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The Digital Iron Curtain: Is Iran About to Crash the Global AI Boom?

 For decades, the "Middle East crisis" was a headline about crude oil, tankers, and the price at the pump. But as of March 2026, the stakes have shifted from the engine to the motherboard. While the world watches drone strikes over Isfahan and naval skirmishes in the Persian Gulf, a more quiet, more lethal war is being fought over the very building blocks of the 21st century: semiconductors. The "Digital Iron Curtain" is falling, and it isn't just dividing East and West—it’s threatening to starve the global AI revolution of its most basic needs. The Helium Hostage: Why the Strait of Hormuz is the New Silicon Valley We’ve long been told that the South China Sea is the "front line" of the chip war because of Taiwan’s dominance in fabrication. But the ongoing U.S.-Israel war with Iran has revealed a terrifying bottleneck: The Middle East is the lungs of the semiconductor industry. To make the world’s most advanced 3nm chips, you don’t just need engineers;...

How to delete a post on someone else's Facebook Timeline

Now that you have begun to cleanup your Timeline and make sure it is ready for public viewing, this is if you have just got Timeline as your new profile. If you have had Timeline for sometime and have been busy deleting posts and adjusting your Timeline. You might now want to check what you have posted on other people's profiles that is now showing up on your friends' Timelines. This will include all your posts, pics, images and videos. There is an option for you to quickly find all your posts and see all your posts that you have posted on other people's wall that is now showing up on their Timelines. The instructions below will help you on, how to delete a post on someone else's Facebook Timeline . How to remove or delete your posts from other people's Timelines. (Including likes, events and other posts) 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on your name to bring up your Timeline 3. Click on activity log 4. Click on 'All' found on the top right-hand corner 5. Choo...

Facebook Timeline: Control who can view your Timeline and make it private

If you are worried that your new FB profile, now known as Timeline is visible to everyone under the 'Public' settings on Facebook, you can change that now. There is a Global setting reserved for who can view your Facebook Timeline and there are three options available. You can choose between 'Everyone', 'Friends' and Friends of friends'. The implications of this setting would be you can set your Facebook Timeline to private and ensure that only your FB friends are able to view your Timeline. If you do not want everyone who visits your profile to view your Timeline you can limit the audience of your Timeline.  How to adjust your Facebook Timeline visibility settings 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on the down arrow next to the home button 3. Choose privacy settings 4. Beside 'how you connect' click on 'Edit Settings' 5. Beside 'who can look up your Timeline by name or contact info' click on 'everyone' 6. Now you can choose betwee...

Why is Google redirecting my Blogger Blog to country specific URLs

Launched first in India if you are a blogger with a blogspot address, visitors to your blog will now be redirected to a .in URL. So if you have a blog with abc.blogspot.com, users accessing your blog will now see abc.blogspot.in. This comes close on the heals of Twitter adding the ability to censor Tweets that might not comply with local law in certain countries . Especially in India Facebook, Twitter and Google were pulled up by the Government and have been asked to take down certain objectionable content. This might have caused a backlash of sorts. One of the reactions might be this. In fact Google on their support page have said that blogspot blog across the world will be getting country specific domain names.  How to view a blogspot blog without the country specific URLs (ccTLDs ) Let us say you are visiting abc.blogspot.com, You will now need to use abc.blogspot.com/ncr , NCR stands for 'No Country Redirect'. This way you get to view the original blog without any country s...

Facebook IPO Price: $100b? OMG LOL!

Image source: industryleadersmagazine It is expected by investors that Facebook will be ready to file an Initial Public Offering sometime later this week. Facebook will seek to raise $10 billion and be valued at $100 billion. Making this IPO the hottest and biggest when it comes to companies whose main business is online web services. Once Facebook debuts as a public company it will be ranked alongside the largest companies in the world alongside McDonald's, Amazon and Bank of America. WSJ is reporting that Facebook is almost final in picking Morgan Stanley over Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.  Once this goes through it will make over a 100 millionaires in Silicon valley and make Mark Zuckerberg richer by $20 billion at least on paper. Facebook is the most awaited TECH IPO since Google Inc. Both Google and Facebook depend on advertising for revenue and therefore the fight for online ad dollars is set to get on fire. Although Google's ad revenue last year was five times ...

