How to Delocalize Google Chrome

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.

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Blogging speed at your fingertips: P2 theme by Automattic

Have you noticed that nowadays blogs are increasingly becoming shorter?
SEO privileges quantity over length, so sites that publish five short articles per day will rank higher in Google searches than sites that publish two long articles, for instance.
The WordPress theme P2 theme by Automattic is perfect for bloggers to quickly publish several articles as well as what Automattic calls updates.
You can see P2 theme by Automattic by yourself in this blog.
You can download P2 theme by Automattic for free for your WordPress blog or just activate it as your theme if you have a WordPress.com blog like this one.
P2 theme by Automattic is a very light and easy to use theme, but most importantly it lets you quickly create and edit articles from the frontpage itself. Unlike many other themes, you do not need to go to your dashboard to create a post, but you can do it directly from your frontpage.
P2 theme by Automattic has a tabbed menu on the frontpage with the items Status Update (the equivalent of Twitter), Blog Post (where you write an article), Quote and Link.
From the frontpage itself, you can Upload/Insert movies, images, sound, and other media, just like you do from the Dashbord. And what is more important you can also enter tags.
When you are done writing, you click on Post it and you start writing your next post.
So, if you want a theme that enables you to easily publish several articles a day, please give P2 theme by Automattic a try. You won’t be disappointed!

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No matter in what field you work, nowadays an internet identity is indispensable.

First, start by creating a LinkedIn account.  http://www.linkedin.com
LinkedIn has over 60 million members in almost every country in the world.  This is the most important resource for professionals to build contacts.
You can join groups and thus find people in your field.  You can also recommend other people and get recommended.  LinkedIn offers many other functionalities such as resume databases, job listings, and file sharing.

Once you created your LinkedIn profile, you should start a blog or a website.  I suggest you use the very reliable WordPress.com.  This is a free tool that allows you to have your own domain and does not display any ads.  I recommend that you create a domain using your full name, such as sylviasmith.wordpress.com.  You should use your WordPress blog to write articles about topics in your field.  Make sure you use tags for your posts so that search engines such as Google can find you more easily.

Finally, you should take the last and easiest step which is to create a Twitter account.  Make sure, just like with your WordPress.com domain, to create a user name consisting of your first and last names.  Your Twitter page will then be http://twitter.com/sylviasmith.  Twitter is a microblogging tool.  You can write a microblog or very short post containing up to 140 characters.  You can find people to follow at http://listorious.com.  You should start by following as many experts in your filed as you can.  You can only read tweets at the beginning and then start retweeting.  When you feel confident with Twitter etiquette, you should start tweeting.  Be aware that unlike Facebooks, your tweets are plublic, and anyone could read them.

A last tip, leave traces!  When you are online, remember to leave as many traces as you can. Make sure that these traces portray you accurately and professionally. For instance, try to participate in forums, write reviews and comments, and post answers (in Yahoo Answers for instance). People performing searches on you, will find the content you posted and learn about your involvement and knowledge.

Flatscreens at Parisian Bus Stops

A Line 52 bus stop in Paris, very close to the Opera Garnier (http://bit.ly/7xRu1s), is equipped with a cutting-edge flatscreen with touchscreen capabilities.  The screen displays a wide variety of information about the area and public transportation services.

The device includes an interactive map for buses and subways as well as other mapped-in information including links to historical places with photos and articles as well as business with descriptions and photos–primarily restaurants and cafes.

You access the items mentioned above through a menu similar to the Windows Taskbar.  The display is colorful and bright, and mainly in the evening it becomes very inviting.

The screens are impressive and very helpful for tourists and locals.

If you are in Paris, don’t miss the chance to play around with one of them (unfortunately, the only one I know is the one by the Opera).  Will keep updating this post as I find more.

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P2 theme by Automattic.

Best WordPress.com theme I’ve tested so far: This one!
P2 theme by Automattic.

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