http://bizfractals.com Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:51:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever thought of that "oops" moment where you sent a totally uncalled for message to your boss that could have cost you your job? Well, if you had the sense to send it through TigerText, you still have a chance of saving your job. TigerText, a new iPhone texting application, has ... http://bizfractals.com/2010/02/now-messages-that-self-destruct.html A while ago, Google had announced it's new experiment on making searches more personal. The idea was to get search results from all over the world including your own social circles. This is now made live in Beta on Google.com. If you search Google.com, you would see the results from ... http://bizfractals.com/2010/01/google-search-moving-social.html No, it's not a tutorial on the robots.txt file. (In fact, you can get rid of it entirely) While most of us know how to edit the robots.txt file and use it to prevent certain pages on the site from being indexed, what we don't realize is that they still show ... http://bizfractals.com/2010/01/how-to-prevent-your-pages-from-being-indexed.html Here is an interesting post by Sam Tilston where he has collated a list of 100 good search engine optimization and Search engine marketing related websites; all 10 each, all neatly categorized. The post covers: 1) Search Engine Blogs - providing latest news about search engines 2) SEO Blogs - Providing good SEO ... http://bizfractals.com/2010/01/top-100-seo-and-sem-resources.html An interesting one, this! You all know how important getting good backlinks is to a website. And you would be surprised how people get them done. Some of them are the old fashioned way of direct linking through comments, while the others are incredibly cunning and black-hat. Here is something to ponder ... http://bizfractals.com/2010/01/how-to-get-links-from-the-top-50-domains.html It's not yet the next best thing in the Tablet world, but of course, it has all the potential of being the next best thing. Then again, it IS one good thing in Green initiatives! Boogie Board, from Improv Electronics, is an LCD writing tablet that you can write on to ... http://bizfractals.com/2010/01/an-innovative-writing-tablet-just-30.html You can now use your Twitter account and tweet live directly from outer space - if you plan to make it to outer space anytime soon, that is! On Friday, Timothy J Creamer, an astronaut from NASA sent the first ever Tweet from outer space. This was made possible after a ... http://bizfractals.com/2010/01/tweeting-from-outer-space.html In a report released by the Security firm Imperva on Thursday on the 32-million passwords recently exposed by a hacker from the site RockYou.com, it showed that despite severe security risks, people still use passwords as common as 123456. The most commonly used passwords as identified by the report are: 123456 12345 123456789 Password iloveyou princess rockyou 1234567 12345678 abc123 Nearly 50% ... http://bizfractals.com/2010/01/people-still-use-weak-passwords.html If you want to know what's inside the new Google Nexus One, watch this video. iFixit provides a full "inside-out" view of the $530 phone disassembling it using a Philips screw driver. What's more, they even made a slideshow out of it. Check out more here. http://bizfractals.com/2010/01/disassembling-nexus-one.html From Remote controls, joysticks and the mouse, it's time to get to the real deal in reality. Imagine this - you're watching an old rerun, and then suddenly you remember that it's time for your favorite show in a channel about 30 or 40 channels away from the current one. You ... http://bizfractals.com/2010/01/now-technology-that-understands-hand-gestures.html