20 Best Google Search Tips and Tricks That You'd love to know.

Well, now I’m going to refrain myself from telling you about what others are planning and doing. Instead, I’ll be telling you some useful and cool Google search tips and tricks that will make using google search engine easier for you.

Let’s take a look at the Google search tips and tricks one by one:

Search exact phrases
Use quotes to search an exact phrase.

Search phrases with unknown words
Use an asterisk to indicate the unknown words. Ex: “* is bigger than Earth.”

Search for a particular meaning
Add a hyphen before a word to avoid a particular search term. This comes handy when you search something and it has several meanings. Ex. terminator –movie

Search inside a website
Use a colon after site: and write website’s name to search within the site Ex. drones. site:thesitename.com google

Search definitions and spellings
As the name suggests, define: operator gives you the dictionary definitions and synonyms. Ex: define:bytes

Search news archives as old as mid-1880s
Google News lets you search over 100 years’ of archived news.

Use as a calculator
Google lets you do simple math by simply searching the equation.

Recipe search
If you are willing to search your favorite food, click on “search tools” and you can filter the recipes based on ingredients, calories and cook time.

Intitle search
By adding “intitle:” before the search term, you will get the results that will produce with that particular term in the title of page.

Social tag search
Add symbol “@” before the search term. Ex: @doccytee

Searching trending topics
Add a hashtag before the search term to get the results with trending topics

Food comparison search
Having trouble deciding your dinner order? Take Google’s help. Ex: Type “Pizza vs Burger” to get side-by-side comparisons.

Use Google Images
To search images, or more accurately ever come across a picture that reminds you of some picture and you want to know the source? Try images.google.com and you’ll find the similar images on the web.

Flip a coin
This is one of my favorite Google search tips. Just press the mic icon in Google’s search bar and say these magical words: “flip a coin” or “heads or tails.”

Weather Search
To take a look at the weather predictions of your city, just add “weather” before the city’s name or zipcode. Ex: “weather New Jersey”

Translate with Google
Type “translate language1 to language2” to get the Google translator working instantly for you. Ex: “translate English to French hello”

Check the time
Just enter “time” followed by the name of the region to get the accurate regional time.

Check flight status
Want to check if your flight is right on time? Just enter your flight number in search bar and hit enter to the real-time flight status.

The love quote generator
Want a quick love quote and a little romance? Just press the mic icon located on Google search bar and say “give me a love quote” or “I love you.”

IP address search
Just enter “IP address” in the search bar and look up your IP address instantly.

Bonus: Well, these were some useful Google search tips and trick. There are tons of Google Easter eggs that are you’ll definitely love. Click on the link below to have some fun with Google

Also read: 8 Google Fun Tricks That You’d Love to Know

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PlayStation Network has gone down all over the world

The truth company can not point out a date when the service will return

PlayStation network down universally

Sony (NYSE:SNE) has officially released confirmation that PlayStation Network has gone down all over the world.

PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PS Vita gamers are already aware of the reality of their online capabilities had being cut off down by the unfortunate outage.

The disturbing thing here is that company is not really certain when PlayStation Network will return, sending a bursting panic wave through the Sony gaming world. It is not clear at all what resulted in the gaming servers to shut down; although some hacking group had claimed responsibility.

“We’re aware that some users are having trouble accessing PSN,” tweeted @AskPlayStation. “Thanks for your patience as we investigate.”

The most terrible outage tool place in PlayStation history far back in 2011 when the server’s security was breached forcing the network to go out for 23 days.

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Google Will Now Stream Entire Apps To Your Phone

If you look critically at Google’s search results for some time now, you will notice that they have included information from inside of apps, but then this capacity of Google is enabled with the presence of the app installed or the website of the app on the internet. But now Google has paved another path to this functionality: streaming the entire app to your phone.

STREAMING WILL WORK FOR NINE APPS TO START

Google revealed to the public that it has started testing a feature which has the ability to stream apps to Android phones in the event when someone searches for results from them through Search.

If you you’re searching for hotel bookings, for example (when it gets to Nigeria), a search result from the Jovago app might appear.

And if for example, Jovago doesn’t let you book through its website, Google will now stream the Jovago app, giving you the enablement to tap through it to look through listings and consequently make a booking.

At the moment, Streaming only works with nine apps for now, according to TechCrunch: Hotel Tonight, Weather, Chimani, Gormey, My Horoscope, Visual Anatomy Free, Useful Knots, Daily Horoscope, and New York Subway.

