Yahoo has rolled out their blog search, but there is no stand alone site. Currently, you must search through the yahoo news to get the blog search feature. Here's the command to get around this.Yahoo has released their blog search tool; however, they are not making it very easy to use. Currently the blog searches only appear if you search through yahoo's news search. By manipulating the URL, however, you can use yahoo to do a blog search without using the news interface. Here's the URL... http://blog.news.search.yahoo.com/blog/search?p=searchterm Just replace searchterm with whatever term for which you want to blog search. For example to search yahoo for blog postings mentioning scoble... http://blog.news.search.yahoo.com/blog/search?p=scoble Now run along and see if yahoo is spidering your blog. :)... Read More

 If you do not log into your yahoo portal or email account after a while. Yahoo will deactivate it. This will tell you how you can prevent your account from being closed forever.You get sick, you go out of town, you are in a hurricane. Whatever. You have not logged into you yahoo account in forever. Now when you try to log in, you find that your account has been closed. Have you really lost everything forever? Maybe not! Yahoo does not give phone support for its free accounts; however, there is an email that can help you: account-security-help@cc.yahoo-inc.com Give it a shot...... Read More

 Many blog publishers seem to subscribe to the view of the --If you build it, they will come-- mentality which unfortunately isn't the case in 99% of blogs. Some people write blogs to air their own opinions, some write about a particular passion and some write as a job or about their business. So how do you get people to your blog and keep them there? Many blog publishers seem to subscribe to the view of the "If you build it, they will come" mentality which unfortunately isn't the case in 99% of blogs. Some people write blogs to air their own opinions, some write about a particular passion and some write as a job or about their business. So how do you get people to your blog and keep them there? I think the first thing you have to consider is why you want people to come to your blog. We all think we have interesting things to say but is it actually relevant to other people? Are you trying to get a message across or just sounding off? Will they want to come back? If the answer to some of... Read More

 How to make sure your blog is set up for search engine spiders - it'll improve the user experience too!As I've researched this article I've realised how guilty I have personally been of some of the points that follow so I've taken some of my own advice and it's amazing how much better the site is performing in searches just with a few minor changes (such as linking titles through and avoiding "click here" links). So here are a few of my tips for making your blog search engine friendly and not only that, they'll help your visitors experience as well. 1. Avoid the use of nested tables. Unlike a human, spiders navigate round your site via the code if you have table within table, within table this is a lot of extra code that the spider has to cut through in order to actually get to your content. The old version of my site (http://www.katywhitton.com/blogold) used nested tables for layout which looks nice but is a nightmare for the spider to parse. The newest version of the site (http://www... Read More

 How to find all recipes from a single user.Have you ever wonder how many recipes you've posted and what they were? Do you like the work of a certain submitter and want to see more of their work? Well here's how... 1.Enter this site in your Address bar: http://tech-recipes.com/modules.php?name=Recipes&op=authorsearch&author=name. 2.Than replace the word name at the end of the URL with the user name of the person you want to look up. For example - for davak it would be: http://tech-recipes.com/modules.php?name=Recipes&op=authorsearch&author=davak. For me (gouthro): http://tech-recipes.com/modules.php?name=Recipes&op=authorsearch&author=gouthro 3.Enjoy... Read More

 Everybody uses flickr. Now you can embed a flickr slide show into any web page. Code and instructions included.Flickr rocks. You already have a ton of pictures there. Why not show your flickr photos as a slide show on your web site or blog? It is very easy. The hardest part of the process is figuring out your flickr user id number. I like Chicago Eye's work so I have used him for an example. To figure out your user_id, just look in your RSS feed. Log onto flickr and scroll to the bottom of one of your picture pages. You should see something like the following: Feeds for ChicagoEye's photostream Available as RSS 2.0 and Atom When you mouse over the RSS links on your page, you'll be able to see your user id. http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=70267247@N00&format=rss_200 Replace user_id=70267247@N00 with your user id. Here is the code: <iframe align=center src=http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=70267247@N00&frameBorder=0 width=500 scrolling=no ... Read More

 Many sites put a transparency layer over good images so that you can't copy their images... but with Firefox it's a piece of cake. This way you don't need to get any external software to do that.Make sure that you do this in Firefox 1. Right click on the page which you want to copy the image from 2. Click on View Page Info 3. Click on the Media Tab 4. Under "Address" browse through the list and see which one matches the image. 5. If you want to save the picture just click on the Save as... button and save it 6. If you want to copy the image then right click on the URL of the image and click on copy 7. Paste the URL into the address bar 8. Right click on the image and click on Copy Image This way you can copy images even if they are protected with a transparency image over it without having to download additional software.... Read More

 You are so tired of your hotmail account and you don't want to worry about somebody breaking into it and getting your old email. Here's how to delete your hotmail account.You've probably got three or four email accounts, but you have finally decided to use just one. However, you don't want to leave those old account open so somebody can steal what you have in there. Hotmail is changing all the time. Try one of the methods below to delete the account. Direct URL: 1. Log into hotmail. 2. Paste this URL into your browser: http://hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/accountclose?fti=yes 3. Click Close My Account Help URL: 1. Log into hotmail 2. Paste this URL into your browser: http://g.msn.com/0HEMSN_HOTMAIL_PIMV10ENUS9/10014 3. You should be redirected to the close account page 4. Click Close My Account Find it Through Help: 1. Log into hotmail 2. Click the help link in the upper right corner 3. Search for Close 4. Click on the Close Account Link 5. Continue to the close account page... Read More

 You log-in but you just see a blank screen. Here are some common fixes.I use gmail for my primary email source; however, sometimes I just see a blank screen after logging in. I see the loading... and then nothing. I don't know what causes it, but one of my co-workers told me a work-arounds. Work-arounds for blank gmail screen: 1. Log into GMail through this URL instead: https://gmail.google.com 2. If that doesn't work, try clearing your cache and cookies and retrying the above URL.... Read More

 You can use google to search through all public pictures within facebook.Many of the pictures within facebook are public and have been indexed by google. By using a specially crafted search, you can find and view these albums easily. google: site:facebook.com inurl:album If you find any other interesting facebook hacks, please leave them in the comments below.... Read More

 HTML codes to place within your website to be able to control MSN Messenger.AIM has hyperlink command codes; now MSN Messenger does too! Just place these html codes with your web page or blog and people will be able to chat, conference, or add you to their contact list. Cool, huh? Replace netpassport@emailaddress.com with your own MSN Messenger email login. When clicking this link, someone will be able to start a text chat with you: <a href="msnim:chat?contact=netpassport@emailaddress.com ">Click to chat!</a> When clicking this link, someone will automatically add you to their contact list: <a href="msnim:add?contact=netpassport@emailaddress.com ">Click to add me to your contact list!</a> This link will start a voice chat with you: <a href="msnim:voice?contact=netpassport@emailaddress.com ">Start a voice chat with me!</a> Clicking on this link will start a video chat with you: <a href="msnim:video... Read More

 I love flickr, but I often find default format annoying. This little URL hack will allow you to view the photos in a quicker, alternative format.I love surfing through flickr photos. However, the default viewing format is so annoying to me. Thanks to one of my office co-workers, I found out about this alternative way. How about an example... This guy does excellent photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/santu/81903269/ Just add surf to the end of the URL and notice the difference: http://www.flickr.com/photos/santu/81903269/surf To go into surf mode, just click on a photo where you can see the comments. Adding "surf" from there usually works. The alternative "surf" method is easier for me to skip around a view what I want to view. Try it out. It's a fun little flickr hack.... Read More

 Forever I have had a folder full of fun little flickr hacks. I decided to clean them out and share them. Please post more if you know.Seeing MickeyMouse already shared my "surf" hack with you... http://www.flickr.com/fun/ This will provide a link to the zeitgeist which provides a script for viewing photos on your own webpage or blog or whatever. You can view your pictures, your contacts pictures, or everybody's. This page also provides a link to an alternative way you can view all your buddies. http://www.flickr.com/do/ goes to http://www.flickr.com/do/more/ which gives all the commerical products associated with flickr. http://www.flickr.com/mob/ This is the flickr mobile portal that allows you to quickly search for photos from your graphics-able cell-phone or portable device. These previous secrets no longer work for me: www.flickr.com/tools/marklet.gne www.flickr.com/photos/alltags/ Please leave any others in the comments below.... Read More

 I enjoy using Flickr and Picasa. Using this shortcut, you can export/email pictures from Picasa to Flickr with ease. This technique also allows you to set your tags, picture title, and description at the time of the upload.By using gmail, you can easily upload pictures from Picasa to Flickr. New changes in Flickr allow you to upload the tags, picture title, and descriptions as well. Email from Picasa2 to Flickr: 1. Log into your Flickr account 2. Click the Upload-by-email link 3. Copy the email address listed on this page. You may also wish to set a global tag/tags to all pictures emailled to flickr. I use "email_flickr" or something similiar just for reference. 4. Load Picasa2 5. Within Picasa, click the Tools menu and then Options 6. Selec the Email tab, select Use My Gmail Account, and set the size of picture you wish to send. 7. Click OK. 8. Select a picture or pictures to upload Note: All pictures uploaded at once will share the same tag, title, and descriptions; therefore, it is ... Read More

 Using this undocumented feature in picasa, you can quickly browse and search through your Picasa images. In Picasa (discovered in version 2.2.0 for Windows), type ctrl-shift-L. It will open your default browser to a page which lists your folders, with very small icons, and clickable links to the indiviudal folders, which then have links to individual photos. I'm not sure what it's good for, but it's there. It's not documented that I've been able to find.... Read More

 Have you ever been frustrated of wanting to save a really nice photo on Flickr, but when you try to save it, what you got was "spacer.gif", a picture nothing more than, yea, nothing. This recipe not only allows you to save the resized image you see on that Flickr page, but we can also hack the URL to see the Medium, Large, and even Original photos on Flickr, and even saving them!This isn't really a long manual, all you need to do in this hack is to find the URL, change the URL, and paste the URL. It's that simple! Firstly, of course you will need to choose a photo you want to save. Once you are at the photo's unique Flickr page, view the html source of the Flickr page. On the html source page, search for "photoImgDiv", which is a text found unique within the region where you can find the photo URL. Once you are at the region where "photoImgDiv" can be located, it's pretty easy. Search for a similiar URL, example: "http://static.flickr.com/27/88869304_sdg72h322.jpg?v=0". The URL should ... Read More

 Not anything complicated, but this describes a quick way to view all comments left on your photos no matter how long ago they were left.Flickr allows you to see the comments (or activity) on your photos over a certain period of time. It defaults to something crazy short like a few hours. Looking at the URL for the dropdown box to select the activity over the last day, you can see that the URL can easily be manipulated to select ever how many days you wish. http://www.flickr.com/recent_activity.gne?days=1 Here are the step-by-step directions to view your activity longer than a month: 1. Log into flickr.com 2. Copy and paste this link into your address bar and hit enter: http://www.flickr.com/recent_activity.gne?days=1000 I have selected one thousands days but you can change the 1000 above to ever how many days you wish. Enjoy checking up on all those comments and activity that you missed.... Read More

 Many people on the web do not believe that you can do AIM on your palm system for free. I have found free options that most people do not know about.I recently received a palm TX from work. Typically I have not liked any handhelds in the past, but the wifi on this one has me sold. So many free wifi hotspots exist now that this has become a very useful and cheap way to communicate. I started searching for AIM clients and was shocked that nobody had found any free options. Well, I have found three. If you have others to add to the list, please drop a comment below. Free Palm AIM clients: 1. Aol.co.uk - Although the US web site sells the palm AIM client, you can download the uk AIM client for free. It's in english and works great! 2. Toccer - This free client is probably the most well known free client. Many people have noted a bunch of lock-ups with it. Development continues and is very active. 3. Web-Based Mobile AIM - AOL has released a web-based mobile client. Although the URL suggest... Read More

 Using a specificially crafted url, you can use your RSS feeder to subscribe to yahoo search results.Google allows you to subscribe to search results through RSS. Why not do the same thing through Yahoo? This is the format of the subscription URL: http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/rss/webSearch.xml?appid=yahoosearchwebrss&query=searchterm Where searchterm is the item which you want to receive search results regarding. For example, if you would like to subscribe to the top search terms for tech-recipes, the url would be RSS Subscribe to "tech-recipes" as search term http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/rss/webSearch.xml?appid=yahoosearchwebrss&query=tech-recipes Pretty boring, but it's just an example. This is very valuable for webmasters looking to follow the popularity and ranking of specific search terms.... Read More

 Searching a busy photostream for a certain comment or comments can be very difficult. By using google, you can search a whole photostream very quickly and efficently.If you use Flickr frequently, you'll realize that searching through comments would be an awesome feature to have. Since flickr is well spidered through google, this google search will allow you to do it. I use this often to reference previous comments that people have left within my photostream. Here's the simpologist photostream that I frequently visit. If I wanted to search his photostream for a comment containing the word "shot", I would use this google search: Google: site:flickr.com inurl:photos/simpologist shot the site: command limits it to flickr the inurl: command limits it to the simpologist photostream and then shot is the term I am searching for. Enjoy.... Read More