Back in January, Jeffro announced that WPTavern may no longer be regularly updated. However, over the past few weeks, I’ve been following the new posts at the blog by the new owner. And, yesterday WPTavern opened its doors to writers worldwide to contribute to making the website a highly successful WordPress community. In the near future, WPTavern will become an authoritative website. It’s not about publishing 100 articles a day, but publishing content that is interesting and, providing research/back story to that content. I like to think of WPTavern as an ongoing diary as to what is happening within the…

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Over the past few years, YouTube has gained a strong presence in the video world. It’s one of those services that Google has bothered to develop versus others which have been neglected post acquisition. Yesterday, YouTube announced the launch of paid channels as a pilot programme with a small group of partners that will offer paid channels on YouTube. There are currently 53 channels available for subscription including Big Star with subscription fees starting at $0.99 per month. Every channel has a 14-day free trial, and many offer discounted yearly rates. I don’t see anything that tempts me yet to…

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If you’ve wanted to prevent your site from appearing on Google Shopping or Google Advisor, you now have a chance to do so within Webmaster tools. Webmasters can now opt out of having content that Google has crawled from their site displayed on: Google Shopping Google+ Local Google Flights Google Hotels Google Advisor To do so simply visit the Opt-Out page and you will be presented with the following option. Simply click the big red button to exclude your site from showing up in the Google properties. After choosing this option, content crawled and sourced from your site via Googlebot…

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After axing Reader a few days back, Google unveiled Google Keep. Integrated with Google Drive, Google Keep aims to help you keep track of your notes. The interface is very basic on the browser and straightforward on your phone. A few clicks and you’ve saved a note which is automatically synced across all your devices. With Google Keep you can: Keep track of your thoughts via notes, lists and photos Have voice notes transcribed automatically Use homescreen widgets to capture thoughts quickly Color-code your notes to help find them later Swipe to archive things you no longer need Turn a…

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Ever since I bought a Kindle around a year back, I’ve rediscovered my love for books. The various apps available for desktop and mobile make reading a breeze. However, I am yet to use the Kindle to browser websites, because the browser is just not built for this. In what looks like an attempt to tap this user base, Amazon has now added the Send to Kindle option to its arsenal. The Send to Kindle Button lets you easily send that content to your Kindle to read later, at your convenience. Just send once and read everywhere on any of…

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Opera announced today that they have acquired Mountain View based Skyfire Labs. + On his blog, Skyfire CEO Jeff Glueck commented: Opera and Skyfire are a natural fit. Both companies have extensive focus on operator products well beyond our well-known consumer web browsers, with complementary geographic strengths (Skyfire in North America, Opera globally and especially across the entire developing world). Skyfire brings cutting-edge products like Rocket Optimizer and Skyfire Horizon that are proven in commercial deployment, and signed customers including 3 of the largest U.S. wireless operators. Our technology in video, app optimization, and mobile browser personalization for smartphones and…

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Last week saw BlackBerry announce its new platform and the two new phones that will be available to use with it. The Platform is known as BlackBerry 10 and is said to be aimed at the socially active person as everything is in one place at the swipe of a finger. The Platform BlackBerry 10 is dubbed as a “robust and reliable platform that is smooth and responsive”. With the ever present BlackBerry Hub allowing you to access all your conversations in one place. BlackBerry Flow, which enables features and apps to flow seamlessly together. A keyboard that understands and…

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After several weeks of testing and a few RC versions, the WordPress team officially released WordPress 3.5. Labelled Elvin, this is a major release of everyone’s favourite blogging platform. Elvin boasts of a brand new media manager, a new theme (Twenty Twelve), a retina ready layout (for those of you with retina screens), a new colour picker amongst hundreds of other tiny changes. You already have a few articles floating out there that highlights in detail what’s new in WordPress 3.5: Technosailor’s 10 things you need to know about WordPress 3.5 One Extra Pixel’s What’s New in WordPress 3.5: The…

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Gmail’s advanced search feature is extremely powerful. I usually use this for for searching for emails from recipients or with certain labels. Today, Gmail rolled out a new feature on searching through your emails. This feature allows you to search for attachments of a particular size and from a particular period. This means, for example, to find emails larger than 5MB, you can search for size:5m or larger:5m or to find emails sent over a year ago, older_than:1y. Do you find the feature useful. For me searching for attachments would be much less used. But, I would most likely be…

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The Skype team today released a preview of the Skype for Windows Phone 8 app. Available for download in the Windows store. In this Preview, you’ll get all of the Skype basics in the new, modern design along with many of the new features such as integration with the People Hub and a combined contact list with buddies from Windows Live Messenger. Plus, you’ll start receiving some call and message notifications – even when the app is closed and in the background. Features: Call friends and family with free Skype to Skype voice calls over 3G* or WiFi Make free…

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