Geeky Corner

Can you even imagine calling your parents, or your girlfriend, or talking to your son about how you can’t afford to buy something this year? Of course not.

No Christmas Gifts This Year is a web site that you can share with your friends and family. It’s free and it’s very simple. The point is to [...]

Google has released an official Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide that covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing.
Here are some topics covered in Google’s SEO Starter Guide:

Create unique and accurate page titles
Make use of the “description” meta tag
Improve the structure of your URL’s
Write better anchor texts
Use heading tags appropriately
Optimize your [...]

Do you want to know when someone unfollows you on the micro blogging service Twitter?
Qwitter is a Twitter service which sends you an email telling you when someone unfollows you on Twitter. It also includes your last twitter update in that email message which could be the reason why you have been unfollowed.

There are just a few hours before the end of the presidential campaign in the US. Here is a quick list of all the sites, services, highlights and memories that have made this the most socially involved election in modern history.
Video Your Vote
Want to tell millions of people which lever you intend to [...]

Are you tired of manually building Amazon.com Associates links?
The new Site Stripe feature allows you to create links directly from the Amazon.com site without having to visit Associates Central so you can update your website more frequently, with fewer clicks and less time. It lets you build links to any page on Amazon, and [...]

Gmail just added email emotions and smileys to add some color to your emails.
A picture is worth a thousand words.

If you get asked the same questions over and over again then Gmail Canned Responses will save you a lot of time with FAQs. Canned Responses is a feature you can turn on in Google Labs and allows you to type up responses and to save them as templates.

If you are a regular iGoogle and Google Reader user now you can combine them both in iGoogle. The same powerful Reader is now available in iGoogle, complete with keyboard shortcuts, expanded and list views, infinite scrolling and embedded videos. The Reader gadget has also been updated to take advantage of the canvas view: you [...]

Update: Google Chrome Beta is available for download here.
A beta version of Google open source web browser which is called Chrome will be available tomorrow for Windows only to start.
Google launched this site for Google Chrome where you can find the first screen shots and also the download link.

AJAX in 30 seconds… forget about it. It will take you longer than 30 seconds to absorb the great Rasmus’ 30 second AJAX Tutorial but you just have to read it if your are new to AJAX. It’s easy to start with classic “foo bar” example, and start building from there.