Opie-IT Resources

How to Delocalize Google Chrome

imwinkel — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:05:55 +0000

Do you live abroad or are traveling around the world and want to keep searching as if you were home? Google Chrome is too smart in the sense that it detects where you are and redirects your searches to the local Google search engine. Google Chrome is not too smart or too friendly when it comes to give the user the power to control if they prefer to use the current location or their original one when it comes to perform searches.
I live in Paris, France, but perform most of my searches in English and want results to be mostly in English language. Here is how to cheat…
Go to Preferences/Basic and click on Manage to the right of Default Search. Now double click on the first entry Google and make sure you have google.com and not google.fr or anything like that under Keyword. You must restart Chrome for this to work.
Next time you type your search directly on the address bar, Chrome will no longer automatically take you to your local Google but will retrieve the results directly from google.com
Another trick is that in order to delocalize your homepage, if you wish to have google.com and not google.fr or local Google as your homepage is simply to do the following once. You type on your address bar google.com/ncr–this will do the trick.

Icones.pro

imwinkel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:18:40 +0000

Looking for an icon?

http://icones.pro

Pic Translator for iPhone

imwinkel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:18:14 +0000

IT parents give birth to IT twins

imwinkel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:20:43 +0000

Screencasting with Screen-o-matic

imwinkel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:05:30 +0000

Great free and online (no need to download and install) tool compatible with Mac and Windows to create a screencast.
Watch the tutorial or click on this link and then CREATE http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

History of the Internet

imwinkel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:01:05 +0000

Nice eight-minute video about the history of the Internet

Google Docs in Plain English from Common Craft

imwinkel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:08:07 +0000

Learn how convenient Google Docs is.

Podcasting from Common Craft

imwinkel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:50:21 +0000

You can watch this video below or visit Common Craft’s website.

http://www.commoncraft.com

How to Create Screencasts

imwinkel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:18:36 +0000

Learn how to create a tutorial by making a video recording all activity taking place on your computer screen. It is quite easy.

Download the free application CamStudio and start recording with or without your voice.

Screencast With CamStudio

Screencast Tutorial Part 1 – Why You Need Screencasts

March 23rd, 2009 | Posted by Ian Ozsvald in MicroISV, Screencast Tutorial

If indeed a picture is worth a thousand words then perhaps a screencast is worth a million? Your viewers get to see your application in action just as if you were giving a live demo (but without any annoying crashes or slow-downs!), they hear a friendly human voice and they get to see your tool solving their problem. What could be more convincing? More…

Google Documents How To

imwinkel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:15:11 +0000

Use Google Documents to create texts, spreadsheets, power point presentations, PDF files, and more. With Google Documents, you will have a very safe backup of all your documents, and you will also be able to access them anywhere (no more need of thumbdrives).

Google Documents Basic Tutorial