weather. Type ""weather" then the name of city.

8. Calculations.

Lost your instruction manuals? Get it all here.

5:38 AM nobody No comments

From Acer to Zanussi, Diplodocs and Manuals Online have the user guide and instruction manual for almost all your products, including calculators and printers.

Head to

now.

100th Post - How to add Facebook's "Like" button at the end of your blog post

2:30 AM nobody No comments

This is TechKnew's 100th blog post!!

How would you like this button below to appear at the end of your EVERY blog post?

All you need to do is:
1. Go to Design > Edit HTML in Blogger.

2. Tick the Extract Widget Templates.

3. Search for

4. Copy and paste the code below right after the code:

<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:40px;'/>


Titbits:

Google has a new product: Google Music Search (available in the US only, but you can have a look at it at the moment).

Previously on TechKnew :

Google Chrome and Gmail - Drag and Drop

TechKNEW has a new layout & Google News has been updated

Google Chrome - Tips on Omnibox

Google Chrome - Open a New Tab

New Google Labs Feature in Gmail - Message Sneak Peak

Life on LINE

Google Chrome - How to Solve the Aw, Snap Problem!

Tips on Google Docs

6:04 AM nobody No comments

I bet you've heard of Google Docs. This allows you to do your work wherever you are as the document can be accessed anywhere as long as you have internet connection and a Google account. Recently, Google Docs has been updated with several new features.

Several users can edit and read the documents AT THE SAME TIME through Collaboration (by editting the Sharing settings in the picture below).
Documents can be shared and published on blogs and websites (Publish to the Web).

Google Docs support ODT (OpenOffice), CSV, RTF (RichText), PDF, DOCX(which will be converted to DOC for editing) and so on.

In Google Docs' Spreadsheet (a Microsoft Excel look-alike), similar formulae can be used in Docs. This allows flexibility for Microsoft users.

There is a ruler now for the margin. Indents can be added on the ruler by clicking on the ruler.

Equation can be inserted easily.

You can now draw in Google Docs

There is a Word Count tool in Google Docs.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up now at Google Docs.

Titbits (You will like it):

Google's new stable release of Chrome comes with built-in Adobe Flash (Joyce, you should try this.) so now, you don't have to manually download Adobae Flash on your own. With this,
Google created a YouTube Video Game to highlight its new HTML5 feature. To complete the game, you have to answer several questions, which also boasts Google's dominance in internet search.

Previously on TechKnew :

Google Chrome and Gmail - Drag and Drop

TechKNEW has a new layout & Google News has been updated

Google Chrome - Tips on Omnibox

Google Chrome - Open a New Tab

New Google Labs Feature in Gmail - Message Sneak Peak

Life on LINE

Google Chrome - How to Solve the Aw, Snap Problem!

Google Chrome and Gmail - Drag and Drop

3:26 AM nobody No comments

Now (actually it's since a few months ago), adding attachment to Gmail will be easier because you can just drag and drop your files right into your web browser. Try it now at Gmail.com.