Asterisk: Get Personalized Results From Your Favourite Sites

Recently I came across this new search tool, that allowed me to search for related links from a list of custom selected websites. The new service called Asterisk Search works as a plugin on Firefox and Chrome. While visiting a webpage, if you want more related information, we just have to select the text and click on the Asterisk symbol. Features of Asterisk Search Install the GoAsterisk pluging for your browser. It supports Firefox and Chrome at the moment. Highlight text from the webpage you are reading. A small asterisk symbol will show up. Click on it and some results will show up on the left-hand column. There are some popular sites already added like Wikipedia as sources. I could remove these sits and add and customize the sources as I wished. So next time I am reading something, I can simply search from the sites I want to look up rather than all of them. The only downside of Asterisk is you need to register before you use their service. But you can easily sign-in with your Twitter, Facebook or Google accounts. If you liked using Asterisk Search, you might also like to check these 5 online tools to search for similar images. Do try out Asterisk and drop in your comments. Link: Asterisk -- This Post Asterisk: Get Personalized Results From Your Favourite Sites is Published on Devils Workshop . Related posts: Personalized Chrome like Tab now on Firefox with Google Toolbar 5! Why Twitter Has Problems with Google's New Personalized Search? How To View Passwords Hidden Behind Asterisk Character Top 5 Free Softwares to Reveal your Asterisk hidden password

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Carbon Android App for Twitter: Great Design, Barely Functional

Today as I woke up in the morning and checked out my Twitter feed, there was a huge buzz about Carbon which is a new Android app for Twitter. That caught my interest as I use an Android phone. I am not the biggest fan of Twitter's own app for Android and TweetDeck is pretty much dead on Android. So I installed Carbon and I was delighted. Its beauty made me think of another beautifully designed app called Any.do which is a To-Do List app. But that delight lasted for 5 minutes, as I pretty soon found out some very big limitations with Carbon for Twitter. Carbon for Twitter on Android – Features Carbon is possibly one of the best designed apps that exist on Android. It is fluid and intuitive design wise. I found that it allowed me to look through my timeline, mentions and DM with extreme ease with a single swipe motion. I found users could be easily filtered out from the timeline by going to their profile and selecting a filter for them. Now the part where Carbon App for Twitter disappoints: It shows mentions but completely hides retweets. Most importantly it does does not support streaming of Tweets and has no support for push notifications. And one of the worst feature of it for someone who loves looking up lists on Twitter is that it makes your look toggle through lists by looking them up in the menu. I think Carbon for Twitter is not really a great app for Twitter. If you are planning to use it as your primary app on Android, then I must warn you it is barely functional. Though this app is not available on tablets, I think it would be a lot better on a tablet screen than a phone. The lack of functionality make me wonder if they will be rolling out a pro version that is paid. Hopefully this app gets more updates and gets a lot more functional. If it does not then all the effort into a beautiful design will go to waste. Try out Carbon for Twitter on Android and drop in your comments. Link: Carbon for Twitter -- This Post Carbon Android App for Twitter: Great Design, Barely Functional is Published on Devils Workshop . Related posts: List of 7 Great Design Innovations in Smart-phones 5 Great Twitter apps that you should know about 3 Great online tools to clean up your Twitter account Twitter Unveils New Design for Website, Apps and TweetDeck

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My Experiances with WordCamps in India! [TDIS]

It is now over a week since I attended my second WordCamp. The first one I attended in Mumbai, India – where I was slightly disappointed with the lack of WordPress related discussions. But I was not really complaining and looked forward to another one in the city of Baroda. The WordCamp in Baroda was better than the Mumbai event as it had more WordPress related content being discussed and shared. I thought, I would sit down and write my views on WordCamps that I have attended. The idea of this post is to take stock of how things might be at WordCamps being hosted in India and how could they get better.   What I found lacking at WordCamps! WordPress is not exactly very popular in India. It has a decent following but nowhere developed like it is say in western countries. I think there were some basic things that I found lacking at WordCamps I attended. Local meetups arranged prior to WordCamps seem to be few if not completely absent. Having meetups will be a good idea as this will give a good idea to organizers on how much local enthusiasm is there for the WordCamps. It will also help drum up support for WordCamps. People love to volunteer and get involved, especially if it about something they are passionate about. But people who want to get involved need a platform to get involved. The talk sessions sometimes are more centered around social media and SEO tips. I personally find this a waste of time when social media marketing tips and SEO tutorials are shared which have nothing to do with WordPress. I did not come across any good sessions on basic introduction to WordPress. This I think is a must have session for any WordCamp. I was also a little disappointed that WordCamps I attended hardly saw a mention of how people should contribute to WordPress. It is important that as open-source community we think of making and adding to WordPress more than just taking from it. I won't be too harsh on the two WordCamps that I attended as I saw organizers themselves sharing their experiences with other organizers very freely. This is crucial as sharing their experiences will improve WordCamps a lot more in the future. What I would like to see in India's WordPress community I am using the word 'community' instead of 'WordCamp' on purpose. I would love to see organizers write down a detailed list of difficulties they came across while arranging a WordCamp. This would be a great resource to future WordCamp organizers. Another idea is for organizers to help first time speakers. First time speakers are often unsure about their sessions and maybe a list of things to do, guides on how to go about presenting a session and what they should talk about might be of great use to them. Finally, I would love to see a session called 'Basics of WordPress' for people who simply have no idea of what WordPress is all about. This could be like a 10 minute session. Finally, I would like a lot local casual meetups. It would also be great if people who take part in such meetups write and share what they discussed during these gatherings. India's love affair with WordPress is simply beginning! I suspect India does not have a very strong WordPress community. There is a lot of interest in it surely but most students are not exactly aware of it. There are many WordPress developers who work freelance in India. But many of them are not exactly organized as a community. Hopefully with more WordCamps all that will change slowly by surely. As WordPress is open-source, it's biggest supporters will always be college going kids who do not exactly have a lot of resources but have the adventurous spirit to learn new things. Considering India will have a lot of young people who might not find fancy jobs in IT, I am sort of betting on them finding their true calling with WordPress. Useful Links for WordCamp and WordPress Meetup Organizers If you are interested in taking part in WordCamps or organizing them you might find some of these links useful. Complete WordCamp Schedule – Find WordCamps from around the world) Become a WordCamp Organizer – Useful if you are planning to become a organizer Make – WordPress.org Events – Useful link for people who are interested in reading up about best practices to follow while organizing WordPress related events. This also includes information on meetups. Finally, as I was writing about WordCamps in India, let me inform you about the next one. WordCamp Pune 2013 will be held on the 23rd &24th February 2013. Special thanks to Rahul Banker, who did a great job of organizing WordCamp – Baroda 2013. Do drop in your comments and views about WordCamps and WordPress events in India. Editor's Note: This post is part of our TDIS ( Thank Devil It's Sunday) feature, where we publish casual and personal posts. -- This Post My Experiances with WordCamps in India! [TDIS] is Published on Devils Workshop . Related posts: SEO Must Die! [TDIS] [TDIS] Thank Devil its Sunday The Power of 140 Characters [TDIS] Is addiction to Technology just a myth? [TDIS]

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Typing ‘File:///’ crashes apps in OS X Mountain Lion

What if I say typing a string of 8 characters can actually crash almost every application on your Mac? The string is 'File:///' (without quotes, and it's case-sensitive). Sounds weird, right? Give it a try now. While Mountain Lion has been released long time ago, a bug submission to Open Radar has got attention from a lot of OS X users. Apparently, this bug makes apps crash whenever the user types 'File:///' into a text field of any app – that even includes Spotlight. So what is triggering this? It's the OS X's built-in spell checker (if you type continuously without stopping, it won't crash as OS X will only do a spell check when you stop typing). Now, this isn't a big problem at all, as no one's going to actually type that string unknowingly. Though, if you want to get rid of the bug, just disable spell checking and text replacement from the System preferences app. It'll be interesting to see how fast Apple's going to release a patch for this. -- This Post Typing 'File:///' crashes apps in OS X Mountain Lion is Published on Devils Workshop . Related posts: Showdown: Windows 8 Vs. OS X Mountain Lion Apple releases updates for iOS and OS X Mountain Lion Enable hibernation in OS X Mountain Lion for quick booting Apple's Mountain Lion to Bring iPad Experiance to Mac

