Choosing a Hosting Company? Use The Following Criterias

Nov 8th, 10 in Tutorial | View Comments |
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Choosing your web hosting company is a crucial decision. There is no perfect web hosting company. The most important is you choose a web hosting company that works best with you.

It is very hard to find good hosting advice these days. Forums and blogs are filled with paid reviews. Reading reviews on forums doesn’t help much for 2 reasons:

  1. People who have negative experience with the company tend to post way more than people who had a positive experience. It’s a natural inclination, some psychologists call it the ‘negativity bias’ and estimate the impact of a negative experience is 5 times greater than the impact of a positive one. So going by this logic, you are 5 times more likely to tell others (online or offline) if you’ve had a negative experience with a hosting company than a positive one.
  2. Companies pay people to go and post positive reviews on forums. Trust me, I’ve been fooled a lot by unreliable companies who incentivized established users on forums to post positive reviews on them.

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6 Ways to Get Your Website Noticed by Mainstream Media

Nov 3rd, 10 in Social Media | View Comments |
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One of the quickest ways to see results in ranking and getting more traffic to your website is getting noticed by the media. Of course, if it were that simple, then everyone would be doing it, wouldn’t they?

If you want to truly separate yourself from your competition as an online business, it does take some savvy and creativity to get yourself noticed by the mainstream media to get even more traffic to your website.
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20 File Hosting Websites For You To Upload And Share Files With Your Friends

Jul 1st, 10 in Resources | View Comments |
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A file hosting web site, an online file storage provider, or a ‘cyberlocker’ is known as internet hosting service which is created to host large files. Internet users are keen in sharing files worldwide and also use it as a remote back up or virtual storage.

Sharing has never been much faster and easier compared to conventional methods of file sharing which were more time consuming and costly. Here are 20 file sharing sites to share almost any type of files with anyone you want all over the world.

EnterUpload

The EnterUpload file hosting provider offers an online storage and remote backup capacity with sophisticated downloading and uploading tools. Users can host files, audios, videos, images, and flash at the same place. Personal data can also be accessed from a variety of computers without the need of carrying around a USB drive of hard disk.

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Top 15 SEO Blogs To Follow If You Want To Brush Up Your SEO Knowledge

Jun 28th, 10 in Resources, SEO | View Comments |
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For all we know, Search Engine Optimization, better known as SEO, is used for obtaining the right keywords when we search for something on the internet. But only few of us know is that SEO is used in obtaining rankings for a site under relevant keyword phrases.

SEO has several uses not only in business, but also in making research at school, or at work. Admit it, if this was not invented, you would really be having difficulties in searching and of course, a good SEO means, you won’t be having difficulties and the saves you time looking for what you want.

Following are some of SEO blogs that I consider in the top 15 of my list. And after you go through with them, the more you will appreciate about SEOs.

Seomoz

Seomoz is a website that offer tons of SEO tools and information. Some of the tools are free, and some of them require premium subscription. Their SEO blog is updated frequently and you will always find quality articles over there.

Seomoz

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30 Incredible Long Exposure Photos

Jun 24th, 10 in Insipiration | View Comments |
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Most photography uses extremely fast shutter speeds, only allowing light into the camera for a fraction of a second, but when longer exposures are used there can be some remarkable results. Static objects are revealed in heightened detail, while anything moving becomes a blur.

Long exposure photography can be turned to any number of subjects, but there are some areas where it produces particularly impressive images. At nighttime, long exposures can reveal things invisible to the naked eye, while moving lights become streaks and trails. Images of water have a strange mist-like appearance as the liquid motion is blurred.

The technique of ‘light painting’ is the use of a long exposure while moving a light through a dark scene, recording the light source’s path, or shining light onto objects in the frame to highlight them. This post collects 30 examples of amazing long exposure photographs to astonish and inspire.

Sunwapta Falls, Jasper National Park

The long exposure used to capture this waterfall at Jasper National Park in Alberta results in a creamy softness of the cascading water in contrast to stillness and clarity of the rocks.

By Alaskan Dude

Sunwapta Falls, Jasper National Park

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Pricing Page And Plan Comparison Tables: Tips, Tricks, Advices and Showcases

Jun 21st, 10 in Insipiration, Tutorial | View Comments |
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Pricing and signup page is the key factor to your sales. Pricing pages normally give details on various packages/options and the differences within them. They are there to make visitors clear about the product. Therefore, the design of the pricing page is very important.

Modern sites for web applications, web services and web hosting providers tend to decorate their pricing and signup pages attractive as possible. Tables are being used to compare and shows the various options available. Table is good for comparison purpose and it helps potential customers to make better decision.

