If Firefox is your default browser, you're already rocking one of the best from the lot. Bookmarks are life and blood for an avid web surfer. Have you ever felt the need to access your bookmark list residing on your home computer, while browsing a public computer? If yes, here's an easy solution to sync your Firefox bookmarks across any computer in the world. So let's get started.
Go to Tools - > Set up Sync...
Fill your details (email address and password). You can optionally check/uncheck the details (bookmarks, passwords, preferences, history, tabs) that need to be synced.
You'll get a sync-key to decrypt your bookmarks stored on the sync server. That's it. Now whenever you are sitting on a different computer. Simply go to Tools -> Set up Sync... again and click 'Connect' button. You'll be prompted to enter your sync key. Once you've provided the key, it will download all your bookmarks instantly. Make sure you delete the sync account from the public computer before you leave the desk.
Friday, July 29, 2011
How To Sync Your Firefox Bookmarks Across Different Systems
Thursday, July 28, 2011
How To Find Driver Ratings Through License Plate
Planning to hire a vehicle for a leisure or business trip? Have you checked the driving skills or history of the driver who is going to drive? Sometimes, we pay more attention to the condition of the vehicle and completely forget about the person who is going to drive. Here's an excellent service that provides a facility to get some feedback about drivers from around the world. 
Driver Ratings is community-supported service that rates drivers from around the world associated with a license plate. Simply select the appropriate city (hundreds of city are supported), and punch the license plate number to get the ratings for that driver. You can also rate and comment to further refine the ratings.
Since it is community driven ratings, accuracy in ratings cannot be 100%, but it surely gives you enough feedback about the driving skills of a person associated with a particular license plate. You can also initiate your record by adding your license plate to the database.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
How To Get Scientific Product Ratings When You Shop Online
If you shop online frequently, at times, you may have felt the difficulty in selecting the right product from a selection list. This dilemma is faced by large number of online shoppers who find it very difficult to take a decision when multiple choices are available with tempting price and features. Fortunately, there's an easy solution to this problem.
GoodGuide Transparency Toolbar is built for online shoppers who are sensitive about the quality of products (measured against various parameters) they're going to buy. This toolbar shows you various ratings about a given product/company giving you enough data to decide for the purchase. These ratings are based on different factors, for e.g., Organic (food), Nutrition (food), Ingredient Health and Safety, Fair trade, Recycled materials, Fragrance-free, Energy efficiency, Eco-certified, Climate change, Pollution, Energy and water use, Worker treatment, Animal treatment, Human rights and Community relations. You can either select all of these parameters or can selectively enable only those parameters that matter to you most.
This awesome toolbar supports all major online shopping stores like Amazon, Walmart, Google Products, Soap and Target. GoodGuide toolbar is available for Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers. Apart from the web version, GoodGuide also brings mobile apps for iPhone and Android for shopping on the go.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
How To Share Your Social Network Profiles Through SociaCard
If you're active on numerous social networks, at times you may have felt the need of an easy way to share your social network profiles with your friends. One of the ways is to send links via email, but it's boring and the response is not promising. There's an easy way to get people visit your profiles or even get engaged with you without ever visiting those profiles. 
SociaCard is an impressive service that creates an awesome social visiting card that contains links to all your social networks, your location, and an option to share your address as well as the ability to comment and interact right within your visiting card space. SociaCard support over 40 different social media services that cover almost every popular network.
Simply connect with your Facebook or Twitter account and start adding your social network profiles. You can also opt for adding your location via Google Maps. The 'Add to deck' and 'Message' options further spice up your social visiting card by adding the capability to leave comments and adding the option to add your card to other SociaCard user accounts. You can also embed your SciaCard anywhere to promote your all connected social media profiles. It's a handy tool for netizens active on multiple social media services who are looking for a convenient way to share their profiles.
Monday, July 25, 2011
18+ Tools For Domain Name Analysis
Domain names are life and blood of Internet. If you're a Webmaster, blogger or a casual surfer, domain names makes you browse the internet conveniently. However, sometimes you may need to query something about a domain name. It can be simple registrant and registrar information. Here's a collection of domain analysis tools from ViewDNS on a single page.
Reverse IP Lookup - Provide a hostname or IP address to this tool, and it will list all the web sites hosted on that server.
Chinese Firewall Test - This handy tool lets you test if a given web site is blocked by China's firewall.
Port Scanner - Run this tool to check the availability of commonly used ports on a web server.
DNS Report - This is one of my favorite tools. It provides detailed report about DNS settings for a given domain name.
DNS Propagation Checker - This tool checks whether changes in DNS settings have been propagated to all the servers around the world or not.
Is My Site Down - As the name implies, this site checks whether a web site is accessible or down.
IP Location Finder - This handy tool provides geographical as well as other information for a given IP address.
DNS Record Lookup - Run this tool to check all the settings (MX, CNAME records) configured for a given domain name.
Domain / IP Whois - If you want to check who owns a particular domain, then this tool is just for you.
Get HTTP Headers - You can easily extract HTTP headers for a domain name through this tool.
Spam Database Lookup - This yet another handy tool to check whether your mail server is on any spam database lists.
Google Pagerank Checker - Punch in your domain name and check your current Google page rank instantly.
Reverse DNS Lookup - This tool gives you the hostname of the web server for a given IP address.
MAC Address Lookup - If you want to know the manufacturer of the network device attached with a server, simply provide the MAC address of the device.
Traceroute - This tool tracks the series of intermediate serves that transferred data between ViewDNS and a remote host.
URL/String Decode - This handy tool converts a given URL in '%xx' format to a more readable format by replacing appropriate characters.
Ping - Checks the responsiveness of a remote host. This is an ideal tool to check various parameters of a given domain name.
Free Email Lookup - This is yet another handy tool to find if a given domain name provides free email addresses or not.
ASN Lookup - Use this tool to check the name of the company who owns a given autonomous system number.
Abuse Contact Lookup - Getting malicious code from a domain name? Use this tool to retrieve abuse contact information for a given domain name.
Friday, July 22, 2011
How To Distribute Files For Online Viewing
Sending different formats of files through email to friends and colleagues is quite common. Sometimes, we also use file-sending service to send these files. However, one thing is common in both ways. The receiver at other end has to download the file on his desktop to view it. Sometimes, the file format is such that it requires a software download and install, before the receiver can view the file.
But there's a simple solution to this problem. DropDo is an excellent service that fulfills dual purpose. First, it sends the file to the recipient, and secondly, the user at the other end can view the file right within the browser without any need to download it. DropDo supports over 100 file formats (Image, Doc, Code, PDF, Audio, Video) with a maximum file size limit of 25 MB each. This is good enough for 99% cases. Simply upload the file through desktop or provide the url of the file source. As soon as the file upload is completed, DropDo provides a unique url to view the file. Simply share it with your network, and they'll never need to download the file to view it. Just open the url and the file will open right within their web browser.
You can also use Chrome and Firefox add-ons to directly upload the files to your DropDo account while browsing the web.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
How To Create Your Own Cloud Network For Free
Cloud computing is very popular in almost every domain. Whether its web hosting, online storage or a social network service, almost everyone is using cloud computing to deliver the best with minimum hassle. Deploying a cloud network may seem a daunting task, but its not that complex, provided you have basic knowledge of Linux system administration.
CloudStack is an open source software that can build small as well as large cloud computing network. Remember, the software itself is free, but you need the necessary hardware to implement the cloud computing network.
CloudStack requires 64-bit computing environment and runs on x86 architecture running a Linix server (RHEL/CentOS 5.4+, RHEL6, Fedora 14 or Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) installation. Companies and organizations around the world are using this highly optimized and efficient software to power their public and private cloud networks. CloudStack has a rich AJAX-powered administration interface to manage all the resources of the cloud that makes the administration task extremely easy.
Thanks to the scalability of CloudStack, adding additional resources (virtual servers, storage) is very easy. CloudStack also has a powerful API, to deliver custom solutions to the end-users. It also intelligently load-balance and dynamically allocate resources to the end-users adhering to the defined policies. Detailed event and server logs ensure you don't miss anything that may cause your cloud to malfunction. I've tested it on a friend's RHEL server and the whole installation process took less than an hour, even when we did it for the first time and that too reading the documentation within that hour.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
How To Create Cool Avatars In Minutes
Avatars are used in forums, on blogs and on almost every social networking site. They become our identity and play a major role in engagement with other users. Sometimes, we are not comfortable in uploading our real photo for use in avatars for different reasons. In such situation, creating a graphic avatar is the best option. If you're in same position, here's a cool way to create awesome avatars in quick time.
