Interesting news hit the web today as Google released “Google Goggles”, a brand-new addition to Google Labs. It is an experimental application for Android devices that supports visual search.
How does it work? Just open the application and snap a photo. Google (Google Wave) will process the image and return search results. The photo search functionality eliminates the need to type or say anything on your mobile device. It also adds context to your real-world surroundings.
While the technology is pretty amazing, they admit that it is still the beginning. Selected image searches work seamless. For example : photos of books, business cards, artwork, places, logos and landmarks. Image searches for food, animals, plants and cars are still in the works.
Watch the video below for a demonstration of Google Goggles.
Often I hear from my customers how do I back up my content on my blog. So I did some snooping today and I found the below tutorial on the wordpress.org site. You will need access to your ftp information and some knowledge of how the blog is set up to do this by your self. Please if you are not comfortable leave it to the professionals.
Create a Regular Database Backup
Every post and page you write in WordPress is stored in a MySQL database. There aren’t separate files for each page or post. It’s important to regularly back up your database in case something goes wrong (such as with a rogue plugin or a misguided upgrade attempt). You can manually back up your database by using a tool like phpmyadmin, but it’s much easier to simply use the WordPress Database Backup plugin.
2. In your blog’s admin panel, go to Manage > Backup.
3. In the Backup Options section, select Email backup to and then enter your email address.
4. In the Scheduled Backup section, select Once Weekly.
5. Select any tables you want to include. These tables refer to data from any plugins you’ve added, not to your posts and comments.
6. Click the Submit button at the bottom.
Each week, you’ll receive an email with your database. The database is light and won’t take up much space in your email program. If your site ever crashes, you can restore your entire site’s posts, pages, categories, and tags (but not images) through the database file. Images are stored in wp-content/uploads folder
Often our customers ask us how to install a YouTube video on their blog. Here is a step by step way to embed the video onto your Wordpress blog. This tutorial is for wordpress version 2.7.1 Embedding a YouTube video onto your wordpress blog. Step 1. On the left hand side nav under post click “Add New”. Step 2 – In WISYWIG editor click to change setting to HTML. Step 3- Open YouTube and find video you want to embed. Step 4- On Right hand side of screen copy Embed Text of the video. Step 5 – Paste copied code into your WYSIWIG editor in Wordpress. Step 6- Preview Post. Good luck.
Step 2 – In WISYWIG editor click to change setting to HTML. 
Step 3- Open YouTube and find video you want to embed. Step 4- On Right hand side of screen copy Embed Text of the video. 
Step 5 – Paste copied code into your WYSIWIG editor in Wordpress. Step 6- Preview Post. Good luck.
