Digital Inspiration

Remember when you were all of seven and things that mattered to you? The  video  game that you just had to have or the sleep-over at your bestie that you simply had to attend?  Well, seems like the times have really changed! A seven-year-old from the  United Kingdom  has become the centre of attention after shooting off a letter to  Google  CEO  Sundar Pichai .  Chloe Bridgewater , who lives in Hereford in the  UK , wrote to the Google top boss, expressing interest to work for the  tech  major .  THIS IS THE LETTER Here's the letter by Chloe Bridgewater that was shared on Linkedin by her father Andy. (Image: Business Insider)   The little one, enthralled by her Kindle Fire tablet and robots, and totally absorbed by the idea of working "somewhere with bean bags, go-karts, and slides" (as enlightened by her father), decided to apply to Google for a job!  Here's Sundar Pichai's message for Chloe Bridgewate.   (Image: Andy Bridgewater/ linkedin)   In a one-pa

Google hacking is the term used when a hacker tries to find exploitable targets and sensitive data by using search engines. The Google Hacking Database (GHDB) is a database of queries that identify sensitive data. Although Google blocks some of the better known Google hacking queries, nothing stops a hacker from crawling your site and launching the Google Hacking Database queries directly onto the crawled content. More information about Google hacking can be found on:  http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=170880 . What a Hacker can do if your Website is Vulnerable Information that the Google Hacking Database identifies: Advisories and server vulnerabilities Error messages that contain too much information Files containing passwords Sensitive directories Pages containing logon portals Pages containing network or vulnerability data such as firewall logs. In 2014 the total number of websites on the internet reached  1 billion . Today it’s hovering s

THOSE who upgrade their smartphones and tablets to Android Nougat could soon benefit from the next-generation AI assistant, dubbed Google Assistant, that so-far has remained an exclusive to the US search firm's own phone, Google Pixel !! It's very likely that Android users will begin to see Google Assistant start to pop-up on new devices beyond Google's own Pixel and Pixel XL. And the change could be coming much sooner than previously thought. According to  9To5Google , Google has inadvertently pushed-out an alpha release of its Android search app to beta testers, which allows users to enable Google Assistant support on non-Pixel hardware for the first time. Unfortunately, the updated Android search app isn't working for everyone on the beta program. But those who have managed to get the alpha version of the Google  app working have reported success running Google Assistant on a portfolio of difference devices. Notably, the availability appears to range fr

Do you ever wonder what is the demographics of people who follow you on Twitter. How many of your Twitter friends are men? Or women? Or random colored eggs, people who are either too lazy to change their default avatar or maybe they are  Twitter bots . The  Graph Search of Facebook  can provide deep insights into the demographics of people who are connected with you on the social network. For instance, you can write a natural language query like “ My friends who are older than 30 ” or “ My female friends who live in Delhi ” and the answer will be available instantly. Such granular data is however not available for Twitter users. Who Follows You? Males, Females or Eggs How do you programmatically determine the gender of a person on Twitter? The  Twitter API  doesn’t provide the gender information but there’s a workaround. You can take the profile picture of a Twitter user, feed it into Siftr’s  Vision API  and it will detect the gender of the most prominent face in the photogr

When you share any file or folder in Google Drive with another user, the  shared links  will work forever unless you manually change the sharing permissions. For instance, if you have shared a document with an external vendor, they’ll continue to have access to the file long after your business contract may have ended. In such a situation, wouldn’t it be nice if you could set expiration dates while sharing files in Google Drive? For instance, share a document temporarily for, say, 10 days and access to the file should be revoked automatically after that period has passed. Add an Auto-Expiry Date for Shared Links in Google Drive Google Drive does let you set expiration dates for shared links but this option is only available to paid Google App for Work accounts. Well, no worries. If you have a free Google account, you can still create temporary links that auto-expire after a certain time. Here’s a step by step guide: Go to xyz.org/expire and authorize the web app to access

You are planning to buy a new iPhone 7 but the model you want to have, the premium jet black finish with 128GB, is neither available at Apple stores in your area nor at any of the online shopping sites. Now the Apple website does have a simple tool to help you check the availability of iPhone, or iPad or any other Apple product, at their retail stores but you still need to perform these inventory checks manually. Wouldn’t it be easier if these checks could be automated? You specify the iPhone model you wish to own, your preferred color, capacity, your area zip code, your desired carrier and the tool would send you an email alert when iPhone is back in stock at any of the Apple retail stores in your area. It’s like having someone check the Apple website for iPhone availability every few hours. Check iPhone Availability by Zip  What we have here simple Google Spreadsheet, that resides in your Google Drive, and it will monitor the Apple store in the background for iPhone avai