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The ~ operator (reads tilde) is Google’s search synonymous operator. For example if you want to search for telescope control or anything telescope <your synonymous of control> you should search for telescope ~control The thing is that a Google search synonymous is not necessarily a word with the same meaning, but instead a word in [...]

For some reason, my WordPress based blog was redirecting to itself, in an infinite loop, after upgrading to WordPress 3.1. The solution was to disable the “canonical URL redirection”, by installing this plugin: http://txfx.net/files/wordpress/disable-canonical-redirects.phps To install the plugin, just download the file, copy it to the plugins folder and activate it via the administration panel. [...]

Google still #1 in 2011, according to Nielsen. Facebook ranks #3. http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/top10s/internet.html

A documentary about facebook.com has been playing all weekend on Bloomberg Europe. It is fascinating to learn that “500 million” people now use the service. I can NOT begin to understand how people are willing to give away personal information, in exchange of a Web presence that effectively sheeps them down, since “500 million” other [...]

Opera is my favorite brower, but the latest version is doing something absolutely crazy in my view: the address bar does NOT show the full URL, by default. They are dumbing down users, thinking that users will be better served if not aware of all the URL’s details. This rises a security risk, obfuscates browsing, [...]

I use Google Earth (GE) on Windows XP and personalized the “my places” tree considerably. How to import GE’s “my places” into GE on Windows 7? The “my places” document location changes, depending on operating system. Not only that, GE’s latest versions don’t have an explict import option. At the end of the day, all [...]

I love Opera, but I don’t appreciate the “SpeedDial” feature. There is no direct option to turn it off – one has to use the full configuration page. How? Using Opera, visit this internal address: opera:config#UserPrefs|SpeedDialState Then set the value of “SpeedDialSate” to 3. The possible values are: 0: Folded 1: Shown 2: Read only, [...]

Stream as identified by wifiradio-frontier.com: http://kanm5.tamu.edu:4040/ 192 kbps MP3 stream: http://kanm.tamu.edu/listen.m3u Web page: http://kanm.tamu.edu/ Tags: internet+radio, kanm

I was told that the “Panda GateDefender Performa” software, from pandasecurity.com, refuses its users access to my site, arturmarques.com, even after adding it to its white list, under the argument that the site is about “piracy / illegal software”!! This is just absurd, incredible, and very informative of the (lack) of quality you can expect from “Panda [...]

Michael Gannotti on Sharepoint+ http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/default.aspx Found while I was looking for information on CRM systems. I am yet to read this blog. It is not directly related to what I was looking for, but it seems interesting, so I bookmarked it – as if a reason is needed to bookmark a resource . Viscom Software [...]