I've never liked annotations on YouTube videos. They are more annoying than useful, so I had my account configured to never show them by unchecking the box as shown below. But recently YouTube has been ignoring this setting and the only way to shut off annotations is from the Settings icon on every playback, Quite — Continue reading »
Outlook is Private - Really!
📆 April 8, 2014
Logging into my Hotmail/Outlook account this morning I was greeted with this message touting the benefits of Outlook. They saved the best for last, claiming that "Outlook is private". Talk about false advertising. It was barely a week ago when news leaked that Microsoft had snooped on an employee's Hotmail account while investigating a — Continue reading »
NCAA basketball Brackets on Google
📆 March 31, 2014
Kind of late to mention this as we get close to the end of the 2014 NCAA men's college basketball championship games, but Google has made it easy to check on the games in progress and their results. Just type in bracket in Google and get the info at the top of the results page. Best — Continue reading »
IP Address on Google
📆 March 24, 2014
Google Search seems to always be adding new features. From measurement conversions to calculator to word definitions, users can get answers to many of their questions without clicking on any results at all. That's good news for users, but not so for sites who rely on search results for users to click on. One example — Continue reading »
What Gmail Needs, Action Icons
📆 December 27, 2013
I have been a Gmail user since its debut and have never looked back since I migrated from Hotmail so many years ago. But I still use Hotmail (now known as Outlook) and Yahoo Mail on occasion for trivial emailing and one of the great features that they offer is one-click actions for delete or — Continue reading »
Berkshire Hathaway Over $1.5 Million
📆 September 26, 2013
Way to go Google Finance, showing Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares up by over 900% at the close of the market today. I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw that. Warren Buffett probably thought: "My company is worth only $3 trillion?" Google has since fixed the quote. It's back to its actual value — Continue reading »
Older Chrome Extensions to Go Away
📆 June 21, 2013
I have two free Chrome extensions published a few years ago on the Chrome Web Store. NOREF is an extension that attempts to alter links on web pages so no referer info is sent to servers. JunkFill is the other extension that lets users fill out web page forms with random or pre-determined data with — Continue reading »
AdSense, 10 Years Old and My 72-Hour Warning
📆 June 18, 2013
AdSense, Google's affiliate advertising product for publishers is 10 years old and I just received a warning from them that one of my sites, padfly.com, does not conform to their policies and I have 3 "working" days to clean it up or else they would block their ads on that site forever. Should I cheer — Continue reading »
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