How to see who has unfriended you on Facebook

Source: Hello-kitty.tumblr If you want to know who has unfriended you on Facebook there is a browser plug-in for that. Known as Unfreind finder this cleaver app goes through your friends list and shows you who has ditched you and gone on with their lives. Without the plug-in the only way to do this is to keep a close eye on all your pals and when your friend count goes down, figure out who is missing. This workaround or shortcut however makes things a little easier. Now not everyone wants to know who unfriends them on Facebook, if there you have found this page it must mean you want to know and keep a track on all those people who decide to leave you and walk away on Facebook. This cleaver app will also let you know if you have been removed or you friend has actually left Facebook and deactivated their account. Unfriend Finder: How does it work It is compatible with FireFox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer To use it on FireFox you will first need to install the greasemonkey...

Control who can see my friends list on Facebook Timeline

Facebook Timeline has a feature that is very similar to the one found on LinkedIn. You can adjust your friends list privacy settings and decide who gets to see your list of friends. There are many reasons you might want to do this on Facebook . Many teens have been leaving Facebook and heading to Twitter citing privacy concerns. Now that their parents, uncles, aunts and grandparents have been sending them friend requests. Their space has slowing been slipping away online. Not to worry, the new Timeline does have some good to it and one of them is the ability to hide your friends list from certain people, or make it public and available to everyone or just visible to your friends. You can also make it visible to once certain lists you have like your business list or close friends list, you get to decide and choose. How to Control who can see my friends list on Facebook Timeline and adjust full friends list privacy settings 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on your name to bring up your new...

Tennis player screams 'God' - thunder erupts

This video is currently doing the rounds on Reddit. It's an old video and posted way back in 2007 - you're saying this is so yesterday and yes it is. There is just problem however there was no Reddit and Redditors to comment on it way back then. Reddit is now and this video has found a place and a voice in 2012. Reddit is filled with people who talk religion and therefore this video now makes a lot of sense. Redditors and and their large community of atheists. Whatever be the context this video can be funny or ironic depending on how you look at it. Seguso swears God and thunder erupts in the heavens, he actually stops and looks at the skies. a must watch. An original post by Sociolatte

How to compare the size of SmartPhones before you buy

There is a wide range of SmartPhones available today for you in the market. Each phone comes with its unique screen-size and features. Some phones have bigger and wider screens and different resolutions. Some are clearer that the other. There are a whole lot of phones out there. So how do you check the actual size of each phone before going to a retail store and holding it in your hands. Versusio is a web app that helps you do just that. Once you compare once phone against the other you might still want to get a realistic feel of how big the phone would actually be if you were holding it in your hands.  There is a link called 'Show original size', clicking this link will put an American express credit card in between both phones and you can adjust till you get the real-life size. In addition to giving you a look and feel of the phone size the web app also gives you the pro and cons of each smartphone. So you can compare the Samsung Galaxy Note against the iPhone 4S 64GB or LG O...

Liveshare: How does it work

There are many destinations on the web for you to upload your photos and share with family and friends. You have Picasa, Flickr and even Facebook, these sites allow you to upload your photos and then share it with family friends or specific people. Liveshare does all this for you with one big difference, it allows real-time sharing. This means you can create a stream and invite your friends to join-in, in that stream. Let's say you are your pals are on vacation and  all of you, can together keep uploading photos or videos to that stream. The photos or videos show up real-time and is available for all to see. So there is one photo or video stream but many contributors. These stream can either be public or private. So while all of you'll are uploading photos or videos people in that stream can check it all out at once, like one big giant album. There is no need to go to each friends profile (Think Facebook) to check out their personal collection of the holiday photos. You can cre...

