Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier
Virtual storage space is getting really inexpensive these days. There are a lot of services popping up with free space to store your stuff. While some cloud storage services have a desktop application, Hopper is all on the web.
In addition to being all web-based, uploading is drag and drop making it that much easier. Below, is how to upload, what browsers Hopper works with and how the search feature works. Take a look-see and let us know what you think in the comments.
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For all of you who have implemented the social sharing buttons on your blog/website, don’t you wish that you can track the traffic generated from the clicks of these buttons? You can’t do that in the past, but with the new social tracking feature in Google Analytics, you can do it now. By adding a few lines of code to your existing Google Analytics code, you can quickly get GA to track the number of clicks on your social sharing buttons and the effectiveness of your social media campaign.
At the moment, the social tracking feature in GA only supports Facebook, Twitter and Google +1. The Google +1 tracking is already integrated to GA, so you don’t have to add any extra code. This article will show you how to implement the tracking code for Facebook and Twitter.
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It seems that when developers of photo sharing websites plan their designs, they either have the computer user or the smartphone user in mind. Take Flickr for instance; it is the ideal photo sharing website for computer users where Instagram is the ideal photo sharing application for iPhone users. What is required is a tool that merges all photo sharing features and excellently serves computer users and smartphone users alike. And this is exactly what “PicPlz” does.
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Thanks to the web, the other parts of the world are becoming more accessible for everything from sharing your family pictures, to having employees scattered all over the globe. One of the challenges of having a remote workforce is – how the heck can you organize even the most basic meeting?
When collaborating with multiple people geographically spread out, things like a digital whiteboard, file sharing, and training can be very difficult. ShowDocument is a creative way to address this problem.
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A remote desktop sharing session allows users to share their computer screen with any other user, both having an active internet connection. The general way to start a remote session is to install a remote desktop software at both host and client end. Next, the host sends his identity to the client (in most cases it’s a unique ID, password or a URL).
When the client enters the same username, password or URL in his browser, the remote connection is established. Now the host and the client are connected via the remote desktop connecting software and both users can share their computer screen with each other. Not only screen sharing, but they can exchange instant messages, send files, share control and do a lot of other tasks.
There are lots of remote desktop sharing applications available for Windows, Linux or MAC. Some of the very popular programs are Teamviewer, Logmein, Yuugu and so on.
But one of the very simplest and easy to use web based remote sharing applications is Join.me
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If you use multiple computers at your workplace, you know how frustrating it is to share data across them. Either you have to use a removable drive or you have to set up a home or small office network connection between both computers and share files, documents, screenshots etc.
After you have set up the network connection, you can move files and folders between two computers from the “My Network Places” folder in Windows. But what about Windows clipboard data ? How do you share copied data from one computer to another, when both of them are not connected to a home network? How do you share screenshots, URL(s) and copied text with a remote computer?
Ybex Clipboard is a free application for Windows which lets you share clipboard data with a remote computer in just one click. You can also capture screenshots, annotate your screen area and share the image with other systems.
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It’s true that professional photographers won’t replace their DSLR with cell phone anytime soon (or ever), but the quality of phone cameras today has become so much better than it used to be that we can’t just ignore them. Some even have the quality that put entry-level point and shoot camera into shame.
Aside from the practical side – that unlike digital camera, most people always have their phone at hand – camera phones also have other advantages over traditional digital camera: the availability of apps to tinker with the pictures.
If you are an iPhone users, here are two must-have free apps that will help you in your images adventure.
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I bought an Amazon Kindle some time back and posted an article about some of the basic tips and tricks all Kindle users should know about. Having used the Kindle for a while it is clear that while it’s book reading functions take precedence, its creators decided to imbue it with a number of features that tip it into the realm of a “tablet PC”. While it clearly does not have the functionality of an iPad, the Kindle has a set of unique features that makes reading books just a little bit more enjoyable.
In this article I will provide an overview of some of the more interesting features the Kindle has to offer.
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There are no shortage of choices when it comes to online photo album. Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Skydrive and even Dropbox comes with a photo album feature. The market sure seems crowded, but few of these sites come with the ability to allow others to contribute – in a ridiculously simple way. Yogile is one of them that does.
Like any other photo sharing site, Yogile allows you to upload your photos and create your own online album, except that it comes with a collaborative twist. With Yogile, you can easily share your album with your family/friends and get them to contribute photos to your album, all without they having to open an account.
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Those who use file sharing services on a regular basis know only too well that downloading files from these services can be a very daunting task. But most of us stuck in this “hate ‘em but need ‘em” kind of relationship and can’t break free.
Luckily, others hate the problem as much as we do and many have come up with solutions. There are several download managers available out there which are specially built to overcome the hassle.
But having options is never a bad thing. Windows users can use MDownloader as an alternative to less-hassle download from file sharing service.
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