DoppelMe is an excellent avatar creating service that can help you generate dozens of avatars in minutes without any knowledge of programming or coding. You don't even need to register for creating avatars.
The sheer volume of attributes that can be associated with an avatar gives you the flexibility to create a cool avatar of your choice. Whether it's skin color, expressions, hair, clothes, background or accessories, you name it and DoppelMe gives you an option to completely customize your avatar. Once your avatar creation process is complete, you can use a simple image grabber to save it on your desktop.
So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and create the coolest collection of avatars to impress your friends network.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
How To Add Awesome Custom Tab To Your Facebook Page
Adding custom tab to a Facebook page is not a difficult task, but giving them a professional look is certainly difficult for technically challenged. An average Facebook user may not be able to add rich text, multimedia elements, tables and other cool stuff to pimp up the tab for maximum attention. This is certainly a hurdle that doesn't let us create stunning Facebook tabs.
However, Slytab can ease your custom tab creation exercise to a great extent. Simply, connect the application with your Facebook account, choose the page and get started within a minute. You're presented a rich text editor with loads of formatting options, including support for embedding multimedia elements like a YouTube video. You can also see preview of your tab during the build-up process.
With Slytab, you don't need any knowledge of web design. Simply decorate your page through the rich text editor with point-n-click controls. Slytab is free and very handy tool to create fairly professional looking tabs. You can also add tables, excel sheets and rich text directly from Microsoft Word to your tab. If you're creative and imaginative, you can completely blow away people by creating an amazing custom tab through this service.
Monday, July 18, 2011
How To Get Links Shared by Your Facebook Friends
If you're active on Facebook with a large friends network, sometimes you may feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of useless updates by some of the profiles in your news feed. Filtering out personal updates and concentrating only on the useful links shared by the network is a difficult task. However, you can filter out all the links shared by your Facebook friends quite easily through LinkNotify.
Simply connect your Facebook account with this service and get the collection of links (without any extra stuff) shared by your network. Depending on the volume of activity in your news feed, it may take few minutes before you get the collection of links.
LinkNotify also presents a handy sharing link beside each link to easily disseminate the content to other social media platforms. You can choose either all links posted in your news feed, or the links only from your friends and last but not the least - all links posted on Facebook pages. This service is ideal for people having less time to scan the entire news feed and only want to share useful stuff from the news feed links.
Friday, July 15, 2011
How To Embed Your Twitter and Facebook Conversations Anywhere
Our social media activities are growing with passage of time as new and more interesting services are launched each year. If you're active on Facebook and Twitter, you may sometimes feel the necessity to show your tweets and updates on other platforms. One way is to insert a picture of the updates. But the links within the update are un-clickable (post links, hashtags). Don't worry, there's a free service that lets you embed clickable status updates from Facebook and Twitter.
SocialDitto is an innovative facility to embed your favorite updates from Facebook and Twitter in any web page. Simply provide the link to the update (can be obtained from the timestamp link), and you'll get a code that can be further customized as per your needs. You just need to copy paste this code anywhere you want.
SocialDitto lets you generate embeddable tweets in two formats, one is the older Twitter version, and second one is the newer Twitter version. All the links in the embeddable conversations are clickable, allowing users to interact with the embedded update. This service is ideal for web publishers looking to embed their conversations on web sites, blogs and forums.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Pencil : Best And Free Rapid Prototyping Tool
Prototyping helps in almost every kind of project related to any domain. It's the main part of any well-documented effort. But, sometimes we get lazy or do not find the right tools to build prototypes in quick time. Here I'm talking about visual or graphical illustrations. Here's a nifty tool that creates amazing prototypes in minutes.
It's called Pencil, the ultimate rapid prototyping tool. This software is free for use and comes in two versions. You can install it as a Firefox add-on (3.5+) or can use it as a standalone Windows application.
Pencil is extremely easy-to-use consisting of dozens of built-in stencils (each one having dozens of objects) for quick prototyping. You can even import collection of different stencils from individual developers to enrich your library. The templates collection includes Common shapes, Annotations, Basic web elements, Windows XP widgets, GTK widgets, Native UI widgets (platform independent), Sketchy GUI (my favorite), Dojo widgets, Ext widgets, Flowchart shapes, touch screen objects and many more.