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Simple Explanation of Creative Commons License [Infographic]

Last week I was discussing issues of how bloggers are not aware of copyright laws or copyright symbols. Though most bloggers learn about copyright issues well after they start blogging but well before they start making money from blogging. I know a lot of young bloggers in their teens who copy-paste content from other sides on first website they put up. This is done very often done harmlessly and without realization that they might be actually doing something illegal copyright wise. As bloggers learn more, people learn about various licenses. Creative Commons is on such licence which has been embraced by the online community to share information freely. But everything with the CC licence symbol is not something that can be used without giving credit to the author. Creative Commons is used often in combination of Attribution (BY), ShareAlike (SA), NoDerivs (ND) and Non Commercial (NC). I came across a nice infographic that explains how you can use Creative Commons licenced content. It was created by Milos Janata. My Tip: If you are wondering if you should credit the author/creator of some content, then you should be asking yourself why would you not want to give credit. Even if it was not legally required, it is ethically required in my opinion. Do drop in your comments if you have any more simplified way for explaining copyright licences. -- This Post Simple Explanation of Creative Commons License [Infographic] is Published on Devils Workshop . Related posts: How to make a Creative Photo Profile on Facebook 10 Creative and Stunning Free Twitter Icons Theme Creator: Get creative with your Sony Ericsson mobile Creative internet memes on Facebook spread like wildfire!

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Getting fit in 2013?

A Recipe for tracking weight loss! Also: New Triggers for Vimeo, Etsy, Gmail, and Pocket, plus more. Track your progress with this Recipe: Record your Body Scale measurements to a calendar by masayukig on October 24, 2012 We’ve been busy in the new year improving the Channels you use and love! The Vimeo, Etsy, Gmail, and Pocket Channels introduced Triggers that opened up creative possibilities for new Recipes.   Try out some of the recent additions with these hand-picked Recipes: Save Vimeo Staff Picks to view later in Pocket by alexander on January 16, 2013 Email me when a new item is listed in a shop by etsy on January 10, 2013 Log rain in your city to a spreadsheet as it happens by linden on September 04, 2012 Schedule reminders to review starred emails by jeff on January 09, 2013 Automatically tweets what you favorite in Pocket by readitlater on December 17, 2012 Good luck keeping your resolutions this year. One month down, eleven more to go!   —The IFTTT Team   This newsletter was automatically sent to ashmikutty.friends@blogger.com because you signed up for IFTTT with that address. To disable this communication, you can manage your email settings or unsubscribe from the IFTTT Newsletter.   IFTTT · 923 Market Street #400 · San Francisco, CA 94103

Insert Your Signature into a Gmail Attachment With a Single Click

Usually signing documents online is a very tedious process. For example, someone wants your signature scanned on a document. Ideally you have to download the document as an attachment from your email account. Then we take a print out of the document and put a signature on it. Finally, we have to scan the same document and send it back. HelloSign allows users to do this in an automated way. It works well on Chrome if you add their extension. How HelloSign Works: First log-in to your Gmail account and also install the HelloSign Chrome extension. Then you will have to create an account with HelloSign. You can also use your Google account to simply sign up. Enter a specimen of your signature and save it. Now when you check your Gmail attachments it gives your an additional option to 'Sign'. This will open up pop-up that allows you to insert your saved signature into the attachment. This inserted signature then is saved on your attachment. Send the attachment back to the person who needs your signature on a document. This works great to insert not just signatures but also your initials. Additionally this is good for the environment as you do not have to take out printouts just to sign a document and scan it to send it back. Do you know of any other similar services? Do drop in your comments. Link: Hello Sign Extension -- This Post Insert Your Signature into a Gmail Attachment With a Single Click is Published on Devils Workshop . Related posts: Insert HTML Signature in Gmail [Greasemonkey Script] Save Gmail Attachments to SkyDrive in a Single Click Gmail Lab Introduced "Insert Images Button" How to subscribe to a blog with just a single click? [Chrome]

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