Twitter to withhold Tweets if requested by a country

Twitter has given itself flexibility to withhold and censor Tweets if requested by a particular country. The micro-blogging service made this announcement as they expand into many more countries. Twitter is becoming important and more and more governments are wanting to have a say in the micro-blogging service. There are also country specific rules that might apply to the service in various countries. Which means they will need to comply. Till now if a Tweet had to be removed it was done globally. Now Twitter will withhold the that Tweet within a geographical area and it will still be available elsewhere in the world. This is good as it would still be legal in other countries. This flexibility is a good thing and ensure that tweets don't disappear globally. Which also means for those who are Techie, a workaround is always possible. Good for Twitter for coming up with something so brilliant. There are also others who are criticizing this move by Twitter saying that it is loosing its...

Bitcasa promises infinite storage on your Desktop for $10/month

Bitcasa  is promising unlimited storage on your Desktop. The service is still new and if you do not have an invite, you will need to add your mail ID and wait for an invite. It is all the talk of the town because Bitcasa is promising infinite storage capacity on your desktop. What this means is that once you install the desktop-app, you can create a folder and add all your files to this folder. This is the Bitcasa folder and you can store  movies, music, photo albums in this folder it all gets uploaded to the cloud  and no memory is used on your Hard-drive. The added advantage of sharing your files easily with your friends and family. Once you share the link they can watch that movie, listen to music or view your photo albums without having to download the files.  Bitcasa: How does it work 1. Once you sign-up for the service you can then download the app and use it as another folder available on your computer 2. You can add all your files to this folder - music, movies, pics, software ...

Google Doodle for the Republic Day of India

Jan 26, is celebrated in India as Republic Day - the day when India got its constitution. 2012 marks the country's 63 Republic Day. The constitution came into force replacing the Government of India act of 1935. It is also one of the three national holidays in India. Each state in India celebrates the anniversary in varying forms for in the capital Delhi, the main parade takes place in front of the president. A Day that is celebrated all over India. Google has a new Doodle out for Jan 26 and it it known as 'Republic Day of India'. The doodle is not animated but an image that when clicked leads to more general information of Republic day. The image however is interesting as it has three elephants dancing along in a parade with happy kids sitting on top, with a  umbrella found on top of elephants. The umbrellas have the colors of the Indian national flag. Google Doodles are special Google Logos created to mark specific and special events and birthdays that happen around the W...

Facebook Timeline Guide

Image Credit: Facebook Facebook launched Timeline last year with the option for users to try it out, test it for 7 days before it goes live on their profiles. Over the next week whether you are ready or not it is coming to you, once you see the announcement on top of your homepage, you will have 7 days to check it out and delete or remove or add stories to your Timeline. This is going to take many uses by surprise and the rush is going to be on as to how on earth do you get it ready before friends can see your Timeline. We have a few guides to help you get started and we have them listed below. If you require further guides and lists do let us know in the comment section below. 1. How to delete old posts on Facebook Timeline 2. How to limit the audience of past posts on your Timeline 3. How to upload videos  to your Timeline 4. How to add apps to your Timeline  5. How to get Facebook Timeline right now 6. Difference between delete and hide post on Timeline 7. How to set your full f...

Google+ hangouts: Best for free professional, personal and group online meetings and video conferences

Source: Google+ Google+ hangouts are turning out to be the best service online for you to have your video chat and online meetings. It is totally free and all you need to have is a Google+ account. You can invite any number of people to the hangouts, but once the number reaches 10, others will be told that the hangout is now full. The good thing about using Google+ hangouts for professional purposes is because they have recently added document sharing and screen  sharing. Known as Google+ hangouts with extras. They also have a really wide-screen. You can read more about it at the company post  here . To know more about how Google+ hangouts work you can read more at our  Google+ hangouts guide . So the next time you want to conduct your business meeting for free online, or simply want to hangout with friends and video chat for free, Google+ hangouts is the coolest place.  How to use Google+ hangouts with extras Once you start your Google+ hangout you should see a link that appears at th...

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joins Twitter

Source: Twitter Amid all the scares happening in India with ministers threatening popular social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google with legal actions if they do not censor content that could hurt religious sentiments. The Prime Minister of India has joined Twitter. The reason given by his office being that he wants to reach out to younger people and especially the online generation. The work done by him and his office has been substantial and he would like to use Twitter to bring it to the notice of young Indians. The first three Tweets from his office has to be with the 'National Bravery Awards' and a picture of him sitting with the young bravehearts. The Prime Minister has been known to keep his silence on many a burning issue but we hope he will be able to open up more using the micro-blogging's 140 characters at a time.  The Prime Minister's Twitter handle is @PMO which stands for prime minister's office. Indians on Twitter however have not lost an o...

