Visualizing a Trillion: Just How Big That Number Is? Courtesy the credit crisis and big bailout packages, the figure “trillion” has suddenly become part of our everyday conversations. One trillion dollars, or 1 followed by 12 zeros, is lots of money but have you ever tried visualizing ho...

Banned AdSense Publisher Gets His Money Back from Google It’s not uncommon to hear stories of disgruntled AdSense publishers whose accounts have been permanently banned by Google either due to "non-compliance with AdSense policies" or for "posing a significant risk to AdWords ad...

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Notes from the Search Masters Conference at Google The Search Masters Conference at Google was a good learning experience. The audience were a mix of webmasters, bloggers, entrepreneurs, online marketers, SEO experts, web developers, etc. and the offline interactions with such a varied group were th...

Display Size of every Folder in Windows Explorer Itself When you open any folder inside Windows Explorer (Win+E), it will display the size of individual files contained in that folder but you won’t get to know about the size of various sub-folders that are located inside that folder. The same ...

Google AdSense Optimization Tips - WordCamp Presentation I discussed a couple of "AdSense Optimization Tips" at the recently concluded WordCamp conference. The session was primarily focused at improving the performance of your Google ads though I did touch upon topics like "AdSense Al...

Tasks Written in Easy to Read Fonts Are More Likely to be Completed The next time you jot out a set of instructions or tasks for someone to follow, keep in mind that the choice of fonts might well determine if that job gets done or not. The researchers at University of Michigan gave students written...

This Printed Newspaper Is Made of Blogs Only If you happen to be in New York, San Francisco or Chicago, don’t forget to pick a free copy of The Printed Blog from the nearest news-stand. Alternatively you can download a PDF version of the newspaper and read it on the computer. Here are some pic...

Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera earlier recommended that the best way to get Techmeme love your blog is through original content, descriptive titles and link love - i.e., you should send some traffic to Techmeme and they he may consider including your site among other Techmeme elites. That was 2006 and...

In my previous guide to rebuilding a Windows PC, I recommended Acronis True Image software for creating a full backup (or clone) of your computer’s hard drive so that all your software programs and data can be easily restored in case there’s any break-down in the future. Acronis True Ima...