Each object can be further customized and enhanced by applying different attributes adding more realism and spice to your prototype. Once your prototype is ready, you can export it in various popular formats like HTML, PNG, Openoffice.org document, Word document and PDF.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
How To Collect All Your Tweets In Reverse Chronological Order
Although Twitter's native web interface provides you the facility of infinite scrolling, you cannot collect all your tweets in an efficient way. Archiving your tweets is a good way to preserve your tweet memories. You can also publish an ebook made entirely from your tweets. But how do we collect all our tweets in an easy way? Here's the solution.
All My Tweets is the easiest way to display all your tweets on a single web page in reverse chronological order. You don't even need to get your account authorized to fetch the tweets. Simple enter the twitter handle and there you go.
If the amount of tweets is very high, it may take some time to display all your tweets. Due to API limits, it may pause for a short period of time. I've tested it with an account having 10,000+ tweets and this service was able to fetch all of them on a single web page. Once you have all the tweets, you can simply copy paste all of them in your favorite text editor. Alternatively, you can fetch them using Page2RSS service, that will convert it into a feed that can be imported in Google Reader.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
How To Use Google Font API To Make Better Web Pages
We all want to create a web site that not just receives massive traffic but also convert prospects. Text is the core element of the content and plays an important role in retaining the traffic. Apart from the font size, the type of font does affect how well your site may perform. All web safe fonts are used by large number of web sites, but what about using custom fonts to give a fresh look to your web site?
That's where Google Font API comes handy, allowing you to use hundreds of free web fonts in an easy and efficient way. You don't need to be an expert web developer to use these fonts. If you know basic HTML and CSS, you can use Google Font API with ease.
It just requires three simple steps.
Link a stylesheet referring font families from the Google Web Fonts directory.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Font+Name">
Refer to the imported font in a CSS style.
CSS selector {
font-family: 'Font Name', serif;
}
And last but not the least, use that font in the body of the web page.
<selector>Hello world!!!</selector>
There is a large collection of web fonts to choose from in different categories. If you're an advanced user, you can apply various effects to the imported fonts to get a more professional look for your content. There are two methods to use Google web fonts. You can either use JavaScript or you can use Ajax, but the former method is much faster and consumes less resources.
Monday, July 11, 2011
18+ Best Ways To Create Comics Online For Free
Whether you're a kid or an adult, everyone loves comics. We all have our favorite super heroes, whose comics we have read from childhood. Have you ever tried creating your own comics? Don't worry, you don't need to be an expert graphic designer to create your very own comics. There are several excellent online comic creation services that are easy to use in creating comic strips. Here's a list of best online comics creating web sites.
Pixton: It's one of the best comics creating service available in different languages. Pixton is available is three flavors - one for personal use, second for schools and last but not the least for businesses. As a general user, you can opt for personal use to create entertaining comic strips in no time. It's click-n-drag feature and the ability to create characters makes the whole comics creation process easy as well as a fun. You can also rate and comment on other comics strips and can also print, share and embed your comics strip wherever you want.
Strip Creator: This comics creating site has one of the easiest set up that lets you create a short comic strip in no time. A pre-made random template speeds up the process and you only have to fill speech bubbles, alignment and various other attributes. This site also has a large community that may help you in getting started with some good examples in their collection. There are dozens of pre-made characters in different categories to choose from. I've found this site very useful in creating short and effective comic strips and that too quickly.
ToonDoo: It contains the most comprehensive set of tools with large collection of templates divided into dozens of categories. This makes the whole comics creation process extremely easy. Simple drag-n-drop interface, with support of adding different attributes like emotions to a character makes it an excellent choice for a general user. You can also embed different types of speech bubbles to get the desired effect. Once your comic strip is completed, you can save it or export it in a graphic format of your choice. A large community presents good examples of creating a comics strip.
Strip Generator: As the name implies, this web site lets you create amazing comic strips like a pro. You have frames, characters, items and text that are integrated together to get a complete comic strip. With strip generator, you can create a comic strip in less than 5 minutes. Simply choose the frame style, drag your characters, add any items and embed the speech bubbles. If you want to save it, you'll need to register for a account, or you can use the screen grabber to take a photo of your comic strip. This service is definitely worth trying.
Bit Strips: This is yet another excellent comics making web site. You can either create an account or can login through your Facebook account to get started. With tons of features, comprising of advanced editor makes it one of my favorite site. The collection of pre-made characters, props and the associated attributes is awesome. Simply choose your set of characters and turn your script into a lively comic strip. You can also share it with your Facebook friends. There are several categories, where your comic strip can be featured, if it receives good response from the community. 
Piki Strips: You need to register for an account, before you can start creating a comic strip on PikiStrips. It's a lightweight and very easy-to-use comic making service with a good community. The editor is lightnening fast and so easy that your grand mom can also create a comic strip in no time. If you're a casual user who wants to create a comic strip in quick time, PikiStrips is the best choice. You can also upload your photos to PikiStrips, and can create a comic strip made from your own cartoon. This can be fun if you include your friends' snaps to create a hilarious comic strip.
Comic Master: This is an excellent flash-based comic making web site with a rich set of pre-made templates of very high quality. The range of speech bubbles and special effects included in the editor are amazing. Make sure you register for an account before you create your first comic strip. I liked the undo facility that saves the entire session so that you can roll back to any point since you started making your comic strip. This feature is very handy and lets you edit your comic strip with ease. Once you've completed your comic, you can easily save or print it with a click of a button.
Chogger: The simplicity, minimalism and the ease of use makes Chogger, one of the best in this lot. You can import your snaps either in the form of a file or directly through a webcam to be included in the comic strip. You can set any image file as the background pattern. Simple yet diverse range of characters and powerful speech bubbles helps you in creating an amazing comic in quick time. You need to register for an account to save all your comics. The community on Chogger is very helpful and you can easily find a pro to help you get started.
Comiqs: If you want to create a comic strip made entirely from photos, Comiqs is the best choice. Choose your favorite layout, add your photos, embed speech bubbles and your comic strip is ready to rock your friends. The editor is lightening fast and is extremely easy to use. If you're in hurry, you can also save your draft and can continue from your last session. Of course, this requires you to register for an account. The extensive range of speech bubbles enables you to add the desired effect. You can import photos either from library, from your desktop or directly from the web.
Sketch Dog: Woof Woof! I'm dead sure, kids will love this comics making site. It's extremely user-friendly and the templates are so cute, that you'll return back again and again. The editor is very flexible and loads pretty fast with lots of options to edit your comic strip as per your needs. The collection of pre-made templates is also very impressive. Before you step into making your own comic, I'll suggest you to browse the comics gallery to get an good idea about what you can do with the editor. The community is very helpful and engaging. This comics making site is definitely worth giving a try.
Comic Brush: You can use your own drawings, photos and readymade artwork (templates) to create entertaining comic strips through Comic brush. You need to register for an account, before you can create your first comics strip. As usual, you'll find an excellent editor with easy-to-use controls. The templates in the library are good enough for a general user and you'll never need to import anything from outside. Once you've completed your comic, make sure you save it, else it will be deleted from the server. An associated comic making application for iPad is also available. You can also save, print and share your comic easily with your social network.
Toonlet: It's web comic blogging at its best. Simply create an account, and get your own comic blog where you can post your every comic. Visitors can comment and vote for your comic. The editor is simple and user-friendly. Toonlet is known to be the first few sites that support web comics blogging. The collection of templates, layouts and characters is extensive covering almost every scenario to create awesome comic strips easily. I liked the flexibility in applying the amount of attributes associated with each frame/part of the comic strip. 
Make Belief Comix: This is an excellent comic making option for online educational projects. Kids and teenagers will love this easy-to-use site to make interesting comic strips. The editor is very easy with point and clicks controls and includes wide array of templates. You don't need to create an account, before you start your first comic making process. Simply load the editor, and get going. You can also print and email your comics to share with your real-world and online friends. The objects and props in the library enable you to create very lively comic strip very easily.
Marvel Super Hero Squad: This site lets you create comics in two versions. Either you can create a short comic strip or you can opt for creating a long comic book. Now this facility is something that is really amazing. You don't need to register for an account to create a comic strip. The flash based editor is very easy to use and the large collection of templates enables you to potray your script in your style. You can add various backgrounds and can also add text attributes to speech bubbles that really pumps life in the comic strip. I'd highly recommend once giving a try to this comic making service.
Dilbert: You can create very fine short comic strips through this site, but you need to register for an account. The templates are amazing with a professional touch and the editor is extremely easy and user-friendly. Once your comic strip is completed, apart from sharing it with community and friends, you can also get the embed code to directly post on a web site or blog. This handy feature lets you embed your comic strips very easily in your blog posts, therefore I'll recommend this site to publishers looking to embed short comic strips in their content.