It also only works on phones in the US that are connected to Wi-Fi and running Android Lollipop or higher for the now.

Google has announced that it is putting plans in place to expand the program; it’s an important initiative — Google Search forms a very vital instrument for the web, but the apps, which is on the rise now retain information that you wouldn’t come across elsewhere, haven’t been as open to the visibility of Google users.

This feature is a push in the direction of proffering solution as well as maintaining the global relevance of Google Search as ever.

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Apple’s Programming Language Swift now Open Source

Apple has brought in a fresh new programming language last year that has the purpose of making the coding of an app for iOS or OS X much more convenient to do, and as of now that language is adopting a rotund approach: it’s going open source! Apple is now opening up the language, Swift, through a new website, Swift.org, as well as through GitHub. In the face of this development, developers outside of Apple would now have the enablement to look inside of Swift, give a hand to its development, as well as bring it to new platforms.

SWIFT IS NOW ON LINUX, AND IT COULD COME TO WINDOWS AND ANDROID, TOO

Apple is making that big move now by releasing a version of Swift that can operate Linux. Most presumably, this is targeted at Apple’s enterprise partners, like IBM, who will now have the ability to create the consumer-facing portion of apps in Swift as well as have them talk to Linux servers who speak Swift as well.

Hey, you shouldn’t having the expectation of Apple working well on further ports of Swift itself, but then open sourcing its code brings in the promise that other developers could choose to bring it to Windows and Android, too. Apple has confidently voiced out that it wants Swift to be one of the major contending programming languages of the next 20 years, and if it really this gets woven into the fabrics of reality, having it work with all of the biggest desktop and mobile platforms will be principal . Also it will positively embellish Apple; the larger the population of Swift users, the more people who can code apps for its own devices.

Though Apple being open about anything is a kind of rare, open sourcing developer-facing creations of isn’t quite as strange as that . iOS’s ResearchKit was made open source some time earlier in 2015, and Safari’s browser engine, WebKit, has for a good lump of time been open to developers. Going open source is not really the same as Apple passing Swift off for others to handle.

Very surely, Apple is still going to reserve the lead role to development on it, with its work on the project now being done out in the open. Outside developers will be now have the chance to come in and join Apple, giving shape to the path that Swift embarks on and contribute to the manner in the which it functions and what it can do.

DEVELOPERS STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH APPLE TO GET TO THE APP STORE

While developers are now well allowed to download Swift and take on the task of building things with it from this new website, that version of Swift won’t have the technical effrontery to build apps that go into the App Store. That from the look of things is for the purpose of security and stability.

Developers who choose to be in the App Store will yet have to pay the Apple fee making use of the official version of Swift; that version very likely is behind the open source version, at intervals syncing up with it, likely as new additions become stable. Though GitHub will be in charge of the Swift code, Apple is making move to put a functional developer community on ground through Swift.org.

The site will now host a bug tracking system, an engineering blog, as well as a mailing list. Also provided will be Swift tutorials and instructions educating on the means to contribute to its development. Apple hasn’t really published specific figures on how much uptake Swift has had with developers, thrown in a fogged view of this via citing a few examples — like Yahoo Weather, LinkedIn, and the to-do list app Clear — that have been well been in the practice of incorporating it. Also added to iOS and OS X apps, Swift is also functional as regards tvOS as well as watchOS apps.

The language is purposed to come at a larger pace than what developers previously had to use, Objective-C, while also establishing protections against familiar issues and errors. That flexibility — and Apple’s backing — already seems really sophisticated enough in making Swift a famous language.

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Fun Technologies to Look Out For in 2016

2016 WILL BRING THE FUTURE CLOSER! FUN TECHNOLOGIES TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2016.

2015 was a year of great technological advancement in medicine, agriculture, finance, construction and automobile sectors. With the milestones achieved by the world’s top research facilities 2016 promises to be the year that will bring all inhabitants of the earth closer to the future than we thought possible in the year 2000. For us at Carmudi Nigeria, we would like to share technological advancement in the automobile sector and what to look forward to in 2016.

Google Driverless Cars.

If you come across a car driving around without a driver don’t be alarmed. Every bet is that it’s Google’s driverless car. This car has been tested on the roads and it has the entire important element such as headlights, steering and brakes. The car also has sensors and computers that can be fitted in normal SUVs such as Lexus. It is hoped that this new technology will reduce traffic jams and increase road safety especially in a populated city such as Lagos.

Space Tourism will Hit Mainstream.

