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Youtube Tips

If you want to link to a specific part of a video on YouTube, you can. For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM#t=5m05s Notice the “#t=5m05s” on the end of the url? That link will take you 5 minutes and 5 seconds into that video. Linking to a particular minute and second can be really helpful sometimes. To do it on an [...] Related posts:

Lessons in Entrepreneurship from Sholay

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Phishing Scams in Plain English

very year companies spend billions in upgrading and adapting to new technologies in order to spare them from being the victims of these new cyber crimes. Knowing how they are done is a great step towards not falling for them and it’s usually the difference between a victim and someone being spared. So, here is a [...] No related posts.

The Buzz at Google

With more and more communication happening online, the social web has exploded as the primary way to share interesting stuff, tell the world what you’re up to in real-time and stay more connected to more people. In today’s world of status messages, tweets and update streams, it’s increasingly tough to sort through it all, much [...] Related posts:

Tips for Digicam owners

Do you own a digital camera? Chances are, you do, because it seems like most everyone does these days. When you look at your digital camera, do you see all of the little icons on it? Yours probably looks different than everyone else’s, but somewhere on your camera, you should be able to find them. What [...] Related posts:

Gmail to add Twitter-like live updates

Google will soon add a feature to its Gmail service that will allow users to share their status, much like on popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a reports. While the news is not yet official, it is expected to be made so as early as this week. The add-on [...] Related posts:

Sharpen Your Skills

Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter asked for a job with a timber merchant, and he got it. His salary was really good and so were the working conditions. For that reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he was [...] No related posts.

Scraping websites using YQL

We typically do lot of data scraping for various projects. We either use php functions or CURL for scraping data from remote websites. This involves reading remote url content, removing unwanted characters from it and then using regular expressions getting relevant data. While this is not that complex, it sometimes becomes too messy. So while exploring [...] Related posts:

Pinstorm wins ‘Red Herring Global Top 100’ award

We made history of sorts yesterday, by becoming the only brand management firm in the world to be awarded the “Red Herring Global Top 100” award this year. The award is given by US-based magazine Red Herring to innovative technology-driven and commercially successful firms around the world and picked through its editorial process. While we have won [...] Related posts:

Pinstorm is the reddest herring!

2010 Threat Predictions

McAfee, maker of computer security software, has released a report detailing their take on the threats computer users will face in 2010. As per the report, Adobe Systems’ Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010. Among its other predictions, McAfee expects more sophisticated attacks next year against social networking [...] Related posts: