Mobile apps: do people honest don't expect people to fill the field?

I am running Coolendar, an interesting hybrid calendar / todo mananger. it's great on the PC.

However, there's no smartphone version. You're supposed to use the "mobile" website.

So I logged into it via my Google account. That works.

However, the "filter by hash tag" doesn't work.

What's more, the field doesn't display all the content in that field. Scrolling is impossible.

WHO THE **** designed it? It's "optimized for tablets", apparently!

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Scambusting Through Internet: Reverse Image Search

Image via WikipediaWhen a photo arrives with a description, how do you know if it's really the item / event being illustrated?

You use Reverse Image Search, such as TinEye.com

Let's say someone forwarded you a picture of the most beautiful prison you've ever seen. It's a new SuperMAX prison for the ultra-rich, the e-mail claimed. Is it true?

The correct answer is "it's a prison, but it's NOT in the US". It's actually an Austrian detention center. 

TinEye would have given you the link, and a click would have taken you to a blog entry which identified the REAL place.

However, this can also used to identify picture pirates, who stole / copied pictures without attribute. Scam websites often fill their website with stolen stock photos in order to look somewhat professional.

Do NOT steal pictures blindly on the Internet. People WILL find out.

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Stupid SEO Hacks: Mixing Languages

Some websites try to hack Google by mixing languages. They put in content labelled as one language / encoding, but mix in content of another language.

Here is one example:

http://rostislaw.com/maahad-tahfiz-sains&page=6

The interesting part is this page not visible. If you go to that URL in a browser, you get forwarded to the main website, rostislaw.com

But Google treats it as a separate page.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ms&u=http://rostislaw.com/maahad-tahfiz-sains%26page%3D6&ei=SPRzTYm_GJDWtQPpgojcCw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CGkQ7gEwBziCAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtvi%2Bexpress%26start%3D130%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1C1GPCK_enUS321US322%26tbs%3Dqdr:d%26prmd%3Divnsl

So by submitting all these "fake pages" to Google, which all link back to your website, you got backlinks. And they APPEAR to be unique content. Google use the first word to guess the language and in this case it's Malay. So it thinks the page is Malay when it is actually in Russian.

F***.