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May 17, 2009

Identi.ca - a micro-blogging service

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Identi.ca is a micro-blogging service based on the Free Software Laconica tool.

If you register for an account, you can post small (140 chars or less) text notices about yourself, where you are, what you're doing, or practically anything you want. You can also subscribe to the notices of your friends, or other people you're interested in, and follow them on the Web or in an RSS feed.

May 16, 2009

OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet

What is OpenID?

OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience.

You get to choose the OpenID Provider that best meets your needs and most importantly that you trust. At the same time, your OpenID can stay with you, no matter which Provider you move to. And best of all, the OpenID technology is not proprietary and is completely free.

For businesses, this means a lower cost of password and account management, while increasing site visitor registration conversion rates. OpenID lowers user frustration by letting users have control of their login.

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May 14, 2009

Windows Live - Copy your address book and e-mail history

Let's get started! It takes just three quick steps to copy all your important e-mail and addresses from your other e-mail accounts into your Windows Live™ Hotmail® account. You can even select to notify everyone about your new e-mail address


May 13, 2009

Ruby on Rails - open source web application framework

Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology which is used by web developers for rapid development.

May 11, 2009

Inkd - The World's First Market for Original Print Design

Inkd is more than a place to buy great design. It’s a real marketplace that brings together print designers and businesses. Our hope is to build the most important print portal for browsing AND buying. Thousands of professional print designs and brochure templates for download. That’s Inkd.

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May 8, 2009

Tag Cloud Generator

What is "Tag Cloud"?

What to hell are tag clouds or popular tags? In 2002 Jim Flanagan was the first using tag clouds as a display form. Flickr, Technorati and Blogs have tightened the trend in the design business and today leading enterprises like Spiegel.de, O2-online and others use this tool. Will tag clouds become a trend , like a lot of before which came and disappeared again when we recognized that we benefit less than we thought from them ? A tag cloud is a mean of visualisation of information within a specified area.

Looking the first time at a tag cloud you will think that the designer has freely chosen the arrangement of the words. However this is not the fact, the single catchwords are arranged to each other and stressed graphically according to their importance using for example bold type or a larger font size. Studies showed that the presentation of catchwords in a tag cloud is better remembered by the observer than a simple word list of these 100 words.

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May 7, 2009

Online Cross Browser Testing Resources

Litmus - The advanced testing tool

Litmus is lightning-fast, reliable and affordable. It's relied upon by thousands of smart freelancers and switched-on agencies; as well as big companies like Yahoo!, Facebook and eBay.

Litmus makes compatibility testing easier.

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Browsershots - free open-source online service

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

Visit Browsershots

May 6, 2009

Ping-O-Matic (pinging search engine)

Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.

Ping-O-Matic regularly check downstream services to make sure that they're legit and still work. So while it may appear like we have fewer services, they're the most important ones.

Make sure to only ping specialized services if they're relevant to your blog, otherwise you'll cause an undue burden on them.

Visit Ping-O-Matic

May 5, 2009

What is Digg?

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.
  • Discover the best of the web
  • Promote stuff that you're into
  • Find more stuff with our Recommendation Engine
  • Make your voice heard in the comments
  • Follow what your friends are Digging
  • Customize your Digg experience

May 4, 2009

About ProBlogger

This site is dedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills of blogging, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium.

a Blog that helps bloggers to add income streams to their blogs.
About ProBlogger

May 3, 2009

vi.sualize.us is a social bookmarking website for visual contents

vi.sualize.us is a social bookmarking website for visual contents — vi.sualize.us (read visualize us) allows you to remember your favorite images around the web, and share them with everyone.

Sometimes, you are looking through pictures and one of them catches your eye. You know you want to remember it and been able to look at it again in the future, but it's not that easy: downloading to your hard disk is as useless as bookmarking the website in the usual way.

