App Inventor for Android

You can build many different types of apps with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like MoleMash or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend's faces. You can even make use of the phone's sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.

But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android's text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.

How to Point Multiple Domain Names to One Website: And How to Avoid Search Engine Problems When Doing So

A visitor recently asked me whether it was possible to point multiple domain names to one website, more or less the conceptual reverse of what I wrote about in "Can I Create Multiple Websites with One Domain Name?". This article discusses why a person might want to do this, how it can be accomplished, and provides a practical guide on the additional steps you need to take in order to avoid losing potential search engine ranking as a result of doing things this way.

Joomla Content Editors

As a web designer who specializes in using Joomla, I get a lot of inquiries regarding the editing of articles.
Joomla comes with a WYSIWYG editor installed, this is called TinyMCE, and the editing area looks like this ...

A Concise Guide to Android Rooting

While putting together a list of the best Android apps, I asked dozens of Android devotees what were their favorites, and a few fired back a short list of apps "for root users."

Rooting an Android phone is kind of like jailbreaking an iPhone. In laymen's terms, it means you're cracking open the hood to access parts of the operating system that were intentionally locked to prevent you from messing them up, or doing anything to your phone that the manufacturer or carrier doesn't want you to do. A slightly more technical explanation is to say that rooting means giving yourself "root access," or greater privileges, or administrator control, to the lowest level of Android's Linux subsystem.

Warning: If you didn't pick up on the clues above, rooting isn't for everyone and can have serious repercussions. While it's perfect legal, it can void your phone's warranty (more on that below). And if you don't know what you're doing or aren't careful, you could potentially destroy your phone. Rooting also opens up more security risks because you can download apps that have access to files that would normally be hidden from them.

Windows - Create a Shortcut/Hotkey to Clear the Clipboard

Have you ever copied something to the clipboard that you don’t want to leave there in case somebody else is going to use your computer? Sure, you can copy something else to the clipboard real quick, but can’t you just make a shortcut or hotkey to clear it?

And of course you can, with the built-in clip.exe utility in Windows 7 or Vista (see conclusion regarding XP). It’s not really meant for clearing the clipboard, but with a little command line magic in a shortcut, we can make it do just that.

Speed up your PC

Windows PCs typically slow down as applications are installed and used. Whether using word processing, spreadsheets, internet, games or anything else, hard drives fill with temporary files that do not always get removed when no longer needed. Usually conducting disk defrag, registry defrag and cleaning system junk and hidden errors in Windows registry with some powerful tool such as freeware such as Ccleaner toolbox, Wise Registry Cleaner or Wise Disk Cleaner or purchase something to clean up/speed up a slow computer. Read on to learn of ways to help keep a PC running smoothly with little or no money.

Make Google Chrome even faster

Chrome is a great browser. It is still not as fast as Mozilla Firefox. At least not out of the box. There are many things you can change to make Google Chrome run faster and smoother, including: flags, advanced settings, extensions, and browsing data.

Flags

Chrome has many experimental features that are hidden. They hide these features figuring that if you do not know they are there, you probably should not be messing with them. They do want anyone to start messing around and destroy their browser.

ChromiumOS - Vanilla (USB bootable)

Vanilla builds are bleeding edge. They give you the opportunity to see and use the latest and greatest that Chromium OS has to offer. Requires only a 4GB USB drive (download size is around 250MB).

ChromiumOS is a lightweight, lightning-fast operating system for your netbook, laptop or even desktop. With the familiar environment of Chromium/Chrome, the entire web is at your fingertips in seconds. HTML5 is fully supported, allowing you to enjoy the very best that the web has to offer.

Translucator - Photoshop-compatible plug-in

Translucator is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Software that can work with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel (Jasc) Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Digital Image Suite etc. Translucator extracts translucent objects (like glass, smoke, fog, fur etc.) from photo in a few mouse clicks with a perfect result. The Translucator unmixs object's and background's colors in processed areas, so you can then place result on other background properly. The cutting objects may be used for collage, scrap-book and greeting card creation.

Privacy Watch: Spotflux Guards Your Privacy for Free

Keeping your data private while you’re browsing the Web can be time-consuming if you want to stop malware, IP-address snoopers, and malicious ads. Spotflux, a New York startup, is aiming to change that with a no-cost, easy-to-use program that encrypts your Internet connection, anonymizes your IP address, and reduces your risk of infection while you surf. Did I mention that it’s free?