Don't Be Evil Bookmarklet: How does it work

When Google launched ' Search Plus Your world ' (SPYW), users were told that this new feature will help them get better results when they search Google. There were other things that users were not told, results from Twitter, Facebook and many other sites were being omitted. The reason Google gave was that Twitter and Facebook did not allow the search engine access to information, as much as it needed to. You therefore get a whole lot of Google+ profiles in your search. Most of these profiles are not even updated regularly and the same person's Twitter profile would actually be much relevant, but Google choose to ignore it. They would like to have people forcefully sign-up for a Google+ Profile. Don't be evil: Is the philosophy Google built their business on. Show results keeping the user in mind and not the company. So no one results gets precedence over the other. With SPYW this does not seem to apply at all. A few engineers from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have deci...

YipIt: How does it work

YipIt the new start-up is slowly earning a name for itself. YipIt operates in the daily deals space, which features giants like Groupon. YipIt however does not offer any daily deals of its own, this is an aggregation service and bring to you everyday the best deals available for you locally, based on your interests. Daily deal and coupon sites are springing-up everywhere. There seems to be no end of them, you find a new one in every city you visit. Now most of them offer only one or two deals everyday. Most of these deals might not even suit your fancy. Enter Yipit. YitIt how does it work? Based on your city YipIt will aggregate all the deals available from over 805 services and serve you only the best based on your predefined likes and interests. The service is currently email based and there is an iPhone App as well. The service is currently available in the US and Canada and you would need to check to see if your city is available.  The purpose of YipIt is to bring to you the best ...

What is LOIC and how does it work

With the Feds shutting down popular locker storage site Megaupload, hacktivist group Anonymous quickly sprung into action to take revenge. They targeted the FBI and Department of Justice websites including Universal music, Warner music and other popular websites. Once they targeted these websites with DDoS  attacks. A DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks works on the logic that if enough number of hits go to a popular website it will shut down under its own weight. So when a DDoS attack is on, a particular websites will get so many hits that it begins to crumble becoming slow and unresponsive.  To do this Anonymous uses a popular javascript based program developed by 4chan affiliated hackers called LOIC ( Low Orbit Ion Cannon). Group members used this program as well as directing other internet users who support their cause to download and use the program. So once downloaded on a users computer the program will keep sending requests to a particular website and when thousands o...

Poe Toaster - Nevermore

A tradition started as far back as the 1940's has now come to an end. The famed toaster would arrive on the night on January 19 - the birth-date of Edgar Allen  Poe and leave 3 red roses and a half empty bottle of cognac. he would be dressed on a black frock, black wide-rimmed hat and a white scarf. This has been happening at least from the 1940's and fans of the tradition would arrive to watch the spectacle. Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome said that die-hard fans waited hours past the arrival time of the toaster but he failed to show, thus ending a long tradition. Jerome also said that one tradition might have does but a new one might have started. With fans coming to the graveside monument to read tributes. The Grave is located at Baltimore's Westminster Hall and his wife, cousin and object of his literary ardor, Virginia, is placed near him as well. An original post by Sociolatte

US Gov shatters Megaupload, Anonymous strikes back takes down FBI and DOJ sites

In what is being described as one of the largest attacks by the Hacktivist group collectively know as Anonymous, Their DDoS (Distributed Denial of service) attacks on Government websites and sites related to the Music and Movie industries are being taken down one by one. This comes soon after it was reported that popular file storage site megaupload.com was taken down by the US government and it's top bosses have been arrested. The Justice Department said in a statement said that Kim Dotcom, 37, and three other employees were arrested on  Thursday in New Zealand at the request of U.S. officials. The site and it's owners have been accused of making $175 million while causing a loss of above half a billion dollars in copyright infringement. The site was among the top 20 internet sites and was being used to store large files with the ability for other users to download it. The more downloads the more points an uploaded got, this way a lot of TV material and movies were being dist...