We seen people visiting places around the earth for recreation but come 2016 people will be able to visit out of space not for research but for fun. Yes that right. People will be able to spend time outside the earth’s atmosphere for a price.

Right now, you have to be a multi billionaire with about 20-30 million dollars to spare to take a one way trip and chill at the international space station or 200,000 dollars to take a suborbital spaceflight from virgin Galactic. With an increase of willing vacationers and lot of investors it is hoped that in 2016 the cost of space travel will become as low as 1 million dollars per passenger. http://matadornetwork.com/life/24-incredible-new-technologies-youll-see-by-2021/

Car-to-Car Communication.

http://bit.ly/1OWG0XS

Just like driver-driver communication, cars to car communication will become possible and in use starting 2016. This technology allows cars communicate with others around it using software such as Intel’s M2M (Machine-to-Machine).Cars will be able to share data with other cars on the roads. The technology can warn drivers of accidents, figure out alternative routes based on real time information cutting down traffic and increasing safety.

 Financial GPS.

Your car will be able to talk with your bank! BMW has developed a key that functions as a credit card. In 2016 the technology will be available for testing and by 2020, your entire car might become one credit card. Skymeter calls it “Financial GPS.” “With Financial GPS, consumers can get one bill at the end of the month for every car-related cost: their parking, their insurance, their lease, their roads, even full repairs coverage,” said Kamal Hassan, Skymeter CEO, in a Mashable interview. This technology will allow your car automatically pay for parking and fueling of your car controlling the cost of the driver. If you are driving a car on lease, it would save you money on your lease, your insurance, and even your municipal tax bill when you decide not to drive.

Source: http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/13-future-car-technologies-that-will-aid-your-road-trip-in-2020/

Mind Controlled Car Using Brain Sensors.

 http://bit.ly/1NJZr7b

Mind over matter or at least car will reach an advanced stage in 2016. Nankai University researchers have spent two years developing the mind-controlled car, which is powered by brain signals and by 2016 this technology might begin its real time trials. Wearing a brain signal-reading headset of sorts, drivers will be able to control their cars through their thought. They will be able to move the vehicle forward, backwards, unlock and lock it, and come to a full stop by only using their thoughts.

It is our hope that in the near future car lovers will be able to search for these cars on carmudi.com.ng!

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Google Voice Search Is Smarter Now, Can Understand More Complex Questions

If voice-based assistants are to going to be the major means by which interaction takes place with devices now and in the later to come, then Google has just taken further steps in the war between its own voice search functionality and that of competitor mobile assistants in the mould of Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana.

This way, the app has been developed so that it figures the meaning of more natural language as well as more complicated questions.

The company initially brought out voice search in 2008, and then consequently tied that into its Knowledge Graph in 2012, as a solution to users’ questions with candid information regarding persons, places as well as things.

At the beginning, it had the ability to give detailed information on entities like “Barack Obama,” and then consequently had the capacity to answer questions like “How old is Stan Lee?,” Google reveals.

Its wit to provide answer to questions went up additionally after a little interval, as it got the understanding of words in several contexts.

An example here is, if you had asked what ingredients were in a screwdriver, Google would understand you were referring the drink, not the tool.

Now Google has announced its voice assistant is well merged into the Google app with the distinct ability to unravel the meaning of the question you have thrown at it, so you will be able to put more complex questions forward as compared to the past.

So as to get to this, Google is cracking your query into its bits to improve on its understanding of the semantics which pertains to each piece, it announced. What this is all about is that if you ask Google a question in the vein of “Who was the U.S. President when the Angels won the World Series?” it would likely respond, “George Bush.”

This “complex combination” is just among the fresh capacities of of Google, the company says. It can provide answers to more complex queries about a point in time (e.g. “What songs did Taylor Swift record in 2014?”), and even those that concerns superlatives (like “What are the largest cities in Lagos?”) In the previous case mentioned here, the meaning is that you could ask Google questions that had relationships to dates in them and it will answer in an improved manner than it would possibly have in the past. And in the latter case, Google can now get to the bottom of superlatives like “tallest,” “largest,” and ordered items.

If previously, you have tried to make attempt as to answer questions like these before, Google would simply have returned search results which match the keywords, thus inadequate for it wouldn’t properly pick out which entities you were really interested in knowing, the company tells us.

To say this in another way, this is the start of Google assuming the position of a true semantic search engine – one that has the understanding, as humans would naturally do with ease what a person actually relates to when they ask a question.