This is where vi.sualize.us changes the rules. Within two clicks, you can quote the image reference in your account, and easily look at it whenever you want to, just as your new favorite picture deserves. All without thinking about what computer you stored it in: always online, always available.

Want to give a try

May 2, 2009

Showcase Your Work - Behance Network

Showcase Your Work

Build a multi-media portfolio with an unlimited number of projects, for free.

Gain Exposure

Millions of visitors come to Behance to see your work and find talent to hire. Your projects can also be streamed to other partner sites across the web.

Professional Display

A "frame view" version of your portfolio offers a simple, stripped-down gallery of your work to send to clients. No limits, no ads, and no need to build your own website.

Advance Your Career

Recruiters, top companies, editors, and other creative industry leaders from around the world use the Network to find, track, and hire top talent.

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May 1, 2009

Defending your rights online - Copyscape

The free Copyscape service makes it easy to find copies of your content on the Web. Simply type in the address of your web page, and Copyscape does the rest. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you.

visit Copyscape

Apr 27, 2009

WEB100.com is your source for the best of the web

At Web100.com, rankings and reviews guide you to the web’s best sites and resources. Our top 100 lists, top 10 lists, and other lists help you cut through the web’s clutter and find the information you want.
Visit Web100.com

WEB100.com is your source for the best of the web

At Web100.com, rankings and reviews guide you to the web’s best sites and resources. Our top 100 lists, top 10 lists, and other lists help you cut through the web’s clutter and find the information you want.

Web100.com choose websites and online resources based on their quality, popularity, usefulness and other factors.

Visit Web100.com

Apr 23, 2009

HTML Visual Sitemap (StyleMap v2)

StyleMap v2 uses valid HTML, CSS and a touch of DOM scripting to produce a visual sitemap out of an unordered list (UL). The result is a functional, scalable, and above-all rapid way to produce a tree-style map for the planning stages of your project.

read more about StyleMap V2

HTML Visual Sitemap (StyleMap v2)

StyleMap v2 uses valid HTML, CSS and a touch of DOM scripting to produce a visual sitemap out of an unordered list (UL). The result is a functional, scalable, and above-all rapid way to produce a tree-style map for the planning stages of your project.

read more about StyleMap V2

Apr 21, 2009

WriteMaps Site Map Application - Create, edit, and share online

WriteMaps is a free web-based tool that allows you to create, edit, and share sitemaps online. As a WriteMaps user, you and your team will be able to build and access your sitemaps from anywhere, without having to rely on proprietary desktop apps and static files.

WriteMaps was created to provide a fast, fun, and easy way to plan your websites. WriteMaps' aim is to enable any user, not just web professionals, with the tools they need to get their ideas mapped out in a visually pleasing environment.

read more about WriteMaps

WriteMaps Site Map Application - Create, edit, and share online

WriteMaps is a free web-based tool that allows you to create, edit, and share sitemaps online. As a WriteMaps user, you and your team will be able to build and access your sitemaps from anywhere, without having to rely on proprietary desktop apps and static files.

read more about WriteMaps

Apr 16, 2009

Button Design Showcase

Button design is something that may be considered a small detail and doesn’t often get a lot of attention, but well-designed buttons can make a big difference in the overall look of a site. In this post we’ll look at 40 buttons that come in a variety of shapes, sizes, styles and colors.

If you enjoying seeing great examples of button design, you may also like:

GoodBarry

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Button Design Showcase

Button design is something that may be considered a small detail and doesn’t often get a lot of attention, but well-designed buttons can make a big difference in the overall look of a site. In this post we’ll look at 40 buttons that come in a variety of shapes, sizes, styles and colors.

If you enjoying seeing great examples of button design, you may also like:

GoodBarry

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Apr 13, 2009

CSS Navigation Menus, Tabs and CSS Navigation Techniques Showcase

CSS Navigation Menus, Tabs and CSS Navigation Techniques Showcase

18 Beautiful Web Designs That Emphasize Green

One of the most interesting thing about the design community is, our design are often influenced by the trends and talk-about. The best example is perhaps the Web 2.0 look and feel that stormed the Internet about a year ago.

green leaves

Over the pass few years, the awareness of global warming and the greenhouse effects have gradually increased. This greatly inspired many designers, and created some of the most beautiful web design based on green by mixing up some nature elements (leaves, soil, trees, sky, etc). Here’s a showcase of 18 Great Web Designs That Emphasize Green.

3000k

3000k is a company that provide services like web design, consultating, branding, marketing, etc. And we think they’ve certainly showed their passion towards a grennier world with some nice green related images every page you clicked.

Borneo Tropical Rainforest Foundation

And as the title speaks, BTRF is an organization that makes sure our tropical rainforest stays green.

BramNicholson

Bram Nicholson commenced in the turf industry in 1996 and specializes in providing independent advice and a laying service for all your turfing requirements.

Go Glamping

World’s first website dedicated to promoting luxury camping holidays.

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18 Beautiful Web Designs That Emphasize Green

One of the most interesting thing about the design community is, our design are often influenced by the trends and talk-about. The best example is perhaps the Web 2.0 look and feel that stormed the Internet about a year ago.

green leaves

Over the pass few years, the awareness of global warming and the greenhouse effects have gradually increased. This greatly inspired many designers, and created some of the most beautiful web design based on green by mixing up some nature elements (leaves, soil, trees, sky, etc). Here’s a showcase of 18 Great Web Designs That Emphasize Green.

3000k

3000k is a company that provide services like web design, consultating, branding, marketing, etc. And we think they’ve certainly showed their passion towards a grennier world with some nice green related images every page you clicked.

Borneo Tropical Rainforest Foundation

And as the title speaks, BTRF is an organization that makes sure our tropical rainforest stays green.

BramNicholson

Bram Nicholson commenced in the turf industry in 1996 and specializes in providing independent advice and a laying service for all your turfing requirements.

Go Glamping

World’s first website dedicated to promoting luxury camping holidays.

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25 Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures

Being able to work with texture in Photoshop gives you endless possibilities for your design. There are a variety of different approaches when it comes to adding texture, some are simple and others are more advanced. The 25 tutorials featured in this post will help you to learn a number of different techniques that can be used in your own design.

Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps

Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps

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25 Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures

Being able to work with texture in Photoshop gives you endless possibilities for your design. There are a variety of different approaches when it comes to adding texture, some are simple and others are more advanced. The 25 tutorials featured in this post will help you to learn a number of different techniques that can be used in your own design.

Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps

Add Visual Texture in 3 Easy Steps

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Apr 10, 2009

50 Web Usability Tips

Maki of DoshDosh produced a good article that gives you 50 Web Usability Tips that can help you to attract and retain visitors to your website, focusing on Web Design, Content Infrastructure; also from Monetization and Online Businesses point of view. The article discuss what’s mandatory for your website/blog, what will definitely shoo they away and what you can do to make visitors stays. Worth a read to see what’s still missing from your daily check list of increasing visitors and web traffics.

50 Web Usability Tips

Maki of DoshDosh produced a good article that gives you 50 Web Usability Tips that can help you to attract and retain visitors to your website, focusing on Web Design, Content Infrastructure; also from Monetization and Online Businesses point of view. The article discuss what’s mandatory for your website/blog, what will definitely shoo they away and what you can do to make visitors stays. Worth a read to see what’s still missing from your daily check list of increasing visitors and web traffics.

Apr 8, 2009

Whitehat SEO Tips for Bloggers by Matt Cutts

matt cutt wordcamp 2007

Matt Cutts, senior software engineer of Google gave a one hour talk on Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers during the Wordpress Camp 2007 happened 2 weeks ago in San Francisco. Thanks to onemansblog, those who are unable to attend the WordCamp now get to view the lecture in video.

Topics covered by Matt during the talk includes Wordpress plugins recommendations, SEO keyword tips, migrating to new webhost, advantages and usage of Google Analytics and Google Webmasters, SEO security tips, and more. Spend one hour watching this video this weekend (or at least download the Powerpoint Slide), I promised you will be inspired. Video after jump.


Whitehat SEO Tips for Bloggers by Matt Cutts

matt cutt wordcamp 2007

Matt Cutts, senior software engineer of Google gave a one hour talk on Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers during the Wordpress Camp 2007 happened 2 weeks ago in San Francisco. Thanks to onemansblog, those who are unable to attend the WordCamp now get to view the lecture in video.

Topics covered by Matt during the talk includes Wordpress plugins recommendations, SEO keyword tips, migrating to new webhost, advantages and usage of Google Analytics and Google Webmasters, SEO security tips, and more. Spend one hour watching this video this weekend (or at least download the Powerpoint Slide), I promised you will be inspired. Video after jump.


Apr 7, 2009

Publishers will now receive tips in AdSense Account

Google Adsense had just implemented personal inbox into publishers account. From now onwards, Google Adsense will be sending you customized optimization tips. According to Arlene of Adsense Publisher support, these tips could varies from publisher to publisher, you will be receiving tips that suites you but not others.

our system will automatically analyze your account and ad settings. Based on these findings, you’ll receive a notification each month in your AdSense account if there are changes you can make to improve your overall AdSense performance.

This is something really thoughtful of Adsense. IMO, if it’s a optimization tips from the house itself it won’t go wrong.

Publishers will now receive tips in AdSense Account

Google Adsense had just implemented personal inbox into publishers account. From now onwards, Google Adsense will be sending you customized optimization tips. According to Arlene of Adsense Publisher support, these tips could varies from publisher to publisher, you will be receiving tips that suites you but not others.

our system will automatically analyze your account and ad settings. Based on these findings, you’ll receive a notification each month in your AdSense account if there are changes you can make to improve your overall AdSense performance.

This is something really thoughtful of Adsense. IMO, if it’s a optimization tips from the house itself it won’t go wrong.

Apr 6, 2009

Make Money Online with Google Adsense with these resources

Folks are smashingmagazine compiled a very comprehensive entry about Google Adsense. If you are thinking of making money online with Google Adsense, Google Adsense: Facts, FAQs and Tools is definetely something you want to refer. A compilation of more than 50+ Google Adsense related contents, your week end can be quite occupied :)

Click here to read Google Adsense: Facts, FAQs and Tools

Make Money Online with Google Adsense with these resources

Folks are smashingmagazine compiled a very comprehensive entry about Google Adsense. If you are thinking of making money online with Google Adsense, Google Adsense: Facts, FAQs and Tools is definetely something you want to refer. A compilation of more than 50+ Google Adsense related contents, your week end can be quite occupied :)

Click here to read Google Adsense: Facts, FAQs and Tools

Apr 5, 2009

Google AdSense Optimization Report

Every beginning of the week, Google AdSense will send publishers an optimization report that consists of advices on how you can optimize your AdSense to further earn more. I always find these information very useful, but thinking that if folks at AdSense have to provide optimization report for god knows how many publishers out there, how do they do that? Will these reports be accurate or are they are just piles of optimization tips randomly given to us every month?

My optimization tips for this month advises me to revise my competitive filter list as I could be filtering potential ads that could revenue me more from Google AdSense. So how I guess the Optimization Report is somehow accurate because I’ve just added a large list to my competitive ads filter 2 weeks ago. That’s just another experiments I’m doing on Google AdSense. Well I believe I should remove them as AdSense have already kill most MFA and Arbitrages sites, that makes adding them to competitive filter list a bit unnecessary.

Google AdSense Optimization Report

Every beginning of the week, Google AdSense will send publishers an optimization report that consists of advices on how you can optimize your AdSense to further earn more. I always find these information very useful, but thinking that if folks at AdSense have to provide optimization report for god knows how many publishers out there, how do they do that? Will these reports be accurate or are they are just piles of optimization tips randomly given to us every month?

My optimization tips for this month advises me to revise my competitive filter list as I could be filtering potential ads that could revenue me more from Google AdSense. So how I guess the Optimization Report is somehow accurate because I’ve just added a large list to my competitive ads filter 2 weeks ago. That’s just another experiments I’m doing on Google AdSense. Well I believe I should remove them as AdSense have already kill most MFA and Arbitrages sites, that makes adding them to competitive filter list a bit unnecessary.

Apr 4, 2009

How To Increase Google AdSense CTR and CPM

Connected Internet shows you 10 ways how you can increase your AdSense CTR and CPM.

  1. Use Section Targeting
  2. Work on your keyword density
  3. Make Your Ads Look Like Normal Content
  4. Make Sure Your Best Unit Loads First
  5. Embed Your Banners In Or Near Your Content
  6. Think About Where Your Hotspots Are
  7. Reduce The Noise Around Your Units
  8. Use The Competitive Ad Filter
  9. Don’t Be Afraid To Put Your Ads Below The Fold
  10. Use Channels And Experiment

How To Increase Google AdSense CTR and CPM

Connected Internet shows you 10 ways how you can increase your AdSense CTR and CPM.

  1. Use Section Targeting
  2. Work on your keyword density
  3. Make Your Ads Look Like Normal Content
  4. Make Sure Your Best Unit Loads First
  5. Embed Your Banners In Or Near Your Content
  6. Think About Where Your Hotspots Are
  7. Reduce The Noise Around Your Units
  8. Use The Competitive Ad Filter
  9. Don’t Be Afraid To Put Your Ads Below The Fold
  10. Use Channels And Experiment

Apr 3, 2009

Adsense Tips: Section Targeting

Have you ever experience having irrelevant AdSense ads on your website/blog? You may be talking about food or so, but it gives you some Forex text ads and you probably wondered why. The main reason is because the ads are not properly targeted and it’s getting mixed signals from other sub contents like readers’ comments, trackbacks, other categories or anything that shares the same page.

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Google AdSense gives you an option to tell which they should emphasize by using the section targeting codes. All you need to do is put 2 sets of codes, one before the content and one after the content you want to target. This should help google understand the site better and pass in more relevant ads and help increase AdSense CTR.

Before content, insert:

After content, insert:

More details on Section Targeting.

Adsense Tips: Section Targeting

Have you ever experience having irrelevant AdSense ads on your website/blog? You may be talking about food or so, but it gives you some Forex text ads and you probably wondered why. The main reason is because the ads are not properly targeted and it’s getting mixed signals from other sub contents like readers’ comments, trackbacks, other categories or anything that shares the same page.

Continue Reading

Google AdSense gives you an option to tell which they should emphasize by using the section targeting codes. All you need to do is put 2 sets of codes, one before the content and one after the content you want to target. This should help google understand the site better and pass in more relevant ads and help increase AdSense CTR.

Before content, insert:

After content, insert:

More details on Section Targeting.

Apr 1, 2009

50 (Most) Beautiful Blogger Templates

There are tonnes of Blogger templates out there, but we all know it’s hard (or perhaps take times) to find the really nice and high quality ones. So for those who are bored with their current Blogger template and intend to change, we thought your time can be spent better on browsing only the best and nicest among the free Blogger themes. Here’s 50 most beautiful Blogger templates we managed to compile. Prepare to scroll after jump.

Read also: 29 Beautiful Blogger templates

  1. Blogy Decorativo

    Demo | Download

  2. GossipCity

    Demo | Download

  3. Minyx

    Demo | Download

  4. Glass

    Demo | Download

  5. Colibri

    Demo | Download

  6. Jeans

    Demo | Download


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