All Entries in the "Tools & Tips" Category
How Not To Do SEO For 2009
Web start-ups face a daunting task of getting known. As of last count, over a billion pages literally litter the web. That’s a billion competing pieces of informtion swamping yours. Compound that with the short attention span of the average surfer. And the problem of ever shifting viewer loyalties. No wonder many netrepreneurs surrender and [...]
Fastest Way to Search Websites that belongs to one person
After visiting a website I like, I’ve always wondered: are there any other sites like it? Perhaps about a different subject but written in the same style/presentation that I’ve grown to enjoy. I’ve had this thought many times but just dismissed it and carried on little did I know that I wasn’t the only one [...]
Compare Your Site’s Performance Vs Your Competitor
As a website owner or web developer one of the most important areas you may focus on is speed. Getting the website to open as fast as possible for your visitor. Some people like to wait and see their users response to the sped of their website, others (the smarter lot) try to raise their [...]
How To Find Any File On The Internet
Finally! I can breathe a sigh of relief! Being a PC power user I tend to install a lot of software (which range from music composition stuff to PC maintenance)
and one of the biggest issues I face is finding files that are either required to run something (e.g. dll files, the latest .NET framework etc) [...]
How to Protect your PC using USB Flash Drive
Once in a while a software comes along that solves a major issue yet it leaves you surprised with is plain ingenuity.
Leaving your computer out in the open is a Green signal for co-workers (usually of the malicious kind) to play a prank on you or, even more seriously, intentionally damaging or stealing valuable information [...]
How to Download an Entire Facebook Album in one go
Facebook was launched back in February 2004 and became the biggest social media network with over 200 million registered users. As of April 2009,rumors had it that the exact number of users can be as close to 280 millions.
When there is a network this big I personally believe it’s really important to provide users with [...]
Got Junk? Junk eBay
In Is eBay Worth It? In general, yes. The auction giant helps people unload garbage accumlated over the years. Ebay also provides easy channels to those seeking to make a quick buck. I personally made an extra $300-$1500 a week the past months simply having my executive assistant find knick-knacks at flea markets and disposing them for [...]
How to Add Reflection Effect to Photos Online
If you’re not good with image editors such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP and looking for a free web application that allows you to add reflection to your images without any hassle then you need to check out PicReflect.
It is a free web-based tool that allows you to add reflection effect to your image and [...]
How to Run Multiple Google Talk Accounts
Running multiple google talk accounts seems a bit difficult but believe me, it’s a piece of cake. Yes, I have 2 gmail accounts, one for work and other for family and friends. Now I have added people in both accounts and to check whose online and stuff, I used to logout and login the other [...]
Google Analytics Widget for your Desktop
Google Analytics provides an excellent way to learn which online marketing initiatives are cost effective and see how visitors actually interact with your site. I’ve been using this service from the moment I first launched my blog in January 2008. Bloggers who are already familiar with this service should have a good idea how important [...]
Recover Accidently Closed Applications
There are times when we are have opened up different applications and without knowing, we click the [x] button and then slam your hand on the keyboard, thinking “what the”, I didn’t wanted to close that one! There’s a solution in the form of a small application called “GoneIn60s“. A fantastic idea which came in [...]
Download Your Favorite Video From Any Video Sharing Website
I mentioned earlier in a blog post how you can convert Youtube videos to Mp3 and download the song after extracting the music file from it. Today I’ve confronted another great tool that is not limited to Youtube but it lets you download your favorite video from almost all the video sharing websites out there.
NetVideoHunter [...]
Transform Web Widgets For your Desktop
A few of my co-workers have this habbit of adding new Widgets to their desktop. If they find anything worth keeping they would just search their way to get it on their PC so that they can access it easily.
Recently we have discovered a software that would help you take these widgets from the internet [...]
How to Manage Multiple Network Settings
Currently, I’m using 2 internet connections at home and 1 at my office. One of the most annoying problems occur when I have to configure my network settings each time when I’m at home, office or on the go. But I’ve found a solution to that. A free software that allows you to switch between [...]
Create Shortest Urls with Tweak
Just because Twitter offers us to write 140 words per message doesn’t mean we should limit our message by excluding long Url’s from it. There are services like Tinyurl that can help you shorten long urls. Recently Dot TK has unleashed their new URL Shortening service known as “Tweak“. The company claims that it will [...]
Reduce The Size of any Youtube Video by 80 Percent
As we all know that YouTube has become one of the most popular video sharing websites on the internet today and there is hardly anyone who wouldn’t download stuff they loved there specially songs. Even for me, whenever I come across any good song I’d prefer to download it instead of logging on to YouTube [...]
Webmastery 101: How To Cut Fat And Build Muscle
You’ve taken great care to present your website to the internet. You tweaked and fine tuned until you were satisfied that your design and layout showcased your content in the best possible way. Are you done? Do you just sit back now, churn out content and watch the traffic grow? In a word, no.
Determine When A Site Comes Back Online With Mr. Uptime
One of the most annoying parts of social network sites, such as Delicious, Digg and Reddit, are their ability to take down many sites or blogs on a moments notice. The sudden rush of traffic to a site, can bring it to it’s knees and take it down for an indefinite amount of time.
There [...]
Dirty Linking Tricks You Should Know
Are you starting a website? If so, the first thing you begin doing after populating the content is looking for link partners. Inbound links are critical to creating awareness on two levels:
Actual Eyeballs. Visitors on established sites see a referral to your new site and tend to click for more information. That’s the reason startups [...]
Inlinks – How Does It Stack Up?
TLA (or textlink ads), is a dominant player in the link brokerage business. Despite the rise of competitors like TNX, the company’s grown in clientele and userbase. After Google slapped them with penalties last year, I fully expected TLA to sink ship. It didn’t happen. People still took their services and TLA continues to outmaneuver [...]