But Google say it still has its hands working on the technology, which has not gotten to perfection. Of course, there will be some questions it doesn’t really provide answers to correctly for the time being. In a blog post providing details to the news, Google opens the door to more knowledge as regards this, an example of the kind of mistake it will still make, saying that if you ask “Who was Dakota Johnson’s mom in the movie?” it would respond with Dakota Johnson’s real-life mother Melanie Griffith. The answer the user wanted, however, was the actor Jennifer Ehle who played Anastasia’s mother Carla in the “50 Shades of Grey” movie.

With this in mind, the capacity to speak more fluently and ask tough questions kind of takes forward Google’s voice search technology quite a bit as compared to its rivals, who still sometimes has issues understanding questions of no significant complexity and often just forsake you with a keyword search on the web when they fail. The improved voice search is rolling out now on the company’s flagship Google application for both iOS and Android.

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What To To Do If You Forget Your Mac Password

Do you have a problem where your memory fails you as to remembering your Mac’s password? Don’t break too much sweat over it. Making use of the default settings, you for sure can be able to with ease try logging into your Mac. If you happen to fail enough times then the ability to reset your password with your Apple ID may come within your reach. You can’t say this is always the case though.

In the case where you haven’t enabled FileVault disk encryption, you could access an easy password-reset tool. If you have gone about enabling FileVault disk encryption and you wish to forsake your encrypted files, you can simply go through the reinstallation of the Mac OS X and begin the process again.

If you have forgotten your Mac Password

Reset Your Password Using Your Apple ID

This trick would be compatible if you’ve connected your Mac account with an Apple ID. It will go through in the condition where you haven’t set up FileVault disk encryption, or possibly if you had set up FileVault disk encryption and had Mac OS X keeping your recovery key in your iCloud account. This happens to be the default option. But then note that it will certainly not work if you have enabled FileVault and didn’t store your recovery key with your iCloud account,

In the case where you have lost memory of your password, simply try entering the wrong password three times at the sign-in screen. Following the entrance of the three wrong answers, you will get to see a “If you forgot your password, you can reset it using your Apple ID” message. Move on to click the button and enter your Apple ID details so as to go about resetting your password.

The Recovery Key is a Safety Key

Enter Your FileVault Recovery Key

If you’ve enabled FileVault disk encryption and may be it happened that you failed to store your recovery key in your iCloud account, the FileVault setup tool provided you with a recovery key and then informed you to print it out or write it down maybe store it somewhere where you could fetch it if needed. This — in exclusion of the password — is then the only thing that could decrypt the files stored on your Mac and then hand you access in to them.

Taking the assumption that you are in possession of this recovery key, you could type the recovery key into the password field on the login screen. This process would prompt the decryption of your Mac’s storage and then consequently sign in you in. From when you gotten signed in, you could go about changing the password from the basic Users & Groups tool in the System Settings window.

If you have forgotten your Mac Password

Reset the Password From OS X Recovery (If You’re Not Using FileVault Encryption)

Also in the condition where you haven’t enabled FileVault encryption, you have a comfortable means to reset any user account’s password. What you simply need is to restart your Mac and hold Command + R while it’s booting. This very procedure will enable the booting of your Mac into a special recovery mode, also referred to as OS X Recovery.

From OS X Recovery, you get within the access of a concealed password reset tool and make use of it to change any user account’s password on the Mac. This is one big justification why you should enable FileVault encryption on your Mac — it sets a bar abhorring people from entering the password and gaining access.

In the rare circumstance that you’ve enabled a UEFI firmware password on your Mac, you would be unable to gain access to OS X Recovery except when you remember that password. You will not be able to remove that UEFI firmware password unless visiting an Apple Store — at least this works theoretically. This contributes significantly in barring thieves from just erasing the UEFI password of a MacBook after they could have stolen it.

Put in your Apple ID

Sign In As Another User (If You Are Using FileVault Encryption)

If you are in possession of user accounts exceeding one on your Mac and are using FileVault encryption, attempt logging in as the other user account. In the scenario where you have given that other user account permission to decrypt your Mac with its password, you would be allowed to sign in and then gain access to a desktop. There you could create a new user account or possibly retrieve access to your old user account.

Reinstall Mac OS X (If You Are Using FileVault Encryption)

Should there be a UEFI password on your Mac, you won’t be allowed to access OS X Recovery so as to reset the password or possibly embark on the reinstallation of the Mac OS X without that password. You come to face a big lock icon appear on your screen and a box to type your password when you make an attempt to boot into recovery mode or say when you boot from an external device.

