Digital Inspiration

We share two amazing Firefox/IE plugins that help improve your web browsing experience by prefetching links and showing a live preview or webpages without having to click on the hyperlinks or search results. You'll love them. Typically, web users surf the internet in the following way : 1. They will either type a query in search engines or open a previously bookmarked webpage or directly type the URL like cnn.com in the address bar. 2. On the search results page, they'll click the links of the top few results to load those webpages in separate tabs [some will return 404, some are Made-for-Adsense, some are just duplicate content] 3. Then they'll visit each of the browser tabs to glance at the webpage and will either close it or let it remain open in their web browser depending on how useful or meaningful that webpage is for them. So just to reach that final interesting website, you made so many clicks, opened and closed so many browser tabs or had to hit the browsers' b...

Some excerpts from this very entertaining, educational and very creative Male Restroom Etiquette video: For as long as they have existed, men's restrooms have prided themselves as being far superior to women's facilities due to their faster transaction processing time. Walk in, do your business, wash your hands, walk out . There are some funny but useful tips on how to select the right urinal - Under no circumstances, two adjacent urinals should be used at the same time . Leave and come back later.

How do you share spreadsheet data in your blog or webpages ? An immediate response would be to save the Microsoft Excel file in webpage format and then copy-paste that HTML snippet in your blog template . While this approach may work, it has four major drawbacks: 1. The Excel-style interactivity is lost - all you get is a boring array of rows and columns inside an HTML table. You can't have live charts and diagrams. 2. The spreadsheet data becomes static. Later if you edit your original spreadsheet data, you'll have to redo the entire HTML to keep the webpage data in sync with the actual spreadsheet. 3. It is so tough [if not impossible] to select tabular data from an HTML table - the text formatting, font colors, sizes, and other visual enhancements are completely lost when copy that data from a webpage to another spreadsheet. 4. Site visitors cannot edit the HTML table data unless they copy-paste that to another spreadsheet inside Excel. They can't do calculations, add-de...

When we type a web address in our browser [like www.google.com] and hit go, the request goes to our local ISP servers who translate that domain name into a hard-to-remember IP address [like 66.102.7.104] While this address resolution mechanism is transparent to the average internet user, it can sometimes be the main reason for slow internet access if the DNS servers of your ISP are acting choppy or not working at all. To overcome these problems, you can consider changing your DNS server name to a more reliable but free service called OpenDNS . There's no software to install, just a small tweak in your internet connection settings. We just replaced the default DSN server address of our ISP with the OpenDNS servers which are : 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 The DNS server can be changed from the TCP/IP Properties section. [Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Local Network Connection -> TCP IP Properties] Why OpenDNS is good ? Your domain resolution request to...

An anonymous reader left a comment in a previous story on recording Skype Conference calls mentioning SoliCall, a free and small [700kb] Windows utility that lets you record audio conference calls over any IM client and it also reduces the unwanted background noise during your voice chat thereby improving voice quality. Once installed, to record your audio chat with Solicall, set the audio settings of your messenger by pointing the Audio In (microphone) and the Audio Out (speakers) to SoliCall Audio Device . This should help you record audio chats on Skype, GTalk, Windows Live, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, or any other VoIP client. A big advantage of using Solicall is that you can comfortably make business calls from your computer without having to worry about the disrupting background sounds like people talking, sound of the air conditioner fan or even the keyboard ticking sound. Solicall will filter [or atleast reduce] that noise clutter for you. Quick Tip: If the person on the other sid...