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.
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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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
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.
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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. 
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.
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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
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
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 :)
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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
Online photo editing services like Picnik, Fauxto, FotoFlexer, etc are slowing gaining popularity among web users. For those who wants just some simple alteration to their photos, its a good news; for those who don’t own a copy of licensed Photoshop that’s greater news.
Adobe Photoshop today flex their mucles a bit by introducing their new online photo editor - Adobe Photoshop Express. Adobe Photoshop Express is similar to the above-mentioned services and it includes these following functions for photo editing:
By the look at the functions provided, I’d say it’s more or less complete for simple photo editing except that it doesnt support text adding to photo. So for those who are looking to add watermarks to photos, guess you’ll have to depend on other alternatives.
Adobe Photoshop Express is now on public beta. Each account comes with 2Gb storage capacity.
Online photo editing services like Picnik, Fauxto, FotoFlexer, etc are slowing gaining popularity among web users. For those who wants just some simple alteration to their photos, its a good news; for those who don’t own a copy of licensed Photoshop that’s greater news.
Adobe Photoshop today flex their mucles a bit by introducing their new online photo editor - Adobe Photoshop Express. Adobe Photoshop Express is similar to the above-mentioned services and it includes these following functions for photo editing:
By the look at the functions provided, I’d say it’s more or less complete for simple photo editing except that it doesnt support text adding to photo. So for those who are looking to add watermarks to photos, guess you’ll have to depend on other alternatives.
Adobe Photoshop Express is now on public beta. Each account comes with 2Gb storage capacity.
The integration of Flickr and Picnik has just make things greater, now you can add watermarks to your Flickr photos inside your Flickr account. Here’s how you do it:
On any given photo, click Edit Photo button to start editing your photo. Picnik will now load, click OK if you are using Picnik for the first time.
Under Create Tab, click on the Text button.
Write a text watermark. Click Add. You can further customize the font type, style, size, color and opacity. 
Your watermark will now on the photo. Drag to reposition wherever you like. Hit the Save button, fill up the necessary description and settings and your Flickr image now comes with a watermark whenever it’s displayed.
Just in case your photos aren’t stored in Flickr, PicMarkr is another free online service that does image watermarking.
Here are some of Flickr photo hacks previously mentioned:
via Labnol
The integration of Flickr and Picnik has just make things greater, now you can add watermarks to your Flickr photos inside your Flickr account. Here’s how you do it:
On any given photo, click Edit Photo button to start editing your photo. Picnik will now load, click OK if you are using Picnik for the first time.
Under Create Tab, click on the Text button.Write a text watermark. Click Add. You can further customize the font type, style, size, color and opacity. Your watermark will now on the photo. Drag to reposition wherever you like. Hit the Save button, fill up the necessary description and settings and your Flickr image now comes with a watermark whenever it’s displayed.
Just in case your photos aren’t stored in Flickr, PicMarkr is another free online service that does image watermarking.
Here are some of Flickr photo hacks previously mentioned:
via Labnol
Tired of having your online photos ripped by someone else, watermark them with PicMarkr. PicMarkr is a web service that helps you add custom watermarks to images, for free. This free web service works in 2 ways, you can either
Either way, you then proceed to insert your custom watermark (text, image or tilt), choose the watermark alignment. Finally you can download the image or have it upload to your Flickr account.
And by the way, you can even resize your image with PicMarkr before stamping a watermark.
And if you are a Wordpress users happened to be a victim of image hotlinker, here’s a plugin to prevent image theft.
Tired of having your online photos ripped by someone else, watermark them with PicMarkr. PicMarkr is a web service that helps you add custom watermarks to images, for free. This free web service works in 2 ways, you can either
Either way, you then proceed to insert your custom watermark (text, image or tilt), choose the watermark alignment. Finally you can download the image or have it upload to your Flickr account.
And by the way, you can even resize your image with PicMarkr before stamping a watermark.
And if you are a Wordpress users happened to be a victim of image hotlinker, here’s a plugin to prevent image theft.
Color choice is a crucial decision in every website design. Sometimes you may be designing a site for an existing business that already has an established color scheme, but many design projects will require development of a color scheme. Fortunately, there are almost endless resources online to help you find that perfect color combination. We have gathered the resources that we feel are the most useful and categorized them below.
The Psychology and Meaning of Colors:
Choosing Colors:
Reference:
There are an almost endless number of tools online that will help you to find the right color scheme. These tools come in many different varieties. Below we have listed the tools that we have found to be the most useful.
Sample Color Shemes/Combinations:
Tools to Help You Develop a Color Scheme:
Tools to Get Colors from an Image:
Other Tools:
