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19 Mar 2010

Tumblr, the most beautiful blogging platform, just got a little more powerful.

You can now upload videos files as large as 100 MB directly to your Tumblr account. The cool thing is that, unlike Youtube where you to wait for the system to finish transcoding, videos uploaded to Tumblr will instantly show up in your blog.

Add Video to Tumblr

While the service is often seen as a quick-blogging platform for sharing snippets and web clippings, the company is working hard to become a full-feature blogging service. They’ve recently added support for Pages and their new Community feature looking like a good option for blogs who accept guest bloggers.

Coming back to video uploads, while can can embed a fairly large video file to your Tumblr blog, you are limited to five minutes of video per day. That looks like a small limit for sure but Tumblr fans still have another reason to cheer for. And there’s absolutely no waiting time.

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Now Upload Videos to your Tumblr Blog

Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.

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Tags: community feature, cool thing, snippets, Tumblr, video file, video uploads, waiting time, web clippings, YouTube

Get your Office 2010 Upgrade Even if you are Late

In: Coding

19 Mar 2010

The upcoming Office 2010 software will be available as a free upgrade to all users who have purchased a copy of Office 2007 on or after March 5, 2010.

However, if you are feeling a bit unlucky because you got yourself a copy of Office 2007 just days before the upgrade offer was announced and are therefore ineligible for the free upgrade, here’s something that you should try.

The Microsoft web store has a refund policy of 30 calendar days for all downloadable software. If you have bought the software in a box, it is also eligible for return within 30 days of the purchase date as long as you have the original packaging, including installer media and the product key.

So here’s the deal. Return the copy of Microsoft Office 2007 to the store and buy it again from the same store. This time however you’ll automatically become eligible for a free upgrade to Office 2010 when it comes out in June.

All software retailers have different return policies but ff you have bought Office 2007 from Amazon in the last few days, you are covered too as they also have a 30 day return policy for software – the condition is that you should return the box “in its original condition.”

This should work not just for Office 2007 but all the other Office programs including Visio, Microsoft Project, etc.

Get your Office 2010 Upgrade Even if you are Late

Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.

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Are Web Pages Not Opening in Google Chrome?

In: Coding

19 Mar 2010

DNS Errors in Google Chrome

Oops! This link appears to be broken in Google Chrome

You are trying to open a web page in Chrome and all it gives you is this error message – “DNS Error – cannot find server.”

You hit F5 to refresh a page but the error persists. You then open an alternate browser, like Firefox or IE, and the website loads up without any problem. So its a Chrome specific issue and has nothing to do with DNS Servers or your Internet connection.

The support page on the Chrome website suggests that you clear your browser cache, delete the cookies and scan your computer for malicious software to fix the issue.

Well, that may not fix your problem because the issue is not “malware” but a built-in Chrome setting that’s possibly preventing certain websites from opening up in Chrome.

When you visit a webpage (like a search results page), Google Chrome will pre-fetch the IP addresses of all websites that are listed on that page. Since the browser has the IP addresses of all the links in advance, DNS pre-fetching ensures that any links that may you click on that webpage will load faster. However, when pre-fetching fails, something that’s not very uncommon, you may get the “link broken” error.

chrome browser settings

You are more likely to see such an error when you are trying to open a website that you have never visited before.

The fix is simple – go to Tools > Options (or Preferences on a Mac) > Under the Hood and uncheck the setting that says “Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance.” This might increase the loading time of certain pages by a few microseconds but you won’t at least see that misleading error message.

Are Web Pages Not Opening in Google Chrome?

Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.

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