This is a entirely a different password from your user account’s password, so there is the chance that you remember this one. But if you don’t, the sole means to potentially go about the removal of that UEFI password is to take your Mac to an Apple Store.

There could be some kind of attack that gives an attacker the chance to bypass a UEFI password, but according to the supposedly theoretical setup, only Apple can go about removing an unknown UEFI password.

Should you not remember your Apple ID (iCloud) password, Apple’s website provides an Apple ID password reset tool that might be assist you in this regard.

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Microsoft now has a selfie app for iPhone

Microsoft’s most recent app for iOS can’t really be said to be a piece of productivity software. Best said, it’s a selfie app. In any regard, it is known by the name Microsoft Selfie, the product’s design is targeted to add to the quality of photo like skin tone, color balance and lighting for the most shareable shot possible. It could be said to be a closer cousin of Lumia Selfie, which happens to be Microsoft’s previous self-portrait app designed for Windows phones.

The Selfie Trend

Delving into further details, Microsoft Selfie seems to be just one of the many ways the company is making use of machine learning in everyday situations, most related to the software Microsoft released back April that would make a guess at your age based on a photo. Microsoft Selfie’s app description is of the view that it takes “age, gender, skin tone, lighting, and many other variables into account” to assist in altering your self-portraits with “intelligent enhancements.”

Everyone of the 13 filter options will be able to clean up noise as well as work on other improvement in a general sense; even up to adding a distinct flavor to the photo in line with names like “1965” and “BlueDawn.”

You can as well press and hold on the “compare” button then your lesser, non-algorithmically enhanced self will come into view.

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Tim Cook Says Apple Wouldn’t Join a MacBook and an iPad

Apple’s large-screen iPad Pro was put on sale just a little while ago. The launch was by a distance lost in the shadows of the statement CEO Tim Cook which he gave to The Telegraph. In the question, he doubted the credibility of the possibility of anybody buying a PC these days. In a following interview with the Irish Independent, Cook went on to give more emphasis on the subject.

To clear up the chances of any wrong knowledge, Cook revealed that Apple doesn’t recognize the Macs and PCs to be the same.

Apple’s iPad Pro has been billed by some as its alternative solution to Microsoft’s Surface, a hybrid tablet that takes up the places of a stout workhorse when combined with a keyboard cover.

Cook, however, doesn’t seem to be too serious with the comparison. The executive has publicly disclosed to the Irish publication that they are of the opinion that their customers are not really interested in a solution to the converged Mac and iPad.

He admitted to the knowledge that the deviation between x86 (PC) and the A-series (Apple’s own chips) is much less than it’s ever been but they are very conscious of the reality that people make use of both iOS and Mac devices.

Bringing these two products together would wind up bringing into existence an experience that wouldn’t be as impressive as what the customer would desire, Cook pointed out.

On the other hand, Cook reveals Apple has the intention to produce the most efficient tablet in the world and the best Mac in the world.

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Blogger/Blogspot Recommended Post Slide Out Widget

It is the joy of every blogger that visitors stay for longer time on his/her blog, and one of the best ways to make your blog readers stay longer on your blog is to add the Recommended Post Slide Out Widget to you blog. This widget is a type of  invitation to your blog readers to read another post after reading one of your blog entries. This widget can be found on many top blogs in the world like New York Times, Mashable, Times of India and etc.

Before, the widget use to be available on wordpress alone but now, it can now be used on blogger blogs. This widget won’t affect your blog load time, but it will generate random posts from your blog feeds using Ajax.

Demo of the Recommended Post Slide out Widget

The image you’re seeing below shows how it will appear on your blog.

Scroll down to the bottom and you will see it at the right corner of this blog page.

How to Add the Recommended Post Slide out Widget to your Blog

==> You can easily use the one click installer below to install this widget on your blog.

==> After installing this widget with the one click installer, you need to go to your bloggerTemplate >>> Edit HTML, then tick on Expand Widget Templates box.

==> Now use CTRL + F to search for either of the following tag:

or

or



Immediately below any of these, add the following snippet and save our template

==> Now save your template. So when the reader scrolls down to this div, the slide will open up.

If you face any difficulties while setting this widget up on your blog, don’t hesitate to use the comment box below.

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How to Create Contact Form for Blog/Website Using FoxyForm

Recently, one of this blog readers demanded for a post on how I was able to create a simple contact us page that blends with the background color of this blog. So today, I want to share how bloggers can create and put a contact us form on their blog contact us page for their readers to communicate with them easily and privately rather than using the comment box.