PikiKids: This service can be used to create funny comic strips from photos and speech bubbles. Simply import your photos and add speech bubbles with special effects to impress your friends. You need to register for an account before you can create your first comic script. The editor is fast, lightweight and very easy. The range of speech bubbles is impressive and the effects that can be added to the photographs make it one of best comic making sites that uses photos to create comics. You can easily export, print and share your completed comics with your network.
Write Comics: The large collection of character, props and speech bubbles enables you to create hilarious and impressive comic strips through this web site. The comics making editor is very elementary and requires clicks to embed your desired template. Once you've completed your comic strip, it is saved online accessible through a url generated dynamically upon pressing the finish button. You don't need an account to create comics from this web site. I'd recommend this site to beginners and enthusiasts look to brush up their basic skills.
Witty Comics: It's a simple short comic strip making website that includes two characters and a background with speech bubbles. Choose from different backgrounds, your choice of character and the style of speech bubbles to create a comic strip in few minutes. This service is ideal for beginners and enthusiasts. If you want to save your comics, you'll need to create an account with this web site. You can also export, print and share your saved comic strips. The simplicity and easy process makes it a popular short comic strip making service.
Go Animate: It's one of my favorite sites to create animated comic videos. You don't need an account to create an comics animation, however you can use your Google or Facebook account to connect with this amazing comic making web site. The flash based editor is super simple and once your animated comic motion video is ready, your friends will go nuts after watching it. A large collection of templates with different categories makes the animation creation process easy and fun. I'd recommend this site to budding graphic designers and enthusiasts.
Friday, July 8, 2011
How To Make Your CSS Code More Readable
If you're a web designer, theme tweaker or just a hobbyist who loves to play with web pages, you must be familiar with CSS (cascading style sheets) code and it's power. Writing good CSS code is a skill, but presenting it in a clean and readable way is what most of us never pay attention to. 
Although an optimized and efficient CSS code is not readable (single line with all white spaces stripped off) by humans, but if a group of people is working on a large project, it really becomes necessary to share your copy with others in the best possible readable form. That's where ProCSSor comes into play. It's an advanced CSS prettifier that makes your cryptic CSS code look more beautiful and readable.
All you need is provide your CSS code and adjust the available settings/options to get the desired style. You can provide the code in three different ways (copy paste in form, file upload or url of CSS stylesheet). Remember, providing the url doesn't alter the contents of the original copy. You can tweak various settings to get the desired look and feel that makes it more readable for your team members. Whether it's indentation, line spacing, class-property grouping, ordering, sorting or a need to columnize the code, you name it and ProCSSor can do it all for you instantly.
Once the process is complete, you can either copy paste the optimized code elsewhere or can download in the form of a file. Do not forget to experiment with the available properties to get your favorite readable form.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
How To Get Automated #FollowFriday Recommendations
If you're on twitter and love to recommend people through #followfriday hashtag, this excellent service is made just for you. Sometimes, you may struggle to find out whom to mention in your #followfriday tweets or simply get lazy to build a list for #followfriday. If that is the case, you can easily get automatic pre-made tweets filled with users you've engaged most in recent times.
TwitFriday analyzes your twitter account on your behalf and present you with multiple #followfriday tweets with an option to tweet with a click of a button with your choice of hashtags.
It uses OAuth system to connect with your twitter account and is very easy to use. There are similar services that simply copy twitter handles in reverse order from @mentions column. But, this service intelligently analyzes your conversations and presents those tweeps with whom you've highly engaged in recent weeks.
Now there's no more waiting for compiling #followfriday tweets. Simply head on to TwitFriday and let tweeps know you care for them.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
7 Best Antivirus For Smartphones
Threats to your precious data are everywhere, regardless of platform or device you are using. Smartphones are also the target of hackers who are releasing malicious codes for different mobile platforms. It's a good strategy to preemptively install a good antivirus solution for our mobile device to avert any catastrophe. So let's get started and see some of the best antivirus solutions for smartphones.
NetQin Mobile Security - It is one of the best smartphone antivirus software with gorgeous interface and deep scanning virus engine. Pro members get premium support with additional features. It's light on the system with real-time shield.
ESET Mobile Security - ESET is known to deliver very efficient antivirus solutions. It's available for Windows Phone and Symbian platform. The product includes a firewall and SMS/MMS spam detection system.
F-Secure Mobile Antivirus - This excellent mobile antivirus solution is available for Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile platform. Apart from regular virus-scan engine, it also includes a system for safe web browsing to prevent opening any malicious site on your smartphone.
