Computer Tricks and Secrets

The Learn to Code movement has picked up momentum worldwide and that is actually a good thing as even basic programming skills can have a major impact. If you can teach yourself how to write code, you gain a competitive edge over your peers, you can think more algorithmically and thus can tackle problems more efficientlyThe Best Websites to Learn Coding Online . Don’t just download the latest app, help redesign it. Don’t just play on your phone, program it. — Obama . There’s no reason why shouldn’t know the basics of coding. You can automate tasks, you can program your Excel sheets, improve workflows, you can extract data from websites and accomplish so much more with code. You may not be in the business of writing software programs but knowing the basics of coding will help you communicate more effectively with developers. Gone are the days when you had to enroll in expensive computer training classes as now exist a plethora of web-based courses that will help you learn programming a...

You are reading a web page, say a longform article published in The New York Times , and would like to share it with your friend. The article is lengthy and therefore there’s a possibility that your ‘busy’ friend may skip the parts that you really want him to read. How do you thus focus his attention to the most interesting stuff on the page? Genius and TLDRify are useful web apps that that let you annotate web pages much like the yellow highlighter pens that you would use on the printed page. The services let you highlight any paragraph or specific sentence on a web page and create direct deep links to the highlighted text. When people click the shared link, they see the original page but with the annotated text. How to Annotate and Deep Link Web Pages Genius is a music lyrics website but they also provide a web annotator to help you add context and commentary on any web page. The best part about Genius is that you don’t need to install any bookmarklets or browser extensions to use t...

Here are some of the most useful websites on the internet that you may not know about. These web sites, well most of them, solve at least one problem really well and they all have simple web addresses (URLs) that you can memorize thus saving you a trip to Google. And if you find this list useful, also check out the expanded version – The Most Useful Websites – which now offers a collection of 150+ undiscovered and incredibly useful websites to enhance your productivity. The Most Useful Websites and Web Apps ctrlq.org/screenshots – for capturing screenshots of web pages on mobile and desktops. dictation.io – online voice recognition in the browser itself. zerodollarmovies.com – find full-length movies on YouTube. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs intoQR codes. unfurlr.come – find the original URL that’s hiding behind a short URL. qClock – find the local time of a city using Goo...

Social networking sites are best sources to drive huge blog traffic. If you can build good network in social media then you can get more traffic to your site. For that, you need to  submit your articles on social sites . In this article, I’m listing  Top 10 best websites to increase your blog traffic . 1. Google+ Google+ plays an important role in getting huge traffic to your site . When you submit a link in Google+, try to get maximum g+ to your link because all the links posted in Google+ are considered as Do Follow links . So if you can get Do Follow link from trusted and high page ranked site, it will increase your traffic in a great way. 2. Facebook We all know that Facebook is the most popular social networking site with billions of users. Facebook is the great way to increase blog traffic.  To get more traffic from Facebook follow these steps. i. Create a Facebook Fan page for your blog and post your articles over there. ii. Join Facebook Groups related to your niche and promot...

Internet censorship has grown drastically over the past few years with countries like China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran taking the lead over others in blocking sources of free unbiased information. China is known to have even forced Google to filter its search results. Government censorship is not the only reason why websites are blocked. Some network administrators also prevent users from accessing certain websites which they believe are of no use in places such as schools and sometimes, even offices. In such times, you may need to access a website that is blocked. This article explains how. Which websites are most commonly Blocked? The most commonly blocked websites include websites about pop culture, health, medicine, women, religion and politics. Social websites are also often blocked and include the likes of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Reddit, Digg, Hulu, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Blogger (Blogspot), MySpace, Bebo, Flickr, Yahoo! Messenger, Typepad, Technorati, Stu...

[For non-techie parents who have a computer at home and are worried about their kids safety online.] How Parents Can Block Certain Websites From Children A mother recently wrote saying she is very concerned that her young children are spending too much time on websites like Orkut, MySpace and Facebook. Her worries are not just about children wasting time on the Internet – it’s more about the activities that children are doing on these sites. She is concerned that children could be interacting with complete strangers (or online predators) and even sharing personal information. And with some news reports saying that criminal activities could have been planned on Orkut, the mother has finally made up her mind to restrict access to Orkut and some other websites on the home computer. The only problem is that she has absolutely no clue about how to block websites – parental control software like Net Nanny or Norton Internet Security are pretty good but they cost money. Now before you take th...