The name of the contact us form provider is Foxy Form. Their contact form can be easily integrated on blogs powered by Blogger and WordPress, no registration is required, no limits on form creation, ability to choose fields to include in the form and ability to add the email address where the messages received will be forwarded to. With Foxy Form advanced options, users can change the appearance of the form to blend with their blog templates.

How to Get a Contact Form From FoxyForm

• Go to www.foxyform.com
• On Settings section, tick the values you want to include on your form
• On Advanced Settings section, personalize the form to blend with your blog template. 
• On Target e-mail address section, enter the email address where you want to be receiving the messages sent through FoxyForm contact form.
• Finally, click on Create Formular button to generate the form code, copy and then paste the code in a page on your Blogger or WordPress Blog.

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A Quick Guide to Terms Commonly Used in Blogging

Every work under the earth have their own terminologies which novice or people from other disciplines may not be able to comprehend. For instance, when Lawyers talk about consideration, they simply mean Money, when gamblers say crew, they mean cheating organisation and etc.

Bloggers too are not left out with the use of terms. My friends that are not familiar with blogging don’t seem to understand me whenever I mentioned some terms while talking about building blogs. Sometimes, I have to explain it in the simplest form before they could grab the information I was trying to pass.

Today, I’ve decided to share a qucik guide to terms commonly used in blogging.

Tag: Tags are applied to WordPress blogs posts to provide a useful way to group related posts together and to quickly tell readers what a post is about. Tags also make it easier for people to find your content. Tags are similar to, but more specific than, categories. The use of tags is completely optional.

Label: Labels are applied to Blogger blog posts to easily categorize posts. When you publish your post on Blogger, the labels will be listed with it. Clicking any of the labels will take you to a page containing only posts with that label.

Categories: In WordPress-powered blogs, Categories provide a helpful way to group related posts together, and to quickly tell readers what a post is about. Categories also make it easier for people to find your content. Categories are similar to, but broader than, tags.

Theme: WordPress and some other blogging platforms use “themes” to describe a collection of files that work together to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a weblog. Themes may include customized template files, image files (*.jpg, *.gif), style sheets (*.css), custom Pages, as well as any necessary code files (*.php).

Template: Just as theme is to WordPress, so also template to Blogger and some other blogging platforms. Template is your blog superhero clothing.

Widget: is a small helpful application program embedded directly into a web page. A widget has the role of a transient or auxiliary application, meaning that it just occupies a portion of a webpage and does something useful with information fetched from other websites and displayed in place. Widgets often take the form of Blog feeds, Facebook announcements and etc.

Gadget: Gadget is the term that Blogger uses for a widget. A gadget and a widget serve the same functions.

Plug-in: Plug-ins are tools to extend the functionality of the software that powers your blog. In WordPress-powered blogs, plug-ins add an additional feature or function to websites, most plug-ins are written in the PHP scripting language. Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.

Permalink: A permalink is permanent URL assigned to individual blog post, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another blogger will use to link to your article, or how you might share a link to your story on social media .

Are there terms you think should be added to the list? Drop it/them in the comments section.

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Facebook Making Changes To What Users See In News Feed

Prepare for some alterations people! Prepare for some spoonful of changes in your Facebook News Feed.

Facebook Making Changes To What Users See In News Feed

The social network made announcement this week that it is altering or tweaking the algorithm responsible for determining what you get to see on the top of users’ News Feeds.

At present, what is most particularly featured in the News Feed is sourced from what users are, clicking, liking, commenting on as well as sharing. Yet Facebook reveals of late, it has been asking people of their opinions as to what they really intend seeing relating to content which they possibly get to see at the top of their feed. Consequently Facebook will execute the collected adjustments.

“News Feed will begin to look at both the probability that you would want to see the story at the top of your feed and the probability that you will like, comment on, click or share a story.” Facebook engineers said in a blog post. “We will rank stories higher in feed which we think people might take action on, and which people might want to see near the top of their News Feed.”

In this vein, it is thus possible for those who run Facebook pages to see some changes.

“In general this update should not impact reach or referral traffic meaningfully for the majority of Pages; however, some Pages may see some increases in referral traffic, and some Pages may see some declines in referral traffic,” Facebook says.