Kaspersky Mobile Security - It is a familiar name for million if users using the desktop version. It's mobile antivirus is available for almost all major platforms supporting wide range of mobile devices.
MobiShield Antivirus - It's a lightweight and free mobile antivirus solution with real-time shield. Although it doesn't appear that it scans the system deeply (all system files), but it’s good enough for an average user.
McAfee VirusScan Mobile - It's a comprehensive antivirus suite for smartphones protecting all entry points (mobile internet, bluetooth, WiFi) from malicious software. It is yet another mobile antivirus having an intuitive and gorgeous interface.
BullGuard Mobile Security - It's available for wide range of mobile devices and provides all-round protection from malware and viruses through deep scanning virus engine and real-time shield. Definitely worth a try.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
How To Write Better With Common Language Search
If English is not your native language, yet you want to become a successful writer, you must have good command over it. Although, there are countless courses that can help you in polishing your writing skills, but they require time and concentration. Fortunately, there are some good tools that can get you started in no time. One of such methods is common language search. It is based on the frequency of phrases used by people on web. 
Netspeak - Common Language Search provides a clean and easy-to-use interface to find commonly used phrases to help you complete your complex sentences correctly. With billions of words in their dictionary, the results are arranged in order of frequency (most commonly used by people) to assist you in making the right sentence with ease.
What I liked most in this service is the capability to use wild cards (used in regular expressions) that makes your search super-easy. You can use '?' for one character and '*' for N number of characters. You can also use '[ ]' with two words in it to check which of the two is most common. Use '{ }' with two or more words in it to check in which order they are used commonly. Prepend '~' in front of a word in your search phrase to find synonyms for it that are commonly used by people. Here are some examples:
I am ? - Searches for words commonly used after 'I am'.
why ?? look - Searches for two words most commonly used between 'why' & ''look'.
we * think - Searches for one or more words commonly used between 'we' & 'think'.
we can [get make] - Checks which word in the bracket is most commonly used after 'we can'.
{you order must} - Checks the most common order of words inside curly braces.
we * ~ imagine - Checks the most common synonyms used for 'imagine'.
So head on to this amazing service and improve your writing skills without putting much strain on your grey matter.
Monday, July 4, 2011
How To Analyze Visitor Behaviour Through Heatmaps
Web analytics has refined to a great extent in the last decade. From a simple hit counter, it has changed to a full-fledged traffic analysis system that helps optimize web pages for better visitor experience. One of the most popular on-page traffic analysis systems is heatmaps. They are easy to understand and effectively give much clear view about how visitors are interacting with a web page. Let's see an excellent free heatmap analysis system that can help you in analyzing your traffic.
heatmap.js is a JavaScript library for HTML5 canvas based heatmaps. It is very easy to implement and is completely customizable as per your needs. You can use it with static data, live streaming data, click-based activity, mouse movement activity or Google Maps layer.
The library is lightening fast and very efficient giving you accurate calculations about concentrated visitors activity on a given web page. Currently, it supports Firefox 3.6+, Chrome 10, Safari 5, Opera 11 and IE 9+. If your visitors are using older browsers, you may not be able to record their activity successfully. Since each individual is sensitive to different colors, this library lets you choose your own color gradient, opacity and data point radius to generate the perfect heatmap that matches your preferences for better analysis.
Friday, July 1, 2011
How To Use Custom Animated Clocks On Web Pages
Time is money, and showing money in a stylish way does grab attention. If you're looking to embed a stylish animated clock on your web site or blog in an easy way, your wait is over. Flash Clocks provides a large collection of custom animated clocks that are easy to integrate with any web page. You don't need any coding skills to embed these fancy clocks on a web page.
Flash Clocks provide both analog and digital flash clocks with wide range of designs to choose from. If you have basic coding skills, you can host the clock's flash file on your server and can embed it with desired attributes as per your need. Alternatively, you can take the HTML embed code that only requires copy paste at appropriate place in your web page.
For self-hosted WordPress bloggers, there's a more easy option to embed these stylish flash clocks. A handy clock embedding plugin makes the whole process extremely. Since this plugin use WordPress short codes instead of HTML, inserting clocks through this plugin is extremely easy.
Depending on your requirement, you can choose from Analog, Digital, Antique, Dark, Glow or 3D clocks.