Elton John vs. Madonna

Image Credit: inquisitr After the Golden Globes 2012 the world was left with words from Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish. Both of them criticized Madonna. This spat has been going on for some time now. In fact from 2004. Elton John had said, 'Madonna winning the award - no f---ing chance. when she did win the award for best original song. Elton John did not look too pleased. In fact David Furnish took to his Facebook page to post this as his status update. "Madonna. Best song???? F**k off!!!" it did not stop there as he continued - "Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit. Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in it's [sic] narcissism. And her criticism of Gaga shows how desperate she really is." Check the video out below for more.  An original post by Sociolatte

Facebook Timeline: How to find and add Apps

Facebook has launched 60 new apps to be made use of your Facebook Timeline. Up until now users were able to share what they were reading or the music their were listening to. This new release now changes everything. Users can now share using apps from  from  Foodspotting ,  Foodily ,  Ticketmaster ,  Pinterest ,  Rotten Tomatoes ,  Pose ,  Kobo ,  Gogobot ,  TripAdvisor , and others. So if you love to cook you can share using Foodily, if you like to travel you can use TripAdvisor to share your travels and other travel related info. No matter what your interests are there is an app for you. Whether your like snowboarding, gardening, hiking knitting, collecting stamps. There will eventually be an app available for you. How to add apps to your Timeline 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on this link to see a list of Apps you can install and use on your Facebook Timeline. If you want to full URl here it is  http://www.facebook.com/about/timeline/apps 3. Once you find an app you would like to a...

Google+: How to generate internet memes

An example provided by Google+ Google+ will be rolling out a new feature in their photo sharing tool. The ability to add a ordinary photo and then using their meme generator add some text. The font will be the same that most memes use and therefore will have the look and feel of any meme that has been generated over the internet. Once you create your photo meme you can then send it to all your pals and maybe you will be the next person responsible for generating that raging meme that sweeps across the internet.  Unlike the popular meme generator site that Reddit uses make use of. Google+ does not provide any photo templates, which means you will have to get your own photos and templates which are anyway available on the internet. The meme generator tool however will help you add text and it will look like any other popular meme found online. How to create a meme using Google+ 1. Sign-in to Google+ 2. Access the photo you want to convert into an internet meme 3. Drag and drop the photo...

Video: Lady Gaga joins Google+

Mama Monster has taken her time coming to Google+. The good news though is that she has landed. Now that mama monster has come, will her little monsters also arrive. After all it is her little monsters (her followers) who made her reach the top-spot on Twitter with over 18 million followers. She has over 46 million Facebook likes and her YouTube channel has over 2 billion views. Impressive numbers on Google+ though she has now been added to only a little over 18 thousand circles. Compare that to Google+'s most followed users. Britney Spears has been added to over 1 million circles on Google+. Google+ has been know to have a lot of Tech people and therefore growth has been slow among teens and young adults. With stars like Lady Gaga coming. Things are set to change, after all it was celebrities who drove up the popularity of other social networks. Starting from earlier social networks like 'MySpace'. Myspace has as of now been lost in Cyber Space but the batter between Faceb...

Google Adsense Chrome Extension

This new Chrome Extension lets Adsense publishers check their earnings right from their Chrome browser. Without having to sing-out and sing-in again with your Adsense account. For security reasons many publishers do not use their primary Gmail ID as their Adsense account. This extension comes in handy in that sense, because once it is installed you can keep doing your work using whichever email ID you use. While working if you feel you would like to check how much you have earned in your Adsense account. You can just click on the extension's icon in Google chrome and a summary of you Adsense earnings pop out. What is the summary displayed by Adsense Summary Toolbar by Google. 1. A summary of how much you have earned so far during the day 2. How much you earned yesterday 3. How much you earned the last month 4. How much you have earned this month so far 5. You top custom channels 6. Your top URL channels 7. Lifetime revenue How to install Adsense publisher Toolbar. 1. Please follow ...