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Samsung’s Android Browser Gets Ad Blocking Capabilities

Samsung is introducing support for content as much as ad blocking plugins to the web browser which comes preinstalled on its Android phones. Samsung started engaging in the exercise of pushing this updated browser to Samsung phones with Android Marshmallow some few days ago; there is also plans cooking for the availability of Lollipop in the months to come. This benefit of this move would let users install helper apps for the purpose of blocking ads from websites they visit, bearing similarity to how content and ad blocking operates in Apple’s Safari browser in iOS 9. An ad or content blocker could greatly cut down loading times as much reduce mobile data usage, for the fact that web pages loaded without being burdened with ads, getting smaller than those with advertising enabled.

Samsung’s Android Browser Gets Ad Blocking Capabilities

Content blockers on mobile devices have prompted quite a significant reaction when iOS 9 was released this past September, but then the moment the initial hype subsided, blockers dropped drastically from the top ranks of Apple’s App Store, this showing that they haven’t really gained a deep stance in exception of early adopters. Blocking ads and other content on Android of course doesn’t boast similar convenience as installing a browser extension, and Google’s own Chrome browser, which comes preinstalled on Android phones — most times in company of another browser, likely Samsung’s Internet; is not yet compatible with content blockers.

A number of third-party browsers, includes is the lately announced Brave, proffer integrated ad-blocking features, but then have not vindicated a stake as solid as Chrome. Owing to this, while blocking ads on desktop browsers is a yet a popular practice, most people aren’t even concerned with blocking them on mobile.

There is no distinct certainty as to the number of Samsung users who could actually make use of content blockers now that they are available, nor can we definitely say how many actually make use Samsung’s browser in preference to Google Chrome. There is the sturdy chance that if you’re the kind of individual that’s conscious of content blockers, you’re also the type of person that would make use of Google Chrome in preference to Samsung’s browser on your Android device. In the condition where you’ve recently moved over from an iPhone to a Samsung device and got out of track with the functionality of blocking ads possibly wanting it back, you can now get back to an ad-free internet experience.

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Scam Alert! If You See this Text Message on Your iPhone Do Not Open it (Photos)

Apple users have been given a serious warning to be alert after a new scam tactics internet fraudsters are using to hack personal information of apple product users was revealed.

 

Apple users are being warned not to open a scam text, that's apparently sent by company, which tricks people into sharing their personal details, reports The Sun.

 

The fraudulent message tries to scam users by telling them their account has been frozen and they should validate their iTunes account to avoid suspension.

 

The latest scam was announced ahead of Apple's upcoming press event where the technology company are expected to unveil the new iPhone and iPad.

 

The web address is disguised using a link shortener, a tool that cuts down the URL into smaller format, so it appears to say 'iTunes'.

 

Iapple users have been warned to be on the safe side by not opening the link if they get the message. They have been warned  to simple delete the message to avoid anything that might lead them into divulging useful information or account hack.

 

 

Apple has previously sent out virus email and text warnings from con artists who claim to be the popular digital media store.

 

A statement on the company's website explains the dangers of the malicious messages.

 

It claims: "The iTunes Store will never ask you to provide personal information or sensitive account information (such as passwords or credit card numbers) via email.

 

"Email messages that contain attachments or links to non-Apple websites are from sources other than Apple, although they may appear to be from the iTunes Store.

"Most often, these attachments are malicious and should not be opened.

"You should never enter your Apple account information on any non-Apple website."

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UK-Based Nigerian Woman Invents Keyboard for 12 Nigerian Languages (Available on iOS, Android & Windows)

As part of effort to ensure that we bring back the glory associated with communications in local dialects in Nigeria, a new invention of technology has been developed by a Nigerian.

Nailangs founder, Adebunmi Adeniran

 

A UK-based Nigerian, Adebunmi Adeniran, has developed a keyboard to support and enable writing at least 12 Nigerian languages correctly and applying correct signs and tones to give instant meaning to the reader.

 

According to her, the Keyboard, known as NAILANGS, was conceived as a result of her zeal to ensure that Nigerian local languages are learned with ease so as to prevent the languages from going into extinction.

 

 

She revealed that the invention is a product of a long and thorough research which came out of her love for languages, "The concept for NAILANGS started out of the desire to find a good working and stress free Yoruba keyboard to type in as using the characters in ‘insert’ mode was like living in the ice age!.

With NAILANGS keyboard, there is no need to switch from one computer to another because once it is downloaded, one is able to type in English and it can be made a bilingual due to the nature of Nigerians who mostly speak more than a language.

With the key, one is able to type the three official languages, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba and other six recognised languages which are Effic, Idoma, Hausa/Fulani, Tiv etc," she said.

