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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 03:10 AM PST

Okay this is a sure sign that Twitter wants to go local. Many amongst us might not notice this new feature with Twitter as many don’t really visit the Twitter homepage. Almost everyone who is regular on Twitter uses some Twitter application or the other. One very powerful way to get noticed and also to notice new events happening around the world is to watch trending topics on Twitter.

For instance if you looked up the trending topic #iPad you will get a pretty much all the important tweets you ever wanted. This makes trending topics into fantastic resource of getting latest local news on Twitter.

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So now Twitter page shows you local trending topics. For instance in the image above you can see Canada. If I select a country the related cities show up below for me to select city specific trending topics which keeep on changing on the right hand side of the page.

This has great relevance when it comes to looking up Twitter for local reasons. India and Indian city is still not a part of the Local Trending options on Twitter but it will show up considering Twitter’s popularity increasing in India.

This will certainly make Twitter useful not just for people to spread the word globally but also locally. As a blogger I might think of Twitter as a great way to spread the word globally. But it would be great for a local shop or electronics outlet to spread the word using local trends.

Will Local Trending topics monetize Twitter?

This is not a rumor, but a personal opinion that Local Trending can be a great way for Twitter to get monetized. Trending topics sort of behave like search engine results. Maybe Twitter can charge certain accounts extra for their tweets to be in Trending topics more often or for a longer duration.

What do you think about local trending topics on Twitter? Let me know through your comments.

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The Most Simple Way of Hiding files

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 09:36 PM PST

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The famous Hollywood Actress Halle Berry once said – Everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you ! In relation to keeping secrets one of the biggest headaches of computer users is :

How do they hide their confidential and important files ? There are more than a thousand ways of hiding files and folders eg : using a software (folder lock) or creating a series of folders and sub-folders.

But have a look at the most simplest and effective way of hiding files :

Steps to HIDE the file :

Say for example you have an important MS-Word file called "Accounts" which contains your important financial data and accounts.
goto Control Panel – Folder Options – goto View Tab
Uncheck the Option : "Hide Extensions for Known File Types" – this action will display the extensions of files in the computer

Click Apply and OK
Now the file "Accounts" will be displayed as "Accounts.doc"
Rename the file from "Accounts.doc" to "accts.rrr". You can give any filename and any extension instead of ".rrr" but ensure that the extension is not associated with any other program.

The Computer will ask you for confirmation – Click Yes
The file icon will change

Steps to VIEW the file :

Open the program in which the file can be view, in the above example, open MS-Word
Drag the file to the Application (MS-Word) (as shown in the picture below)

Thats it – you can view it

CAUTION before using this technique : remember the filename and the location as-to-where have you stored the file. You can use this method with other file types also like : audio, video, presentation etc.

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