Mick Gill's Blog

How To Recover From A Twitter Hack

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:29:00 +0000

There are two primary methods for your Twitter account to become compromised. Either you authorized a malicious application to connect to your account, or your password was guessed/stolen.
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The Always Up-to-Date Power User’s Guide For Chrome and Firefox

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:41:00 +0000

Chrome is overtaking Firefox among power users, and for good reason. It's an incredibly powerful, extensible web browser with tons of excellent features. Today, we're covering it all—from longtime shortcuts to the latest features in one of our favorite web browsers.
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Social Media Cheat Sheet (Info graphic)

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:35:00 +0000

Check out this brilliant Social Media Cheat Sheet, that explains some of the major Social Media Sites & their Pros & Cons
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Zappos Passwords Hacked: What You Need To Do Right Now

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:43:00 +0000

In an email sent out last night, online shoe and clothing store Zappos let customers know that its database of passwords and usernames was hacked. Your credit card information is safe and all Zappos passwords have been reset, but if you use the same password and email elsewhere, a password audit is in order.
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Phone recycling machine lets you drop in old mobiles - and spits out cash instantly

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:56:00 +0000

The EcoATM machine uses a camera to identify phones, tablets and e-readers, then plugs a cable into them to see if they still work. If all is well with your device, it takes it and spits out cash.
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How To Search and Find Free Comic Books Online

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:20:00 +0000

Over on Tech-Recipes website the have created Search Algorithms to search for free comic books online using Google.

These are some of the methods the use:
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How to Run Android Apps on Your Desktop the Easy Way

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:06:00 +0000

"Ever feel like running an Android app on your Windows machine? Using BlueStacks, you can easily get apps from your Android device to your desktop or laptop without any complicated set up or fussing with the Android SDK."

Browse On Android Without The Data Plan

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:53:00 +0000

One of the major reasons people purchase smartphones is to browse the Internet. But increasing costs of data plans that phone carriers charge discourage smartphone owners from Internet browsing. Here to offer a workaround is an Android app called Smozzy.
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ThinkUp: Capture Your Social Network Activity

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:06:00 +0000

Image via CrunchBase

"ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
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Why Angry Birds is so Popular

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:34:00 +0000

Why is an interface so engaging that users cannot stop interacting with it? This is a difficult question because it requires cognitive reverse engineering to determine what interaction attributes a successful interface embodies that result in a psychologically engaging user experience.
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Track & Secure Your Android Phone

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:21:00 +0000

The kind of information a smartphone can hold these days, one can only imagine how painful and frustrating losing it can be, and losing a cell phone is not uncommon at all contrary to what you may assume.
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Google Introduces New Limitations On Google Maps API, Is No Longer Free For All

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:55:00 +0000

"Users of Google Maps’ API will soon have to start paying for usage. The general price will be $4 per 1,000 map loads, but there are some allowances and ways to lower costs. A “map load” is counted when a user opens a page which contains the Maps API.
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Google Shows How Governments Are Getting Information About You

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:24:00 +0000

"Google has released a report on how governments and police agencies are accessing information about web users.
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Google+ Introduces Amazing New Features

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:15:00 +0000

Google has introduced 4 really cool new features to its Social Network Google+

These include:

Wifi Syncr syncs your Windows shares to your Android phone Wirelessly

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:28:00 +0000

"Wifi Syncr syncs your Windows shares to your Android phone. Wireless. Simply create profiles, select the Windows share or folder and start the synchronization with one click.
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15 Things You Didnt Know about Star Trek

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:45:00 +0000

15 things you didn't know about STARTREK
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From desert to the web: Google Brings the Dead Sea Scrolls online

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:45:00 +0000

In a Project with The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and powered by Google, the Dead Sea Scrolls can now be viewed online.

"It’s taken 24 centuries, the work of archaeologists, scholars and historians, and the advent of the Internet to make the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible to anyone in the world. Today, as the new year approaches on the Hebrew calendar, we’re celebrating the launch of the Dead Sea Scrolls online; a project of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem powered by Google technology."

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Starfleet Federation Of Planets Wallpaper

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:08:00 +0000

Came across this Cool "StarTrek" Wallpaper for you to download.
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Google Notebook to be shut down

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:19:00 +0000

"All Google Notesbooks content is being rolled into Google Docs, the company announced today, as part of a wider revelation that it is pulling the plug on several of its popular products.
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GOOGLE CHROME OCCUPIES 2ND SPOT IN INDIA

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:34:00 +0000

"The buzz around search engine giant Google and its services has been on the rise in the last few months. Not to be out-done in all the chatter, Google's web-browser, Google Chrome which celebrated its third birthday on Thursday, reached a milestone in India - the second place among web browsers in the country.
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Recover lost passwords stored by Internet Explorer

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:14:00 +0000

IE PassView is a small password management utility that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer Web browser, and allows you to delete passwords that you don't need anymore. It supports all versions of Internet Explorer, from version 4.0 and up to 9.0.
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SiteTrail: Ultimate All-in-One Website Analysis Tool

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:16:00 +0000

"A frequent analysis of your website can reveal important information such as site popularity, visitor demographics, revenue analysis, and much more. Normally there are dedicated web tools for different types of analysis; but with “SiteTrail” you get
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Official Google Blog: g.co, the official URL shortcut for Google websites

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:40:00 +0000

Official Google Blog: g.co, the official URL shortcut for Google websites

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Windows 8 will run on all Windows 7 PCs (and Vista PCs too)

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:03:00 +0000

"Worried that you’ll have to buy a new PC in order to be able to run Windows 8? Don’t! Microsoft has said that the Windows 8 system requirements will be the same, or perhaps even lower, than those of Windows 7."
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How To Securely Wipe Hard Disks

noreply@blogger.com (Mick Gill) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:50:00 +0000

"Darik's Boot and Nuke ('DBAN') is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
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