Dora the Techplorer

For the past few days, I had problems accessing my Twitter feeds when I used Firefox 5 on my PC.  I knew it wasn't because Twitter server was down; if I use Tweetdeck, the feeds come out fine.  Tried to google to find a solution, but to no avail. Fortunately, I have a few Twitter experts in my students at the polytechnic :) Thanks to Isabelle, Tina etc, I learnt that I just need to use https://www.twitter.com instead of the normal http://www.twitter.com and everything just works fine! Thanks gals! :) I hope this post helps others who may be facing the same problem as me too.

I am a sucker for organising my documents in folders that are named by chronological dates because I find this an effective way of locating them when I need them. But for lazy people like me, I do find it quite a hassle to have to create folders that match the current date and time. So I decided to write a MS-DOS batch command file to automate the process just now. Code is below. Just type the code below in Notepad and name the batch file "CreateFolderByDateTime.bat" and you can dump it in any folder to conveniently create sub-folders that are named by the current date and time in that folder. Just double-click the batch file in Windows Explorer to automatically create a folder using the current date and time for /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%A in ('date/t') do ( set a1=%%A set b1=%%B set c1=%%C set d1=%%D ) for /F "tokens=1-3 delims=: " %%A in ('time/t') do ( set a2=%%A set b2=%%B set c2=%%C ) set CurrentDate=%d1%-%c1%-%...

Have you checked it out yet? Google has just released a new website called “ What Do You Love ” that presents a nondescript search box just like the one on the main Google page, but this time with a heart-shaped button. <3 the heartshaped button! I tried it out, and kind of like what I saw. Instead of the usual list of text-based search results that you get on the regular Google page,  this new service presents a view consisting of small panels as shown in the screenshots below. For example, if you search for “Yoghurt” ,  panels such as “See pictures of YOGHURT”, “Explore popularity of YOGHURT”, “Find books about YOGHURT” and so on will be shown. These little panels can be further expanded by clicking on the icon in the lower right corner.   And if you want more results of the category (e.g. videos about YOGHURT), there is another button in the upper right corner of the panel and you can go directly...

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Google has several built-in "shortcuts" which are very useful to quickly retrieve commonly needed information like weather, conversion values, country's population etc For example, see how I easily converted USD0.99 to SGD or MYR2000 to SGD etc , checked the time in Australia, weather in Paris etc. You can also convert inches to centimetres or metres to feet etc, just using the 'right syntax' without needing a separate software to perform the conversion. Get the rest of the search tips at this link here Use the syntax as above, the actual numeric unit followed by the currency code and then the word "TO" and the destination currency code - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Last week, Yahoo added a new search tab Yahoo! App Search to its search interface that will allow you to search specifically for iPhone or Android apps. You can type your search query just as I have done in the screenshots below to retrieve relevant search results.  Besides using keywords to search for your preferred type of apps, the site also includes trending apps, daily personalized app recommendations, related apps to the one you’ve searched for, and direct links to the iPhone App Store and Android Marketplace for speedy downloading. At first look, it does look rather useful.  I am definitely bookmarking this one for myself :) Search results with two keywords "Photoeffects" and "Free" Clicking on an app link brings you to a page like this, where you will see details of the app, Yahoo user reviews (if any) and links to related apps If you click on the "Free" yellow button as in previous screenshot, you will be brought to this pa...