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Google’s new search algorithm has been active for about a month now. Anyone know what the significant changes were, and how it affects SEO efforts?

Flattening takes ALL of the image layers and and merges them into a single background, which makes the file size much smaller. Merging allows you to choose which layers to flatten. So they are very closely related, but not exactly the same thing. 

Some of the data is cached in RAM, and if you just suddenly disconnect you may corrupt the data before/as it is written to the USB drive. You can get away with just unplugging it sometimes, but sooner or later the odds will catch up with you.

I was thinking of getting an inductive charger for my new tablet, but I’ve never used one before. Does anyone know how they compare with a traditional plug-in charger when it comes to charging time? Does an inductive charger take about the same amount of time to charge a device?

I have a new Nexus tablet that I’m happy with, but it doesn’t support Flash, and I would like flash for a few websites, and most importantly, to stream video from my Amazon Prime Instant Video account. However, there is no flash player available on Google Play, as far as I can see. Is there a way to add it without being rooted?

Turn on the on-screen keyboard: (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Ease of Access > On Screen Keyboard)   If the key darkens when you press it on the keyboard then its physically working, if not, then it's not, then you know the problem is the actual keyboard, and not the driver or setting.  

I like the concept of Google Glass, but, will all due respect to anyone that has them now, I don’t want to look quite so much like I just stepped off the set of Star Trek. I would be much more interested in them if they looked “normal.” I can’t be the only one. If Google makes them look less techy, will that help drive adoption of Glass?

Update: It seems to have improved a lot for me over the past week or two. I’ve watched a couple of full length BBC documentaries without any buffering at all. Still, there are some videos that will do exactly the same thing as before and start buffering at around :30, making them unwatchable.

There is always a bit of a risk when you get a new product that there will be some bugs that weren’t completely worked out. Always. But I just got a Nexus 7 ( the new 2013 model) a few days ago. I can only tell you about mine, but I haven’t seen any pinch to zoom issues.

I don’t have any plans to become a programmer, but I do think it would be beneficial to know a programming language, both for intellectual and career reasons. Keeping this in mind, what would be a good programming language to learn?

I do think it is a little unfair that AT&T still charges you for 3G data use when you are actually using your own broadband connection to access the network. 

The main justification is to prevent software piracy, I suspect. I first became aware of region locking as a kid, when I wanted a video game that wasn’t released in the US. I found an imported copy, was excited to try it, put it in, turned on the system, and......it wouldn’t work.