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Most of the Mediawiki instances out there makes use of short URLs for being user friendly and for better SEO. However, many of us don't know that this is actually leading to a major SEO issue.

There are situations where you have to share multiple long links with your friends over chat, twitter or through SMS. Sharing them as is not recommended because of the limited characters available on those platforms. Converting each and every link with URL shortening services is a good idea, but that again consumes lots of space.

Do you want to be on the edge and watch and share trending videos before your friends does? Let it be Why This Kolaveri or Gangnam style , being ahead of your friends in finding and sharing these videos can increase your cool factor. So get ready to become a Geek God and read on.

Ever wondered how to find latitude and longitude of a particular place? This is how you should do that:

Google Maps has some wonderful features that we can use of in daily life. Here, we are going to see such a feature called Distance Measurement Tool which can be used to measure approximate distance between two places.

Before Google releasing Picasa , I used to take screenshots by clicking on the ' Prnt Scrn ' button and then copy pasting the picture onto MS Paint. It's alright if you are just dealing with one or two occasional screenshots. But if you are someone who takes a lot of screenshots for making tutorials or for blogging, this is not going to be easy.

We love fun and so does Google. If you are sitting in home with an Internet connection and has nothing to do in particular, you can have some fun with these cool Google tricks.

Latest version of Mediawiki does not have any in built support for description meta tags. However they are very much essential for SEO. One of the another advantage having meta description tag is when sharing wiki articles in Facebook and similar services as they will use text in the meta description tag for the link preview.

Meta keywords are considered as good search engine optimization technique and still there are few search engines relaying on it. However, Mediawiki does not have any built-in mechanism to generate meta keywords automatically. Webmasters usually fix this issue by making some changes to Mediawiki core, which can create problems in future.

If you are from India, you must have traveled in auto-rickshaw at least once. The next time you travel in an auto-rickshaw you can have your own Android based fare meter with you. Just for that cool geek-factor or for making a drama-fight with the auto-rickshaw driver, we are leaving that choice to you.

Modern UI ( formerly metro UI) is a buzz word nowadays. There are lots of software and websites getting redesigned to follow this design language. We have seen a resistor code converter app for Android following  Modern UI design . This time it is an IRC client that went modern with Modern UI.

Disposable e-mail addresses  can come handy in many situations. For signing up on multiple websites to protect primary e-mail ID from spam and other security risks. Here is a list 41 such services, which you can make use of when situation arrives.

E-mails has been one of the popular mode of communication since the childhood days of Internet. It continues as a preferable mode of communication for official purposes. Even though social networks have managed to bite a big piece of cake from the E-mails, it manages to stand on its own feet.

DownThemAll is a great download manager add-on for Firefox . Since it is a Firefox add-on, Firefox has to be opened first to access DownThemAll. However, this problem can be solved easily.

If you have the habit of downloading large files, or if you have a flaky Internet connection, having a download manager is absolutely necessary. There are many download managers available on Internet both free and paid with various features and claims.

Android is all about apps. Installing lots of them can lead to cluttered menu and home screen. There are many apps in the Google Play Store to even group them together and to arrange them. However, the stock Android is already coming with such functionality. Let's see how to make use of that feature.

Android has created a boom in the mobile phone industry and that led to development of huge amount of Android apps. What if you can run those Android apps on your desktop or laptop? Let it be for playing those games on your computer or for developing Android apps easily, BlueStacks is a wonderful software which can run Android apps within your computer.

Ever wanted to shine among your friends and colleagues with your beautiful Android phone? Ever wanted to make people around you look at your phone screen and shout "OMG, I want that". Let's make them wonder  and make your phone a topic of discussion.

Are you an electronic enthusiast ? If the answers is yes, Bbroy is a must have Android app that can simplify color code conversion tasks. It has a resistor to color code converter and similarly a color code to resistance converter which can handle 4,5 and 6 band resistors.