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  • Google 404 Widget Enhances Custom 404 Pages

    Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 10:22 in , google, SEO, tools

    Google wants to help webmasters optimize their 404 Pages and help visitors get a better experience by browsing around your site rather than leaving it. Try the Google 404 widget and enhance your 404 p...

  • Blogs.com Discovers the Best in Blogs

    Posted on Wednesday August 20th, 2008 at 12:53 in , tools

    Blogging company Six Apart has launched Blogs.com, a new service that helps you discover the best in blogs. These blogs are organized by category and topic and you can read daily blog roundups of som...

  • Free Movable Type Pro 4.2 Blogger License

    Posted on Thursday August 14th, 2008 at 10:07 in , tools

    The newly released Movable Type 4.2 blogging platform promises to be the fastest and most secure release of Movable Type ever and comes packed with a free blogger license and new features that youR...

  • 10 Reasons to Prefer Feedblitz Email over Feedburner Email

    Posted on Monday August 11th, 2008 at 11:32 in , guest posts, tools

    Guest article by Arun Basil Lal from Million Clues! Feedblitz and Feedburner are two services which help readers subscribe to any blog or website. While Feedburner is a Google owned free service, Feed...

  • Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Tools Out of Beta

    Posted on Thursday August 7th, 2008 at 12:21 in , SEO, tools

    Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Center provides another set of tools for webmasters to tweak how Live Search crawls and indexes your website and SEO your site for best results to get higher search eng...

  • Digg Toolbar: Digg Faster in Firefox

    Posted on Thursday August 7th, 2008 at 11:48 in , Firefox, tools

    The immensely popular Digg has launched the Digg Toolbar, a Firefox browser extension that promises to integrate Digg with your browser, stay connected in real time and really change the way you use D...

  • How to Open Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2007 Files in Older Office Versions

    Posted on Sunday August 3rd, 2008 at 22:21 in , Microsoft, Software, tips, tools

    Have you got a Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint 2007 file which you cannot open in your older version of Microsoft Office 2000, Office 2003 or Office XP? Its important to be aware that your im...

  • Del.icio.us 2.0: Without The Dots

    Posted on Friday August 1st, 2008 at 11:50 in , Yahoo!

    Yahoo’s most popular bookmark sharing service Del.icio.us launched in a new avatar today as Delicious, without the dots in the url. Yes, the site has moved to a new url at delicious.com and spo...

  • Cuil Search Engine Challenges Google

    Posted on Monday July 28th, 2008 at 08:57 in , tools

    A new search engine called Cuil launched today and claims to index over 120 billion web pages. Sporting the same clean look with no advertising, Cuil challenges the biggest search engine Google in the...

  • How to Test Website Load Time

    Posted on Sunday July 27th, 2008 at 12:02 in , design, tools

    Do you know how fast your website load time is? A Fast loading website is the first step to a successful online presence, but you will be surprised how many scripts and widgets may be slowing your sit...

  • Flock Gloss Edition: Fashion Entertainment Browser

    Posted on Saturday July 26th, 2008 at 12:20 in , tools

    Flock has launched the Flock’s ‘Gloss Edition’, which claims to be the world’s first fashion and entertainment browser designed to help people keep up with the latest fashion trends and celebr...

  • Propeller 2.0 in New Avatar

    Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 12:58 in

    Propeller is relaunched in a new avatar. The new Propeller is easier, faster, more fun, and is now powered with  a new design, new technology and new features. Check out the new changes and you will ...

  • 12Seconds: The Video Twitter

    Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 12:20 in , tools

    Just as Twitter is tweeting short text, 12seconds is the twitter for video. 12seconds.tv allows you to record and share 12 second short video updates about what you are doing or where you are using a ...

  • Woopra Analytics 10000 Pageviews Limit: Hurdle to Success

    Posted on Monday July 21st, 2008 at 12:27 in

    I have been using Woopra real time web statistics tool for a few months now and the rich interface and detailed stats have me totally hooked. It is fun to watch your live traffic in real time and even...

  • How to Create a Free Mobile Site in Minutes

    Posted on Tuesday July 15th, 2008 at 12:50 in , domains, tools

    Many people access your site using mobile devices and bloggers need to maintain a mobile version of their site so that their blog appears navigable and professional to mobile site visitors. Mofuse is ...

