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Fix the Android Emulator – invalid command-line parameter problem

Are you hitting the “invalid command-line parameter problem” as I did? I’ve found a solution by scouring stackoverflow and otherwebsites. invalid command-line parameter: Files\Android\android-sdk\tools/emulator-arm.exe. Hint: use ‘@foo’ to launch a virtual device named ‘foo’. please use -help for more information Why the error? Well the problem is because of the whitespaces in the directory path [...]

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Google Plus Shortcodes For Styling Your + Posts

We’ve sent out invites to all our readers who wanted a Google+ invite as part of our Giveaway for IGW readers! If you don’t have one yet, feel free to jump and ask one here… With that done, i’m sure you folks are enjoying it! Now that you all have an invite, here are couple [...]

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How to: Easily Check Page rank from Google Chrome

How to: Easily Check Page rank from Google Chrome

There is now an extension for Google chrome to check the page rank of a website easily. I’ve been using this extension for quite some time now and it’s really helpful to find out more about anysite site. Note: You need to be using the beta version of Chrome (4.0+) in order to install extensions. [...]

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How to: Find the Whois of a domain using Google

How to: Find the Whois of a domain using Google

Google can help you find the whois of a domain. Here is how to test and check the whois of a domain. Google offers this option in partnership with Domain Tools.

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How to: Find our if your site is infected by Malware using Google Safe Browsing

There are many websites which host malwares (unknowingly) but they look like pretty nice and authentic sites in order to trap the visitors. Google Safe Browsing tool is a tool developed by Google which helps you to test a website which you think may not be authentic or has malware hidden in the source codes. [...]

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How to: Export or download all documents from Google Docs

How to: Export or download all documents from Google Docs

There is a project called data liberation project which aims at exporting or liberating the information from Google using a simple export feature. Here is a quick ‘how to‘ guide on ‘how to export all the documents from Google Docs‘ (PDF, WORD, EXCEL, PPT etc). If you want to export all documents at once: – [...]

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How to: Avoid automatic Google homepage redirection to your local page

Google’s clever, it knows where you’re opening the google search page from based on your IP address, so if you hit google.com from your browser, and lets say your in Australia then you would be automatically redirected to is google.com.au, same with new zealand or UK it redirects to google.co.nz, google.co.uk etc. Even if you [...]

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