How to Open Embedded Google Maps in Full View

Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/embed-google-maps-trick/7897/

How to Open Embedded Google Maps in Full View

Here’s an old Google Maps trick that some of you may know already but I just discovered it via an accidental click.

So what you see below is not a static screenshot image but a live & interactive Google Map that lets you zoom, pan, switch modes from satellite to terrain and so on.

There are some limitations though with embedded Google maps. For instance, you can’t share the link of an embedded Google map via email nor can you find the location shown in the embedded space, they don’t support driving directions and their size is often too small to look good in print.

To overcome all such limitations, you need to open this embedded map into the main Google Maps website and this can be done very easily by simple clicking the "Powered by Google" logo at the bottom left corner.

Now you have the same map but inside the full-featured Google Maps website that supports print, email sharing, driving directions and all other features. You can also use the URL of this Google Map to determine the latitude and longitude of that embedded location.

This is much like clicking any image frame of an embedded YouTube clip - it will take you automatically to actual video on the main YouTube website.

Related: How To Embed Anything in a Site

How to Open Embedded Google Maps in Full View (Published at Digital Inspiration)

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Fair Share Detects Content Plagiarism via RSS Feeds

Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/detect-rss-feed-plagiarism/7876/

Fair Share Detects Content Plagiarism via RSS Feeds

Content theft via RSS feeds is probably the biggest challenge for bloggers and other web publishers. Most sites are now syndicating full text RSS feeds to keep their regular readers happy but this makes life easy for scrapers as well as they can automatically republish your article on to their own site without having to do anything.

How to Detect RSS Feed Plagiarism

Google is not always a good tool to detect RSS feed plagiarism as it may not be indexing these “scrap” sites too frequently and second, some of the sites may not exist in Google’s index at all as they are too young and so the “Sandbox effect” takes over.

Now if you have a blog and are struggling to detect other sites that may be reusing content from your RSS feed without permission or attribution, try Fair Share - it’s a free web service that will help you discover other web pages on the Internet that are republishing a portion of your RSS content. And it works as advertised.

Related: How to Deal with Internet Plagiarism

How to use Fair Share

To use Fair Share, simply provide them the URL of your RSS feed and wait for a few hours while the Fair Share bots scour the web for possible violations.

You’ll get all the results in a personalized RSS feed that will not just inform you about sites taking your content but also the extent and whether that size in monetizing your content through ads.

Not all feeds in the Fair Share report may be instances of plagiarism as some sites genuinely use excerpts and link to the original story (e.g, Alltop) but it’s still a must-have service for bloggers.

And here’s another screenshot from the Fair Share report. It highlights content on other web pages that may have been lifted from your RSS feed.

If you are syndicating content though RSS feeds under a Creative Commons License, the Fair Share service will also help you detect if the other site is respecting that license or not through attribution (or linking to the original article). Thanks Arpit for the tip.

Fair Share for Websites without RSS Feeds

If you have a small website and need to check for instances of plagiarism in the blog world, use Google Reader to create a RSS feed of your website and pass on the Google feed address to Fair Share.

You cannot prevent websites or blogs from republishing your content but you can always file a DMCA complaint with their web hosts.

Fair Share Detects Content Plagiarism via RSS Feeds (Published at Digital Inspiration)

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iPod touch 2G finally jailbroken with NitroKey

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/ipod-touch-2g-finally-jailbroken-with-nitrokey/

The iPhone Dev Team hackers have been teasing their redsn0w iPod touch jailbreak for what seems like forever now, but those you tired of waiting might want to check out the just-released NitroKey Slipstream. The $15 software does its thing on the 2.2.1 firmware, and automatically installs Cydia for all that jailbroken app action you crave -- including the new paid apps store. Windows-only for now, but there's apparently a Mac version in the works -- hopefully we'll see the free redsn0w take the lead back on that front. Report back if you take the plunge, would you?

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

iPod touch 2G finally jailbroken with NitroKey originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HD_Speed Benchmarks Your Disks and Drives [Downloads]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/okQrHFXtV6M/hd_speed-benchmarks-your-disks-and-drives

Windows only: Don't mutter to yourself about how slow your drive is, benchmark it to know exactly how fast it is (or isn't) moving. HD_Speed gives you real-time feedback on any drive's transfer speed.

All disks are not created equal, so if you have a nagging feeling that one of your flash drives is under-performing, it probably is. HD_Speed is a lightweight (82k!) portable application that monitors disk read and write speed in real time to help you assess disk performance. You can use HD_Speed on virtually any media: floppy disks, CD/DVD drives, hard disks, and flash-based media like USB drives and SD cards. While the real-time testing is useful for instant feedback, if you'd like to test for problems cropping up over time you can set the duration of the test and tell HD_Speed to log the process for later review. HD_Tune is freeware, Windows only.

HD Speed [via MakeUseOf]

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Get $200 iTunes Store Vouchers for $2.60 [Dealzmodo?]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/bDR8_oIk8Zo/get-200-itunes-store-vouchers-for-260

Stop being an ass and don't pirate songs and movies. Pirate money and get legal material! Chinese hackers have cracked the algorithm that generates the iTunes Store gift cards: You can get $200 for $2.60.

According to the blog of Outdustry—a music industry consultancy firm in China—the market is getting inundated with this pirate cards, with prices falling quickly. You can find $200 iTunes Music cards in Taobao for as low as $10, and the blog is reporting prices of $2.60.

Nobody knows what this means for Apple yet. For sure, a change of the formula that generates the vouchers looks like a definitive possibility, but that won't solve the situation of legal cards already in the market. [Outdustry and Taobao via MusicAlly]

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