Computer Tricks and Secrets

How do I contact the owner of a website? Where is a particular website hosted? What other websites are hosted on that same server ? Is the site using WordPress or the Drupal platform? What ad networks are they using to monetize a site? Is the site accessible from China? The best tools to know everything about any website. Picture credit: Flickr Here are some of the most useful online tools that will help you know each and every detail of any website. Let’s get started. just-ping.com — Use Just Ping to determine if a particular website or blog is accessible from other countries. Unlike other online ping services that have service in a couple of locations, Just Ping has 30 monitoring stations across the world including Turkey, Egypt and China. If the ping results say 100% Packet Loss, most likely the site is inaccessible from that region. who.is — If you like to know the contact address, email and phone number of the website owner, this free whois lookup service will help. This is ...

Typing on a small screen is for suckers. Say it instead. If you have an iOS device, Siri, Apple's much-improved digital personal assistant for iOS, can take care of many things faster than you can through tapping. With iOS 9, you don't even need to touch your iPhone or iPad to get things done — just say "Hey Siri" and it will be ready to execute your command. We know, Siri isn't perfect — it can't access every app you have, for example, and it requires an Internet connection to do anything — but here are some ways you should take advantage of its services. 10 Siri Tricks You Never Knew About "Find photos I took in San Francisco." Instead of scrolling through thousands of photos looking for the ones you took on a specific trip, ask Siri to narrow down the options for you. As long as you have Location Services enabled for the Camera app, your phone tags each photo with the place you took it. You can also ask Siri to show you photos from a specific date...