How to use Facebook to generate revenue and make money

There are many ways too use Facebook to generate revenue. This post will especially be directed to bloggers and site owners and offer a few helpful hints on how to make money using Facebook. Most blog owners and website owners are ad supported. which means the more number of page-views you have the more money you are able to make. The most popular ad platform being Google's AdSense. The more number of people who visit your blog or site means the more probability of people clicking your ads you and making money. There is no point of using AdSense and other ad platforms if you do not have enough traffic to actually benefit from all this. exposure is the key and the more number of people visiting your site means the larger number of clicks you are able to generate. How to generate traffic to your ad-supported site. This will benefit you if you have Google keywords generating high click fees.  1. Set up a Facebook page for your site or blog 2. use the advertising option on Facebook to ...

Facebook Listen with friends: How does it work

Facebook has launched a new feature using its open graph initiative, called 'Listen with', allowing all Facebook users to listen to music with their friends. This is a real-time feature and if when your on your Timeline and you see a music icon next to a friend's name in the chat sidebar. You can click on that icon and listen to music with your friends. You can also chat about the song as it's playing. This is a brand new feature and gives people connected to each other to listen to music together and enjoy the song at the same time.  How to listen to music together with your friends on Facebook? 1. Login to Facebook 2. Look for the music icon next to your friends name in the Chat Sidebar.  3. Hover over their name in the chat sidebar or the story appearing in ticker Click the Listen With (Friend's Name) button that appears beside their name with the speaker icon If you haven't already opened the same music provider as your friend, click the Open button on the n...

Google results: how to add authorship to your content

By now you are used to seeing the faces of people on Google search results. The reason you are seeing this is because this is the Author's face and Google has been smart enough to attribute the authorship rights to that person. Now there are various way to get this done for yourself but in this post we are going to talk about a simple way to do this, which would require no programming knowledge at all. You do not need to follow any code and is especially good for people who cannot be bothered with adding code to their site. You can add authorship to material you write on the web using Google+. With this option you will be able to get your content displayed as an author of authority on Google search results. This is because Google have launched 'Search Plus Your World' which does one thing that no blog or website owner can ignore. It displays results from people who are recognized as Authors on Google+. This way you can also get more people to add you to their circles.  How ...

Google Search Plus Your World: How does it work

Google has released a new product that it has begun rolling out to all users. If you do not have it already you certainly will over the next few days. To explain this new concept briefly it would be: Google has now integrated Google+ much more deeply in its search results. So when you now perform your regular search on Google. You will be shown results from Google+ and people you are connected to. So when you search for say images of elephants. You will be surprised to see pictures of elephants either which you or your friends have shared on the web. Especially shared on Google+ and Picasa. This means a lot of the recommended search results from Google will have a personal touch to it. This personal touch is not theirs but yours. People you are connected to on Google+ will become a part of your search results. So when you search, results will incorporate pages, post, images and videos shared by people you already know. This is 'Search Plus Your world. In addition when you search fo...

Zooshia: Create your own widget using your YouTube, Facebook and Twitter feeds

Zooshia is a web app that lets you create your won widget. If you are a website or blog owner you know that each social site has its own feed and if you want to share your Facebook feed from with your profile or Facebook page on you site. You will need to download the Facebook widget to get it to show and run on your site. The same thing would apply to Twitter and YouTube. With Zooshia you can add up to 10 different feeds from your Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts. The service does not support other social sites and you will need to be content with these three. So you can combine up to 10 different feeds from these services and display all of them in one widget. The widget you create is not static and so if you have a large feed and a lot of conversation going on the widget keeps moving. The advantage of this is that people like widgets and a widget which keep updating attracts more eyeballs. The widget once created has a neat look and can be further formatted if you have a littl...

Rome2Rio: Travel search engine helps you discover how to get to anywhere from anywhere

Now this is one fantastic web app and for more than one reasons. With Rome2Rio you can discovery how to get from one place to another anywhere on the Globe. You can search for how to get from New York, US to Delhi India. You will be given all the various routs you can use including how to  get from the train station to the airport. Once you land how to get transport to the nearest bus or train station. How much time your entire journey is going to take and all available flights. This does not have to be used for international travel only. you can use the app for domestic and local travel as well. It has fantastic Google Maps integration and local knowledge of travel options available can be pretty awesome.  In addition to travel details which include flights, train and bus travel. The site offers some amazing eye-opening prices on your travel. By choosing when to fly and checking on the prices you get to see a comparison on the total amount you are going to spend. You can then decide w...