Different approaches are being implemented on pricing page. Here, we are going to look into some of the creative approaches for pricing page and product comparison table designs. Also, we will be discussing about tips and advices for designing a creative pricing page. Let’s start with the tips & advices. After all, we will proceed to the showcase.

1. Comparison Tables With Detailed Feature

If you are offering multiple options for your product, and there are significant differences within each package, it is advisable to have a table and clearly list down the detailed features and differences within them.

The table should helps users spot the differences and help them to make decision.

Example: Expression Engine

Expression Engine

Expression Engine has three different type of packages: Core(free), Personal and Commercial. The pricing table clearly explains the modules included, and also term of use for each option.

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12 Adobe AIR Applications for Twitter Lovers

Jun 15th, 10 in Tools | View Comments |
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Twitter is known as a very simple way to keep in touch with family and friends by knowing what are they currently up to, particularly in the form of a sentence. The Twitter application has now extended its capacity to the desktop. The application provides a clean interface to keep tabs on the current happening of your social circle once you have created a Twitter account. Published comments will appear immediately within the AIR desktop application which eventually pushes away the need to log-in into the Twitter website.

The Adobe AIR platform provides an opportunity for developers to create web applications that runs on one’s desktop without needing a web browser. Today, Adobe AIR has some pretty cool applications that make one’s web browsing life much easier. Here are 12 cool Adobe AIR applications which can be used for Twitter.

You may also want to check out our previous article about Flickr Air Tools, Firefox Twitter Plugins and Beautiful Twitter Backgrounds.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck can be your very own personal browser to stay updated with the current happenings and keeps you connected with all your contacts across Twitter and many other social networking web sites. You can now stay updated and organized as TweetDeck displays everything to be seen at the same interface.
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Top 10 Free Video Converters for Windows Users

Jun 8th, 10 in Tools | View Comments |
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Video converter software programs are built to convert or encode digital video files from one format to another format. They may convert videos from and to MOV, WMV, AVI, and other common file formats. Video converters may also encode videos for iPhone, iPad, PSP, and any other portable media players.

These are 10 video converters that will allow you to convert video from one format to another in just one click of a button. Scroll down and give them a try!

Kigosoft

Kigo Video Converter for Windows is outstanding software which converts various video formats to another with good output quality and high speed of conversion. It supports almost all commonly used video formats. It also provides the functionality of converting video to audio and audio to audio with various supported audio formats. Kigo works perfectly for most well-liked video players like iRiver PMP, Creative Zen, Archos, a range of video mobile phones and other digital video or audio players. Batch conversion is also supported in this player as an added advantage.
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27 Useful Screen Capture Tools

Jun 2nd, 10 in Tools | View Comments |
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A screen capture is basically an image taken by your computer to record or capture visible items that are displayed on your monitor. This digital image is usually taken by running software on the computer device. Screen captures are usually used to demonstrate a meticulous problem, a program or even just to show others what you do on your computer.

To produce a screen capture or a screen cap, you will of course need a screen capturing tool. Producing a screen capture is complicated and is easier said than done. However, using the right screen capture tools might help make things easier for you.

Let us take a look at 27 of the best screen capture tools. We shall look at screen capture tools for Windows, Mac and Linux. There are certain screen capture tools that can be utilized by both Windows and Mac. Enjoy!

Snipping Tool

If you are looking for one of the best screen capture tool, which is also free, than the Snipping Tool is your answer. This tool is suited for Windows Vista, Windows7 and the tablet version of Windows XP. The Snipping Tool is already a popular choice among many as it fits the perfect niche of many users. The most important factor about the Snipping Tool is that it is simple and has extremely basic functions such as the editing function. If your screen capture needs are minimal and simple, then the Snipping Tool is your choice. After all, it is free!
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40 Places Where You Can Create Your Websites Online

May 26th, 10 in Tools | View Comments |
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Website builders are tools that allow internet users to construct particular websites without manual code-editing. They are usually distinguished into two categories which are the online proprietary tools provided by web hosting companies, specifically intended for users to build their personal site; and software which runs on a computer, creating pages offline and which can then publish these pages on any host.

Online website builders usually require their users to sign up with the web hosting company. The range of services varies widely between creating basic personal websites or widgets to making e-commerce websites. These sites are usually either template based or on more flexible platforms which are totally design-free.

Listed below are the 40 places where you may create websites online for free.

Weebly

Weebly is a useful website builder where Internet users can create free website and blog with no technical skills required. Weebly provides an easy drag and drop interface with dozens of professional designs. Users are also able to drag on slideshows, forums, files, games, RSS feed, or any other HTML embeds code. It is also has a free domain hosting. As an added advantage, there are a variety of content elements provided such as adding pictures, videos, audio and music, maps, documents, and multiple columns.
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