  • Site Down! For Everyone or Just Me?

    Posted on Sunday July 6th, 2008 at 23:05 in , webhosting

    So your site is not connecting, and you believe your site is down. But someone across the world is easily able to access your site. So how do you test to know if your site is down right now just for y...

  • Buy MOO Business Cards, in Regular Size!

    Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 05:56 in , tools

    MOO now lets you create and buy MOO business cards in regular size! MOO is well known for its amazing minicards, but I always wished they would create regular business cards. They listened and now I c...

  • Install OpenX Free Ad Server: Power Ad Management Tool

    Posted on Tuesday June 24th, 2008 at 02:57 in , tools

    Want to take your site advertising campaigns to the next level? Install OpenX, a free ad server with all open source goodness that can let webmasters manage advertising campaigns on their site like a ...

  • Google Trends for Websites: Compare Site Popularity

    Posted on Monday June 23rd, 2008 at 07:00 in , tools

    So how popular is your site? The newly launched Google Trends for Websites lets you view how popular your favorite websites are and also compares and ranks site visitation across geographies, and rela...

  • Reddit Open Sourced

    Posted on Wednesday June 18th, 2008 at 16:22 in

    Reddit is a popular social link sharing and voting service that now promises to become better by going open source, which basically means that the code behind reddit is available to the public for dow...

  • Track Firefox 3 Downloads with Live Counters

    Posted on Wednesday June 18th, 2008 at 12:20 in , miscellaneous, tools

    Do you want to see the Firefox download counter ticking away to set a Guinness World Record. Visit the Firefox 3 Download Counter page and track downloads live in real time for most popular language v...

  • Need a Twitter Followers Counter?

    Posted on Sunday June 15th, 2008 at 04:39 in

    Just as you have a feedburner feed subscriber counter to show off that huge number of RSS subscribers, similarly you can now display the number of twitter followers you have. Easily add TwitterCounter...

  • Download Opera 9.5 Final Public Release

    Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 12:24 in

    Opera Software today released the final public release of Opera 9.5 Web browser, and increased competition in the browser race with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Claimed to be the most powerful Opera...

  • Find Freelancers at Microsoft Task Market

    Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 13:13 in , Microsoft, tools

    Microsoft Task Market connects small businesses with freelancers for marketing and other document help such as graphic design, writing and editing, document translation, and creating or enhancing pres...

  • 10 Years of Dmoz ODP: Humans Still Do it Better

    Posted on Friday June 6th, 2008 at 12:01 in , tools

    DMOZ, the Open Directory Project turned 10 years old on June 5, 2008 and continues to grow at a rapid pace, all due to the tireless efforts of an amazing community of dedicated volunteer editors. Dmoz...

  • Create Interactive Youtube Videos with Annotations

    Posted on Wednesday June 4th, 2008 at 13:15 in , tools

    Want to add more interactivity in your Youtube videos? They have introduced a new feature called video annotations that allows you to add background information, create branching stories or add links ...

  • Vollee Streams Second Life on Mobile Phones

    Posted on Wednesday June 4th, 2008 at 10:04 in , gadgets, tools

    Want to fly around the virtual world Second Life streaming on your mobile phone. Now you can try the Vollee SecondLife beta, a free tool that lets you access Second Life on mobile devices whenever and...

  • Sitemeter Traffic Statistics Lost!

    Posted on Monday June 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 in

    We use Sitemeter to track site traffic statistics, and it does a great job of site wide traffic analysis easily. Thus, I was surprised to see that yesterday statistics showed only 30% traffic came our...

  • TypePad AntiSpam: Open Source Comment Spam Blocker

    Posted on Monday June 2nd, 2008 at 06:22 in , wordpress

    SixApart has launched TypePad AntiSpam, a new Open Source tool for effectively blocking comment spam on blogs. The great part is this not only works on Typepad blogging platform, but also in MovableTy...

  • CNN News Headlines on Tshirts!

    Posted on Friday May 30th, 2008 at 03:49 in , tools

    CNN Shirts let you wear the news headlines. CNN now lets its online visitors buy Tshirts with the latest headlines on their site, all timestamped and ready to wear. First you visit CNN.com and in the ...