 

She further said that one of the reasons for her choice of keys is the number of people in a particular ethnic and their passion to speak their dialect. "Such language is Urhobo people, they are very passionate about writing their language, so I have incorporated their keys, even though they might not be part of the so called recognise languages, because they love to do something with their language." 

 

 

NAILANGS keyboard is available for download on all platforms such as Google Playstore, iOS store and Window (Desktop).

 

She expressed dissatisfaction at the rate which Nigerians these days use their dialect as a secondary language instead of primary language According to her. "Coming back to Nigeria from the UK in the last one month has been an eye opener, while the children over there are itching to speak our languages, whether is Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba,I find it very painful that I have come to Nigeria and the Children are not being thought our own language."

 

Adebunmi studied Russian language (alongside English and Yoruba languages) from the University of Lagos and later Social Care and Management at both Kingston University Surrey and Leicester University in the UK. 

 

She hopes this invention will go a long way in re-instituting the pride associated with dialects/languages in Nigeria and NAILANGS will become national keyboard for Nigeria.

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Twitter is losing at least three top executives, in a major shakeup at the social network

In course of a heavy shakeup at Twitter, the social network will be losing at least three top executives, according to reports surfacing on Sunday.

Twitter is losing at least three top executives, in a major shakeup at the social network

Those heading for the exit door of the company include product chief Kevin Weil, Alex Roetter, the head of engineering and Katie Stanton, the head of media.

This accounts for a third of the executive team listed on the Twitter site next to co-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey.

Further reports point to the event of a possible official confirmation coming from the company as early as Monday, with the confirmation likely to be accompanied with the announcement of a new marketing head.

There is the solid prospect too that Twitter plans to recruit two new board members on board as soon as this week, further details reveal that at least would be a high-profile executive in the media industry.

Circulating behind the news is the report that as a criterion for return demanded by chief executive last year, Dorsey had clearly informed Twitter that all board members must be replaced.

Included in the panel is fellow co-founder Evan Williams, who happens to be one of the largest individual owners of company stock.

Twitter has not officially commented on this.

As we know, times have not been too smooth for social network in face of pestering worries over possible prospects of its growth.

Twitter stock had crashed to a new record low some days ago as the number of users is climbing lazily and slowly. When September ended last year, Twitter recorded 320 million active users — which is only four million more than three months earlier.

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How to Record your Desktop Screen with YouTube

Here doccytee brings in a step-by-step explanatory guide on the means to adopt as to recording a screencast video of your desktop screen with the assistance of YouTube. There is no strict requirement of the installation of any software.

Screencasting is stress free. Just download a software program, then hit the record button and a video of your computer screen will be created, available for you to possibly upload to YouTube. There are a variety of screencasting tools between you could make your choice from but then it is possible you may not still be aware that you can also create screencast videos inside YouTube absent any desktop software! The totality of things you need is a web browser and a YouTube account.

Presented to you in this article is a detailed step by step guide on the means to create screencasts of your desktop windows with the aid of YouTube.

How to Record your Desktop Screen with YouTube

How to Create a Screencast with YouTube

Step 1: By means of your Google Account, sign-in to YouTube. Take the Upload button which appears on the upper left corner; choosing Events under Live Streaming. In the case when you have not done before prior now, there may the slight occurrence of YouTube requiring you to verify your phone number to as to procure streaming.

Step 2: There you are on the Create Event page. Assign a title to your screencast video, make a choice of setting the privacy of the video between Unlisted or Private and then click the “Go Live Now” button.

Step 3: What this does is open the Hangouts on Air page. To turn off webcam recoding, click the camera icon. In the same vein, it is also possible to toggle the microphone icon should you not wish to record audio.

Step 4: At this interval, select the screen share button in the left toolbox and choose a desktop window which you intend to record for your screencast. Do not forget that if you making use of multiple virtual desktops, what it will only show is program windows that are active on the current desktop.

How to Record your Desktop Screen with YouTube

Step 5: To share your screen, click the Start Screenshare button; after which you could Start Broadcast so as to begin recording the screen. Of course, this is a private session, the essence here is nobody will be able to watch your broadcast in the process of it being recorded. Click the Stop Broadcast button when you are through with the recording, and switch to the YouTube website.

There we are. Move to your YouTube video dashboard (youtube.com/my_videos) and there you will be entertained to the sight of new screencast video whose recording you have just finished. It is also possible to download the video to your Google Drive or even share it generously with the world.

Essentially, the videos are recorded in 720p HD and this it would be very nice to resize your desktop window to the 16:9 ratio prior to hitting the broadcast button.

I hope this was really helpful!

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