Extract images from Word, Excel, PowerPoint or eBooks

There are a lot of apps out there that help you to extract images from Office documents and eBooks. This free to download and use app, lets you extract images from all Office Docs, eBooks and now Apple iWorks. There are many reasons why you might want to save images you find interesting on documents that you download from the web. Some of them are stunning and some have Tech imagery that you might want to study later. This freeware App is useful as it is able to extract images in a few simple steps and save it to your computer/hard drive. The images are stored in their  original formats and hence no loss of picture quality. Trying to extract images from Office documents can be laborious and might result in the loss of picture quality. Hence this app - Office Image Extraction Wizard supports over 40 common file formats and offers you the choice of storing the extracted images into a folder you specify. Some of the formats supports apart from Word, Excel and PowerPoint are Apple iworks (...

How to create a screencast online with Screencast-O-Matic

Web App Screencast-O-Matic is a Java based program that lets you capture video of your screen easily. Since it is a web based app there is nothing to download and you don't need to sign-up for an account. Simple access the app on the web and click on 'Start Recording' wait for 1.2.3 and you're good to go. This is one app that is showing a lot of promise and is very easy to use. Once you start recording you can move the recording windows around you screen and continue recording. Screencast-O-matic: How does it work? 1. Access the site on the web 2. Click on 'Start Recording' 3. Once the window opens you will need to adjust the volume of the mic you will be using for the recording. 4. Click the red button to start and once your finished click done. 5. You can now save your file to Screencast-O-Matic, upload to YouTube or save a copy on your local system. You can also choose to have it saved in HD, and formats available are MP4, Windows Media, Flash and animated im...

Google launches Good to know - helps you stay safe online

Google has launched a new stand alone website and it's called 'Good to know'. This website has to do with stuff that you most definitely need to be aware of. It has 4 main sections  1. Stay safe online: Has to do with information about malware and phishing sites and what it is and how they operate. What are the best practices to be used when logging on to the internet from a public computer, family safety and safe networks. Filled with little tips and tricks for you to use to be safe online. It also has a section for Mobile Computing.4 2. Your data on the web: First of there is a huge section called the Jargon Buster, this is something that will help you understand all the jargon that usually comes along with topics like this. So if you wondering what Cookies are or what on earth is an IP address or what do websites mean when they say accounts. This is a section you might want to read and understand. 3. Your Data on Google: has to do with how Google handles your data and...

Create a Screencast online

There are many screen recording software programs that you can download to your system to make a video by recording stuff that is going on, on your PC screen. If however you do not want the hassel of downloading programs and paying for it but want something that is fast and easy and does not require registration then this post is for you. Many internet uses would like to create simple screencasts that can be shared easily on video sites like YouTube. Maybe even create a small screencast as a school project or something to be sown to friends. There are a number of free screencast web apps that are internet based that allow you to record your video and broadcast to YouTube or Facebook directly. Another advantage with a free web app like this is that it would usually be written in Java and will be able to support all browsers and platforms.  1. Screencast-o-matic: This is a free app that lets you start your recording as soon as you press the 'Start Recording' button. Once you'...

Pinterest: How does it work

This is the hot new social network on the web, which everyone is talking about these days. It has been in the news for a lot of good reasons and the main one being its phenomenal growth. This social network builds on the fact that people like to collect stuff online converting everyone with internet access into online curators. Breaking down this a little further is Pinterest - which allows you to create a virtual pinboard based on just about any conceivable topic one can imagine. Please go through our small Guide we have put together below.  1. What is Pinterest? A place for you to create a board based on images collected from the internet and then pin it up. ONce you create a Pinboard, you can then share it with the public and people who find your content interesting can then follow you. People use Pinterest to collect and share all sort of things. From DJ Equipment to interesting recipes to wedding ring collections, you name it you can now find it on Pinterest. 2. What is a person w...